Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: ZFS Storage Pool advice

2006-12-14 Thread Roch - PAE
Right on. And you might want to capture this in a blog for reference. The permalink will be quite useful. We did have a use case for zil synchronicity which was a big user controlled transaction : turn zil off do tons of thing to the filesystem. big sync turn

[zfs-discuss] ZFS NFS/Samba server advice

2006-12-14 Thread Yuri Chebotarev
Hi there! I want to build el cheapo ZFS NFS/Samba server for storing user files and NFS mail storage. I'm planning to have one 0.5Tb SATA2 ZFS RAID10 pool with several filesystems: 1) 200 Gb filesystem with ~300K user files, shared with Samba, about 10 clients, very light load. 2) 15-20 Gb

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: ZFS Usage in Warehousing (lengthy intro, now slightly OT)

2006-12-14 Thread Brian Hechinger
On Wed, Dec 13, 2006 at 03:39:58PM -0800, Richard Elling wrote: Jochen M. Kaiser wrote: Didn't find any decent SAS controllers though, qlogic has some, but the PCIe model with two external ports isn't supported on Solaris. The single port model would work though... We (Sun) sell LSI

[zfs-discuss] How does zfs mount at boot? How to let the system not to mount zfs?

2006-12-14 Thread storage-disk
Hi all, I hope that I this is not the old thread. I'd like to know how zfs get mounted. After a pool is created, zfs got mounted? Where is the record? Which file got written? Traditional /etc/vfstab will mount all entries in that file. Where does Solaris find zfs mount at boot? How to I

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: ZFS Storage Pool advice

2006-12-14 Thread Bill Sommerfeld
On Thu, 2006-12-14 at 11:33 +0100, Roch - PAE wrote: We did have a use case for zil synchronicity which was a big user controlled transaction : turn zil off do tons of thing to the filesystem. big sync turn zil back on Yep. The bulk of the heavy lifting on

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: ZFS Storage Pool advice

2006-12-14 Thread Casper . Dik
Bill Sommerfeld wrote: Similarly, the bulk of the synchronous I/O done during the import of SMF manifests early in boot after an install or upgrade are wasted effort.. I've done hundreds of installs. Empirically, my observation is that the SMF manifest import scales well with processors. In

[zfs-discuss] Solaris 11/06 + iscsi integration

2006-12-14 Thread Robert Petkus
Folks, Just wondering why iSCSI target disk support didn't make it into the latest Solaris release. Were there any problems? Robert -- Robert Petkus Brookhaven National Laboratory Physics Dept. - Bldg. 510A http://www.bnl.gov/RHIC http://www.acf.bnl.gov

Re: [zfs-discuss] Solaris 11/06 + iscsi integration

2006-12-14 Thread Adam Leventhal
Hey Robert, The iSCSI target is targetting Solaris 10 update 4. There wasn't any issue with the target, rather it was the timing of the its integration into Nevada, and the sheer quantity of projects targetting update 3. Adam On Thu, Dec 14, 2006 at 02:39:17PM -0500, Robert Petkus wrote:

[zfs-discuss] ZFS questions

2006-12-14 Thread Dave Burleson
I will have a file system in a SAN using ZFS. Can someone answer my questions? 1. Can I create ZFS volumes on a ZFS file system from one server, attach the file system read-write to a different server (to load data), then detach the file system from that server and attach the file

[zfs-discuss] Re: Re: ZFS Storage Pool advice

2006-12-14 Thread Kory Wheatley
Basically then wilth data being stored on the ZFS disks (no applications), and web servers logs, it would benefit us more to have the 3 luns setup in one ZFS Storage Pool? This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list

[zfs-discuss] Corrupted pool

2006-12-14 Thread Ricardo Correia
Hi, I've been using a ZFS pool inside a VMware'd NexentaOS, on a single real disk partition, for a few months in order to store some backups. Today I noticed that there were some directories missing inside 2 separate filesystems, which I found strange. I went to the backup logs (also stored