Re: [zfs-discuss] Remove disk

2012-12-06 Thread Albert Shih
Le 01/12/2012 ? 08:33:31-0700, Jan Owoc a ?crit Hi, Sorry, I'm very busy those past few days. http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/removeadisk.html The commands described on that page do not have direct equivalents in zfs. There is currently no way to reduce the number of top-level

Re: [zfs-discuss] Remove disk

2012-12-06 Thread Jim Klimov
On 2012-12-06 09:35, Albert Shih wrote: 1) add a 5th top-level vdev (eg. another set of 12 disks) That's not a problem. That IS a problem if you're going to ultimately remove an enclosure - once added, you won't be able to remove the extra top-level VDEV from your ZFS pool. 2) replace the

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS QoS and priorities

2012-12-06 Thread Matt Van Mater
At present, I do not see async write QoS as being interesting. That leaves sync writes and reads as the managed I/O. Unfortunately, with HDDs, the variance in response time queue management time, so the results are less useful than the case with SSDs. Control theory works, once again.

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS QoS and priorities

2012-12-06 Thread Matt Van Mater
I'm unclear on the best way to warm data... do you mean to simply `dd if=/volumes/myvol/data of=/dev/null`? I have always been under the impression that ARC/L2ARC has rate limiting how much data can be added to the cache per interval (i can't remember the interval). Is this not the case?

Re: [zfs-discuss] Remove disk

2012-12-06 Thread Freddie Cash
On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 12:35 AM, Albert Shih albert.s...@obspm.fr wrote: Le 01/12/2012 ? 08:33:31-0700, Jan Owoc a ?crit 2) replace the disks with larger ones one-by-one, waiting for a resilver in between This is the point I don't see how to do it. I've 48 disk actually from /dev/da0 -

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS QoS and priorities

2012-12-06 Thread Richard Elling
On Dec 6, 2012, at 5:30 AM, Matt Van Mater matt.vanma...@gmail.com wrote: I'm unclear on the best way to warm data... do you mean to simply `dd if=/volumes/myvol/data of=/dev/null`? I have always been under the impression that ARC/L2ARC has rate limiting how much data can be added to