[zfs-discuss] Zpools and drive duplication.

2007-06-13 Thread Adam
I have a system that is running Solaris 10 Update 3 TX with 1 zpool and 5 zones. Everything on it is running fine. I take the drive to my disk duplicator and dupe it bit by bit to another drive, put the newly duped drive in the same machine and boot it up everything boots up fine. Then I do a

Re: [zfs-discuss] Zpools and drive duplication.

2007-07-06 Thread Adam
Just to let everyone know what I did to 'fix' the problem. By halting the zones and the exporting the zpool I was able to duplicate the drive without issue. Just had to import the zpool upon booting and boot the zones. Although my setup uses slices for the zpool (this is not supported by SUN),

Re: [zfs-discuss] Zpools and drive duplication.

2007-07-09 Thread Adam
I retracted that statement in the above edit. This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

[zfs-discuss] Help! OS drive lost, can I recover data?

2012-08-27 Thread Adam
- Adam... ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: Big IOs overhead due to ZFS?

2006-06-01 Thread Adam Leventhal
with raidz2 so you aren't necessarily going to lose any capacity depending on how you configure your pool. Adam -- Adam Leventhal, Solaris Kernel Development http://blogs.sun.com/ahl ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http

Re: [zfs-discuss] Expanding raidz2

2006-07-12 Thread Adam Leventhal
. A coarser solution would be to create a new pool where you zfs send/zfs recv the filesystems of the old pool. Adam -- Adam Leventhal, Solaris Kernel Development http://blogs.sun.com/ahl ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [zfs-discuss] Apple Time Machine

2006-08-07 Thread Adam Leventhal
with. Anyhow, very slick UI, sort of dubious back end, interesting possibility for integration with ZFS. Adam On Mon, Aug 07, 2006 at 12:08:17PM -0700, Eric Schrock wrote: Yeah, I just noticed this line: Backup Time: Time Machine will back up every night at midnight, unless you select a different time

Re: [zfs-discuss] in-kernel gzip compression

2006-08-17 Thread Adam Leventhal
taking a stab as estimating the comparative benefits? Adam -- Adam Leventhal, Solaris Kernel Development http://blogs.sun.com/ahl ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS/iSCSI target integration

2006-11-01 Thread Adam Leventhal
On Wed, Nov 01, 2006 at 10:05:01AM +, Ceri Davies wrote: On Wed, Nov 01, 2006 at 01:33:33AM -0800, Adam Leventhal wrote: Rick McNeal and I have been working on building support for sharing ZVOLs as iSCSI targets directly into ZFS. Below is the proposal I'll be submitting to PSARC

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS/iSCSI target integration

2006-11-01 Thread Adam Leventhal
to be persistent. This is similar to sharing ZFS filesystems via NFS: you can use share(1M), but it doesn't affect the persistent properties of the dataset. What properties are you specifically interested in modifying? Adam -- Adam Leventhal, Solaris Kernel Development http://blogs.sun.com/ahl

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS/iSCSI target integration

2006-11-01 Thread Adam Leventhal
What properties are you specifically interested in modifying? LUN for example. How would I configure LUN via zfs command ? You can't. Forgive my ignorance about how iSCSI is deployed, but why would you want/need to change the LUN? Adam On Wed, Nov 01, 2006 at 01:36:05PM +0200, Cyril Plisko

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS/iSCSI target integration

2006-11-01 Thread Adam Leventhal
that it could not be shared. Adam -- Adam Leventhal, Solaris Kernel Development http://blogs.sun.com/ahl ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: [storage-discuss] ZFS/iSCSI target integration

2006-11-01 Thread Adam Leventhal
, but we've considered making that an option you could set in the 'shareiscsi' property ('alias=blah' for example). The iSCSI properties I was referring to are the private meta data for the target daemon such as IQN. Adam -- Adam Leventhal, Solaris Kernel Development http://blogs.sun.com/ahl

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS/iSCSI target integration

2006-11-01 Thread Adam Leventhal
On Wed, Nov 01, 2006 at 09:25:26PM +0200, Cyril Plisko wrote: On 11/1/06, Adam Leventhal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What properties are you specifically interested in modifying? LUN for example. How would I configure LUN via zfs command ? You can't. Forgive my ignorance about how iSCSI

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS/iSCSI target integration

2006-11-01 Thread Adam Leventhal
it when it was on Server A? Clients would need to explicitly change the server they're contacting unless that new server also took over the IP address, hostname, etc. Adam -- Adam Leventhal, Solaris Kernel Development http://blogs.sun.com/ahl

[zfs-discuss] Re: [storage-discuss] ZFS/iSCSI target integration

2006-11-02 Thread Adam Leventhal
, and so set 'shareiscsi=on' for the pool. hey adam, what's direct mean? It's iSCSI target lingo for vanilla disk emulation. Adam -- Adam Leventhal, Solaris Kernel Development http://blogs.sun.com/ahl ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs

Re: [zfs-discuss] raid-z random read performance

2006-11-09 Thread Adam Leventhal
I don't think you'd see the same performance benefits on RAID-Z since parity isn't always on the same disk. Are you seeing hot/cool disks? Adam On Sun, Nov 05, 2006 at 04:03:18PM +0100, Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote: In my opinion RAID-Z is closer to RAID-3 than to RAID-5. In RAID-3 you do only

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS/iSCSI target integration

2006-11-09 Thread Adam Leventhal
Thanks for all the feedback. This PSARC case was approved yesterday and will be integrated relatively soon. Adam On Wed, Nov 01, 2006 at 01:33:33AM -0800, Adam Leventhal wrote: Rick McNeal and I have been working on building support for sharing ZVOLs as iSCSI targets directly into ZFS. Below

Re: [zfs-discuss] Solaris 11/06 + iscsi integration

2006-12-14 Thread Adam Leventhal
Hey Robert, The iSCSI target is targetting Solaris 10 update 4. There wasn't any issue with the target, rather it was the timing of the its integration into Nevada, and the sheer quantity of projects targetting update 3. Adam On Thu, Dec 14, 2006 at 02:39:17PM -0500, Robert Petkus wrote: Folks

Re: [zfs-discuss] odd versus even

2007-01-07 Thread Adam Leventhal
the blocksize or recordsize is relatively closer to the number of bytes in a stripe. Adam On Thu, Jan 04, 2007 at 11:17:26PM +, Peter Tribble wrote: I'm being a bit of a dunderhead at the moment and neither the site search nor google are picking up the information I seek... I'm setting up

Re: [zfs-discuss] Can you turn on zfs compression when the fs is already populated?

2007-01-25 Thread Adam Leventhal
For what it's worth, there is a plan to allow data to be scrubbed so that you can enable compression for extant data. No ETA, but it's on the roadmap. In fact, I was recently reminded that I filed a bug on this in 2004: 5029294 there should be a way to compress an extant file system Adam

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: Re: Adding my own compression to zfs

2007-01-29 Thread Adam Leventhal
-- and considerably better than LZJB. Adam -- Adam Leventhal, Solaris Kernel Development http://blogs.sun.com/ahl ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: Need help making lsof work with ZFS

2007-02-18 Thread Adam Leventhal
not supported, shouldn't the header files be shipped so people can make sense of kernel data structure types? Adam -- Adam Leventhal, Solaris Kernel Development http://blogs.sun.com/ahl ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs received vol not appearing on iscsi target list

2007-02-26 Thread Adam Leventhal
or in the iSCSI target. Please file a bug. Adam -- Adam Leventhal, Solaris Kernel Development http://blogs.sun.com/ahl ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS overhead killed my ZVOL

2007-03-20 Thread Adam Leventhal
: 6430003 record size needs to affect zvol reservation size on RAID-Z Adam -- Adam Leventhal, Solaris Kernel Development http://blogs.sun.com/ahl ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS overhead killed my ZVOL

2007-03-20 Thread Adam Leventhal
On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 01:36:10AM +0100, Robert Milkowski wrote: btw: I assume that compression level will be hard coded after all, right? Nope. You'll be able to choose from gzip-N with N ranging from 1 to 9 just like gzip(1). Adam -- Adam Leventhal, Solaris Kernel Development http

[zfs-discuss] gzip compression support

2007-03-23 Thread Adam Leventhal
: http://blogs.sun.com/ahl/entry/gzip_for_zfs_update I've also asked Roch Bourbonnais and Richard Elling to do some more extensive tests. Adam From zfs(1M): compression=on | off | lzjb | gzip | gzip-N Controls the compression algorithm used for this dataset

Re: [zfs-discuss] gzip compression support

2007-03-23 Thread Adam Leventhal
On Fri, Mar 23, 2007 at 11:41:21AM -0700, Rich Teer wrote: I recently integrated this fix into ON: 6536606 gzip compression for ZFS Cool! Can you recall into which build it went? I put it back yesterday so it will be in build 62. Adam -- Adam Leventhal, Solaris Kernel Development

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS over iSCSI question

2007-03-23 Thread Adam Leventhal
that FC-AL, ... do better in this case iscsi doesn't use TCP, does it? Anyway, the problem is really transport independent. It does use TCP. Were you thinking UDP? Adam -- Adam Leventhal, Solaris Kernel Development http://blogs.sun.com/ahl ___ zfs

Re: [zfs-discuss] Convert raidz

2007-04-02 Thread Adam Leventhal
configuration, BUT would potentially make much less efficient use of storage. Adam [1] http://blogs.sun.com/bonwick/entry/raid_z -- Adam Leventhal, Solaris Kernel Development http://blogs.sun.com/ahl ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Setting up for zfsboot

2007-04-04 Thread Adam Leventhal
On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 03:34:13PM +0200, Constantin Gonzalez wrote: - RAID-Z is _very_ slow when one disk is broken. Do you have data on this? The reconstruction should be relatively cheap especially when compared with the initial disk access. Adam -- Adam Leventhal, Solaris Kernel

Re: [zfs-discuss] Setting up for zfsboot

2007-04-04 Thread Adam Leventhal
you collect the performance data? I think a fair test would be to compare the performance of a fully functional RAID-Z stripe against a one with a missing (absent) device. Adam -- Adam Leventhal, Solaris Kernel Development http://blogs.sun.com/ahl

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS and Linux

2007-04-12 Thread Adam Leventhal
.) There's nothing today preventing Microsoft (or Apple) from sticking ZFS into their OS. They'd just to have to release the (minimal) diffs to ZFS-specific files. Adam -- Adam Leventhal, Solaris Kernel Development http://blogs.sun.com/ahl ___ zfs

[zfs-discuss] ZFS performance model for sustained, contiguous writes?

2007-04-18 Thread Adam Lindsay
Hi folks. I'm looking at putting together a 16-disk ZFS array as a server, and after reading Richard Elling's writings on the matter, I'm now left wondering if it'll have the performance we expect of such a server. Looking at his figures, 5x 3-disk RAIDZ sets seems like it *might* be made to do

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS performance model for sustained, contiguous writes?

2007-04-18 Thread Adam Lindsay
Bart Smaalders wrote: Adam Lindsay wrote: Okay, the way you say it, it sounds like a good thing. I misunderstood the performance ramifications of COW and ZFS's opportunistic write locations, and came up with much more pessimistic guess that it would approach random writes. As it is, I have

[zfs-discuss] Bottlenecks in building a system

2007-04-18 Thread Adam Lindsay
?) - If I focused on simple streaming IO, would giving the server less RAM have an impact on performance? - I had assumed four cores would be better than the two faster (3.0GHz) single-core processors the vendor originally suggested. Agree? Many thanks for any thoughts, adam

Re: [zfs-discuss] Bottlenecks in building a system

2007-04-19 Thread Adam Lindsay
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Adam: Does anyone have a clue as to where the bottlenecks are going to be with this: 16x hot swap SATAII hard drives (plus an internal boot drive) Tyan S2895 (K8WE) motherboard Dual GigE (integral nVidia ports) 2x Areca 8-port PCIe (8-lane) RAID drivers 2x AMD

Re: [zfs-discuss] Bottlenecks in building a system

2007-04-19 Thread Adam Lindsay
Nicholas Lee wrote: On 4/19/07, *Adam Lindsay* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 16x hot swap SATAII hard drives (plus an internal boot drive) Tyan S2895 (K8WE) motherboard Dual GigE (integral nVidia ports) 2x Areca 8-port PCIe (8-lane) RAID drivers 2x AMD

Re: [zfs-discuss] Bottlenecks in building a system

2007-04-20 Thread Adam Lindsay
for it. Now time to check on the project budget... :) thanks, adam ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

[zfs-discuss] does every fsync() require O(log n) platter-writes?

2007-05-06 Thread Adam Megacz
After reading through the ZFS slides, it appears to be the case that if ZFS wants to modify a single data block, if must rewrite every block between that modified block and the uberblock (root of the tree). Is this really the case? If so, does this mean that every commit operation (ie every

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: Re: gzip compression throttles system?

2007-05-09 Thread Adam Leventhal
. There are outstanding problems with compression in the ZIO pipeline that may contribute to the bursty behavior. Adam -- Adam Leventhal, Solaris Kernel Development http://blogs.sun.com/ahl ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http

Re: [zfs-discuss] iscsitadm local_name in ZFS

2007-05-11 Thread Adam Leventhal
That would be a great RFE. Currently the iSCSI Alias is the dataset name which should help with identification. Adam On Fri, May 04, 2007 at 02:02:34PM +0200, cedric briner wrote: cedric briner wrote: hello dear community, Is there a way to have a ``local_name'' as define in iscsitadm.1m

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: ZFS over a layered driver interface

2007-05-14 Thread Adam Leventhal
Try 'trace((int)arg1);' -- 4294967295 is the unsigned representation of -1. Adam On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 09:57:23AM -0700, Shweta Krishnan wrote: Thanks Eric and Manoj. Here's what ldi_get_size() returns: bash-3.00# dtrace -n 'fbt::ldi_get_size:return{trace(arg1);}' -c 'zpool create adsl

Re: [zfs-discuss] RFE: ISCSI alias when shareiscsi=on

2007-05-24 Thread Adam Leventhal
for the sharenfs property. Adam On Thu, May 24, 2007 at 02:39:24PM +0200, cedric briner wrote: Starting from this thread: http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?messageID=118786#118786 I would love to have the possibility to set an ISCSI alias when doing an shareiscsi=on on ZFS

Re: [zfs-discuss] Mac OS X Leopard to use ZFS

2007-06-07 Thread Adam Leventhal
On Thu, Jun 07, 2007 at 08:38:10PM -0300, Toby Thain wrote: When should we expect Solaris kernel under OS X? 10.6? 10.7? :-) I'm sure Jonathan will be announcing that soon. ;-) Adam -- Adam Leventhal, Solaris Kernel Development http://blogs.sun.com/ahl

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: LZO compression?

2007-06-17 Thread Adam Leventhal
Those are interesting results. Does this mean you've already written lzo support into ZFS? If not, that would be a great next step -- licensing issues can be sorted out later... Adam On Sat, Jun 16, 2007 at 04:40:48AM -0700, roland wrote: btw - is there some way to directly compare lzjb vs lzo

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: Mac OS X 10.5 read-only support for ZFS

2007-06-18 Thread Adam Leventhal
. That is, choose the compression method (if any), and then, in effect, partition the CD for RAID-Z or mirroring to stretch the data to fill the entire disc. It wouldn't necessarily be all that efficient to access, but it would give you resiliency against media errors. Adam -- Adam Leventhal

Re: [zfs-discuss] How to take advantage of PSARC 2007/171: ZFS Separate Intent Log

2007-07-03 Thread Adam Leventhal
_synchronous_ writes on an SSD, but at a pretty steep cost. Adam -- Adam Leventhal, Solaris Kernel Development http://blogs.sun.com/ahl ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Compression algorithms - Project Proposal

2007-07-05 Thread Adam Leventhal
could choose a compression algorithm based on its detection of the type of data being stored. Adam On Thu, Jul 05, 2007 at 08:29:38PM -0300, Domingos Soares wrote: Bellow, follows a proposal for a new opensolaris project. Of course, this is open to change since I just wrote down some ideas I had

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs vol issue?.

2007-08-17 Thread Adam Leventhal
On Thu, Aug 16, 2007 at 05:20:25AM -0700, ramprakash wrote: #zfs mount -a 1. mounts c again. 2. but not vol1.. [ ie /dev/zvol/dsk/mytank/b/c does not contain vol1 ] Is this the normal behavior or is it a bug? That looks like a bug. Please file it. Adam -- Adam Leventhal

Re: [zfs-discuss] Mirrored zpool across network

2007-08-20 Thread Adam Leventhal
, data is written locally and then transmitted shortly after that. Synchronous replication obviously imposes a much larger performance hit, but asychronous replication means you may lose data over some recent period (but the data will always be consistent). Adam -- Adam Leventhal, Solaris Kernel

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS RAIDZ vs. RAID5.

2007-09-12 Thread Adam Leventhal
. Assuming relatively large blocks written, RAID-Z and RAID-5 should be laid out on disk very similarly resulting in similar read performance. Did you compare the I/O characteristic of both? Was the bottleneck in the software or the hardware? Very interesting experiment... Adam -- Adam Leventhal

[zfs-discuss] Bottleneck characterization -- followup

2007-09-14 Thread Adam Lindsay
all over the place), what else could it be? Many thanks, adam ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] hardware sizing for a zfs-based system?

2007-09-14 Thread Adam Lindsay
that are ZFS-friendly (i.e., JBOD), and the relative unavailability of motherboards that support both the latest CPUs as well as have a good PCI-X architecture. If you come across some potential solutions, I think a lot of people here will thank you for sharing... adam

Re: [zfs-discuss] hardware sizing for a zfs-based system?

2007-09-14 Thread Adam Lindsay
on a 100MHz slot is measurably slower than 133MHz, but contention over a single bridge can be even worse. hth, adam ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] hardware sizing for a zfs-based system?

2007-09-16 Thread Adam Lindsay
you say is your most taxing work load. I say I'm disappointed with the contention on my bus putting limits on maximum throughputs, but really, what I have far outstrips my ability to get data into or out of the system. So all of my disappointment is in theory. adam

[zfs-discuss] Norco's new storage appliance

2007-10-09 Thread Adam Lindsay
to have on a ZFS system? (I know this relies on speculation, but) Might anyone know anything about Norco's usual chipsets to guess about OpenSolaris compatibility? adam ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org

Re: [zfs-discuss] Norco's new storage appliance

2007-10-09 Thread Adam Lindsay
have little idea where this comes from, and had no idea that it would rely on memory concerns. thanks, adam ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Norco's new storage appliance

2007-10-09 Thread Adam Lindsay
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you don't have a 64bit cpu, add more ram(tm). Actually, no; if you have a 32 bit CPU, you must not add too much RAM or the kernel will run out of space to put things. Hrm. Do you have a working definition of too much? adam

Re: [zfs-discuss] Norco's new storage appliance

2007-10-09 Thread Adam Lindsay
. adam ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

[zfs-discuss] ZFS boot for xVM builds?

2007-10-22 Thread Adam Lindsay
that this probably is asking people to speculate, but since I'm still waiting on IP addresses locally, I figured it could hurt to ask for planning purposes. cheers, adam ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman

Re: [zfs-discuss] Yager on ZFS

2007-11-08 Thread Adam Leventhal
On Wed, Nov 07, 2007 at 01:47:04PM -0800, can you guess? wrote: I do consider the RAID-Z design to be somewhat brain-damaged [...] How so? In my opinion, it seems like a cure for the brain damage of RAID-5. Adam -- Adam Leventhal, FishWorkshttp://blogs.sun.com/ahl

Re: [zfs-discuss] Yager on ZFS

2007-11-16 Thread Adam Leventhal
not constitute a significant drawback. I don't really think this would be feasible given how ZFS is stratified today, but go ahead and prove me wrong: here are the instructions for bringing over a copy of the source code: http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/tools/scm - ahl -- Adam Leventhal

Re: [zfs-discuss] Expanding a RAIDZ based Pool...

2007-12-10 Thread Adam Leventhal
... Adam -- Adam Leventhal, FishWorkshttp://blogs.sun.com/ahl ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] raidz in zfs questions

2008-03-05 Thread Adam Leventhal
match a disk of size N with another disk of size 2N and use RAID-Z to turn them into a single vdev. At that point it's probably a better idea to build a striped vdev and use ditto blocks to do your data redundancy by setting copies=2. Adam -- Adam Leventhal, Fishworkshttp

Re: [zfs-discuss] Mixing RAIDZ and RAIDZ2 zvols in the same zpool

2008-03-12 Thread Adam Leventhal
could be garnered with one using single-parity RAID as with the other using double- parity RAID. That said, it would be a fairly uncommon scenario. Adam -- Adam Leventhal, Fishworkshttp://blogs.sun.com/ahl ___ zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Per filesystem scrub

2008-04-01 Thread Adam Leventhal
be a coarse-grained solution to your problem, work is underway to address the problematic interaction between scrubs and snapshots. Adam -- Adam Leventhal, Fishworkshttp://blogs.sun.com/ahl ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss

[zfs-discuss] Algorithm for expanding RAID-Z

2008-04-08 Thread Adam Leventhal
/expand_o_matic_raid_z I'd encourage anyone interested in getting involved with ZFS development to take a look. Adam -- Adam Leventhal, Fishworkshttp://blogs.sun.com/ahl ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http

Re: [zfs-discuss] Periodic ZFS maintenance?

2008-04-20 Thread Adam Leventhal
rather than later. Well, tip you off _and_ correct the problems if possible. I believe a long- standing RFE has been to scrub periodically in the background to ensure that correctable problems don't turn into uncorrectable ones. Adam -- Adam Leventhal, Fishworkshttp

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS in S10U6 vs openSolaris 05/08

2008-05-16 Thread Adam Leventhal
layer which would break all S10 file systems. So in a very real sense CIFS simply cannot be backported to S10. However, the same arguments were made explaining the difficulty backporting ZFS and GRUB boot to Solaris 10. Adam -- Adam Leventhal, Fishworkshttp://blogs.sun.com

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

2008-06-05 Thread Adam Smith
Hi All, I'm new to ZFS but I'm intrigued by the possibilities it presents. I'm told one of the greatest benefits is that, instead of setting quotas, each user can have their own 'filesystem' under a single pool. This is obviously great if you've got 10 users but what if you have 10,000? Are

Re: [zfs-discuss] SSD reliability, wear levelling, warranty period

2008-06-11 Thread Adam Leventhal
on this in the next few months. I made a post to my blog that probably won't answer your questions directly, but may help inform you about what we have in mind. http://blogs.sun.com/ahl/entry/flash_hybrid_pools_and_future Adam -- Adam Leventhal, Fishworkshttp://blogs.sun.com/ahl

Re: [zfs-discuss] SSD reliability, wear levelling, warranty period

2008-06-11 Thread Adam Leventhal
an I/O request on my enterprise system. Adam -- Adam Leventhal, Fishworks http://blogs.sun.com/ahl ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Ideal Setup: RAID-5, Areca, etc!

2008-07-25 Thread Adam Leventhal
. For writes, however, RAID-Z with an N+1 wide stripe will divide the the data into N+1 chunks, and reads will need to access the N chunks. This reduces the total IOPS by a factor of N+1 for reads and writes whereas mirroring reduces the IOPS by a factor of 2 for writes and not at all for reads. Adam

Re: [zfs-discuss] Which is better for root ZFS: mlc or slc SSD?

2008-09-26 Thread Adam Leventhal
for a root device. Performance is typically a bit better with SLC -- especially on the write side -- but it's not such a huge difference. The reason you'd use a flash SSD for a boot device is power (with maybe a dash of performance), and either SLC or MLC will do just fine. Adam On Sep 24

Re: [zfs-discuss] An slog experiment (my NAS can beat up your NAS)

2008-10-05 Thread Adam Leventhal
of view)? You would lose transactions, but the pool would still reflect a consistent state. So is this idea completely crazy? On the contrary; it's very clever. Adam -- Adam Leventhal, Fishworkshttp://blogs.sun.com/ahl ___ zfs

Re: [zfs-discuss] OpenStorage GUI

2008-11-11 Thread Adam Leventhal
to the x4540 so that would be required before any upgrade to the equivalent of the Sun Storage 7210. Adam -- Adam Leventhal, Fishworkshttp://blogs.sun.com/ahl ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http

Re: [zfs-discuss] OpenStorage GUI

2008-11-11 Thread Adam Leventhal
On Nov 11, 2008, at 10:41 AM, Brent Jones wrote: Wish I could get my hands on a beta of this GUI... Take a look at the VMware version that you can run on any machine: http://www.sun.com/storage/disk_systems/unified_storage/resources.jsp Adam -- Adam Leventhal, Fishworks

Re: [zfs-discuss] OpenStorage GUI

2008-11-11 Thread Adam Leventhal
Is this software available for people who already have thumpers? We're considering offering an upgrade path for people with existing thumpers. Given the feedback we've been hearing, it seems very likely that we will. No word yet on pricing or availability. Adam -- Adam Leventhal, Fishworks

Re: [zfs-discuss] continuous replication

2008-11-14 Thread Adam Leventhal
. Adam -- Adam Leventhal, Fishworks http://blogs.sun.com/ahl ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Storage 7000

2008-11-17 Thread Adam Leventhal
ZFS that's in OpenSolaris today. A pool created on the appliance could potentially be imported on an OpenSolaris system; that is, of course, not explicitly supported in the service contract. Adam -- Adam Leventhal, Fishworks http://blogs.sun.com/ahl

Re: [zfs-discuss] Storage 7000

2008-11-17 Thread Adam Leventhal
. Keep an eye on blogs.sun.com/fishworks. A little off topic: Do you know when the SSDs used in the Storage 7000 are available for the rest of us? I don't think the will be, but it will be possible to purchase them as replacement parts. Adam -- Adam Leventhal, Fishworks

Re: [zfs-discuss] Storage 7000

2008-11-19 Thread Adam Leventhal
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 09:09:07AM -0800, Andre Lue wrote: Is the web interface on the appliance available for download or will it make it to opensolaris sometime in the near future? It's not, and it's unlikely to make it to OpenSolaris. Adam -- Adam Leventhal, Fishworks

Re: [zfs-discuss] Comparison between the S-TEC Zeus and the Intel X25-E ??

2009-01-16 Thread Adam Leventhal
The Intel part does about a fourth as many synchronous write IOPS at best. Adam On Jan 16, 2009, at 5:34 PM, Erik Trimble wrote: I'm looking at the newly-orderable (via Sun) STEC Zeus SSDs, and they're outrageously priced. http://www.stec-inc.com/product/zeusssd.php I just looked

Re: [zfs-discuss] replace same sized disk fails with too small error

2009-01-18 Thread Adam Leventhal
not have that assurance. Adam -- Adam Leventhal, Fishworkshttp://blogs.sun.com/ahl ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Disks in each RAIDZ group

2009-01-19 Thread Adam Leventhal
that would hardly be measurable given the architecture of the Hybrid Storage Pool. Recall that unlike other products in the same space, we get our IOPS from flash rather than from a bazillion spindles spinning at 15,000 RPM. Adam -- Adam Leventhal, Fishworks http

Re: [zfs-discuss] replace same sized disk fails with too small error

2009-01-19 Thread Adam Leventhal
their drives with stuff they've bought at Fry's. Is this still covered by their service plan or would this only be in an unsupported config? Thanks. Adam -- Adam Leventhal, Fishworks http://blogs.sun.com/ahl ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs

Re: [zfs-discuss] replace same sized disk fails with too small error

2009-01-19 Thread Adam Leventhal
than ZFS? Are you telling me zfs is deficient to the point it can't handle basic right-sizing like a 15$ sata raid adapter? How do there $15 sata raid adapters solve the problem? The more details you could provide the better obviously. Adam -- Adam Leventhal, Fishworks

Re: [zfs-discuss] Disks in each RAIDZ group

2009-01-19 Thread Adam Leventhal
complexity and little to no value? They seem very different to me, so I suppose the answer to your question is: no I cannot feel the irony oozing out between my lips, and yes I'm oblivious to the same. Adam -- Adam Leventhal, Fishworks http://blogs.sun.com/ahl

Re: [zfs-discuss] replace same sized disk fails with too small error

2009-01-19 Thread Adam Leventhal
to use the full extent of the drives they've paid for, say, if they're using a vendor that already provides that guarantee? You know, sort of like you not letting people choose their raid layout... Yes, I'm not saying it shouldn't be done. I'm asking what the right answer might be. Adam -- Adam

Re: [zfs-discuss] replace same sized disk fails with too small error

2009-01-19 Thread Adam Leventhal
it actually applies. Adam -- Adam Leventhal, Fishworks http://blogs.sun.com/ahl ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] SSD - slow down with age

2009-02-16 Thread Adam Leventhal
of SSDs with ZFS as a ZIL device, an L2ARC device, and eventually as primary storage. We'll first focus on the specific SSDs we certify for use in our general purpose servers and the Sun Storage 7000 series, and help influence the industry to move to standards that we can then use. Adam

Re: [zfs-discuss] SAS 15K drives as L2ARC

2009-05-06 Thread Adam Leventhal
write performance. Adam -- Adam Leventhal, Fishworks http://blogs.sun.com/ahl ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] 7110 questions

2009-06-18 Thread Adam Leventhal
of disks to the OS, so I really only get 14 disks for data. Correct? That's right. We market the 7110 as either 2TB = 146GB x 14 or 4.2TB = 300GB x 14 raw capacity. Adam -- Adam Leventhal, Fishworks http://blogs.sun.com/ahl ___ zfs

Re: [zfs-discuss] 7110 questions

2009-06-18 Thread Adam Leventhal
Hey Lawrence, Make sure you're running the latest software update. Note that this forumn is not the appropriate place to discuss support issues. Please contact your official Sun support channel. Adam On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 12:06:02PM -0700, lawrence ho wrote: We have a 7110 on try and buy

[zfs-discuss] Understanding SAS/SATA Backplanes and Connectivity

2009-07-16 Thread Adam Sherman
for pointing to relevant documentation. A. -- Adam Sherman CTO, Versature Corp. Tel: +1.877.498.3772 x113 ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Understanding SAS/SATA Backplanes and Connectivity

2009-07-16 Thread Adam Sherman
documentation. The manual for the Supermicro cases [1, 2] does a pretty good job IMO explaining the different options. See page D-14 and on in the 826 manual, or page D-11 and on in the 846 manual. I'll read though that, thanks for the detailed pointers. A. -- Adam Sherman CTO, Versature Corp. Tel

Re: [zfs-discuss] Understanding SAS/SATA Backplanes and Connectivity

2009-07-16 Thread Adam Sherman
Another thought in the same vein, I notice many of these systems support SES-2 for management. Does this do anything useful under Solaris? Sorry for these questions, I seem to be having a tough time locating relevant information on the web. Thanks, A. -- Adam Sherman CTO, Versature

Re: [zfs-discuss] Understanding SAS/SATA Backplanes and Connectivity

2009-07-16 Thread Adam Sherman
management uses of SES? I'm really just exploring. Where can I read about how FMA is going to help with failures in my setup? Thanks, A. -- Adam Sherman CTO, Versature Corp. Tel: +1.877.498.3772 x113 ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Understanding SAS/SATA Backplanes and Connectivity

2009-07-16 Thread Adam Sherman
have a look at to get =12 SATA disks externally attached to my systems? Thanks! A. -- Adam Sherman CTO, Versature Corp. Tel: +1.877.498.3772 x113 ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo

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