[zfs-discuss] raidz and compression, difficulties

2008-01-26 Thread Joachim Pihl
Running SXDE (snv_70) for a file server, and I must admit I'm new to Solaris and zfs. zfs does not appear to do any compression at all, here is what I did to set it up: I created a four drive raidz array: zpool create pool raidz c0d0 c0d1 c1d0 c1d1 then an extra file system on that: zfs

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Home NAS - Configuration Questions

2008-01-26 Thread Kava
I have an older server that I am using (2 x 2Gb Xeon) .. used ot run a web company ;0 This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Home NAS - Configuration Questions

2008-01-26 Thread Kava
Hmm .. the only things that I am doing differently (as far as I can tell) is I am using the web GUI to issue the commands and I am running it in a VM (using the pre-buil ones available). I will try using the command line and see if that makes a difference. Maybe I wasn't waiting for it to

Re: [zfs-discuss] Replacing Devices in a Storage Pool

2008-01-26 Thread Kava
Thanks .. I stumbled on the export/import as a solution by acciden (see post below). What confuses me though is that a number of people are reporting that they do not need to do this step. See JMCP and others in this thread: http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=50052tstart=0 I

Re: [zfs-discuss] raidz and compression, difficulties

2008-01-26 Thread Joachim Pihl
On Sat, 26 Jan 2008 15:20:01 +0100, Rob Logan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: it won't go back and compress old data, but if you copy the files, perhaps into a new folder, they will be compressed on that copy or move. I can't see why that should help, since the 300GB I added after enabling

Re: [zfs-discuss] raidz and compression, difficulties

2008-01-26 Thread Toby Thain
On 26-Jan-08, at 2:24 AM, Joachim Pihl wrote: Running SXDE (snv_70) for a file server, and I must admit I'm new to Solaris and zfs. zfs does not appear to do any compression at all, here is what I did to set it up: I created a four drive raidz array: zpool create pool raidz c0d0 c0d1

Re: [zfs-discuss] Sparc zfs root/boot status ?

2008-01-26 Thread William Yang
Will it make it into Solaris 10 Update 5 as previously intended (very originally scheduled for 4, then postponed to 5)? This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [zfs-discuss] Sparc zfs root/boot status ?

2008-01-26 Thread Tiernan, Daniel
Got word from our local Sun engineer this is scheduled for U6... -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of William Yang Sent: Saturday, January 26, 2008 8:20 PM To: zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org Subject: Re: [zfs-discuss] Sparc zfs root/boot status ?

Re: [zfs-discuss] raidz and compression, difficulties

2008-01-26 Thread Dale Ghent
On Jan 26, 2008, at 3:24 AM, Joachim Pihl wrote: So far so good, zfs get all reports compression to be active. Now for the problem: After adding another 300GB of uncompressed .tif and .bin/.cue (audio CD) files, compression ratio is still at 1.00, indicating that no compression has