Re: [zfs-discuss] best migration path from Solaris 10

2011-03-23 Thread Edho P Arief
On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 3:50 PM, Nikola M. minik...@gmail.com wrote: I think site: Phoronix.com already did comparisons with ZFS under several platforms and other (Linux) file systems without sweat. with single disk configuration no less (er, more) ;) You may want to check this instead:

Re: [zfs-discuss] Upgrade a degraded pool

2010-10-14 Thread Edho P Arief
On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 11:47 PM, Oskar oskars.ga...@gmail.com wrote: I know that this is not necessarily the right forum, but the FreeBSD forum haven't been able to help me... I recently updated my FreeBSD 8.0 RC3 to 8.1 and after the update I can't import my zpool. My computer says that

Re: [zfs-discuss] best way to check zfs/zpool version programatically

2010-10-09 Thread Edho P Arief
On Sun, Oct 10, 2010 at 3:18 AM, sridhar surampudi toyours_srid...@yahoo.co.in wrote: Hi, what is the right way to check versions of zfs and zpool ?? I am writing piece of code which call zfs command line further. Before actually initiating and going ahead I wan to check the kind of version

Re: [zfs-discuss] Howto reclaim space under legacy mountpoint?

2010-09-19 Thread Edho P Arief
On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 7:42 PM, Gary Gendel g...@genashor.com wrote: I moved my home directories to a new disk and then mounted the disk using a legacy mount point over /export/home.  Here is the output of the zfs list: NAME                 USED  AVAIL  REFER  MOUNTPOINT rpool              

Re: [zfs-discuss] resilver that never finishes

2010-09-18 Thread Edho P Arief
On Sat, Sep 18, 2010 at 7:01 PM, Tom Bird t...@marmot.org.uk wrote: All said and done though, we will have to live with snv_134's bugs from now on, or perhaps I could try Sol 10. or OpenIllumos. Or Nexenta. Or FreeBSD. Or insert osol distro name. -- O ascii ribbon campaign - stop html mail -

Re: [zfs-discuss] 4k block alignment question (X-25E)

2010-08-30 Thread Edho P Arief
On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 6:03 AM, Ray Van Dolson rvandol...@esri.com wrote: In any case -- any thoughts on whether or not I'll be helping anything if I change my slog slice starting cylinder to be 4k aligned even though slice 0 isn't? some people claims that due to how zfs works, there will be

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs lists discrepancy after added a new vdev to pool

2010-08-27 Thread Edho P Arief
On Sat, Aug 28, 2010 at 7:54 AM, Darin Perusich darin.perus...@cognigencorp.com wrote: Hello All, I'm sure this has been discussed previously but I haven't been able to find an answer to this. I've added another raidz1 vdev to an existing storage pool and the increased available storage isn't

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS SCRUB

2010-08-09 Thread Edho P Arief
On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 6:33 PM, Mohammed Sadiq sadiq1...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Is it recommended to do scrub while the filesystem is mounted . yes How frequently do we have to do scrub and at what circumstances. some people say weekly, some other monthly, some other, like myself, whenever

Re: [zfs-discuss] Encryption?

2010-07-11 Thread Edho P Arief
On Sun, Jul 11, 2010 at 11:51 AM, Michael Johnson mjjohnson@yahoo.com wrote: I'm planning on running FreeBSD in VirtualBox (with a Linux host) and giving it raw disk access to four drives, which I plan to configure as a raidz2 volume. On top of that, I'm considering using encryption.  I

Re: [zfs-discuss] Migrating to ZFS

2010-06-04 Thread Edho P Arief
On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 2:59 PM, zfsnoob4 zfsnoob...@hotmail.co.uk wrote: It's not easy to make Solaris slices on the boot drive. As I am just realizing. The installer does not have any kind of partition software. I have a linux boot disc and I am contemplating using gparted to resize the

Re: [zfs-discuss] Can RAIDZ disks be slices ?

2010-04-19 Thread Edho P Arief
On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 12:07 PM, Ian Collins i...@ianshome.com wrote: And lose my existing data on those 2 500GB disks? Copy it back form the temporary pool, you are replacing your existing pool, aren't you?  So you'll loose the data on it regardless. Please, at least read the post before

Re: [zfs-discuss] Can RAIDZ disks be slices ?

2010-04-19 Thread Edho P Arief
On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 12:32 PM, Sunil funt...@yahoo.com wrote: ouch! My apologies! I did not understand what you were trying to say. I was gearing towards: 1. Using the newer 1TB in the eventual RAIDZ. Newer hardware typically means (slightly) faster access times and sequential

Re: [zfs-discuss] Q : recommendations for zpool configuration

2010-03-19 Thread Edho P Arief
On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 2:34 PM, taemun tae...@gmail.com wrote: A pool with a 4-wide raidz2 is a completely nonsensical idea. It has the same amount of accessible storage as two striped mirrors. And would be slower in terms of IOPS, and be harder to upgrade in the future (you'd need to keep

Re: [zfs-discuss] Posible newbie question about space between zpool and zfs file systems

2010-03-17 Thread Edho P Arief
On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 9:09 PM, Giovanni Tirloni gtirl...@sysdroid.com wrote: IMHO, what matters is that pretty much everything from the disk controller to the CPU and network interface is advertised in power-of-2 terms and disks sit alone using power-of-10. And students are taught that

Re: [zfs-discuss] Posible newbie question about space between zpool and zfs file systems

2010-03-16 Thread Edho P Arief
On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 5:45 AM, Erik Trimble erik.trim...@sun.com wrote: Up until 5 years ago (or so), GigaByte meant a power of 2 to EVERYONE, not just us techies.   I would hardly call 40+ years of using the various giga/mega/kilo  prefixes as a power of 2 in computer science as