Re: [zfs-discuss] Disable ZIL - persistent

2011-08-05 Thread Tomas Ögren
solution I see is to write some startup script which applies it to filesystems other than rpool. Which feels kludgy. Is there a better way? echo set zfs:zil_disable = 1 /etc/system Or use if you don't want to zap /etc/system.. /Tomas -- Tomas Ögren, st...@acc.umu.se, http://www.acc.umu.se/~stric

Re: [zfs-discuss] SSD vs hybrid drive - any advice?

2011-07-25 Thread Tomas Ögren
, performance will increase. /Tomas -- Tomas Ögren, st...@acc.umu.se, http://www.acc.umu.se/~stric/ `- Sysadmin at {cs,acc}.umu.se ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] monitoring ops

2011-06-28 Thread Tomas Ögren
Matt Harrison iwasinnamuk...@genestate.com wrote: Hi list, I want to monitor the read and write ops/bandwidth for a couple of pools and I'm not quite sure how to proceed. I'm using rrdtool so I either want an accumulated counter or a gauge. According to the ZFS admin guide, running zpool

Re: [zfs-discuss] Zpool with data errors

2011-06-21 Thread Tomas Ögren
correct data to the malfunctioning device. Now it does not. A scrub only reads the data and verifies that data matches checksums. /Tomas -- Tomas Ögren, st...@acc.umu.se, http://www.acc.umu.se/~stric/ |- Student at Computing Science, University of Umeå `- Sysadmin at {cs,acc}.umu.se

Re: [zfs-discuss] Server with 4 drives, how to configure ZFS?

2011-06-21 Thread Tomas Ögren
mirror would be way more useful. But you have to admit, it would probably be somewhat reliable! /Tomas -- Tomas Ögren, st...@acc.umu.se, http://www.acc.umu.se/~stric/ |- Student at Computing Science, University of Umeå `- Sysadmin at {cs,acc}.umu.se

Re: [zfs-discuss] Wired write performance problem

2011-06-08 Thread Tomas Ögren
-- Tomas Ögren, st...@acc.umu.se, http://www.acc.umu.se/~stric/ |- Student at Computing Science, University of Umeå `- Sysadmin at {cs,acc}.umu.se ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs

Re: [zfs-discuss] RealSSD C300 - Crucial CT064M4SSD2

2011-06-08 Thread Tomas Ögren
/rdsk/c0t5E83A97F1471E0A4d0s0 of=/dev/null bs=1024k count=1024 1024+0 records in 1024+0 records out 1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 3.93114 s, 273 MB/s This is in a x4170m2 with Solaris10. /Tomas -- Tomas Ögren, st...@acc.umu.se, http://www.acc.umu.se/~stric/ |- Student at Computing Science

Re: [zfs-discuss] SATA disk perf question

2011-06-01 Thread Tomas Ögren
writes/sec. on the hot spare as it resilvers. There is no other I/O activity on this box, as this is a remote replication target for production data. I have a the replication disabled until the resilver completes. 700-800 seq ones perhaps.. for random, you can divide by 10. /Tomas -- Tomas Ögren

Re: [zfs-discuss] changing vdev types

2011-06-01 Thread Tomas Ögren
a new pool. But you can use zfs send/recv to move the datasets, so You can mix as much as you want to, but you can't remove a vdev (yet). /Tomas -- Tomas Ögren, st...@acc.umu.se, http://www.acc.umu.se/~stric/ |- Student at Computing Science, University of Umeå `- Sysadmin at {cs,acc}.umu.se

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

2011-05-31 Thread Tomas Ögren
://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss /Tomas -- Tomas Ögren, st...@acc.umu.se, http://www.acc.umu.se/~stric

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

2011-05-31 Thread Tomas Ögren
On 31 May, 2011 - Gertjan Oude Lohuis sent me these 0,9K bytes: On 05/31/2011 03:52 PM, Tomas Ögren wrote: I've done a not too scientific test on reboot times for Solaris 10 vs 11 with regard to many filesystems... http://www8.cs.umu.se/~stric/tmp/zfs-many.png As the picture shows, don't

Re: [zfs-discuss] Monitoring disk seeks

2011-05-19 Thread Tomas Ögren
ops using iostat, but that doesn't tell me how contiguous the data is, i.e. when iostat reports 500 read ops, does that translate to 500 seeks + 1 read per seek, or 50 seeks + 10 reads, etc? Thanks! Get DTraceToolkit and check out the various things under Disk and FS, might help. /Tomas -- Tomas

Re: [zfs-discuss] fuser vs. zfs

2011-05-10 Thread Tomas Ögren
[others] #fuser -c /opt /opt: # Nothing at all for /opt. So it's safe to unmount? Nope: ... Has anyone else seen something like this? Try something less ancient, Solaris 10u9 reports it just fine for example. ZFS was pretty new-born when snv27 got out.. /Tomas -- Tomas Ögren, st

Re: [zfs-discuss] fuser vs. zfs

2011-05-10 Thread Tomas Ögren
On 10 May, 2011 - Tomas Ögren sent me these 0,9K bytes: On 23 November, 2005 - Benjamin Lewis sent me these 3,0K bytes: Hello, I'm running Solaris Express build 27a on an amd64 machine and fuser(1M) isn't behaving as I would expect for zfs filesystems. Various google

Re: [zfs-discuss] primarycache=metadata seems to force behaviour of secondarycache=metadata

2011-05-09 Thread Tomas Ögren
with a PowerPC 604e cpu, which had about 60MB/s memory bandwidth (which is kind of bad for a 332MHz cpu) and its disks could do 70-80MB/s or so.. in some other machine.. /Tomas -- Tomas Ögren, st...@acc.umu.se, http://www.acc.umu.se/~stric/ |- Student at Computing Science, University of Umeå

Re: [zfs-discuss] Summary: Dedup and L2ARC memory requirements

2011-05-06 Thread Tomas Ögren
as l2arc, waiting for a Vertex2EX and a Vertex3 to arrive for ZILL2ARC testing. IO to the filesystems are quite low (50 writes, 500k data per sec average), but snapshot times goes waay up during backups. /Tomas -- Tomas Ögren, st...@acc.umu.se, http://www.acc.umu.se/~stric/ |- Student at Computing

Re: [zfs-discuss] No write coalescing after upgrade to Solaris 11 Express

2011-04-27 Thread Tomas Ögren
95 69 5.69M 8.08M Thanks -Matt ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss /Tomas -- Tomas Ögren, st...@acc.umu.se, http://www.acc.umu.se/~stric/ |- Student

Re: [zfs-discuss] Dedup and L2ARC memory requirements (again)

2011-04-27 Thread Tomas Ögren
filesystem?)  *snip*. you need to use zdb to see what the current block usage is for a filesystem. I'd have to look up the particular CLI usage for that, as I don't know what it is off the top of my head. Anybody know the answer to that one? zdb -bb pool /Tomas -- Tomas Ögren, st

Re: [zfs-discuss] Read-only vdev

2011-04-08 Thread Tomas Ögren
. I can't think of any, so what are your uses? /Tomas -- Tomas Ögren, st...@acc.umu.se, http://www.acc.umu.se/~stric/ |- Student at Computing Science, University of Umeå `- Sysadmin at {cs,acc}.umu.se ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Assessing health/performance of individual drives in ZFS pool

2011-04-07 Thread Tomas Ögren
On 07 April, 2011 - Russ Price sent me these 0,7K bytes: On 04/05/2011 03:01 PM, Tomas Ögren wrote: On 05 April, 2011 - Joe Auty sent me these 5,9K bytes: Has this changed, or are there any other techniques I can use to check the health of an individual SATA drive in my pool short of what ZFS

Re: [zfs-discuss] Assessing health/performance of individual drives in ZFS pool

2011-04-05 Thread Tomas Ögren
Status segment LifeTime LBA_first_err [SK ASC ASQ] Description number (hours) # 1 Default Completed - 293 - [- --] ... /Tomas -- Tomas Ögren, st...@acc.umu.se, http://www.acc.umu.se

Re: [zfs-discuss] Investigating a hung system

2011-02-25 Thread Tomas Ögren
). Does this explain the hang? No.. /Tomas -- Tomas Ögren, st...@acc.umu.se, http://www.acc.umu.se/~stric/ |- Student at Computing Science, University of Umeå `- Sysadmin at {cs,acc}.umu.se ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Performance

2011-02-25 Thread Tomas Ögren
. Dave ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss /Tomas -- Tomas Ögren, st...@acc.umu.se, http://www.acc.umu.se/~stric/ |- Student at Computing Science, University

Re: [zfs-discuss] Best way/issues with large ZFS send?

2011-02-16 Thread Tomas Ögren
/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss /Tomas -- Tomas Ögren, st...@acc.umu.se, http://www.acc.umu.se/~stric/ |- Student at Computing Science, University of Umeå `- Sysadmin at {cs,acc}.umu.se ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http

Re: [zfs-discuss] Sil3124 Sata controller for ZFS on Sparc OpenSolaris Nevada b130

2011-02-08 Thread Tomas Ögren
for Solaris. The problem itself is sparc vs x86 and firmware for the card. AFAIK, there is no sata card with drivers for solaris sparc. Use a SAS card. /Tomas -- Tomas Ögren, st...@acc.umu.se, http://www.acc.umu.se/~stric/ |- Student at Computing Science, University of Umeå `- Sysadmin at {cs,acc

Re: [zfs-discuss] mix 4k wdd drives whit 512 WD drives ?

2011-01-26 Thread Tomas Ögren
. I guess ZFS could start defaulting to 4k, but ideally it should do the right thing depending on content (although that's hard for disks that are lying). /Tomas -- Tomas Ögren, st...@acc.umu.se, http://www.acc.umu.se/~stric/ |- Student at Computing Science, University of Umeå `- Sysadmin at {cs,acc

Re: [zfs-discuss] stupid ZFS question - floating point operations

2010-12-22 Thread Tomas Ögren
://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss /Tomas -- Tomas Ögren, st...@acc.umu.se, http://www.acc.umu.se/~stric/ |- Student at Computing Science, University of Umeå `- Sysadmin at {cs,acc}.umu.se ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [zfs-discuss] How many files directories in a ZFS filesystem?

2010-12-09 Thread Tomas Ögren
, and regular Solaris could too but chooses not to. statvfs() should be able to report as well. In ZFS, you will run out of inodes at the same time as you run out of space. /Tomas -- Tomas Ögren, st...@acc.umu.se, http://www.acc.umu.se/~stric/ |- Student at Computing Science, University of Umeå `- Sysadmin

Re: [zfs-discuss] accidentally added a drive?

2010-12-06 Thread Tomas Ögren
On 05 December, 2010 - Chris Gerhard sent me these 0,3K bytes: Alas you are hosed. There is at the moment no way to shrink a pool which is what you now need to be able to do. back up and restore I am afraid. .. or add a mirror to that drive, to keep some redundancy. /Tomas -- Tomas

Re: [zfs-discuss] How to create a checkpoint?

2010-11-08 Thread Tomas Ögren
the same as a snapshot). /Tomas -- Tomas Ögren, st...@acc.umu.se, http://www.acc.umu.se/~stric/ |- Student at Computing Science, University of Umeå `- Sysadmin at {cs,acc}.umu.se ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http

Re: [zfs-discuss] Unknown Space Gain

2010-10-20 Thread Tomas Ögren
?), will see if the log messages disappear. Did the filesystem kill off some snapshots or something in an effort to free up space? Probably. zfs list -t all to see all the snapshots as well. /Tomas -- Tomas Ögren, st...@acc.umu.se, http://www.acc.umu.se/~stric/ |- Student at Computing Science

Re: [zfs-discuss] What is the 1000 bit?

2010-10-19 Thread Tomas Ögren
? It's mkfile. /Tomas -- Tomas Ögren, st...@acc.umu.se, http://www.acc.umu.se/~stric/ |- Student at Computing Science, University of Umeå `- Sysadmin at {cs,acc}.umu.se ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org

Re: [zfs-discuss] Moving camp, lock stock and barrel

2010-10-11 Thread Tomas Ögren
: `startx /usr/bin/dbus-launch --exit-with-session gnome-session' from console. Which is how I've been starting X for some time. This thread started out way off-topic from ZFS discuss (the filesystem) and has continued off course. /Tomas -- Tomas Ögren, st...@acc.umu.se, http://www.acc.umu.se

Re: [zfs-discuss] Finding corrupted files

2010-10-06 Thread Tomas Ögren
question..? /Tomas -- Tomas Ögren, st...@acc.umu.se, http://www.acc.umu.se/~stric/ |- Student at Computing Science, University of Umeå `- Sysadmin at {cs,acc}.umu.se ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman

Re: [zfs-discuss] resilver that never finishes

2010-09-19 Thread Tomas Ögren
will not update accordingly, and it will show resilvering 100% for needed time to catch up. I believe this was fixed recently, by displaying how many blocks it has checked vs how many to check... /Tomas -- Tomas Ögren, st...@acc.umu.se, http://www.acc.umu.se/~stric/ |- Student at Computing Science

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS online device management

2010-09-11 Thread Tomas Ögren
more vdevs. You can not transform a raidz from one form to another. You can not remove a vdev. /Tomas -- Tomas Ögren, st...@acc.umu.se, http://www.acc.umu.se/~stric/ |- Student at Computing Science, University of Umeå `- Sysadmin at {cs,acc}.umu.se

Re: [zfs-discuss] performance leakage when copy huge data

2010-09-09 Thread Tomas Ögren
-- Tomas Ögren, st...@acc.umu.se, http://www.acc.umu.se/~stric/ |- Student at Computing Science, University of Umeå `- Sysadmin at {cs,acc}.umu.se ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Solaris 10u9

2010-09-08 Thread Tomas Ögren
for 'kaka': 'dedup' is readonly /Tomas -- Tomas Ögren, st...@acc.umu.se, http://www.acc.umu.se/~stric/ |- Student at Computing Science, University of Umeå `- Sysadmin at {cs,acc}.umu.se ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http

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

2010-08-28 Thread Tomas Ögren
c1t50060E800042AA70d1 Just fyi, this is an inefficient variant of a mirror. More cpu required and lower performance. /Tomas -- Tomas Ögren, st...@acc.umu.se, http://www.acc.umu.se/~stric/ |- Student at Computing Science, University of Umeå `- Sysadmin at {cs,acc}.umu.se

Re: [zfs-discuss] Directory tree renaming -- disk usage

2010-08-09 Thread Tomas Ögren
, be fairly easy to test; and, if I removed the snapshots afterward, wouldn't take space permanently (have to make sure that the scheduler doesn't do one of my permanent snapshots during the test). But I'm interested in the theoretical answer in any case. /Tomas -- Tomas Ögren, st

Re: [zfs-discuss] vdev using more space

2010-08-05 Thread Tomas Ögren
compression (if you want). This is just a temporary thing, as the filesystem will be used on the inside (with Copy on Write), the outer one will grow back again. /Tomas -- Tomas Ögren, st...@acc.umu.se, http://www.acc.umu.se/~stric/ |- Student at Computing Science, University of Umeå `- Sysadmin

Re: [zfs-discuss] When is the L2ARC refreshed if on a separate drive?

2010-08-03 Thread Tomas Ögren
it builds the L2ARC once? L2ARC is currently cleared at boot. There is an RFE to make it persistent. /Tomas -- Tomas Ögren, st...@acc.umu.se, http://www.acc.umu.se/~stric/ |- Student at Computing Science, University of Umeå `- Sysadmin at {cs,acc}.umu.se

Re: [zfs-discuss] never ending resilver

2010-07-05 Thread Tomas Ögren
last block, which since then has gotten lots of new friends afterwards. http://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6899970 /Tomas -- Tomas Ögren, st...@acc.umu.se, http://www.acc.umu.se/~stric/ |- Student at Computing Science, University of Umeå `- Sysadmin at {cs,acc}.umu.se

Re: [zfs-discuss] zpool status output confusion

2010-05-27 Thread Tomas Ögren
mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss /Tomas -- Tomas Ögren, st...@acc.umu.se, http://www.acc.umu.se/~stric/ |- Student at Computing Science, University of Umeå `- Sysadmin at {cs,acc}.umu.se

Re: [zfs-discuss] creating a fast ZIL device for $200

2010-05-26 Thread Tomas Ögren
you can always learn more about a disk, but that's a good starting point. Since X, X+1, X+2 seems to be the optimally worst case, try just skipping over a few blocks.. Double (or such) the performance for a single software tweak would be surely welcome. /Tomas -- Tomas Ögren, st...@acc.umu.se

Re: [zfs-discuss] don't mount a zpool on boot

2010-05-20 Thread Tomas Ögren
On 20 May, 2010 - John Andrunas sent me these 0,3K bytes: Can I make a pool not mount on boot? I seem to recall reading somewhere how to do it, but can't seem to find it now. zpool export thatpool zpool import thatpool when you want it back. /Tomas -- Tomas Ögren, st...@acc.umu.se, http

Re: [zfs-discuss] Very serious performance degradation

2010-05-18 Thread Tomas Ögren
times should be closer to what sd1 and 2 are doing. sd2,3,4 seems to be getting about the same amount of read+write, but their service time is 15-20 times higher. This will lead to crap performance (and probably broken array in a while). /Tomas -- Tomas Ögren, st...@acc.umu.se, http://www.acc.umu.se

Re: [zfs-discuss] Using WD Green drives?

2010-05-17 Thread Tomas Ögren
activity during a resilver, though, it turns into random i/o. Which is slow on these drives. Resilver does a whole lot of random io itself, not bulk reads.. It reads the filesystem tree, not block 0, block 1, block 2... You won't get 60MB/s sustained, not even close. /Tomas -- Tomas Ögren, st

Re: [zfs-discuss] Using WD Green drives?

2010-05-13 Thread Tomas Ögren
to prevent it from falling asleep. /Tomas -- Tomas Ögren, st...@acc.umu.se, http://www.acc.umu.se/~stric/ |- Student at Computing Science, University of Umeå `- Sysadmin at {cs,acc}.umu.se ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http

Re: [zfs-discuss] Problems (bug?) with slow bulk ZFS filesystem creation

2010-05-10 Thread Tomas Ögren
. It will be slow to create and slow when (re)booting, but other than that it might be ok.. Look into the zfs userquota/groupquota instead.. That's what I did, and it's partly because of these issues that the userquota/groupquota got implemented I guess. /Tomas -- Tomas Ögren, st...@acc.umu.se, http

Re: [zfs-discuss] Loss of L2ARC SSD Behaviour

2010-05-06 Thread Tomas Ögren
... If this happens often enough to become a performance problem, then you should throw away that L2ARC device because it's broken beyond usability. /Tomas -- Tomas Ögren, st...@acc.umu.se, http://www.acc.umu.se/~stric/ |- Student at Computing Science, University of Umeå `- Sysadmin at {cs,acc}.umu.se

Re: [zfs-discuss] Loss of L2ARC SSD Behaviour

2010-05-04 Thread Tomas Ögren
/removed at any time as well. /Tomas -- Tomas Ögren, st...@acc.umu.se, http://www.acc.umu.se/~stric/ |- Student at Computing Science, University of Umeå `- Sysadmin at {cs,acc}.umu.se ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http

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

2010-04-29 Thread Tomas Ögren
zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss /Tomas -- Tomas Ögren, st...@acc.umu.se, http

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

2010-04-29 Thread Tomas Ögren
On 29 April, 2010 - Tomas Ögren sent me these 5,8K bytes: On 29 April, 2010 - Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk sent me these 10K bytes: I got this hint from Richard Elling, but haven't had time to test it much. Perhaps someone else could help? roy Interesting. If you'd like to experiment

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

2010-04-29 Thread Tomas Ögren
try adding a ZIL when u9 comes, so we can remove it again if performance goes crap. A separate log will not help. Try faster disks. /Tomas -- Tomas Ögren, st...@acc.umu.se, http://www.acc.umu.se/~stric/ |- Student at Computing Science, University of Umeå `- Sysadmin at {cs,acc}.umu.se

Re: [zfs-discuss] Question about du and compression

2010-04-29 Thread Tomas Ögren
them apart. /Tomas -- Tomas Ögren, st...@acc.umu.se, http://www.acc.umu.se/~stric/ |- Student at Computing Science, University of Umeå `- Sysadmin at {cs,acc}.umu.se ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org

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

2010-04-28 Thread Tomas Ögren
so will basically disable the NFS service for a day or three. If the scrub would be less agressive and take a week to perform, it would probably not kill the performance as bad.. /Tomas -- Tomas Ögren, st...@acc.umu.se, http://www.acc.umu.se/~stric/ |- Student at Computing Science, University

Re: [zfs-discuss] Mac OS X clients with ZFS server

2010-04-22 Thread Tomas Ögren
bug.. Copying via terminal (and cp) works. At the moment I have a workaround: I use sftp to copy the files from the laptop to the server. But this is a pain in the ass and I'm sure there's a way to make this just work properly! /Tomas -- Tomas Ögren, st...@acc.umu.se, http://www.acc.umu.se

Re: [zfs-discuss] Identifying what zpools are exported

2010-04-21 Thread Tomas Ögren
On 21 April, 2010 - Justin Lee Ewing sent me these 0,3K bytes: So I can obviously see what zpools I have imported... but how do I see pools that have been exported? Kind of like being able to see deported volumes using vxdisk -o alldgs list. 'zpool import' /Tomas -- Tomas Ögren, st

Re: [zfs-discuss] Secure delete?

2010-04-12 Thread Tomas Ögren
make stuff go faster. /Tomas -- Tomas Ögren, st...@acc.umu.se, http://www.acc.umu.se/~stric/ |- Student at Computing Science, University of Umeå `- Sysadmin at {cs,acc}.umu.se ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http

Re: [zfs-discuss] Secure delete?

2010-04-12 Thread Tomas Ögren
On 12 April, 2010 - David Magda sent me these 0,7K bytes: On Mon, April 12, 2010 10:48, Tomas Ögren wrote: On 12 April, 2010 - Bob Friesenhahn sent me these 0,9K bytes: Zfs is designed for high thoughput, and TRIM does not seem to improve throughput. Perhaps it is most useful for low

Re: [zfs-discuss] L2ARC L2_Size kstat fluctuate

2010-04-09 Thread Tomas Ögren
larger becuase of COW and l2_size from kstat is the actual size of l2arc data. so can any one tell me why I am loosing my workingset from l2_size actual data !!! Maybe the data in the l2arc was invalidated, because the original data was rewritten? /Tomas -- Tomas Ögren, st...@acc.umu.se

Re: [zfs-discuss] L2ARC L2_Size kstat fluctuate

2010-04-09 Thread Tomas Ögren
right Sounds plausible. /Tomas -- Tomas Ögren, st...@acc.umu.se, http://www.acc.umu.se/~stric/ |- Student at Computing Science, University of Umeå `- Sysadmin at {cs,acc}.umu.se ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http

Re: [zfs-discuss] compression property not received

2010-04-08 Thread Tomas Ögren
=6700597 Solaris 10 'man zfs', under 'receive': -uFile system that is associated with the received stream is not mounted. /Tomas -- Tomas Ögren, st...@acc.umu.se, http://www.acc.umu.se/~stric/ |- Student at Computing Science, University of Umeå `- Sysadmin at {cs,acc

Re: [zfs-discuss] L2ARC Workingset Size

2010-04-08 Thread Tomas Ögren
and will be used if L2ARC needs it. It's not wasted, it's just a number that doesn't match what you think it should be. /Tomas -- Tomas Ögren, st...@acc.umu.se, http://www.acc.umu.se/~stric/ |- Student at Computing Science, University of Umeå `- Sysadmin at {cs,acc}.umu.se

Re: [zfs-discuss] L2ARC Workingset Size

2010-04-03 Thread Tomas Ögren
775528448 /Tomas -- Tomas Ögren, st...@acc.umu.se, http://www.acc.umu.se/~stric/ |- Student at Computing Science, University of Umeå `- Sysadmin at {cs,acc}.umu.se ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http

Re: [zfs-discuss] Change a zpool to raidz

2010-03-12 Thread Tomas Ögren
of the file. Copy data over from lun1 (old single lun thing) to the raidz (lun2,lun3,missingfile) Destroy old pool replace missingfile with lun1 With this method, the pool is lacking redundancy between step 4 and 5, but requires no extra space. /Tomas -- Tomas Ögren, st...@acc.umu.se, http

Re: [zfs-discuss] full backup == scrub?

2010-03-08 Thread Tomas Ögren
On 08 March, 2010 - Chris Banal sent me these 0,8K bytes: Assuming no snapshots. Do full backups (ie. tar or cpio) eliminate the need for a scrub? No, it won't read redundant copies of the data, which a scrub will. /Tomas -- Tomas Ögren, st...@acc.umu.se, http://www.acc.umu.se/~stric

Re: [zfs-discuss] Snapshot recycle freezes system activity

2010-03-08 Thread Tomas Ögren
us this, not the other way around. :) Seriously though, isn't that easy to test? And I'm curious myself too. ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss /Tomas -- Tomas

Re: [zfs-discuss] Snapshot recycle freezes system activity

2010-03-08 Thread Tomas Ögren
On 08 March, 2010 - Bill Sommerfeld sent me these 0,4K bytes: On 03/08/10 12:43, Tomas Ögren wrote: So we tried adding 2x 4GB USB sticks (Kingston Data Traveller Mini Slim) as metadata L2ARC and that seems to have pushed the snapshot times down to about 30 seconds. Out of curiosity, how

Re: [zfs-discuss] Wildcards to zfs list

2010-03-07 Thread Tomas Ögren
___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss /Tomas -- Tomas Ögren, st...@acc.umu.se, http://www.acc.umu.se/~stric/ |- Student at Computing Science, University of Umeå `- Sysadmin at {cs,acc}.umu.se

Re: [zfs-discuss] How to verify ecc for ram is active and enabled?

2010-03-03 Thread Tomas Ögren
@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss /Tomas -- Tomas Ögren, st...@acc.umu.se, http://www.acc.umu.se/~stric/ |- Student at Computing Science, University of Umeå `- Sysadmin at {cs,acc}.umu.se ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs

Re: [zfs-discuss] Who is using ZFS ACL's in production?

2010-03-02 Thread Tomas Ögren
, modifies it and sends it back.. /Tomas -- Tomas Ögren, st...@acc.umu.se, http://www.acc.umu.se/~stric/ |- Student at Computing Science, University of Umeå `- Sysadmin at {cs,acc}.umu.se ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Storage system with 72 GB memory constantly has 11 GB free memory

2010-02-26 Thread Tomas Ögren
= 835000 set zfs:zfs_arc_meta_limit = 70 * some tuning set ncsize = 50 set nfs:nrnode = 5 And I've done runtime modifications to swapfs_minfree to force usage of another chunk of memory. /Tomas -- Tomas Ögren, st...@acc.umu.se, http://www.acc.umu.se/~stric/ |- Student

Re: [zfs-discuss] Freeing unused space in thin provisioned zvols

2010-02-26 Thread Tomas Ögren
know why this is not incorporated into ZFS ? What you can do until this is to enable compression (like lzjb) on the zvol, then do your dd dance in the client, then you can disable the compression again. /Tomas -- Tomas Ögren, st...@acc.umu.se, http://www.acc.umu.se/~stric/ |- Student at Computing

[zfs-discuss] Observations about compressability of metadata L2ARC

2010-02-21 Thread Tomas Ögren
.. Thoughts? /Tomas -- Tomas Ögren, st...@acc.umu.se, http://www.acc.umu.se/~stric/ |- Student at Computing Science, University of Umeå `- Sysadmin at {cs,acc}.umu.se - 070-5858487 ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http

Re: [zfs-discuss] l2arc current usage (population size)

2010-02-21 Thread Tomas Ögren
On 21 February, 2010 - Felix Buenemann sent me these 0,7K bytes: Am 20.02.10 03:22, schrieb Tomas Ögren: On 19 February, 2010 - Christo Kutrovsky sent me these 0,5K bytes: How do you tell how much of your l2arc is populated? I've been looking for a while now, can't seem to find it. Must

Re: [zfs-discuss] l2arc current usage (population size)

2010-02-21 Thread Tomas Ögren
On 21 February, 2010 - Richard Elling sent me these 1,3K bytes: On Feb 21, 2010, at 9:18 AM, Tomas Ögren wrote: On 21 February, 2010 - Felix Buenemann sent me these 0,7K bytes: Am 20.02.10 03:22, schrieb Tomas Ögren: On 19 February, 2010 - Christo Kutrovsky sent me these 0,5K bytes

Re: [zfs-discuss] l2arc current usage (population size)

2010-02-19 Thread Tomas Ögren
/l2arc_screenshots And follow up, can you tell how much of each data set is in the arc or l2arc? kstat -m zfs (p, c, l2arc_size) arc_stat.pl is good, but doesn't show l2arc.. /Tomas -- Tomas Ögren, st...@acc.umu.se, http://www.acc.umu.se/~stric/ |- Student at Computing Science, University of Umeå

Re: [zfs-discuss] Abysmal ISCSI / ZFS Performance - napp-it + benchmarks

2010-02-18 Thread Tomas Ögren
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Re: [zfs-discuss] improve meta data performance

2010-02-18 Thread Tomas Ögren
than your current disks. Or if you can stick an Intel X25-M/E in there through SATA/SAS. You can add/remove L2ARCs at will and they don't need to be 100% reliable either, so if you add several of them they will be raid0'd for performance. /Tomas -- Tomas Ögren, st...@acc.umu.se, http

Re: [zfs-discuss] How to get a list of changed files between two snapshots?

2010-02-03 Thread Tomas Ögren
timestamp (which could happen for various reasons, like being copied with kept timestamps from somewhere else). /Tomas -- Tomas Ögren, st...@acc.umu.se, http://www.acc.umu.se/~stric/ |- Student at Computing Science, University of Umeå `- Sysadmin at {cs,acc}.umu.se

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS compressed ration inconsistency

2010-02-01 Thread Tomas Ögren
disk usage; /Tomas -- Tomas Ögren, st...@acc.umu.se, http://www.acc.umu.se/~stric/ |- Student at Computing Science, University of Umeå `- Sysadmin at {cs,acc}.umu.se ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS ARC

2010-02-01 Thread Tomas Ögren
/uts/common/fs/zfs/arc.c#arc_reclaim_needed /Tomas -- Tomas Ögren, st...@acc.umu.se, http://www.acc.umu.se/~stric/ |- Student at Computing Science, University of Umeå `- Sysadmin at {cs,acc}.umu.se ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [zfs-discuss] Filesystem Quotas

2010-01-20 Thread Tomas Ögren
On 20 January, 2010 - Mr. T Doodle sent me these 1,0K bytes: I currently have one filesystem / (root), is it possible to put a quota on let's say /var? Or would I have to move /var to it's own filesystem in the same pool? Only filesystems can have different settings. /Tomas -- Tomas Ögren

Re: [zfs-discuss] L2ARC in Cluster is picked up althought not part of the pool

2010-01-20 Thread Tomas Ögren
. Smells like a serious bug. /Tomas -- Tomas Ögren, st...@acc.umu.se, http://www.acc.umu.se/~stric/ |- Student at Computing Science, University of Umeå `- Sysadmin at {cs,acc}.umu.se -- richard We had a setup stage when pool1 was configured on nodea with nodea_l2arc and pool2 was configured

Re: [zfs-discuss] need a few suggestions for a poor man's ZIL/SLOG device

2010-01-06 Thread Tomas Ögren
-- Tomas Ögren, st...@acc.umu.se, http://www.acc.umu.se/~stric/ |- Student at Computing Science, University of Umeå `- Sysadmin at {cs,acc}.umu.se ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs

Re: [zfs-discuss] file expiration date/time

2009-12-30 Thread Tomas Ögren
extended attributes + cron, you could provide the same service yourself and other similar (or not) things people would like to do without developers providing it for you in the fs.. Start at 'man fsattr' /Tomas -- Tomas Ögren, st...@acc.umu.se, http://www.acc.umu.se/~stric/ |- Student

Re: [zfs-discuss] FW: ARC not using all available RAM?

2009-12-21 Thread Tomas Ögren
of the last 1GB out of 8G.. I think it was swapfs_minfree that I poked with a sharp stick. No idea if anything else that relies on it could break, but the machine has been fine for a few weeks here now and using more memory for ARC.. ;) /Tomas -- Tomas Ögren, st...@acc.umu.se, http

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs allow - internal error

2009-12-09 Thread Tomas Ögren
, allow, ..) started using python in u8. /Tomas -- Tomas Ögren, st...@acc.umu.se, http://www.acc.umu.se/~stric/ |- Student at Computing Science, University of Umeå `- Sysadmin at {cs,acc}.umu.se ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http

[zfs-discuss] ARC Ghost lists, why have them and how much ram is used to keep track of them? [long]

2009-11-28 Thread Tomas Ögren
in my testing) and let metadata take as much as it'd like.. Is there a chance of getting something like this? /Tomas -- Tomas Ögren, st...@acc.umu.se, http://www.acc.umu.se/~stric/ |- Student at Computing Science, University of Umeå `- Sysadmin at {cs,acc}.umu.se

Re: [zfs-discuss] rquota didnot show userquota (Solaris 10)

2009-11-26 Thread Tomas Ögren
quota. Does this feature only work with OpenSolaris or is it intended to work on Solaris 10? ZFS userspace quota doesn't support rquotad reporting. (.. yet?) /Tomas -- Tomas Ögren, st...@acc.umu.se, http://www.acc.umu.se/~stric/ |- Student at Computing Science, University of Umeå `- Sysadmin

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS user quota, userused updates?

2009-10-20 Thread Tomas Ögren
and zdb -vvv is at: http://www.acc.umu.se/~stric/tmp/zfs-userquota.txt /Tomas -- Tomas Ögren, st...@acc.umu.se, http://www.acc.umu.se/~stric/ |- Student at Computing Science, University of Umeå `- Sysadmin at {cs,acc}.umu.se ___ zfs-discuss mailing list

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS user quota, userused updates?

2009-10-20 Thread Tomas Ögren
On 20 October, 2009 - Matthew Ahrens sent me these 0,7K bytes: Tomas Ögren wrote: On a related note, there is a way to still have quota used even after all files are removed, S10u8/SPARC: In this case there are two directories that have not actually been removed. They have been removed

[zfs-discuss] Interesting bug with picking labels when expanding a slice where a pool lives

2009-10-19 Thread Tomas Ögren
.. Maybe comparing timestamps and see that label 2/3 aren't so hot anymore and ignore them, or something.. zdb -l and zpool import dumps at: http://www.acc.umu.se/~stric/tmp/zdb-dump/ /Tomas -- Tomas Ögren, st...@acc.umu.se, http://www.acc.umu.se/~stric/ |- Student at Computing Science

Re: [zfs-discuss] Interesting bug with picking labels when expanding a slice where a pool lives

2009-10-19 Thread Tomas Ögren
of info. If I was using some SAN and my lun got increased, and the new storage space had some old scrap data on it, I could get hit by the same issue. Maybe I missed the point. Let me know. Cindy On 10/19/09 12:41, Tomas Ögren wrote: Hi. We've got some test machines which amongst others has

Re: [zfs-discuss] Strange problem with liveupgrade on zfs (10u7 and u8)

2009-10-15 Thread Tomas Ögren
it on sparc (physical) too. I didn't install LU from the u8 iso, but it was patched with latest LU patches through PCA. [b]luactivate sol10alt[/b] If you lumount, comment out those rpool/ROOT/ thingies, then luumont here, it'll work too. [b]/usr/sbin/shutdown -g0 -i6 -y[/b] /Tomas -- Tomas Ögren

Re: [zfs-discuss] Terrible ZFS performance on a Dell 1850 w/ PERC 4e/Si (Sol10U6)

2009-10-09 Thread Tomas Ögren
to your PERC.. /Tomas -- Tomas Ögren, st...@acc.umu.se, http://www.acc.umu.se/~stric/ |- Student at Computing Science, University of Umeå `- Sysadmin at {cs,acc}.umu.se ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org

Re: [zfs-discuss] Best way to convert checksums

2009-10-02 Thread Tomas Ögren
which also refers to http://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=2178540 So it seems like it's fixed in snv114 and s10u8, which won't help your s10u4 unless you update.. /Tomas -- Tomas Ögren, st...@acc.umu.se, http://www.acc.umu.se/~stric/ |- Student at Computing Science, University

Re: [zfs-discuss] Solaris License with ZFS USER quotas?

2009-09-28 Thread Tomas Ögren
, or OpenSolaris releases with ZFS User quotas? (Will 2010.02 contain ZFS User quotas?) http://sparcv9.blogspot.com/2009/08/solaris-10-update-8-1009-is-comming.html which is in no way official, says it'll be in 10u8 which should be coming within a month. /Tomas -- Tomas Ögren, st...@acc.umu.se, http

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