Re: [zfs-discuss] Ssd for zil on a dell 2950

2009-08-19 Thread Jorgen Lundman
Does un-taring something count? It is what I used for our tests. I tested with ZIL disable, zil cache on /tmp/zil, CF-card (300x) and cheap SSD. Waiting for X-25E SSDs to arrive for testing those: http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/zfs-discuss/2009-July/030183.html If you want a quick ans

Re: [zfs-discuss] Ssd for zil on a dell 2950

2009-08-19 Thread Monish Shah
Hello Greg, I'm curious how much performance benefit you gain from the ZIL accelerator. Have you measured that? If not, do you have a gut feel about how much it helped? Also, for what kind of applications does it help? (I know it helps with synchronous writes. I'm looking for real world a

Re: [zfs-discuss] x4540 dead HDD replacement, remains "configured".

2009-08-19 Thread Jorgen Lundman
Finally came to the reboot maintenance to reboot the x4540 to make it see the newly replaced HDD. I tried, reboot, then power-cycle, and reboot -- -r, but I can not make the x4540 accept any HDD in that bay. I'm starting to think that perhaps we did not lose the original HDD, but rather the

Re: [zfs-discuss] Ssd for zil on a dell 2950

2009-08-19 Thread Greg Mason
Hi David, We are using them in our Sun X4540 filers. We are actually using 2 SSDs per pool, to improve throughput (since the logbias feature isn't in an official release of OpenSolaris yet). I kind of wish they made an 8G or 16G part, since the 32G capacity is kind of a waste. We had to go t

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs send speed

2009-08-19 Thread Richard Elling
On Aug 18, 2009, at 1:16 PM, Paul Kraus wrote: Is the speed of a 'zfs send' dependant on file size / number of files ? Not directly. It is dependent on the amount of changes per unit time. We have a system with some large datasets (3.3 TB and about 35 million files) and conventional

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs root, jumpstart and flash archives

2009-08-19 Thread Lori Alt
On 08/19/09 14:57, Kris Kasner wrote: Hi. First - Thanks very much for releasing this as a patch and not making us wait until U8. It's very much appreciated. Things we put on hold can start moving again which is a good thing. Is there further documentation on this yet? I just asked C

[zfs-discuss] Ssd for zil on a dell 2950

2009-08-19 Thread HUGE | David Stahl
We have a setup with ZFS/ESX/NFS and I am looking to move our zil to a solid state drive. So far I am looking into this one http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820167013 Does anyone have any experience with this drive as a poorman¹s logzilla? And also what have other people done

[zfs-discuss] unexpected behavior with "nbmand=on" set

2009-08-19 Thread Greg Mason
It's not too often we see good news on the zfs-discuss list, so here's some: We at the High Performance Computing Center at MSU have finally worked out the root cause of a long-standing issue with our OpenSolaris NFS servers. It was a minor configuration issue, involving a ZFS file system prop

[zfs-discuss] new disk but zfs/zpool commands hangs

2009-08-19 Thread Thommy M . Malmström
I bought a 1 TB external USB disk from Western Digital (1) and put it in my 2008.11 machine.The machine discovered the disk directly and I did a 'zpool create xpool c11t0d0´ command # zpool list NAME SIZE USED AVAILCAP HEALTH ALTROOT [...] xpool 928G81K 928G 0% ONL

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs root, jumpstart and flash archives

2009-08-19 Thread Kris Kasner
Hi. First - Thanks very much for releasing this as a patch and not making us wait until U8. It's very much appreciated. Things we put on hold can start moving again which is a good thing. Is there further documentation on this yet? I haven't been able to find it, and it looks like most of

[zfs-discuss] Unable to import zpool - yet there should be enough parity!

2009-08-19 Thread Galen
I have a raidz1 zpool ("Companion") I am unable to import. One of the disks has physically failed and cannot be recognized by any computer, and it is unlikely physical repairs or data recovery is possible. No other disks are reporting errors. One other disk (not the failed one) threw occasi

[zfs-discuss] cannot restore to [snapshot]: destination already exists

2009-08-19 Thread Tony Pyro
I'm running into a problem trying to do "zfs receive", with data being replicated from a Solaris 10 (11/06 release) to a storage server running OS 118. Here is the error: r...@lznas2:/backup# cat backup+mcc+use...@zn2---pre_messages_delete_20090430 | zfs receive backup/mcc/users cannot restore

[zfs-discuss] Importing ZFS pool on LUN from another system

2009-08-19 Thread rashard Kelly
I had > a LUN on a system that died but the pool on the lun was still good. I made > it available to my new system but cant import it. It appears in format but > zpool import has not gave me any results. The pool was not exported or > anything it was just detached after the net connection and that

[zfs-discuss] zfs+nfs: scary nfs log entries?

2009-08-19 Thread Blake Irvin
I have a zfs dataset that I use for network home directories. The box is running 2008.11 with the auto-snapshot service enabled. To help debug some mysterious file deletion issues, I've enabled nfs logging (all my clients are NFSv3 Linux boxes). I keep seeing lines like this in the nfslog:

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs send speed

2009-08-19 Thread Paul Kraus
Thank you for all your replies, I'm collecting my responses in one message below: On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 7:43 PM, Nicolas Williams wrote: > On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 04:22:19PM -0400, Paul Kraus wrote: >>        We have a system with some large datasets (3.3 TB and about 35 >> million files) and co