Re: [zfs-discuss] compressratio vs. dedupratio

2009-12-15 Thread Craig S. Bell
Mike, I believe that ZFS treats runs of zeros as holes in a sparse file, rather than as regular data. So they aren't really present to be counted for compressratio. http://blogs.sun.com/bonwick/entry/seek_hole_and_seek_data

Re: [zfs-discuss] compressratio vs. dedupratio

2009-12-14 Thread Craig S. Bell
I am also accustomed to seeing diluted properties such as compressratio. IMHO it could be useful (or perhaps just familiar) to see a diluted dedup ratio for the pool, or maybe see the size / percentage of data used to arrive at dedupratio. As Jeff points out, there is enough data available to

Re: [zfs-discuss] panic when rebooting from snapshot

2009-12-10 Thread Craig S. Bell
You may be interested in PSARC 2009/670: Read-Only Boot from ZFS Snapshot. Here's the description from: http://arc.opensolaris.org/caselog/PSARC/2009/670/20091208_joep.vesseur Allow for booting from a ZFS snapshot. The boot image will be read-only. Early in boot a clone of the root is

Re: [zfs-discuss] [Fwd: [zfs-auto-snapshot] Heads up: SUNWzfs-auto-snapshot obsoletion in snv 128]

2009-11-17 Thread Craig S. Bell
I don't have any problem with a rewrite, but please allow a non-GUI-dependent solution for headless servers. Also please add rsync as an option, rather than replacing zfs send/recv. Thanks. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___

Re: [zfs-discuss] ..and now ZFS send dedupe

2009-11-09 Thread Craig S. Bell
Roman, I like to check here for recent putbacks: http://hg.genunix.org/onnv-gate.hg/shortlog To see new cases: http://arc.opensolaris.org/caselog/PSARC/ Also, to see what should appear in upcoming builds (although not recently updated):

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS + fsck

2009-11-04 Thread Craig S. Bell
Joerg just posted a lengthy answer to the fsck question: http://www.c0t0d0s0.org/archives/6071-No,-ZFS-really-doesnt-need-a-fsck.html Good stuff. I see two answers to nobody complained about lying hardware before ZFS. One: The user has never tried another filesystem that tests for end-to-end

Re: [zfs-discuss] dedup question

2009-11-02 Thread Craig S. Bell
I just stumbled across a clever visual representation of deduplication: http://loveallthis.tumblr.com/post/166124704 It's a flowchart of the lyrics to Hey Jude. =-) Nothing is compressed, so you can still read all of the words. Instead, all of the duplicates have been folded together.

Re: [zfs-discuss] dedupe is in

2009-11-02 Thread Craig S. Bell
Great stuff, Jeff and company. You all rock. =-) A potential topic for the follow-up posts: auto-ditto, and the philosophy behind choosing a default threshold for creating a second copy. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] automate zpool scrub

2009-11-02 Thread Craig S. Bell
On a related note, it looks like Constantin is developing a nice SMF service for auto scrub: http://blogs.sun.com/constantin/entry/new_opensolaris_zfs_auto_scrub This is an adaptation of the well-tested auto snapshot service. Amongst other advantages, this approach means that you don't have

Re: [zfs-discuss] More Dedupe Questions...

2009-11-02 Thread Craig S. Bell
Tristan, there's another dedup system for zfs send in PSARC 2009/557. This can be used independently of whether the in-pool data was deduped. Case log: http://arc.opensolaris.org/caselog/PSARC/2009/557/ Discussion: http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=115082 So I believe your

[zfs-discuss] PSARC 2009/571: ZFS deduplication properties

2009-10-23 Thread Craig S. Bell
I haven't seen any mention of it in this forum yet, so FWIW you might be interested in the details of ZFS deduplication mentioned in this recently-filed case. Case log: http://arc.opensolaris.org/caselog/PSARC/2009/571/ Discussion: http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=115507

[zfs-discuss] Apple shuts down open source ZFS project

2009-10-23 Thread Craig S. Bell
Sad to hear that Apple is apparently going in another direction. http://www.macrumors.com/2009/10/23/apple-shuts-down-open-source-zfs-project/ -cheers, CSB -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list