Re: [zfs-discuss] Heavy write IO for no apparent reason

2013-01-18 Thread Freddie Cash
, statistics for every pool in the system is shown. If count is specified, the command exits after count reports are printed. :D -- Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http

Re: [zfs-discuss] S11 vs illumos zfs compatiblity

2012-12-13 Thread Freddie Cash
-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss -- Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs

Re: [zfs-discuss] any more efficient way to transfer snapshot between two hosts than ssh tunnel?

2012-12-13 Thread Freddie Cash
On Dec 13, 2012 8:02 PM, Fred Liu fred_...@issi.com wrote: Assuming in a secure and trusted env, we want to get the maximum transfer speed without the overhead from ssh. Add the HPN patches to OpenSSH and enable the NONE cipher. We can saturate a gigabits link (980 mbps) between two FreeBSD

Re: [zfs-discuss] Remove disk

2012-12-06 Thread Freddie Cash
the disks and sort things out automatically. -- Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Question about degraded drive

2012-11-27 Thread Freddie Cash
You don't use replace on mirror vdevs. 'zpool detach' the failed drive. Then 'zpool attach' the new drive. On Nov 27, 2012 6:00 PM, Chris Dunbar - Earthside, LLC cdun...@earthside.net wrote: Hello, ** ** I have a degraded mirror set and this is has happened a few times (not always the

Re: [zfs-discuss] Question about degraded drive

2012-11-27 Thread Freddie Cash
And you can try 'zpool online' on the failed drive to see if it comes back online. On Nov 27, 2012 6:08 PM, Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com wrote: You don't use replace on mirror vdevs. 'zpool detach' the failed drive. Then 'zpool attach' the new drive. On Nov 27, 2012 6:00 PM, Chris Dunbar

Re: [zfs-discuss] Repairing corrupted ZFS pool

2012-11-19 Thread Freddie Cash
/to/filesystem/.zfs/snapshot/snapname/ to new filesystem Snapshot new filesystem. rsync data from /path/to/filesystem/.zfs/snapshot/snapname+1/ to new filesystem Snapshot new filesystem See if zfs diff works. If it does, repeat the rsync/snapshot steps for the rest of the snapshots. -- Freddie

Re: [zfs-discuss] Intel DC S3700

2012-11-13 Thread Freddie Cash
Anandtech.com has a thorough review of it. Performance is consistent (within 10-15% IOPS) across the lifetime of the drive, has capacitors to flush RAM cache to disk, and doesn't store user data in the cache. It's also cheaper per GB than the 710 it replaces. On 2012-11-13 3:32 PM, Jim Klimov

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS best practice for FreeBSD?

2012-10-13 Thread Freddie Cash
Ah, okay, that makes sense. I wasn't offended, just confused. :) Thanks for the clarification On Oct 13, 2012 2:01 AM, Jim Klimov jimkli...@cos.ru wrote: 2012-10-12 19:34, Freddie Cash пишет: On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 3:28 AM, Jim Klimov jimkli...@cos.ru wrote: In fact, you can (although

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS best practice for FreeBSD?

2012-10-12 Thread Freddie Cash
server ran with mixed vdevs for awhile (a 2 IDE-disk mirror vdev with a 3 SATA-disk raidz1 vdev) as it was built using scrounged parts. But all my work file servers have matched vdevs. -- Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS best practice for FreeBSD?

2012-10-11 Thread Freddie Cash
- - - - - - gpt/cache1 32.0G 32.0G 8M - -- Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] removing upgrade notice from 'zpool status -x'

2012-10-04 Thread Freddie Cash
see health in the list of pool properties all the times I've read the zpool man page. -- Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] removing upgrade notice from 'zpool status -x'

2012-10-04 Thread Freddie Cash
On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 9:45 AM, Jim Klimov jimkli...@cos.ru wrote: 2012-10-04 20:36, Freddie Cash пишет: On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 9:14 AM, Richard Elling richard.ell...@gmail.com wrote: On Oct 4, 2012, at 8:58 AM, Jan Owoc jso...@gmail.com wrote: The return code for zpool is ambiguous. Do

Re: [zfs-discuss] vm server storage mirror

2012-09-26 Thread Freddie Cash
If you're willing to try FreeBSD, there's HAST (aka high availability storage) for this very purpose. You use hast to create mirror pairs using 1 disk from each box, thus creating /dev/hast/* nodes. Then you use those to create the zpool one the 'primary' box. All writes to the pool on the

Re: [zfs-discuss] finding smallest drive that can be used to replace

2012-09-05 Thread Freddie Cash
Query the size of the other drives in the vdev, obviously. ;) So long as the replacement is larger than the smallest remaining drive, it'll work. On Sep 5, 2012 8:57 AM, Yaverot yave...@computermail.net wrote: --- skiselkov...@gmail.com wrote: On 09/05/2012 05:06 AM, Yaverot wrote: What is

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZIL devices and fragmentation

2012-07-30 Thread Freddie Cash
SLOG, you probably want two of them in a mirror… That's only true on older versions of ZFS. ZFSv19 (or 20?) includes the ability to import a pool with a failed/missing log device. You lose any data that is in the log and not in the pool, but the pool is importable. -- Freddie Cash fjwc

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZIL devices and fragmentation

2012-07-30 Thread Freddie Cash
to lack of SLOG devices. Positive. :) I tested it with ZFSv28 on FreeBSD 9-STABLE a month or two ago. See the updated man page for zpool, especially the bit about import -m. :) -- Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] encfs on top of zfs

2012-07-30 Thread Freddie Cash
encryption) affect zfs specific features like data Integrity and deduplication? If you are using FreeBSD, why not use GELI to provide the block devices used for the ZFS vdevs? That's the standard way to get encryption and ZFS working on FreeBSD. -- Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZIL devices and fragmentation

2012-07-30 Thread Freddie Cash
destroyed pools only. The -f option is also required. -f Forces import, even if the pool appears to be potentially active. -m Enables import with missing log devices. -- Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com ___ zfs

Re: [zfs-discuss] Question on 4k sectors

2012-07-19 Thread Freddie Cash
be used to create ashift=12 vdevs on top of 512B, pseudo-512B, or 4K drives. # gnop -S 4096 da{0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7} # zpool create pool raidz2 da{0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7}.nop # zpool export pool # gnop destroy da{0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7}.nop # zpool import -d /dev pool -- Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com

[zfs-discuss] Broken ZFS filesystem

2012-05-08 Thread Freddie Cash
5.93x -- Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Broken ZFS filesystem

2012-05-08 Thread Freddie Cash
On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 10:24 AM, Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com wrote: I have an interesting issue with one single ZFS filesystem in a pool. All the other filesystems are fine, and can be mounted, snapshoted, destroyed, etc.  But this one filesystem, if I try to do any operation on it (zfs

Re: [zfs-discuss] cluster vs nfs

2012-04-26 Thread Freddie Cash
On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 4:34 AM, Deepak Honnalli deepak.honna...@oracle.com wrote:    cachefs is present in Solaris 10. It is EOL'd in S11. And for those who need/want to use Linux, the equivalent is FSCache. -- Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com ___ zfs

Re: [zfs-discuss] Aaron Toponce: Install ZFS on Debian GNU/Linux

2012-04-18 Thread Freddie Cash
encryption and we don't? Can it be backported to illumos ... It's too bad Oracle hasn't followed through (yet?) with their promise to open-source the ZFS (and other CDDL-licensed?) code in Solaris 11. :( -- Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com ___ zfs-discuss mailing

Re: [zfs-discuss] Apple's ZFS-alike - Re: Does raidzN actually protect against bitrot? If yes - how?

2012-01-16 Thread Freddie Cash
/ ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss -- Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [zfs-discuss] SAS HBA's with No Raid

2011-12-06 Thread Freddie Cash
/products/accessories/addon/AOC-USAS-L4i_R.cfm You could always check if there's an IT-mode firmware for the 921204i4e card available on the LSI website, and flash that onto the card. That disables/removes the RAID functionality from the card, turning it into just an HBA. -- Freddie Cash fjwc

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS not starting

2011-12-01 Thread Freddie Cash
again. # sysctl hw.physmem hw.physmem: 6363394048 # sysctl vfs.zfs.arc_max vfs.zfs.arc_max: 5045088256 (I lowered arc_max to 1GB but hasn't helped) DO NOT LOWER THE ARC WHEN DEDUPE ENABLED!! -- Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com ___ zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Remove corrupt files from snapshot

2011-11-15 Thread Freddie Cash
really should only be used for testing purposes. -- Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] about btrfs and zfs

2011-10-17 Thread Freddie Cash
manual spares) - and more Maybe in another 5 years or so, Btrfs will be up to the point of ZFS today. Just image where ZFS will be in 5 years of so. :) -- Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs send and dedupe

2011-09-07 Thread Freddie Cash
. And whether or not zfs send is faster/better/easier/more reliable than rsyncing snapshots (which is what we do currently). Thanks for the info. -- Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http

[zfs-discuss] zfs send and dedupe

2011-09-06 Thread Freddie Cash
Just curious if anyone has looked into the relationship between zpool dedupe, zfs zend dedupe, memory use, and network throughput. For example, does 'zfs send -D' use the same DDT as the pool? Or does it require more memory for it's own DDT, thus impacting performance of both? If you have a

Re: [zfs-discuss] Space usage

2011-08-14 Thread Freddie Cash
in the archives that shows how ls -l, du, df, zfs list, and zpool list work, and what each sees as disk usage. Don't remember exactly who wrote it, though. It should definitely be added to the ZFS Admin Guide, though. :) -- Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com

Re: [zfs-discuss] Question: adding a single drive to a mirrored zpool

2011-06-24 Thread Freddie Cash
of my zpool remains intact. Note: you will have 0 redundancy on the ENTIRE POOL, not just that one vdev. If that non-redundant vdev dies, you lose the entire pool. Are you willing to take that risk, if one of the new drives is already DoA? -- Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com

Re: [zfs-discuss] question about COW and snapshots

2011-06-16 Thread Freddie Cash
-- Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] changing vdev types

2011-06-01 Thread Freddie Cash
. The only solution to the OP's question is to create a new pool, transfer the data, and destroy the old pool. There are several ways to do this. -- Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http

Re: [zfs-discuss] changing vdev types

2011-06-01 Thread Freddie Cash
On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 2:34 PM, Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 12:45 PM, Eric Sproul espr...@omniti.com wrote: On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 2:54 PM, Matt Harrison iwasinnamuk...@genestate.com wrote: Hi list, I've got a pool thats got a single raidz1 vdev. I've

Re: [zfs-discuss] Compatibility between Sun-Oracle Fishworks appliance zfs and other zfs implementations

2011-05-26 Thread Freddie Cash
you can safely use Illumos, Nexenta, FreeBSD, etc with ZFSv28. You can also use Solaris 11 Express, so long as you don't upgrade the pool version (SolE includes ZFSv31). -- Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Solaris vs FreeBSD question

2011-05-18 Thread Freddie Cash
Intel motherboard - 2.8 GHz P4 CPU - 3 SATA1 harddrives connected to motherboard, in a raidz1 vdev - 2 IDE harddrives connected to a Promise PCI controller, in a mirror vdev - 2 GB non-ECC SDRAM - 2 GB USB stick for the OS install - FreeBSD 8.2 -- Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com

Re: [zfs-discuss] Still no way to recover a corrupted pool

2011-05-16 Thread Freddie Cash
On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 5:17 PM, Brandon High bh...@freaks.com wrote: On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 1:23 PM, Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com wrote: Running ZFSv28 on 64-bit FreeBSD 8-STABLE. I'd suggest trying to import the pool into snv_151a (Solaris 11 Express), which is the reference

Re: [zfs-discuss] Faster copy from UFS to ZFS

2011-05-03 Thread Freddie Cash
that way., building a complete list of files/directories to copy before starting the copy. rsync 3.x doesn't. 3.x builds an initial file list for the first directory and then starts copying files while continuing to build the list of files, so there's only a small pause at the beginning. -- Freddie

Re: [zfs-discuss] Faster copy from UFS to ZFS

2011-04-29 Thread Freddie Cash
, with --no-whole-file --inplace (and other options), works extremely fast for updates. -- Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

[zfs-discuss] Still no way to recover a corrupted pool

2011-04-29 Thread Freddie Cash
filesystems from being unmounted, which prevented the pool from being exported (even though I have a zfs unmount -f and zpool export -f fail-safe), which locked up the shutdown process requiring a power reset. :( -- Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com ___ zfs

Re: [zfs-discuss] Still no way to recover a corrupted pool

2011-04-29 Thread Freddie Cash
On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 1:23 PM, Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com wrote: Is there anyway, yet, to import a pool with corrupted space_map errors, or zio-io_type != ZIO_TYPE_WRITE assertions? I have a pool comprised of 4 raidz2 vdevs of 6 drives each.  I have almost 10 TB of data in the pool (3

Re: [zfs-discuss] Still no way to recover a corrupted pool

2011-04-29 Thread Freddie Cash
On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 5:00 PM, Alexander J. Maidak ajmai...@mchsi.com wrote: On Fri, 2011-04-29 at 16:21 -0700, Freddie Cash wrote: On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 1:23 PM, Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com wrote: Is there anyway, yet, to import a pool with corrupted space_map errors, or zio-io_type

Re: [zfs-discuss] Dedup and L2ARC memory requirements (again)

2011-04-25 Thread Freddie Cash
On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 10:55 AM, Erik Trimble erik.trim...@oracle.com wrote: Min block size is 512 bytes. Technically, isn't the minimum block size 2^(ashift value)? Thus, on 4 KB disks where the vdevs have an ashift=12, the minimum block size will be 4 KB. -- Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com

Re: [zfs-discuss] A resilver record?

2011-03-21 Thread Freddie Cash
, and then it just started taking longer and longer for each drive. -- Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Dedup question

2011-01-28 Thread Freddie Cash
or three of the file will be different. Repeat changing different lines in the file, and watch as disk usage only increases a little, since the files still share (or have in common) a lot of blocks. ZFS dedupe happens at the block layer, not the file layer. -- Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com

Re: [zfs-discuss] reliable, enterprise worthy JBODs?

2011-01-25 Thread Freddie Cash
Gbps SAS, multilaned, multipathed, but not multi-), some don't (it's not IBM/Oracle/HP/etc, oh noes!!). Chenbro also has similar setups to SuperMicro. Again, it's not big-name storage company nor uber-expensive, but the technology is the same. Is that enterprise-grade? :D -- Freddie Cash

Re: [zfs-discuss] reliable, enterprise worthy JBODs?

2011-01-25 Thread Freddie Cash
Gbps SAS, multilaned, multipathed, but not multi-), some don't (it's not IBM/Oracle/HP/etc, oh noes!!). Chenbro also has similar setups to SuperMicro. Again, it's not big-name storage company nor uber-expensive, but the technology is the same. Is that enterprise-grade? :D -- Freddie Cash

Re: [zfs-discuss] mixing drive sizes within a pool

2011-01-13 Thread Freddie Cash
the smaller vdevs get to be full. But it works. -- Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] A few questions

2010-12-16 Thread Freddie Cash
Creating 1 pool gives you the best performance and the most flexibility. Use separate filesystems on top of that pool if you want to tweak all the different properties. Going with 1 pool also increases your chances for dedupe, as dedupe is done at the pool level. -- Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS ... open source moving forward?

2010-12-10 Thread Freddie Cash
it. -- Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] accidentally added a drive?

2010-12-06 Thread Freddie Cash
a mirror to that drive, to keep some redundancy. And to ad4s1d as well, since it's also a stand-alone, non-redundand vdev. Since there are two drives that are non-redundant, it would probably be best to re-do the pool. -- Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com

Re: [zfs-discuss] how to quiesce and unquiesc zfs and zpool for array/hardware snapshots ?

2010-11-15 Thread Freddie Cash
via zpool export. One more reason to stop using hardware storage systems and just let ZFS handle the drives directly. :) -- Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman

Re: [zfs-discuss] Recovering from corrupt ZIL

2010-10-24 Thread Freddie Cash
) has experimental patches available for ZFSv28. -- Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] vdev failure - pool loss ?

2010-10-18 Thread Freddie Cash
On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 6:34 AM, Edward Ned Harvey sh...@nedharvey.com wrote: From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Freddie Cash If you lose 1 vdev, you lose the pool. As long as 1 vdev is striped and not mirrored, that's true

Re: [zfs-discuss] vdev failure - pool loss ?

2010-10-18 Thread Freddie Cash
On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 8:51 AM, Darren J Moffat darr...@opensolaris.org wrote: On 18/10/2010 16:48, Freddie Cash wrote: On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 6:34 AM, Edward Ned Harveysh...@nedharvey.com  wrote: From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- boun...@opensolaris.org

Re: [zfs-discuss] vdev failure - pool loss ?

2010-10-17 Thread Freddie Cash
is lost. Similar for the pool. -- Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Optimal raidz3 configuration

2010-10-15 Thread Freddie Cash
. Since then, I've avoided any vdev with more than 8 drives in it. -- Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Increase size of 2-way mirror

2010-10-06 Thread Freddie Cash
0 mirror-0 ONLINE 0 0 0 c1t2d0 ONLINE 0 0 0 c1t3d0 ONLINE 0 0 0 mirror-1 ONLINE 0 0 0 c1t4d0 ONLINE 0 0 0 c1t5d0 ONLINE 0 0 0 -- Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org

Re: [zfs-discuss] Is there a way to limit ZFS File Data but maintain room for the ARC to cache metadata

2010-10-01 Thread Freddie Cash
and keep the arc cache warm with metadata.  Any suggestions? Would adding a cache device (L2ARC) and setting primarycache=metadata and secondarycache=all on the root dataset do what you need? That way ARC is used strictly for metadata, and L2ARC is used for metadata+data. -- Freddie Cash fjwc

Re: [zfs-discuss] Any zfs fault injection tools?

2010-09-24 Thread Freddie Cash
while doing normal reads/writes is also fun. Using the controller software (if a RAID controller) to delete LUNs/disks is also fun. -- Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org

Re: [zfs-discuss] create mirror copy of existing zfs stack

2010-09-20 Thread Freddie Cash
to create a new pool, thus creating a duplicate of the original pool. -- Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] recordsize

2010-09-16 Thread Freddie Cash
. Any existing data is not affected until it is re-written or copied. -- Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] resilver = defrag?

2010-09-09 Thread Freddie Cash
RAID array. B) If I buy larger drives and resilver, does defrag happen? No. C) Does zfs send zfs receive mean it will defrag? No. ZFS doesn't currently have a defragmenter. That will come when the legendary block pointer rewrite feature is committed. -- Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com

Re: [zfs-discuss] resilver = defrag?

2010-09-09 Thread Freddie Cash
On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 1:26 PM, Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 1:04 PM, Orvar Korvar knatte_fnatte_tja...@yahoo.com wrote: A) Resilver = Defrag. True/false? False.  Resilver just rebuilds a drive in a vdev based on the redundant data stored on the other drives

Re: [zfs-discuss] Suggested RaidZ configuration...

2010-09-08 Thread Freddie Cash
raidz vdev (even a raidz1) in a 50% full pool. Especially if you are using the pool for anything at the same time. -- Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs

Re: [zfs-discuss] (preview) Whitepaper - ZFS Pools Explained - feedback welcome

2010-08-26 Thread Freddie Cash
is shown. I haven't finished reading it yet (okay, barely read through the contents list), but would you be interested in the FreeBSD equivalents for the commands, if they differ? -- Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs

Re: [zfs-discuss] slog and TRIM support [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

2010-08-26 Thread Freddie Cash
is (basically) write-only. -M uses MLC flash, which is optimised for fast reads. Ideal for an L2ARC which is (basically) read-only. -E tends to have smaller capacities, which is fine for ZIL. -M tends to have larger capacities, which is perfect for L2ARC. -- Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Storage server hardwae

2010-08-25 Thread Freddie Cash
cables from inside the case, you can make do with plain SATA and longer cables. Otherwise, you'll need to look into something other than a MacMini for your storage box. -- Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] New Supermicro SAS/SATA controller: AOC-USAS2-L8e in SOHO NAS and HD HTPC

2010-08-16 Thread Freddie Cash
. And the ones in the middle have simple XOR engines for doing the RAID.stuff in hardware. -- Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Opensolaris is apparently dead

2010-08-14 Thread Freddie Cash
to use the ports tree, there's pkg_upgrade (part of the bsdadminscripts port). IOW, if you don't want to compile things on FreeBSD, you don't have to. :) -- Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http

Re: [zfs-discuss] Reconfigure zpool

2010-08-06 Thread Freddie Cash
instead of one giant raidz vdev), copy the data back. There's no other way. -- Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Optimal Disk configuration

2010-07-22 Thread Freddie Cash
large raidz vdev. -- Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Confused about consumer drives and zfs can someone help?

2010-07-21 Thread Freddie Cash
, use 1x 4-drive raidz1. Note: newegg.ca has a sale on right now. WD Caviar Black 1 TB drives are only $85 CDN. -- Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS on Ubuntu

2010-07-20 Thread Freddie Cash
. -- Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Recommended RAM for ZFS on various platforms

2010-07-16 Thread Freddie Cash
of thumb for ZFS is 2 GB of RAM as a bare minimum, using the 64-bit version of FreeBSD. The sweet spot is 4 GB of RAM. But, more is always better. -- Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http

Re: [zfs-discuss] Encryption?

2010-07-11 Thread Freddie Cash
from within FreeBSD. -- Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Should i enable Write-Cache ?

2010-07-08 Thread Freddie Cash
controller). -- Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Remove non-redundant disk

2010-07-07 Thread Freddie Cash
on (this may not be perfectly correct, going from memory): zpool attach poolname disk05 disk01 zpool detach poolname disk01 Carry on with the add and replace methods as needed until you have your 6-mirror pool. No vdev removals required. -- Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS on Caviar Blue (Hard Drive Recommendations)

2010-06-30 Thread Freddie Cash
to 3Ware 9550SXU and 9650SE RAID controllers, configured as Single Drive arrays. There's also 8 WD Caviar Green 1.5 TB drives in there, which are not very good (even after twiddling the idle timeout setting via wdidle3). Definitely avoid the Green/GP line of drives. -- Freddie Cash fjwc

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS on Ubuntu

2010-06-26 Thread Freddie Cash
On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 12:20 AM, Ben Miles merloc...@hotmail.com wrote: What supporting applications are there on Ubuntu for RAIDZ? None. Ubuntu doesn't officially support ZFS. You can kind of make it work using the ZFS-FUSE project. But it's not stable, nor recommended. -- Freddie Cash

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS on Ubuntu

2010-06-25 Thread Freddie Cash
for ZFSv15 and ZFSv16. You'll get a more stable, better performant system than trying to shoehorn ZFS-FUSE into Ubuntu (we've tried with Debian, and ZFS-FUSE is good for short-term testing, but not production use). -- Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com

Re: [zfs-discuss] Erratic behavior on 24T zpool

2010-06-18 Thread Freddie Cash
of as few physical disks as possible (for your size and redundancy requirements), and your pool to be made up of as many vdevs as possible. -- Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http

Re: [zfs-discuss] Complete Linux Noob

2010-06-16 Thread Freddie Cash
, etc). You can add vdevs to the pool at anytime. You cannot expand a raidz vdev by adding drives, though (convert a 4-drive raidz1 to a 5-drive raidz1). Nor can you convert between raidz types (4-drive raidz1 to a 6-drive raidz2). -- Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com

Re: [zfs-discuss] Native ZFS for Linux

2010-06-11 Thread Freddie Cash
then call from userland. Which is essentially what the ZFS FUSE folks have been reduced to doing. The nvidia shim is only needed to be able to ship the non-GPL binary driver with the GPL binary kernel. If you don't use the binaries, you don't use the shim. -- Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com

Re: [zfs-discuss] Native ZFS for Linux

2010-06-11 Thread Freddie Cash
On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 12:25 PM, Bob Friesenhahn bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us wrote: On Fri, 11 Jun 2010, Freddie Cash wrote: For the record, the following paragraph was incorrectly quoted by Bob. This paragraph was originally written by Erik Trimble: I don't mean to be a PITA, but I'm

Re: [zfs-discuss] Please trim posts

2010-06-11 Thread Freddie Cash
everything super simple and easy for them ... and a royal pain for everyone else (kinda like Windows). :) In the end, it all comes down to user education. -- Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Usage on drives

2010-06-04 Thread Freddie Cash
, read the man page. :) zpool iostat -v -- Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs list sizes - newbie question

2010-06-04 Thread Freddie Cash
available output of various tools (like zfs list, df, etc). -- Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] one more time: pool size changes

2010-06-03 Thread Freddie Cash
vdev, by replacing each drive in the raidz vdev with a larger drive. We just did this, going from 8x 500 GB drives in a raidz2 vdev, to 8x 1.5 TB drives in a raidz2 vdev. -- Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] one more time: pool size changes

2010-06-02 Thread Freddie Cash
for the space to become available). We've used both of the above quite successfully, both at home and at work. Not sure what your buddy was talking about. :) -- Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http

Re: [zfs-discuss] zpool/zfs list question

2010-05-31 Thread Freddie Cash
' You forgot to list which property to get. See the command that you quoted. :) -- Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] send/recv over ssh

2010-05-21 Thread Freddie Cash
On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 10:59 AM, Brandon High bh...@freaks.com wrote: On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 7:12 AM, David Dyer-Bennet d...@dd-b.net wrote: On Thu, May 20, 2010 19:44, Freddie Cash wrote: And you can always patch OpenSSH with HPN, thus enabling the NONE cipher, which disable

Re: [zfs-discuss] send/recv over ssh

2010-05-20 Thread Freddie Cash
to improve transfer rates, especially on 100 Mbps or faster links. -- Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Strategies for expanding storage area of home storage-server

2010-05-17 Thread Freddie Cash
be thrashing 12 drives. -- Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Using WD Green drives?

2010-05-17 Thread Freddie Cash
, the WD Greens may be okay. For anything else, they're crap. Plain and simple. -- Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Using WD Green drives?

2010-05-13 Thread Freddie Cash
in the raidz2 vdev). Performance has improved slightly, though. -- Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Using WD Green drives?

2010-05-13 Thread Freddie Cash
. :) And the drives will last longer than 3 months or so. (If they've removed the download for wdidle3, I have a copy here.) -- Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman

Re: [zfs-discuss] Hard drives for ZFS NAS

2010-05-12 Thread Freddie Cash
of our 500 GB drives in our storage servers are WD RE Black drives. All of our 400 GB drives are Seagate E-something drives. No complaints about those. But, they're enterprise, RAID-qualified drives. -- Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com ___ zfs-discuss

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