Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS write throttling

2008-02-15 Thread Tao Chen
On 2/15/08, Roch Bourbonnais <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Le 15 févr. 08 à 11:38, Philip Beevers a écrit : > [...] > > Obviously this isn't good behaviour, but it's particularly unfortunate > > given that this checkpoint is stuff that I don't want to retain in any > > kind of cache anyway - i

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS - Can data corruption happen if ...

2006-08-10 Thread Tao Chen
On 8/10/06, Eric Schrock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thu, Aug 10, 2006 at 12:11:46PM -0700, David Coronel wrote: > So far I understand that if a file is to be modified, it will first > copy the data to be modified in a new location in the ZFS pool, then > modify that new data and do all the ZFS

Re: [zfs-discuss] DTrace IO provider and oracle

2006-08-08 Thread Tao Chen
On 8/8/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello,Solaris 10 GA + latest recommended patches:while runing dtrace:bash-3.00# dtrace -n 'io:::start [EMAIL PROTECTED], args[2]->fi_pathname] = count();}'...  oracle 

Re: [zfs-discuss] Apple Time Machine

2006-08-07 Thread Tao Chen
On 8/7/06, Bryan Cantrill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: We've had a great relationship with Apple at the engineering level -- andindeed, Team DTrace just got back from dinner with the Apple engineersinvolved with the port.  More details here:   http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/bmc?entry=dtrace_on_mac_

Re: [zfs-discuss] Apple Time Machine

2006-08-07 Thread Tao Chen
On 8/7/06, Robert Gordon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Aug 7, 2006, at 7:17 PM, Tao Chen wrote:> In terms of openness, Sun and Apple are going opposite directions> IMHO, interesting situation :)>> TaoApple just released the Darwin Kernel code " xnu-792-10.96"the eq

Re: [zfs-discuss] Apple Time Machine

2006-08-07 Thread Tao Chen
On 8/7/06, Eric Schrock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Mon, Aug 07, 2006 at 01:19:14PM -1000, David J. Orman wrote:>> > (actually did they give OpenSolaris a name check at all when they> > mentioned DTrace ?)>> Nope, not that I can see. Apple's pretty notorious for that kind of > "oversight". I used

Re: [zfs-discuss] Apple Time Machine

2006-08-07 Thread Tao Chen
On 8/7/06, Tim Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: David Magda wrote:> Well, they've ported Dtrace:> > "..now built into Mac OS X Leopard. Xray. Because it's 2006."Uh right and they're actually shipping it in 2007. Apple marketing. Anyone want to start printing t-shirts:"DTrace & Time Machine in Open

[zfs-discuss] Apple Time Machine

2006-08-07 Thread Tao Chen
I am reading the live coverage of WWDC keynote here:http://www.macrumorslive.com/web/They talked about a new feature in OS X/Leopard: "Time Machine". Does it sound like instant snapshot and rollback to you?I don't know how else this can be implemented.10:37 am    with time machine, you can get thos

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS bechmarks w/8 disk raid - Quirky results, any thoughts?

2006-07-19 Thread Tao Chen
On 7/17/06, Jonathan Wheeler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi All,I've just built an 8 disk zfs storage box, and I'm in the testing phase before I put it into production. I've run into some unusual results, and I was hoping the community could offer some suggestions. I've bascially made the switch to

Re: Fwd: Re: [zfs-discuss] 15 minute fdsync problem and ZFS: Solved

2006-06-23 Thread Tao Chen
On 6/23/06, Richard Elling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: comment on analysis below...Tao Chen wrote:>   === Top 5 Devices with largest number of I/Os ===>>   DEVICE  READ AVG.ms MBWRITE AVG.ms M

Fwd: Re: [zfs-discuss] 15 minute fdsync problem and ZFS: Solved

2006-06-23 Thread Tao Chen
I should copy this to the list.-- Forwarded message --On 6/23/06, Joe Little <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I can post back to Roch what this latency is. I think the latency is aconstant regardless of the zil or not. all that I do by disabling thezil is that I'm able to submit larger

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: 3510 configuration for ZFS

2006-06-01 Thread Tao Chen
Hello Robert, On 6/1/06, Robert Milkowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello Anton, Thursday, June 1, 2006, 5:27:24 PM, you wrote: ABR> What about small random writes? Won't those also require reading ABR> from all disks in RAID-Z to read the blocks for update, where in ABR> mirroring only one d

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS and databases

2006-05-12 Thread Tao Chen
On 5/12/06, Roch Bourbonnais - Performance Engineering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: From: Gregory Shaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Regarding directio and quickio, is there a way with ZFS to skip the system buffer cache? I've seen big benefits for using directio when the data files have been segre

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS and databases

2006-05-11 Thread Tao Chen
On 5/11/06, Peter Rival <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Richard Elling wrote: > Oracle will zero-fill the tablespace with 128kByte iops -- it is not > sparse. I've got a scar. Has this changed in the past few years? Multiple parallel tablespace creates is usually a big pain point for filesystem /