Re: [zfs-discuss] Deduplication Memory Requirements

, as everone who has seen cluttered desktops full of downloaded files can probably confirm. Cheers, Constantin -- Constantin Gonzalez Schmitz, Sales Consultant, Oracle Hardware Presales Germany Phone: +49 89 460 08 25 91 | Mobile: +49 172 834 90 30 Blog: http://constantin.glez.de

Re: [zfs-discuss] Deleting large amounts of files

way to do that is run a scrub-like process and build up a table of files and their blocks. Cheers, Constantin -- Constantin Gonzalez Schmitz | Principal Field Technologist Phone: +49 89 460 08 25 91 || Mobile: +49 172 834 90 30 Oracle Hardware Presales Germany ORACLE Deutschland B.V. Co. KG

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS deduplication ratio on Server 2008 backup VHD files

/ Constantin Gonzalez Sun Microsystems GmbH, Germany Principal Field Technologist Blog: constantin.glez.de Tel.: +49 89/4 60 08-25 91 Twitter: @zalez Sitz d. Ges.: Sun Microsystems GmbH, Sonnenallee 1, 85551 Kirchheim

Re: [zfs-discuss] Thoughts on ZFS Pool Backup Strategies

://www.opensolaris.org/ Constantin Gonzalez Sun Microsystems GmbH, Germany Principal Field Technologist Blog: constantin.glez.de Tel.: +49 89/4 60 08-25 91 Twitter: @zalez Sitz d. Ges.: Sun Microsystems GmbH, Sonnenallee

Re: [zfs-discuss] Best 1.5TB drives for consumer RAID?

://www.opensolaris.org/ Constantin Gonzalez Sun Microsystems GmbH, Germany Principal Field Technologisthttp://blogs.sun.com/constantin Tel.: +49 89/4 60 08-25 91 http://google.com/search?q=constantin+gonzalez Sitz d. Ges.: Sun Microsystems GmbH

[zfs-discuss] Setting default user/group quotas?

://www.opensolaris.org/ Constantin Gonzalez Sun Microsystems GmbH, Germany Principal Field Technologisthttp://blogs.sun.com/constantin Tel.: +49 89/4 60 08-25 91 http://google.com/search?q=constantin+gonzalez Sitz d. Ges.: Sun Microsystems GmbH

Re: [zfs-discuss] Setting default user/group quotas?

Cheers, Constantin -- Sent from OpenSolaris, http://www.opensolaris.org/ Constantin Gonzalez Sun Microsystems GmbH, Germany Principal Field Technologisthttp://blogs.sun.com/constantin Tel.: +49 89/4 60 08-25 91 http://google.com/search?q

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS commands hang after several zfs receives

appears to have fixed the problem. I have been abusing the box for a couple of weeks without any lockups. Roll on update 8! Was that IDR140221-17? That one fixed a deadlock bug for us back in May. -- Constantin Gonzalez Sun Microsystems GmbH, Germany Principal

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Crypto Updates [PSARC/2009/443 FastTrack timeout 08/24/2009]

Cryptographic Framework: http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/crypto/inprogress/padlock/ Cheers, Constantin -- Constantin Gonzalez Sun Microsystems GmbH, Germany Principal Field Technologisthttp://blogs.sun.com/constantin Tel.: +49 89/4 60 08-25

Re: [zfs-discuss] Motherboard for home zfs/solaris file server

voltage yields far greater savings than a lower frequency. In september I'll do a post about the afore mentioned M4A boards and an lsi sas controller in one of the pcie x16 slots. -- Constantin Gonzalez Sun Microsystems GmbH, Germany Principal Field Technologist

Re: [zfs-discuss] Disabling COMMIT at NFS level, or disabling ZIL on a per-filesystem basis

filesystem basis is only the second best solution, but since that CR already exists, it seems to be the more realistic route. Thanks, Constantin -- Constantin Gonzalez Sun Microsystems GmbH, Germany Principal Field Technologisthttp

Re: [zfs-discuss] Disabling COMMIT at NFS level, or disabling ZIL on a per-filesystem basis

Hi, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: On Wed, 22 Oct 2008, Neil Perrin wrote: On 10/22/08 10:26, Constantin Gonzalez wrote: 3. Disable ZIL[1]. This is of course evil, but one customer pointed out to me that if a tar xvf were writing locally to a ZFS file system, the writes wouldn't

Re: [zfs-discuss] Disabling COMMIT at NFS level, or disabling ZIL on a per-filesystem basis

list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss -- Constantin Gonzalez Sun Microsystems GmbH, Germany Principal Field Technologisthttp://blogs.sun.com/constantin Tel.: +49 89/4 60 08-25 91 http

Re: [zfs-discuss] Disabling COMMIT at NFS level, or disabling ZIL on a per-filesystem basis

Hi, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: On Thu, 23 Oct 2008, Constantin Gonzalez wrote: Yes, we're both aware of this. In this particular situation, the customer would restart his backup job (and thus the client application) in case the server dies. So it is ok for this customer if their backup

[zfs-discuss] Disabling COMMIT at NFS level, or disabling ZIL on a per-filesystem basis

/nfs_and_zfs_a_fine [2]: http://blogs.sun.com/perrin/entry/slog_blog_or_blogging_on -- Constantin Gonzalez Sun Microsystems GmbH, Germany Principal Field Technologisthttp://blogs.sun.com/constantin Tel.: +49 89/4 60 08-25 91 http://google.com

Re: [zfs-discuss] RFE: Start with desired end state in mind...

Hi, great, thank you. So ZFS isn't picky about finding the target fs already created and attributed when replicating data into it. This is very cool! Best regards, Constantin Darren J Moffat wrote: Constantin Gonzalez wrote: Hi Darren, thank you for the clarification, I didn't know

Re: [zfs-discuss] RFE: Start with desired end state in mind...

recompression, en/decryption, change of attributes at the dataset level, etc. No need this already works this way. -- Constantin GonzalezSun Microsystems GmbH, Germany Platform Technology Group, Global Systems Engineering http://www.sun.de/ Tel.: +49 89/4 60 08-25

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS with Memory Sticks

Hi Paul, # fdisk -E /dev/rdsk/c7t0d0s2 then # zpool create -f Radical-Vol /dev/dsk/c7t0d0 should work. The warnings you see are just there to double-check you don't overwrite any previously used pool which you may regret. -f overrules that. Hope this helps, Constantin -- Constantin

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS with Memory Sticks

, Constantin -- Constantin GonzalezSun Microsystems GmbH, Germany Platform Technology Group, Global Systems Engineering http://www.sun.de/ Tel.: +49 89/4 60 08-25 91 http://blogs.sun.com/constantin/ Sitz d. Ges.: Sun Microsystems GmbH, Sonnenallee 1

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS with Memory Sticks

is the secret? Paul ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss -- Constantin GonzalezSun Microsystems GmbH, Germany Platform Technology Group, Global Systems

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: Best practice for moving FS between pool on same machine?

. I've written a script to do all of this, but it's only works on my system certified. I'd like to get some feedback and validation before I post it on my blog, so anyone, let me know if you want to try it out. Best regards, Constantin -- Constantin GonzalezSun

Re: [zfs-discuss] Best practice for moving FS between pool on same machine?

. If you're interested, let me know. Hope this helps, Constantin -- Constantin GonzalezSun Microsystems GmbH, Germany Platform Technology Group, Global Systems Engineering http://www.sun.de/ Tel.: +49 89/4 60 08-25 91 http://blogs.sun.com/constantin

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Scalability/performance

. Kinda like playing Tetris with RAID-Z... Later, I decided using just paired disks as mirrors are really more flexible and easier to expand, since disk space is cheap. Hope this helps, Constantin -- Constantin GonzalezSun Microsystems GmbH, Germany Platform

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Scalability/performance

, Constantin -- Constantin GonzalezSun Microsystems GmbH, Germany Platform Technology Group, Global Systems Engineering http://www.sun.de/ Tel.: +49 89/4 60 08-25 91 http://blogs.sun.com/constantin/ Sitz d. Ges.: Sun Microsystems GmbH, Sonnenallee 1, 85551

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Scalability/performance

this helps, Constantin -- Constantin GonzalezSun Microsystems GmbH, Germany Platform Technology Group, Global Systems Engineering http://www.sun.de/ Tel.: +49 89/4 60 08-25 91 http://blogs.sun.com/constantin/ Sitz d. Ges.: Sun Microsystems GmbH

[zfs-discuss] New german white paper on ZFS

. There are also some new ZFS slides that go with it, also in german. Let me know if you have any suggestions. Hope this helps, Constantin -- Constantin GonzalezSun Microsystems GmbH, Germany Platform Technology Group, Global Systems Engineering http://www.sun.de

[zfs-discuss] ZFS boot: Now, how can I do a pseudo live upgrade?

and the reboot, but is there anything else? - Did someone already blog about this and I haven't noticed yet? Cheers, Constantin -- Constantin GonzalezSun Microsystems GmbH, Germany Platform Technology Group, Global Systems Engineering http://www.sun.de/ Tel.: +49

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS boot: Now, how can I do a pseudo live upgrade?

http://blogs.sun.com/timh/entry/friday_fun_with_bfu_and lori Constantin Gonzalez wrote: Hi, I'm a big fan of live upgrade. I'm also a big fan of ZFS boot. The latter is more important for me. And yes, I'm looking forward to both being integrated with each other. Meanwhile, what

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS boot: Now, how can I do a pseudo live upgrade?

moment in time. Or did you mean send -r? Best regards, Constantin -- Constantin GonzalezSun Microsystems GmbH, Germany Platform Technology Group, Global Systems Engineering http://www.sun.de/ Tel.: +49 89/4 60 08-25 91 http

[zfs-discuss] A big Thank You to the ZFS team!

user and not a Sun employee. So, again, thank you so much ZFS team and keep up the good work! Best regards, Constantin -- Constantin GonzalezSun Microsystems GmbH, Germany Platform Technology Group, Global Systems Engineering http://www.sun.de/ Tel.: +49 89/4

[zfs-discuss] ZFS boot: 3 smaller glitches with console, /etc/dfs/sharetab and /dev/random

regards and again, congratulations to the ZFS boot team! Constantin -- Constantin GonzalezSun Microsystems GmbH, Germany Platform Technology Group, Global Systems Engineering http://www.sun.de/ Tel.: +49 89/4 60 08-25 91 http://blogs.sun.com

[zfs-discuss] Who modified my ZFS receive destination?

pool is brand new and I'm scrubbing it as we speak. Best regards, Constantin -- Constantin GonzalezSun Microsystems GmbH, Germany Platform Technology Group, Global Systems Engineering http://www.sun.de/ Tel.: +49 89/4 60 08-25 91 http

Summary: [zfs-discuss] Poor man's backup by attaching/detaching mirror drives on a _striped_ pool?

be the better way of implementing 5097228 in the first place? Best regards, Constantin -- Constantin GonzalezSun Microsystems GmbH, Germany Platform Technology Group, Global Systems Engineering http://www.sun.de/ Tel.: +49 89/4 60 08-25 91

Re: [zfs-discuss] Who modified my ZFS receive destination?

. Compression is turned on on both pools. The source pool has been scrubbed on Monday with no known data errors and the destination pool is brand new and I'm scrubbing it as we speak. Best regards, Constantin -- Constantin GonzalezSun Microsystems GmbH

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS vs. rmvolmgr

with lshal 3. Set up an fdi file that matches the disks and tells hal to ignore them The naming of the file /etc/hal/fdi/preprobe/30user/10-ignore-usb.fdi sounds like init.d style directory and file naming, ist this correct? Best regards, Constantin -- Constantin Gonzalez

Re: [zfs-discuss] Poor man's backup by attaching/detaching mirror drives on a _striped_ pool?

Hi Mark, Mark J Musante wrote: On Tue, 10 Apr 2007, Constantin Gonzalez wrote: Has anybody tried it yet with a striped mirror? What if the pool is composed out of two mirrors? Can I attach devices to both mirrors, let them resilver, then detach them and import the pool from those? You'd

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: Poor man's backup by attaching/detaching mirror

. Cheers, Constantin -- Constantin GonzalezSun Microsystems GmbH, Germany Platform Technology Group, Global Systems Engineering http://www.sun.de/ Tel.: +49 89/4 60 08-25 91 http://blogs.sun.com/constantin/ Sitz d. Ges.: Sun Microsystems GmbH

[zfs-discuss] ZFS vs. rmvolmgr

tell rmvolmgr that a particular set of disks belongs to ZFS and should not be treated as removable? Best regards, Constantin -- Constantin GonzalezSun Microsystems GmbH, Germany Platform Technology Group, Global Systems Engineering http://www.sun.de/ Tel.: +49

Re: [zfs-discuss] Setting up for zfsboot

and for reads (assuming a data disk is broken)? This data would be useful when arguing for a software RAID scheme in front of hardware-RAID addicted customers. Best regards, Constantin -- Constantin GonzalezSun Microsystems GmbH, Germany Platform Technology Group, Global

Re: [zfs-discuss] Setting up for zfsboot

is the cheapest. Therefore it's best to sacrifice space and you'll get better availability and better performance. Hope this helps, Constantin -- Constantin GonzalezSun Microsystems GmbH, Germany Platform Technology Group, Global Systems Engineering http

Re: [zfs-discuss] Setting up for zfsboot

it. But maybe someone from the ZFS team can clarify this. Cheers, Constantin -- Constantin GonzalezSun Microsystems GmbH, Germany Platform Technology Group, Global Systems Engineering http://www.sun.de/ Tel.: +49 89/4 60 08-25 91 http

Re: [zfs-discuss] Pathological ZFS performance

than what I have now. This would cost me the one SATA drive I'm using now in a smaller pool. Rob T ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss -- Constantin Gonzalez

Re: [zfs-discuss] Migrating a pool

incremental snapshot then zfs set mountpoint=x to the new filesystem, then bring up the services again. Hope this works as I imagine. Cheers, Constantin Matthew Ahrens wrote: Constantin Gonzalez wrote: What is the most elegant way of migrating all filesystems to the new pool, including snapshots

[zfs-discuss] Migrating a pool

, then run a send (-i) orgy? Best regards, Constantin -- Constantin GonzalezSun Microsystems GmbH, Germany Platform Technology Group, Global Systems Engineering http://www.sun.de/ Tel.: +49 89/4 60 08-25 91 http://blogs.sun.com/constantin/ Sitz d. Ges

Re: [zfs-discuss] Migrating a pool

blocks would be transferred as they are, including all embedded snapshots. Is that already an RFE? Best regards, Constantin -- Constantin GonzalezSun Microsystems GmbH, Germany Platform Technology Group, Global Systems Engineering http://www.sun.de/ Tel.: +49

Re: [zfs-discuss] 2-way mirror or RAIDZ?

this helps, Constantin -- Constantin GonzalezSun Microsystems GmbH, Germany Platform Technology Group, Global Systems Engineering http://www.sun.de/ Tel.: +49 89/4 60 08-25 91 http://blogs.sun.com/constantin/ Sitz d. Ges.: Sun Microsystems GmbH

Re: [zfs-discuss] FYI: ZFS on USB sticks (from Germany)

bye christian Artem Kachitchkine schrieb: Brilliant video, guys. Totally agreed, great work. Boy, would I like to see Peter Stormare in that video %) -Artem. -- Constantin GonzalezSun Microsystems GmbH, Germany Platform Technology Group, Global Systems

Re: [zfs-discuss] FYI: ZFS on USB sticks (from Germany)

-- Constantin GonzalezSun Microsystems GmbH, Germany Platform Technology Group, Global Systems Engineering http://www.sun.de/ Tel.: +49 89/4 60 08-25 91 http://blogs.sun.com/constantin/ ___ zfs-discuss mailing list

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: Re: How much do we really want zpool remove?

this is not an objective barrier to entry for ZFS. Note my use of the word objective. I do feel that we have to implement zpool remove for subjective reasons, but that is a non technical matter. Is this an agreeable summary of the situation? Best regards, Constantin -- Constantin Gonzalez

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: Re: can I use zfs on just a partition?

machines where you only have 1 disk or are otherwise very disk-limited :). Best regards, Constantin -- Constantin GonzalezSun Microsystems GmbH, Germany Platform Technology Group, Client Solutionshttp://www.sun.de/ Tel.: +49 89/4 60 08-25 91

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: can I use zfs on just a partition?

in the above entry to see what I mean. Works great (but I had to use -f to zpool create :) ) and gives me enough performance for all my home-serving needs. Hope this helps, Constantin -- Constantin GonzalezSun Microsystems GmbH, Germany Platform Technology Group

Re: [zfs-discuss] poor NFS/ZFS performance

of the underlying root of the problem? Best regards, Constantin -- Constantin GonzalezSun Microsystems GmbH, Germany Platform Technology Group, Client Solutionshttp://www.sun.de/ Tel.: +49 89/4 60 08-25 91 http://blogs.sun.com/constantin

Re: [zfs-discuss] poor NFS/ZFS performance

on the application layer. Reminds my of many UltraSPARC T1 issues, which don't sit in hardware nor OS, but in the way applications have been developed for years :). Best regards, Constantin -- Constantin GonzalezSun Microsystems GmbH, Germany Platform Technology Group

Re: [zfs-discuss] Newbie questions about drive problems

enough valid devices to be complete. Hope this helps, Constantin -- Constantin GonzalezSun Microsystems GmbH, Germany Platform Technology Group, Client Solutionshttp://www.sun.de/ Tel.: +49 89/4 60 08-25 91 http://blogs.sun.com

[zfs-discuss] ZFS Load-balancing over vdevs vs. real disks?

at once? I'm pretty sure ZFS is very intelligent and will do the right thing, but a confirmation would be nice here. Best regards, Constantin -- Constantin GonzalezSun Microsystems GmbH, Germany Platform Technology Group, Client Solutionshttp

Re: [zfs-discuss] Proposal: user-defined properties

regards, Constantin -- Constantin GonzalezSun Microsystems GmbH, Germany Platform Technology Group, Client Solutionshttp://www.sun.de/ Tel.: +49 89/4 60 08-25 91 http://blogs.sun.com/constantin

Re: [zfs-discuss] Home Server with ZFS

about when I'm done. Feel free to visit my blog for how to set up your home server as a ZFS iTunes streaming server :). Best regards, Constantin -- Constantin GonzalezSun Microsystems GmbH, Germany Platform Technology Group, Client Solutionshttp

Re: [zfs-discuss] Enabling compression/encryption on a populated filesystem

the implementation very deeply... -Luke ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss -- Constantin Gonzalez

Re: [zfs-discuss] [raidz] file not removed: No space left on device

, Constantin - Eric On Mon, Jul 03, 2006 at 02:23:06PM +0200, Constantin Gonzalez wrote: Hi, of course, the reason for this is the copy-on-write approach: ZFS has to write new blocks first before the modification of the FS structure can reflect the state with the deleted blocks

Re: [zfs-discuss] [raidz] file not removed: No space left on device

/listinfo/zfs-discuss -- Constantin GonzalezSun Microsystems GmbH, Germany Platform Technology Group, Client Solutionshttp://www.sun.de/ Tel.: +49 89/4 60 08-25 91 http://blogs.sun.com/constantin

[zfs-discuss] add_install_client and ZFS and SMF incompatibility

from hand, then re-run mount_all or replace the vfstab entry with a simple symlink. Which only works until you say add_install_client the next time. Is this a known issue? Best regards, Constantin -- Constantin GonzalezSun Microsystems GmbH, Germany Platform