[zfs-discuss] ZFS/UFS/TMPFS and extended attributes inconsistent behaviour

2006-08-07 Thread Darren J Moffat
As part of looking into a minor issue with the group listed when using runat(1) on a UFS filesystem for Johannes (my Google Summer of Code student work on new basic file privs), I discovered an even bigger issue with UFS and extended attributes. I've cc'd ZFS discuss because I used ZFS as the

[zfs-discuss] snv_46: hangs when using zvol swap and the system is low on free memory ?

2006-08-07 Thread Jürgen Keil
I've tried to use dmake lint on on-src-20060731, and was running out of swap on my Tecra S1 laptop, 32-bit x86, 768MB main memory, with a 512MB swap slice. The FULL KERNEL: global crosschecks: lint run consumes lots (~800MB) of space in /tmp, so the system was running out of swap space. To fix

[zfs-discuss] SPEC SFS97 benchmark of ZFS,UFS,VxFS

2006-08-07 Thread Leon Koll
I performed a SPEC SFS97 benchmark on Solaris 10u2/Sparc with 4 64GB LUNs, connected via FC SAN. The filesystems that were created on LUNS: UFS,VxFS,ZFS. Unfortunately the ZFS test couldn't complete bacuase the box was hung under very moderate load (3000 IOPs). Additional tests were done using

[zfs-discuss] Re: SPEC SFS97 benchmark of ZFS,UFS,VxFS

2006-08-07 Thread William D. Hathaway
If this is reproducible, can you force a panic so it can be analyzed? This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: SPEC SFS97 benchmark of ZFS,UFS,VxFS

2006-08-07 Thread Leon Koll
On 8/7/06, William D. Hathaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If this is reproducible, can you force a panic so it can be analyzed? The core files and explorer output are here: http://napobo3.lk.net/vinc/ The core files were created after the box was hungbreak to OBP...sync

Re: [zfs-discuss] snv_46: hangs when using zvol swap and the system is low on free memory ?

2006-08-07 Thread Mark Maybee
Jürgen Keil wrote: I've tried to use dmake lint on on-src-20060731, and was running out of swap on my Tecra S1 laptop, 32-bit x86, 768MB main memory, with a 512MB swap slice. The FULL KERNEL: global crosschecks: lint run consumes lots (~800MB) of space in /tmp, so the system was running out of

[zfs-discuss] Re: [ufs-discuss] ZFS/UFS/TMPFS and extended attributes inconsistent behaviour

2006-08-07 Thread Mark Shellenbaum
Lets have another root owned file but this time one that is world writable: islay:pts/4$ ls -l total 0 -rw-r--r-- 1 darrenm staff 0 Aug 7 15:34 test1 -rw-r--r-- 1 darrenm root 0 Aug 7 15:35 test2 -rw-rw-rw- 1 root root 0 Aug 7 15:35 test3

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: SPEC SFS97 benchmark of ZFS,UFS,VxFS

2006-08-07 Thread George Wilson
Leon, Looking at the corefile doesn't really show much from the zfs side. It looks like you were having problems with your san though: /scsi_vhci/[EMAIL PROTECTED] (ssd5) offline /scsi_vhci/[EMAIL PROTECTED] (ssd5) multipath status: failed, path /[EMAIL PROTECTED],70/SUNW,[EMAIL

[zfs-discuss] 3510 HW RAID vs 3510 JBOD ZFS SOFTWARE RAID

2006-08-07 Thread Robert Milkowski
Hi. 3510 with two HW controllers, configured on LUN in RAID-10 using 12 disks in head unit (FC-AL 73GB 15K disks). Optimization set to random, stripe size 32KB. Connected to v440 using two links, however in tests only one link was used (no MPxIO). I used filebench and varmail test with

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: SPEC SFS97 benchmark of ZFS,UFS,VxFS

2006-08-07 Thread Leon Koll
On 8/7/06, George Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Leon, Looking at the corefile doesn't really show much from the zfs side. It looks like you were having problems with your san though: /scsi_vhci/[EMAIL PROTECTED] (ssd5) offline /scsi_vhci/[EMAIL PROTECTED] (ssd5) multipath status: failed,

Re: [zfs-discuss] 3510 HW RAID vs 3510 JBOD ZFS SOFTWARE RAID

2006-08-07 Thread Eric Schrock
Cool stuff, Robert. It'd be interesting to see some RAID-Z (single- and double-parity) benchmarks as well, but understandably this takes time ;-) The first thing to note is that the current Nevada bits have a number of performance fixes not in S10u2, so there's going to be a natural bias when

[zfs-discuss] zil_disable

2006-08-07 Thread Robert Milkowski
Hello zfs-discuss, Just a note to everyone experimenting with this - if you change it online it has only effect when pools are exported and then imported. ps. I didn't use for my last posted benchmarks - with it I get about 35,000IOPS and 0.2ms latency - but it's meaningless. --

Re[2]: [zfs-discuss] 3510 HW RAID vs 3510 JBOD ZFS SOFTWARE RAID

2006-08-07 Thread Robert Milkowski
Hello Eric, Monday, August 7, 2006, 5:53:38 PM, you wrote: ES Cool stuff, Robert. It'd be interesting to see some RAID-Z (single- and ES double-parity) benchmarks as well, but understandably this takes time ES ;-) I intend to test raid-z. Not sure there'll be enough time for raidz2. ES The

RE: [zfs-discuss] 3510 HW RAID vs 3510 JBOD ZFS SOFTWARE RAID

2006-08-07 Thread Luke Lonergan
Nce! Hooray ZFS! - Luke Sent from my GoodLink synchronized handheld (www.good.com) -Original Message- From: Robert Milkowski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 07, 2006 11:25 AM Eastern Standard Time To: zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org Subject:

Re: [zfs-discuss] zil_disable

2006-08-07 Thread Eric Schrock
Robert - This isn't surprising (either the switch or the results). Our long term fix for tweaking this knob is: 6280630 zil synchronicity Which would add 'zfs set sync' as a per-dataset option. A cut from the comments (which aren't visible on opensolaris):

Re: [zfs-discuss] 3510 HW RAID vs 3510 JBOD ZFS SOFTWARE RAID

2006-08-07 Thread Eric Schrock
On Mon, Aug 07, 2006 at 06:16:12PM +0200, Robert Milkowski wrote: ES Second, you may be able to get more performance from the ZFS filesystem ES on the HW lun by tweaking the max pending # of reqeusts. One thing ES we've found is that ZFS currently has a hardcoded limit of how many ES

Re: [zfs-discuss] zil_disable

2006-08-07 Thread Neil Perrin
Not quite, zil_disable is inspected on file system mounts. It's also looked at dynamically on every write for zvols. Neil. Robert Milkowski wrote On 08/07/06 10:07,: Hello zfs-discuss, Just a note to everyone experimenting with this - if you change it online it has only effect when pools

[zfs-discuss] ZFS + /var/log + Single-User

2006-08-07 Thread Pierre Klovsjo
Hello, Is a ZFS filesystem visible in Single-user mode ? I would like to have /var/log as an example under ZFS control and /export/home may be another candidate. Regards, Pierre This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing

Re: [zfs-discuss] 3510 HW RAID vs 3510 JBOD ZFS SOFTWARE RAID

2006-08-07 Thread Richard Elling
Hi Robert, thanks for the data. Please clarify one thing for me. In the case of the HW raid, was there just one LUN? Or was it 12 LUNs? -- richard Robert Milkowski wrote: Hi. 3510 with two HW controllers, configured on LUN in RAID-10 using 12 disks in head unit (FC-AL 73GB 15K disks).

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS + /var/log + Single-User

2006-08-07 Thread Eric Schrock
On Mon, Aug 07, 2006 at 09:47:17AM -0700, Pierre Klovsjo wrote: Is a ZFS filesystem visible in Single-user mode ? I would like to have /var/log as an example under ZFS control and /export/home may be another candidate. Depends on whether you want to use legacy mountpoints or not. The

Re: [zfs-discuss] 3510 HW RAID vs 3510 JBOD ZFS SOFTWARE RAID

2006-08-07 Thread eric kustarz
ES Second, you may be able to get more performance from the ZFS filesystem ES on the HW lun by tweaking the max pending # of reqeusts. One thing ES we've found is that ZFS currently has a hardcoded limit of how many ES outstanding requests to send to the underlying vdev (35). This works ES

[zfs-discuss] Apple Time Machine

2006-08-07 Thread Tao Chen
I am reading the live coverage of WWDC keynote here:http://www.macrumorslive.com/web/They talked about a new feature in OS X/Leopard: Time Machine. Does it sound like instant snapshot and rollback to you?I don't know how else this can be implemented.10:37 am with time machine, you can get those

Re: [zfs-discuss] Apple Time Machine

2006-08-07 Thread David J. Orman
Reading that site, it sounds EXACTLY like snapshots. It doesn't sound to require a second disk, it just gives you the option of backing up to one. Sounds like it snapshots once a day (configurable) and then sends the snapshot to another drive/server if you request it to do so. Looks like they

Re: [zfs-discuss] Apple Time Machine

2006-08-07 Thread Joseph Mocker
Well, its hard to tell from the description whether the Time Machine browser is the only way you can get at previous versions of files before you restore them. If so, this is somewhat different than snapshots. --joe David J. Orman wrote: Reading that site, it sounds EXACTLY like snapshots.

Re: [zfs-discuss] Apple Time Machine

2006-08-07 Thread David J. Orman
Yeah, we need more information. However, time machine browser might very well just be a fancy browser for a .zfs type setup, much like Solaris has. Just with GUI splash all over it. I'm just curious about the underlying implementation. I wonder if they did all this sticking with HFS+ or if

Re: [zfs-discuss] Apple Time Machine

2006-08-07 Thread Eric Schrock
Yeah, I just noticed this line: Backup Time: Time Machine will back up every night at midnight, unless you select a different time from this menu. So this is just standard backups, with a (very) slick GUI layered on top. From the impression of the text-only rumor feed, it sounded more

Re: [zfs-discuss] Apple Time Machine

2006-08-07 Thread Ed Plese
On Mon, Aug 07, 2006 at 12:08:17PM -0700, Eric Schrock wrote: Yeah, I just noticed this line: Backup Time: Time Machine will back up every night at midnight, unless you select a different time from this menu. So this is just standard backups, with a (very) slick GUI layered on top. From

Re: [zfs-discuss] Apple Time Machine

2006-08-07 Thread Ed Plese
On Mon, Aug 07, 2006 at 02:36:27PM -0500, Ed Plese wrote: A quick Google search turned up the following URL which has some screenshots to illustrate what the Shadow Copy Client looks like. Oops.. forgot the URL: http://www.petri.co.il/how_to_use_the_shadow_copy_client.htm Ed Plese

Re: [zfs-discuss] Apple Time Machine

2006-08-07 Thread Tim Foster
Eric Schrock wrote: So this is just standard backups, with a (very) slick GUI layered on top. http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/timf?entry=zfs_on_your_desktop vs. http://www.apple.com/macosx/leopard/timemachine.html Hey!! Their idea looks *awfully* familiar :-/ (Steve, does this mean you'll

Re: [zfs-discuss] SPEC SFS97 benchmark of ZFS,UFS,VxFS

2006-08-07 Thread Spencer Shepler
On Mon, Leon Koll wrote: I performed a SPEC SFS97 benchmark on Solaris 10u2/Sparc with 4 64GB LUNs, connected via FC SAN. The filesystems that were created on LUNS: UFS,VxFS,ZFS. Unfortunately the ZFS test couldn't complete bacuase the box was hung under very moderate load (3000 IOPs).

Re: [zfs-discuss] SPEC SFS97 benchmark of ZFS,UFS,VxFS

2006-08-07 Thread eric kustarz
Leon Koll wrote: I performed a SPEC SFS97 benchmark on Solaris 10u2/Sparc with 4 64GB LUNs, connected via FC SAN. The filesystems that were created on LUNS: UFS,VxFS,ZFS. Unfortunately the ZFS test couldn't complete bacuase the box was hung under very moderate load (3000 IOPs). Additional tests

Re: [zfs-discuss] Apple Time Machine

2006-08-07 Thread Tao Chen
On 8/7/06, Tim Foster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: David Magda wrote: Well, they've ported Dtrace: ..now built into Mac OS X Leopard. Xray. Because it's 2006.Uh right and they're actually shipping it in 2007. Apple marketing. Anyone want to start printing t-shirts:DTrace Time Machine in OpenSolaris.

Re: [zfs-discuss] Apple Time Machine

2006-08-07 Thread Eric Schrock
On Mon, Aug 07, 2006 at 01:19:14PM -1000, David J. Orman wrote: (actually did they give OpenSolaris a name check at all when they mentioned DTrace ?) Nope, not that I can see. Apple's pretty notorious for that kind of oversight. I used to work for them, I know first hand how

Re: [zfs-discuss] Apple Time Machine

2006-08-07 Thread Tao Chen
On 8/7/06, Eric Schrock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Aug 07, 2006 at 01:19:14PM -1000, David J. Orman wrote: (actually did they give OpenSolaris a name check at all when they mentioned DTrace ?) Nope, not that I can see. Apple's pretty notorious for that kind of oversight. I used to work

Re: [zfs-discuss] Apple Time Machine

2006-08-07 Thread Robert Gordon
On Aug 7, 2006, at 7:17 PM, Tao Chen wrote: In terms of openness, Sun and Apple are going opposite directions IMHO, interesting situation :) Tao Apple just released the Darwin Kernel code xnu-792-10.96 the equivalent of 10.4.7 for intel machines. -- Robert.

Re: [zfs-discuss] Apple Time Machine

2006-08-07 Thread David J. Orman
Apple just released the Darwin Kernel code xnu-792-10.96 the equivalent of 10.4.7 for intel machines. -- Robert. Really? How odd. Seems to be counter-intuitive with this news: http://opendarwin.org/en/news/shutdown.html ___ zfs-discuss mailing

[zfs-discuss] ZFS/Thumper experiences

2006-08-07 Thread Adrian Cockcroft
Dave Fisk and I spent some time evaluating Thumper and ZFS as part of the beta program. We collected tons of data and results that we fed back to Sun. I just blogged a short summary at http://perfcap.blogspot.com and we are waiting for the final performance fixes, and some spare time to do a

[zfs-discuss] 3D filesystem vs. Solaris ZFS / was: Re: [ksh93-integration-discuss] ksh93 manpages for vmap, alarm, vpath built-ins?

2006-08-07 Thread Roland Mainz
Roland Mainz wrote: April Chin wrote: I'm in the process of filing manpage bugs for ksh93 to include changes to existing pages and new manpages for ksh93(1) and its builtins (builtin(1), disown(1)). CR 6457823 New manpages needed for ksh93 However, I do not see any manpages for

[zfs-discuss] Re: [ufs-discuss] ZFS/UFS/TMPFS and extended attributes inconsistent behaviour

2006-08-07 Thread Mark Shellenbaum
Darren J Moffat wrote: Mark Shellenbaum wrote: Lets have another root owned file but this time one that is world writable: islay:pts/4$ ls -l total 0 -rw-r--r-- 1 darrenm staff 0 Aug 7 15:34 test1 -rw-r--r-- 1 darrenm root 0 Aug 7 15:35 test2 -rw-rw-rw- 1 root

[zfs-discuss] Re: [ufs-discuss] ZFS/UFS/TMPFS and extended attributes inconsistent behaviour

2006-08-07 Thread Darren J Moffat
Mark Shellenbaum wrote: Darren J Moffat wrote: Mark Shellenbaum wrote: Lets have another root owned file but this time one that is world writable: islay:pts/4$ ls -l total 0 -rw-r--r-- 1 darrenm staff 0 Aug 7 15:34 test1 -rw-r--r-- 1 darrenm root 0 Aug 7 15:35

Re: [zfs-discuss] Apple Time Machine

2006-08-07 Thread Bryan Cantrill
On Mon, Aug 07, 2006 at 04:57:44PM -0700, Eric Schrock wrote: On Mon, Aug 07, 2006 at 01:19:14PM -1000, David J. Orman wrote: (actually did they give OpenSolaris a name check at all when they mentioned DTrace ?) Nope, not that I can see. Apple's pretty notorious for that kind of

Re: [zfs-discuss] Apple Time Machine

2006-08-07 Thread Adam Leventhal
Needless to say, this was a pretty interesting piece of the keynote from a technical point of view that had quite a few of us scratching our heads. After talking to some Apple engineers, it seems like what they're doing is more or less this: When a file is modified, the kernel fires off an event

Re: [zfs-discuss] Apple Time Machine

2006-08-07 Thread Tao Chen
On 8/7/06, Robert Gordon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Aug 7, 2006, at 7:17 PM, Tao Chen wrote: In terms of openness, Sun and Apple are going opposite directions IMHO, interesting situation :) TaoApple just released the Darwin Kernel code xnu-792-10.96the equivalent of 10.4.7 for intel machines.--

Re: [zfs-discuss] Apple Time Machine

2006-08-07 Thread Tao Chen
On 8/7/06, Bryan Cantrill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We've had a great relationship with Apple at the engineering level -- andindeed, Team DTrace just got back from dinner with the Apple engineersinvolved with the port.More details here:

Re: [zfs-discuss] Apple Time Machine

2006-08-07 Thread Darren J Moffat
Adam Leventhal wrote: Needless to say, this was a pretty interesting piece of the keynote from a technical point of view that had quite a few of us scratching our heads. After talking to some Apple engineers, it seems like what they're doing is more or less this: When a file is modified, the