Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS QoS and priorities

2012-12-05 Thread Jim Klimov
On 2012-12-05 04:11, Richard Elling wrote: On Nov 29, 2012, at 1:56 AM, Jim Klimov jimkli...@cos.ru mailto:jimkli...@cos.ru wrote: I've heard a claim that ZFS relies too much on RAM caching, but implements no sort of priorities (indeed, I've seen no knobs to tune those) - so that if the

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS QoS and priorities

2012-12-05 Thread Jim Klimov
On 2012-11-29 10:56, Jim Klimov wrote: For example, I might want to have corporate webshop-related databases and appservers to be the fastest storage citizens, then some corporate CRM and email, then various lower priority zones and VMs, and at the bottom of the list - backups. On a side note,

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS QoS and priorities

2012-12-05 Thread Matt Van Mater
I don't have anything significant to add to this conversation, but wanted to chime in that I also find the concept of a QOS-like capability very appealing and that Jim's recent emails resonate with me. You're not alone! I believe there are many use cases where a granular prioritization that

Re: [zfs-discuss] zvol access rights - chown zvol on reboot / startup / boot

2012-12-05 Thread Jim Klimov
On 2012-11-17 22:54, Edward Ned Harvey (opensolarisisdeadlongliveopensolaris) wrote: From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Edward Ned Harvey An easier event to trigger is the starting of the virtualbox guest. Upon vbox guest

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS QoS and priorities

2012-12-05 Thread Richard Elling
On Dec 5, 2012, at 5:41 AM, Jim Klimov jimkli...@cos.ru wrote: On 2012-12-05 04:11, Richard Elling wrote: On Nov 29, 2012, at 1:56 AM, Jim Klimov jimkli...@cos.ru mailto:jimkli...@cos.ru wrote: I've heard a claim that ZFS relies too much on RAM caching, but implements no sort of priorities

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS QoS and priorities

2012-12-05 Thread Richard Elling
On Dec 5, 2012, at 7:46 AM, Matt Van Mater matt.vanma...@gmail.com wrote: I don't have anything significant to add to this conversation, but wanted to chime in that I also find the concept of a QOS-like capability very appealing and that Jim's recent emails resonate with me. You're not

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS QoS and priorities

2012-12-05 Thread Richard Elling
bug fix below... On Dec 5, 2012, at 1:10 PM, Richard Elling richard.ell...@gmail.com wrote: On Dec 5, 2012, at 7:46 AM, Matt Van Mater matt.vanma...@gmail.com wrote: I don't have anything significant to add to this conversation, but wanted to chime in that I also find the concept of a

[zfs-discuss] VXFS to ZFS

2012-12-05 Thread Morris Hooten
Is there a documented way or suggestion on how to migrate data from VXFS to ZFS? Thanks Morris___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Digging in the bowels of ZFS

2012-12-05 Thread Timothy Coalson
On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 10:52 PM, Jim Klimov jimkli...@cos.ru wrote: On 2012-12-03 18:23, Jim Klimov wrote: On 2012-12-02 05:42, Jim Klimov wrote: 4) Where are the redundancy algorithms specified? Is there any simple tool that would recombine a given algo-N redundancy sector with

Re: [zfs-discuss] VXFS to ZFS

2012-12-05 Thread Cindy Swearingen
Hi Morris, I hope someone has done this recently and can comment, but the process is mostly manual and it will depend on how much gear you have. For example, if you have some extra disks, you can build a minimal ZFS storage pool to hold the bulk of your data. Then, you can do a live migration

Re: [zfs-discuss] VXFS to ZFS

2012-12-05 Thread Jim Klimov
On 2012-12-05 23:11, Morris Hooten wrote: Is there a documented way or suggestion on how to migrate data from VXFS to ZFS? Off the top of my head, I think this would go like any other migration - create the new pool on new disks and use rsync for simplicity (if your VxFS setup does not utilize

Re: [zfs-discuss] VXFS to ZFS

2012-12-05 Thread Fajar A. Nugraha
On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 5:11 AM, Morris Hooten mhoo...@us.ibm.com wrote: Is there a documented way or suggestion on how to migrate data from VXFS to ZFS? Not zfs-specific, but this should work for solaris: http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E23824_01/html/E24456/filesystem-3.html#filesystem-15 For

Re: [zfs-discuss] Digging in the bowels of ZFS

2012-12-05 Thread Jim Klimov
On 2012-12-05 05:52, Jim Klimov wrote: For undersized allocations, i.e. of compressed data, it is possible to see P-sizes not divisible by 4 (disks) in 4KB sectors, however, some sectors do apparently get wasted because the A-size in the DVA is divisible by 6*4KB. With columnar allocation of

Re: [zfs-discuss] Digging in the bowels of ZFS

2012-12-05 Thread Jim Klimov
more below... On 2012-12-05 23:16, Timothy Coalson wrote: On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 10:52 PM, Jim Klimov jimkli...@cos.ru mailto:jimkli...@cos.ru wrote: On 2012-12-03 18:23, Jim Klimov wrote: On 2012-12-02 05:42, Jim Klimov wrote: 4) Where are the redundancy algorithms