Re[2]: [zfs-discuss] ZFS multi-threading

2007-02-23 Thread Robert Milkowski
Hello eric, Thursday, February 22, 2007, 5:44:35 PM, you wrote: ek On Feb 9, 2007, at 8:02 AM, Carisdad wrote: I've seen very good performance on streaming large files to ZFS on a T2000. We have been looking at using the T2000 as a disk storage unit for backups. I've been able to push

[zfs-discuss] ARGHH. An other panic!!

2007-02-23 Thread Gino Ruopolo
Hi All, this morning one of our edge fc switches died. Thanks to multipath all the nodes using that switch keeps running except the ONLY ONE still using ZFS (we went back to UFS on all our production servers) ! In that one we had one path failed and than a CPU panic :( Here is the logs: Feb

Re: [zfs-discuss] Is ZFS file system supports short writes ?

2007-02-23 Thread Dan Mick
So, that would be an error, and, other than reporting it accurately, what would you want ZFS to do to support it? dudekula mastan wrote: If a write call attempted to write X bytes of data, and if writecall writes only x ( hwere x X) bytes, then we call that write as short write. -Masthan

[zfs-discuss] How to download the source code?

2007-02-23 Thread Ludovic Gele
Hi folks, I want to try to port ZFS under OpenBSD, but I'm not able to find the archive of the source code of this filesystem. Please, how can I do? Thanks in advance This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list

Re: [zfs-discuss] Is ZFS file system supports short writes ?

2007-02-23 Thread Frank Hofmann
On Fri, 23 Feb 2007, Dan Mick wrote: So, that would be an error, and, other than reporting it accurately, what would you want ZFS to do to support it? It's not an error for write(2) to return with less bytes written than requested. In some situations, that's pretty much expected. Like, for

Re: [zfs-discuss] How to download the source code?

2007-02-23 Thread James C. McPherson
Ludovic Gele wrote: I want to try to port ZFS under OpenBSD, but I'm not able to find the archive of the source code of this filesystem. Please, how can I do? Hi Ludovic, ZFS is integrated into Solaris and OpenSolaris. There's no explicitly separate source code archive. If you want to learn

Re: [zfs-discuss] How to download the source code?

2007-02-23 Thread Rayson Ho
1) Take a look at the ZFS Source Tour: http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/zfs/source/ 2) You may also want to talk to the FreeBSD zfs port maintainer: http://perforce.freebsd.org/depotTreeBrowser.cgi?FSPC=//depot/user/pjd/zfs 3) The source of ZFS is in a few different directories: Main FS

Re: [zfs-discuss] Another paper

2007-02-23 Thread Gregory Shaw
On Feb 22, 2007, at 11:55 AM, Eric Schrock wrote: [ ... ] b) It is not uncommon for such successful reads of partially defective media to happen only after several retries. It is somewhat unfortunate that there is no simple way to tell the drive how many times to retry.

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: suggestion: directory promotion to filesystem

2007-02-23 Thread Jeff Victor
Matthew Ahrens wrote: Adrian Saul wrote: Any idea on the timeline or future of zfs split ? It isn't a priority for now. For Sun, for the ZFS community, or both? ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re[2]: [zfs-discuss] Re: suggestion: directory promotion to filesystem

2007-02-23 Thread Robert Milkowski
Hello Jeff, Friday, February 23, 2007, 4:18:53 PM, you wrote: JV Matthew Ahrens wrote: Adrian Saul wrote: Any idea on the timeline or future of zfs split ? It isn't a priority for now. JV For Sun, for the ZFS community, or both? For developers currently working on ZFS? If you want to

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: suggestion: directory promotion to filesystem

2007-02-23 Thread Matthew Ahrens
Robert Milkowski wrote: Hello Jeff, Friday, February 23, 2007, 4:18:53 PM, you wrote: JV Matthew Ahrens wrote: Adrian Saul wrote: Any idea on the timeline or future of zfs split ? It isn't a priority for now. JV For Sun, for the ZFS community, or both? For developers currently working on

[zfs-discuss] Hypothetical question about multiple host access to 6140 array

2007-02-23 Thread Albert Chin
Hypothetical question. Say you have one 6140 controller tray and one 6140 expansion tray. In the beginning, these are connected to a 5220 or 5320 NAS appliance. Then, say you get a Sun server, a X4100, and connect it to the 6140 controller tray (the 6140 supports multiple data hosts). Is it

Re: [zfs-discuss] Convert ufs to zfs possible ?

2007-02-23 Thread Wade . Stuart
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 02/23/2007 02:15:44 PM: Is there anyway to convert existing ufs file system to zfs ? Not live, good old tape-restore or transfer to new disk methods only. You may minimize downtime depending on workload by doing a disk-disk copy live and then doing an rsync

[zfs-discuss] Re: ZFS with SAN Disks and mutipathing

2007-02-23 Thread JS
Yes. Works fine, though it's an interim solution until I can get rid of PowerPath. This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

[zfs-discuss] Re: Re: ZFS with SAN Disks and mutipathing

2007-02-23 Thread JS
For a quick overview of setting up MPxIO and the other configs: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~]# fcinfo hba-port HBA Port WWN: 1000c952776f OS Device Name: /dev/cfg/c8 Manufacturer: Sun Microsystems, Inc. Model: LP1-S Type: N-port State: online

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

2007-02-23 Thread JS
Actually, I'm using ZFS in a SAN environment often importing LUNS to save management overhead and make snapshots easily available, among other things. I would love zfs remove because it allows me, in conjunction with containers, to build up a single managable pool for a number of local host