[OpenIndiana-discuss] Very slow write performance on a 3 disk raidz1-0 zpool

2012-08-23 Thread Julius Roberts
Hi everyone, as per the subject, I'm getting very slow write performance on a 3 disk raidz1-0 zpool. IIRC the disks are early 1tb WD green drives. Not sure what i should tell you, but during copies of large 10gb+ files rsync is showing around 2MB/s, which is terribly poor i think. Sorry if this

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Very slow write performance on a 3 disk raidz1-0 zpool

2012-08-24 Thread Julius Roberts
On 24 August 2012 14:58, Jan Owoc jso...@gmail.com wrote: How are you generating these writes? Are they maybe small files over a wireless network? If so, what if you generated the I/O using: dd if=/dev/zero of=/Backups/zero.file seems the slow write performance appears regardless of the

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Very slow write performance on a 3 disk raidz1-0 zpool

2012-08-24 Thread Julius Roberts
On 24 August 2012 15:03, Robbie Crash sardonic.smi...@gmail.com wrote: Are you using compression or dedup on the FS? Yes, both. We're getting about 1.5x dedup on the Backups pool, not sure how to calculate compression -- Kind regards, Jules golgy whats so wrong with plumb? hoolio nothing, in

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Very slow write performance on a 3 disk raidz1-0 zpool

2012-08-24 Thread Julius Roberts
On 24 August 2012 18:02, Bryan Iotti ironsides.med...@gmail.com wrote: Are these Advanced Format Drives (4k sectors) already? I don't know? My own WD Caviar Green 2TB sucked bad before I recreated a pool on it with the modified zpool-12 command. This pool was created in 2008(?) using zfs v10

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Very slow write performance on a 3 disk raidz1-0 zpool

2012-08-27 Thread Julius Roberts
On 24 August 2012 20:49, Sašo Kiselkov skiselkov...@gmail.com wrote: So let me get this straight, you've got a 2TB dataset with dedup and compression on a machine with 1GB of RAM and you're complaining about poor performance? This is *expected* behavior. Your DDT simply doesn't fit into RAM I

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Sending our zpool offsite using encrypted USB HDDs

2012-08-27 Thread Julius Roberts
Hi guys, due to a lack of high-speed networking, we're unable to replicate our ZFS pool offsite, so we're relying on a zfs send to a USB disk. We'd like that encrypted. Currently i have an automated process which creates a zpool Offsite on a big USB HDD, and then runs something like this, then

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Sending our zpool offsite using encrypted USB HDDs

2012-08-28 Thread Julius Roberts
anyone? On 28 August 2012 14:42, Julius Roberts hooliowobb...@gmail.com wrote: Hi guys, due to a lack of high-speed networking, we're unable to replicate our ZFS pool offsite, so we're relying on a zfs send to a USB disk. We'd like that encrypted. Currently i have an automated process

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Sending our zpool offsite using encrypted USB HDDs

2012-08-29 Thread Julius Roberts
On 29 August 2012 21:37, Edward Ned Harvey (openindiana) openindi...@nedharvey.com wrote: I'm not sure when encryption was added to zfs, but you might have to get solaris 11 from oracle. As far as i know, OI was forked from open solaris before encryption was added to zfs, and clearly that

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Current ZFS Backup projects

2012-09-11 Thread Julius Roberts
I have done this myself but haven't yet got around to releasing it. It's called mdbackup, is written in perl and basically goes off and connects to a bunch of remote servers (defined in a file called mdtab) via ssh or a smb mount, rsyncs the data to a location on your local zpool and then

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Announcing mdbackup, perl scripts for zfs backup servers (was: Current ZFS Backup projects)

2012-09-13 Thread Julius Roberts
/admin doco and also end user doco targetted at healthchecking and restores etc. They are about 80% done already, but I do apologize for the tardy doco until they're available. Kind regards, Julius On 12 September 2012 09:52, Julius Roberts hooliowobb...@gmail.com wrote: I have done this myself

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI stopped booting after 151a6 update.

2012-10-01 Thread Julius Roberts
On 2 October 2012 11:47, Jerry Kemp sun.mail.lis...@oryx.cc wrote: Was the build 151a6 boot hanging issue ever resolved? I remember this discussion from a few weeks ago. I just attempted to do an upgrade earlier today, and saw the hang issue. I have several hosts running a5 which i would

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Gnome and the future

2012-10-31 Thread Julius Roberts
On 1 November 2012 02:33, mag...@yonderway.com wrote: This is based on the false premise that OpenIndiana is an enterprise desktop operating system. +1. There are alot of very useful desktop operating systems already, so i see no point in OI trying to compete with them. In business speak OI

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Gnome and the future

2012-10-31 Thread Julius Roberts
On 1 November 2012 09:48, Maxim Kondratovich maxim@gmail.com wrote: So why OI has DE at all? Leading to your logic community has to cut off DE from distribution at all... And what we will have? Another one illumos based server distribution?! The community will do whatever the community

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] 3737 days of uptime

2013-03-19 Thread Julius Roberts
I'm waiting for 7337 days before mine go down ;) On 20 March 2013 14:41, dormitionsk...@hotmail.com dormitionsk...@hotmail.com wrote: Hi, all! I saw this on the Illumos developer list. I thought some of you might get a kick out of it. A Sun Solaris machine was shut down last week in