Re: [zfs-discuss] Freeing unused space in thin provisioned zvols

2010-05-08 Thread Lutz Schumann
I have to come back to this issue after a while cause it just hit me. I have a VMWare vSphere 4 test host. I have various machines in there to do tests for performance and other stuff. So a lot of IO/ benchmarks are done and a lot of data is created during this benchmarks. The vSphere test

Re: [zfs-discuss] Exporting iSCSI - it's still getting all the ZFS protection, right?

2010-05-08 Thread Lutz Schumann
Everything that has readed the storage will be written to disk as sent. However watch our for the writeback cache setting of comstar. If you enable a writeback cache AND your machine boots very fast ( 2 Minutes), you may have data integrity issues because Windows thinks the target was just

Re: [zfs-discuss] Freeing unused space in thin provisioned zvols

2010-05-08 Thread Brandon High
On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 5:04 AM, Lutz Schumann presa...@storageconcepts.de wrote: Now If I think there would be write all zero, clear the block again in ZFS (which I suggest in this thread) I could do the following: Fill the disks within the VM's with all zero (dd if=/dev/zero of=/MYFILE

Re: [zfs-discuss] Is it safe to disable the swap partition?

2010-05-08 Thread Brandon High
On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 11:59 AM, Karl Dalen k_d...@hotmail.com wrote: If I want to reduce the I/O accesses for example to SSD media on a laptop and I don't plan to run any big applications is it safe to delete the swap file ? When installing on a small drive (eg: 8GB thumb drive), the

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs directory symlink owner

2010-05-08 Thread Michelle Knight
One will be relative (../a/foo) and the other absolute (/mirror/audio-Cd-Tracks/a/foo). Makes sense. I hadn't actually noticed this. It is not only sharing to Linux machines but also using SFTP as well from outside, so I need things to be pretty much multi-functional and flexible. I don't

[zfs-discuss] asus pike slot

2010-05-08 Thread Thomas Burgess
I was wondering if anyone had any first hand knowledge of compatibility with any asus pike slot expansion cards and OpenSolaris. I would guess this should work: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816110042 because it's based on lsi 1068e but i'm currious if anyone knows for

Re: [zfs-discuss] Is it safe to disable the swap partition?

2010-05-08 Thread Richard Elling
On May 8, 2010, at 8:57 AM, Brandon High wrote: On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 11:59 AM, Karl Dalen k_d...@hotmail.com wrote: If I want to reduce the I/O accesses for example to SSD media on a laptop and I don't plan to run any big applications is it safe to delete the swap file ? When

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS loses configuration

2010-05-08 Thread R.G. Keen
I've run into something odd. I find that my EON setup loses all user ids and passwords when rebooted. It does import the zpool. Do I need to update the image every time I add users? -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing

Re: [zfs-discuss] Plugging in a hard drive after Solaris has booted up?

2010-05-08 Thread Ian Collins
On 05/ 9/10 06:54 AM, Giovanni Mazzeo wrote: giova...@server:~# cfgadm Ap_Id Type Receptacle Occupant Condition sata1/0disk connectedunconfigured unknown sata1/1::dsk/c8t1d0disk connected

Re: [zfs-discuss] Is it safe to disable the swap partition?

2010-05-08 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Karl Dalen If I want to reduce the I/O accesses for example to SSD media on a laptop and I don't plan to run any big applications is it safe to delete the swap file ? How do I configure

[zfs-discuss] Mirrored Servers

2010-05-08 Thread Tony
Lets say I have two servers, both running opensolaris with ZFS. I basically want to be able to create a filesystem where the two servers have a common volume, that is mirrored between the two. Meaning, each server keeps an identical, real time backup of the other's data directory. Set them both

Re: [zfs-discuss] Mirrored Servers

2010-05-08 Thread Ian Collins
On 05/ 9/10 10:07 AM, Tony wrote: Lets say I have two servers, both running opensolaris with ZFS. I basically want to be able to create a filesystem where the two servers have a common volume, that is mirrored between the two. Meaning, each server keeps an identical, real time backup of the

Re: [zfs-discuss] Is it safe to disable the swap partition?

2010-05-08 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Sat, 8 May 2010, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: A vast majority of the time, the opposite is true. Most of the time, having swap available increases performance. Because the kernel is able to choose: Should I swap out this idle process, or should I dump files out of cache? With swap enabled, the

Re: [zfs-discuss] Mirrored Servers

2010-05-08 Thread Richard Elling
On May 8, 2010, at 3:07 PM, Tony wrote: Lets say I have two servers, both running opensolaris with ZFS. I basically want to be able to create a filesystem where the two servers have a common volume, that is mirrored between the two. In ZFS, file systems live in pools. Only one node can have

Re: [zfs-discuss] Supermicro AOC-SAT2-MV8 -- cfgadm won't create attach point (dsk/xxxx)

2010-05-08 Thread Giovanni
Hi, Were you ever able to solve this problem on your AOC-SAT2-MV8 card? I am in need of purchasing it to add more drives to my server. Thanks Giovanni -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list

Re: [zfs-discuss] Mirrored Servers

2010-05-08 Thread Ben Rockwood
On 5/8/10 3:07 PM, Tony wrote: Lets say I have two servers, both running opensolaris with ZFS. I basically want to be able to create a filesystem where the two servers have a common volume, that is mirrored between the two. Meaning, each server keeps an identical, real time backup of the

Re: [zfs-discuss] Mirrored Servers

2010-05-08 Thread Tony
Ok, this is definitely the kind of feedback I was looking for. I'll have to check out the docs on these technologies it looks like. Appreciate it. I figured I would load balance the hosts with a Cisco device, since I can get around the IOS ok. I want to offer a online backup service that

Re: [zfs-discuss] Is it safe to disable the swap partition?

2010-05-08 Thread Brandon High
On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 9:41 AM, Richard Elling richard.ell...@gmail.com wrote: Remove the line from /etc/vfstab and reboot. No need to reboot.  Just edit the /etc/vfstab and use swap -d to remove the swap device. I tried that on a VBox instance and it failed to remove the swap. I guess only

[zfs-discuss] ZFS Hard disk buffer at 100%

2010-05-08 Thread Emily Grettel
Hi Giovani, Thanks for the reply. Here's a bit of iostat after uncompressing a 2.4Gb RAR file that has 1 DWF file that we use. extended device statistics r/sw/s kr/s kw/s wait actv wsvc_t asvc_t %w %b device 1.0 13.0 26.0 18.0 0.0 0.00.0