Re: [zfs-discuss] 24-port SATA controller options?

2008-04-14 Thread Tim
On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 11:34 PM, Will Murnane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 1:25 AM, Bob Friesenhahn > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > For obvious reasons (redundancy and throughput), it makes more sense > > to purchase two 12 port cards. I see that there is an option to

Re: [zfs-discuss] 24-port SATA controller options?

2008-04-14 Thread Will Murnane
On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 1:25 AM, Bob Friesenhahn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > For obvious reasons (redundancy and throughput), it makes more sense > to purchase two 12 port cards. I see that there is an option to > populate more cache RAM. More RAM always helps ;) > I would be interested to k

Re: [zfs-discuss] Will ZFS employ raid0 stripes in an ordinary storage pool?

2008-04-14 Thread Brandon High
On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 3:43 AM, Bhaskar Jayaraman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Question1: - Will zfs employ ordinary raid0 stripes while creating the file > dust? Sort of, though its not raid0. It will balance the writes across the members of its storage pools. So in your 3 disk zpool, the writ

Re: [zfs-discuss] Performance of one single 'cp'

2008-04-14 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Mon, 14 Apr 2008, Jeff Bonwick wrote: > disks=`format http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ GraphicsMagick Maintainer,http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/ ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailma

Re: [zfs-discuss] 24-port SATA controller options?

2008-04-14 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Mon, 14 Apr 2008, Blake Irvin wrote: > The only supported controller I've found is the Areca ARC-1280ML. > I want to put it in one of the 24-disk Supermicro chassis that > Silicon Mechanics builds. For obvious reasons (redundancy and throughput), it makes more sense to purchase two 12 port

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs filesystem metadata checksum

2008-04-14 Thread Jeff Bonwick
Not at present, but it's a good RFE. Unfortunately it won't be quite as simple as just adding an ioctl to report the dnode checksum. To see why, consider a file with one level of indirection: that is, it consists of a dnode, a single indirect block, and several data blocks. The indirect block cont

Re: [zfs-discuss] Performance of one single 'cp'

2008-04-14 Thread Jeff Bonwick
No, that is definitely not expected. One thing that can hose you is having a single disk that performs really badly. I've seen disks as slow as 5 MB/sec due to vibration, bad sectors, etc. To see if you have such a disk, try my diskqual.sh script (below). On my desktop system, which has 8 drive

Re: [zfs-discuss] Confused by compressratio

2008-04-14 Thread Stuart Anderson
On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 05:22:03PM -0400, Luke Scharf wrote: > Stuart Anderson wrote: > >On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 09:59:48AM -0400, Luke Scharf wrote: > > > >>Stuart Anderson wrote: > >> > >>>As an artificial test, I created a filesystem with compression enabled > >>>and ran "mkfile 1g" and th

Re: [zfs-discuss] iSCSI targets mapped to a VMWare ESX server

2008-04-14 Thread Brandon High
On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 12:36 PM, kristof <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A colleague told me IET is not longer an ongoing project, so it's obsoleted. The latest release in Sourceforge was Mar 17, 2008. I think IET is still alive. > see http://scst.sourceforge.net/ iSCSI-SCST is a fork of the IET

Re: [zfs-discuss] Confused by compressratio

2008-04-14 Thread Luke Scharf
Stuart Anderson wrote: > On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 09:59:48AM -0400, Luke Scharf wrote: > >> Stuart Anderson wrote: >> >>> As an artificial test, I created a filesystem with compression enabled >>> and ran "mkfile 1g" and the reported compressratio for that filesystem >>> is 1.00x even though

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZVOL access permissions?

2008-04-14 Thread Darren J Moffat
Mario Goebbels (Webmail) wrote: > >> MG> How can I set up a ZVOL that's accessible by non-root users, too? >> MG> The intent is to use sparse ZVOLs as raw disks in virtualization >> MG> (reducing overhead compared to file-based virtual volumes). >> >> change zvol permissions to whatever you want?

[zfs-discuss] 24-port SATA controller options?

2008-04-14 Thread Blake Irvin
The only supported controller I've found is the Areca ARC-1280ML. I want to put it in one of the 24-disk Supermicro chassis that Silicon Mechanics builds. Has anyone had success with this card and this kind of chassis/number of drives? cheers, Blake This message posted from opensolaris.org

Re: [zfs-discuss] Confused by compressratio

2008-04-14 Thread Stuart Anderson
On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 09:59:48AM -0400, Luke Scharf wrote: > Stuart Anderson wrote: > >As an artificial test, I created a filesystem with compression enabled > >and ran "mkfile 1g" and the reported compressratio for that filesystem > >is 1.00x even though this 1GB file only uses only 1kB. > > >

Re: [zfs-discuss] Confused by compressratio

2008-04-14 Thread Luke Scharf
Stuart Anderson wrote: > As an artificial test, I created a filesystem with compression enabled > and ran "mkfile 1g" and the reported compressratio for that filesystem > is 1.00x even though this 1GB file only uses only 1kB. > ZFS seems to treat files filled with zeroes as sparse files, regard

[zfs-discuss] Will ZFS employ raid0 stripes in an ordinary storage pool?

2008-04-14 Thread Bhaskar Jayaraman
Hi, I'm doing the following actions on my solaris 10 system. Please let me know if zfs will do the following things: - Question1: - Will zfs employ ordinary raid0 stripes while creating the file dust? Question2: - Since most of my file /exp/dust1 (~74% = 1 - 400MB/1500MB) reside on /tank/mnt-p

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZVOL access permissions?

2008-04-14 Thread Webmail
> MG> How can I set up a ZVOL that's accessible by non-root users, too? > MG> The intent is to use sparse ZVOLs as raw disks in virtualization > MG> (reducing overhead compared to file-based virtual volumes). > > change zvol permissions to whatever you want? The nodes in /dev/zvol are all 777 f

Re: [zfs-discuss] OpenSolaris ZFS NAS Setup

2008-04-14 Thread Ross
I'm a bit late replying to this, but I'd take the quick & dirty approach personally. When the server is running fine, unplug one disk and just see which one is reported faulty in ZFS. A couple of minutes doing that and you've tested that your raid array is working fine and you know exactly whi

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZVOL access permissions?

2008-04-14 Thread Robert Milkowski
Hello Mario, Saturday, April 12, 2008, 3:02:18 PM, you wrote: MG> How can I set up a ZVOL that's accessible by non-root users, too? MG> The intent is to use sparse ZVOLs as raw disks in virtualization MG> (reducing overhead compared to file-based virtual volumes). change zvol permissions to wha

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZVOL access permissions?

2008-04-14 Thread Robert Milkowski
Hello Mike, Saturday, April 12, 2008, 4:17:30 PM, you wrote: EM> Could someone kindly provide some details on using a zvol in sparse-mode? EM> Wouldn't the COW nature of zfs (assuming COW still applies on EM> ZVOLS) quickly erode the sparse nature of the zvol? COW does apply to zvols. If you o