Re: [zfs-discuss] Improving L1ARC cache efficiency with dedup

2011-12-11 Thread Nathan Kroenert
On 12/11/11 01:05 AM, Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote: On Wed, Dec 07, 2011 at 10:48:43PM +0200, Mertol Ozyoney wrote: Unfortunetly the answer is no. Neither l1 nor l2 cache is dedup aware. The only vendor i know that can do this is Netapp And you really work at Oracle?:) The answer is

Re: [zfs-discuss] Improving L1ARC cache efficiency with dedup

2011-12-11 Thread Jim Klimov
2011-12-11 15:10, Nathan Kroenert wrote: Hey all, That reminds me of something I have been wondering about... Why only 12x faster? If we are effectively reading from memory - as compared to a disk reading at approximately 100MB/s (which is about an average PC HDD reading sequentially), I'd

Re: [zfs-discuss] Improving L1ARC cache efficiency with dedup

2011-12-11 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Nathan Kroenert That reminds me of something I have been wondering about... Why only 12x faster? If we are effectively reading from memory - as compared to a disk reading at approximately

Re: [zfs-discuss] Improving L1ARC cache efficiency with dedup

2011-12-11 Thread Gary Driggs
What kind of drives are we talking about? Even SATA drives are available according to application type (desktop, enterprise server, home PVR, surveillance PVR, etc). Then there are drives with SAS fiber channel interfaces. Then you've got Winchester platters vs SSD vs hybrids. But even before

[zfs-discuss] zdb leaks checking

2011-12-11 Thread Andriy Gapon
Does zdb leak checking mechanism also check for the opposite situation? That is, used/referenced blocks being in free regions of space maps. Thank you. -- Andriy Gapon ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org

[zfs-discuss] does log device (ZIL) require a mirror setup?

2011-12-11 Thread Thomas Nau
Dear all We use a STEC ZeusRAM as a log device for a 200TB RAID-Z2 pool. As they are supposed to be read only after a crash or when booting and those nice things are pretty expensive I'm wondering if mirroring the log devices is a must / highly recommended Thomas

Re: [zfs-discuss] does log device (ZIL) require a mirror setup?

2011-12-11 Thread Matt Breitbach
I would say that it's a highly recommended. If you have a pool that needs to be imported and it has a faulted, unmirrored log device, you risk data corruption. -Matt Breitbach -Original Message- From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org] On

Re: [zfs-discuss] does log device (ZIL) require a mirror setup?

2011-12-11 Thread Frank Cusack
Corruption? Or just loss? On Sun, Dec 11, 2011 at 1:27 PM, Matt Breitbach matth...@flash.shanje.comwrote: I would say that it's a highly recommended. If you have a pool that needs to be imported and it has a faulted, unmirrored log device, you risk data corruption. -Matt Breitbach

Re: [zfs-discuss] does log device (ZIL) require a mirror setup?

2011-12-11 Thread Matt Breitbach
Loss of bits, but depending upon the usage of the system, corruption _could_ be a possibility. I could envision an scenario where you were mapping an iSCSI lun to a system, and that system had it's own FS on top of it (think VMFS or NTFS) and when it came back online, parts of the last write