Re: [zfs-discuss] Write caches on X4540

2009-02-15 Thread Robert Milkowski
Hello Greg, Thursday, February 12, 2009, 8:24:38 PM, you wrote: GM well, since the write cache flush command is disabled, I would like this GM to happen as early as practically possible in the bootup process, as ZFS GM will not be issuing the cache flush commands to the disks. GM I'm not really

Re: [zfs-discuss] Strange performance loss

2009-02-15 Thread Robert Milkowski
Hello Peter, Friday, February 13, 2009, 10:41:54 AM, you wrote: PT I'm moving some data off an old machine to something reasonably new. PT Normally, the new machine performs better, but I have one case just now PT where the new system is terribly slow. PT Old machine - V880 (Solaris 8) with SVM

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS on SAN?

2009-02-15 Thread Robert Milkowski
Hello Bob, Saturday, February 14, 2009, 6:16:54 PM, you wrote: BF If you do use ZFS's redundancy features, it is important to consider BF resilver time. Try to keep volume size small enough that it may be BF resilvered in a reasonable amount of time. Well, in most cases resilver in ZFS

Re: [zfs-discuss] Strange performance loss

2009-02-15 Thread Peter Tribble
On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 12:37 PM, Robert Milkowski mi...@task.gda.pl wrote: Hello Peter, Friday, February 13, 2009, 10:41:54 AM, you wrote: PT I'm moving some data off an old machine to something reasonably new. PT Normally, the new machine performs better, but I have one case just now PT

Re: [zfs-discuss] Strange performance loss

2009-02-15 Thread Robert Milkowski
Hello Peter, Sunday, February 15, 2009, 12:54:40 PM, you wrote: PT On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 12:37 PM, Robert Milkowski mi...@task.gda.pl wrote: Hello Peter, Friday, February 13, 2009, 10:41:54 AM, you wrote: PT I'm moving some data off an old machine to something reasonably new. PT

Re: [zfs-discuss] 'zfs recv' is very slow

2009-02-15 Thread Robert Milkowski
Hello Brent, Friday, February 13, 2009, 8:15:55 AM, you wrote: BJ Sad to report that I am seeing the slow zfs recv issue cropping up BJ again while running b105 :( BJ Not sure what has triggered the change, but I am seeing the same BJ behavior again: massive amounts of reads on the receiving

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS on SAN?

2009-02-15 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Sun, 15 Feb 2009, Robert Milkowski wrote: Well, in most cases resilver in ZFS should be quicker than resilver in a disk array because ZFS will resilver only blocks which are actually in use while most disk arrays will blindly resilver full disk drives. So assuming you still have plenty

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS on SAN?

2009-02-15 Thread Colin Raven
On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 5:00 PM, Bob Friesenhahn bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us wrote: On Sun, 15 Feb 2009, Robert Milkowski wrote: Well, in most cases resilver in ZFS should be quicker than resilver in a disk array because ZFS will resilver only blocks which are actually in use while most

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS on SAN?

2009-02-15 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Sun, 15 Feb 2009, Colin Raven wrote: Pardon me for jumping into this discussion. I invariably lurk and keep mouth firmly shut. In this case however, curiosity and a degree of alarm bade me to jump incould you elaborate on 'fragmentation' since the only context I know this is Windows. Now

Re: [zfs-discuss] [osol-help] Adding a new partition to the system

2009-02-15 Thread Antonio
Hi Jan, I tried out what you say long ago, but zfs fails on pool creation. This is, when I issue the zpool create trunk /dev/dsk/c9d0p3 the command fails saying that there's no such file or directory. And the disk is correct!! What I think is that /dev/dsk/c9d0p3 is a symbolic name used by

Re: [zfs-discuss] [osol-help] Adding a new partition to the system

2009-02-15 Thread Antonio
I can mount those partitions well using ext2fs, so I assume I won't need to run gparted at all. This is what prtpart says about my stuff. Kind regards, Antonio r...@antonio:~# prtpart /dev/rdsk/c3d0p0 -ldevs Fdisk information for device /dev/rdsk/c3d0p0 ** NOTE ** /dev/dsk/c3d0p0 -

Re: [zfs-discuss] [osol-help] Adding a new partition to the system

2009-02-15 Thread Antonio
r...@antonio:~# zpool create -f test /dev/dsk/c3d0p9 cannot open '/dev/dsk/c3d0p9': No such file or directory Jan Hlodan escribió: Antonio wrote: I can mount those partitions well using ext2fs, so I assume I won't need to run gparted at all. This is what prtpart says about my stuff. Kind

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS on SAN?

2009-02-15 Thread Colin Raven
On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 8:02 PM, Bob Friesenhahn bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us wrote: On Sun, 15 Feb 2009, Colin Raven wrote: Pardon me for jumping into this discussion. I invariably lurk and keep mouth firmly shut. In this case however, curiosity and a degree of alarm bade me to jump

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs destroy hanging

2009-02-15 Thread David Dyer-Bennet
Thanks, I've filed your message where I can easily get at it even if I'm having trouble with the server. I'm afraid I'd rather I didn't get the chance to use it, but if something weird does go on, I'm happy to have the procedure to capture information that might help get it identified and fixed.

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS on SAN?

2009-02-15 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Sun, 15 Feb 2009, Colin Raven wrote: As a followup; is there any ongoing sensible way to defend against the dreaded fragmentation? A [shudder] defrag routine of some kind perhaps? Forgive the silly questions from the sidelines.ignorance knows no bounds apparently :) There is no

Re: [zfs-discuss] [osol-help] Adding a new partition to the system

2009-02-15 Thread Kees Nuyt
On Sun, 15 Feb 2009 01:27:10 +0100, Antonio anto...@antonioshome.net wrote: r...@antonio:~# zpool create -f test /dev/dsk/c3d0p9 cannot open '/dev/dsk/c3d0p9': No such file or directory I would: Clean obsolete device links : devfsadm -Cv Make sure all sensed devices have a correct link :

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS on SAN?

2009-02-15 Thread Sanjeev
Sendai, On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 03:21:25PM -0800, Andras Spitzer wrote: Hi, When I read the ZFS manual, it usually recommends to configure redundancy at the ZFS layer, mainly because there are features that will work only with redundant configuration (like corrupted data correction), also

[zfs-discuss] Can't find results of send/receive on destination fs??

2009-02-15 Thread David Dyer-Bennet
So I did this: zfs send -R rpool/export/h...@bup-20090216-044512utc | zfs receive\ -dv bup-ruin/fsfs And it indicated no errors, and said it was creating various expected filesystems (pool bup-ruin was brand new at this test). And afterward bup-ruin seemed to have reasonable filesystems in it:

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS on SAN?

2009-02-15 Thread Sanjeev
Sriram, On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 11:12:42AM +0530, Sriram Narayanan wrote: On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 9:11 AM, Sanjeev sanjeev.bagew...@sun.com wrote: Sendai, On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 03:21:25PM -0800, Andras Spitzer wrote: Hi, When I read the ZFS manual, it usually recommends to