Re: [zfs-discuss] When Zpool has no space left and no snapshots

2010-09-29 Thread Matt Cowger
You can truncate a file: Echo "" > bigfile That will free up space without the 'rm' -Original Message- From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of David Dyer-Bennet Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 2010 12:59 PM To: zfs-discuss@opens

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS on solid state as disk rather than L2ARC...

2010-09-15 Thread Matt Cowger
We actually did some pretty serious testing with SATA SLCs from Sun directly hosting zpools (not as L2ARC). We saw some really bad performance - as though there were something wrong, but couldn't find it. If you search my name on this list you'll find the description of the problem. --m m a t

Re: [zfs-discuss] Very serious performance degradation

2010-05-18 Thread Matt Cowger
I note in your iostat data below that one drive (sd5) consistently performs MUCH worse than the others, even when doing less work. -Original Message- From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of John J Balestrini Sent: Tuesday, M

Re: [zfs-discuss] How to completely erradicate ZFS

2010-05-05 Thread Matt Cowger
It probably put an EFI label on the disk. Try doing a wiping the first AND last 2MB. --M -Original Message- From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of nich romero Sent: Wednesday, May 05, 2010 1:00 PM To: zfs-discuss@opensolaris.

Re: [zfs-discuss] RAID10

2010-03-26 Thread Matt Cowger
RAIDZ = RAID5, so lose 1 drive (1.5TB) RAIDZ2 = RAID6, so lose 2 drives (3TB) RAIDZ3 = RAID7(?), so lose 3 drives (4.5TB). What you lose in useable space, you gain in redundancy. -m -Original Message- From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org]

Re: [zfs-discuss] snapshots as versioning tool

2010-03-23 Thread Matt Cowger
[zfs-discuss] snapshots as versioning tool | | Matt Cowger writes: | | > zfs list | grep '@' | > | > zpool/f...@1154758324G - 461G - | > zpool/f...@1208482 6.94G - 338G - | > zpool/f...@daily.net

Re: [zfs-discuss] snapshots as versioning tool

2010-03-22 Thread Matt Cowger
scuss-boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Harry Putnam Sent: Monday, March 22, 2010 2:23 PM To: zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org Subject: Re: [zfs-discuss] snapshots as versioning tool Matt Cowger writes: > This is totally doable, and a reasonable use of zfs snapshots - we > do some simil

Re: [zfs-discuss] snapshots as versioning tool

2010-03-22 Thread Matt Cowger
This is totally doable, and a reasonable use of zfs snapshots - we do some similar things. You can easily determine if the snapshot has changed by checking the output of zfs list for the snapshot. --M -Original Message- From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss-bou

Re: [zfs-discuss] " . . formatted using older on-disk format . ."

2010-03-10 Thread Matt Cowger
On Mar 10, 2010, at 6:30 PM, Ian Collins wrote: > Yes, noting the warning. Is it safe to execute on a live, active pool? --m ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] terrible ZFS performance compared to UFS on ramdisk (70% drop)

2010-03-09 Thread Matt Cowger
Ross Walker [mailto:rswwal...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, March 09, 2010 3:53 PM To: Roch Bourbonnais Cc: Matt Cowger; zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org Subject: Re: [zfs-discuss] terrible ZFS performance compared to UFS on ramdisk (70% drop) On Mar 9, 2010, at 1:42 PM, Roch Bourbonnais wrote: > &

Re: [zfs-discuss] terrible ZFS performance compared to UFS on ramdisk (70% drop)

2010-03-09 Thread Matt Cowger
a significant drain of CPU resource. > > -r > > > Le 8 mars 10 à 17:57, Matt Cowger a écrit : > >> Hi Everyone, >> >> It looks like I¹ve got something weird going with zfs performance on >> a ramdiskS.ZFS is performing not even a 3rd of what UFS is doing.

Re: [zfs-discuss] terrible ZFS performance compared to UFS on ramdisk (70% drop)

2010-03-09 Thread Matt Cowger
Ross is correct - advanced OS features are not required here - just the ability to store a file - don’t even need unix style permissions -Original Message- From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Ross Walker Sent: Tuesday, M

Re: [zfs-discuss] terrible ZFS performance compared to UFS on ramdisk (70% drop)

2010-03-08 Thread Matt Cowger
On Mar 8, 2010, at 6:31 PM, Bill Sommerfeld wrote: > > if you have an actual need for an in-memory filesystem, will tmpfs fit > the bill? > > - Bill Very good point bill - just ran this test and started to get the numbers I was expecting (1.3 GB

Re: [zfs-discuss] terrible ZFS performance compared to UFS on ramdisk (70% drop)

2010-03-08 Thread Matt Cowger
On Mar 8, 2010, at 6:31 PM, Richard Elling wrote: >> Same deal for UFS, replacing the ZFS stuff with newfs stuff and mounting the >> UFS forcedirectio (no point in using a buffer cache memory for something >> that’s already in memory) > > Did you also set primarycache=none? > -- richard Good

Re: [zfs-discuss] terrible ZFS performance compared to UFS on ramdisk (70% drop)

2010-03-08 Thread Matt Cowger
It can, but doesn't in the command line shown below. M On Mar 8, 2010, at 6:04 PM, "ольга крыжановская" wrote: > Does iozone use mmap() for IO? > > Olga > > On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 2:57 AM, Matt Cowger > wrote: >> Hi Everyone, >> >> >

[zfs-discuss] terrible ZFS performance compared to UFS on ramdisk (70% drop)

2010-03-08 Thread Matt Cowger
Hi Everyone, It looks like I've got something weird going with zfs performance on a ramdiskZFS is performing not even a 3rd of what UFS is doing. Short version: Create 80+ GB ramdisk (ramdiskadm), system has 96GB, so we aren't swapping Create zpool on it (zpool create ram) Change zfs op

Re: [zfs-discuss] Firewire zpool transport rejected fatal error, 6560174

2008-05-31 Thread Matt Cowger
Anyone willing to provide the modified kernel binaries for opensolaris2008.05? This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Firewire zpool transport rejected fatal error, 6560174

2008-05-31 Thread Matt Cowger
I can't believe its almost a year later, with a patch provided, and this bug is still not fixed. For those of us that cant recompile the sources, it makes solaris useless if we want to use a firewire drive. --m This message posted from opensolaris.org ___