Re: [zfs-discuss] Opensolaris 2010.03 / snv releases

2010-02-23 Thread Jeffry Molanus
There is no clustering package for it and available source seems very old also the de-dup bug is there iirc. So if you don't need HA cluster and dedup.. BR, Jeffry -Original Message- From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZIL to disk

2010-01-16 Thread Jeffry Molanus
Thx all, I understand now. BR, Jeffry if an application requests a synchronous write then it is commited to ZIL immediately, once it is done the IO is acknowledged to application. But data written to ZIL is still in memory as part of an currently open txg and will be committed to a pool

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZIL to disk

2010-01-15 Thread Jeffry Molanus
Sometimes people get confused about the ZIL and separate logs. For sizing purposes, the ZIL is a write-only workload. Data which is written to the ZIL is later asynchronously written to the pool when the txg is committed. Right; the tgx needs time to transfer the ZIL. The ZFS write

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZIL to disk

2010-01-15 Thread Jeffry Molanus
-Original Message- From: neil.per...@sun.com [mailto:neil.per...@sun.com] I think you misunderstand the function of the ZIL. It's not a journal, and doesn't get transferred to the pool as of a txg. It's only ever written except after a crash it's read to do replay. See:

[zfs-discuss] ZIL to disk

2010-01-14 Thread Jeffry Molanus
Hi all, Are there any recommendations regarding min IOPS the backing storage pool needs to have when flushing the SSD ZIL to the pool? Consider a pool of 3x 2TB SATA disks in RAIZ1, you would roughly have 80 IOPS. Any info about the relation between ZIL pool performance? Or will the ZIL

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZIL to disk

2010-01-14 Thread Jeffry Molanus
There are different kinds of IOPS. The expensive ones are random IOPS whereas sequential IOPS are much more efficient. The intention of the SSD-based ZIL is to defer the physical write so that would-be random IOPS can be converted to sequential scheduled IOPS like a normal write. ZFS

Re: [zfs-discuss] file concatenation with ZFS copy-on-write

2009-12-04 Thread Jeffry Molanus
Actually, I asked about this a while ago only called it file-level cloning. Consider you have 100VM's and you want to clone just one? BTRFS added a specialized IOCTL() call to make the FS aware that it has to clone this obviously saves copy time and dedup time. Regards, Jeffry

Re: [zfs-discuss] file concatenation with ZFS copy-on-write

2009-12-04 Thread Jeffry Molanus
In my experience, cloning is done for basic provisioning, so how would you get to the case where you could not clone any particular VM? -- richard Well, a situation where this might come in handy is when you have your typical ISP provider that has multiple ESX hosts with multiple

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs/io performance on Netra X1

2009-11-13 Thread Jeffry Molanus
Agreed, but still: wy zpool iostat 15MB en iostat 615KB? Regard, Jeff From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Bob Friesenhahn [bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us] Sent: Friday, November 13, 2009 4:05 PM To:

Re: [zfs-discuss] FW: File level cloning

2009-10-30 Thread Jeffry Molanus
Yes but the number of nfs mounts/datastores for ESX is limited; so that would leave me with limited numer of clones. Jeff From: Robert Milkowski [mi...@task.gda.pl] Sent: Friday, October 30, 2009 2:31 AM To: Jeffry Molanus Cc: zfs-discuss

[zfs-discuss] File level cloning

2009-10-28 Thread Jeffry Molanus
Hi all, Does zfs/solaris provide a easy way to clone at file level? I.e clone a large vmdk? Regards, jeff ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

[zfs-discuss] FW: File level cloning

2009-10-28 Thread Jeffry Molanus
: Jeffry Molanus Onderwerp: Re: [zfs-discuss] File level cloning What are you doing with your vmdk file(s) from the clone? On 10/28/09 9:36 AM, Jeffry Molanus jeffry.mola...@proact.nl wrote: Agreed, but with file level it is more granular then cloning a whole fs and I would not need to delete