Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Performance compared to UFS VxFS - offtopic

2006-08-23 Thread przemolicc
On Tue, Aug 22, 2006 at 06:15:08AM -0700, Tony Galway wrote: A question (well lets make it 3 really) ??? Is vdbench a useful tool when testing file system performance of a ZFS file system? Secondly - is ZFS write performance really much worse than UFS or VxFS? and Third - what is a good

[zfs-discuss] 3510 - some new tests

2006-08-23 Thread Robert Milkowski
Hello zfs-discuss, Server is v440, Solaris 10U2 + patches. Each test repeated at least two times and two results posted. Server connected with dual-ported FC card with MPxIO using FC-AL (DAS). 1. 3510, RAID-10 using 24 disks from two enclosures, random optimization, 32KB stripe width,

[zfs-discuss] zpool import: snv_33 to S10 6/06

2006-08-23 Thread James Foronda
Hi, [EMAIL PROTECTED] cat /etc/release Solaris Nevada snv_33 X86 Copyright 2006 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Use is subject to license terms. Assembled 06 February 2006 I have zfs running well

Re: [zfs-discuss] Porting ZFS file system to FreeBSD.

2006-08-23 Thread Luke Scharf
Ricardo Correia wrote: Wow, congratulations, nice work! I'm the one porting ZFS to FUSE and seeing you doing such progress so fast is very very encouraging :) I'd like to throw a me too into the pile of thank-you messages! I spent part of the weekend expanding and manipulating a set of

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: Issue with zfs snapshot replication from version2 to version3 pool.

2006-08-23 Thread Noel Dellofano
I've filed a bug for the problem Tim mentions below. 6463140 zfs recv with a snapshot name that has 2 @@ in a row succeeds This is most likely due to the order in which we call zfs_validate_name in the zfs recv code, which would explain why other snapshot commands like 'zfs snapshot' will

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Performance compared to UFS VxFS

2006-08-23 Thread Torrey McMahon
Tony Galway wrote: A question (well lets make it 3 really) – Is vdbench a useful tool when testing file system performance of a ZFS file system? Not really. VDBench simply reads and writes from the allocated file. Filesystem tests do things like create files, read files, delete files, move

Re: [zfs-discuss] Question on Zones and memory usage (65120349)

2006-08-23 Thread Irma Garcia
Hi all, Customer has another questions. I'm resending : snip I guess since the zones we are working with are running /acting as Oracle 10 database servers, the 100% memory usage prstat is not accurate. Also, from the text below it seems that rcapd is not the way to go to segregate memory in

[zfs-discuss] Tape backup

2006-08-23 Thread Karen Chau
I understand Legato doesn't work with ZFS yet. I looked through the email archives, cpio and tar were mentioned. What's is my best option if I want to dump approx 40G to tape? -Karen -- NOTICE: This email message

Re: [zfs-discuss] Tape backup

2006-08-23 Thread Luke Scharf
Karen Chau wrote: I understand Legato doesn't work with ZFS yet. I looked through the email archives, cpio and tar were mentioned. What's is my best option if I want to dump approx 40G to tape? Am I correct in saying that the issue was not getting the files to tape, but properly storing

Re: [zfs-discuss] zpool import: snv_33 to S10 6/06

2006-08-23 Thread Matthew Ahrens
On Wed, Aug 23, 2006 at 09:57:04AM -0400, James Foronda wrote: Hi, [EMAIL PROTECTED] cat /etc/release Solaris Nevada snv_33 X86 Copyright 2006 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Use is subject to license terms.

Re: [zfs-discuss] Tape backup

2006-08-23 Thread Mark Shellenbaum
Luke Scharf wrote: Karen Chau wrote: I understand Legato doesn't work with ZFS yet. I looked through the email archives, cpio and tar were mentioned. What's is my best option if I want to dump approx 40G to tape? Am I correct in saying that the issue was not getting the files to tape, but

Re: [zfs-discuss] Tape backup

2006-08-23 Thread Darren Dunham
The Legato software aborts the entire backup when it receives ENOSYS from the acl(2) syscall. Legato receives the ENOSYS because it was trying to find out how many POSIX draft ACL entries exist on a given file. Since ZFS doesn't support POSIX draft ACLs it returns ENOSYS. Whereas,

Re: [zfs-discuss] Tape backup

2006-08-23 Thread Joerg Schilling
Luke Scharf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Karen Chau wrote: I understand Legato doesn't work with ZFS yet. I looked through the email archives, cpio and tar were mentioned. What's is my best option if I want to dump approx 40G to tape? Am I correct in saying that the issue was not getting

Re: [zfs-discuss] Tape backup

2006-08-23 Thread Bill Sommerfeld
On Wed, 2006-08-23 at 14:38 -0700, Darren Dunham wrote: For those folks that like to live just *over* the edge and would like to use ACL-less backups on ZFS with existing networker clients, what is the possibility of creating a pre-loadable library that wrapped acl(2)? I may regret admitting

Re: [zfs-discuss] zpool import: snv_33 to S10 6/06

2006-08-23 Thread Boyd Adamson
On 24/08/2006, at 6:40 AM, Matthew Ahrens wrote: However, once you upgrade to build 35 or later (including S10 6/06), do not downgrade back to build 34 or earlier, per the following message: Summary: If you use ZFS, do not downgrade from build 35 or later to build 34 or

Re: [zfs-discuss] zpool import: snv_33 to S10 6/06

2006-08-23 Thread Matthew Ahrens
On Thu, Aug 24, 2006 at 08:12:34AM +1000, Boyd Adamson wrote: Isn't the whole point of the zpool upgrade process to allow users to decide when they want to remove the fall back to old version option? In other words shouldn't any change that eliminates going back to an old rev require an

[zfs-discuss] Need Help: didn't create the pool as radiz but stripes

2006-08-23 Thread Arlina Goce-Capiral
I need help on this and don't know what to give to customer. System is V40z running Solaris 10 x86 and customer is trying to create 3 disks as Raidz. After creating the pool, looking at the disk space and configuration, he thinks that this is not raidz pool but rather stripes. THis is what

Re: [zfs-discuss] Need Help: didn't create the pool as radiz but stripes

2006-08-23 Thread James Dickens
On 8/23/06, Arlina Goce-Capiral [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I need help on this and don't know what to give to customer. System is V40z running Solaris 10 x86 and customer is trying to create 3 disks as Raidz. After creating the pool, looking at the disk space and configuration, he thinks that

Re: [zfs-discuss] Need Help: didn't create the pool as radiz but stripes

2006-08-23 Thread Arlina Goce-Capiral
Hello James, Thanks for the response. Yes. I got the bug id# and forwarded that to customer. But cu said that he can create a large file that is large as the stripe of the 3 disks. And if he pull a disk, the whole zpool failes, so there's no degraded pools, just fails. Any idea on this?

[zfs-discuss] space accounting with RAID-Z

2006-08-23 Thread Matthew Ahrens
I just realized that I forgot to send this message to zfs-discuss back in May when I fixed this bug. Sorry for the delay. The putback of the following bug fix to Solaris Nevada build 42 and Solaris 10 update 3 build 3 (and coinciding with the change to ZFS on-disk version 3) changes the behavior

Re: [zfs-discuss] Need Help: didn't create the pool as radiz but stripes

2006-08-23 Thread Boyd Adamson
On 24/08/2006, at 10:14 AM, Arlina Goce-Capiral wrote: Hello James, Thanks for the response. Yes. I got the bug id# and forwarded that to customer. But cu said that he can create a large file that is large as the stripe of the 3 disks. And if he pull a disk, the whole zpool failes, so