Re: [zfs-discuss] Fwd: zpool import despite missing log [PSARC/2010/292 Self Review]

2010-07-28 Thread James Dickens
+1 On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 6:11 PM, Robert Milkowski mi...@task.gda.pl wrote: fyi -- Robert Milkowski http://milek.blogspot.com Original Message Subject: zpool import despite missing log [PSARC/2010/292 Self Review] Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2010 08:38:22 -0600 From: Tim

Re: [zfs-discuss] Using a zvol from your rpool as zil for another zpool

2010-07-02 Thread James Dickens
On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 1:18 AM, Ray Van Dolson rvandol...@esri.com wrote: We have a server with a couple X-25E's and a bunch of larger SATA disks. To save space, we want to install Solaris 10 (our install is only about 1.4GB) to the X-25E's and use the remaining space on the SSD's for ZIL

[zfs-discuss] Processes hang in /dev/zvol/dsk/poolname

2010-06-28 Thread James Dickens
4.00G - James Dickens http://uadmin.blogspot.com ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Fishworks 2010Q1 and dedup bug?

2010-03-05 Thread James Dickens
) exceeds memory, your performance degrades exponentially probably before that. James Dickens http://uadmin.blogspot.com I.e., I am not using any snapshots and have also turned off automatic snapshots because I was bitten by system hangs while destroying datasets with living snapshots. I am

Re: [zfs-discuss] why L2ARC device is used to store files ?

2010-03-05 Thread James Dickens
please post the output of zpool status -v. Thanks James Dickens On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 3:46 AM, Abdullah Al-Dahlawi dahl...@ieee.orgwrote: Greeting All I have create a pool that consists oh a hard disk and a ssd as a cache zpool create hdd c11t0d0p3 zpool add hdd cache c8t0d0p0

Re: [zfs-discuss] Proposed idea for enhancement - damage control

2010-02-16 Thread James Dickens
the likely hood of getting hit by a bad batch taking out your pool. replace disks early as soon as you see disk errors. And above all backup all data you can't afford to loose. James Dickens http://uadmin.blogspot.com Remember. The goal is damage control. I know 2x raidz2 offers better

Re: [zfs-discuss] Plan for upgrading a ZFS based SAN

2010-02-15 Thread James Dickens
Yes send and receive will do the job. see zfs manpage for details. James Dickens http://uadmin.blogspot.com On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 11:56 AM, Tiernan OToole lsmart...@gmail.comwrote: Good morning all. I am in the process of building my V1 SAN for media storage in house, and i am already

Re: [zfs-discuss] possible to remove a mirror pair from a zpool?

2010-01-10 Thread James Dickens
No, sorry Dennis, this functionality doesn't exist yet, but is being worked, but will take a while, lots of corner cases to handle. James Dickens uadmin.blogspot.com On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 3:23 AM, Dennis Clarke dcla...@blastwave.orgwrote: Suppose the requirements for storage shrink

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Dedup Performance

2010-01-08 Thread James Dickens
of adding and removing (if possible) l2arc or zil log slices on a pool. it would be great to enable a 5-50GB slice off a sata drive to use as logging device for greater performance. James Dickens uadmin.blogspot.com I've found data that lends its self to deduplication writes slightly faster while

Re: [zfs-discuss] Supermicro AOC-USAS-L8i

2009-12-29 Thread James Dickens
not sure of your experience level, but did you try running devfsadm and then checking in format for your new disks James Dickens uadmin.blogspot.com On Sun, Dec 27, 2009 at 3:59 AM, Muhammed Syyid opensola...@syyid.netwrote: Hi I just picked up one of these cards and had a few questions

Re: [zfs-discuss] Troubleshooting dedup performance

2009-12-28 Thread James Dickens
0 7 2 0 0 2 8.00M zfs James Dickens On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 11:22 PM, Michael Herf mbh...@gmail.com wrote: FWIW, I just disabled prefetch, and my dedup + zfs recv seems to be running visibly faster (somewhere around 3-5x faster). echo zfs_prefetch_disable/W0t1 | mdb

Re: [zfs-discuss] Stupid to have 2 disk raidz?

2009-10-19 Thread James Dickens
could be wrong but it may not be as far as people fear. Device removal was mentioned in the Next word for ZFS video. James Dickens http://uadmin.blogspot.com jamesd...@gmail.com -- Erik Trimble Java System Support Mailstop: usca22-123 Phone: x17195 Santa Clara, CA Timezone: US/Pacific

Re: [zfs-discuss] [xen-discuss] ZFS very slow under xVM

2007-12-28 Thread James Dickens
one more time On Dec 28, 2007 9:22 PM, James Dickens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: s On Dec 5, 2007 4:48 AM, Jürgen Keil [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I use the following on my snv_77 system with 2 internal SATA drives that show up with the 'ahci' driver. Thanks for the tip! I

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS very slow under xVM

2007-12-25 Thread James Dickens
is not in use so I would be more than happy to investigate any ideas or fixes. James Dickens uadmin.blogspot.com On 06/11/2007, at 8:33 PM, Martin wrote: cheers Martin This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing

Re: [zfs-discuss] Minimum number of Disks

2007-06-19 Thread James Dickens
Hi The minimum disks for raidz is 3, ( you can fool it but it wont protect your data), and the minimum disks for raidz2 is 4. James Dickens uadmin.blogspot.com On 6/19/07, Huitzi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm planning to deploy a small file server based on ZFS, but I want to know how

Re: [zfs-discuss] How does ZFS write data to disks?

2007-05-10 Thread James Dickens
the file size accordingly. James Dickens uadmin.blogspot.com Thanks. -mg This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS and Solaris as a VMWare guest

2007-03-12 Thread James Dickens
to be any issues with disk drive IO performance? i'm getting 11MB/s on bonnie++, the disks are backed by sata drives on a ultra 20 2.6ghz and has 512MB allocated. not exactly a speed demon it would get about 130MB/s on the raw hardware. James Dickens uadmin.blogspot.com The concern here

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS and Solaris as a VMWare guest

2007-03-12 Thread James Dickens
On 3/12/07, Erast Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2007-03-12 at 20:53 -0600, James Dickens wrote: On 3/12/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What issues, if any, are likely to surface with using Solaris inside vmware as a guest os, if I choose to use ZFS

[zfs-discuss] anyone want a Solaris 10u3 core file...

2007-03-06 Thread James Dickens
0 c2t2d0 ONLINE 0 0 0 c3t3d0 ONLINE 0 0 0 c3t0d0 UNAVAIL 0 0 0 cannot open errors: No known data errors James Dickens uadmin.blogspot.com ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: [osol-help] How to recover from rm *?

2007-02-20 Thread James Dickens
minutes is suffient, if the worker doesn't have a slight penalty he will won't ever learn to be careful. James Dickens uadmin.blogspot.com I once cobbled up a poor man's version of this sort of thing, aliasing rm to a scripted mv, and pushing everything into a /fs/deleted/* area when someone

Re: [zfs-discuss] question about self healing

2007-01-13 Thread James Dickens
.. but it can tell you that it has occurred. James Dickens uadmin.blogspot.com regards roland This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: question about self healing

2007-01-13 Thread James Dickens
On 1/13/07, roland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: thanks for your infos! can zfs protect my data from such single-bit-errors with a single drive ? nope.. but it can tell you that it has occurred. can it also tell (or can i use a tool to determine), which data/file is affected by this error (and

Re: [zfs-discuss] optimal zpool layout?

2007-01-12 Thread James Dickens
if the drive dies. Needless to say I would recomend the first idea unless you can find another 40GB drive and another controller, and use 4x pieces to make a 120GB pool. But for best performance its best to allocate full drives so ZFS can activate write caching on the drives. James Dickens

Re: [zfs-discuss] Can ZFS solve my problem?

2007-01-02 Thread James Dickens
its cheaper to power one box, than 5. You will also need to budget differently for disks, adding 3-5 disks at a time instead of a single disk, but your data will be safer. James Dickens uadmin.blogspot.com This message posted from opensolaris.org

[zfs-discuss] Re: [security-discuss] Thoughts on ZFS Secure Delete - without using Crypto

2006-12-18 Thread James Dickens
per pool or per file system. James Dickens uadmin.blogspot.com References: [1] http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/trustedsolaris/ts_tech_faq/faqs/purge.xml [2] http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/nistpubs/800-88/NISTSP800-88_rev1.pdf [3] 09-11-06 update to [2] on page 7. [4] http

[zfs-discuss] weird problem

2006-12-11 Thread James Dickens
pool aclmodegroupmask default pool aclinherit secure default okay i guess the question is why is zpool iostat pool output is different from zfs get all info James Dickens uadmin.blogspot.com

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Usage in Warehousing (lengthy intro)

2006-12-09 Thread James Dickens
may be enough to keep oracle happy when linked with upto 2GB/s disk IO speed. James Dickens uadmin.blogspot.com I'd like to target a sequential read performance of 500++MB/sec while reading from the db on multiple tablespaces. We're experiencing massive data volume growth of about 100% per year

Re: [zfs-discuss] bare metal ZFS ? How To ?

2006-11-23 Thread James Dickens
On 11/23/06, James Dickens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 11/23/06, Dennis Clarke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: this is off list on purpose ? run zpool import, it will search all attached storage and give you a list of availible pools. then run zpool import poolname or add a -f if you

Re: [zfs-discuss] sharing a zfs file system

2006-11-16 Thread James Dickens
to how you want the filesystem(s) shared by default zfs set sharenfs=rw sump is a good setting if you are on a secure network James Dickens uadmin.blogspot.com sump/install_image mountpoint /sump/install_imagedefault Thanks -Sanjay

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS for Linux 2.6

2006-11-06 Thread James Dickens
On 11/6/06, Yuen L. Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm curious whether there is a version of Linux 2.6 ZFS available?Many thanks.sorry there is no ZFS in Linux, and given current stands of Linus Torvalds and the current Kernel team there never will be, because Linux is GPLv2 and it is incompatible

Re: [zfs-discuss] Comments on a ZFS multiple use of a pool, RFE.

2006-09-14 Thread James Dickens
On 9/14/06, Darren J Moffat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: James Dickens wrote: On 9/13/06, Eric Schrock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Sep 13, 2006 at 02:29:55PM -0500, James Dickens wrote: this would not be the first time that Solaris overrided an administive command, because its just

[zfs-discuss] Comments on a ZFS multiple use of a pool, RFE.

2006-09-13 Thread James Dickens
I filed this RFE earlier, since there is no way for non sun personel to see this RFE for a while I am posting it here, and asking for feedback from the community. [Fwd: CR 6470231 Created P5 opensolaris/triage-queue Add an inuse check that is inforced even if import -f is used.] Inbox Assign a

Re: [zfs-discuss] Comments on a ZFS multiple use of a pool, RFE.

2006-09-13 Thread James Dickens
import' is run without the '-f' flag. - Eric On Wed, Sep 13, 2006 at 12:14:06PM -0500, James Dickens wrote: I filed this RFE earlier, since there is no way for non sun personel to see this RFE for a while I am posting it here, and asking for feedback from the community. [Fwd: CR 6470231

Re: [zfs-discuss] Comments on a ZFS multiple use of a pool, RFE.

2006-09-13 Thread James Dickens
On 9/13/06, Eric Schrock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Sep 13, 2006 at 02:29:55PM -0500, James Dickens wrote: this would not be the first time that Solaris overrided an administive command, because its just not safe or sane to do so. For example. rm -rf / As I've repeated before

Re: [zfs-discuss] Importing ZFS filesystems across architectures...

2006-09-13 Thread James Dickens
type. James Dickens uadmin.blogspot.com Normally, I'd run into problems with Fdisk vs EFI vs VTOC labeling/partitioning, but I was hoping that ZFS would magically make my life simpler here... :-) -- Erik Trimble Java System Support Mailstop: usca14-102 Phone: x17195 Santa Clara, CA

Re: [zfs-discuss] Proposal: multiple copies of user data

2006-09-11 Thread James Dickens
On 9/11/06, Matthew Ahrens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: James Dickens wrote: On 9/11/06, Matthew Ahrens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: B. DESCRIPTION A new property will be added, 'copies', which specifies how many copies of the given filesystem will be stored. Its value must be 1, 2, or 3. Like

Re: [zfs-discuss] Corrupted LUN in RAIDZ group -- How to repair?

2006-09-10 Thread James Dickens
, but at this time there is nothing to worry about. James Dickens uadmin.blogspot.com c10t600A0B800011730E66C544C5EBB8d0 ONLINE 0 0 0 c10t600A0B800011730E66CA44C5EBEAd0 ONLINE 0 0 0 c10t600A0B800011730E66CF44C5EC1Cd0 ONLINE 0

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: Recommendation ZFS on StorEdge 3320

2006-09-07 Thread James Dickens
it hogs all the ram and may take 5 or 10 seconds to get response on xterms while the machine clears out ram and loads its applications/data back into ram. James Dickens uadmin.blogspot.com I heard a story about a customer complaining about his higend server performances; when a guy came

Re: [zfs-discuss] Need some input on a theoretical situation

2006-09-01 Thread James Dickens
over, and then add the 3rd disk to the pool. perhaps that would be a good RFE create a raidz with N-1 disks so it runs in degraded mode to cope with solutions like these. James Dickens uadmin.blogspot.com 1. I have the pool as it stands, but it's taking up less space than the total free space

Re: Re[2]: [zfs-discuss] ZFS + rsync, backup on steroids.

2006-08-30 Thread James Dickens
On 8/30/06, Robert Milkowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Jason, Tuesday, August 29, 2006, 9:35:13 PM, you wrote: JAH On Aug 29, 2006, at 12:17 PM, James Dickens wrote: ZFS + rsync, backup on steroids. I was thinking today about backing up filesystems, and came up with an awesome idea

Re: [zfs-discuss] new ZFS links page

2006-08-29 Thread James Dickens
let us know and we'll add it to the page. http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/zfs/links/ you are welcome to use any or all of the links included in this blog entry http://uadmin.blogspot.com/2006/06/interested-in-zfs.html James Dickens uadmin.blogspot.com thanks, Noel

[zfs-discuss] ZFS + rsync, backup on steroids.

2006-08-29 Thread James Dickens
ZFS + rsync, backup on steroids. I was thinking today about backing up filesystems, and came up with an awesome idea. Use the power of rsync and ZFS together. Start with a one or two large SATA/PATA drives if you use two and don't need the space you can mirror other wise just use as in raid0,

[zfs-discuss] zpool import dropped a core.

2006-08-26 Thread James Dickens
main (4, ffbff69c, 20860, 20800, ffbff7aa, 20400) + 148 00012858 _start (0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0) + 108 bash-3.00# Let me know if anyone has a core file fetish ;-) and wants to see it. James Dickens uadmin.blogspot.com ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs

Re: [zfs-discuss] Need Help: didn't create the pool as radiz but stripes

2006-08-23 Thread James Dickens
c1t2d0 ONLINE 0 0 0 c1t3d0 ONLINE 0 0 0 c1t4d0 ONLINE 0 0 0 James Dickens uadmin.blogspot.com errors: No known data errors The df -k output of te newly created pool as raidz. # df -k Filesystemkbytesused

Re: [zfs-discuss] Niagara and ZFS compression?

2006-08-20 Thread James Dickens
on ZFS compression? not an expert, but most if not all compression is integer based, and I don't think floating point is supported inside the kernel anyway so it has to be integer based. James Dickens uadmin.blogspot.com -- == Trevor

Re: [zfs-discuss] Niagara and ZFS compression?

2006-08-20 Thread James Dickens
On 8/20/06, Mike Gerdts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 8/20/06, James Dickens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 8/20/06, trevor pretty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Team During a ZFS presentation I had a question from Vernon which I could not answer and did not find with a quick look through

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS vs WAFL positioning

2006-07-27 Thread James Dickens
. James Dickens uadmin.blogspot.com Thanks for any pointers. /Praveen ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss ___ zfs-discuss mailing list

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS vs WAFL positioning

2006-07-27 Thread James Dickens
%20WAFL.html James Dickens uadmin.blogspot.com -- Darren Dunham [EMAIL PROTECTED] Senior Technical Consultant TAOShttp://www.taos.com/ Got some Dr Pepper? San Francisco, CA bay area This line left

Re: [zfs-discuss] Proposal: delegated administration

2006-07-18 Thread James Dickens
,destroy,allow ds having a allow as an atribure and a command looks confusing, perhaps grant should be the attribute. zfs allow joe create,destroy,grant James Dickens uadmin.blogspot.com Now as joe $ zfs allow betty create,destroy ds Now assuming that joe has the following permissions

Re: [zfs-discuss] Proposal: delegated administration

2006-07-17 Thread James Dickens
attributes, for the case you want to get full permissions to the user or group zfs create p1/john zfs allow p1/john john full so we don't have to type out every attribute. James Dickens uadmin.blogspot.com PERMISSION REVOKING zfs unallow dataset [-r] [-l] [-d

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS bechmarks w/8 disk raid - Quirky results, any thoughts?

2006-07-17 Thread James Dickens
enough but when you have checksuming, creating parity, reading and writing, and the benchmark you may get some strange interaction. You may want to try again in a few weeks, I heard that a change went into the kernel that makes SATA access more effiecient. James Dickens uadmin.blogspot.com

Re: [zfs-discuss] How to monitor ZFS ?

2006-07-16 Thread James Dickens
. James Dickens uadmin.blogspot.com ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http

[zfs-discuss] Life after the pool party

2006-05-27 Thread James Dickens
Hi I had a one disk pool, that I want to use as a boot disk, but I can't seem to get rid of the efi label, when i use format -e it and try to relabel, format bitches that it can't set disk geometry or write the new label. any one have any clues how to fix this? james

[zfs-discuss] Re: Life after the pool party

2006-05-27 Thread James Dickens
On 5/27/06, James Dickens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I had a one disk pool, that I want to use as a boot disk, but I can't seem to get rid of the efi label, when i use format -e it and try to relabel, format bitches that it can't set disk geometry or write the new label. any one have any

Re: [zfs-discuss] RFE filesystem ownership

2006-05-23 Thread James Dickens
On 5/23/06, Robert Milkowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello James, Tuesday, May 23, 2006, 6:43:11 PM, you wrote: JD Hi JD I think ZFS should add the concept of ownership to a ZFS filesystem, JD so if i create a filesystem for joe, he should be able to use his JD space how ever he see's fit,

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: ZFS Web administration interface

2006-05-22 Thread James Dickens
# connecting to https://localhost:6789/ gives me connection refused this is # uname -av SunOS opteron 5.11 snv_38 i86pc i386 i86pc # u20 with 2GB of ram... James Dickens uadmin.blogspot.com Guess I need to work out how to use wcadmin now :-) cheers, tim -- Tim

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: Re: zfs snapshot for backup, Quota

2006-05-18 Thread James Dickens
is almost completely eliminated, you can still use netbackup for disasters, but to get access to a single old file a snapshot is much easier. You can also make it possible to have users initiate there own snapshots when they feel the need arises. James Dickens uadmin.blogspot.com I believe

Re: [zfs-discuss] Properties of ZFS snapshots I'd like to see...

2006-05-05 Thread James Dickens
+7d and to create snapshots and place in the special directories zfs snapshot data/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/05-05-2006 all snapshot directories would start under .zfs/snapshot James Dickens uadmin.blogspot.com For instance: zfs snapshot -e 3d tank/[EMAIL PROTECTED] would create a regular

[zfs-discuss] been busy working on ZFS stuff

2006-05-03 Thread James Dickens
commands http://uadmin.blogspot.com/2006/05/moving-zfs-pools.html James Dickens uadmin.blogspot.com ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss