Re: [zfs-discuss] LUN expansion choices

2012-11-14 Thread Peter Tribble
On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 6:16 PM, Karl Wagner k...@mouse-hole.com wrote: On 2012-11-13 17:42, Peter Tribble wrote: Given storage provisioned off a SAN (I know, but sometimes that's what you have to work with), what's the best way to expand a pool? Specifically, I can either grow existing

Re: [zfs-discuss] IOzone benchmarking

2012-05-04 Thread Peter Tribble
when compared with dynamic stripes, mirrors, and hardware raid LUNs.) -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/ ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: [zfs-discuss] Does raidzN actually protect against bitrot? If yes - how?

2012-01-15 Thread Peter Tribble
can recover anything you have enough redundancy for. Which means everything, up to the redundancy of the vdev. Beyond that, you may be able to recover dittoed data (of which metadata is just one example) even if you've lost an entire vdev. -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http

[zfs-discuss] Reversing fdisk changes

2011-11-10 Thread Peter Tribble
? This is annoying, rather than critical: the system is out of service and I can reconstruct the data if necessary. Although knowing how to fix this would be generally useful in the future... Thanks, -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com

Re: [zfs-discuss] about btrfs and zfs

2011-10-18 Thread Peter Tribble
to intervene manually. -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/ ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] about btrfs and zfs

2011-10-18 Thread Peter Tribble
On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 9:12 PM, Tim Cook t...@cook.ms wrote: On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 3:06 PM, Peter Tribble peter.trib...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 8:52 PM, Tim Cook t...@cook.ms wrote: Every scrub I've ever done that has found an error required manual fixing.  Every

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS

2011-09-13 Thread Peter Tribble
to slot that copy of the data instantly into service if the primary copy fails. For tar, you can substitute a free or commercial backup solution. It works the same way. -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com

Re: [zfs-discuss] aclmode gone in S10u10?

2011-09-13 Thread Peter Tribble
, so anything where the ACL is critical gets stored on ufs [yuck].) Also, aclmode is no longer listed in the usage message you see if you do 'zfs get'. -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/ ___ zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] aclmode gone in S10u10?

2011-09-13 Thread Peter Tribble
On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 8:34 PM, Paul B. Henson hen...@acm.org wrote: On 9/13/2011 5:21 AM, Peter Tribble wrote: Update 10 has been out for about 3 weeks. Where was any announcement posted? I haven't heard anything about it. As far as I can tell, the Oracle site still only has update 9

Re: [zfs-discuss] Issues with supermicro

2011-08-10 Thread Peter Tribble
a bottleneck. Something like vdbench, although there are others. -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/ ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs

Re: [zfs-discuss] arcstat updates

2011-04-26 Thread Peter Tribble
to help with this little project? I'm definitely interested in emulating arcstat in jkstat. OK, I have an old version, but it's pretty much out of date and I need to refresh it. -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com

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

2011-01-25 Thread Peter Tribble
. -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/ ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] How many files directories in a ZFS filesystem?

2010-12-09 Thread Peter Tribble
I've never seen ZFS run out of inodes, though. -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/ ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Crypto in Oracle Solaris 11 Express

2010-11-17 Thread Peter Tribble
. -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.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 Peter Tribble
to keep safe, you don't have to do it on the whole pool.) -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/ ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] osol monitoring question

2010-05-10 Thread Peter Tribble
playing with replacements for sar. Top is still pretty useful. For zfs, zpool iostat has some utility, but I find fsstat to be pretty useful. -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/ ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs

Re: [zfs-discuss] why both dedup and compression?

2010-05-06 Thread Peter Tribble
in the log files, which are pretty big, but compress really well. So having both enabled works really well. -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/ ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http

Re: [zfs-discuss] Best practice for full stystem backup - equivelent of ufsdump/ufsrestore

2010-05-01 Thread Peter Tribble
if you make the same selections you With the new Oracle policies, it seems unlikely that you will be able to reinstall the OS and achieve what you had before. And what policies have Oracle introduced that mean you can't reinstall your system? -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk

Re: [zfs-discuss] Identifying drives

2010-04-26 Thread Peter Tribble
be a good idea. (You are, I presume, using regular scrubs to catch latent errors.) -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/ ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org

Re: [zfs-discuss] Find out which of many FS from a zpool is busy?

2010-04-22 Thread Peter Tribble
had old style file systems and exported these as a whole iostat -x came in handy, however, with zpools, this is not the case anymore, right? fsstat? Typically along the lines of fsstat /tank/* 1 -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com

Re: [zfs-discuss] Simultaneous failure recovery

2010-03-31 Thread Peter Tribble
On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 10:42 PM, Eric Schrock eric.schr...@oracle.com wrote: On Mar 30, 2010, at 5:39 PM, Peter Tribble wrote: I have a pool (on an X4540 running S10U8) in which a disk failed, and the hot spare kicked in. That's perfect. I'm happy. Then a second disk fails. Now, I've

[zfs-discuss] Simultaneous failure recovery

2010-03-30 Thread Peter Tribble
failed drive? And can I hotspare it manually? I could do a straight replace, but that isn't quite the same thing. -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/ ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [zfs-discuss] [indiana-discuss] future of OpenSolaris

2010-02-25 Thread Peter Tribble
. -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/ ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] future of OpenSolaris

2010-02-22 Thread Peter Tribble
a short blurb on what the state is, and what the options are. Of course they can't. If they're in the know, then they're almost certainly not in a position to talk about it in public. Asking here does not help, as I doubt if anyone from Sun/Oracle would be wise to give any response. -- -Peter

Re: [zfs-discuss] Abysmal ISCSI / ZFS Performance

2010-02-15 Thread Peter Tribble
-optimal configuration ought to have delivered.) -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/ ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] unionfs help

2010-02-04 Thread Peter Tribble
and other zones, but that's relatively harmless. -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/ ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] 4 Internal Disk Configuration

2010-01-14 Thread Peter Tribble
for other apps? Also, what happens if a drive fails? Swap it for a new one ;-) (somewhat more complex with the dual layout as I described it). -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/ ___ zfs-discuss mailing list

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Boot Recovery after Motherboard Death

2009-12-13 Thread Peter Tribble
into an installed image. Yes, you can get rid of it, but the idea that you could pull drives from a failed system and put them into any old system they might happen to fit in and expect it to just work has always been optimistic. The advantage of zfs is that it abstracts a lot of that away. -- -Peter Tribble

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

2009-12-03 Thread Peter Tribble
in f2 will only match the same data in f15 if they're aligned, which is only going to happen if f1 ends on a block boundary. Besides, you still have to read all the data off the disk, manipulate it, and write it all back. -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com

Re: [zfs-discuss] Dumb idea?

2009-10-29 Thread Peter Tribble
of modifications by applications that aren't aware of your scheme? -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/ ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs

Re: [zfs-discuss] libzfs.h versioning

2009-09-10 Thread Peter Tribble
that library? -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/ ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Snapshot creation time

2009-08-28 Thread Peter Tribble
creation' gives you seconds since the epoch, which you can convert using a utility of your choice. -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/ ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http

Re: [zfs-discuss] How to prevent /usr/bin/chmod from following symbolic links?

2009-08-24 Thread Peter Tribble
on the fact that (unlike chown -h) the chmod command follows symlinks and there's no way to disable that behaviour. -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/ ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http

[zfs-discuss] Interposing on readdir and friends

2009-07-02 Thread Peter Tribble
.) If not, I was looking at interposing my own readdir() (that's assuming the application is using readdir()) that actually returns the entries in the desired order. However, I'm having a bit of trouble hacking this together (the current source doesn't compile in isolation on my S10 machine). -- -Peter

Re: [zfs-discuss] Things I Like About ZFS

2009-06-21 Thread Peter Tribble
and you soon forget that it's there (until you have to deal with one of the alternatives, which throws it into sharp relief). -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/ ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Sun Flash Modules

2009-04-18 Thread Peter Tribble
for mirrored boot disks should prove obsolete. Why? Is the possibility of component or path failure and data corruption so close to zero? -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/ ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Can this be done?

2009-03-28 Thread Peter Tribble
to combine them. -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/ ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Can this be done?

2009-03-28 Thread Peter Tribble
On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 11:06 AM, Michael Shadle mike...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 1:37 AM, Peter Tribble peter.trib...@gmail.com wrote: zpool add tank raidz1 disk_1 disk_2 disk_3 ... (The syntax is just like creating a pool, only with add instead of create.) so I can add

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs and raid 51

2009-02-20 Thread Peter Tribble
you want it. If you want random I/O performance, raidz isn't a good choice. For most things, hardware raid ought to give you more IOPS. You mentioned mail and file serving, which isn't an obvious match for raidz (which works better for capacity and throughput). -- -Peter Tribble http

Re: [zfs-discuss] Strange performance loss

2009-02-15 Thread Peter Tribble
is obiously stuck in molasses.) -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/ ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

[zfs-discuss] Strange performance loss

2009-02-13 Thread Peter Tribble
0.610 user0.058 sys 0.551 I don't know whether that explains all the problem, but it's clear that having ACLs on files and directories has a definite cost. -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com

Re: [zfs-discuss] A question on non-consecutive disk failures

2009-02-07 Thread Peter Tribble
will be be able to read from disks b and d. Is this understanding correct ? No. That quote is part of the discussion of ditto blocks. See the following: http://blogs.sun.com/bill/entry/ditto_blocks_the_amazing_tape -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com

Re: [zfs-discuss] Aggregate Pool I/O

2009-01-18 Thread Peter Tribble
://www.petertribble.co.uk/Solaris/jkstat.html -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/ ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Aggregate Pool I/O

2009-01-18 Thread Peter Tribble
statistics exposed as kstats, though, which would make it easier to analyse them with existing tools. -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/ ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http

Re: [zfs-discuss] Aggregate Pool I/O

2009-01-18 Thread Peter Tribble
above, you need to match 4480002, which on my machine is the following line in /etc/mnttab: swap/tmptmpfs xattr,dev=4480002 1232289278 so that's /tmp (not a zfs filesystem, but you should get the idea). -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http

Re: [zfs-discuss] Aggregate Pool I/O

2009-01-18 Thread Peter Tribble
On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 8:25 PM, Richard Elling richard.ell...@sun.com wrote: Peter Tribble wrote: See fsstat, which is based upon kstats. One of the thing I want to do with JKstat is correlate filesystem operations with underlying disk operations. The hard part is actually connecting

Re: [zfs-discuss] zpool export+import doesn't maintain snapshot

2009-01-14 Thread Peter Tribble
-user and ran $ zpool import disco The disc was mounted, but none of the hundreds of snapshots was there. Did Imiss something? How do you know the snapshots are gone? Note that the zfs list command no longer shows snapshots by default. You need 'zfs list -t all' for that. -- -Peter Tribble

Re: [zfs-discuss] How to create a basic new filesystem?

2008-12-20 Thread Peter Tribble
shows that there is an fdisk partition. If you're going to use it then you'll need to at the very least put a label on it. format - partition should offer to label it. You can then set the size of s0 (to be the same as s2, if you want to use the full disk), and write the label again. -- -Peter

Re: [zfs-discuss] How to create a basic new filesystem?

2008-12-20 Thread Peter Tribble
then zfs will do it all for you; you just need to define partitions/slices if you're going to use slices. -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/ ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http

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

2008-11-22 Thread Peter Tribble
remember the keep it small and simple thing? Hm. I thought the '-t all' worked with the revised zfs list. The problem I have with that is that you need to type different commands to get the same output depending on which machine you're on, as '-t all' doesn't work on older systems. -- -Peter Tribble

Re: [zfs-discuss] Seeking thoughts on using SXCE rather than Solar 10 on production servers.

2008-11-18 Thread Peter Tribble
update any further? -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/ ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] recommendations on adding vdev to raidz zpool

2008-10-26 Thread Peter Tribble
that don't have the same number of disks? One risk is that you mistyped the command, when you actually meant to specify a balanced configuration. -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/ ___ zfs-discuss mailing list

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS, NFS and Auto Mounting

2008-10-01 Thread Peter Tribble
/mnt/zfs1/Integration and use that for the Integration mountpoint. Then in GroupWS, 'ln -s ../Integration .'. That way, if you look at Integration in /ws/com you get to something that exists. -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com

Re: [zfs-discuss] [storage-discuss] A few questions

2008-09-17 Thread Peter Tribble
On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 8:40 AM, gm_sjo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am I right in thinking though that for every raidz1/2 vdev, you're effectively losing the storage of one/two disks in that vdev? Well yeah - you've got to have some allowance for redundancy. -- -Peter Tribble http

Re: [zfs-discuss] [storage-discuss] A few questions

2008-09-17 Thread Peter Tribble
On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 10:11 AM, gm_sjo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2008/9/17 Peter Tribble: On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 8:40 AM, gm_sjo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am I right in thinking though that for every raidz1/2 vdev, you're effectively losing the storage of one/two disks in that vdev? Well

Re: [zfs-discuss] [storage-discuss] A few questions

2008-09-16 Thread Peter Tribble
of drives, more vdevs implies narrower stripes, but that's a side-effect rather than a cause. For what it's worth, we put all the disks on our thumpers into a single pool - mostly it's 5x 8+1 raidz1 vdevs with a hot spare and 2 drives for the OS and would happily go much bigger. -- -Peter Tribble http

Re: [zfs-discuss] Max vol size and number of files in production

2008-09-14 Thread Peter Tribble
, but I can't see zfs having issues. -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/ ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] ARCSTAT Kstat Definitions

2008-08-28 Thread Peter Tribble
it more or less as is. -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/ ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Best layout for 15 disks?

2008-08-22 Thread Peter Tribble
disk5 \ raidz1 disk6 disk7 disk8 disk9 disk10 \ raidz1 disk11 disk12 disk13 disk14 disk15 \ spare disk16 Gives you a single pool containing 3 raidz vdevs (each 4 data + 1 parity) and a hot spare. -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com

[zfs-discuss] zfs_nocacheflush

2008-07-30 Thread Peter Tribble
drives? What I have is a local zfs pool from the free space on the internal drives, so I'm only using a partition and the drive's write cache should be off, so my theory here is that zfs_nocacheflush shouldn't have any effect because there's no drive cache in use... -- -Peter Tribble http

Re: [zfs-discuss] Largest (in number of files) ZFS instance tested

2008-07-12 Thread Peter Tribble
On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 12:23 AM, Ian Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Peter Tribble wrote: (The backup problem is the real stumbling block. And backup is an area ripe for disruptive innovation.) Is down to volume of data, or many small files? Many small files. We could handle many more

Re: [zfs-discuss] Largest (in number of files) ZFS instance tested

2008-07-11 Thread Peter Tribble
. (The backup problem is the real stumbling block. And backup is an area ripe for disruptive innovation.) -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/ ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http

Re: [zfs-discuss] previously mentioned J4000 released

2008-07-10 Thread Peter Tribble
the intelligent controllers in some of Sun's JBOD units (the S1, and the 3000 series) fail to recognize drives that work perfectly well elsewhere. I'm slightly disappointed that there wasn't a model for 2.5 inch drives in there, though. -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http

Re: [zfs-discuss] Using zfs boot with MPxIO on T2000

2008-07-09 Thread Peter Tribble
enable mpxio on the mpt or fibre interfaces using 'stmsboot -D mpt' or 'stmsboot -D fp'. -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/ ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http

Re: [zfs-discuss] ? SX:CE snv_91 - ZFS - raid and mirror - drive sizes don't add correctly ?

2008-07-06 Thread Peter Tribble
and mirror that to another raidz. (Or create a raidz out of mirrored drives.) You can't do that. You can't layer raidz and mirroring. You'll either have to use raidz for the lot, or just use mirroring: zpool create temparray mirror c1t2d0 c1t4d0 mirror c1t5d0 c1t3d0 mirror c1t6d0 c1t8d0 -- -Peter

Re: [zfs-discuss] ? SX:CE snv_91 - ZFS - raid and mirror - drive sizes don't add correc

2008-07-06 Thread Peter Tribble
have redundant data. The extra performance is just a side-effect. -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/ ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs

Re: [zfs-discuss] zpool create behaviour

2008-06-22 Thread Peter Tribble
of powerpath and use mpxio instead. The problem seems to be that the clariion arrays are active/passive and zfs trips up if it tries to use one of the passive links. Using mpxio hides this and works fine. And powerpath on the (active/active) DMX-4 seems to be OK too. -- -Peter Tribble http

Re: [zfs-discuss] ?: 1/2 Billion files in ZFS

2008-06-21 Thread Peter Tribble
read access. That said, it's a difficult workload. My limited experience of (the rather more expensive) Veritas on (rather more expensive) big arrays is that they don't handle it particularly well either. -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com

Re: [zfs-discuss] memory hog

2008-06-16 Thread Peter Tribble
where 16G minimum is reasonable, ZFS is fine. But the bulk of the installed base of machines accessed by users is still in the 512M-1G range - and Sun are still selling 512M machines. -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com

Re: [zfs-discuss] ?: 1/2 Billion files in ZFS

2008-06-16 Thread Peter Tribble
/10 million file point at the most - we're looking at restructuring the directory hierarchy for the filesystems that are beyond this so we can back them up in pieces. How about NFS access? Seems to work fine. -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com

Re: [zfs-discuss] memory hog

2008-06-16 Thread Peter Tribble
On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 5:20 PM, dick hoogendijk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 16 Jun 2008 16:21:26 +0100 Peter Tribble [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The *real* common thread is that you need ridiculous amounts of memory to get decent performance out of ZFS That's FUD. Older systems might

Re: [zfs-discuss] memory hog

2008-06-14 Thread Peter Tribble
. (SunBlade 150 with 1G of RAM, if you want specifics.) The zfs root box is significantly slower all around. Not only is initial I/O slower, but it seems much less able to cache data. -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com

Re: [zfs-discuss] Filesystem for each home dir - 10,000 users?

2008-06-06 Thread Peter Tribble
.) -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/ ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] 3510 JBOD with multipath

2008-05-21 Thread Peter Tribble
command I only see 12 drives - I was expecting that when 3510 FC JBOD array is connected to a host over two loops, it should have seen 24 drives (two entries for each drive). What am I missing ? Unlike sparc, mpxio is enabled by default on x86. Are you already multipathed? -- -Peter Tribble

Re: [zfs-discuss] Sanity check -- x4500 storage server for enterprise file service

2008-05-08 Thread Peter Tribble
be to delete the snapshots. With that cycle, you're deleting 6000 snapshots a day, and while snapshot creation is free, my experience is that snapshot deletion is not. -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com

Re: [zfs-discuss] backup for x4500?

2008-04-20 Thread Peter Tribble
directories that break it up into smaller chunks. (Some sort of hashing scheme appears to be indicated. Unfortunately our applications fall into two classes: everything in one huge directory, or a hashing scheme that results in many thousands of top-level directories.) -- -Peter Tribble http

Re: [zfs-discuss] Solaris 10U5 ZFS features?

2008-04-20 Thread Peter Tribble
) and 127729 (Sparc). I think you have sparc and x86 swapped over. Looking at an S10U5 box I have here, 127728-06 is integrated. -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/ ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] backup for x4500?

2008-04-20 Thread Peter Tribble
On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 4:39 PM, Bob Friesenhahn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 20 Apr 2008, Peter Tribble wrote: My experience so far is that anything past a terabyte and 10 million files, and any backup software struggles. What is the cause of the struggling? Does the backup host

Re: [zfs-discuss] Per filesystem scrub

2008-04-07 Thread Peter Tribble
, Mar 29, 2008 at 05:14:20PM +, Peter Tribble wrote: A brief search didn't show anything relevant, so here goes: Would it be feasible to support a scrub per-filesystem rather than per-pool? The reason is that on a large system, a scrub of a pool can take excessively long

[zfs-discuss] Per filesystem scrub

2008-03-29 Thread Peter Tribble
, and the data regularly read anyway; for the quiet ones they're neither read nor backed up, so it would be nice to be able to validate those. -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/ ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Performance with Sun StorageTek 2540

2008-02-16 Thread Peter Tribble
the users can make use of at the moment. -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/ ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Performance with Sun StorageTek 2540

2008-02-15 Thread Peter Tribble
. May not be relevant, but still worth checking - I have a 2530 (which ought to be that same only SAS instead of FC), and got fairly poor performance at first. Things improved significantly when I got the LUNs properly balanced across the controllers. -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk

Re: [zfs-discuss] Performance with Sun StorageTek 2540

2008-02-15 Thread Peter Tribble
On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 8:50 PM, Bob Friesenhahn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 15 Feb 2008, Peter Tribble wrote: May not be relevant, but still worth checking - I have a 2530 (which ought to be that same only SAS instead of FC), and got fairly poor performance at first. Things

Re: [zfs-discuss] Filesystem Benchmark

2007-11-14 Thread Peter Tribble
(Single Channel) or LPe11002-E (dual channel) HBA's? Did you encounter any problems with configuring this. My experience in this area is that powerpath doesn't get along with zfs (I couldn't import the pool); using MPxIO worked fine. -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http

Re: [zfs-discuss] X4500 device disconnect problem persists

2007-11-13 Thread Peter Tribble
confirmation that it's helping and hasn't introduced any other regressions..) -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/ ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: [zfs-discuss] HAMMER

2007-11-04 Thread Peter Tribble
of random read I/O per vdev). I would love to see better ways of backing up huge numbers of files. -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/ ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http

[zfs-discuss] Survivability of zfs root

2007-09-27 Thread Peter Tribble
appears to be that you export the pool and import it again. Now, what if that system had been using ZFS root? I have a hardware failure, I replace the raid card, the devid of the boot device changes. Will the system still boot properly? -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http

Re: [zfs-discuss] enterprise scale redundant Solaris 10/ZFS server providing NFSv4/CIFS

2007-09-25 Thread Peter Tribble
On 9/24/07, Paul B. Henson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 22 Sep 2007, Peter Tribble wrote: filesystem per user on the server, just to see how it would work. While managing 20,00 filesystems with the automounter was trivial, the attempt to manage 20,000 zfs filesystems wasn't entirely

Re: [zfs-discuss] enterprise scale redundant Solaris 10/ZFS server providing NFSv4/CIFS

2007-09-22 Thread Peter Tribble
files in user home directories). This has been fixed, I believe, but only very recently in S10.] -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/ ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http

[zfs-discuss] How do I get my pool back?

2007-09-13 Thread Peter Tribble
path='/dev/dsk/c1t0d0s7' devid='id1,[EMAIL PROTECTED]/h' whole_disk=0 metaslab_array=13 metaslab_shift=32 ashift=9 asize=448412778496 -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http

Re: [zfs-discuss] How do I get my pool back?

2007-09-13 Thread Peter Tribble
On 9/13/07, Solaris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Try exporting the pool then import it. I have seen this after moving disks between systems, and on a couple of occasions just rebooting. Doesn't work. (How can you export something that isn't imported anyway?) -- -Peter Tribble http

Re: [zfs-discuss] How do I get my pool back?

2007-09-13 Thread Peter Tribble
On 9/13/07, Mike Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: have you tried zpool clear? Not yet. Let me give it a try: # zpool clear storage cannot open 'storage': pool is unavailable Bother... Thanks anyway! -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com

Re: [zfs-discuss] How do I get my pool back?

2007-09-13 Thread Peter Tribble
On 9/13/07, Eric Schrock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Sep 13, 2007 at 06:36:33PM +0100, Peter Tribble wrote: Doesn't work. (How can you export something that isn't imported anyway?) The pool is imported, or else 'zpool status' wouldn't show it at all. It's just faulted. So when

Re: [zfs-discuss] How do I get my pool back?

2007-09-13 Thread Peter Tribble
On 9/13/07, Eric Schrock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Sep 13, 2007 at 07:54:12PM +0100, Peter Tribble wrote: There must be a better way of handling this. It should have just brought it online first time around, without all the fiddling around (that feels like voodoo to me). Yes

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS on X4500 and Legato considerations (?)

2007-08-19 Thread Peter Tribble
ranging from 0.3TB to 1.2TB) . Why multiple pools rather than a single large pool? -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/ ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS on X4500 and Legato considerations (?)

2007-08-17 Thread Peter Tribble
than that to be comfortable. The pool size is essentially irrelevant. For other parameters, I would expect that if it helped general performance then it's going to help backup performance too. -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS and powerpath

2007-07-15 Thread Peter Tribble
was that the paths would change but everything else would be fine. Unfortunately not :-( -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/ ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS and powerpath

2007-07-15 Thread Peter Tribble
.) -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/ ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

[zfs-discuss] ZFS and powerpath

2007-07-13 Thread Peter Tribble
this or are we going to have to start over? If we do start over, is powerpath going to behave itself or might this sort of issue bite us again in the future? Thanks for any help or suggestions from any powerpath experts. -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS and powerpath

2007-07-13 Thread Peter Tribble
itself or might this sort of issue bite us again in the future? Thanks for any help or suggestions from any powerpath experts. -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/ ___ zfs-discuss mailing list

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