Re: [zfs-discuss] Some ZFS questions

2006-12-18 Thread Christine Tran
Neil Perrin wrote: Having said that I don't think we recommend messing with the transaction group commit timing. Yeah I don't think the customer means to tune it this way either, they were thinking of something like tune_t_fsflushr (is this still in use?) They want to know when the txg

Re: [zfs-discuss] Some ZFS questions

2006-12-18 Thread Richard Elling
Additional comments below... Christine Tran wrote: Hi, I guess we are acquainted with the ZFS Wikipedia? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZFS Customers refer to it, I wonder where the Wiki gets its numbers. For example there's a Sun marketing slide that says unlimited snapshots contradicted

Re: [zfs-discuss] Some ZFS questions

2006-12-18 Thread Torrey McMahon
Christine Tran wrote: And the PowerPath question is important, customer is using PP right now. I haven't heard any powerpath issues. Can you track down what it was GeorgeW mentioned? ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [zfs-discuss] Some ZFS questions

2006-12-18 Thread Christine Tran
Torrey McMahon wrote: I haven't heard any powerpath issues. Can you track down what it was GeorgeW mentioned? Well, the problem is I can't remember. It was during a ZFS TOI class, and perhaps it was that PP tries to be clever by grouping tsx together ... If there's been no PP issue

Re[2]: [zfs-discuss] Some ZFS questions

2006-12-18 Thread Robert Milkowski
Hello Torrey, Monday, December 18, 2006, 8:38:42 PM, you wrote: TM Christine Tran wrote: And the PowerPath question is important, customer is using PP right now. TM I haven't heard any powerpath issues. Can you track down what it was TM GeorgeW mentioned? H...

Re: [zfs-discuss] Some ZFS questions

2006-12-17 Thread Neil Perrin
CT Will I be able to I tune the DMU flush rate, now set at 5 seconds? echo 'txg_time/D 0t1' | mdb -kw Er, that 'D' ahould be a 'W'. Having said that I don't think we recommend messing with the transaction group commit timing. ___ zfs-discuss mailing

[zfs-discuss] Some ZFS questions

2006-12-15 Thread Christine Tran
Hi, I guess we are acquainted with the ZFS Wikipedia? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZFS Customers refer to it, I wonder where the Wiki gets its numbers. For example there's a Sun marketing slide that says unlimited snapshots contradicted by the the first bullet: 2^48 — Number of snapshots

Re: [zfs-discuss] Some ZFS questions

2006-12-15 Thread Robert Milkowski
Hello Christine, Saturday, December 16, 2006, 12:17:12 AM, you wrote: CT Hi, CT I guess we are acquainted with the ZFS Wikipedia? CT http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZFS CT Customers refer to it, I wonder where the Wiki gets its numbers. For CT example there's a Sun marketing slide that says