Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS write / read speed and traps for beginners

2008-06-14 Thread MC
> It turns out that when you are in IDE compatability mode, having two > disks on the same 'controller' (c# in solaris) behaves just like real > IDE... Crap! That is the second time I've seen solaris guess wrong and force what it thinks is right. Solaris will also limit the size of an ATA drive

Re: [zfs-discuss] zpool with RAID-5 from intelligent storage arrays

2008-06-14 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Sun, 15 Jun 2008, Brian Hechinger wrote: >> how long the scrub takes. My pool is set to be scrubbed every night >> via a cron job: > > And like all other things of this nature, the more often you do it, the > less invasive it will be as there is less to do. That being said, I still > wouldn't

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS write / read speed and traps for beginners

2008-06-14 Thread Will Murnane
On Sun, Jun 15, 2008 at 04:30, Nathan Kroenert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So - using plain dd to the zfs filesystem on said disk > > dd if=/dev/zero of=delete.me bs=65536 NB: dd from /dev/zero is a poor benchmark. Since the writes to disk are all zero, you may create a sparse file, or ZFS i

[zfs-discuss] ZFS write / read speed and traps for beginners

2008-06-14 Thread Nathan Kroenert
Hey all - Just spent quite some time trying to work out why my 2 disk mirrored ZFS pool was running so slow, and found an interesting answer... System: new Gigabyte M750sli-DS4, AMD 9550, 4GB memory and 2 X Seagate 500GB SATA-II 32mb cache disks. The SATA ports on the nfoce 750asli chipset don

Re: [zfs-discuss] zpool with RAID-5 from intelligent storage arrays

2008-06-14 Thread Brian Hechinger
On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 02:51:31PM -0500, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > > I think that "none requested" likely means that the administrator has > never issued a request to scrub the pool. Or the system. That status line will show the last scrub/resilver to have taken place. "None requested" means t

Re: [zfs-discuss] zpool with RAID-5 from intelligent storage arrays

2008-06-14 Thread Brian Hechinger
On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 02:19:05PM -0500, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > On Sat, 14 Jun 2008, Brian Wilson wrote: > > > What are the odds, in that configuration of zpool (no mirroring, > > just using the intelligent disk as concatenated luns in the zpool) > > that if we have this silent corruption, th

Re: [zfs-discuss] memory hog

2008-06-14 Thread Uwe Dippel
Peter Tribble wrote: > On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 12:02 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Here I made the opposite observation: Just installed nv90 to a dated >> notebook DELL D400; unmodified except of a 80GB 2.5" hard disk and - >> of course ! - an extra strip of 1 GB of RAM; making it 1.2 GB

Re: [zfs-discuss] zpool with RAID-5 from intelligent storage arrays

2008-06-14 Thread Al Hopper
On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 12:11 PM, Brian Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > >> On Sat, 14 Jun 2008, zfsmonk wrote: >> >> > Mentioned on >> > >> http://www.solarisinternals.com/wiki/index.php/ZFS_Best_Practices_Guide >> >> > is the following: "ZFS works well with storage based protected LUNs >

Re: [zfs-discuss] memory hog

2008-06-14 Thread Brandon High
On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 2:24 PM, Volker A. Brandt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I've got a couple of identical old sparc boxes running nv90 - one >> on ufs, the other zfs. Everything else is the same. (SunBlade >> 150 with 1G of RAM, if you want specifics.) > > Exactly the same here, though with di

Re: [zfs-discuss] CIFS mkdir permission problems

2008-06-14 Thread Tim
Samba is (at least in sxce) installed by default. On 6/14/08, matt estela <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've been testing opensolaris 2008.05 as a replacement for our main > fileserver. After following the CIFS walthrough on the genunix wiki, its > working great with our render farm. > > Running

Re: [zfs-discuss] memory hog

2008-06-14 Thread Volker A. Brandt
> I've got a couple of identical old sparc boxes running nv90 - one > on ufs, the other zfs. Everything else is the same. (SunBlade > 150 with 1G of RAM, if you want specifics.) > > The zfs root box is significantly slower all around. Not only is > initial I/O slower, but it seems much less able to

Re: [zfs-discuss] install opensolaris on raidz

2008-06-14 Thread andrew
He means that you can have two types of pool as your root pool: 1. A single physical disk. 2. A ZFS mirror. Usually this means 2 disks. RAIDZ arrays are not supported as root pools (at the moment). Cheers Andrew. This message posted from opensolaris.org _

Re: [zfs-discuss] zpool with RAID-5 from intelligent storage arrays

2008-06-14 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Sat, 14 Jun 2008, dick hoogendijk wrote: >> With zfs you can scrub the pool at the system level. This allows you >> to discover many issues early before they become nightmares. > > #zpool status > scrub: none requested > > My question is really, do I wait 'till scrub is requested or am I > sup

Re: [zfs-discuss] memory hog

2008-06-14 Thread Peter Tribble
On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 12:02 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Here I made the opposite observation: Just installed nv90 to a dated > notebook DELL D400; unmodified except of a 80GB 2.5" hard disk and - > of course ! - an extra strip of 1 GB of RAM; making it 1.2 GB > altogether. > Now, first I in

Re: [zfs-discuss] zpool with RAID-5 from intelligent storage arrays

2008-06-14 Thread dick hoogendijk
On Sat, 14 Jun 2008 14:19:05 -0500 (CDT) Bob Friesenhahn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > With zfs you can scrub the pool at the system level. This allows you > to discover many issues early before they become nightmares. #zpool status scrub: none requested My question is really, do I wait 'till s

Re: [zfs-discuss] zpool with RAID-5 from intelligent storage arrays

2008-06-14 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Sat, 14 Jun 2008, Brian Wilson wrote: > What are the odds, in that configuration of zpool (no mirroring, > just using the intelligent disk as concatenated luns in the zpool) > that if we have this silent corruption, the whole zpool dies? If > anyone knows, what's the comparative odds of the

Re: [zfs-discuss] zpool with RAID-5 from intelligent storage arrays

2008-06-14 Thread Brian Wilson
- Original Message - From: Brian Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Saturday, June 14, 2008 12:12 pm Subject: Re: [zfs-discuss] zpool with RAID-5 from intelligent storage arrays To: Bob Friesenhahn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org > > On Sat, 14 Jun 2008, zfsmonk wrote:

Re: [zfs-discuss] zpool with RAID-5 from intelligent storage arrays

2008-06-14 Thread Brian Wilson
> On Sat, 14 Jun 2008, zfsmonk wrote: > > > Mentioned on > > > http://www.solarisinternals.com/wiki/index.php/ZFS_Best_Practices_Guide > > > is the following: "ZFS works well with storage based protected LUNs > > > (RAID-5 or mirrored LUNs from intelligent storage arrays). However, > >

Re: [zfs-discuss] zpool with RAID-5 from intelligent storage arrays

2008-06-14 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Sat, 14 Jun 2008, zfsmonk wrote: > Mentioned on > http://www.solarisinternals.com/wiki/index.php/ZFS_Best_Practices_Guide > is the following: "ZFS works well with storage based protected LUNs > (RAID-5 or mirrored LUNs from intelligent storage arrays). However, > ZFS cannot heal corrupted b

Re: [zfs-discuss] zpool with RAID-5 from intelligent storage arrays

2008-06-14 Thread Tomas Ă–gren
On 14 June, 2008 - zfsmonk sent me these 0,7K bytes: > Mentioned on > http://www.solarisinternals.com/wiki/index.php/ZFS_Best_Practices_Guide > is the following: "ZFS works well with storage based protected LUNs > (RAID-5 or mirrored LUNs from intelligent storage arrays). However, > ZFS cannot hea

[zfs-discuss] zpool with RAID-5 from intelligent storage arrays

2008-06-14 Thread zfsmonk
Mentioned on http://www.solarisinternals.com/wiki/index.php/ZFS_Best_Practices_Guide is the following: "ZFS works well with storage based protected LUNs (RAID-5 or mirrored LUNs from intelligent storage arrays). However, ZFS cannot heal corrupted blocks that are detected by ZFS checksums." bas

Re: [zfs-discuss] How to identify zpool version

2008-06-14 Thread dick hoogendijk
On Sat, 14 Jun 2008 06:46:28 PDT Peter Hawkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So I was wondering is there a way to determine the version of the pool that I > > am trying to import. Look at "zpool get version poolName" -- Dick Hoogendijk -- PGP/GnuPG key: 01D2433D ++ http://nagual.nl/ + SunOS sxc

Re: [zfs-discuss] How to identify zpool version

2008-06-14 Thread Peter Hawkins
I checked this link http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/zfs/version/4/ And this seems to imply that V4 isn't in "Sun" Solaris at all, only Nevada. And you are correct, the system I am trying to import to is U3, apologies for the confusion. So I was wondering is there a way to determine the

[zfs-discuss] CIFS mkdir permission problems

2008-06-14 Thread matt estela
I've been testing opensolaris 2008.05 as a replacement for our main fileserver. After following the CIFS walthrough on the genunix wiki, its working great with our render farm. Running into a problem though with our render manager ('Deadline' by frantic films); the application creates folders t