Re: [zfs-discuss] VDI iops with caching

2013-01-04 Thread Eric D. Mudama
rfect use case for an L2ARC on SSD. -- Eric D. Mudama edmud...@bounceswoosh.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] any more efficient way to transfer snapshot between two hosts than ssh tunnel?

2012-12-14 Thread Eric D. Mudama
don't read/write that fast when pulling snapshot contents off the disks, since they're essentially random access on a server that's been creating/deleting snapshots for a long time. --eric -- Eric D. Mudama edmud...@bounceswoosh.org ___ zfs-

Re: [zfs-discuss] Intel DC S3700

2012-11-14 Thread Eric D. Mudama
sizes - i.e. when caching ZFS metadata. Would an ashift of 12 conceivably address that issue? -- Eric D. Mudama edmud...@bounceswoosh.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Good tower server for around 1,250 USD?

2012-03-22 Thread Eric D. Mudama
and until I go over some of those I don't want to ask about that subject just yet. Thanks for the help. Most of the supermicro stuff works great for me. -- Eric D. Mudama edmud...@bounceswoosh.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@ope

Re: [zfs-discuss] Any HP Servers recommendation for Openindiana (Capacity Server) ?

2012-01-06 Thread Eric D. Mudama
H200/H700 adapters, since we don't really need 6Gbit/s and are still ordering our systems with SAS 6/iR. --eric -- Eric D. Mudama edmud...@bounceswoosh.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/ma

Re: [zfs-discuss] Any HP Servers recommendation for Openindiana (Capacity Server) ?

2012-01-03 Thread Eric D. Mudama
hat got us with the HP boxes was the unsupported RAID cards. We ended up getting Dell T610 boxes with SAS6i/R cards, which are properly supported in Solaris/OI. Supposedly the H200/H700 cards are just their name for the 6gbit LSI SAS cards, but I haven't tested them personally. --eric

Re: [zfs-discuss] slow zfs send/recv speed

2011-11-16 Thread Eric D. Mudama
ate whether his 160GB file test was done on a virgin pool, or whether it was allocated out of an existing pool. If the latter, your comment is the likely explanation. If the former, your comment wouldn't explain the slow performance. --eric --

Re: [zfs-discuss] slow zfs send/recv speed

2011-11-15 Thread Eric D. Mudama
for 'send' and 70 Mbytes for 'recv'. http://wikitech-static.wikimedia.org/articles/z/f/s/Zfs_replication.html Their data doesn't match mine. -- Eric D. Mudama edmud...@bounceswoosh.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-d

Re: [zfs-discuss] Replacement for X25-E

2011-09-22 Thread Eric D. Mudama
ssuming a write amplification of 1.0) In practice, wAmp is often much higher, depending on the workload. How long do you plan on having this device last? How much retention do you need in your application? What is your workload? --eric -- Eric D. Mudama edmud...@b

Re: [zfs-discuss] Pure SSD Pool

2011-07-16 Thread Eric D. Mudama
it to 80GB. Assuming the original drive was a 100GB/100GiB design, you now have (100*0.07)+20 GB of spare area, which depending on the design, may significantly lower write amplification and thus increase performance on a device that is "full." --eric -- Eric D. Mudama edmud

Re: [zfs-discuss] question about COW and snapshots

2011-06-15 Thread Eric D. Mudama
eas via NFS or CIFS, and give them a time-machine like picture of history for that work area (hourly for a day, daily for a week, weekly for a month, monthly for a year, etc.) --eric -- Eric D. Mudama edmud...@bounceswoosh.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing lis

Re: [zfs-discuss] optimal layout for 8x 1 TByte SATA (consumer)

2011-06-14 Thread Eric D. Mudama
tions_space_vs_mttdl http://blog.richardelling.com/2010/02/zfs-data-protection-comparison.html I think the second picture is the one you were thinking of. The 3rd link adds raidz3 data to the charts. -- Eric D. Mudama edmud...@bounceswoosh.org ___

Re: [zfs-discuss] SATA disk perf question

2011-06-03 Thread Eric D. Mudama
maybe 150-200 for cache enabled writes. The above are all full-stroke, so the average seek is 1/3 stroke (unqueued). On a smaller data set where the drive dwarfs the data set, average seek distance is much shorter and the resulting IOPS can be quite a bit higher. --eric -- Eric D. Mu

Re: [zfs-discuss] Experiences with 10.000+ filesystems

2011-05-31 Thread Eric D. Mudama
eliminate #2. -- Eric D. Mudama edmud...@bounceswoosh.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Mapping sas address to physical disk in enclosure

2011-05-19 Thread Eric D. Mudama
' with the WWID printed on the label of the disk. It's likely not visible, however, if you had a maintenance window you could pull the disks to write them down and just keep the paper handy. That, or use the trusty 'dd' to read from it and find the solid light. --eric -- Eric

Re: [zfs-discuss] 350TB+ storage solution

2011-05-16 Thread Eric D. Mudama
than bubble wrap. --eric -- Eric D. Mudama edmud...@bounceswoosh.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] 350TB+ storage solution

2011-05-16 Thread Eric D. Mudama
years ago and Newegg may have changed their packaging since then. NewEgg packaging is exactly what you describe, unchanged in the last few years. Most recent newegg drive purchase was last week for me. --eric -- Eric D. Mudama edmud...@bounceswoosh.org

Re: [zfs-discuss] Extremely Slow ZFS Performance

2011-05-04 Thread Eric D. Mudama
On Wed, May 4 at 12:21, Adam Serediuk wrote: Both iostat and zpool iostat show very little to zero load on the devices even while blocking. Any suggestions on avenues of approach for troubleshooting? is 'iostat -en' error free? -- Eric D. Mudama edmud...@bounce

Re: [zfs-discuss] Quick zfs send -i performance questions

2011-05-03 Thread Eric D. Mudama
nty fast and your CPU should be fine too. --eric -- Eric D. Mudama edmud...@bounceswoosh.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] ls reports incorrect file size

2011-05-02 Thread Eric D. Mudama
On Mon, May 2 at 15:30, Brandon High wrote: On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 1:56 PM, Eric D. Mudama wrote: that the application would have done the seek+write combination, since on NTFS (which doesn't support sparse) these would have been real 1.5GB files, and there would be hundreds or thousan

Re: [zfs-discuss] ls reports incorrect file size

2011-05-02 Thread Eric D. Mudama
On Mon, May 2 at 20:50, Darren J Moffat wrote: On 05/ 2/11 08:41 PM, Eric D. Mudama wrote: On Mon, May 2 at 14:01, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: On Mon, 2 May 2011, Eric D. Mudama wrote: Hi. While doing a scan of disk usage, I noticed the following oddity. I have a directory of files (named

Re: [zfs-discuss] ls reports incorrect file size

2011-05-02 Thread Eric D. Mudama
On Mon, May 2 at 14:01, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: On Mon, 2 May 2011, Eric D. Mudama wrote: Hi. While doing a scan of disk usage, I noticed the following oddity. I have a directory of files (named file.dat for this example) that all appear as ~1.5GB when using 'ls -l', but that

[zfs-discuss] ls reports incorrect file size

2011-05-02 Thread Eric D. Mudama
ck counts from what I can tell. edmudama$ zpool list NAMESIZE ALLOC FREECAP DEDUP HEALTH ALTROOT rpool 29.8G 22.0G 7.79G73% 1.00x ONLINE - tank 1.81T 879G 977G47% 1.00x ONLINE - Is something broken? Any idea why I am seeing the wrong sizes in ls? --

Re: [zfs-discuss] X4540 no next-gen product?

2011-04-08 Thread Eric D. Mudama
he documentation how many 6Gbit/s SAS lanes are connected for that many devices though. Maybe that plus a support contract from Sun would be a worthy replacement, though you definitely won't have a single vendor to contact for service issues. --eric -- Eric D. Mudama

Re: [zfs-discuss] X4540 no next-gen product?

2011-04-08 Thread Eric D. Mudama
cally an LSI 9211-8i, which also works well. I can't comment on HP's support, I have no experience with it. We now self-support our software (OpenIndiana b148) --eric -- Eric D. Mudama edmud...@bounceswoosh.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zf

Re: [zfs-discuss] cannot replace c10t0d0 with c10t0d0: device is too small

2011-03-04 Thread Eric D. Mudama
have had. --eric -- Eric D. Mudama edmud...@bounceswoosh.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Good SLOG devices?

2011-03-02 Thread Eric D. Mudama
orts of short-stroking the amount of time it accumulates write data resulting in improved performance in some workloads. --eric -- Eric D. Mudama edmud...@bounceswoosh.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Performance

2011-02-27 Thread Eric D. Mudama
're overwriting looked like, plus how fragmented the free space is. Into a device with plenty of free space, small writes should be significantly faster than write-in-place. --eric -- Eric D. Mudama edmud...@bounceswoosh.org ___ zfs-discuss mail

Re: [zfs-discuss] External SATA drive enclosures + ZFS?

2011-02-27 Thread Eric D. Mudama
tached SAS JBODs. If you do it right, while your chances of any single hardware failure occurring goes up with the # of components in the whole system, your probability of a failure taking you offline should be <= the unified solution. -- Eric D. Mudama edmud...@bounceswoosh.org ___

Re: [zfs-discuss] SIL3114 and sparc solaris 10

2011-02-25 Thread Eric D. Mudama
was a pci and a pci-x version of the 3124, so watch out.) Most 3124 I've seen are PCI-X natively, but they work fine in PCI slots, albiet with less bandwidth available. --eric -- Eric D. Mudama edmud...@bounceswoosh.org ___ zfs-discuss mailin

Re: [zfs-discuss] SIL3114 and sparc solaris 10

2011-02-23 Thread Eric D. Mudama
On Wed, Feb 23 at 13:16, Mauricio Tavares wrote: On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 12:53 PM, Eric D. Mudama wrote: On Wed, Feb 23 at 13:29, Andrew Gabriel wrote: Mauricio Tavares wrote: Perhaps a bit off-topic (I asked on the rescue list -- http://web.archiveorange.com/archive/v/OaDWVGdLhxWVWIEabz4F

Re: [zfs-discuss] SIL3114 and sparc solaris 10

2011-02-23 Thread Eric D. Mudama
ies, resulting in numerous reports of compatibility and performance problems with 3112/3114 hardware. I +1 the suggestion to find something more modern if at all possible. --eric -- Eric D. Mudama edmud...@bounceswoosh.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list

Re: [zfs-discuss] Incremental send/recv interoperability

2011-02-15 Thread Eric D. Mudama
stream that has been converted to use the new pool when you recv it. I could be wrong though, we update our pools in lockstep and err on the side of backwards compliance with our multi-system backup. -- Eric D. Mudama edmud...@bounceswoosh.org ___ zfs-

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS and TRIM - No need for TRIM

2011-02-07 Thread Eric D. Mudama
need to be maintained by the garbage collection engine. Depending on the design of the SSD, this can significantly reduce the write amplification of the SSD. -- Eric D. Mudama edmud...@bounceswoosh.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolari

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS and spindle speed (7.2k / 10k / 15k)

2011-02-02 Thread Eric D. Mudama
nel. If they could just get their channel working at 3GHz instead of 2GHz or whatever, they'd use that capability to pack even more bits into the consumer drives to lower costs. -- Eric D. Mudama edmud...@bounceswoosh.org ___ zfs-discuss mailin

Re: [zfs-discuss] fmadm faulty not showing faulty/offline disks?

2011-02-02 Thread Eric D. Mudama
At home now so can't test it. -- Eric D. Mudama edmud...@bounceswoosh.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS and spindle speed (7.2k / 10k / 15k)

2011-02-02 Thread Eric D. Mudama
operations. Me too, though not everyone realizes how much overhead there can be in small operations, even sequential ones. --eric -- Eric D. Mudama edmud...@bounceswoosh.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS and spindle speed (7.2k / 10k / 15k)

2011-02-02 Thread Eric D. Mudama
anufacture at high yields as I understood it. http://www.tomshardware.com/news/seagate-hdd-harddrive,8279.html -- Eric D. Mudama edmud...@bounceswoosh.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Question regarding "zfs snapshot -r" and also regarding "zfs send -R"

2011-02-02 Thread Eric D. Mudama
t of new data since the last time you sent incrementals, similar to rsync or a half dozen other techniques. At work we always use -i, and our send|recv is anywhere from 5-20 minutes, depending on what data was added or modified. --eric -- Eric D. Mudama edmud...@bounceswoosh.org _

Re: [zfs-discuss] Question regarding "zfs snapshot -r"

2011-02-01 Thread Eric D. Mudama
he snapshot time is the time of the initial command across all filesystems in the tree, even if it takes 10 seconds to actually complete the command. However, I have no such system where I can prove this guess as correct or not. --eric -- Eric D. Mu

Re: [zfs-discuss] Lower latency ZIL Option?: SSD behind Controller BB Write Cache

2011-01-28 Thread Eric D. Mudama
ldn't be having this discussion. --eric -- Eric D. Mudama edmud...@mail.bounceswoosh.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] reliable, enterprise worthy JBODs?

2011-01-25 Thread Eric D. Mudama
think you only need 2 adapters per stack of JBODs. With adapters A0 and A1, and JBODs J0 through J3, you get: A0 -> J0 -> J1 -> J2 -> J3 A1 -> J3 -> J2 -> J1 -> J0 Yes, all the above are daisy-chained, starting at a different side of the stack with each adapt

Re: [zfs-discuss] How to increase iometer reading?

2011-01-09 Thread Eric D. Mudama
performance counters we should look for to identify the bottlenecks. Don't want to replace a component just to find that there was no improvement in iometer reading. fsstat zfs 1 zpool iostat 1 any suggestions beyond that will require a lot more detail on your setup and target workload -- E

Re: [zfs-discuss] (Fletcher+Verification) versus (Sha256+No Verification)

2011-01-09 Thread Eric D. Mudama
ions.html Now, obviously the above is in the context of having to restore from backup, which is rare, however in live usage I don't think the math changes a whole lot. -- Eric D. Mudama edmud...@mail.bounceswoosh.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing li

Re: [zfs-discuss] Looking for 3.5" SSD for ZIL

2010-12-23 Thread Eric D. Mudama
Vertex 2 Pro. Okay, I understand where you're coming from. Yes, buyers must be aware of the test methodologies for published benchmark results, especially those used to sell drives by the vendors themselves. "Up to" is generally a poor thing to base a buying decision. --eric --

Re: [zfs-discuss] SAS/short stroking vs. SSDs for ZIL

2010-12-23 Thread Eric D. Mudama
just don't think the math works out. At that point, you're probably better-off not having a dedicated ZIL, instead of burning 10 slots and 150W. --eric -- Eric D. Mudama edmud...@mail.bounceswoosh.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discus

Re: [zfs-discuss] Looking for 3.5" SSD for ZIL

2010-12-23 Thread Eric D. Mudama
ch were still in use. -- Eric D. Mudama edmud...@mail.bounceswoosh.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Looking for 3.5" SSD for ZIL

2010-12-23 Thread Eric D. Mudama
appen using NAND technology. Non-NAND SSDs may or may not have similar or related limitations. -- Eric D. Mudama edmud...@mail.bounceswoosh.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Looking for 3.5" SSD for ZIL

2010-12-23 Thread Eric D. Mudama
7;ll still provide a huge performance boost when used as a ZIL in their system. For a huge ZFS box providing tens of ZFS filesystems in a pool all with huge user loads, sure, a RAM based device makes sense, but it's overkill for some large percentage of ZFS users, I imagine.

Re: [zfs-discuss] A few questions

2010-12-21 Thread Eric D. Mudama
On Tue, Dec 21 at 8:24, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: From: edmud...@mail.bounceswoosh.org [mailto:edmud...@mail.bounceswoosh.org] On Behalf Of Eric D. Mudama On Mon, Dec 20 at 19:19, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: >If there is no correlation between on-disk order of blocks for different >disks

Re: [zfs-discuss] A few questions

2010-12-20 Thread Eric D. Mudama
the system. --eric -- Eric D. Mudama edmud...@mail.bounceswoosh.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] iops...

2010-12-06 Thread Eric D. Mudama
ast in any configuration with lots of drives. -- Eric D. Mudama edmud...@mail.bounceswoosh.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Running on Dell hardware?

2010-10-22 Thread Eric D. Mudama
ax_cstates 1 supported_max_cstates 1 supported_max_cstates 1 supported_max_cstates 1 supported_max_cstates 1 supported_max_cstates 1 --eric -- Eric D. Mudama edmud...@mail.bounce

Re: [zfs-discuss] Running on Dell hardware?

2010-10-13 Thread Eric D. Mudama
server in the future. Out of curiosity, did you run into this: http://blogs.everycity.co.uk/alasdair/2010/06/broadcom-nics-dropping-out-on-solaris-10/ --eric -- Eric D. Mudama edmud...@mail.bounceswoosh.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Finding corrupted files

2010-10-06 Thread Eric D. Mudama
pth, there is opportunity for improvement, to an asymptotic limit driven by servo settle speed. Obviously this performance improvement comes with the standard WB risks, and YMMV, IANAL, etc. --eric -- Eric D. Mudama edmud...@mail.bounceswoosh.org ___ zfs

Re: [zfs-discuss] Configuration questions for Home File Server (CPU cores, dedup, checksum)?

2010-09-07 Thread Eric D. Mudama
7;ps aux | grep tank' Am I missing something? -- Eric D. Mudama edmud...@mail.bounceswoosh.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] what is zfs doing during a log resilver?

2010-09-04 Thread Eric D. Mudama
hour? Our boot drives (32GB X25-E) will resilver in about 1 minute. -- Eric D. Mudama edmud...@mail.bounceswoosh.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

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

2010-08-30 Thread Eric D. Mudama
ut that's for a 4k rotating drive, which has a much different latency profile than an SSD. I was wondering if anyone had a benchmarking showing this alignment mattered on the latest SSDs. My guess is no, but I have no data. -- Eric D. Mudama edmud..

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

2010-08-30 Thread Eric D. Mudama
Do you specifically have benchmark data indicating unaligned or aligned+offset access on the X25-E is significantly worse than aligned access? I'd thought the "tier1" SSDs didn't have problems with these workloads. --eric -- Eric

Re: [zfs-discuss] VM's on ZFS - 7210

2010-08-27 Thread Eric D. Mudama
to create the scenario you linked due to the limited data set size. -- Eric D. Mudama edmud...@mail.bounceswoosh.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS development moving behind closed doors

2010-08-22 Thread Eric D. Mudama
nal reference, but I believe he was arguing that by moving code into the kernel and marking as experimental, it's more likely to be tested and have the bugs worked out, than if it forever lives as patchsets. Given the test environment, can't say I can argue against that point of

Re: [zfs-discuss] Opensolaris is apparently dead

2010-08-16 Thread Eric D. Mudama
explained to me, a non-compete cannot legally prevent you from earning a living. If your one skill is in writing filesystems, you cannot be prevented from doing so by a noncompete. However, please get your own legal advice, as it varies significantly state-to-state. -- Eric D. Mu

Re: [zfs-discuss] Opensolaris is apparently dead

2010-08-16 Thread Eric D. Mudama
would btrfs serve Oracle outside of the Linux kernel? Maybe allowing SANs built upon btrfs to be natively used within Solaris/Oracle at some point in the future? Adding btrfs->zfs conversion utilities that do things like maintain snapshots, data set p

Re: [zfs-discuss] Opensolaris is apparently dead

2010-08-13 Thread Eric D. Mudama
t into the "main" OS. -- Eric D. Mudama edmud...@mail.bounceswoosh.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS development moving behind closed doors

2010-08-13 Thread Eric D. Mudama
in theory, the "gateway drug" where people can experiment inexpensively to try out new technologies (ZFS, dtrace, crossbow, comstar, etc.) and eventually step up to Oracle's "big iron" as their business grows. --eric -- Eric D. Mu

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

2010-08-11 Thread Eric D. Mudama
+C = P A+x+C-A-C = P-A-C x = P-A-C and voila, you now have your original B contents, since B=x. --eric -- Eric D. Mudama edmud...@mail.bounceswoosh.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman

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

2010-08-10 Thread Eric D. Mudama
ot as a tail to each stored byte on individual devices. -- Eric D. Mudama edmud...@mail.bounceswoosh.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Mirrored raidz

2010-07-26 Thread Eric D. Mudama
hatever frequency you choose. You don't even need the same pool layout on the backup machine. Primary can be a stripe of mirrors, while your backup can be a wide raidz2 setup. --eric -- Eric D. Mudama edmud...@mail.bounceswoosh.org ___ zfs-dis

Re: [zfs-discuss] Legality and the future of zfs...

2010-07-19 Thread Eric D. Mudama
pport contracts associated with them) Any company that believes it can add more value in their IT supply chain than the vendor they'd be buying from would be foolish not to put energy into that space (if they can "afford" to.) Google is but a single example, though I am sure there a

Re: [zfs-discuss] 1tb SATA drives

2010-07-19 Thread Eric D. Mudama
alk just fine to the 9211 HBAs. -- Eric D. Mudama edmud...@mail.bounceswoosh.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] 3 Data Disks: partitioning for 1 Raid0 and 1 Raidz1

2010-05-15 Thread Eric D. Mudama
covery allows a reinstall of the OS, and the amount of custom configuration is minimal in our rpool. -- Eric D. Mudama edmud...@mail.bounceswoosh.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Hard drives for ZFS NAS

2010-05-12 Thread Eric D. Mudama
www.wdc.com/en/products/products.asp?DriveID=610Â [Green] * 6x WD1002FBYS - [4]http://www.wdc.com/en/products/Products.asp?DriveID=503Â [RE3] We use the WD1002FBYS (1.0TB WD RE3) and haven't had an issue yet in our Dell T610 chassis. -- Eric

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs performance issue

2010-05-10 Thread Eric D. Mudama
the raidz variants, you really need to use multiple physical devices to provide that capability. --eric -- Eric D. Mudama edmud...@mail.bounceswoosh.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/li

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Hard disk buffer at 100%

2010-05-09 Thread Eric D. Mudama
peers in this workload. As a replacement recommendation, we've been beating on the WD 1TB RE3 drives for 18 months or so, and we're happy with both performance and the price for what we get. $160/ea with a 5 year warranty. --eric -- Eric D. Mudama edmud...@mail.bounceswoosh.org ___

Re: [zfs-discuss] Performance drop during scrub?

2010-04-28 Thread Eric D. Mudama
27;ve got the cases where people complain that their scrub takes too long. There may be knobs for individuals to use, but I don't think overall there's a magic answer. --eric -- Eric D. Mudama edmud...@mail.bounceswoosh.org ___ zfs-discuss maili

Re: [zfs-discuss] Oracle to no longer support ZFS on OpenSolaris?

2010-04-20 Thread Eric D. Mudama
On Tue, Apr 20 at 11:41, Don Turnbull wrote: Not to be a conspiracy nut but anyone anywhere could have registered that gmail account and supplied that answer. It would be a lot more believable from Mr Kay's Oracle or Sun account. +1 Glad I wasn't the only one who noticed. -- Eric

Re: [zfs-discuss] Secure delete?

2010-04-16 Thread Eric D. Mudama
On Fri, Apr 16 at 14:42, Miles Nordin wrote: "edm" == Eric D Mudama writes: edm> How would you stripe or manage a dataset across a mix of edm> devices with different geometries? the ``geometry'' discussed is 1-dimensional: sector size. The way that you do it i

Re: [zfs-discuss] Secure delete?

2010-04-16 Thread Eric D. Mudama
it. I can virtually guarantee every storage, SSD and OS vendor is generating that data internally however. --eric -- Eric D. Mudama edmud...@mail.bounceswoosh.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailma

Re: [zfs-discuss] Making ZFS better: rm files/directories from snapshots

2010-04-16 Thread Eric D. Mudama
ystem that can have its snapshots managed with a specific policy for addressing the usage model. --eric -- Eric D. Mudama edmud...@mail.bounceswoosh.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/li

Re: [zfs-discuss] recomend sata controller 4 Home server with zfs raidz2 and 8x1tb hd

2010-04-16 Thread Eric D. Mudama
does JBOD no problem. -- Eric D. Mudama edmud...@mail.bounceswoosh.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Secure delete?

2010-04-15 Thread Eric D. Mudama
On Tue, Apr 13 at 9:52, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: On Mon, 12 Apr 2010, Eric D. Mudama wrote: The advantage of TRIM, even in high end SSDs, is that it allows you to effectively have additional "considerable extra space" available to the device for garbage collection and wear managemen

Re: [zfs-discuss] Which build is the most stable, mainly for NAS (zfs)?

2010-04-14 Thread Eric D. Mudama
But now I'm feeling hopeful that they're fixed in what I'm likely to be upgrading to next. Yes, hopefully. --eric -- Eric D. Mudama edmud...@mail.bounceswoosh.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Secure delete?

2010-04-12 Thread Eric D. Mudama
for anything but tracking the data that is no longer active. Based on the above, I think TRIM has the potential to help every SSD, not just the "cheap" SSDs. -- Eric D. Mudama edmud...@mail.bounceswoosh.org ___ zfs-discuss maili

Re: [zfs-discuss] Secure delete?

2010-04-12 Thread Eric D. Mudama
;s no "best guess" work at locating the wells. -- Eric D. Mudama edmud...@mail.bounceswoosh.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS RaidZ recommendation

2010-04-09 Thread Eric D. Mudama
Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817994075 The doors are a bit "light" perhaps, but it works just fine for my needs and holds drives securely. The small fans are a bit noisy, but since the box lives in the basement I don't really care. --eric -- Eric

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS RaidZ recommendation

2010-04-07 Thread Eric D. Mudama
On Wed, Apr 7 at 12:41, Jason S wrote: And just to clarify as far as expanding this pool in the future my only option is to add another 7 spindle RaidZ2 array correct? That is correct, unless you want to use the -f option to force-allow an asymmetric expansion of your pool. --eric -- Eric D

Re: [zfs-discuss] Are there (non-Sun/Oracle) vendors selling OpenSolaris/ZFS based NAS Hardware?

2010-04-06 Thread Eric D. Mudama
this server is relatively low, and the L2ARC serves data at greater than 100MB/s (wire speed) without stressing much of anything. The BIOS settings in our T610 are exactly as they arrived from Dell when we bought it over a year ago. Thoughts? --eric -- Eric D. Mudama

Re: [zfs-discuss] Are there (non-Sun/Oracle) vendors selling OpenSolaris/ZFS based NAS Hardware?

2010-04-06 Thread Eric D. Mudama
using the same integrated part? --eric -- Eric D. Mudama edmud...@mail.bounceswoosh.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Sun Flash Accelerator F20 numbers

2010-04-02 Thread Eric D. Mudama
ure on the drives (like HPA or DCO) that is changing the capacity. It's possible one of these is in effect. --eric -- Eric D. Mudama edmud...@mail.bounceswoosh.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.or

Re: [zfs-discuss] Write retry errors to SSD's on SAS backplane (mpt)

2010-04-01 Thread Eric D. Mudama
expander) firmware changes can mitigate or exacerbate. --eric -- Eric D. Mudama edmud...@mail.bounceswoosh.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Intel SASUC8I - worth every penny

2010-03-28 Thread Eric D. Mudama
a 3134 variant that is PCI-e x4 which should be a lot faster. Doesn't matter for rotating drives, but for SSDs it's important. --eric -- Eric D. Mudama edmud...@mail.bounceswoosh.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org ht

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS hex dump diagrams?

2010-03-26 Thread Eric D. Mudama
referenced in ZFS. Are there any resources available that will show me how this is done? You could try zdb. Or just look at the source code. -- Eric D. Mudama edmud...@mail.bounceswoosh.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolari

Re: [zfs-discuss] RAIDZ2 configuration

2010-03-26 Thread Eric D. Mudama
We have a 32GB X25-E as L2ARC and though it's never more than ~5GB full with our workloads, most every file access saturates the wire (1.0 Gb/s ethernet) once the cache has warmed up, resulting in very little IO to our spindles. --eric -- Eric D. Mudama edmud...@mail.bounceswoosh.org ___

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS backup configuration

2010-03-24 Thread Eric D. Mudama
pool, that is already handled through another program. I'm pretty sure the configuration is embedded in the pool itself. Just import on the new machine. You may need --force/-f the pool wasn't exported on the old system properly. --eric -- Eric D. Mudama edmud...@mail.b

Re: [zfs-discuss] why L2ARC device is used to store files ?

2010-03-06 Thread Eric D. Mudama
On Sat, Mar 6 at 15:04, Richard Elling wrote: On Mar 6, 2010, at 2:42 PM, Eric D. Mudama wrote: On Sat, Mar 6 at 3:15, Abdullah Al-Dahlawi wrote: hdd ONLINE 0 0 0 c7t0d0p3 ONLINE 0 0 0 rpool ONLINE 0 0 0

Re: [zfs-discuss] why L2ARC device is used to store files ?

2010-03-06 Thread Eric D. Mudama
same device? I'm barely familiar with solaris partitioning and labels... what's the difference between a slice and a partition? -- Eric D. Mudama edmud...@mail.bounceswoosh.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolari

Re: [zfs-discuss] What's the advantage of using multiple filesystems in a pool

2010-03-01 Thread Eric D. Mudama
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Re: [zfs-discuss] Large scale ZFS deployments out there (>200 disks)

2010-02-26 Thread Eric D. Mudama
ot time to a 4+ hour boot time is more than just "impact". That's getting hit by a train. Might be useful for folks, if the above document listed a few concrete datapoints of boot time scaling with the number of filesystems or something similar. --eric -- Eric D. Mu

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS with hundreds of millions of files

2010-02-24 Thread Eric D. Mudama
d SAS drives, you're looking at a TON of spindles to move through 400 million 1KB files quickly. --eric -- Eric D. Mudama edmud...@mail.bounceswoosh.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/li

Re: [zfs-discuss] Abysmal ISCSI / ZFS Performance

2010-02-16 Thread Eric D. Mudama
vs at work, with a separate box as a "live" backup using raidz of larger SATA drives. --eric -- Eric D. Mudama edmud...@mail.bounceswoosh.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

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