Re: ZFS regimen: scrub, scrub, scrub and scrub again.

2013-01-21 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Please don't misinterpret this post: ZFS's ability to recover from fairly catastrophic failures is pretty stellar, but I'm wondering if there can be from my testing it is exactly opposite. You have to see a difference between marketing and reality. a little room for improvement. I use RAID

Re: IBM blade server abysmal disk write performances

2013-01-21 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Interesting. Is there a way to tell, other than coming up with some way to actually test it, whether a particular drive waits until my crappy laptop hard drive behave the same no matter if i turn write cache on, off or leave default. seems like it is always on.

Re: IBM blade server abysmal disk write performances

2013-01-21 Thread Wojciech Puchar
With SATA vs SAS, the gap is much narrower. The TCQ command set (still used by SAS) is still better than the NCQ command set, but the in what point TCQ is exactly better than SATA NCQ. ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: IBM blade server abysmal disk write performances

2013-01-21 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I've had my share of sudden UPS failures over the years. Probably more everything can fail. That's why serious sysadmins do proper backup, no matter what safety features are used in their servers. ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list

ipv6 equivalent to ipv4_addr_IF in network.subr?

2013-01-21 Thread Mark Felder
Hi all, At work we have several standalone webservers with lots of IPs... let's say x.x.x.100 - 200. That's a LOT of ifconfig_IF_alias0, alias1, alias2... to maintain, and it's also painful when we need to move an IP to a different server which happens occasionally. The right solution for

Re: kmem_map auto-sizing and size dependencies

2013-01-21 Thread Pawel Jakub Dawidek
On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 08:26:04AM -0800, m...@freebsd.org wrote: Should it be set to a larger initial value based on min(physical,KVM) space available? It needs to be smaller than the physical space, [...] Or larger, as the address space can get fragmented and you might not be able to

Creating tap interface with custom name

2013-01-21 Thread Roman Bogorodskiy
Hi, I have a thing I want to do and I'm not sure what's the best way to do it, hopefully somebody could suggest a solution. The idea is to create a 'tap' interfaces with a custom name, e.g. foobarN instead of tapN, from an application. So the current workflow looks this way: - a request comes

Re: ZFS regimen: scrub, scrub, scrub and scrub again.

2013-01-21 Thread Peter Jeremy
On 2013-Jan-21 12:12:45 +0100, Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: That's why i use properly tuned UFS, gmirror, and prefer not to use gstripe but have multiple filesystems When I started using ZFS, I didn't fully trust it so I had a gmirrored UFS root (including a full src