Re: [zfs-discuss] dedup and handling corruptions - impossible?
From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of devsk If dedup is ON and the pool develops a corruption in a file, I can never fix it because when I try to copy the correct file on top of the corrupt file, the block hash will match with the existing blocks and only reference count will be updated. The only way to fix it is to delete all snapshots (to remove all references) and then delete the file and then copy the valid file. This is a pretty high cost if it is so (empirical evidence so far, I don't know internal details). Um ... If dedup is on, and a file develops corruption, the original has developed corruption too. It was probably corrupt before it was copied. This is what zfs checksumming and mirrors/redundancy are for. If you have ZFS, and redundancy, this won't happen. (Unless you have failing ram/cpu/etc) If you have *any* filesystem without redundancy, and this happens, you should stop trying to re-copy the file, and instead throw away your disk and restore from backup. If you run without redundancy, and without backup, you got what you asked for. ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
Re: [zfs-discuss] dedup and handling corruptions - impossible?
From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of devsk If dedup is ON and the pool develops a corruption in a file, I can never fix it because when I try to copy the correct file on top of the corrupt file, the block hash will match with the existing blocks and only reference count will be updated. The only way to fix it is to delete all snapshots (to remove all references) and then delete the file and then copy the valid file. This is a pretty high cost if it is so (empirical evidence so far, I don't know internal details). Um ... If dedup is on, and a file develops corruption, the original has developed corruption too. What do you mean original? dedup creates only one copy of the file blocks. The file was not corrupt when it was copied 3 months ago. I have read the file many times and scrubbed the pool many times since then. The file is present in many snapshots. It was probably corrupt before it was copied. This is what zfs checksumming and mirrors/redundancy are for. If you have ZFS, and redundancy, this won't happen. (Unless you have ailing ram/cpu/etc) You are saying ZFS will detect and rectify this kind of corruption in a deduped pool automatically if enough redundancy is present? Can that fail sometimes? Under what conditions? I would hate to restore a 1.5TB pool from backup just because one 5MB file is gone bust. And I have a known good copy of the file. I raised a technical question and you are going all personal on me. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
Re: [zfs-discuss] dedup and handling corruptions - impossible?
You are saying ZFS will detect and rectify this kind of corruption in a deduped pool automatically if enough redundancy is present? Can that fail sometimes? Under what conditions? I would hate to restore a 1.5TB pool from backup just because one 5MB file is gone bust. And I have a known good copy of the file. I raised a technical question and you are going all personal on me. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org zfs checksums every transaction. When you access a file, it checks that the checksums match. If they do not (corruption) and you have redundancy, it repairs the corruption. It can detect and corrupt corruption in this way. It didnt' seem like anyone got personal with you. ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
Re: [zfs-discuss] dedup and handling corruptions - impossible?
From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of devsk What do you mean original? dedup creates only one copy of the file blocks. The file was not corrupt when it was copied 3 months ago. Please describe the problem. If you copied the file 3 months ago, and the new old copies are both referencing the same blocks on disk thanks to dedup, and the new copy has become corrupt, then the original has also become corrupt. In the OP, you seem to imply that the original is not corrupt, but the new copy is corrupt, and you can't fix the new copy by overwriting it with a fresh copy of the original. This makes no sense. If you have ZFS, and redundancy, this won't happen. (Unless you have ailing ram/cpu/etc) You are saying ZFS will detect and rectify this kind of corruption in a deduped pool automatically if enough redundancy is present? Can that fail sometimes? Under what conditions? I'm saying ZFS checksums every block on disk, read or written, and if any checksum mismatches, then ZFS automatically checks the other copy ... from the other disk in the mirror, or reconstructed from the redundancy in raid, or whatever. By having redundancy, ZFS will automatically correct any checksum mismatches it encounters. If a checksum is mismatched on *both* sides of the mirror, it means either (a) both disks went bad at the same time, which is unlikely, but nonzero probability, or (b) there's faulty ram or cpu or some other single-point of failure in the system. I raised a technical question and you are going all personal on me. Woah. Where did that come from??? ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
Re: [zfs-discuss] dedup and handling corruptions - impossible?
On Aug 21, 2010, at 9:22 PM, devsk wrote: If dedup is ON and the pool develops a corruption in a file, I can never fix it because when I try to copy the correct file on top of the corrupt file, the block hash will match with the existing blocks and only reference count will be updated. The only way to fix it is to delete all snapshots (to remove all references) and then delete the file and then copy the valid file. This is a pretty high cost if it is so (empirical evidence so far, I don't know internal details). Has anyone else experienced this? zfs set dedup=on,verify dataset IMNSHO, verify should be the default. -- richard -- OpenStorage Summit, October 25-27, San Fransisco http://nexenta-summit2010.eventbrite.comZFS and performance consulting http://www.RichardElling.com ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
Re: [zfs-discuss] dedup and handling corruptions - impossible?
On 08/23/10 10:38 AM, Richard Elling wrote: On Aug 21, 2010, at 9:22 PM, devsk wrote: If dedup is ON and the pool develops a corruption in a file, I can never fix it because when I try to copy the correct file on top of the corrupt file, the block hash will match with the existing blocks and only reference count will be updated. The only way to fix it is to delete all snapshots (to remove all references) and then delete the file and then copy the valid file. This is a pretty high cost if it is so (empirical evidence so far, I don't know internal details). Has anyone else experienced this? zfs set dedup=on,verify dataset IMNSHO, verify should be the default. I thought it was the default for lesser checksum algorithms, give the long odds in an sha256 false positive? -- Ian. ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
Re: [zfs-discuss] dedup and handling corruptions - impossible?
On Aug 22, 2010, at 3:57 PM, Ian Collins wrote: On 08/23/10 10:38 AM, Richard Elling wrote: On Aug 21, 2010, at 9:22 PM, devsk wrote: If dedup is ON and the pool develops a corruption in a file, I can never fix it because when I try to copy the correct file on top of the corrupt file, the block hash will match with the existing blocks and only reference count will be updated. The only way to fix it is to delete all snapshots (to remove all references) and then delete the file and then copy the valid file. This is a pretty high cost if it is so (empirical evidence so far, I don't know internal details). Has anyone else experienced this? zfs set dedup=on,verify dataset IMNSHO, verify should be the default. I thought it was the default for lesser checksum algorithms, give the long odds in an sha256 false positive? That was the original intent, however the only checksum algorithm used today is SHA-256. -- richard -- OpenStorage Summit, October 25-27, San Fransisco http://nexenta-summit2010.eventbrite.com ZFS and performance consulting http://www.RichardElling.com ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
[zfs-discuss] dedup and handling corruptions - impossible?
If dedup is ON and the pool develops a corruption in a file, I can never fix it because when I try to copy the correct file on top of the corrupt file, the block hash will match with the existing blocks and only reference count will be updated. The only way to fix it is to delete all snapshots (to remove all references) and then delete the file and then copy the valid file. This is a pretty high cost if it is so (empirical evidence so far, I don't know internal details). Has anyone else experienced this? -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
