Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS and SAN

2008-02-11 Thread Richard Elling
Christophe Rolland wrote: Hi all we consider using ZFS for various storages (DB, etc). Most features are great, especially the ease of use. Nevertheless, a few questions : - we are using SAN disks, so most JBOD recommandations dont apply, but I did not find many experiences of zpool of a

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Performance Issue

2008-02-11 Thread William Fretts-Saxton
It does. The file size is limited to the original creation size, which is 65k for files with 1 data sample. Unfortunately, I have zero experience with dtrace and only a little with truss. I'm relying on the dtrace scripts from people on this thread to get by for now! This message posted

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS and SAN

2008-02-11 Thread Christophe Rolland
Hi Robert, thanks for the answer. You are not the only one. It's somewhere on ZFS developers list... yes, i checked this on the whole list. so, lets wait for the feature. Actually it should complain and using -f (force) on the active node, yes. but if we want to reuse the luns on the other

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS and SAN

2008-02-11 Thread Robert Milkowski
Hello Christophe, Friday, February 1, 2008, 7:55:31 PM, you wrote: CR Hi all CR we consider using ZFS for various storages (DB, etc). Most CR features are great, especially the ease of use. CR Nevertheless, a few questions : CR - we are using SAN disks, so most JBOD recommandations dont CR

Re: [zfs-discuss] UFS on zvol Cache Questions...

2008-02-11 Thread Roch - PAE
Priming the cache for ZFS should work at least after boot When freemem is large; any read block will make it to cache. Post boot when memory is primed with something else (what?) then it gets more difficult for both UFS and ZFS to guess what to keep in caches. Did you try priming ZFS after boot

Re: [zfs-discuss] Hardware RAID vs. ZFS RAID

2008-02-11 Thread Andy Lubel
With my (COTS) LSI 1068 and 1078 based controllers I get consistently better performance when I export all disks as jbod (MegaCli - CfgEachDskRaid0). Is that really 'all disks as JBOD'? or is it 'each disk as a single drive RAID0'? single disk raid0: ./MegaCli -CfgEachDskRaid0 Direct

[zfs-discuss] 3ware support

2008-02-11 Thread Johan Kooijman
Goodmorning all, can anyone confirm that 3ware raid controllers are indeed not working under Solaris/OpenSolaris? I can't seem to find it in the HCL. We're now using a 3Ware 9550SX as a S-ATA RAID controller. The original plan was to disable all it's RAID functions and use justs the S-ATA

Re: [zfs-discuss] scrub halts

2008-02-11 Thread Lida Horn
The latest changes to the sata and marvell88sx modules have been put back to Solaris Nevada and should be available in the next build (build 84). Hopefully, those of you who use it will find the changes helpful. This message posted from opensolaris.org

Re: [zfs-discuss] [Fwd: Re: Presales support on ZFS]

2008-02-11 Thread Jim Dunham
Enrico, Is there any forecast to improve the efficiency of the replication mechanisms of ZFS ? Fishwork - new NAS release I would take some time to talk with and understand exactly what the customer's expectation are for replication. i would not base my decision on the cost of

Re: [zfs-discuss] Real time mirroring

2008-02-11 Thread justin
Have you looked at AVS? (http://opensolaris.org/os/project/avs/) This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Performance Issue

2008-02-11 Thread johansen
Is deleting the old files/directories in the ZFS file system sufficient or do I need to destroy/recreate the pool and/or file system itself? I've been doing the former. The former should be sufficient, it's not necessary to destroy the pool. -j

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Performance Issue

2008-02-11 Thread William Fretts-Saxton
I ran this dtrace script and got no output. Any ideas? This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Real time mirroring

2008-02-11 Thread Ross
Well 5 minutes after posting that the resilver completed. However despite it saying that the resilver completed with 0 errors ten minutes ago, the device still shows as unavailable, and my pool is still degraded. This message posted from opensolaris.org

Re: [zfs-discuss] Real time mirroring

2008-02-11 Thread Ross
Found my first problems with this today. The ZFS mirror appears to work fine, but if you disconnect one of the iSCSI targets it hangs for 5 mins or more. I'm also seeing very concerning behaviour when attempting to re-attach the missing disk. My test scenario is: - Two 35GB iSCSI targets

Re: [zfs-discuss] iSCSI target using ZFS filesystem as backing

2008-02-11 Thread Darren J Moffat
Ross wrote: Bleh, found out why they weren't appearing. I was just creating a regular ZFS filesystem and setting shareiscsi=on. If you create a volume it works fine... I wonder if that's something that could do with being added to the documentation for shareiscsi? I can see now that

Re: [zfs-discuss] [Fwd: Re: Presales support on ZFS]

2008-02-11 Thread Enrico Rampazzo
Is there any forecast to improve the efficiency of the replication mechanisms of ZFS ? Fishwork - new NAS release Considering the solution we are offering to our customer ( 5 remote sites replicating in one central data-center ) with ZFS ( cheapest solution ) I should consider 3 times

Re: [zfs-discuss] scrub halts

2008-02-11 Thread Will Murnane
On Feb 12, 2008 4:45 AM, Lida Horn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The latest changes to the sata and marvell88sx modules have been put back to Solaris Nevada and should be available in the next build (build 84). Hopefully, those of you who use it will find the changes helpful. I have indeed found

Re: [zfs-discuss] Real time mirroring

2008-02-11 Thread Ross
Well, I got it working, but not in a tidy way. I'm running HA-ZFS here, so I moved the ZFS pool over to the other node in the cluster. That had exactly the same problems however, the iSCSI disks were unavailable. Then I found an article from November 2006

Re: [zfs-discuss] iSCSI target using ZFS filesystem as backing

2008-02-11 Thread Ross
Bleh, found out why they weren't appearing. I was just creating a regular ZFS filesystem and setting shareiscsi=on. If you create a volume it works fine... I wonder if that's something that could do with being added to the documentation for shareiscsi? I can see now that all the examples of

Re: [zfs-discuss] Is swap still needed on c0d0s1 to get crash dumps?

2008-02-11 Thread Roman Morokutti
Thank you for your info. So with dumpadm I can manage crash-dumps. And if ZFS is not capable of handling those dumps, who cares. Then I will create an extra slice for those purposes. No problem. Roman This message posted from opensolaris.org ___