[zfs-discuss] recordsize

2010-09-16 Thread Mike DeMarco
What are the ramifications to changing the recordsize of a zfs filesystem that already has data on it? I want to tune down the recordsize to speed up very small reads to a size that is more in line with the read size. can I do this on a filestystem that has data already on it and how does it

Re: [zfs-discuss] recordsize

2010-09-16 Thread Freddie Cash
On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 8:21 AM, Mike DeMarco mikej...@yahoo.com wrote: What are the ramifications to changing the recordsize of a zfs filesystem that already has data on it? I want to tune down the recordsize to speed up very small reads to a size that is more in line with the read size.

Re: [zfs-discuss] Recordsize...

2010-01-18 Thread Phil Harman
Richard Elling wrote: Tristan Ball wrote: Also - Am I right in thinking that if a 4K write is made to a filesystem block with a recordsize of 8K, then the original block is read (assuming it's not in the ARC), before the new block is written elsewhere (the copy, from copy on write)? This

Re: [zfs-discuss] Recordsize...

2010-01-18 Thread Fajar A. Nugraha
On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 10:22 AM, Richard Elling richard.ell...@gmail.com wrote: On Jan 17, 2010, at 11:59 AM, Tristan Ball wrote: Is there a way to check the recordsize of a given file, assuming that the filesystems recordsize was changed at some point? I don't know of an easy way to do

Re: [zfs-discuss] Recordsize...

2010-01-18 Thread Robert Milkowski
On 17/01/2010 20:34, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: On Mon, 18 Jan 2010, Tristan Ball wrote: Is there a way to check the recordsize of a given file, assuming that the filesystems recordsize was changed at some point? This would be problematic since a file may consist of different size records (at

[zfs-discuss] Recordsize...

2010-01-17 Thread Tristan Ball
Hi Everyone, Is it possible to use send/recv to change the recordsize, or does each file need to be individually recreated/copied within a given dataset? Is there a way to check the recordsize of a given file, assuming that the filesystems recordsize was changed at some point? Also - Am I

Re: [zfs-discuss] Recordsize...

2010-01-17 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Mon, 18 Jan 2010, Tristan Ball wrote: Is there a way to check the recordsize of a given file, assuming that the filesystems recordsize was changed at some point? This would be problematic since a file may consist of different size records (at least I think so). If the record size was

Re: [zfs-discuss] Recordsize...

2010-01-17 Thread Richard Elling
On Jan 17, 2010, at 11:59 AM, Tristan Ball wrote: Hi Everyone, Is it possible to use send/recv to change the recordsize, or does each file need to be individually recreated/copied within a given dataset? Yes. The former does the latter. Is there a way to check the recordsize of a given