Re: [zfs-discuss] freeNAS moves to Linux from FreeBSD

2009-12-09 Thread James Andrewartha
://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-help/2009-November/015824.html -- James Andrewartha ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs inotify?

2009-11-11 Thread James Andrewartha
/lib/gam_server | grep port_create [458] | 134589544| 0|FUNC |GLOB |0|UNDEF |port_create The patch for port_create has never gone upstream however, while gvfs uses glib's gio, which has backends for inotify, solaris, fam and win32. -- James Andrewartha

[zfs-discuss] Sun Flash Accelerator F20

2009-09-24 Thread James Andrewartha
no pricing on the webpage though - does anyone know how it compares in price to a logzilla? -- James Andrewartha ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Finding SATA cards for ZFS; was Lundman home NAS

2009-09-01 Thread James Andrewartha
Marvell MV88SX and works very well in Solaris. (Package SUNWmv88sx). They're PCI-X SATA cards, the AOC-SASLP-MV8 is a PCIe SAS card and has no (Open)Solaris driver. -- James Andrewartha ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http

Re: [zfs-discuss] surprisingly poor performance

2009-07-08 Thread James Andrewartha
James Lever wrote: On 07/07/2009, at 8:20 PM, James Andrewartha wrote: Have you tried putting the slog on this controller, either as an SSD or regular disk? It's supported by the mega_sas driver, x86 and amd64 only. What exactly are you suggesting here? Configure one disk on this array

Re: [zfs-discuss] Why is Solaris 10 ZFS performance so terrible?

2009-07-07 Thread James Andrewartha
it is now. Are you aware of posix_fadvise(2) and madvise(2)? -- James Andrewartha ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] surprisingly poor performance

2009-07-07 Thread James Andrewartha
James Lever wrote: We also have a PERC 6/E w/512MB BBWC to test with or fall back to if we go with a Linux solution. Have you tried putting the slog on this controller, either as an SSD or regular disk? It's supported by the mega_sas driver, x86 and amd64 only. -- James Andrewartha | Sysadmin

Re: [zfs-discuss] [storage-discuss] Supermicro AOC-SASLP-MV8

2009-04-22 Thread James Andrewartha
it's not supported. http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1397855 has a fair few people testing it out, but mostly under Windows. -- James Andrewartha ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman

[zfs-discuss] rename(2), atomicity, crashes and fsync()

2009-03-17 Thread James Andrewartha
/Articles/323464/ http://thunk.org/tytso/blog/2009/03/15/dont-fear-the-fsync/ http://lwn.net/Articles/323752/ * http://lwn.net/Articles/322823/ * * are currently subscriber-only, email me for a free link if you'd like to read them [2] http://lwn.net/Articles/283745/ -- James Andrewartha | Sysadmin

Re: [zfs-discuss] web interface not showing up

2008-09-24 Thread James Andrewartha
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Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS over multiple iSCSI targets

2008-09-10 Thread James Andrewartha
write per disc spin) this has been on my TODO list for ages.. :( Does the perl script at http://brad.livejournal.com/2116715.html do what you want? -- James Andrewartha ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs send and recordsize

2008-06-25 Thread James Andrewartha
the recordsize on the first filesystem before performing the zfs send. This will then be used for all files when you receive the filesystem. I haven't tested this with recordsize, but I did with compression and I imagine recordsize (and others) will behave the same way. -- James Andrewartha

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs send and recordsize

2008-06-25 Thread James Andrewartha
on the sending side are des- troyed. -- James Andrewartha ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Project Hardware

2008-05-28 Thread James Andrewartha
backup RAM, Areca (who formerly specialised in SATA controlers) now do SAS RAID at reasonable prices, and have Solaris drivers. -- James Andrewartha ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Project Hardware

2008-05-28 Thread James Andrewartha
/ is promising some SSD benchmarks soon. James Andrewartha ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs send/receive of an entire pool

2008-02-14 Thread James Andrewartha
James Andrewartha wrote: On Thu, 2008-01-17 at 09:29 -0800, Richard Elling wrote: You don't say which version of ZFS you are running, but what you want is the -R option for zfs send. See also the example of send usage in the zfs(1m) man page. Sorry, I'm running SXCE nv75. I can't see any

Re: [zfs-discuss] ? Removing a disk from a ZFS Storage Pool

2008-02-07 Thread James Andrewartha
Dave Lowenstein wrote: Couldn't we move fixing panic the system if it can't find a lun up to the front of the line? that one really sucks. That's controlled by the failmode property of the zpool, added in PSARC 2007/567 which was integrated in b77. -- James Andrewartha

[zfs-discuss] zfs send/receive of an entire pool

2008-01-17 Thread James Andrewartha
[EMAIL PROTECTED] cannot receive: destination does not exist What am I missing here? I can't recv to space, because it exists, but I can't make it not exist since it's the root filesystem of the pool. Do I have to send each filesystem individually and rsync up the root fs? Thanks, James Andrewartha

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs send/receive of an entire pool

2008-01-17 Thread James Andrewartha
page. Ah, it's PSARC/2007/574 and nv77. I'm not convinced it'll solve my problem (sending the root filesystem of a pool), but I'll upgrade and give it a shot. Thanks, James Andrewartha ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http