[zfs-discuss] ZFS send/recv horribly slow on system with 1800+ filesystems

2011-02-28 Thread Moazam Raja
Hi all, I have a test system with a large amount of filesystems which we take snapshots of and do send/recvs with. On our test machine, we have 1800+ filesystems and about 5,000 snapshots.The system has 48GB of RAM, and 8 cores (x86). The filesystem is comprised of 2 regular 1TB in a mirror with a

[zfs-discuss] ZFS send/receive while write is enabled on receive side?

2010-12-09 Thread Moazam Raja
Hi all, from much of the documentation I've seen, the advice is to set readonly=on on volumes on the receiving side during send/receive operations. Is this still a requirement? I've been trying the send/receive while NOT setting the receiver to readonly and haven't seen any problems even though we

Re: [zfs-discuss] OCZ RevoDrive ZFS support

2010-11-27 Thread Moazam Raja
Agreed, SSD with SandForce controllers are the only way to go. The controller makes a world of difference. -Moazam On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 12:27 PM, Tim Cook wrote: > > > On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 2:16 PM, Orvar Korvar > wrote: >> >> "Your system drive on a Solaris system generally doesn't see e

Re: [zfs-discuss] WarpDrive SLP-300

2010-11-18 Thread Moazam Raja
I tested the Fusion IO MLC based PCI-e cards on OpenSolaris and found the performance to be amazing. Hopefully Fusion IO will release supported drivers for Solaris 11 Express and onwards. The Fusion IO MLC card was giving me around 500MB/s write performance with O_SYNC. -Moazam On Wed, Nov 17, 2

Re: [zfs-discuss] X4540 RIP

2010-11-08 Thread Moazam Raja
I have this with 36 2TB drives (and 2 separate boot drives). http://www.colfax-intl.com/jlrid/SpotLight_more_Acc.asp?L=134&S=58&B=2267 It's not exactly the same (it has cons/pros), but it is definitely less expensive. I'm running b147 on it with an LSI controller. -Moazam On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at

Re: [zfs-discuss] [OpenIndiana-discuss] format dumps the core

2010-11-02 Thread Moazam Raja
dy Swearingen wrote: > Hi Moazam, > > The initial diagnosis is that the LSI controller is reporting bogus > information. It looks like Roy is using a similar controller. > > You might report this problem to LSI, but I will pass this issue > along to the format folks. > >

Re: [zfs-discuss] [OpenIndiana-discuss] format dumps the core

2010-11-02 Thread Moazam Raja
I'm having the same problem after adding 2 SSD disks to my machine. The controller is LSI SAS9211-8i PCI Express. # format Searching for disks...Arithmetic Exception (core dumped) # pstack core.format.1016 core 'core.format.1016' of 1016:format fee62e4a UDiv (4, 0, 8046bf0, 8046910

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS and RAM

2010-10-24 Thread Moazam Raja
The following is a good explanation: http://blogs.sun.com/brendan/entry/test -Moazam On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 10:42 AM, besson3c wrote: > Can somebody kindly clarify as to how Solaris and ZFS makes use of RAM? > > I have 4 gig of RAM installed on my Solaris/ZFS box serving a pool of 6 > disks.

[zfs-discuss] ZFS COW and simultaneous read & write of files

2010-09-22 Thread Moazam Raja
Hi all, I have a ZFS question related to COW and scope. If user A is reading a file while user B is writing to the same file, when do the changes introduced by user B become visible to everyone? Is there a block level scope, or file level, or something else? Thanks! __

[zfs-discuss] ZFS host to host replication with AVS?

2010-06-08 Thread Moazam Raja
Hi all, I'm trying to accomplish server to server storage replication in synchronous mode where each server is a Solaris/OpenSolaris machine with its own local storage. For Linux, I've been able to achieve what I want with DRBD but I'm hoping I can find a similar solution on Solaris so that I can

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: Thumper Origins Q

2007-01-24 Thread Moazam Raja
Well, he did say fairly cheap. the ST 3511 is about $18.5k. That's about the same price for the low-end NetApp FAS250 unit. -Moazam On Jan 24, 2007, at 9:40 AM, Richard Elling wrote: Peter Eriksson wrote: too much of our future roadmap, suffice it to say that one should expect much, much m

[zfs-discuss] Enhance 1U eSATA storage device and Solaris 10?

2007-01-21 Thread Moazam Raja
Hi all, I'm thinking of using an Enhance 1U R4 SA eSATA storage device with my Solaris 10 based Sun X2100 box. Has anyone used this before and have any experiences you could share? The device starts at about $450. http://www.enhance-tech.com/products/diskarrays/R4SA.html Thanks. -M __