Re: [zfs-discuss] Raidz - what is stored in parity?

2010-08-12 Thread Adam Leventhal
In my case, it gives an error that I need at least 11 disks (which I don't) but the point is that raidz parity does not seem to be limited to 3. Is this not true? RAID-Z is limited to 3 parity disks. The error message is giving you false hope and that's a bug. If you had plugged in 11 disks

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS compression

2010-07-25 Thread Adam Leventhal
be twice as good. (I've just done some tests on the MacZFS port on my blog for more info) Here's a good blog comparing some ZFS compression modes in the context of the Sun Storage 7000: http://blogs.sun.com/dap/entry/zfs_compression Adam -- Adam Leventhal, Fishworkshttp

Re: [zfs-discuss] raid-z - not even iops distribution

2010-06-24 Thread Adam Leventhal
Hey Robert, I've filed a bug to track this issue. We'll try to reproduce the problem and evaluate the cause. Thanks for bringing this to our attention. Adam On Jun 24, 2010, at 2:40 AM, Robert Milkowski wrote: On 23/06/2010 18:50, Adam Leventhal wrote: Does it mean that for dataset used

Re: [zfs-discuss] raid-z - not even iops distribution

2010-06-23 Thread Adam Leventhal
the same number of iops. Any idea why? -- Robert Milkowski http://milek.blogspot.com ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss -- Adam Leventhal, Fishworks

Re: [zfs-discuss] raid-z - not even iops distribution

2010-06-23 Thread Adam Leventhal
parity. What is the total width of your raidz1 stripe? Adam -- Adam Leventhal, Fishworkshttp://blogs.sun.com/ahl ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Fishworks 2010Q1 and dedup bug?

2010-03-04 Thread Adam Leventhal
of resilience and performance, no doubt. Which makes me think the pretty interface becomes an annoyance sometimes. Let's wait for 2010.Q1 :) As always, we welcome feedback (although zfs-discuss is not the appropriate forum), and are eager to improve the product. Adam -- Adam Leventhal

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS dedup for VAX COFF data type

2010-02-21 Thread Adam Leventhal
Hi Any idea why zfs does not dedup files with this format ? file /opt/XXX/XXX/data VAX COFF executable - version 7926 With dedup enabled, ZFS will identify and remove duplicated regardless of the data format. Adam -- Adam Leventhal, Fishworkshttp://blogs.sun.com/ahl

Re: [zfs-discuss] Proposed idea for enhancement - damage control

2010-02-18 Thread Adam Leventhal
the resilvering process kills performance. Maybe, but then it depends on how much you rely on your disks for performance. Adam -- Adam Leventhal, Fishworkshttp://blogs.sun.com/ahl ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Hybrid storage ... thing

2010-02-05 Thread Adam Leventhal
. As with any block-based caching, this device has no notion of the semantic meaning of a given block so there's only so much intelligence it can bring to bear on the problem. Adam -- Adam Leventhal, Fishworkshttp://blogs.sun.com/ahl

Re: [zfs-discuss] New ZFS Intent Log (ZIL) device available - Beta program now open!

2010-01-13 Thread Adam Leventhal
! This is great news for ZFS. I'll be very interested to see the results members of the community can get with your device as part of their pool. COMSTAR iSCSI performance should be dramatically improved in particular. Adam -- Adam Leventhal, Fishworkshttp://blogs.sun.com/ahl

Re: [zfs-discuss] raidz stripe size (not stripe width)

2010-01-04 Thread Adam Leventhal
? Is it distributed evenly (1.125KB) per device? -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss -- Adam Leventhal, Fishworks

Re: [zfs-discuss] raidz data loss stories?

2009-12-25 Thread Adam Leventhal
with identical parity? You're right that a mirror is a degenerate form of raidz1, for example, but mirrors allow for specific optimizations. While the redundancy would be the same, the performance would not. Adam -- Adam Leventhal, Fishworkshttp://blogs.sun.com/ahl

Re: [zfs-discuss] raidz data loss stories?

2009-12-21 Thread Adam Leventhal
that examines recent trends in hard drives and makes the case for triple-parity RAID. It's at least peripherally relevant to this conversation: http://blogs.sun.com/ahl/entry/acm_triple_parity_raid Adam -- Adam Leventhal, Fishworkshttp://blogs.sun.com/ahl

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Dedupe reporting incorrect savings

2009-12-17 Thread Adam Leventhal
://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss -- Adam Leventhal, Fishworkshttp://blogs.sun.com/ahl ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Dedupe reporting incorrect savings

2009-12-17 Thread Adam Leventhal
pool happen to be 10+1 RAID-Z? Adam -- Adam Leventhal, Fishworkshttp://blogs.sun.com/ahl ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] will deduplication know about old blocks?

2009-12-09 Thread Adam Leventhal
and img0b share blocks? -- Kjetil T. Homme Redpill Linpro AS - Changing the game ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss -- Adam Leventhal, Fishworks

Re: [zfs-discuss] will deduplication know about old blocks?

2009-12-09 Thread Adam Leventhal
, because clone contents are (in this scenario) just some new data? The dedup property applies to all writes so the settings for the pool of origin don't matter, just those on the destination pool. Adam -- Adam Leventhal, Fishworkshttp://blogs.sun.com/ahl

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs code and fishworks fork

2009-10-26 Thread Adam Leventhal
see from the consistent work of Eric Schrock. Adam -- Adam Leventhal, Fishworkshttp://blogs.sun.com/ahl ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Checksums

2009-10-25 Thread Adam Leventhal
a substantial hit in throughput moving from one to the other. Tim, That all really depends on your specific system and workload. As with any performance related matter experimentation is vital for making your final decision. Adam -- Adam Leventhal, Fishworkshttp

Re: [zfs-discuss] Checksums

2009-10-23 Thread Adam Leventhal
with a zfs send/receive on the receiving side? As with all property changes, new writes get the new properties. Old data is not rewritten. Adam -- Adam Leventhal, Fishworks http://blogs.sun.com/ahl ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs

Re: [zfs-discuss] RAIDZ versus mirrroed

2009-09-17 Thread Adam Leventhal
parity RAID-6block-interleaved double distributed parity raidz1 is most like RAID-5; raidz2 is most like RAID-6. There's no RAID level that covers more than two parity disks, but raidz3 is most like RAID-6, but with triple distributed parity. Adam -- Adam Leventhal, Fishworks

[zfs-discuss] Problem with RAID-Z in builds snv_120 - snv_123

2009-09-03 Thread Adam Leventhal
/ (N-1)) is odd therefore K * (N-1) + K = K * N is odd If N is even K * N cannot be odd and therefore the situation cannot arise. If N is odd, it is possible to satisfy (1) and (2). -- Adam Leventhal, Fishworkshttp://blogs.sun.com/ahl

Re: [zfs-discuss] Problem with RAID-Z in builds snv_120 - snv_123

2009-09-03 Thread Adam Leventhal
should take a look at? Absolutely not. That is an unrelated issue. This problem is isolated to RAID-Z. And good luck with the fix for build 124. Are talking days or weeks for the fix to be available, do you think? :) -- Days or hours. Adam -- Adam Leventhal, Fishworks http

Re: [zfs-discuss] snv_110 - snv_121 produces checksum errors on Raid-Z pool

2009-09-02 Thread Adam Leventhal
to the last either later today or tomorrow. Adam -- Adam Leventhal, Fishworks http://blogs.sun.com/ahl ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] 7110: Would it self upgrade the system zpool?

2009-09-02 Thread Adam Leventhal
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Re: [zfs-discuss] snv_110 - snv_121 produces checksum errors on Raid-Z pool

2009-09-01 Thread Adam Leventhal
Hi James, After investigating this problem a bit I'd suggest avoiding deploying RAID-Z until this issue is resolved. I anticipate having it fixed in build 124. Apologies for the inconvenience. Adam On Aug 28, 2009, at 8:20 PM, James Lever wrote: On 28/08/2009, at 3:23 AM, Adam Leventhal

Re: [zfs-discuss] change raidz1 to raidz2 with BP rewrite?

2009-08-30 Thread Adam Leventhal
be satisfying to add another request for it, Matt is already cranking on it as fast as he can and more requests for it are likely to have the opposite of the intended effect. Adam -- Adam Leventhal, Fishworkshttp://blogs.sun.com/ahl

Re: [zfs-discuss] change raidz1 to raidz2 with BP rewrite?

2009-08-29 Thread Adam Leventhal
Will BP rewrite allow adding a drive to raidz1 to get raidz2? And how is status on BP rewrite? Far away? Not started yet? Planning? BP rewrite is an important component technology, but there's a bunch beyond that. It's not a high priority right now for us at Sun. Adam -- Adam Leventhal

Re: [zfs-discuss] snv_110 - snv_121 produces checksum errors on Raid-Z pool

2009-08-27 Thread Adam Leventhal
@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss -- Adam Leventhal, Fishworkshttp://blogs.sun.com/ahl ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs

Re: [zfs-discuss] SSD (SLC) for cache...

2009-08-12 Thread Adam Leventhal
money. That's our assessment, but it's highly dependent on the specific characteristics of the MLC NAND itself, the SSD controller, and, of course, the workload. Adam -- Adam Leventhal, Fishworkshttp://blogs.sun.com/ahl

Re: [zfs-discuss] triple-parity: RAID-Z3

2009-07-23 Thread Adam Leventhal
maybe it is different now. Absolutely. I was talking more or less about optimal timing. I realize that due to the priorities within ZFS and real word loads that it can take far longer. Adam -- Adam Leventhal, Fishworks http://blogs.sun.com/ahl

Re: [zfs-discuss] triple-parity: RAID-Z3

2009-07-22 Thread Adam Leventhal
that the parts already developed are truely enterprise- grade. While I don't disagree that the focus for ZFS should be ensuring enterprise-class reliability and performance, let me assure you that requirements are driven by the market and not by marketing. Adam -- Adam Leventhal, Fishworks

Re: [zfs-discuss] triple-parity: RAID-Z3

2009-07-22 Thread Adam Leventhal
writes into larger chunks. I hope that's clear; if it's not, stay tuned for the aforementioned blog post. Adam -- Adam Leventhal, Fishworkshttp://blogs.sun.com/ahl ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [zfs-discuss] triple-parity: RAID-Z3

2009-07-22 Thread Adam Leventhal
Don't hear about triple-parity RAID that often: Author: Adam Leventhal Repository: /hg/onnv/onnv-gate Latest revision: 17811c723fb4f9fce50616cb740a92c8f6f97651 Total changesets: 1 Log message: 6854612 triple-parity RAID-Z http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/onnv-notify/2009-July/ 009872

Re: [zfs-discuss] triple-parity: RAID-Z3

2009-07-22 Thread Adam Leventhal
no way around it. Fortunately with proper scrubbing encountering data corruption in one stripe on three different drives is highly unlikely. Adam -- Adam Leventhal, Fishworkshttp://blogs.sun.com/ahl ___ zfs-discuss mailing list

Re: [zfs-discuss] 7110 questions

2009-06-18 Thread Adam Leventhal
of disks to the OS, so I really only get 14 disks for data. Correct? That's right. We market the 7110 as either 2TB = 146GB x 14 or 4.2TB = 300GB x 14 raw capacity. Adam -- Adam Leventhal, Fishworks http://blogs.sun.com/ahl ___ zfs

Re: [zfs-discuss] 7110 questions

2009-06-18 Thread Adam Leventhal
. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss -- Adam Leventhal, Fishworks http://blogs.sun.com/ahl

Re: [zfs-discuss] SAS 15K drives as L2ARC

2009-05-06 Thread Adam Leventhal
write performance. Adam -- Adam Leventhal, Fishworks http://blogs.sun.com/ahl ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] SSD - slow down with age

2009-02-16 Thread Adam Leventhal
-- Adam Leventhal, Fishworkshttp://blogs.sun.com/ahl ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Disks in each RAIDZ group

2009-01-19 Thread Adam Leventhal
that would hardly be measurable given the architecture of the Hybrid Storage Pool. Recall that unlike other products in the same space, we get our IOPS from flash rather than from a bazillion spindles spinning at 15,000 RPM. Adam -- Adam Leventhal, Fishworks http

Re: [zfs-discuss] replace same sized disk fails with too small error

2009-01-19 Thread Adam Leventhal
their drives with stuff they've bought at Fry's. Is this still covered by their service plan or would this only be in an unsupported config? Thanks. Adam -- Adam Leventhal, Fishworks http://blogs.sun.com/ahl ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs

Re: [zfs-discuss] replace same sized disk fails with too small error

2009-01-19 Thread Adam Leventhal
than ZFS? Are you telling me zfs is deficient to the point it can't handle basic right-sizing like a 15$ sata raid adapter? How do there $15 sata raid adapters solve the problem? The more details you could provide the better obviously. Adam -- Adam Leventhal, Fishworks

Re: [zfs-discuss] Disks in each RAIDZ group

2009-01-19 Thread Adam Leventhal
complexity and little to no value? They seem very different to me, so I suppose the answer to your question is: no I cannot feel the irony oozing out between my lips, and yes I'm oblivious to the same. Adam -- Adam Leventhal, Fishworks http://blogs.sun.com/ahl

Re: [zfs-discuss] replace same sized disk fails with too small error

2009-01-19 Thread Adam Leventhal
to use the full extent of the drives they've paid for, say, if they're using a vendor that already provides that guarantee? You know, sort of like you not letting people choose their raid layout... Yes, I'm not saying it shouldn't be done. I'm asking what the right answer might be. Adam -- Adam

Re: [zfs-discuss] replace same sized disk fails with too small error

2009-01-19 Thread Adam Leventhal
it actually applies. Adam -- Adam Leventhal, Fishworks http://blogs.sun.com/ahl ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] replace same sized disk fails with too small error

2009-01-18 Thread Adam Leventhal
not have that assurance. Adam -- Adam Leventhal, Fishworkshttp://blogs.sun.com/ahl ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Comparison between the S-TEC Zeus and the Intel X25-E ??

2009-01-16 Thread Adam Leventhal
@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss -- Adam Leventhal, Fishworkshttp://blogs.sun.com/ahl ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs

Re: [zfs-discuss] Storage 7000

2008-11-19 Thread Adam Leventhal
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 09:09:07AM -0800, Andre Lue wrote: Is the web interface on the appliance available for download or will it make it to opensolaris sometime in the near future? It's not, and it's unlikely to make it to OpenSolaris. Adam -- Adam Leventhal, Fishworks

Re: [zfs-discuss] Storage 7000

2008-11-17 Thread Adam Leventhal
ZFS that's in OpenSolaris today. A pool created on the appliance could potentially be imported on an OpenSolaris system; that is, of course, not explicitly supported in the service contract. Adam -- Adam Leventhal, Fishworks http://blogs.sun.com/ahl

Re: [zfs-discuss] Storage 7000

2008-11-17 Thread Adam Leventhal
. Keep an eye on blogs.sun.com/fishworks. A little off topic: Do you know when the SSDs used in the Storage 7000 are available for the rest of us? I don't think the will be, but it will be possible to purchase them as replacement parts. Adam -- Adam Leventhal, Fishworks

Re: [zfs-discuss] continuous replication

2008-11-14 Thread Adam Leventhal
. Adam -- Adam Leventhal, Fishworks http://blogs.sun.com/ahl ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] OpenStorage GUI

2008-11-11 Thread Adam Leventhal
to the x4540 so that would be required before any upgrade to the equivalent of the Sun Storage 7210. Adam -- Adam Leventhal, Fishworkshttp://blogs.sun.com/ahl ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http

Re: [zfs-discuss] OpenStorage GUI

2008-11-11 Thread Adam Leventhal
On Nov 11, 2008, at 10:41 AM, Brent Jones wrote: Wish I could get my hands on a beta of this GUI... Take a look at the VMware version that you can run on any machine: http://www.sun.com/storage/disk_systems/unified_storage/resources.jsp Adam -- Adam Leventhal, Fishworks

Re: [zfs-discuss] OpenStorage GUI

2008-11-11 Thread Adam Leventhal
Is this software available for people who already have thumpers? We're considering offering an upgrade path for people with existing thumpers. Given the feedback we've been hearing, it seems very likely that we will. No word yet on pricing or availability. Adam -- Adam Leventhal, Fishworks

Re: [zfs-discuss] An slog experiment (my NAS can beat up your NAS)

2008-10-05 Thread Adam Leventhal
of view)? You would lose transactions, but the pool would still reflect a consistent state. So is this idea completely crazy? On the contrary; it's very clever. Adam -- Adam Leventhal, Fishworkshttp://blogs.sun.com/ahl ___ zfs

Re: [zfs-discuss] Which is better for root ZFS: mlc or slc SSD?

2008-09-26 Thread Adam Leventhal
/Pacific (GMT-0800) ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss -- Adam Leventhal, Fishworkshttp://blogs.sun.com/ahl

Re: [zfs-discuss] Ideal Setup: RAID-5, Areca, etc!

2008-07-25 Thread Adam Leventhal
-- Adam Leventhal, Fishworks http://blogs.sun.com/ahl ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] SSD reliability, wear levelling, warranty period

2008-06-11 Thread Adam Leventhal
on this in the next few months. I made a post to my blog that probably won't answer your questions directly, but may help inform you about what we have in mind. http://blogs.sun.com/ahl/entry/flash_hybrid_pools_and_future Adam -- Adam Leventhal, Fishworkshttp://blogs.sun.com/ahl

Re: [zfs-discuss] SSD reliability, wear levelling, warranty period

2008-06-11 Thread Adam Leventhal
an I/O request on my enterprise system. Adam -- Adam Leventhal, Fishworks http://blogs.sun.com/ahl ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS in S10U6 vs openSolaris 05/08

2008-05-16 Thread Adam Leventhal
layer which would break all S10 file systems. So in a very real sense CIFS simply cannot be backported to S10. However, the same arguments were made explaining the difficulty backporting ZFS and GRUB boot to Solaris 10. Adam -- Adam Leventhal, Fishworkshttp://blogs.sun.com

Re: [zfs-discuss] Periodic ZFS maintenance?

2008-04-20 Thread Adam Leventhal
rather than later. Well, tip you off _and_ correct the problems if possible. I believe a long- standing RFE has been to scrub periodically in the background to ensure that correctable problems don't turn into uncorrectable ones. Adam -- Adam Leventhal, Fishworkshttp

[zfs-discuss] Algorithm for expanding RAID-Z

2008-04-08 Thread Adam Leventhal
/expand_o_matic_raid_z I'd encourage anyone interested in getting involved with ZFS development to take a look. Adam -- Adam Leventhal, Fishworkshttp://blogs.sun.com/ahl ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http

Re: [zfs-discuss] Per filesystem scrub

2008-04-01 Thread Adam Leventhal
be a coarse-grained solution to your problem, work is underway to address the problematic interaction between scrubs and snapshots. Adam -- Adam Leventhal, Fishworkshttp://blogs.sun.com/ahl ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Mixing RAIDZ and RAIDZ2 zvols in the same zpool

2008-03-12 Thread Adam Leventhal
could be garnered with one using single-parity RAID as with the other using double- parity RAID. That said, it would be a fairly uncommon scenario. Adam -- Adam Leventhal, Fishworkshttp://blogs.sun.com/ahl ___ zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] raidz in zfs questions

2008-03-05 Thread Adam Leventhal
match a disk of size N with another disk of size 2N and use RAID-Z to turn them into a single vdev. At that point it's probably a better idea to build a striped vdev and use ditto blocks to do your data redundancy by setting copies=2. Adam -- Adam Leventhal, Fishworkshttp

Re: [zfs-discuss] Expanding a RAIDZ based Pool...

2007-12-10 Thread Adam Leventhal
... Adam -- Adam Leventhal, FishWorkshttp://blogs.sun.com/ahl ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Yager on ZFS

2007-11-16 Thread Adam Leventhal
not constitute a significant drawback. I don't really think this would be feasible given how ZFS is stratified today, but go ahead and prove me wrong: here are the instructions for bringing over a copy of the source code: http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/tools/scm - ahl -- Adam Leventhal

Re: [zfs-discuss] Yager on ZFS

2007-11-08 Thread Adam Leventhal
On Wed, Nov 07, 2007 at 01:47:04PM -0800, can you guess? wrote: I do consider the RAID-Z design to be somewhat brain-damaged [...] How so? In my opinion, it seems like a cure for the brain damage of RAID-5. Adam -- Adam Leventhal, FishWorkshttp://blogs.sun.com/ahl

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS RAIDZ vs. RAID5.

2007-09-12 Thread Adam Leventhal
. Assuming relatively large blocks written, RAID-Z and RAID-5 should be laid out on disk very similarly resulting in similar read performance. Did you compare the I/O characteristic of both? Was the bottleneck in the software or the hardware? Very interesting experiment... Adam -- Adam Leventhal

Re: [zfs-discuss] Mirrored zpool across network

2007-08-20 Thread Adam Leventhal
, data is written locally and then transmitted shortly after that. Synchronous replication obviously imposes a much larger performance hit, but asychronous replication means you may lose data over some recent period (but the data will always be consistent). Adam -- Adam Leventhal, Solaris Kernel

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs vol issue?.

2007-08-17 Thread Adam Leventhal
On Thu, Aug 16, 2007 at 05:20:25AM -0700, ramprakash wrote: #zfs mount -a 1. mounts c again. 2. but not vol1.. [ ie /dev/zvol/dsk/mytank/b/c does not contain vol1 ] Is this the normal behavior or is it a bug? That looks like a bug. Please file it. Adam -- Adam Leventhal

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Compression algorithms - Project Proposal

2007-07-05 Thread Adam Leventhal
of Mathematics and Statistics ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss -- Adam Leventhal, Solaris Kernel Development http://blogs.sun.com/ahl

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

2007-07-03 Thread Adam Leventhal
_synchronous_ writes on an SSD, but at a pretty steep cost. Adam -- Adam Leventhal, Solaris Kernel Development http://blogs.sun.com/ahl ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: Mac OS X 10.5 read-only support for ZFS

2007-06-18 Thread Adam Leventhal
. That is, choose the compression method (if any), and then, in effect, partition the CD for RAID-Z or mirroring to stretch the data to fill the entire disc. It wouldn't necessarily be all that efficient to access, but it would give you resiliency against media errors. Adam -- Adam Leventhal

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: LZO compression?

2007-06-17 Thread Adam Leventhal
@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss -- Adam Leventhal, Solaris Kernel Development http://blogs.sun.com/ahl ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs

Re: [zfs-discuss] Mac OS X Leopard to use ZFS

2007-06-07 Thread Adam Leventhal
On Thu, Jun 07, 2007 at 08:38:10PM -0300, Toby Thain wrote: When should we expect Solaris kernel under OS X? 10.6? 10.7? :-) I'm sure Jonathan will be announcing that soon. ;-) Adam -- Adam Leventhal, Solaris Kernel Development http://blogs.sun.com/ahl

Re: [zfs-discuss] RFE: ISCSI alias when shareiscsi=on

2007-05-24 Thread Adam Leventhal
___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss -- Adam Leventhal, Solaris Kernel Development http://blogs.sun.com/ahl ___ zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: ZFS over a layered driver interface

2007-05-14 Thread Adam Leventhal
. This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss -- Adam Leventhal, Solaris Kernel Development http://blogs.sun.com/ahl

Re: [zfs-discuss] iscsitadm local_name in ZFS

2007-05-11 Thread Adam Leventhal
-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss -- Adam Leventhal, Solaris Kernel Development http://blogs.sun.com/ahl ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: Re: gzip compression throttles system?

2007-05-09 Thread Adam Leventhal
. There are outstanding problems with compression in the ZIO pipeline that may contribute to the bursty behavior. Adam -- Adam Leventhal, Solaris Kernel Development http://blogs.sun.com/ahl ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS and Linux

2007-04-12 Thread Adam Leventhal
.) There's nothing today preventing Microsoft (or Apple) from sticking ZFS into their OS. They'd just to have to release the (minimal) diffs to ZFS-specific files. Adam -- Adam Leventhal, Solaris Kernel Development http://blogs.sun.com/ahl ___ zfs

Re: [zfs-discuss] Setting up for zfsboot

2007-04-04 Thread Adam Leventhal
On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 03:34:13PM +0200, Constantin Gonzalez wrote: - RAID-Z is _very_ slow when one disk is broken. Do you have data on this? The reconstruction should be relatively cheap especially when compared with the initial disk access. Adam -- Adam Leventhal, Solaris Kernel

Re: [zfs-discuss] Setting up for zfsboot

2007-04-04 Thread Adam Leventhal
you collect the performance data? I think a fair test would be to compare the performance of a fully functional RAID-Z stripe against a one with a missing (absent) device. Adam -- Adam Leventhal, Solaris Kernel Development http://blogs.sun.com/ahl

Re: [zfs-discuss] Convert raidz

2007-04-02 Thread Adam Leventhal
configuration, BUT would potentially make much less efficient use of storage. Adam [1] http://blogs.sun.com/bonwick/entry/raid_z -- Adam Leventhal, Solaris Kernel Development http://blogs.sun.com/ahl ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss

[zfs-discuss] gzip compression support

2007-03-23 Thread Adam Leventhal
to by its shortened column name compress. -- Adam Leventhal, Solaris Kernel Development http://blogs.sun.com/ahl ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] gzip compression support

2007-03-23 Thread Adam Leventhal
On Fri, Mar 23, 2007 at 11:41:21AM -0700, Rich Teer wrote: I recently integrated this fix into ON: 6536606 gzip compression for ZFS Cool! Can you recall into which build it went? I put it back yesterday so it will be in build 62. Adam -- Adam Leventhal, Solaris Kernel Development

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS over iSCSI question

2007-03-23 Thread Adam Leventhal
that FC-AL, ... do better in this case iscsi doesn't use TCP, does it? Anyway, the problem is really transport independent. It does use TCP. Were you thinking UDP? Adam -- Adam Leventhal, Solaris Kernel Development http://blogs.sun.com/ahl ___ zfs

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS overhead killed my ZVOL

2007-03-20 Thread Adam Leventhal
: 6430003 record size needs to affect zvol reservation size on RAID-Z Adam -- Adam Leventhal, Solaris Kernel Development http://blogs.sun.com/ahl ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS overhead killed my ZVOL

2007-03-20 Thread Adam Leventhal
On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 01:36:10AM +0100, Robert Milkowski wrote: btw: I assume that compression level will be hard coded after all, right? Nope. You'll be able to choose from gzip-N with N ranging from 1 to 9 just like gzip(1). Adam -- Adam Leventhal, Solaris Kernel Development http

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs received vol not appearing on iscsi target list

2007-02-26 Thread Adam Leventhal
or in the iSCSI target. Please file a bug. Adam -- Adam Leventhal, Solaris Kernel Development http://blogs.sun.com/ahl ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: Need help making lsof work with ZFS

2007-02-18 Thread Adam Leventhal
not supported, shouldn't the header files be shipped so people can make sense of kernel data structure types? Adam -- Adam Leventhal, Solaris Kernel Development http://blogs.sun.com/ahl ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: Re: Adding my own compression to zfs

2007-01-29 Thread Adam Leventhal
-- and considerably better than LZJB. Adam -- Adam Leventhal, Solaris Kernel Development http://blogs.sun.com/ahl ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Can you turn on zfs compression when the fs is already populated?

2007-01-25 Thread Adam Leventhal
happens to the existing data? Yes. Nothing. Casper ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss -- Adam Leventhal, Solaris Kernel Development http://blogs.sun.com/ahl

Re: [zfs-discuss] odd versus even

2007-01-07 Thread Adam Leventhal
@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss -- Adam Leventhal, Solaris Kernel Development http://blogs.sun.com/ahl ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs

Re: [zfs-discuss] Solaris 11/06 + iscsi integration

2006-12-14 Thread Adam Leventhal
___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss -- Adam Leventhal, Solaris Kernel Development http://blogs.sun.com/ahl ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] raid-z random read performance

2006-11-09 Thread Adam Leventhal
mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss -- Adam Leventhal, Solaris Kernel Development http://blogs.sun.com/ahl ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS/iSCSI target integration

2006-11-09 Thread Adam Leventhal
Thanks for all the feedback. This PSARC case was approved yesterday and will be integrated relatively soon. Adam On Wed, Nov 01, 2006 at 01:33:33AM -0800, Adam Leventhal wrote: Rick McNeal and I have been working on building support for sharing ZVOLs as iSCSI targets directly into ZFS. Below

[zfs-discuss] Re: [storage-discuss] ZFS/iSCSI target integration

2006-11-02 Thread Adam Leventhal
, and so set 'shareiscsi=on' for the pool. hey adam, what's direct mean? It's iSCSI target lingo for vanilla disk emulation. Adam -- Adam Leventhal, Solaris Kernel Development http://blogs.sun.com/ahl ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS/iSCSI target integration

2006-11-01 Thread Adam Leventhal
On Wed, Nov 01, 2006 at 10:05:01AM +, Ceri Davies wrote: On Wed, Nov 01, 2006 at 01:33:33AM -0800, Adam Leventhal wrote: Rick McNeal and I have been working on building support for sharing ZVOLs as iSCSI targets directly into ZFS. Below is the proposal I'll be submitting to PSARC

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS/iSCSI target integration

2006-11-01 Thread Adam Leventhal
to be persistent. This is similar to sharing ZFS filesystems via NFS: you can use share(1M), but it doesn't affect the persistent properties of the dataset. What properties are you specifically interested in modifying? Adam -- Adam Leventhal, Solaris Kernel Development http://blogs.sun.com/ahl

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