Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS best practice for FreeBSD?

2012-10-12 Thread andy thomas
On Thu, 11 Oct 2012, Freddie Cash wrote: On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 2:47 PM, andy thomas a...@time-domain.co.uk wrote: According to a Sun document called something like 'ZFS best practice' I read some time ago, best practice was to use the entire disk for ZFS and not to partition or slice it in

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS best practice for FreeBSD?

2012-10-12 Thread andy thomas
On Thu, 11 Oct 2012, Richard Elling wrote: On Oct 11, 2012, at 2:58 PM, Phillip Wagstrom phillip.wagst...@gmail.com wrote: On Oct 11, 2012, at 4:47 PM, andy thomas wrote: According to a Sun document called something like 'ZFS best practice' I read some time ago, best practice was to use

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS best practice for FreeBSD?

2012-10-12 Thread Jim Klimov
2012-10-12 11:11, andy thomas wrote: Great, thanks for the explanation! I didn't realise you could have a sort of 'stacked pyramid' vdev/pool structure. Well, you can - the layers are pool - top-level VDEVs - leaf VDEVs, though on trivial pools like single-disk ones, the layers kinda merge

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS best practice for FreeBSD?

2012-10-12 Thread Peter Jeremy
On 2012-Oct-12 08:11:13 +0100, andy thomas a...@time-domain.co.uk wrote: This is apparently what had been done in this case: gpart add -b 34 -s 600 -t freebsd-swap da0 gpart add -b 634 -s 1947525101 -t freebsd-zfs da1 gpart show Assuming that you can be sure that

Re: [zfs-discuss] Building an On-Site and Off-Size ZFS server, replication question

2012-10-12 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (opensolarisisdeadlongliveopensolaris)
From: Richard Elling [mailto:richard.ell...@gmail.com] Pedantically, a pool can be made in a file, so it works the same... Pool can only be made in a file, by a system that is able to create a pool. Point is, his receiving system runs linux and doesn't have any zfs; his receiving system is

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS best practice for FreeBSD?

2012-10-12 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (opensolarisisdeadlongliveopensolaris)
From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of andy thomas According to a Sun document called something like 'ZFS best practice' I read some time ago, best practice was to use the entire disk for ZFS and not to partition or slice it in

Re: [zfs-discuss] Building an On-Site and Off-Size ZFS server, replication question

2012-10-12 Thread Jim Klimov
2012-10-12 16:50, Edward Ned Harvey (opensolarisisdeadlongliveopensolaris) пишет: So he's looking for a way to do a zfs receive on a linux system, transported over ssh. Suggested answers so far include building a VM on the receiving side, to run openindiana (or whatever) or using

Re: [zfs-discuss] Building an On-Site and Off-Size ZFS server, replication question

2012-10-12 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (opensolarisisdeadlongliveopensolaris)
Jim, I'm trying to contact you off-list, but it doesn't seem to be working. Can you please contact me off-list? ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS best practice for FreeBSD?

2012-10-12 Thread Freddie Cash
On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 3:28 AM, Jim Klimov jimkli...@cos.ru wrote: In fact, you can (although not recommended due to balancing reasons) have tlvdevs of mixed size (like in Freddie's example) and even of different structure (i.e. mixing raidz and mirrors or even single LUNs) by forcing the

Re: [zfs-discuss] Building an On-Site and Off-Size ZFS server, replication question

2012-10-12 Thread Richard Elling
On Oct 12, 2012, at 5:50 AM, Edward Ned Harvey (opensolarisisdeadlongliveopensolaris) opensolarisisdeadlongliveopensola...@nedharvey.com wrote: From: Richard Elling [mailto:richard.ell...@gmail.com] Pedantically, a pool can be made in a file, so it works the same... Pool can only be made

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS best practice for FreeBSD?

2012-10-12 Thread Ian Collins
On 10/13/12 02:12, Edward Ned Harvey (opensolarisisdeadlongliveopensolaris) wrote: There are at least a couple of solid reasons *in favor* of partitioning. #1 It seems common, at least to me, that I'll build a server with let's say, 12 disk slots, and we'll be using 2T disks or something like