Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS questions

2006-06-16 Thread Dale Ghent
On Jun 16, 2006, at 11:40 PM, Richard Elling wrote: Kimberly Chang wrote: A couple of ZFS questions: 1. ZFS dynamic striping will automatically use new added devices when there are write requests. Customer has a *mostly read-only* application with I/O bottleneck, they wonder if there is a

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS questions

2006-06-16 Thread Richard Elling
Kimberly Chang wrote: A couple of ZFS questions: 1. ZFS dynamic striping will automatically use new added devices when there are write requests. Customer has a *mostly read-only* application with I/O bottleneck, they wonder if there is a ZFS command or mechanism to enable the manual rebalanci

[zfs-discuss] ZFS questions

2006-06-16 Thread Kimberly Chang
A couple of ZFS questions: 1. ZFS dynamic striping will automatically use new added devices when there are write requests. Customer has a *mostly read-only* application with I/O bottleneck, they wonder if there is a ZFS command or mechanism to enable the manual rebalancing of ZFS data when add

Re: [Fwd: Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: disk write cache, redux]

2006-06-16 Thread Dana H. Myers
Dana H. Myers wrote: > Phil Brown wrote: >> Pawel Wojcik wrote: >>> Only SATA drives that operate under SATA framework and SATA HBA >>> drivers have this option available to them via format -e. That's >>> because they are treated and controlled by the system as scsi drives. >>> >From your e-mail

Re: [Fwd: Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: disk write cache, redux]

2006-06-16 Thread Philip Brown
Dana H. Myers wrote: Phil Brown wrote: hmm. well I hope sun will fix this bug, and add in the long-missing write_cache control for "regular" ata drives too. Actually, I believe such ata drives by default enable the write cache. some do, some dont. reguardless, the toggle functionality bel

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: ZFS panic while mounting lofi device?

2006-06-16 Thread Mark Maybee
Nate, Thanks for investigating this. Sounds like ZFS is either conflicting with the Linux partition or running off the end of its partition in the VMware configuration you set up. The result is the CKSUM errors you are observing. This could well lead to errors when we try to pagefault in the i

Re: [zfs-discuss] devid support for EFI partition improved zfs usibility

2006-06-16 Thread Eric Schrock
On Fri, Jun 16, 2006 at 10:28:50AM +0800, Freeman Liu wrote: > > Will you treat differently between manual-unplug-failure and > hardware-malfunction-failure ? > What about to handle handle human misoperation differently from hardware > failure ? Seems generating > different events in these situa

Re: [Fwd: Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: disk write cache, redux]

2006-06-16 Thread Dana H. Myers
Phil Brown wrote: > Pawel Wojcik wrote: >> Only SATA drives that operate under SATA framework and SATA HBA >> drivers have this option available to them via format -e. That's >> because they are treated and controlled by the system as scsi drives. >> >From your e-mail it appears that you are talk

Re: [Fwd: Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: disk write cache, redux]

2006-06-16 Thread Phil Brown
Pawel Wojcik wrote: Only SATA drives that operate under SATA framework and SATA HBA drivers have this option available to them via format -e. That's because they are treated and controlled by the system as scsi drives. >From your e-mail it appears that you are talking about SATA drives connec

[zfs-discuss] Re: ZFS ACL: append_data didn't do what I expected

2006-06-16 Thread Ivan Buetler
Hi there, Any news here? I am hunting for a solution of a "immutable" apache log. Thought the append_data will solve the requirement. Unfortunately - i came to your page and it looks it will not work with append_data. Or am I wrong? Regards ibuetler This message posted from opensolaris.o

Re: [zfs-discuss] panic in buf_hash_remove

2006-06-16 Thread Noel Dellofano
I have filed 6439484 panic in buf_hash_remove due to a NULL pointer dereference to track this issue. thanks, Noel :-) ** "Question all the answers" On Jun 12, 2006, at 3:45 PM, Daniel Rock wrote: Hi, had recently t

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: disk write cache, redux

2006-06-16 Thread Sanjay Nadkarni
I don't believe ZFS toggles write cache on disks on the fly. Rather, write caching is enabled on disks which support this functionality. Then at appropriate points in the code ioctl is called to flush the cache thereby providing the appropriate data guarantees. However this by no means