[zfs-discuss] Tunable parameter to zfs memory use

2006-08-16 Thread homerun
Hi been using now zfs since 06/06 u2 release has been out. one thing have notised. zfs eats a lot of memory. right after boot mem usage is about 280M but after accessing zfs disks usage rises fast to be 900M. and it seems to stay in level of 90% of tot mem. also noted it frees used mem but

Re: [zfs-discuss] Tunable parameter to zfs memory use

2006-08-16 Thread James C. McPherson
homerun wrote: been using now zfs since 06/06 u2 release has been out. one thing have notised. zfs eats a lot of memory. right after boot mem usage is about 280M but after accessing zfs disks usage rises fast to be 900M. and it seems to stay in level of 90% of tot mem. also noted it frees used

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: Query on ZFS

2006-08-16 Thread James C. McPherson
Jaganraj Janarthanan wrote: Customer had come back saying. I've tried this and it doesn't work. It still displays the size as 1 gig after saying it's bringing the lun back online. Eric Schrock wrote On 08/15/06 20:49,: [ For ZFS discussions, try 'zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org' or '[EMAIL

Re: [zfs-discuss] Apple Time Machine

2006-08-16 Thread Steve Hoelzer
On 8/7/06, Adam Leventhal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Needless to say, this was a pretty interesting piece of the keynote from a technical point of view that had quite a few of us scratching our heads. After talking to some Apple engineers, it seems like what they're doing is more or less this:

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Boot Disk

2006-08-16 Thread Joerg Schilling
Dick Davies [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As an aside, is there a general method to generate bootable opensolaris DVDs? The only way I know of getting opensolaris on is installing sxcr and then BFUing on top. A year ago, I did publish a toolkit to create bootable SchilliX CDs/DVDs. Would this

Re: [zfs-discuss] zpool import - cannot mount [...] directory is not empty

2006-08-16 Thread Mark Maybee
Robert, Are you sure that nfs-s5-p0/d5110 and nfs-s5-p0/d5111 are mounted following the import? These messages imply that the d5110 and d5111 directories in the top-level filesystem of pool nfs-s5-p0 are not empty. Could you verify that 'df /nfs-s5-p0/d5110' displays nfs-s5-p0/d5110 as the

Re[2]: [zfs-discuss] zpool import - cannot mount [...] directory is not empty

2006-08-16 Thread Robert Milkowski
Hello Mark, Wednesday, August 16, 2006, 3:23:43 PM, you wrote: MM Robert, MM Are you sure that nfs-s5-p0/d5110 and nfs-s5-p0/d5111 are mounted MM following the import? These messages imply that the d5110 and d5111 MM directories in the top-level filesystem of pool nfs-s5-p0 are not MM empty.

Re: [zfs-discuss] zpool import - cannot mount [...] directory is not empty

2006-08-16 Thread Eric Schrock
What does 'zfs list -o name,mountpoint' and 'zfs mount' show after the import? My only guess is that you have some explicit mountpoint set that's confusing the DSl-orderered mounting code. If this is the case, this was fixed in build 46 (likely to be in S10u4) to always mount datasets in

Re: [zfs-discuss] zpool import/export

2006-08-16 Thread Eric Schrock
This seems like a reasonable RFE. Feel free to file it at bugs.opensolaris.org. - Eric On Wed, Aug 16, 2006 at 06:44:44AM +0200, Robert Milkowski wrote: Hello zfs-discuss, I do have several pools in a SAN shared environment where some pools are mounted by one server and some by

[zfs-discuss] Information on ZFS API?

2006-08-16 Thread William Fretts-Saxton
I'm having trouble finding information on any hooks into ZFS. Is there information on a ZFS API so I can access ZFS information directly as opposed to having to constantly parse 'zpool' and 'zfs' command output? This message posted from opensolaris.org

Re: [zfs-discuss] Information on ZFS API?

2006-08-16 Thread Bill Sommerfeld
On Wed, 2006-08-16 at 11:49 -0400, Eric Enright wrote: On 8/16/06, William Fretts-Saxton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm having trouble finding information on any hooks into ZFS. Is there information on a ZFS API so I can access ZFS information directly as opposed to having to constantly

Re: [zfs-discuss] Information on ZFS API?

2006-08-16 Thread William Fretts-Saxton
This is my first post on the opensolaris.org forums. I'm still trying to figure out whether I'm actually on the zfs-discuss alias and, if not, how to add myself to it! Anyway, I'm looking for a way to get information like zpool list or zfs get all filesystem through an API instead of parsing

Re: Re: [zfs-discuss] multi-layer ZFS filesystems and exporting: my stupid question for the day

2006-08-16 Thread Joe Little
On 8/16/06, Frank Cusack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On August 16, 2006 10:25:18 AM -0700 Joe Little [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a way to allow simple export commands the traverse multiple ZFS filesystems for exporting? I'd hate to have to have hundreds of mounts required for every point

[zfs-discuss] neopath vs automount

2006-08-16 Thread Frank Cusack
Sorry, I'm an email deleter, not a hoarder, so this is a new thread. Usually I save a thread I'm interested in for awhile before killing it, but I jumped the gun this time. Anyway ... I looked up neopath, cool product! But ISTM that to use it would give up some zfs features like snapshots. I

Re: Re: Re: [zfs-discuss] multi-layer ZFS filesystems and exporting: my stupid question for the day

2006-08-16 Thread Joe Little
On 8/16/06, Frank Cusack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On August 16, 2006 10:34:31 AM -0700 Joe Little [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 8/16/06, Frank Cusack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On August 16, 2006 10:25:18 AM -0700 Joe Little [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a way to allow simple export commands

[zfs-discuss] ZFS write performance problem with compression set to ON

2006-08-16 Thread Anantha N. Srirama
Test setup: - E2900 with 12 US-IV+ 1.5GHz processor, 96GB memory, 2x2Gbps FC HBAs, MPxIO in round-robbin config. - 50x64GB EMC disks presented on both 2 FCs. - ZFS pool defined using all 50 disks - Multiple ZFS filesystems built on the above pool. I'm observing the following: - When

[zfs-discuss] Re: system unresponsive after issuing a zpool attach

2006-08-16 Thread Rustam
I have similar behaviour on S10 U2 but in a different situation. I had working mirror with one of mirrors failed: mirror DEGRADED 0 0 0 c0d0 ONLINE 0 0 0 c0d1 UNAVAILABLE 0 0 0 After replacing corrupted hard disk i've run: # zpool replace tank c0d1 And it started replacement/resilvering...