Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Distro Advice

2013-02-27 Thread Ahmed Kamal
How is the quality of the ZFS Linux port today? Is it comparable to Illumos or at least FreeBSD ? Can I trust production data to it ? On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 5:22 AM, Bob Friesenhahn bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us wrote: On Tue, 26 Feb 2013, Gary Driggs wrote: On Feb 26, 2013, at 12:44 AM,

Re: [zfs-discuss] Are there (non-Sun/Oracle) vendors selling OpenSolaris/ZFS based NAS Hardware?

2010-04-05 Thread Ahmed Kamal
Install nexenta on a dell poweredge ? or one of these http://www.pogolinux.com/products/storage_director On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 9:48 PM, Kyle McDonald kmcdon...@egenera.com wrote: I've seen the Nexenta and EON webpages, but I'm not looking to build my own. Is there anything out there I can

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs reliability under xen

2009-05-22 Thread Ahmed Kamal
However, if you need to decide, whether to use Xen, test your setup before going into production and ask your boss, whether he can live with innovative ... solutions ;-) Thanks a lot for the informative reply. It has been definitely helpful I am however interested in the reliability of

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs reliability under xen

2009-05-19 Thread Ahmed Kamal
Is anyone even using ZFS under Xen in production in some form. If so, what's your impression of reliability ? Regards On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 2:16 PM, Ahmed Kamal email.ahmedka...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi zfs gurus, I am wondering whether the reliability of solaris/zfs is still guaranteed

[zfs-discuss] zfs reliability under xen

2009-05-17 Thread Ahmed Kamal
Hi zfs gurus, I am wondering whether the reliability of solaris/zfs is still guaranteed if I will be running zfs not directly over real hardware, but over Xen virtualization ? The plan is to assign physical raw access to the disks to the xen guest. I remember zfs having problems with hardware

Re: [zfs-discuss] is zpool export/import | faster than rsync or cp

2009-03-27 Thread Ahmed Kamal
ZFS replication basics at http://cuddletech.com/blog/pivot/entry.php?id=984 Regards On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 1:57 AM, Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote: [...] Harry wrote: Now I'm wondering if the export/import sub commands might not be a good bit faster. Ian Collins

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS: unreliable for professional usage?

2009-02-10 Thread Ahmed Kamal
The good news is that ZFS is getting popular enough on consumer-grade hardware. The bad news is that said hardware has a different set of failure modes, so it takes a bit of work to become resilient to them. This is pretty high on my short list. So does this basically mean zfs rolls-back

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS: unreliable for professional usage?

2009-02-09 Thread Ahmed Kamal
Unmount is not sufficient. Well, umount is not the right way to do it, so he'd be simulating a power-loss/system-crash. That still doesn't explain why massive data loss would occur ? I would understand the last txg being lost, but 90% according to OP ?!

Re: [zfs-discuss] thoughts on parallel backups, rsync, and send/receive

2009-01-26 Thread Ahmed Kamal
Did anyone share a script to send/recv zfs filesystems tree in parallel, especially if a cap on concurrency can be specified? Richard, how fast were you taking those snapshots, how fast were the syncs over the network. For example, assuming a snapshot every 10mins, is it reasonable to expect to

Re: [zfs-discuss] [storage-discuss] AVS on opensolaris 2008.11

2009-01-26 Thread Ahmed Kamal
Hi Jim, The setup is not there anymore, however, I will share as much details as I have documented. Could you please post the commands you have used and any differences you think might be important. Did you ever test with 2008.11 ? instead of sxce ? I will probably be testing again soon. Any

Re: [zfs-discuss] [storage-discuss] AVS on opensolaris 2008.11

2009-01-24 Thread Ahmed Kamal
Hi Jim, Thanks for your informative reply. I am involved with kristof (original poster) in the setup, please allow me to reply below Was the follow 'test' run during resynchronization mode or replication mode? Neither, testing was done while in logging mode. This was chosen to simply avoid

Re: [zfs-discuss] Using ZFS for replication

2009-01-15 Thread Ahmed Kamal
You might want to look at AVS for realtime replication http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/avs/ However, I have had huge performance hits after enabling that. The replicated volume is almost 10% the speed of normal ones On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 1:28 PM, Ian Mather ian.mat...@northtyneside.gov.uk

[zfs-discuss] ZFS and AVS replication performance issues

2008-12-21 Thread Ahmed Kamal
Hi, I have setup AVS replication between two zvols on two opensolaris-2008.11 nodes. I have been seeing BIG performance issues, so I tried to setup the system to be as fast as possible using a couple of tricks. The detailed setup and performance data are below: * A 100G zvol has been setup

Re: [zfs-discuss] UFS over zvol major performance hit

2008-12-15 Thread Ahmed Kamal
Well, I checked and it is 8k volblocksize 8K Any other suggestions how to begin to debug such issue ? On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 2:44 AM, Bob Friesenhahn bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us wrote: On Mon, 15 Dec 2008, Ahmed Kamal wrote: RandomWrite-8k: 0.9M/s SingleStreamWriteDirect1m

[zfs-discuss] UFS over zvol major performance hit

2008-12-14 Thread Ahmed Kamal
Hi, I have been doing some basic performance tests, and I am getting a big hit when I run UFS over a zvol, instead of directly using zfs. Any hints or explanations is very welcome. Here's the scenario. The machine has 30G RAM, and two IDE disks attached. The disks have 2 fdisk partitons (c4d0p2,

[zfs-discuss] ESX integration

2008-11-24 Thread Ahmed Kamal
Hi, Not sure if this is the best place to ask, but do Sun's new Amber road storage boxes have any kind of integration with ESX? Most importantly, quiescing the VMs, before snapshotting the zvols, and/or some level of management integration thru either the web UI or ESX's console ? If there's

Re: [zfs-discuss] `zfs list` doesn't show my snapshot

2008-11-21 Thread Ahmed Kamal
zfs list -t snapshot ? On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 1:14 AM, Pawel Tecza [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello All, This is my zfs list: # zfs list NAME USED AVAIL REFER MOUNTPOINT rpool 10,5G 3,85G61K /rpool rpool/ROOT9,04G 3,85G

Re: [zfs-discuss] Best practice recommendations for backing up to ZFS Fileserver

2008-10-18 Thread Ahmed Kamal
For *nix rsync For windows rsyncshare http://www.nexenta.com/corp/index.php?option=com_remositoryItemid=77func=startdownid=18 On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 1:56 PM, Ares Drake [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: Greetings. I am currently looking into setting up a better backup solution for our family. I

[zfs-discuss] Pool corruption avoidance

2008-10-18 Thread Ahmed Kamal
Hi, Unfortunately, every now and then someone has his zpool corrupt, with no tools to fix it! This is due to either zfs bugs, or hardware lying about whether the bits really hit the platters. I am evaluating what I should be using for storing VMware ESX VM images (ext3 or zfs on NFS). I really

Re: [zfs-discuss] Quantifying ZFS reliability

2008-10-02 Thread Ahmed Kamal
Thanks for the info. I am not really after big performance, I am already on SATA and it's good enough for me. What I really really can't afford is data loss. The CAD designs our engineers are working on can sometimes be really worth a lot. But still we're a small company and would rather save and

Re: [zfs-discuss] Quantifying ZFS reliability

2008-09-30 Thread Ahmed Kamal
Thanks for all the answers .. Please find more questions below :) - Good to know EMC filers do not have end2end checksums! What about netapp ? - Any other limitations of the big two NAS vendors as compared to zfs ? - I still don't have my original question answered, I want to somehow assess the

Re: [zfs-discuss] Quantifying ZFS reliability

2008-09-30 Thread Ahmed Kamal
I guess I am mostly interested in MTDL for a zfs system on whitebox hardware (like pogo), vs dataonTap on netapp hardware. Any numbers ? On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 4:36 PM, Bob Friesenhahn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 30 Sep 2008, Ahmed Kamal wrote: - I still don't have my original

Re: [zfs-discuss] Quantifying ZFS reliability

2008-09-30 Thread Ahmed Kamal
, Miles Nordin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ak == Ahmed Kamal [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ak I need to answer and weigh against the cost. I suggest translating the reliability problems into a cost for mitigating them: price the ZFS alternative as two systems, and keep the second system offline

Re: [zfs-discuss] Quantifying ZFS reliability

2008-09-30 Thread Ahmed Kamal
Intel mainstream (and indeed many tech companies') stuff is purposely stratified from the enterprise stuff by cutting out features like ECC and higher memory capacity and using different interface form factors. Well I guess I am getting a Xeon anyway There is nothing magical about SAS

Re: [zfs-discuss] Quantifying ZFS reliability

2008-09-30 Thread Ahmed Kamal
Well, if you can probably afford more SATA drives for the purchase price, you can put them in a striped-mirror set up, and that may help things. If your disks are cheap you can afford to buy more of them (space, heat, and power not withstanding). Hmm, that's actually cool ! If I configure

Re: [zfs-discuss] Quantifying ZFS reliability

2008-09-30 Thread Ahmed Kamal
I observe that there are no disk vendors supplying SATA disks with speed 7,200 rpm. It is no wonder that a 10k rpm disk outperforms a 7,200 rpm disk for random workloads. I'll attribute this to intentional market segmentation by the industry rather than a deficiency in the transfer

Re: [zfs-discuss] Quantifying ZFS reliability

2008-09-30 Thread Ahmed Kamal
So, performance aside, does SAS have other benefits ? Data integrity ? How would a 8 raid1 sata compare vs another 8 smaller SAS disks in raidz(2) ? Like apples and pomegranates. Both should be able to saturate a GbE link. You're the expert, but isn't the 100M/s for streaming not random

Re: [zfs-discuss] Quantifying ZFS reliability

2008-09-30 Thread Ahmed Kamal
performance), and offers better performance and MTTDL than 8 sata raidz2, I guess I will go with 8-sata-raid1 then! Hope I'm not horribly mistaken :) On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 3:18 AM, Tim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 8:13 PM, Ahmed Kamal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So

[zfs-discuss] Quantifying ZFS reliability

2008-09-29 Thread Ahmed Kamal
Hi everyone, We're a small Linux shop (20 users). I am currently using a Linux server to host our 2TBs of data. I am considering better options for our data storage needs. I mostly need instant snapshots and better data protection. I have been considering EMC NS20 filers and Zfs based solutions.