Re: [zfs-discuss] How to take advantage of PSARC 2007/171: ZFS Separate Intent Log

2007-07-03 Thread Albert Chin
On Tue, Jul 03, 2007 at 10:31:28AM -0700, Richard Elling wrote: Albert Chin wrote: On Tue, Jul 03, 2007 at 09:01:50AM -0700, Richard Elling wrote: Albert Chin wrote: Some of the Sun storage arrays contain NVRAM. It would be really nice if the array NVRAM would be available for ZIL storage

Re: [zfs-discuss] How to take advantage of PSARC 2007/171: ZFS Separate Intent Log

2007-07-03 Thread Albert Chin
On Tue, Jul 03, 2007 at 11:02:24AM -0700, Bryan Cantrill wrote: On Tue, Jul 03, 2007 at 10:26:20AM -0500, Albert Chin wrote: PSARC 2007/171 will be available in b68. Any documentation anywhere on how to take advantage of it? Some of the Sun storage arrays contain NVRAM. It would

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS version 5 to version 6 fails to import or upgrade

2007-06-19 Thread Albert Chin
some features will not be available without an explicit 'zpool upgrade'. config: zones ONLINE c0d1s5ONLINE zpool import lists the pools available for import. Maybe you need to actually _import_ the pool first before you can upgrade. -- albert chin ([EMAIL

Re: [zfs-discuss] No zfs_nocacheflush in Solaris 10?

2007-05-25 Thread Albert Chin
On Fri, May 25, 2007 at 12:14:45AM -0400, Torrey McMahon wrote: Albert Chin wrote: On Thu, May 24, 2007 at 11:55:58AM -0700, Grant Kelly wrote: I'm getting really poor write performance with ZFS on a RAID5 volume (5 disks) from a storagetek 6140 array. I've searched the web

Re: [zfs-discuss] No zfs_nocacheflush in Solaris 10?

2007-05-25 Thread Albert Chin
your file server on a UPS won't help here. http://blogs.sun.com/erickustarz/entry/zil_disable discusses some of the issues affecting zil_disable=1. We know we get better performance with zil_disable=1 but we're not taking any chances. -Andy On 5/24/07 4:16 PM, Albert Chin [EMAIL

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: No zfs_nocacheflush in Solaris 10?

2007-05-25 Thread Albert Chin
confusing the array? I think both are ok. CAM is free. Dunno about Santricity. -- albert chin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] No zfs_nocacheflush in Solaris 10?

2007-05-24 Thread Albert Chin
array w/128k stripe, and ~69MB/s on a seven-disk RAID-5 array w/128k strip. -- albert chin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

[zfs-discuss] Rsync update to ZFS server over SSH faster than over NFS?

2007-05-22 Thread Albert Chin
On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 13:23:48 -0800, Marion Hakanson wrote: Albert Chin wrote: Why can't the NFS performance match that of SSH? My first guess is the NFS vs array cache-flush issue. Have you configured the 6140 to ignore SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE requests? That'll make a huge difference for NFS

[zfs-discuss] Rsync update to ZFS server over SSH faster than over NFS?

2007-05-21 Thread Albert Chin
is 100MB. /etc/system on the file server is: set maxphys = 0x80 set ssd:ssd_max_throttle = 64 set zfs:zfs_nocacheflush = 1 Why can't the NFS performance match that of SSH? -- albert chin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Rsync update to ZFS server over SSH faster than over NFS?

2007-05-21 Thread Albert Chin
On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 02:55:18PM -0600, Robert Thurlow wrote: Albert Chin wrote: Why can't the NFS performance match that of SSH? One big reason is that the sending CPU has to do all the comparisons to compute the list of files to be sent - it has to fetch the attributes from both local

Re: [zfs-discuss] Rsync update to ZFS server over SSH faster than over NFS?

2007-05-21 Thread Albert Chin
On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 06:11:36PM -0500, Nicolas Williams wrote: On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 06:09:46PM -0500, Albert Chin wrote: But still, how is tar/SSH any more multi-threaded than tar/NFS? It's not that it is, but that NFS sync semantics and ZFS sync semantics conspire against single

Re: [zfs-discuss] Rsync update to ZFS server over SSH faster than over NFS?

2007-05-21 Thread Albert Chin
On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 04:55:35PM -0600, Robert Thurlow wrote: Albert Chin wrote: I think the bigger problem is the NFS performance penalty so we'll go lurk somewhere else to find out what the problem is. Is this with Solaris 10 or OpenSolaris on the client as well? Client is RHEL 4

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: Rsync update to ZFS server over SSH faster than over

2007-05-21 Thread Albert Chin
and/or -oCompressionLevel? -- albert chin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] File level snapshots in ZFS?

2007-03-29 Thread Albert Chin
just snapshot the file system. -- albert chin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

[zfs-discuss] Hypothetical question about multiple host access to 6140 array

2007-02-23 Thread Albert Chin
). Is it possible to allocate some disks from the 6140 array to ZFS on the X4100 for the purpose of migrating data from the appliance to ZFS? -- albert chin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org

Re: [zfs-discuss] hot spares - in standby?

2007-01-30 Thread Albert Chin
the hot spare is distributed amongst data drives in the array. When a failure occurs, the rebuild occurs in parallel across _all_ drives in the array: http://www.issidata.com/specs/agami/enterprise-classreliability.pdf -- albert chin ([EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: ZFS or UFS - what to do?

2007-01-29 Thread Albert Chin
of that. -- albert chin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: Thumper Origins Q

2007-01-25 Thread Albert Chin
be a RAID 0 config on the 6140? -- albert chin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: Thumper Origins Q

2007-01-25 Thread Albert Chin
On Thu, Jan 25, 2007 at 10:16:47AM -0500, Torrey McMahon wrote: Albert Chin wrote: On Wed, Jan 24, 2007 at 10:19:29AM -0800, Frank Cusack wrote: On January 24, 2007 10:04:04 AM -0800 Bryan Cantrill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Jan 24, 2007 at 09:46:11AM -0800, Moazam Raja wrote

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: Thumper Origins Q

2007-01-25 Thread Albert Chin
). Well - there's no harm in making the suggestion ... right? Well, when you buy disk for the Sun 5320 NAS Appliance, you get a Controller Unit shelf and, if you expand storage, an Expansion Unit shelf that connects to the Controller Unit. Maybe the Expansion Unit shelf is a JBOD 6140? -- albert

[zfs-discuss] Raid Edition drive with RAIDZ

2007-01-18 Thread Albert Ye
Since ZFS already has error correction, would drives that limit the time a hard drive attempts to recover from errors such as WD RE drives or Seagate ES drive be necessary? Would it be safe to use standard hard drives without the Time Limited Error Recovery feature in a RAIDZ array? This

Re: [zfs-discuss] Mounting a ZFS clone

2007-01-16 Thread Albert Chin
On Tue, Jan 16, 2007 at 01:28:04PM -0800, Eric Kustarz wrote: Albert Chin wrote: On Mon, Jan 15, 2007 at 10:55:23AM -0600, Albert Chin wrote: I have no hands-on experience with ZFS but have a question. If the file server running ZFS exports the ZFS file system via NFS to clients, based

[zfs-discuss] Mounting a ZFS clone

2007-01-15 Thread Albert Chin
access to the remote ZFS file system and the clone? -- albert chin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Shared ZFS pools

2006-12-06 Thread Albert Shih
) what you use to attach two 2disks on 2 different site ? You using FC attachement ? Regards. -- Albert SHIH Universite de Paris 7 (Denis DIDEROT) U.F.R. de Mathematiques. 7 ième étage, plateau D, bureau 10 Heure local/Local time: Wed Dec 6 09:06:30 CET 2006

Re: [zfs-discuss] need Clarification on ZFS

2006-12-05 Thread Albert Shih
I send a big file using your command at t=t+1I just send the diff not a big file Regards. -- Albert SHIH Universite de Paris 7 (Denis DIDEROT) U.F.R. de Mathematiques. 7 ième étage, plateau D, bureau 10 Heure local/Local time: Tue Dec 5 14:53:13 CET 2006

[zfs-discuss] ZFS on multi-volume

2006-12-04 Thread Albert Shih
of the perf ? The purpose is make a big NFS server with primary data on a high-level raid array disk but using ZFS to mirror all data on the all old-raid-array. Regards. -- Albert SHIH Universite de Paris 7 (Denis DIDEROT) U.F.R. de Mathematiques. 7 ième étage, plateau D, bureau 10 Heure local/Local time

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