Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Appliance as a general-purpose server question

2012-11-26 Thread Erik Trimble
On 11/26/2012 12:54 PM, Grégory Giannoni wrote: [snip] I switched few month ago from Sun X45x0 to HP things : My fast NAS are now DL 180 G6. I got better perfs using LSI 9240-8I rather than HP SmartArray (tried P410 P812). I'm using only 600Gb SSD drives. That LSI controllers supports SATA

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Appliance as a general-purpose server question

2012-11-24 Thread Erik Trimble
On 11/24/2012 5:17 AM, Edmund White wrote: Heh, I wouldn't be using G5's for ZFS purposes now. G6 and better ProLiants are a better deal for RAM capacity and CPU core countŠ Either way, I also use HP systems as the basis for my ZFS/Nexenta storage systems. Typically DL380's, since I have

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Appliance as a general-purpose server question

2012-11-23 Thread Erik Trimble
On 11/23/2012 5:50 AM, Edward Ned Harvey (opensolarisisdeadlongliveopensolaris) wrote: From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Jim Klimov I wonder if it would make weird sense to get the boxes, forfeit the cool-looking Fishworks,

Re: [zfs-discuss] FC HBA for openindiana

2012-10-21 Thread Erik Trimble
Do make sure you're getting one that has the proper firmware. Those with BIOS don't work in SPARC boxes, and those with OpenBoot don't work in x64 stuff. A quick Sun FC HBA search on ebay turns up a whole list of stuff that's official Sun HBAs, which will give you an idea of the (max)

Re: [zfs-discuss] what have you been buying for slog and l2arc?

2012-08-06 Thread Erik Trimble
On 8/6/2012 2:53 PM, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: On Mon, 6 Aug 2012, Stefan Ring wrote: Intel's brief also clears up a prior controversy of what types of data are actually cached, per the brief it's both user and system data! So you're saying that SSDs don't generally flush data to stable medium

Re: [zfs-discuss] IOzone benchmarking

2012-05-05 Thread Erik Trimble
On 5/5/2012 8:04 AM, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: On Fri, 4 May 2012, Erik Trimble wrote: predictable, and the backing store is still only giving 1 disk's IOPS. The RAIDZ* may, however, give you significantly more throughput (in MB/s) than a single disk if you do a lot of sequential read or write

Re: [zfs-discuss] IOzone benchmarking

2012-05-04 Thread Erik Trimble
On 5/4/2012 1:24 PM, Peter Tribble wrote: On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 3:35 PM, Edward Ned Harvey opensolarisisdeadlongliveopensola...@nedharvey.com wrote: I think you'll get better, both performance reliability, if you break each of those 15-disk raidz3's into three 5-disk raidz1's. Here's why:

Re: [zfs-discuss] Good tower server for around 1,250 USD?

2012-03-30 Thread Erik Trimble
On 3/24/2012 4:54 PM, The Honorable Senator and Mrs. John Blutarsky wrote: laotsu said: well check this link https://shop.oracle.com/pls/ostore/product?p1=3DSunFireX4270M2serverp2=3Dp= 3=3Dp4=3Dsc=3Docom_x86_SunFireX4270M2servertz=3D-4:00 you may not like the price Hahahah! Thanks for the

Re: [zfs-discuss] 2.5 to 3.5 bracket for SSD

2012-01-14 Thread Erik Trimble
On 1/14/2012 8:15 AM, Anil Jangity wrote: I have a couple of Sun/Oracle x2270 boxes and am planning to get some 2.5 intel 320 SSD for the rpool. Do you happen to know what kind of bracket is required to get the 2.5 SSD to fit into the 3.5 slots? Thanks Anything that looks like this:

Re: [zfs-discuss] Stress test zfs

2012-01-04 Thread Erik Trimble
On 1/4/2012 2:59 PM, grant lowe wrote: Hi all, I've got a solaris 10 running 9/10 on a T3. It's an oracle box with 128GB memory RIght now oracle . I've been trying to load test the box with bonnie++. I can seem to get 80 to 90 K writes, but can't seem to get more than a couple K for writes.

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

2011-12-12 Thread Erik Trimble
On 12/12/2011 12:23 PM, Richard Elling wrote: On Dec 11, 2011, at 2:59 PM, Mertol Ozyoney wrote: Not exactly. What is dedup'ed is the stream only, which is infect not very efficient. Real dedup aware replication is taking the necessary steps to avoid sending a block that exists on the other

Re: [zfs-discuss] questions about the DDT and other things

2011-12-01 Thread Erik Trimble
On 12/1/2011 4:59 PM, Ragnar Sundblad wrote: I am sorry if these are dumb questions. If there are explanations available somewhere for those questions that I just haven't found, please let me know! :-) 1. It has been said that when the DDT entries, some 376 bytes or so, are rolled out on L2ARC,

Re: [zfs-discuss] questions about the DDT and other things

2011-12-01 Thread Erik Trimble
On 12/1/2011 6:44 PM, Ragnar Sundblad wrote: Thanks for your answers! On 2 dec 2011, at 02:54, Erik Trimble wrote: On 12/1/2011 4:59 PM, Ragnar Sundblad wrote: I am sorry if these are dumb questions. If there are explanations available somewhere for those questions that I just haven't found

Re: [zfs-discuss] Poor relative performance of SAS over SATA drives

2011-10-27 Thread Erik Trimble
It occurs to me that your filesystems may not be in the same state. That is, destroy both pools. Recreate them, and run the tests. This will eliminate any possibility of allocation issues. -Erik On 10/27/2011 10:37 AM, weiliam.hong wrote: Hi, Thanks for the replies. In the beginning, I

Re: [zfs-discuss] Thumper (X4500), and CF SSD for L2ARC = ?

2011-10-14 Thread Erik Trimble
On 10/14/2011 5:49 AM, Darren J Moffat wrote: On 10/14/11 13:39, Jim Klimov wrote: Hello, I was asked if the CF port in Thumpers can be accessed by the OS? In particular, would it be a good idea to use a modern 600x CF card (some reliable one intended for professional photography) as an L2ARC

Re: [zfs-discuss] All (pure) SSD pool rehash

2011-09-27 Thread Erik Trimble
On 9/27/2011 10:39 AM, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: On Tue, 27 Sep 2011, Matt Banks wrote: Also, maybe I read it wrong, but why is it that (in the previous thread about hw raid and zpools) zpools with large numbers of physical drives (eg 20+) were frowned upon? I know that ZFS!=WAFL There is no

Re: [zfs-discuss] NexentaCore 3.1 - ZFS V. 28

2011-07-31 Thread Erik Trimble
writes. Yes. You can attach a ZIL or L2ARC device anytime after the pool is created. Also, I think you want an Intel 320, NOT the 311, for use as a ZIL. The 320 includes capacitors, so if you lose power, your ZIL doesn't lose data. The 311 DOESN'T include capacitors. -- Erik Trimble Java

Re: [zfs-discuss] SSD vs hybrid drive - any advice?

2011-07-25 Thread Erik Trimble
. Honestly, I think TRIM isn't really useful for anyone. It took too long to get pushed out to the OSes, and the SSD vendors seem to have just compensated by making a smarter controller able to do better reallocation. Which, to me, is the better ideal, in any case. -- Erik Trimble Java

Re: [zfs-discuss] SSD vs hybrid drive - any advice?

2011-07-25 Thread Erik Trimble
On 7/25/2011 6:43 AM, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Erik Trimble Honestly, I think TRIM isn't really useful for anyone. I'm going to have to disagree. There are only two times when TRIM isn't

Re: [zfs-discuss] SSD vs hybrid drive - any advice?

2011-07-25 Thread Erik Trimble
On 7/25/2011 4:28 AM, Tomas Ögren wrote: On 25 July, 2011 - Erik Trimble sent me these 2,0K bytes: On 7/25/2011 3:32 AM, Orvar Korvar wrote: How long have you been using a SSD? Do you see any performance decrease? I mean, ZFS does not support TRIM, so I wonder about long term effects

Re: [zfs-discuss] SSD vs hybrid drive - any advice?

2011-07-25 Thread Erik Trimble
noticeable impact - the SSD is constantly being used, and has no time for GC. It's stuck in the read-erase-modify-write cycle even with TRIM. -- Erik Trimble Java Platform Group Infrastructure Mailstop: usca22-317 Phone: x67195 Santa Clara, CA Timezone: US/Pacific (UTC-0800

Re: [zfs-discuss] SSD vs hybrid drive - any advice?

2011-07-25 Thread Erik Trimble
framework - not sure about the SAS framework) -- Erik Trimble Java Platform Group Infrastructure Mailstop: usca22-317 Phone: x67195 Santa Clara, CA Timezone: US/Pacific (UTC-0800) ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http

Re: [zfs-discuss] Pure SSD Pool

2011-07-12 Thread Erik Trimble
://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss -- Erik Trimble Java Platform Group - Infrastructure Mailstop: usca22-317 Phone: x67195 Santa Clara, CA Timezone: US/Pacific (UTC-0800) ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http

Re: [zfs-discuss] Move rpool from external hd to internal hd

2011-06-29 Thread Erik Trimble
drive is c1t0d0, you'll have to use c1t0d0s0. -- Erik Trimble Java Platform Group Infrastructure Mailstop: usca22-317 Phone: x17195 Santa Clara, CA Timezone: US/Pacific (UTC-0800) ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http

Re: [zfs-discuss] Encryption accelerator card recommendations.

2011-06-27 Thread Erik Trimble
. That way, most of this could be done in hardware seamlessly. -- Erik Trimble Java System Support Mailstop: usca22-123 Phone: x17195 Santa Clara, CA Timezone: US/Pacific (GMT-0800) ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http

Re: [zfs-discuss] Encryption accelerator card recommendations.

2011-06-27 Thread Erik Trimble
On 6/27/2011 1:13 PM, David Magda wrote: On Mon, June 27, 2011 15:24, Erik Trimble wrote: [...] I'm always kind of surprised that there hasn't been a movement to create standardized crypto commands, like the various FP-specific commands that are part of MMX/SSE/etc. That way, most

Re: [zfs-discuss] # disks per vdev

2011-06-17 Thread Erik Trimble
in ascending order by ATA ID, SCSI ID, SAS WWN, or FC WWN. The naming rules can get a bit complex. -- Erik Trimble Java Platform Group Infrastructure Mailstop: usca22-317 Phone: x17195 Santa Clara, CA Timezone: US/Pacific (UTC-0800) ___ zfs-discuss mailing

Re: [zfs-discuss] # disks per vdev

2011-06-17 Thread Erik Trimble
large shops with thousands of spindles handle this. We pay for the brand-name disk enclosures or servers where the fault-management stuff is supported by Solaris. Including the blinky lights. grin -- Erik Trimble Java Platform Group Infrastructure Mailstop: usca22-317 Phone: x17195 Santa Clara

Re: [zfs-discuss] question about COW and snapshots

2011-06-16 Thread Erik Trimble
On 6/16/2011 12:09 AM, Simon Walter wrote: On 06/16/2011 09:09 AM, Erik Trimble wrote: We had a similar discussion a couple of years ago here, under the title A Versioning FS. Look through the archives for the full discussion. The jist is that application-level versioning (and consistency

Re: [zfs-discuss] question about COW and snapshots

2011-06-16 Thread Erik Trimble
*think* there is a better way to get to the file history/version information now. -- Erik Trimble Java Platform Group Infrastructure Mailstop: usca22-317 Phone: x17195 Santa Clara, CA Timezone: US/Pacific (UTC-0800) ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs

Re: [zfs-discuss] question about COW and snapshots

2011-06-15 Thread Erik Trimble
different creatures. -- Erik Trimble Java System Support Mailstop: usca22-123 Phone: x17195 Santa Clara, CA Timezone: US/Pacific (GMT-0800) ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS for Linux?

2011-06-14 Thread Erik Trimble
Nehalem and later CPUs have this feature, and I'm pretty sure all AMD MangyCours and later CPUs do also. Without V-IO, doing anything that pounds on a disk under *any* Virtualization product is sure to make you cry. -- Erik Trimble Java Platform Group Infrastructure Mailstop: usca22-317 Phone

Re: [zfs-discuss] optimal layout for 8x 1 TByte SATA (consumer)

2011-06-13 Thread Erik Trimble
generally say that 2x6raidz2 vdevs would be better than either 1x12raidz3 or 4x3raidz1 (or 3x4raidz1, for a home server not looking for super-critical protection (in which case, you should be using mirrors with spares, not raidz*). -- Erik Trimble Java System Support Mailstop: usca22-123 Phone

Re: [zfs-discuss] SATA disk perf question

2011-06-02 Thread Erik Trimble
On 6/2/2011 5:12 PM, Jens Elkner wrote: On Wed, Jun 01, 2011 at 06:17:08PM -0700, Erik Trimble wrote: On Wed, 2011-06-01 at 12:54 -0400, Paul Kraus wrote: Here's how you calculate (average) how long a random IOPs takes: seek time + ((60 / RPMs) / 2))] A truly sequential IOPs is: (60 / RPMs

Re: [zfs-discuss] Compatibility between Sun-Oracle Fishworks appliance zfs and other zfs implementations

2011-06-01 Thread Erik Trimble
version number advances. Solaris 11 is due out RSN, which means probably sometime before the end of the calendar year. But who knows, and Oracle hasn't officially announced a launch date for S11. -- Erik Trimble Java System Support Mailstop: usca22-317 Phone: x67195 Santa Clara, CA Timezone

Re: [zfs-discuss] SATA disk perf question

2011-06-01 Thread Erik Trimble
from something like 'iostat', which is measuring not the *actual* writes to physical disk, but the *requested* write operations. -- Erik Trimble Java System Support Mailstop: usca22-317 Phone: x67195 Santa Clara, CA Timezone: US/Pacific (GMT-0800

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS, Oracle and Nexenta

2011-05-25 Thread Erik Trimble
import the pool and use the features your current OS supports, but that's pretty darned dicey, and I'd be very happy if importing worked when both systems supported the same featureset. -- Erik Trimble Java System Support Mailstop: usca22-123 Phone: x17195 Santa Clara, CA Timezone: US/Pacific

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS, Oracle and Nexenta

2011-05-24 Thread Erik Trimble
. It *could* have patent issues from NetApp. The possible impact of that is beyond my knowledge. IANAL. Nor do I speak for Oracle in any manner, official or unofficial. -- Erik Trimble Java System Support Mailstop: usca22-123 Phone: x17195 Santa Clara, CA Timezone: US/Pacific (GMT-0800

Re: [zfs-discuss] Summary: Dedup and L2ARC memory requirements

2011-05-07 Thread Erik Trimble
]; do j = $[10 + ( 1 * 1)] ./run_your_script j sync sleep 10 i = $[$i+1] done -- Erik Trimble Java System Support Mailstop: usca22-123 Phone: x17195 Santa Clara, CA

Re: [zfs-discuss] Summary: Dedup and L2ARC memory requirements

2011-05-06 Thread Erik Trimble
I/O. Such deletion should take milliseconds to a minute or so. -- Erik Trimble Java System Support Mailstop: usca22-123 Phone: x17195 Santa Clara, CA ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman

Re: [zfs-discuss] Summary: Dedup and L2ARC memory requirements

2011-05-06 Thread Erik Trimble
of 6.001 problem sets, written by Prof Sussman sometime in the 1980s. (yes, I went to MIT.) -- Erik Trimble Java System Support Mailstop: usca22-123 Phone: x17195 Santa Clara, CA ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http

Re: [zfs-discuss] Deduplication Memory Requirements

2011-05-04 Thread Erik Trimble
). Frankly, at this point, I'd almost change the design to REQUIRE a L2ARC device in order to turn on Dedup. -- Erik Trimble Java System Support Mailstop: usca22-123 Phone: x17195 Santa Clara, CA ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Deduplication Memory Requirements

2011-05-04 Thread Erik Trimble
On 5/4/2011 2:54 PM, Ray Van Dolson wrote: On Wed, May 04, 2011 at 12:29:06PM -0700, Erik Trimble wrote: (2) Block size: a 4k block size will yield better dedup than a 128k block size, presuming reasonable data turnover. This is inherent, as any single bit change in a block will make it non

Re: [zfs-discuss] Deduplication Memory Requirements

2011-05-04 Thread Erik Trimble
configs out to a total of maybe 100 clients, and probably never exceed 100GB max on the deduped end. Which means that I'll be able to get away with 16GB of RAM for the whole server, comfortably. -- Erik Trimble Java System Support Mailstop: usca22-123 Phone: x17195 Santa Clara, CA

Re: [zfs-discuss] Deduplication Memory Requirements

2011-05-04 Thread Erik Trimble
On 5/4/2011 4:17 PM, Ray Van Dolson wrote: On Wed, May 04, 2011 at 03:49:12PM -0700, Erik Trimble wrote: On 5/4/2011 2:54 PM, Ray Van Dolson wrote: On Wed, May 04, 2011 at 12:29:06PM -0700, Erik Trimble wrote: (2) Block size: a 4k block size will yield better dedup than a 128k block size

Re: [zfs-discuss] Deduplication Memory Requirements

2011-05-04 Thread Erik Trimble
On 5/4/2011 4:44 PM, Tim Cook wrote: On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 6:36 PM, Erik Trimble erik.trim...@oracle.com mailto:erik.trim...@oracle.com wrote: On 5/4/2011 4:14 PM, Ray Van Dolson wrote: On Wed, May 04, 2011 at 02:55:55PM -0700, Brandon High wrote: On Wed, May 4

Re: [zfs-discuss] Deduplication Memory Requirements

2011-05-04 Thread Erik Trimble
to avoid is having the OS image written to, and waiting for any other configuration and customization to happen AFTER it was placed on the ZFS server is sub-optimal. -- Erik Trimble Java System Support Mailstop: usca22-123 Phone: x17195 Santa Clara, CA

Re: [zfs-discuss] Summary: Dedup and L2ARC memory requirements

2011-05-04 Thread Erik Trimble
have 19GB of RAM in your system, with 16GB being a likely reasonable amount under most conditions (e.g. typical dedup ARC size is going to be ~3.5G, not the 7G maximum used above). -- Erik Trimble Java System Support Mailstop: usca22-123 Phone: x17195 Santa Clara, CA

Re: [zfs-discuss] Faster copy from UFS to ZFS

2011-05-03 Thread Erik Trimble
star). That said, rsync is really the only solution if you have a partial or interrupted copy. It's also really the best method to do verification. -- Erik Trimble Java System Support Mailstop: usca22-123 Phone: x17195 Santa Clara, CA ___ zfs

Re: [zfs-discuss] Dedup and L2ARC memory requirements (again)

2011-04-29 Thread Erik Trimble
just a lowly Java Platform Group dude. Solaris ain't my silo. -- Erik Trimble Java System Support Mailstop: usca22-123 Phone: x17195 Santa Clara, CA ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: [zfs-discuss] Dedup and L2ARC memory requirements (again)

2011-04-28 Thread Erik Trimble
as a test and does all the above calculations, to see how dedup would work on a given dataset. 'zdb -S' sorta, kinda does that, but... -- Erik Trimble Java System Support Mailstop: usca22-317 Phone: x67195 Santa Clara, CA Timezone: US/Pacific (GMT-0800

Re: [zfs-discuss] Dedup and L2ARC memory requirements (again)

2011-04-28 Thread Erik Trimble
/kmem.c#920 Ugg. I hadn't even thought of memory alignment/allocation issues. Pizza: Mushroom and anchovy - er, just kidding. Neil. And, let me say: Yuck! What is that, an ISO-standard pizza? Disgusting. ANSI-standard pizza, all the way! (pepperoni mushrooms) -- Erik Trimble Java System

Re: [zfs-discuss] Dedup and L2ARC memory requirements (again)

2011-04-28 Thread Erik Trimble
a checksum algorithm specific to dedup (i.e. there's no way to override the default for dedup). -- Erik Trimble Java System Support Mailstop: usca22-317 Phone: x67195 Santa Clara, CA Timezone: US/Pacific (GMT-0800) ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs

Re: [zfs-discuss] Finding where dedup'd files are

2011-04-28 Thread Erik Trimble
to generate a list of files from that list of blocks. -- Erik Trimble Java System Support Mailstop: usca22-317 Phone: x67195 Santa Clara, CA Timezone: US/Pacific (GMT-0800) ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org

Re: [zfs-discuss] How does ZFS dedup space accounting work with quota?

2011-04-26 Thread Erik Trimble
On 4/26/2011 3:59 AM, Fred Liu wrote: -Original Message- From: Erik Trimble [mailto:erik.trim...@oracle.com] Sent: 星期二, 四月 26, 2011 12:47 To: Ian Collins Cc: Fred Liu; ZFS discuss Subject: Re: [zfs-discuss] How does ZFS dedup space accounting work with quota? On 4/25/2011 6:23 PM

Re: [zfs-discuss] How does ZFS dedup space accounting work with quota?

2011-04-26 Thread Erik Trimble
On 4/26/2011 9:29 AM, Fred Liu wrote: From: Erik Trimble [mailto:erik.trim...@oracle.com] It is true, quota is in charge of logical data not physical data. Let's assume an interesting scenario -- say the pool is 100% full in logical data (such as 'df' tells you 100% used) but not full

Re: [zfs-discuss] Dedup and L2ARC memory requirements (again)

2011-04-25 Thread Erik Trimble
) at least a 14G L2ARC device for dedup + 10G more of RAM for the DDT L2ARC requirements + 1GB of RAM for every 20GB of additional space in the L2ARC cache beyond that used by the DDT. -- Erik Trimble Java System Support Mailstop: usca22-123 Phone: x17195 Santa Clara, CA

Re: [zfs-discuss] How does ZFS dedup space accounting work with quota?

2011-04-25 Thread Erik Trimble
consumption of 70 (50+20 deduped) + 30+30+80+100 (unique data) = 310MB to actual storage, for 400MB of apparent storage (i.e. dedup ratio of 1.29:1 ) A, B, C, D would each still have a quota usage of 100MB. -- Erik Trimble Java System Support Mailstop: usca22-123 Phone: x17195 Santa Clara

Re: [zfs-discuss] X4540 no next-gen product?

2011-04-08 Thread Erik Trimble
/unified-storage/index.html -- Erik Trimble Java System Support Mailstop: usca22-123 Phone: x17195 Santa Clara, CA ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] X4540 no next-gen product?

2011-04-08 Thread Erik Trimble
On 4/8/2011 12:37 AM, Ian Collins wrote: On 04/ 8/11 06:30 PM, Erik Trimble wrote: On 4/7/2011 10:25 AM, Chris Banal wrote: While I understand everything at Oracle is top secret these days. Does anyone have any insight into a next-gen X4500 / X4540? Does some other Oracle / Sun partner make

Re: [zfs-discuss] X4540 no next-gen product?

2011-04-08 Thread Erik Trimble
://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss -- Erik Trimble Java System Support Mailstop: usca22-123 Phone: x17195 Santa Clara, CA

Re: [zfs-discuss] X4540 no next-gen product?

2011-04-08 Thread Erik Trimble
SATA model with (2) 6-core Westmeres + 16GB RAM. -- Erik Trimble Java System Support Mailstop: usca22-123 Phone: x17195 Santa Clara, CA ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] X4540 no next-gen product?

2011-04-08 Thread Erik Trimble
justification wry smile I want my J4000's back, too. And, I still want something like HP's MSA 70 (25 x 2.5 drive JBOD in a 2U formfactor) -- Erik Trimble Java System Support Mailstop: usca22-123 Phone: x17195 Santa Clara, CA Timezone: US/Pacific (GMT-0800

Re: [zfs-discuss] Best practice for boot partition layout in ZFS

2011-04-06 Thread Erik Trimble
idea is for certain test machines, where you expect frequent memory dumps (in /var/crash) - if you have a large amount of RAM, you'll need a lot of disk space, so it might be good to limit /var in this case by making it a separate dataset. -- Erik Trimble Java System Support Mailstop: usca22

Re: [zfs-discuss] best migration path from Solaris 10

2011-03-23 Thread Erik Trimble
... It's here that I think Solaris' strengths can beat its competitors, and where its weaknesses aren't significant. Sadly, I think Solaris' future as a general-purpose OS is likely finished. Of course, that's just my reading of the tea leaves... -- Erik Trimble Java System Support Mailstop: usca22

Re: [zfs-discuss] A resilver record?

2011-03-21 Thread Erik Trimble
it, of course, it up to the end-user. -- Erik Trimble Java System Support Mailstop: usca22-123 Phone: x17195 Santa Clara, CA ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] A resilver record?

2011-03-20 Thread Erik Trimble
-discuss/2010-September/thread.html#44633 I think this message by Erik Trimble is a good summary: hmmm... I must've missed that one, otherwise I would have said... Scenario 1:I have 5 1TB disks in a raidz1, and I assume I have 128k slab sizes. Thus, I have 32k of data for each slab written

Re: [zfs-discuss] sorry everyone was: Re: External SATA drive enclosures + ZFS?

2011-02-25 Thread Erik Trimble
. ___ Nah, probably just a Beehive (our mail system) burp. Happens a lot. Besides, it's 8:45 PST here, and I'm still at work. :-) -- Erik Trimble Java System Support Mailstop: usca22-317 Phone: x67195 Santa Clara, CA Timezone: US/Pacific (GMT-0800

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS send/recv initial data load

2011-02-16 Thread Erik Trimble
you carry the drive over there later. As Richard mentioned, that snapshot is unique, and it doesn't matter that you recovered it onto an external drive first, then copied that snapshot over to the backup machine. It's a frozen snapshot, so you're all good for future incrementals. -- Erik

Re: [zfs-discuss] One LUN per RAID group

2011-02-15 Thread Erik Trimble
On 2/15/2011 1:37 PM, Torrey McMahon wrote: On 2/14/2011 10:37 PM, Erik Trimble wrote: That said, given that SAN NVRAM caches are true write caches (and not a ZIL-like thing), it should be relatively simple to swamp one with write requests (most SANs have little more than 1GB of cache

Re: [zfs-discuss] One LUN per RAID group

2011-02-14 Thread Erik Trimble
several seconds) isn't large, but where latency is critical. For larger I/O requests (or, for consistent, sustained I/O of more than small amounts), all bets are off as far as possibly advantage of multiple LUNS/array. -- Erik Trimble Java System Support Mailstop: usca22-123 Phone: x17195

Re: [zfs-discuss] Sil3124 Sata controller for ZFS on Sparc OpenSolaris Nevada b130

2011-02-08 Thread Erik Trimble
. -- Erik Trimble Java System Support Mailstop: usca22-123 Phone: x17195 Santa Clara, CA ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] CPU Limited on Checksums?

2011-02-08 Thread Erik Trimble
(and, there a reports it does occasionally), you'll need to boot without the /etc/system, append the '-a' flag to the end of the GRUB menu entry that you boot from. This will push you into an interactive boot, where, when it asks you for a /etc/system to use, specify /dev/null. -- Erik Trimble Java

Re: [zfs-discuss] deduplication requirements

2011-02-07 Thread Erik Trimble
still very unlikely to hit a CPU bottleneck before RAM starvation or disk wait occurs. -- Erik Trimble Java System Support Mailstop: usca22-123 Phone: x17195 Santa Clara, CA ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http

Re: [zfs-discuss] deduplication requirements

2011-02-07 Thread Erik Trimble
still very unlikely to hit a CPU bottleneck before RAM starvation or disk wait occurs. -- Erik Trimble Java System Support Mailstop: usca22-123 Phone: x17195 Santa Clara, CA ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http

Re: [zfs-discuss] Understanding directio, O_DSYNC and zfs_nocacheflush on ZFS

2011-02-07 Thread Erik Trimble
in the above: develop your app, using it on UFS w/directio to work out the application issues and tune. When you deploy it, use ZFS and its caching techniques to get maximum (though not absolutely consistently measurable) performance for the already-tuned app. -- Erik Trimble Java System Support

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS and TRIM - No need for TRIM

2011-02-06 Thread Erik Trimble
can't imagine it would require any reformating or reinstalling. -- Erik Trimble Java System Support Mailstop: usca22-123 Phone: x17195 Santa Clara, CA ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS and TRIM - No need for TRIM

2011-02-06 Thread Erik Trimble
can't imagine it would require any reformating or reinstalling. -- Erik Trimble Java System Support Mailstop: usca22-123 Phone: x17195 Santa Clara, CA ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS and TRIM - No need for TRIM

2011-02-05 Thread Erik Trimble
VLSI Engineer to do the design. wink -- Erik Trimble Java System Support Mailstop: usca22-123 Phone: x17195 Santa Clara, CA ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS and TRIM

2011-02-04 Thread Erik Trimble
properly usable. -- Erik Trimble Java System Support Mailstop: usca22-123 Phone: x17195 Santa Clara, CA ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Dedup question

2011-01-29 Thread Erik Trimble
got the same 3k of data in both files. -- Erik Trimble Java System Support Mailstop: usca22-123 Phone: x17195 Santa Clara, CA ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS not usable (was ZFS Dedup question)

2011-01-29 Thread Erik Trimble
). And, I doubt 8GB for ARC is sufficient, either, for a DDT consuming over 100GB of space. -- Erik Trimble Java System Support Mailstop: usca22-123 Phone: x17195 Santa Clara, CA ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http

Re: [zfs-discuss] Shrinking a pool, Increasing hotspares

2011-01-24 Thread Erik Trimble
of what type of vdev it is composed of. -- Erik Trimble Java System Support Mailstop: usca22-317 Phone: x67195 Santa Clara, CA Timezone: US/Pacific (GMT-0800) ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman

Re: [zfs-discuss] Is my bottleneck RAM?

2011-01-18 Thread Erik Trimble
a bare minimum of 4GB of RAM (8GB for anything other than light use), even with Dedup turned off. -- Erik Trimble Java System Support Mailstop: usca22-317 Phone: x67195 Santa Clara, CA Timezone: US/Pacific (GMT-0800) ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs

Re: [zfs-discuss] Is my bottleneck RAM?

2011-01-18 Thread Erik Trimble
on Dedup, you need at least 8GB of RAM to go with the SSD. -Erik On Tue, 2011-01-18 at 18:35 +, Michael Armstrong wrote: Thanks everyone, I think overtime I'm gonna update the system to include an ssd for sure. Memory may come later though. Thanks for everyone's responses Erik Trimble

Re: [zfs-discuss] How well does zfs mirror handle temporary disk offlines?

2011-01-18 Thread Erik Trimble
side of the mirror has against what the bad side has, and only copies the differences over to sync them up. This is one of ZFS's great strengths, in that most other RAID systems can't do this. -- Erik Trimble Java System Support Mailstop: usca22-317 Phone: x67195 Santa Clara, CA Timezone: US

Re: [zfs-discuss] How well does zfs mirror handle temporary disk offlines?

2011-01-18 Thread Erik Trimble
. It will always look at the replaced drive to see if it was a prior member of the mirror, and do smart resilvering if possible. If the device path stays the same (which, hopefully, it should), you can even do: zpool replace (old device) (old device) -- Erik Trimble Java System Support Mailstop: usca22

Re: [zfs-discuss] A few questions

2011-01-03 Thread Erik Trimble
else's implementation than have to do it myself from scratch. I'd prefer a private contact, as I realize that such work may not be ready for public discussion yet. Thanks, folks! Oh, and this is completely just me, not Oracle talking in any way. -- Erik Trimble Java System Support Mailstop

Re: [zfs-discuss] SAS/short stroking vs. SSDs for ZIL

2010-12-29 Thread Erik Trimble
plug directly into a standard 3.5 SAS/SATA hotswap bay... And, of course, the ANS9010 is limited to the SATA2 interface speed, so it is cheaper and lower-performing (but still better than an SSD) than the DDRdrive. -- Erik Trimble Java System Support Mailstop: usca22-123 Phone: x17195 Santa

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS ... open source moving forward?

2010-12-25 Thread Erik Trimble
basis for a lawsuit doesn't prevent one from being dragged through the (U.S.) courts for the better part of a decade. sigh Why can't we have a loser-pays civil system like every other civilized country? -- Erik Trimble Java System Support Mailstop: usca22-123 Phone: x17195 Santa Clara, CA

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS ... open source moving forward?

2010-12-25 Thread Erik Trimble
at 7th-grade level, so I might have missed some subtleties...) [As obvious as it is, it should be pointed out, I'm making these statements as a very personal opinion, and I'm certain Oracle wouldn't have the same one. I in no way represent Oracle.] -- Erik Trimble Java System Support Mailstop

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS ... open source moving forward?

2010-12-25 Thread Erik Trimble
On 12/25/2010 11:19 AM, Tim Cook wrote: On Sat, Dec 25, 2010 at 1:10 PM, Erik Trimble erik.trim...@oracle.com mailto:erik.trim...@oracle.com wrote: On 12/25/2010 6:25 AM, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org mailto:zfs-discuss-boun

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS ... open source moving forward?

2010-12-25 Thread Erik Trimble
be the right people to talk to. -- Erik Trimble Java System Support Mailstop: usca22-123 Phone: x17195 Santa Clara, CA Timezone: US/Pacific (GMT-0800) ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs

Re: [zfs-discuss] Looking for 3.5 SSD for ZIL

2010-12-23 Thread Erik Trimble
, moving away from the current one-page-of-multiple-blocks as the atomic entity of writing, and straight to a one-block-per-page setup. Don't hold your breath. -- Erik Trimble Java System Support Mailstop: usca22-123 Phone: x17195 Santa Clara, CA Timezone: US/Pacific (GMT-0800

Re: [zfs-discuss] stupid ZFS question - floating point operations

2010-12-22 Thread Erik Trimble
. -- Erik Trimble Java System Support Mailstop: usca22-123 Phone: x17195 Santa Clara, CA Timezone: US/Pacific (GMT-0800) ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Looking for 3.5 SSD for ZIL

2010-12-22 Thread Erik Trimble
simple thing to overwhelm the very limited cache on such a controller, in which case your performance tanks again. -- Erik Trimble Java System Support Mailstop: usca22-123 Phone: x17195 Santa Clara, CA Timezone: US/Pacific (GMT-0800) ___ zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Looking for 3.5 SSD for ZIL

2010-12-22 Thread Erik Trimble
cheaper than buying a DDRdrive. wink -- Erik Trimble Java System Support Mailstop: usca22-123 Phone: x17195 Santa Clara, CA Timezone: US/Pacific (GMT-0800) ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: [zfs-discuss] A few questions

2010-12-20 Thread Erik Trimble
, as the problem is media-specific. -- Erik Trimble Java System Support Mailstop: usca22-123 Phone: x17195 Santa Clara, CA Timezone: US/Pacific (GMT-0800) ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs

Re: [zfs-discuss] A few questions

2010-12-20 Thread Erik Trimble
that seems to work well (under simulation). I'm sure it could use some performance improvement, but it works reasonably well on a simulated fragmented pool. Please, Santa, can a good little boy get a BP-rewrite code commit in his stocking for Christmas? -- Erik Trimble Java System Support

Re: [zfs-discuss] Resilvering - Scrubing whats the different

2010-12-20 Thread Erik Trimble
) - it is triggered by a system condition. -- Erik Trimble Java System Support Mailstop: usca22-123 Phone: x17195 Santa Clara, CA Timezone: US/Pacific (GMT-0800) ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman

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