Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS, Oracle and Nexenta

2011-05-25 Thread a . smith
Still i wonder what Gartner means with Oracle monetizing on ZFS.. It simply means that Oracle want to make money from ZFS (as is normal for technology companies with their own technology). The reason this might cause uncertainty for ZFS is that maintaining or helping make the open source

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS, Oracle and Nexenta

2011-05-25 Thread Joerg Schilling
Peter Jeremy peter.jer...@alcatel-lucent.com wrote: On 2011-May-25 03:49:43 +0800, Brandon High bh...@freaks.com wrote: ... unless Oracle's zpool v30 is different than Nexenta's v30. This would be unfortunate but no worse than the current situation with UFS - Solaris, *BSD and HP Tru64 all

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS, Oracle and Nexenta

2011-05-25 Thread Frank Van Damme
Op 24-05-11 22:58, LaoTsao schreef: With various fock of opensource project E.g. Zfs, opensolaris, openindina etc there are all different There are not guarantee to be compatible I hope at least they'll try. Just in case I want to import/export zpools between Nexenta and OpenIndiana? -- No

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS, Oracle and Nexenta

2011-05-25 Thread Erik Trimble
On 5/25/2011 4:37 AM, Frank Van Damme wrote: Op 24-05-11 22:58, LaoTsao schreef: With various fock of opensource project E.g. Zfs, opensolaris, openindina etc there are all different There are not guarantee to be compatible I hope at least they'll try. Just in case I want to import/export

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS, Oracle and Nexenta

2011-05-25 Thread Garrett D'Amore
This will absolutely remain possible -- as the party responsible for Nexenta's kernel, I can assure that pool import/export compatibility is a key requirement for Nexenta's product. -- Garrett D'Amore On May 25, 2011, at 3:39 PM, Frank Van Damme frank.vanda...@gmail.com wrote: Op 24-05-11

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS, Oracle and Nexenta

2011-05-25 Thread Casper . Dik
However, do remember that you might not be able to import a pool from another system, simply because your system can't support the featureset. Ideally, it would be nice if you could just import the pool and use the features your current OS supports, but that's pretty darned dicey, and I'd be

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS, Oracle and Nexenta

2011-05-25 Thread Joerg Schilling
Garrett D'Amore garr...@nexenta.com wrote: I am sure that the group exists ... I am a part of it, as are many of the former Oracle ZFS engineers and a number of other ZFS contributors. Whatever your proposal was, we have not seen it, but a solution has been agreed upon widely already, and

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS, Oracle and Nexenta

2011-05-25 Thread Garrett D'Amore
You are welcome to your beliefs. There are many groups that do standards that do not meet in public. In fact, I can't think of any standards bodies that *do* hold open meetings. -- Garrett D'Amore On May 25, 2011, at 4:09 PM, Joerg Schilling joerg.schill...@fokus.fraunhofer.de wrote:

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS, Oracle and Nexenta

2011-05-25 Thread C Bergström
On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 7:15 PM, Garrett D'Amore garr...@nexenta.com wrote: You are welcome to your beliefs.   There are many groups that do standards that do not meet in public.  In fact, I can't think of any standards bodies that *do* hold open meetings. I think he may mean open to public

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS, Oracle and Nexenta

2011-05-25 Thread joerg.moellenk...@sun.com
Well, at first ZFS development is no standard body and at the end everything has to be measured in compatibility to the Oracle ZFS implementation. However there is surely a bad aftertaste of such a policy. Someone can't complain about Oracles position to opensource and put the development of

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS, Oracle and Nexenta

2011-05-25 Thread Joerg Schilling
Garrett D'Amore garr...@nexenta.com wrote: You are welcome to your beliefs. There are many groups that do standards that do not meet in public. In fact, I can't think of any standards bodies that *do* hold open meetings. You probybly don't know POSIX. Jörg --

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS, Oracle and Nexenta

2011-05-25 Thread Paul Kraus
On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 8:15 AM, Garrett D'Amore garr...@nexenta.com wrote: You are welcome to your beliefs.   There are many groups that do standards that do not meet in public.  In fact, I can't think of any standards bodies that *do* hold open meetings. The standards committees I

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS, Oracle and Nexenta

2011-05-25 Thread Frank Van Damme
Op 25-05-11 14:27, joerg.moellenk...@sun.com schreef: Well, at first ZFS development is no standard body and at the end everything has to be measured in compatibility to the Oracle ZFS implementation Why? Given that ZFS is Solaris ZFS just as well as Nexenta ZFS just as well as illumos ZFS, by

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS, Oracle and Nexenta

2011-05-25 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Wed, 25 May 2011, Garrett D'Amore wrote: You are welcome to your beliefs. There are many groups that do standards that do not meet in public. In fact, I can't think of any standards bodies that *do* hold open meetings. The IETF holds totally open meetings. I hope that you are

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS, Oracle and Nexenta

2011-05-25 Thread Tim Cook
On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 8:53 AM, Frank Van Damme frank.vanda...@gmail.comwrote: Op 25-05-11 14:27, joerg.moellenk...@sun.com schreef: Well, at first ZFS development is no standard body and at the end everything has to be measured in compatibility to the Oracle ZFS implementation Why?

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS, Oracle and Nexenta

2011-05-25 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Wed, 25 May 2011, Paul Kraus wrote: The standards committees I have observed (I have never been on one) are generally in the audio space and not the computer, but while they welcome guests, the decisions are reserved for the committee members. Committee membership is not open to anyone

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS, Oracle and Nexenta

2011-05-25 Thread Paul Kraus
On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 10:27 AM, Bob Friesenhahn bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us wrote: The method the IETF uses seems to be particularly immune to vendor interference.  Vendors who want to participate in defining an interoperable standard can achieve substantial success.  Vendors who only want

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS, Oracle and Nexenta

2011-05-25 Thread Tim Cook
On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 10:01 AM, Paul Kraus p...@kraus-haus.org wrote: On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 10:27 AM, Bob Friesenhahn bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us wrote: The method the IETF uses seems to be particularly immune to vendor interference. Vendors who want to participate in defining an

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS, Oracle and Nexenta

2011-05-25 Thread Joerg Schilling
Paul Kraus p...@kraus-haus.org wrote: There have been a number of RFC's effectively written by one vendor in order to be able to claim open standards compliance, the biggest corporate offender in this regard, but clearly not the only one, is Microsoft. The next time I run across one of

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS, Oracle and Nexenta

2011-05-25 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Wed, 25 May 2011, Paul Kraus wrote: There have been a number of RFC's effectively written by one vendor in order to be able to claim open standards compliance, the biggest corporate offender in this regard, but clearly not the only one, is Microsoft. The next time I run across one of

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS, Oracle and Nexenta

2011-05-25 Thread Richard Elling
On May 25, 2011, at 7:27 AM, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: On Wed, 25 May 2011, Paul Kraus wrote: The standards committees I have observed (I have never been on one) are generally in the audio space and not the computer, but while they welcome guests, the decisions are reserved for the committee

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS, Oracle and Nexenta

2011-05-25 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Wed, 25 May 2011, Richard Elling wrote: The method the IETF uses seems to be particularly immune to vendor interference. Vendors who want to participate in defining an interoperable standard can achieve substantial success. Vendors who only want their own way encounter deafening silence

[zfs-discuss] ZFS working group and feature flags proposal

2011-05-25 Thread Matthew Ahrens
The community of developers working on ZFS continues to grow, as does the diversity of companies betting big on ZFS. We wanted a forum for these developers to coordinate their efforts and exchange ideas. The ZFS working group was formed to coordinate these development efforts. The working group

Re: [zfs-discuss] [illumos-Developer] ZFS working group and feature flags proposal

2011-05-25 Thread Deano
snip Hi Matt, That's looks really good, I've been meaning to implement a ZFS compressor (using a two pass, LZ4 + Arithmetic Entropy), so nice to see a route with which this can be done. One question, is the extendibility of RAID and other similar systems, my quick perusal makes me thinks this is

Re: [zfs-discuss] [illumos-Developer] ZFS working group and feature flags proposal

2011-05-25 Thread Matthew Ahrens
On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 12:55 PM, Deano de...@rattie.demon.co.uk wrote: snip Hi Matt, That's looks really good, I've been meaning to implement a ZFS compressor (using a two pass, LZ4 + Arithmetic Entropy), so nice to see a route with which this can be done. Cool! New compression

[zfs-discuss] ZFS issues and the choice of platform

2011-05-25 Thread Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk
Hi all I have a few servers running openindiana 148, and it's been running rather well for some time. Lately, however, we've seen some hichups that may be related to the platform, rather than the hardware. The actual errors have been variable. Some issues were due to some supermicro backplanes

[zfs-discuss] DDT sync?

2011-05-25 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
I've finally returned to this dedup testing project, trying to get a handle on why performance is so terrible. At the moment I'm re-running tests and monitoring memory_throttle_count, to see if maybe that's what's causing the limit. But while that's in progress and I'm still thinking... I

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS, Oracle and Nexenta

2011-05-25 Thread Ian Collins
On 05/26/11 12:15 AM, Garrett D'Amore wrote: You are welcome to your beliefs. There are many groups that do standards that do not meet in public. In fact, I can't think of any standards bodies that *do* hold open meetings. ISO language standards committees may not hold public meetings,

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS, Oracle and Nexenta

2011-05-25 Thread Ian Collins
On 05/26/11 04:21 AM, Richard Elling wrote: Actually, this doesn't always work. There have been attempts to stack the deck and force votes at IETF. One memorable meeting was more of a flashmob than a standards meeting :-) Is there a video :) The key stakeholders and contributors of ZFS code

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS working group and feature flags proposal

2011-05-25 Thread Peter Jeremy
On 2011-May-26 03:02:04 +0800, Matthew Ahrens mahr...@delphix.com wrote: The first product of the working group is the design for a ZFS on-disk versioning method that will allow for distributed development of ZFS on-disk format changes without further explicit coordination. This method eliminates

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS working group and feature flags proposal

2011-05-25 Thread Matthew Ahrens
On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 3:08 PM, Peter Jeremy peter.jer...@alcatel-lucent.com wrote: On 2011-May-26 03:02:04 +0800, Matthew Ahrens mahr...@delphix.com wrote: Looks good. Thanks for taking the time to look at this. More comments inline below. pool open (zpool import and implicit import

Re: [zfs-discuss] DDT sync?

2011-05-25 Thread Matthew Ahrens
On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 2:23 PM, Edward Ned Harvey opensolarisisdeadlongliveopensola...@nedharvey.com wrote: I've finally returned to this dedup testing project, trying to get a handle on why performance is so terrible. At the moment I'm re-running tests and monitoring memory_throttle_count,

Re: [zfs-discuss] DDT sync?

2011-05-25 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
From: Matthew Ahrens [mailto:mahr...@delphix.com] Sent: Wednesday, May 25, 2011 6:50 PM The DDT is a ZAP object, so it is an on-disk hashtable, free of O(log(n)) rebalancing operations.  It is written asynchronously, from syncing context.  That said, for each block written (unique or not),

Re: [zfs-discuss] DDT sync?

2011-05-25 Thread Daniel Carosone
On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 03:50:09PM -0700, Matthew Ahrens wrote: That said, for each block written (unique or not), the DDT must be updated, which means reading and then writing the block that contains that dedup table entry, and the indirect blocks to get to it. With a reasonably large DDT,

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS issues and the choice of platform

2011-05-25 Thread Daniel Carosone
On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 10:59:19PM +0200, Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk wrote: The systems where we have had issues, are two 100TB boxes, with some 160TB raw storage each, so licensing this with nexentastor will be rather expensive. What would you suggest? Will a solaris express install give us good

[zfs-discuss] Compatibility between Sun-Oracle Fishworks appliance zfs and other zfs implementations

2011-05-25 Thread Matt Weatherford
Hi, We have a Sun/Oracle Fishworks appliance that we have spent a good amount of $ on. This is a great box and we love it, although the EDU discounts that Sun used to provide for hardware and support contracts seem to have dried up so the cost of supporting it moving forward is still

Re: [zfs-discuss] Compatibility between Sun-Oracle Fishworks appliance zfs and other zfs implementations

2011-05-25 Thread Matthew Ahrens
On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 8:01 PM, Matt Weatherford m...@u.washington.eduwrote: pike# zpool get version internal NAME PROPERTY VALUESOURCE internal version 28 default pike# zpool get version external-J4400-12x1TB NAME PROPERTY VALUESOURCE

Re: [zfs-discuss] bug? ZFS crypto vs. scrub

2011-05-25 Thread Daniel Carosone
Just a ping for any further updates, as well as a crosspost to migrate the thread to zfs-discuss (from -crypto-). Is there any further information I can provide? What's going on with that zpool history, and does it tell you anything about the chances of recovering the actual key used? On Thu,