Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS ARC DNLC Limitation

2007-09-25 Thread Roch - PAE
Hi Jason, This should have helped. 6542676 ARC needs to track meta-data memory overhead Some of the lines to arc.c: 1551 1.36 if (arc_meta_used = arc_meta_limit) { 1552/* 1553 * We are exceeding our meta-data cache

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS speed degraded in S10U4 ?

2007-09-25 Thread Andy Lubel
On 9/25/07 3:37 AM, Sergiy Kolodka [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Guys, I'm playing with Blade 6300 to check performance of compressed ZFS with Oracle database. After some really simple tests I noticed that default (well, not really default, some patches applied, but definitely noone bother

Re: [zfs-discuss] enterprise scale redundant Solaris 10/ZFS server providing NFSv4/CIFS

2007-09-25 Thread James F. Hranicky
Paul B. Henson wrote: But all quotas were set in a single flat text file. Anytime you added a new quota, you needed to turn off quotas, then turn them back on, and quota enforcement was disabled while it recalculated space utilization. I believe in later versions of the OS 'quota resize' did

[zfs-discuss] ZFS array NVRAM cache?

2007-09-25 Thread Vincent Fox
Where is ZFS with regards to the NVRAM cache present on arrays? I have a pile of 3310 with 512 megs cache, and even some 3510FC with 1-gig cache. It seems silly that it's going to waste. These are dual-controller units so I have no worry about loss of cache information. It looks like

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS array NVRAM cache?

2007-09-25 Thread Jens Elkner
On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 10:14:57AM -0700, Vincent Fox wrote: Where is ZFS with regards to the NVRAM cache present on arrays? I have a pile of 3310 with 512 megs cache, and even some 3510FC with 1-gig cache. It seems silly that it's going to waste. These are dual-controller units so I

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS array NVRAM cache?

2007-09-25 Thread Bill Sommerfeld
On Tue, 2007-09-25 at 10:14 -0700, Vincent Fox wrote: Where is ZFS with regards to the NVRAM cache present on arrays? I have a pile of 3310 with 512 megs cache, and even some 3510FC with 1-gig cache. It seems silly that it's going to waste. These are dual-controller units so I have no

Re: [zfs-discuss] enterprise scale redundant Solaris 10/ZFS server providing NFSv4/CIFS

2007-09-25 Thread Peter Tribble
On 9/24/07, Paul B. Henson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 22 Sep 2007, Peter Tribble wrote: filesystem per user on the server, just to see how it would work. While managing 20,00 filesystems with the automounter was trivial, the attempt to manage 20,000 zfs filesystems wasn't entirely

[zfs-discuss] device alias

2007-09-25 Thread Gregory Shaw
Hi. I'd like to request a feature be added to zfs. Currently, on SAN attached disk, zpool shows up with a big WWN for the disk. If ZFS (or the zpool command, in particular) had a text field for arbitrary information, it would be possible to add something that would indicate what LUN on

Re: [zfs-discuss] device alias

2007-09-25 Thread James C. McPherson
Gregory Shaw wrote: Hi. I'd like to request a feature be added to zfs. Currently, on SAN attached disk, zpool shows up with a big WWN for the disk. If ZFS (or the zpool command, in particular) had a text field for arbitrary information, it would be possible to add something that

Re: [zfs-discuss] device alias

2007-09-25 Thread Tim Spriggs
James C. McPherson wrote: Gregory Shaw wrote: Hi. I'd like to request a feature be added to zfs. Currently, on SAN attached disk, zpool shows up with a big WWN for the disk. If ZFS (or the zpool command, in particular) had a text field for arbitrary information, it would be

Re: [zfs-discuss] device alias

2007-09-25 Thread James C. McPherson
Tim Spriggs wrote: James C. McPherson wrote: Gregory Shaw wrote: ... The above would be very useful should a disk fail to identify what device is what. How would you gather that information? How would you ensure that it stayed accurate in a hotplug world? If it is stored on the device

Re: [zfs-discuss] enterprise scale redundant Solaris 10/ZFS server providing NFSv4/CIFS

2007-09-25 Thread Paul B. Henson
On Mon, 24 Sep 2007, Dale Ghent wrote: Not to sway you away from ZFS/NFS considerations, but I'd like to add that people who in the past used DFS typically went on to replace it with AFS. Have you considered it? You're right, AFS is the first choice coming to mind when replacing DFS. We

Re: [zfs-discuss] device alias

2007-09-25 Thread Bill Sommerfeld
On Wed, 2007-09-26 at 08:26 +1000, James C. McPherson wrote: How would you gather that information? the tools to use would be dependant on the actual storage device in use. luxadm for A5x00 and V8x0 internal storage, sccli for 3xxx, etc., etc., How would you ensure that it stayed accurate in

Re: [zfs-discuss] enterprise scale redundant Solaris 10/ZFS server providing NFSv4/CIFS

2007-09-25 Thread Paul B. Henson
On Tue, 25 Sep 2007, Peter Tribble wrote: This was some time ago (a very long time ago, actually). There are two fundamental problems: 1. Each zfs filesystem consumes kernel memory. Significant amounts, 64K is what we worked out at the time. For normal numbers of filesystems that's not a

[zfs-discuss] io:::start and zfs filenames?

2007-09-25 Thread Neelakanth Nadgir
io:::start probe does not seem to get zfs filenames in args[2]-fi_pathname. Any ideas how to get this info? -neel ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] device alias

2007-09-25 Thread James C. McPherson
Bill Sommerfeld wrote: On Wed, 2007-09-26 at 08:26 +1000, James C. McPherson wrote: How would you gather that information? the tools to use would be dependant on the actual storage device in use. luxadm for A5x00 and V8x0 internal storage, sccli for 3xxx, etc., etc., No consistent

Re: [zfs-discuss] device alias

2007-09-25 Thread Greg Shaw
It would be a manual process. As with any arbitrary name, it's a useful tag, not much more. James C. McPherson wrote: Gregory Shaw wrote: Hi. I'd like to request a feature be added to zfs. Currently, on SAN attached disk, zpool shows up with a big WWN for the disk. If ZFS (or

Re: [zfs-discuss] device alias

2007-09-25 Thread Greg Shaw
James C. McPherson wrote: Bill Sommerfeld wrote: On Wed, 2007-09-26 at 08:26 +1000, James C. McPherson wrote: How would you gather that information? the tools to use would be dependant on the actual storage device in use. luxadm for A5x00 and V8x0 internal storage, sccli

Re: [zfs-discuss] device alias

2007-09-25 Thread James C. McPherson
Greg Shaw wrote: James C. McPherson wrote: Bill Sommerfeld wrote: On Wed, 2007-09-26 at 08:26 +1000, James C. McPherson wrote: How would you gather that information? the tools to use would be dependant on the actual storage device in use. luxadm for A5x00 and V8x0 internal

Re: [zfs-discuss] device alias

2007-09-25 Thread Richard Elling
Dale Ghent wrote: On Sep 25, 2007, at 7:48 PM, Richard Elling wrote: The problem with this is that wrong information is much worse than no information, there is no way to automatically validate the information, and therefore people are involved. If people were reliable, then even a text

Re: [zfs-discuss] device alias

2007-09-25 Thread Gregory Shaw
On Sep 25, 2007, at 7:09 PM, Richard Elling wrote: Dale Ghent wrote: On Sep 25, 2007, at 7:48 PM, Richard Elling wrote: The problem with this is that wrong information is much worse than no information, there is no way to automatically validate the information, and therefore people are

Re: [zfs-discuss] device alias

2007-09-25 Thread Jason King
On 9/25/07, Gregory Shaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sep 25, 2007, at 7:09 PM, Richard Elling wrote: Dale Ghent wrote: On Sep 25, 2007, at 7:48 PM, Richard Elling wrote: The problem with this is that wrong information is much worse than no information, there is no way to automatically

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS array NVRAM cache?

2007-09-25 Thread Albert Chin
On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 06:01:00PM -0700, Vincent Fox wrote: I don't understand. How do you setup one LUN that has all of the NVRAM on the array dedicated to it I'm pretty familiar with 3510 and 3310. Forgive me for being a bit thick here, but can you be more specific for the n00b? If

Re: [zfs-discuss] device alias

2007-09-25 Thread Mark Ashley
Please don't do this as a rule, it makes for horrendous support issues and breaks a lot of health check tools. Actually, you can use the existing name space for this. By default, ZFS uses /dev/dsk. But everything in /dev is a symlink. So you could setup your own space, say

[zfs-discuss] RAID-Z in ZFS

2007-09-25 Thread sontas
Anybody can tell me about RAID-Z architecture , cuz i tried to understand it by seach in google but it doesn't clear. I don't know why it can beat raid-5. I know it can prove about RAID-5 Write Hole cuz it has copy-on-write feature for data intigrity. But i don't understand about write full