1) We installed ZFS onto our Solaris 10 T2000 3 months ago. I have been told our ZFS code is downrev. What is the recommended way to upgrade ZFS on a production system (we want minimum downtime)? Can it safely be done without affecting our 3.5 million files?

2) We did not turn on compression as most of our 3+ million files are already gzipped. What is the performance penalty of having compression on (both read and write numbers)? Is there advantage to compressing already gzipped files? Should compression be the default when installing ZFS? Nearly all our files are ASCII.

here is some info on our machine

itsm-mpk-2% showrev
Hostname: itsm-mpk-2
Hostid: 83d8d784
Release: 5.10
Kernel architecture: sun4v
Application architecture: sparc
Hardware provider: Sun_Microsystems
Domain:
Kernel version: SunOS 5.10 Generic_118833-08

T2000 32x1000mhz, 16gigs RAM.

# zpool status
 pool: canary
state: ONLINE
scrub: none requested
config:

       NAME        STATE     READ WRITE CKSUM
       canary      ONLINE       0     0     0
         c1t0d0s3  ONLINE       0     0     0

errors: No known data errors
# zpool iostat 1
              capacity     operations    bandwidth
pool         used  avail   read  write   read  write
----------  -----  -----  -----  -----  -----  -----
canary      42.0G  12.0G    169    223  8.92M  1.39M
canary      42.0G  12.0G      0    732      0  3.05M
canary      42.0G  12.0G      0    573      0  2.47M
canary      42.0G  12.0G      0    515      0  2.22M
canary      42.0G  12.0G      0    680      0  3.11M
canary      42.0G  12.0G      0    620      0  2.80M
canary      42.0G  12.0G      0    687      0  2.85M
canary      42.0G  12.0G      0    568      0  2.40M
canary      42.0G  12.0G      0    688      0  2.91M
canary      42.0G  12.0G      0    634      0  2.75M
canary      42.0G  12.0G      0    625      0  2.61M
canary      42.0G  12.0G      0    700      0  2.96M
canary      42.0G  12.0G      0    733      0  3.19M
canary      42.0G  12.0G      0    639      0  2.76M
canary      42.0G  12.0G      1    573   127K  2.89M
canary      42.0G  12.0G      0    652      0  2.48M
canary      42.0G  12.0G      0    713  63.4K  3.55M
canary      42.0G  12.0G    117    355  7.83M   782K
canary      42.0G  12.0G     43    616  2.97M  1.11M
canary      42.0G  12.0G    128    424  8.60M  1.57M
canary      42.0G  12.0G    288    151  18.9M   795K
canary      42.0G  12.0G    364      0  23.9M      0
canary      42.0G  12.0G    387      0  25.6M      0


thanks
sean
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