[zfs-discuss] snapshots in solaris11 express

2011-07-27 Thread Carsten John
Hello everybody, is there any known way to configure the point-in-time *when* the time-slider will snapshot/rotate? With hundreds of zfs filesystems, the daily snapshot rotation slows down a big file server significantly, so it would be better to have the snapshots rotated outside the usual

Re: [zfs-discuss] SSD vs hybrid drive - any advice?

2011-07-27 Thread Casper . Dik
ZFS never does update-in-place and UFS only does update-in-place for metadata and where the application forces update-in-place. ufs always updates in place (it will rewrite earlier allocated locks). The only time when it does is when the file is growing and it may move stuff around (when the

Re: [zfs-discuss] SSD vs hybrid drive - any advice?

2011-07-27 Thread Darren J Moffat
On 07/27/11 00:00, Peter Jeremy wrote: On 2011-Jul-26 17:24:05 +0800, Fajar A. Nugrahaw...@fajar.net wrote: Shouldn't modern SSD controllers be smart enough already that they know: - if there's a request to overwrite a sector, then the old data on that sector is no longer needed ZFS never

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs send/receive and ashift

2011-07-27 Thread Fred Liu
The only way you will know of decrypting and decompressing causes a problem in that case is if you try it on your systems. I seriously doubt it will be unless the system is already heavily CPU bound and your backup window is already very tight. That is true. My understanding of the

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs send/receive and ashift

2011-07-27 Thread Darren J Moffat
On 07/27/11 10:24, Fred Liu wrote: The alternative is to have the node in your NDMP network that does the writing to the tape to do the compression and encryption of the data stream before putting it on the tape. I see. T1C is a monster to have if possible ;-). And doing the job on NDMP

[zfs-discuss] zfs rename query

2011-07-27 Thread Nishchaya Bahuguna
Hi, I have a query regarding the zfs rename command. There are 5 zones and my requirement is to change the zone paths using zfs rename. + zoneadm list -cv ID NAME STATUS PATH BRAND IP 0 global running/

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs send/receive and ashift

2011-07-27 Thread Pawel Jakub Dawidek
On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 03:28:10AM -0700, Fred Liu wrote: The ZFS Send stream is at the DMU layer at this layer the data is uncompress and decrypted - ie exactly how the application wants it. Even the data compressed/encrypted by ZFS will be decrypted? If it is true, will it be

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs send/receive and ashift

2011-07-27 Thread Darren J Moffat
On 07/27/11 12:51, Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote: On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 03:28:10AM -0700, Fred Liu wrote: The ZFS Send stream is at the DMU layer at this layer the data is uncompress and decrypted - ie exactly how the application wants it. Even the data compressed/encrypted by ZFS will be

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs rename query

2011-07-27 Thread Mike Gerdts
On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 6:37 AM, Nishchaya Bahuguna nishchaya.bahug...@oracle.com wrote: Hi, I have a query regarding the zfs rename command. There are 5 zones and my requirement is to change the zone paths using zfs rename. + zoneadm list -cv ID NAME             STATUS     PATH          

Re: [zfs-discuss] SSD vs hybrid drive - any advice?

2011-07-27 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Mon, 25 Jul 2011, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Erik Trimble Honestly, I think TRIM isn't really useful for anyone. I'm going to have to disagree. As usual. :-) There are only two times

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS resilvering loop from hell

2011-07-27 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Tue, 26 Jul 2011, Charles Stephens wrote: I'm on S11E 150.0.1.9 and I replaced one of the drives and the pool seems to be stuck in a resilvering loop. I performed a 'zpool clear' and 'zpool scrub' and just complains that the drives I didn't replace are degraded because of too many errors.

Re: [zfs-discuss] SSD vs hybrid drive - any advice?

2011-07-27 Thread Daniel Carosone
Processing the request just means flagging the blocks, though, right? And the actual benefits only acrue if the garbage collection / block reshuffling background tasks get a chance to run? I think that's right. TRIM just gives hints to the garbage collector that sectors are no longer in

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS resilvering loop from hell

2011-07-27 Thread Daniel Carosone
On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 08:00:43PM -0500, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: On Tue, 26 Jul 2011, Charles Stephens wrote: I'm on S11E 150.0.1.9 and I replaced one of the drives and the pool seems to be stuck in a resilvering loop. I performed a 'zpool clear' and 'zpool scrub' and just complains that