Re: [zfs-discuss] zpool import -F hangs system

2010-04-21 Thread Brad Stone
What build are you on? zpool import hangs for me on b134. On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 9:21 AM, John Balestrini wrote: > Howdy All, > > I have a raidz pool that hangs the system when importing. I attempted a > pfexec zpool import -F pool1 (which has been importing for two days with no > result), but d

Re: [zfs-discuss] Possible to save custom properties on a zfs file system?

2010-08-02 Thread Brad Stone
Peter - Here is an example, where the company myco wants to add a property "myprop" to a file system "myfs" contained within the pool "mypool". zfs set myco:myprop=11 mypool/myfs On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 1:45 PM, Peter Taps wrote: > Folks, > > I need to store some application-specific settings fo

Re: [zfs-discuss] How many disk in one pool

2012-10-08 Thread Brad Stone
Here's an example of a ZFS-based product you can buy with a large number of disks in the volume: http://www.aberdeeninc.com/abcatg/petarack.htm 360 3T drives A full petabyte of storage (1080TB) in a single rack, under a single namespace or volume On Sat, Oct 6, 2012 at 11:48 AM, Richard Elling

[zfs-discuss] OpenStorage Summit

2010-08-21 Thread Brad Stone
Just wanted to make a quick announcement that there will be an OpenStorage Summit in Palo Alto, CA in late October. The conference should have a lot of good OpenSolaris talks, with ZFS experts such as Bill Moore, Adam Levanthal, and Ben Rockwood already planning to give presentations. The confere

Re: [zfs-discuss] Dedup - Does "on" imply "sha256?"

2010-08-24 Thread Brad Stone
Correct, but presumably "for a limited time only". I would think that over time as the technology improves that the default would change. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.ope

Re: [zfs-discuss] Dedup relationship between pool and filesystem

2010-09-24 Thread Brad Stone
For de-duplication to perform well you need to be able to fit the de-dup table in memory. Is a good rule-of-thumb for needed RAM Size=(pool capacity/avg block size)*270 bytes? Or perhaps it's Size/expected_dedup_ratio? And if you limit de-dup to certain datasets in the pool, how would this calc

Re: [zfs-discuss] A few questions

2011-01-09 Thread Brad Stone
> As for certified systems, It's my understanding that Nexenta themselves don't > "certify" anything.  They have systems which are recommended and supported by > their network of VAR's. The certified solutions listed on Nexenta's website were certified by Nexenta. ___

Re: [zfs-discuss] OpenIndiana | ZFS | scrub | network | awful slow

2011-06-15 Thread Brad Stone
3G per TB would be a better ballpark estimate. On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 8:17 PM, Daniel Carosone wrote: > On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 07:19:05PM +0200, Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk wrote: >> >> Dedup is known to require a LOT of memory and/or L2ARC, and 24GB isn't >> really much with 34TBs of data. > > The f