[zfs-discuss] upgrading to the latest zfs version

2009-11-18 Thread Michael Armstrong
Hi guys, after reading the mailings yesterday i noticed someone was after upgrading to zfs v21 (deduplication) i'm after the same, i installed osol-dev-127 earlier which comes with v19 and then followed the instructions on http://pkg.opensolaris.org/dev/en/index.shtml to bring my system up to

[zfs-discuss] Zpool problems

2009-12-07 Thread Michael Armstrong
Hi, I'm using zfs version 6 on mac os x 10.5 using the old macosforge pkg. When I'm writing files to the fs they are appearing as 1kb files and if I do zpool status or scrub or anything the command is just hanging. However I can still read the zpool ok, just write is having problems and

[zfs-discuss] adding extra drives without creating a second parity set

2009-12-27 Thread Michael Armstrong
Hi, I currently have 4x 1tb drives in a raidz configuration. I want to add another 2 x 1tb drives, however if i simply zpool add, i will only gain an extra 1tb of space as it will create a second raidz set inside the existing tank/pool. Is there a way to add my new drives into the existing

[zfs-discuss] Is my bottleneck RAM?

2011-01-18 Thread Michael Armstrong
Hi guys, sorry in advance if this is somewhat a lowly question, I've recently built a zfs test box based on nexentastor with 4x samsung 2tb drives connected via SATA-II in a raidz1 configuration with dedup enabled compression off and pool version 23. From running bonnie++ I get the following

Re: [zfs-discuss] Is my bottleneck RAM?

2011-01-18 Thread Michael Armstrong
I've since turned off dedup, added another 3 drives and results have improved to around 148388K/sec on average, would turning on compression make things more CPU bound and improve performance further? On 18 Jan 2011, at 15:07, Richard Elling wrote: On Jan 15, 2011, at 4:21 PM, Michael

Re: [zfs-discuss] Is my bottleneck RAM?

2011-01-18 Thread Michael Armstrong
Thanks everyone, I think overtime I'm gonna update the system to include an ssd for sure. Memory may come later though. Thanks for everyone's responses Erik Trimble erik.trim...@oracle.com wrote: On Tue, 2011-01-18 at 15:11 +, Michael Armstrong wrote: I've since turned off dedup, added

Re: [zfs-discuss] Is my bottleneck RAM?

2011-01-18 Thread Michael Armstrong
table of what's in the L2ARC. Using 2GB of RAM with an SSD-based L2ARC (even without Dedup) likely won't help you too much vs not having the SSD. If you're going to turn on Dedup, you need at least 8GB of RAM to go with the SSD. -Erik On Tue, 2011-01-18 at 18:35 +, Michael Armstrong wrote

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs-discuss Digest, Vol 64, Issue 13

2011-02-06 Thread Michael Armstrong
Additionally, the way I do it is to draw a diagram of the drives in the system, labelled with the drive serial numbers. Then when a drive fails, I can find out from smartctl which drive it is and remove/replace without trial and error. On 5 Feb 2011, at 21:54,

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs-discuss Digest, Vol 64, Issue 21

2011-02-07 Thread Michael Armstrong
I obtained smartmontools (which includes smartctl) from the standard apt repository (i'm using nexenta however), in addition its neccessary to use the device type of sat,12 with smartctl to get it to read attributes correctly in OS afaik. Also regarding dev id's on the system, from what i've

[zfs-discuss] Drive upgrades

2012-04-13 Thread Michael Armstrong
Hi Guys,I currently have a 18 drive system built from 13x 2.0tb Samsung's and 5x WD 1tb's... I'm about to swap out all of my 1tb drives with 2tb ones to grow the pool a bit... My question is...The replacement 2tb drives are from various manufacturers (seagate/hitachi/samsung) and I know from

Re: [zfs-discuss] Drive upgrades

2012-04-13 Thread Michael Armstrong
at 9:35 AM, Edward Ned Harvey opensolarisisdeadlongliveopensola...@nedharvey.com wrote: From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Michael Armstrong Is there a way to quickly ascertain if my seagate/hitachi drives are as large

[zfs-discuss] Using L2ARC on an AdHoc basis.

2012-10-13 Thread Michael Armstrong
Hi Guys, I have a portable pool i.e. one that I carry around in an enclosure. However, any SSD I add for L2ARC, will not be carried around... meaning the cache drive will become unavailable from time to time. My question is Will random removal of the cache drive put the pool into a

Re: [zfs-discuss] Using L2ARC on an AdHoc basis.

2012-10-13 Thread Michael Armstrong
or not and whether or not it risked integrity. Sent from my iPhone On 13 Oct 2012, at 23:02, Ian Collins i...@ianshome.com wrote: On 10/14/12 10:02, Michael Armstrong wrote: Hi Guys, I have a portable pool i.e. one that I carry around in an enclosure. However, any SSD I add for L2ARC