Write cache (was: Re: [zfs-discuss] How to best layout our filesystems)

2006-08-01 Thread Jesus Cea
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Neil Perrin wrote: I suppose if you know the disk only contains zfs slices then write caching could be manually enabled using format -e - cache - write_cache - enable When will we have write cache control over ATA/SATA drives? :-). - -- Jesus Cea

Re: [zfs-discuss] How to best layout our filesystems

2006-07-28 Thread George Wilson
Robert, The patches will be available sometime late September. This may be a week or so before s10u3 actually releases. Thanks, George Robert Milkowski wrote: Hello eric, Thursday, July 27, 2006, 4:34:16 AM, you wrote: ek Robert Milkowski wrote: Hello George, Wednesday, July 26, 2006,

Re[2]: [zfs-discuss] How to best layout our filesystems

2006-07-27 Thread Robert Milkowski
Hello eric, Thursday, July 27, 2006, 4:34:16 AM, you wrote: ek Robert Milkowski wrote: Hello George, Wednesday, July 26, 2006, 7:27:04 AM, you wrote: GW Additionally, I've just putback the latest feature set and bugfixes GW which will be part of s10u3_03. There were some additional

RE: [zfs-discuss] How to best layout our filesystems

2006-07-27 Thread Bennett, Steve
Eric said: For U3, these are the performance fixes: 6424554 full block re-writes need not read data in 6440499 zil should avoid txg_wait_synced() and use dmu_sync() to issue parallelIOs when fsyncing 6447377 ZFS prefetch is inconsistant 6373978 want to take lots of snapshots quickly ('zfs

Re: [zfs-discuss] How to best layout our filesystems

2006-07-27 Thread Gary Combs
For S10U3, RR is 11/13/06 and GA is 11/27/06. Gary Bennett, Steve wrote: Eric said: For U3, these are the performance fixes: 6424554 full block re-writes need not read data in 6440499 zil should avoid txg_wait_synced() and use dmu_sync() to issue parallelIOs when fsyncing

Re: [zfs-discuss] How to best layout our filesystems

2006-07-26 Thread Brian Hechinger
On Tue, Jul 25, 2006 at 03:54:22PM -0700, Eric Schrock wrote: If you give zpool(1M) 'whole disks' (i.e. no 's0' slice number) and let it label and use the disks, it will automatically turn on the write cache for you. What if you can't give ZFS whole disks? I run snv_38 on the Optiplex GX620

Re: [zfs-discuss] How to best layout our filesystems

2006-07-26 Thread Neil Perrin
Brian Hechinger wrote On 07/26/06 06:49,: On Tue, Jul 25, 2006 at 03:54:22PM -0700, Eric Schrock wrote: If you give zpool(1M) 'whole disks' (i.e. no 's0' slice number) and let it label and use the disks, it will automatically turn on the write cache for you. What if you can't give ZFS

Write cache (was: Re: [zfs-discuss] How to best layout our filesystems)

2006-07-26 Thread Jesus Cea
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Neil Perrin wrote: I suppose if you know the disk only contains zfs slices then write caching could be manually enabled using format -e - cache - write_cache - enable When will we have write cache control over ATA/SATA drives? :-). - -- Jesus Cea

Re: [zfs-discuss] How to best layout our filesystems

2006-07-26 Thread Brian Hechinger
On Wed, Jul 26, 2006 at 08:38:16AM -0600, Neil Perrin wrote: GX620 on my desk at work and I run snv_40 on the Latitude D610 that I carry with me. In both cases the machines only have one disk, so I need to split it up for UFS for the OS and ZFS for my data. How do I turn on write cache

Re: [zfs-discuss] How to best layout our filesystems

2006-07-26 Thread eric kustarz
Robert Milkowski wrote: Hello George, Wednesday, July 26, 2006, 7:27:04 AM, you wrote: GW Additionally, I've just putback the latest feature set and bugfixes GW which will be part of s10u3_03. There were some additional performance GW fixes which may really benefit plus it will provide hot

[zfs-discuss] How to best layout our filesystems

2006-07-25 Thread Karen Chau
Our application Canary has approx 750 clients uploading to the server every 10 mins, that's approx 108,000 gzip tarballs per day writing to the /upload directory. The parser untars the tarball which consists of 8 ascii files into the /archives directory. /app is our application and tools

Re: [zfs-discuss] How to best layout our filesystems

2006-07-25 Thread Torrey McMahon
Given the amount of I/O wouldn't it make sense to get more drives involved or something that has cache on the front end or both? If you're really pushing the amount of I/O you're alluding too - Hard to tell without all the details - then you're probably going to hit a limitation on the drive

Re: [zfs-discuss] How to best layout our filesystems

2006-07-25 Thread Sean Meighan
Hi Torrey; we are the cobblers kids. We borrowed this T2000 from Niagara engineering after we did some performance tests for them. I am trying to get a thumper to run this data set. This could take up to 3-4 months. Today we are watching 750 Sun Ray servers and 30,000 employees. Lets see 1)