Re: [zfs-discuss] about btrfs and zfs

2011-10-18 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Harry Putnam FreeNAS and freebsd. Maybe you can give a little synopsis of those too. I mean when it comes to utilizing zfs; is it much the same as if running it on solaris? For somebody

Re: [zfs-discuss] about btrfs and zfs

2011-10-18 Thread Darren J Moffat
On 10/18/11 13:18, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: * btrfs is able to balance. (after adding new blank devices, rebalance, so the data workload are distributed across all the devices.) zfs is not able to do this yet. ZFS does slightly biases new vdevs for new writes so that we will get to a more

Re: [zfs-discuss] about btrfs and zfs

2011-10-18 Thread Jim Klimov
2011-10-18 16:26, Darren J Moffat пишет: On 10/18/11 13:18, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: * btrfs is able to balance. (after adding new blank devices, rebalance, so the data workload are distributed across all the devices.) zfs is not able to do this yet. ZFS does slightly biases new vdevs for

Re: [zfs-discuss] about btrfs and zfs

2011-10-18 Thread Darren J Moffat
On 10/18/11 14:04, Jim Klimov wrote: 2011-10-18 16:26, Darren J Moffat пишет: On 10/18/11 13:18, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: * btrfs is able to balance. (after adding new blank devices, rebalance, so the data workload are distributed across all the devices.) zfs is not able to do this yet. ZFS

Re: [zfs-discuss] about btrfs and zfs

2011-10-18 Thread Gregory Shaw
I looked into btrfs some time ago for the same reasons. I had a Linux system that I wanted to do more intelligent things with storage. However, I reverted to Ext3/4 and MD because of the portions of btrfs that haven't been completed. It seems that btrfs development is very slow, which

Re: [zfs-discuss] about btrfs and zfs

2011-10-18 Thread Harry Putnam
Edward Ned Harvey opensolarisisdeadlongliveopensola...@nedharvey.com writes: I recently put my first btrfs system into production. Here are the similarities/differences I noticed different between btrfs and zfs: Great input.. thanks for the details.

Re: [zfs-discuss] about btrfs and zfs

2011-10-18 Thread Paul Kraus
On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 9:13 AM, Darren J Moffat darr...@opensolaris.org wrote: On 10/18/11 14:04, Jim Klimov wrote: 2011-10-18 16:26, Darren J Moffat пишет: ZFS does slightly biases new vdevs for new writes so that we will get to a more even spread. It doesn't go and move already written

Re: [zfs-discuss] about btrfs and zfs

2011-10-18 Thread Harry Putnam
Gregory Shaw greg.s...@oracle.com writes: I looked into btrfs some time ago for the same reasons. I had a Linux system that I wanted to do more intelligent things with storage. Great details, thanks. ___ zfs-discuss mailing list

Re: [zfs-discuss] about btrfs and zfs

2011-10-18 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Tue, 18 Oct 2011, Gregory Shaw wrote: I'm seriously thinking about converting the Linux system in question into a FreeBSD system so that I can use ZFS. FreeBSD is a wonderfully stable, coherent, and well-documented system which has stood the test of time and has an excellent development

Re: [zfs-discuss] weird bug with Seagate 3TB USB3 drive

2011-10-18 Thread John D Groenveld
In message 201110150202.p9f22w2n000...@elvis.arl.psu.edu, John D Groenveld writes: I'm baffled why zpool import is unable to find the pool on the drive, but the drive is definitely functional. Per Richard Elling, it looks like ZFS is unable to find the requisite labels for importing. John

Re: [zfs-discuss] about btrfs and zfs

2011-10-18 Thread Brian Wilson
On 10/18/11 07:18 AM, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Harry Putnam As a common slob who isn't very skilled, I like to see some commentary from some of the pros here as to any comparison of zfs against

[zfs-discuss] FS Reliability WAS: about btrfs and zfs

2011-10-18 Thread Paul Kraus
On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 9:38 AM, Gregory Shaw greg.s...@oracle.com wrote: Another item that made me nervous was my experience with ZFS.  Even when called 'ready for production', a number of bugs were found that were pretty nasty. They've since been fixed (years ago), but there were some

Re: [zfs-discuss] weird bug with Seagate 3TB USB3 drive

2011-10-18 Thread Cindy Swearingen
Hi John, I'm going to file a CR to get this issue reviewed by the USB team first, but if you could humor me with another test: Can you run newfs to create a UFS file system on this device and mount it? Thanks, Cindy On 10/18/11 08:18, John D Groenveld wrote: In message

Re: [zfs-discuss] weird bug with Seagate 3TB USB3 drive

2011-10-18 Thread John D Groenveld
In message 4e9d98b1.8040...@oracle.com, Cindy Swearingen writes: I'm going to file a CR to get this issue reviewed by the USB team first, but if you could humor me with another test: Can you run newfs to create a UFS file system on this device and mount it? # uname -srvp SunOS 5.11 151.0.1.12

Re: [zfs-discuss] about btrfs and zfs

2011-10-18 Thread Nico Williams
On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 9:35 AM, Brian Wilson bfwil...@doit.wisc.edu wrote: I just wanted to add something on fsck on ZFS - because for me that used to make ZFS 'not ready for prime-time' in 24x7 5+ 9s uptime environments. Where ZFS doesn't have an fsck command - and that really used to bug me

Re: [zfs-discuss] weird bug with Seagate 3TB USB3 drive

2011-10-18 Thread Cindy Swearingen
Yeah, okay, duh. I should have known that large sector size support is only available for a non-root ZFS file system. A couple more things if you're still interested: 1. If you re-create the pool on the whole disk, like this: # zpool create foo c1t0d0 Then, resend the prtvtoc output for

Re: [zfs-discuss] about btrfs and zfs

2011-10-18 Thread Mark Sandrock
On Oct 18, 2011, at 11:09 AM, Nico Williams wrote: On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 9:35 AM, Brian Wilson wrote: I just wanted to add something on fsck on ZFS - because for me that used to make ZFS 'not ready for prime-time' in 24x7 5+ 9s uptime environments. Where ZFS doesn't have an fsck command -

Re: [zfs-discuss] weird bug with Seagate 3TB USB3 drive

2011-10-18 Thread John D Groenveld
In message 4e9da8b1.7020...@oracle.com, Cindy Swearingen writes: 1. If you re-create the pool on the whole disk, like this: # zpool create foo c1t0d0 Then, resend the prtvtoc output for c1t0d0s0. # zpool create snafu c1t0d0 # zpool status snafu pool: snafu state: ONLINE scan: none requested

Re: [zfs-discuss] FS Reliability WAS: about btrfs and zfs

2011-10-18 Thread Cindy Swearingen
Hi Paul, Your 1-3 is very sensible advice and I must ask about this statement: I have yet to have any data loss with ZFS. Maybe this goes without saying, but I think you are using ZFS redundancy. Thanks, Cindy On 10/18/11 08:52, Paul Kraus wrote: On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 9:38 AM, Gregory

Re: [zfs-discuss] weird bug with Seagate 3TB USB3 drive

2011-10-18 Thread Cindy Swearingen
This is CR 7102272. cs On 10/18/11 10:50, John D Groenveld wrote: In message 4e9da8b1.7020...@oracle.com, Cindy Swearingen writes: 1. If you re-create the pool on the whole disk, like this: # zpool create foo c1t0d0 Then, resend the prtvtoc output for c1t0d0s0. # zpool create snafu c1t0d0

Re: [zfs-discuss] about btrfs and zfs

2011-10-18 Thread Brian Wilson
On 10/18/11 11:46 AM, Mark Sandrock wrote: On Oct 18, 2011, at 11:09 AM, Nico Williams wrote: On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 9:35 AM, Brian Wilson wrote: I just wanted to add something on fsck on ZFS - because for me that used to make ZFS 'not ready for prime-time' in 24x7 5+ 9s uptime environments.

Re: [zfs-discuss] about btrfs and zfs

2011-10-18 Thread Tim Cook
On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 11:46 AM, Mark Sandrock mark.sandr...@oracle.comwrote: On Oct 18, 2011, at 11:09 AM, Nico Williams wrote: On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 9:35 AM, Brian Wilson wrote: I just wanted to add something on fsck on ZFS - because for me that used to make ZFS 'not ready for

Re: [zfs-discuss] weird bug with Seagate 3TB USB3 drive

2011-10-18 Thread John D Groenveld
In message 4e9db04b.80...@oracle.com, Cindy Swearingen writes: This is CR 7102272. Anyone out there have Western Digital's competing 3TB Passport drive handy to duplicate this bug? John groenv...@acm.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list

Re: [zfs-discuss] FS Reliability WAS: about btrfs and zfs

2011-10-18 Thread Paul Kraus
On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 12:53 PM, Cindy Swearingen cindy.swearin...@oracle.com wrote: Your 1-3 is very sensible advice Unfortunately, I don't think I have ever seen the recommendations I made stated quite so plainly. and I must ask about this statement: I have yet to have any data loss

Re: [zfs-discuss] about btrfs and zfs

2011-10-18 Thread Ian Collins
On 10/19/11 03:12 AM, Paul Kraus wrote: On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 9:13 AM, Darren J Moffat darr...@opensolaris.org wrote: On 10/18/11 14:04, Jim Klimov wrote: 2011-10-18 16:26, Darren J Moffat пишет: ZFS does slightly biases new vdevs for new writes so that we will get to a more even spread.

Re: [zfs-discuss] about btrfs and zfs

2011-10-18 Thread Ian Collins
On 10/19/11 01:18 AM, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: I recently put my first btrfs system into production. Here are the similarities/differences I noticed different between btrfs and zfs: Differences: * Obviously, one is meant for linux and the other solaris (etc) * In btrfs, there is only raid1.

Re: [zfs-discuss] about btrfs and zfs

2011-10-18 Thread Kees Nuyt
On Tue, 18 Oct 2011 12:05:29 -0500, Tim Cook t...@cook.ms wrote: Doesn't a scrub do more than what 'fsck' does? Not really. fsck will work on an offline filesystem to correct errors and bring it back online. Scrub won't even work until the filesystem is already imported and online. If

Re: [zfs-discuss] about btrfs and zfs

2011-10-18 Thread Tim Cook
On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 2:41 PM, Kees Nuyt k.n...@zonnet.nl wrote: On Tue, 18 Oct 2011 12:05:29 -0500, Tim Cook t...@cook.ms wrote: Doesn't a scrub do more than what 'fsck' does? Not really. fsck will work on an offline filesystem to correct errors and bring it back online. Scrub

Re: [zfs-discuss] about btrfs and zfs

2011-10-18 Thread Peter Tribble
On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 8:52 PM, Tim Cook t...@cook.ms wrote: Every scrub I've ever done that has found an error required manual fixing.  Every pool I've ever created has been raid-z or raid-z2, so the silent healing, while a great story, has never actually happened in practice in any

Re: [zfs-discuss] about btrfs and zfs

2011-10-18 Thread Tim Cook
On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 3:06 PM, Peter Tribble peter.trib...@gmail.comwrote: On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 8:52 PM, Tim Cook t...@cook.ms wrote: Every scrub I've ever done that has found an error required manual fixing. Every pool I've ever created has been raid-z or raid-z2, so the silent

Re: [zfs-discuss] about btrfs and zfs

2011-10-18 Thread Peter Tribble
On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 9:12 PM, Tim Cook t...@cook.ms wrote: On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 3:06 PM, Peter Tribble peter.trib...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 8:52 PM, Tim Cook t...@cook.ms wrote: Every scrub I've ever done that has found an error required manual fixing.  Every

Re: [zfs-discuss] about btrfs and zfs

2011-10-18 Thread Tim Cook
On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 3:27 PM, Peter Tribble peter.trib...@gmail.comwrote: On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 9:12 PM, Tim Cook t...@cook.ms wrote: On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 3:06 PM, Peter Tribble peter.trib...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 8:52 PM, Tim Cook t...@cook.ms wrote:

Re: [zfs-discuss] about btrfs and zfs

2011-10-18 Thread Paul Kraus
On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 4:31 PM, Tim Cook t...@cook.ms wrote: I had and have redundant storage, it has *NEVER* automatically fixed it.  You're the first person I've heard that has had it automatically fix it. I have had ZFS automatically repair corrupted raw data when one component of the

Re: [zfs-discuss] about btrfs and zfs

2011-10-18 Thread Cyril Plisko
On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 10:31 PM, Tim Cook t...@cook.ms wrote: I had and have redundant storage, it has *NEVER* automatically fixed it.  You're the first person I've heard that has had it automatically fix it. Well, here comes another person - I have ZFS automatically fixing corrupted data on

Re: [zfs-discuss] about btrfs and zfs

2011-10-18 Thread Ian Collins
On 10/19/11 09:31 AM, Tim Cook wrote: I had and have redundant storage, it has *NEVER* automatically fixed it. You're the first person I've heard that has had it automatically fix it. I'm another, I have had many cases of ZFS fixing corrupted data on a number of different pool

Re: [zfs-discuss] about btrfs and zfs

2011-10-18 Thread Peter Jeremy
On 2011-Oct-18 23:18:02 +1100, Edward Ned Harvey opensolarisisdeadlongliveopensola...@nedharvey.com wrote: I recently put my first btrfs system into production. Here are the similarities/differences I noticed different between btrfs and zfs: Thanks for that. * zfs has storage tiering. (cache

Re: [zfs-discuss] about btrfs and zfs

2011-10-18 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Wed, 19 Oct 2011, Peter Jeremy wrote: Doesn't a scrub do more than what 'fsck' does? It does different things. I'm not sure about more. Zfs scrub validates user data while 'fsck' does not. I consider that as being definitely more. Bob -- Bob Friesenhahn bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us,

Re: [zfs-discuss] about btrfs and zfs

2011-10-18 Thread Fajar A. Nugraha
On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 8:38 PM, Gregory Shaw greg.s...@oracle.com wrote: I came to the conclusion that btrfs isn't ready for prime time.  I'll re-evaluate as development continues and the missing portions are provided. For someone with @oracle.com email address, you could probably arrive to

Re: [zfs-discuss] about btrfs and zfs

2011-10-18 Thread Fajar A. Nugraha
On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 7:18 PM, Edward Ned Harvey opensolarisisdeadlongliveopensola...@nedharvey.com wrote: I recently put my first btrfs system into production.  Here are the similarities/differences I noticed different between btrfs and zfs: Differences: * Obviously, one is meant for linux

Re: [zfs-discuss] about btrfs and zfs

2011-10-18 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Paul Kraus I have done a poor man's rebalance by copying data after adding devices. I know this is not a substitute for a real online rebalance, but it gets the job done (if you can take the

Re: [zfs-discuss] about btrfs and zfs

2011-10-18 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Tim Cook I had and have redundant storage, it has *NEVER* automatically fixed it.  You're the first person I've heard that has had it automatically fix it. That's probably just because it's

Re: [zfs-discuss] about btrfs and zfs

2011-10-18 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Bob Friesenhahn On Wed, 19 Oct 2011, Peter Jeremy wrote: Doesn't a scrub do more than what 'fsck' does? It does different things. I'm not sure about more. Zfs scrub validates user

Re: [zfs-discuss] about btrfs and zfs

2011-10-18 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
From: Fajar A. Nugraha [mailto:w...@fajar.net] Sent: Tuesday, October 18, 2011 7:46 PM * In btrfs, there is no equivalent or alternative to zfs send | zfs receive Planned. No actual working implementation yet. In fact, I saw, actual work started on this task about a month ago. So it's

Re: [zfs-discuss] about btrfs and zfs

2011-10-18 Thread David Magda
On Oct 18, 2011, at 20:26, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: Yes, but when scrub encounters uncorrectable errors, it doesn't attempt to correct them. Fsck will do things like recover lost files into the lost+found directory, and stuff like that... You say recover lost files like you know that they're

Re: [zfs-discuss] about btrfs and zfs

2011-10-18 Thread David Magda
On Oct 18, 2011, at 20:35, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: In fact, I saw, actual work started on this task about a month ago. So it's not just planned, it's really in the works. Now we're talking open source timelines here, which means, you'll get it when it's ready, and nobody knows when that

Re: [zfs-discuss] about btrfs and zfs

2011-10-18 Thread David Magda
On Oct 18, 2011, at 10:35, Brian Wilson wrote: Where ZFS doesn't have an fsck command - and that really used to bug me - it does now have a -F option on zpool import. To me it's the same functionality for my environment - the ability to try to roll back to a 'hopefully' good state and get