Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: Heavy writes freezing system

2007-01-18 Thread Roch - PAE
Jason J. W. Williams writes: Hi Anantha, I was curious why segregating at the FS level would provide adequate I/O isolation? Since all FS are on the same pool, I assumed flogging a FS would flog the pool and negatively affect all the other FS on that pool? Best Regards, Jason

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: Heavy writes freezing system

2007-01-17 Thread Robert Milkowski
Hello Anantha, Wednesday, January 17, 2007, 2:35:01 PM, you wrote: ANS You're probably hitting the same wall/bug that I came across; ANS ZFS in all versions up to and including Sol10U3 generates ANS excessive I/O when it encounters 'fssync' or if any of the files ANS were opened with 'O_DSYNC'

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: Heavy writes freezing system

2007-01-17 Thread Richard Elling
Rainer Heilke wrote: I'll know for sure later today or tomorrow, but it sounds like they are seriously considering the ASM route. Since we will be going to RAC later this year, this move makes the most sense. We'll just have to hope that the DBA group gets a better understanding of LUN's and

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: Heavy writes freezing system

2007-01-17 Thread Richard Elling
Rainer Heilke wrote: What do you mean by UFS wasn't an option due to number of files? Exactly that. UFS has a 1 million file limit under Solaris. Each Oracle Financials environment well exceeds this limitation. Really?!? I thought Oracle would use a database for storage... Also do you

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: Heavy writes freezing system

2007-01-17 Thread Dennis Clarke
What do you mean by UFS wasn't an option due to number of files? Exactly that. UFS has a 1 million file limit under Solaris. Each Oracle Financials environment well exceeds this limitation. what ? $ uname -a SunOS core 5.10 Generic_118833-17 sun4u sparc SUNW,UltraSPARC-IIi-cEngine $ df -F

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: Heavy writes freezing system

2007-01-17 Thread Michael Schuster
Dennis Clarke wrote: What do you mean by UFS wasn't an option due to number of files? Exactly that. UFS has a 1 million file limit under Solaris. Each Oracle Financials environment well exceeds this limitation. what ? $ uname -a SunOS core 5.10 Generic_118833-17 sun4u sparc

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: Heavy writes freezing system

2007-01-17 Thread Jason J. W. Williams
Hi Anantha, I was curious why segregating at the FS level would provide adequate I/O isolation? Since all FS are on the same pool, I assumed flogging a FS would flog the pool and negatively affect all the other FS on that pool? Best Regards, Jason On 1/17/07, Anantha N. Srirama [EMAIL