Re: [zfs-discuss] Peculiar behavior of snapshot after zfs receive

2007-02-08 Thread Wade . Stuart
> > TW> Am I using send/recv incorrectly or is there something else > going on here that > TW> I am missing? > > > It's a known bug. > > umount and rollback file system on host 2. You should see 0 used space > on a snapshot and then it should work. Bug ID? Is it related to atime changes? > >

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: ZFS on PC Based Hardware for NAS?

2007-02-08 Thread Wade . Stuart
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 02/08/2007 10:23:19 AM: > > I believe there is a write limit (commonly 10 > > writes) on CF and > > similar storage devices, but I don't know for sure. > > Apart from that > > I think it's a good idea. > > > > > > James C. McPherson > > As a consequence, the /t

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS and question on repetative data migrating to it efficiently...

2007-02-02 Thread Wade . Stuart
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 02/02/2007 11:16:32 AM: > Hi all, > > Longtime reader, first time poster Sorry for the lengthy intro > and not really sure the title matches what I'm trying to get at... I > am trying to find a solution where making use of a zfs filesystem > can shorten our back

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: ZFS and thin provisioning

2007-02-02 Thread Wade . Stuart
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 02/02/2007 10:34:22 AM: > thanks Darren! I got led down the wrong path by following newfs. > > Now my other question is. How would you add raw storage to the vtank > (virtual filesystem) as the usage approached the current underlying > raw storage? > > Would you go

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS limits on zpool snapshots

2007-02-01 Thread Wade . Stuart
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 02/01/2007 01:17:15 PM: > The ZFS On-Disk specification and other ZFS documentation describe > the labeling scheme used for the vdevs that comprise a ZFS pool. A > label entry contains, among other things, an array of uberblocks, > one of which will point to the a

Re: [zfs-discuss] Thumper Origins Q

2007-01-30 Thread Wade . Stuart
> > > One of the benefits of ZFS is that not only is head synchronization not > > > needed, but also block offsets do not have to be the same. For example, > > > in a traditional mirror, block 1 on device 1 is paired with block 1 on > > > device 2. In ZFS, this 1:1 mapping is not required. I

Re: [zfs-discuss] Thumper Origins Q

2007-01-30 Thread Wade . Stuart
> One of the benefits of ZFS is that not only is head synchronization not > needed, but also block offsets do not have to be the same. For example, > in a traditional mirror, block 1 on device 1 is paired with block 1 on > device 2. In ZFS, this 1:1 mapping is not required. I believe this w

Re: [zfs-discuss] Problems adding drive

2007-01-29 Thread Wade . Stuart
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 01/29/2007 03:45:58 PM: > I attempted to increase my zraid from 2 disks to 3, but it looks > like I added the drive outside of the raid: > > # zpool list > > NAMESIZEUSED AVAILCAP HEALTH ALTROOT > amber 1.36T8

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: Adding my own compression to zfs

2007-01-28 Thread Wade . Stuart
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 01/27/2007 06:48:17 AM: > is it planned to add some other compression algorithm to zfs ? > > lzjb is quite good and especially performing very well, but i`d like > to have better compression (bzip2?) - no matter how worse > performance drops with this. > > regards

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: ZFS or UFS - what to do?

2007-01-26 Thread Wade . Stuart
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 01/26/2007 01:43:35 PM: > On Fri, Jan 26, 2007 at 11:05:17AM -0800, Ed Gould wrote: > > On Jan 26, 2007, at 9:42, Gary Mills wrote: > > >How does this work in an environment with storage that's centrally- > > >managed and shared between many servers? > > > > It wil

Re: [zfs-discuss] UFS on zvol: volblocksize and maxcontig

2007-01-26 Thread Wade . Stuart
een these two unrelated filesystems by this user)... I have faith that user quotas are going to come sometime, these how questions are interesting to me... -Wade Stuart ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: How much do we really want zpool remove?

2007-01-26 Thread Wade . Stuart
to replace vxvm/vxfs or other solutions. Sure, you will find people that are viewing this new pooled filesystem with old eyes, but there are admins on this list that actually understand what they are missing and the other options for working around these issues. We don't look at this like a feat

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: Backup/Restore idea?

2007-01-23 Thread Wade . Stuart
an example, we regularly (6+ times per day) snap a older sun fileserver that has about 7tb of disk on it (80% used) to a thumper with rsync and --inplace. our daily (6x snaps per day) growth from delta on the thumper is usually ~ 2.5 gb. Wade Stuart Fallon Worldwide P: 612.758.266

[zfs-discuss] ZFS block squashing (CAS)

2007-01-22 Thread Wade . Stuart
So, I am starting to code this CAS block squashing test and I am wondering if this is something that would more likely extend open Solaris (it does require additional info in zfs metadata that is currently reserved space for future, ie zfs revision++) or if I should code against the FUSE

Re: [zfs-discuss] Backup/Restore idea?

2007-01-19 Thread Wade . Stuart
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 01/19/2007 10:24:47 AM: > Hi, > > With the Flemish government we have more then 100 sites. Most of the > time the backup is done on a DLT7000 or LTO tape device. A few sites > are bigger and have a Legato backup solution. > > With UFS, the restore is easy on those s

Re: [zfs-discuss] How much do we really want zpool remove?

2007-01-18 Thread Wade . Stuart
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 01/18/2007 01:29:23 PM: > On Thu, 2007-01-18 at 10:51 -0800, Matthew Ahrens wrote: > > Jeremy Teo wrote: > > > On the issue of the ability to remove a device from a zpool, how > > > useful/pressing is this feature? Or is this more along the line of > > > "nice to h

Re: Re[2]: [zfs-discuss] Re: Adding disk to a RAID-Z?

2007-01-10 Thread Wade . Stuart
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 01/10/2007 05:16:33 PM: > Hello Jason, > > Wednesday, January 10, 2007, 10:54:29 PM, you wrote: > > JJWW> Hi Kyle, > > JJWW> I think there was a lot of talk about this behavior on the RAIDZ2 vs. > JJWW> RAID-10 thread. My understanding from that discussion was that

Re: [zfs-discuss] Question: ZFS + Block level SHA256 ~= almost free CAS Squishing?

2007-01-10 Thread Wade . Stuart
"Dick Davies" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 01/10/2007 05:26:45 AM: > On 08/01/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I think that in addition to lzjb compression, squishing blocks that contain > > the same data would buy a lot of space for administrators working in many > > c

Re: [zfs-discuss] Samba and ZFS ACL Question

2007-01-09 Thread Wade . Stuart
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 01/09/2007 10:59:08 AM: > I have a zfs filesystem exported via samba. I can connect to the > filesystem over CIFS from a Windows box, but I get an access denied > when I try to create a file. I can create the file just fine from > the Solaris prompt as the same u

Re: [zfs-discuss] hard-hang on snapshot rename

2007-01-08 Thread Wade . Stuart
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 01/08/2007 04:06:46 PM: > > > > > > > James Carlson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 01/08/2007 03:26:14 PM: > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > > I was noodling around with creating a backup script for my home > > > > system, and I ran into a problem that I'm having

Re: [zfs-discuss] hard-hang on snapshot rename

2007-01-08 Thread Wade . Stuart
James Carlson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 01/08/2007 03:26:14 PM: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > I was noodling around with creating a backup script for my home > > > system, and I ran into a problem that I'm having a little trouble > > > diagnosing. Has anyone seen anything like this o

Re: [zfs-discuss] Question: ZFS + Block level SHA256 ~= almost free CAS Squishing?

2007-01-08 Thread Wade . Stuart
Bill Sommerfeld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 01/08/2007 03:41:53 PM: > > Note that you'd actually have to verify that the blocks were the same; > > you cannot count on the hash function. If you didn't do this, anyone > > discovering a collision could destroy the colliding blocks/files. > > G

Re: [zfs-discuss] Question: ZFS + Block level SHA256 ~= almost free CAS Squishing?

2007-01-08 Thread Wade . Stuart
> > > > Does this seem feasible? Are there any blocking points that I am missing > > or unaware of? I am just posting this for discussion, it seems very > > interesting to me. > > > > Note that you'd actually have to verify that the blocks were the same; > you cannot count on the hash funct

Re: [zfs-discuss] hard-hang on snapshot rename

2007-01-08 Thread Wade . Stuart
> I was noodling around with creating a backup script for my home > system, and I ran into a problem that I'm having a little trouble > diagnosing. Has anyone seen anything like this or have any debug > advice? > > I did a "zfs create -r" to set a snapshot on all of the members of a > given p

[zfs-discuss] Question: ZFS + Block level SHA256 ~= almost free CAS Squishing?

2007-01-08 Thread Wade . Stuart
I have been looking at zfs source trying to get up to speed on the internals. One thing that interests me about the fs is what appears to be a low hanging fruit for block squishing CAS (Content Addressable Storage). I think that in addition to lzjb compression, squishing blocks that contain th

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: zfs list and snapshots..

2007-01-04 Thread Wade . Stuart
Matthew, I really do appreciate this discussion, thank you for taking the time to go over this with me. Matthew Ahrens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 01/04/2007 01:49:00 PM: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > [9:40am] [/data/test]:test% zfs snapshot data/[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [9:41am] [/data/

[zfs-discuss] Scrubbing on active zfs systems (many snaps per day)

2007-01-04 Thread Wade . Stuart
>From what I have read, it looks like there is a known issue with scrubbing restarting when any of the other usages of the same code path run (re-silver, snap ...). It looks like there is a plan to put in a marker so that scrubbing knows where to start again after being preempted. This is goo

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: zfs list and snapshots..

2007-01-04 Thread Wade . Stuart
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 01/03/2007 04:21:00 PM: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > which is not the behavior I am seeing.. > > Show me the output, and I can try to explain what you are seeing. [9:36am] [~]:test% zfs create data/test [9:36am] [~]:test% zfs set compression=on data/test [9:37am]

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: zfs list and snapshots..

2007-01-02 Thread Wade . Stuart
Sorry a few corrections, and inserts.. > > which is not the behavior I am seeing.. If I have 100 snaps of a > filesystem that are relatively low delta churn and then delete half of the > data out there I would expect to see that space go up in the used column > for one of the snaps (in my test

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: zfs list and snapshots..

2007-01-02 Thread Wade . Stuart
I am bringing this up again with the hopes that more eye may be on the list now then before the holidays.. the zfs man page lists the usage column as: used The amount of space consumed by this dataset and all its descendants. This is the value that is checked against

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: zfs list and snapshots..

2006-12-22 Thread Wade . Stuart
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 12/22/2006 04:50:25 AM: > Hello Wade, > > Thursday, December 21, 2006, 10:15:56 PM, you wrote: > > > > > > WSfc> Hola folks, > > WSfc> I am new to the list, please redirect me if I am posting > to the wrong > WSfc> location. I am starting to use ZFS in produc

[zfs-discuss] Re: zfs list and snapshots..

2006-12-21 Thread Wade . Stuart
(~20mb) on a/[EMAIL PROTECTED] Is this correct behavior? how do you track the total delta blocks the snap is using vs other snaps and live fs? Thanks! Wade Stuart ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/

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