using freebsd-update to update jails and their host

2011-02-27 Thread Dan Naumov
right in thinking I could also use this by first upgrading my host and then running this command to write the /basejail over with the updated files from the host to bring them into sync? I still don't know how I would then fix the /etc under each individual jail though.

ZFS on top of GELI

2010-01-10 Thread Dan Naumov
dware, the system is an Atom 330 which is currently using Windows 2008 server with TrueCrypt in a non-raid configuration and with that setup, I am getting roughly 55mb/s reads and writes when using TrueCrypt (nonencrypted it's around 115mb/s). Thanks. - Sincer

Re: ZFS on top of GELI

2010-01-10 Thread Dan Naumov
On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 6:12 PM, Damian Gerow wrote: > Dan Naumov wrote: > : I am mostly interested in benchmarks on lower end hardware, the system > : is an Atom 330 which is currently using Windows 2008 server with > : TrueCrypt in a non-raid configuration and with that setup, I am

Re: ZFS on top of GELI

2010-01-10 Thread Dan Naumov
On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 8:46 PM, Damian Gerow wrote: > Dan Naumov wrote: > : Yes, this is what I was basically considering: > : > : new AHCI driver => 40gb Intel SSD => UFS2 with Softupdates for the > : system installation > : new AHCI driver => 2 x 2tb disks, each ful

bin/115406: [patch] gpt(8) GPT MBR hangs award BIOS on boot

2010-01-11 Thread Dan Naumov
ebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi comes up with nothing? Also, does this mean that GPT is _NOT_ in fact fixed regarding this bug? Thanks. - Sincerely, Dan Naumov ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To

Re: ZFS on top of GELI

2010-01-11 Thread Dan Naumov
ves throughput. How fast is the CPU in the system showing no overhead? Having no noticable overhead whatsoever sounds extremely unlikely unless you are actually using it on something like a very modern dualcore or better. - Sincerely, Dan Naumov ___ freeb

Re: ZFS on top of GELI

2010-01-11 Thread Dan Naumov
691 secs (59559969 bytes/sec) > srebrny# dd if=/dev/zero of=/data02/test bs=1M count=500 > 500+0 records in > 500+0 records out > 524288000 bytes transferred in 20.090274 secs (26096608 bytes/sec) > > Rafal Jackiewicz Thanks, could you do the same, but using 2 .e

Re: ZFS on top of GELI

2010-01-11 Thread Dan Naumov
IO fail on the l2arc, the system will gracefully continue to run, reverting said IO to be processed by the actual default built-in ZIL on the disks of the pool. However the capability to remove dedicated ZIL or gracefully handle the death of a non-redundant dedicated ZIL vdev does not currently exi

installing FreeBSD 8 on SSDs and UFS2 - partition alignment, block sizes, what does one need to know?

2010-01-12 Thread Dan Naumov
the SSD host the swap, boot, root and a few other partitions. What do I need to know in regards to partition alignment and filesystem block sizes to get the best performance out of the Intel SSDs? Thanks. - Sincerely, Dan Naumov ___ freebsd-stable

Re: ZFS on top of GELI

2010-01-12 Thread Dan Naumov
2010/1/12 Rafał Jackiewicz : >>Thanks, could you do the same, but using 2 .eli vdevs mirrorred >>together in a zfs mirror? >> >>- Sincerely, >>Dan Naumov > > Hi, > > Proc: Intell Atom 330 (2x1.6Ghz) - 1 package(s) x 2 core(s) x 2 HTT threads > Chipset

RE: bin/115406: [patch] gpt(8) GPT MBR hangs award BIOS on boot

2010-01-18 Thread Dan Naumov
as being set to the beginning of the disk (0x010100).) and applying it to his disk with DD. Can anyone point me towards an explanation regarding how to edit and apply my own PMBR to my disk to see if it helps? Thanks. Sincerely, Dan Naumov ___ freebs

8.0-RELEASE / gpart / GPT / marking a partition as "active"

2010-01-19 Thread Dan Naumov
longer needed in 8-STABLE, because the pmbr will be marked as active during the installation of the bootcode. Is there anything I can do to archieve the same result in 8.0-RELEASE or is installing from a snapshop of 8-STABLE my only option? Thanks. - Sincerely, Dan Naumov __

Re: 8.0-RELEASE / gpart / GPT / marking a partition as "active"

2010-01-19 Thread Dan Naumov
On 1/19/2010 12:11 PM, Dan Naumov wrote: > It seems that quite a few BIOSes have serious issues booting off disks > using GPT partitioning when no partition present is marked as > "active". See http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=115406&cat=bin > for a prime e

Loader, MBR and the boot process

2010-01-21 Thread Dan Naumov
install created installs using MBR partitioning and that I had swap as my first partition inside the slice and that it all worked dandy. Has this changed at some point? Oh, and for the curious the installation script is here: http://jago.pp.fi/zfsmbrv1-work

Re: Loader, MBR and the boot process

2010-01-21 Thread Dan Naumov
On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 6:12 AM, Thomas K. wrote: > On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 05:57:23AM +0200, Dan Naumov wrote: > > Hi, > >> I recently found a nifty "FreeBSD ZFS root installation script" and >> been reworking it a bit to suit my needs better, includ

Re: Loader, MBR and the boot process

2010-01-21 Thread Dan Naumov
On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 6:49 AM, Dan Naumov wrote: > On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 6:12 AM, Thomas K. wrote: >> On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 05:57:23AM +0200, Dan Naumov wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >>> I recently found a nifty "FreeBSD ZFS root installation script" an

posting coding bounties, appropriate money amounts?

2010-01-22 Thread Dan Naumov
or through the FreeBSD Foundation? And how would one go about calculating the appropriate amount of money for such a thing? Thanks. - Sincerely, Dan Naumov ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: Loader, MBR and the boot process

2010-01-24 Thread Dan Naumov
On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 5:29 PM, John wrote: > On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 07:02:53AM +0200, Dan Naumov wrote: >> On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 6:49 AM, Dan Naumov wrote: >> > On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 6:12 AM, Thomas K. wrote: >> >> On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 05:5

8.0-RELEASE/amd64 - full ZFS install - low read and write disk performance

2010-01-24 Thread Dan Naumov
2008 Server and NTFS. So what would be the cause of these very low Bonnie result numbers in my case? Should I try some other benchmark and if so, with what parameters? - Sincerely, Dan Naumov ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebs

Re: 8.0-RELEASE/amd64 - full ZFS install - low read and write disk performance

2010-01-24 Thread Dan Naumov
guration in the past, where I would boot off an UFS disk and have the ZFS mirror consist of 2 discs directly. The bonnie numbers in that case were in line with my expectations, I was seeing 65-70mb/s. Note: again, exact same hardware, exact same disks attached to the exact same controller. In my

Re: 8.0-RELEASE/amd64 - full ZFS install - low read and write disk performance

2010-01-24 Thread Dan Naumov
On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 7:42 PM, Dan Naumov wrote: > On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 7:05 PM, Jason Edwards wrote: >> Hi Dan, >> >> I read on FreeBSD mailinglist you had some performance issues with ZFS. >> Perhaps i can help you with that. >> >> You seem to be r

Re: 8.0-RELEASE/amd64 - full ZFS install - low read and write disk performance

2010-01-24 Thread Dan Naumov
On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 8:12 PM, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > On Sun, 24 Jan 2010, Dan Naumov wrote: >> >> This works out to 1GB in 36,2 seconds / 28,2mb/s in the first test and >> 4GB in 143.8 seconds / 28,4mb/s and somewhat consistent with the >> bonnie results. It also

Re: 8.0-RELEASE/amd64 - full ZFS install - low read and write disk performance

2010-01-24 Thread Dan Naumov
On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 8:34 PM, Jason Edwards wrote: >> ZFS writes to a mirror pair >> requires two independent writes.  If these writes go down independent I/O >> paths, then there is hardly any overhead from the 2nd write.  If the >> writes >> go through a bandwidth-limited shared path then the

Re: 8.0-RELEASE/amd64 - full ZFS install - low read and write disk performance

2010-01-24 Thread Dan Naumov
On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 11:53 PM, Alexander Motin wrote: > Dan Naumov wrote: >> This works out to 1GB in 36,2 seconds / 28,2mb/s in the first test and >> 4GB in 143.8 seconds / 28,4mb/s and somewhat consistent with the >> bonnie results. It also sadly seems to confir

Re: 8.0-RELEASE/amd64 - full ZFS install - low read and write disk performance

2010-01-24 Thread Dan Naumov
On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 2:14 AM, Dan Naumov wrote: > On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 11:53 PM, Alexander Motin wrote: >> Dan Naumov wrote: >>> This works out to 1GB in 36,2 seconds / 28,2mb/s in the first test and >>> 4GB in 143.8 seconds / 28,4mb/s and somewhat consistent

Re: 8.0-RELEASE/amd64 - full ZFS install - low read and write disk performance

2010-01-24 Thread Dan Naumov
On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 7:33 AM, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > On Mon, 25 Jan 2010, Dan Naumov wrote: >> >> I've checked with the manufacturer and it seems that the Sil3124 in >> this NAS is indeed a PCI card. More info on the card in question is >> available at >

Re: 8.0-RELEASE/amd64 - full ZFS install - low read and write disk performance

2010-01-25 Thread Dan Naumov
On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 9:34 AM, Dan Naumov wrote: > On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 7:33 AM, Bob Friesenhahn > wrote: >> On Mon, 25 Jan 2010, Dan Naumov wrote: >>> >>> I've checked with the manufacturer and it seems that the Sil3124 in >>> this NAS is

Re: 8.0-RELEASE/amd64 - full ZFS install - low read and write disk performance

2010-01-25 Thread Dan Naumov
do you think of these 2 for use in a FreeBSD8 ZFS NAS: http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/ATOM/ICH9/X7SPA.cfm?typ=H http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/ATOM/ICH9/X7SPA.cfm?typ=H&IPMI=Y - Sincerely, Dan Naumov ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: 8.0-RELEASE/amd64 - full ZFS install - low read and write disk performance

2010-01-25 Thread Dan Naumov
On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 8:32 PM, Alexander Motin wrote: > Dan Naumov wrote: >> Alexander, since you seem to be experienced in the area, what do you >> think of these 2 for use in a FreeBSD8 ZFS NAS: >> >> http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/ATOM/I

RE: immense delayed write to file system (ZFS and UFS2), performance issues

2010-01-26 Thread Dan Naumov
e Always - 5908 The disks are of exact same model and look to be same firmware. Should I be worried that the newer disk has, in 136 hours reached a higher Load Cycle count twice as big as on the disk thats 5253 hours old? - Sincerely, Dan Naumov

RE: immense delayed write to file system (ZFS and UFS2), performance issues

2010-01-26 Thread Dan Naumov
network unless I absolutely have to :) - Sincerely, Dan Naumov ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

RE: immense delayed write to file system (ZFS and UFS2), performance issues

2010-01-26 Thread Dan Naumov
:) - Sincerely, Dan Naumov ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

RE: immense delayed write to file system (ZFS and UFS2), performance issues

2010-01-26 Thread Dan Naumov
tion past 400,000 (over 600,000 all bets are off though). The people who need(ed) to worry were people like me, who were seeing the rate increase at a rate of 43+ per hour. - Sincerely, Dan Naumov ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.free

booting off GPT partitions

2010-01-27 Thread Dan Naumov
misunderstanding something or is the Supermicro support tech misguided? - Sincerely, Dan Naumov ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-uns

RE: one more load-cycle-count problem

2010-02-08 Thread Dan Naumov
) A less clean solution would be to setup a script that polls the SMART data of all disks affected by the problem every 8-9 seconds and have this script launch on boot. This will keep the affected drives just busy enough to not park their heads.

Re: one more load-cycle-count problem

2010-02-08 Thread Dan Naumov
2010/2/8 Gerrit Kühn : > On Mon, 8 Feb 2010 15:43:46 +0200 Dan Naumov wrote > about RE: one more load-cycle-count problem: > > DN> >Any further ideas how to get rid of this "feature"? > > DN> 1) The most "clean" solution is probably using the

booting off a ZFS pool consisting of multiple striped mirror vdevs

2010-02-13 Thread Dan Naumov
right now? - Sincerely, Dan Naumov ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

managing ZFS automatic mounts - FreeBSD deviates from Solaris?

2010-02-13 Thread Dan Naumov
ther. Is this a known issue and/or should I submit a PR? - Sincerely, Dan Naumov ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: managing ZFS automatic mounts - FreeBSD deviates from Solaris?

2010-02-13 Thread Dan Naumov
On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 2:24 AM, Dan Naumov wrote: > Hello > > From the SUN ZFS Administration Guide: > http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/819-5461/gaztn?a=view > > "If ZFS is currently managing the file system but it is currently > unmounted, and the mountpoint property i

RE: hardware for home use large storage

2010-02-14 Thread Dan Naumov
2. SuperMicro 5046A $750 (+$43 shipping) >> 3. LSI SAS 3081E-R $235 >> 4. SATA cables $60 >> 5. Crucial 3×2G ECC DDR3-1333 $191 (+ $6 shipping) >> 6. Xeon W3520 $310 You do realise how much of a massive overkill this is and how much you are overspending? - Dan

Re: hardware for home use large storage

2010-02-14 Thread Dan Naumov
On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 11:38 PM, Dan Langille wrote: > Dan Naumov wrote: >>> >>> On Sun, 14 Feb 2010, Dan Langille wrote: >>>> >>>> After creating three different system configurations (Athena, >>>> Supermicro, and HP), my configuratio

Re: hardware for home use large storage

2010-02-14 Thread Dan Naumov
On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 12:42 AM, Dan Naumov wrote: > On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 11:38 PM, Dan Langille wrote: >> Dan Naumov wrote: >>>> >>>> On Sun, 14 Feb 2010, Dan Langille wrote: >>>>> >>>>> After creating three differe

Re: hardware for home use large storage

2010-02-14 Thread Dan Naumov
bout 8 watt/disk for "green" disks to 20 watt/disk for really powerhungry ones. So yes. - Sincerely, Dan Naumov ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

RE: hardware for home use large storage

2010-02-15 Thread Dan Naumov
g. md(4)) to a pool for > L2ARC/cache? The ZFS documentation explicitly states that cache > device content is considered volatile. Using a ramdisk as an L2ARC vdev doesn't make any sense at all. If you have RAM to spare, it should be used by regu

Re: hardware for home use large storage

2010-02-15 Thread Dan Naumov
On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 7:14 PM, Dan Langille wrote: > Dan Naumov wrote: >> >> On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 11:38 PM, Dan Langille wrote: >>> >>> Dan Naumov wrote: >>>>> >>>>> On Sun, 14 Feb 2010, Dan Langille wrote: >>>

Re: hardware for home use large storage

2010-02-15 Thread Dan Naumov
re expensive 1366 socket CPUs >> and boards. >> >> - Sincerely, >> Dan Naumov > > Hi, > > Do have test about this? I'm not really impressed with the i5 series. > > Regards, > Andras There: http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/showdoc.aspx?i=3634&p

RE: booting off a ZFS pool consisting of multiple striped mirror vdevs

2010-02-16 Thread Dan Naumov
stripe doesn't work or is that "everywhere" also out of date after your changes? :) - Sincerely, Dan Naumov ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: booting off a ZFS pool consisting of multiple striped mirror vdevs

2010-02-18 Thread Dan Naumov
On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 1:03 AM, Matt Reimer wrote: > On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 10:57 AM, Matt Reimer wrote: >> >> On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 12:38 AM, Dan Naumov wrote: >>> >>> > I don't know, but I plan to test that scenario in a few days. >>>

Re: 8.0-RELEASE/amd64 - full ZFS install - low read and write disk performance (fixed)

2010-02-27 Thread Dan Naumov
e now seems to have increased by a factor of 2 to 3 and is now definately in line with the expected performance of the disks in question (cheap 2TB WD20EADS with 32mb cache). Thanks to everyone who has offered help and tips! - Sincerely, Dan N

8.0 on new hardware and a few errors, should I be worried?

2010-02-27 Thread Dan Naumov
ut it? :) Thanks! - Sincerely, Dan Naumov ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

powerd on 8.0, is it considered safe?

2010-03-08 Thread Dan Naumov
Hello Is powerd finally considered stable and safe to use on 8.0? At least on 7.2, it consistently caused panics when used on Atom systems with Hyper-Threading enabled, but I recall that Attilio Rao was looking into it. - Sincerely, Dan Naumov

RE: powerd on 8.0, is it considered safe?

2010-03-08 Thread Dan Naumov
ate why does the CPU get stuck at 1249 Mhz after boot by default when not using powerd and why it gets stuck at 1666 Mhz with powerd enabled and doesn't scale back down when IDLE? Out of curiosity, I stopped powerd but the CPU remained at 1666 Mhz. - Sincerely, Dan Naumov

RE: powerd on 8.0, is it considered safe?

2010-03-08 Thread Dan Naumov
omething puts my CPU to 1249 Mhz upon boot with powerd disabled and it gets stuck there, this shouldn't happen. - Sincerely, Dan Naumov ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubsc

Re: powerd on 8.0, is it considered safe?

2010-03-08 Thread Dan Naumov
haviour, CPU is downclocked both before and after issuing that command :) Still doesn't explain why the system boots up at 1249 Mhz, but that's not that big of an issue at this point now I see that powerd is behaving correctly. - Sincerely, Dan Naumov _

Samba read speed performance tuning

2010-03-19 Thread Dan Naumov
On a FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE/amd64 system with a Supermicro X7SPA-H board using an Intel gigabit nic with the em driver, running on top of a ZFS mirror, I was seeing a strange issue. Local reads and writes to the pool easily saturate the disks with roughly 75mb/s throughput, which is roughly the best t

Re: Samba read speed performance tuning

2010-03-19 Thread Dan Naumov
On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 11:14 PM, Dan Naumov wrote: > On a FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE/amd64 system with a Supermicro X7SPA-H board > using an Intel gigabit nic with the em driver, running on top of a ZFS > mirror, I was seeing a strange issue. Local reads and writes to the > pool easily

Re: Samba read speed performance tuning

2010-03-20 Thread Dan Naumov
34592 bytes transferred in 76.031399 secs (112978779 bytes/sec) (107,74mb/s) Individual disks read capability: 75mb/s Reading off a mirror of 2 disks with prefetch disabled: 60mb/s Reading off a mirror of 2 disks with prefetch enabled: 107mb/s - Sincerely,

RE: Can't boot after make installworld

2010-03-22 Thread Dan Naumov
reason you are upgrading from a production release to a development branch of the OS? - Sincerely, Dan Naumov ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "

Re: Can't boot after make installworld

2010-03-22 Thread Dan Naumov
ntually 8.1 will be RELENG_8_0: 8.0-RELEASE + latest critical security and reliability updates (8.0 is up to patchset #2, hence -p2) Same line of thinking applies to 7-STABLE, 7.3-RELEASE and so on. - Sincerely, Dan Naumov ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: Can't boot after make installworld

2010-03-22 Thread Dan Naumov
system with 2gb ram or more or is this i386 + 1-2gb ram? Amd64 systems with 2gb ram or more don't really usually require any tuning whatsoever (except for tweaking performance for a specific workload), but if this is i386, tuning will be generally required to archiev

ZFS on top of GELI / Intel Atom 330 system

2009-05-29 Thread Dan Naumov
Blowfish ad1s1a.eli 4GB swap ad1s1b 128GB ufs2+s / ad1s1c 128GB ufs2+s noauto /mnt/sysbackup ad1s2 => 128bit Blowfish ad1s2.eli zpool /home /mnt/data1 Thanks for your input. - Dan Naumov ___ fre

Re: ZFS on top of GELI / Intel Atom 330 system

2009-05-29 Thread Dan Naumov
possible causes of ZFS working so slow on your system? Just wondering if its an ATA chipset problem, a drive problem, a ZFS problem or what... - Dan Naumov On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 12:10 PM, Pete French wrote: >> Is there anyone here using ZFS on top of a GELI-encrypted provider on >> ha

Re: ZFS on top of GELI / Intel Atom 330 system

2009-05-29 Thread Dan Naumov
-encrypted NTFS partition: ~65 MB/s As you can see, the performance drop is noticeable, but not anywhere nearly as dramatic. - Dan Naumov > I have a zpool mirror on top of two 128bit GELI blowfish devices with > Sectorsize 4096, my system is a D945GCLF2 with 2GB RAM and a Intel Arom > 33

Re: ZFS on top of GELI / Intel Atom 330 system

2009-05-29 Thread Dan Naumov
+ GHz or a quad core at 2.6. Budget is a concern... Our difference is that my hardware is already ordered and Intel Atom 330 + D945GCLF2 + 2GB ram is what it's going to have :) - Dan Naumov ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.f

Re: ZFS on top of GELI / Intel Atom 330 system

2009-05-29 Thread Dan Naumov
Pardon my ignorance, but what do these numbers mean and what information is deductible from them? - Dan Naumov > I don't mean to take this off-topic wrt -stable but just > for fun, I built a -current kernel with dtrace and did: > >        geli onetime gzero >        ./hot

ZFS NAS configuration question

2009-05-30 Thread Dan Naumov
stuck with 2 x 2 disk mirrors or is there some 3+1 configuration possible? Sincerely, - Dan Naumov ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-

Re: ZFS NAS configuration question

2009-05-30 Thread Dan Naumov
exact same size or bigger than the old device)? - Dan Naumov On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 10:06 PM, Louis Mamakos wrote: > I built a system recently with 5 drives and ZFS.  I'm not booting off a ZFS > root, though it does mount a ZFS file system once the system has booted from > a U

Re: ZFS on top of GELI / Intel Atom 330 system

2009-05-31 Thread Dan Naumov
he problem. - Dan Naumov On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 5:29 PM, Ronald Klop wrote: > On Fri, 29 May 2009 13:34:57 +0200, Dan Naumov wrote: > >> Now that I have evaluated the numbers and my needs a bit, I am really >> confused about what appropriate course of action for me would be. &

Re: ZFS on top of GELI / Intel Atom 330 system

2009-05-31 Thread Dan Naumov
Hi Since you are suggesting 2 x 8GB USB for a root partition, what is your experience with read/write speed and lifetime expectation of modern USB sticks under FreeBSD and why 2 of them, GEOM mirror? - Dan Naumov > Hi Dan, > > everybody has different needs, but what exactly are you d

Re: ZFS NAS configuration question

2009-06-02 Thread Dan Naumov
host a root partition on, without having to setup some crazy GEOM mirror setup using 2 of them? - Dan Naumov 2009/6/2 Gerrit Kühn > On Sat, 30 May 2009 21:41:36 +0300 Dan Naumov wrote > about ZFS NAS configuration question: > > DN> So, this leaves me with 1 SATA port used f

Re: ZFS NAS configuration question

2009-06-02 Thread Dan Naumov
procedure_. Reading that made me pause for a second and made me go "WOW", this is how UNIX system upgrades should be done. Any hope of us lowly users ever seeing something like this implemented in FreeBSD? :) - Dan Naumov On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 9:47 PM, Zaphod Beeblebrox wrote: > >

Re: ZFS NAS configuration question

2009-06-02 Thread Dan Naumov
A little more info for the (perhaps) curious: Managing Multiple Boot Environments: http://dlc.sun.com/osol/docs/content/2009.06/getstart/bootenv.html#bootenvmgr Introduction to Boot Environments: http://dlc.sun.com/osol/docs/content/2009.06/snapupgrade/index.html - Dan Naumov On Tue, Jun 2

Re: ZFS NAS configuration question

2009-06-03 Thread Dan Naumov
Anyone else think that this combined with freebsd-update integration and a simplistic menu GUI for choosing the preferred boot environment would make an _awesome_ addition to the base system? :) - Dan Naumov On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 5:42 PM, Philipp Wuensche wrote: > I wrote a script implement

sponsoring ZFS development on FreeBSD

2009-06-05 Thread Dan Naumov
s possible goes directly to benefit the development of ZFS support on FreeBSD, should I continue donating to the foundation or should I be sending donations directly to specific developers? Thank you - Dan Naumov ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org ma

gptzfsboot and RELENG_7

2009-06-08 Thread Dan Naumov
Hello list Any ideas if gptzfsboot is going to be MFC'ed into RELENG_7 anytime soon? I am going to be building a NAS soon and I would like to have a "full ZFS" system without having to resort to running 8-CURRENT :) Sincerely, - Dan Naumov

Re: gptzfsboot and RELENG_7

2009-06-08 Thread Dan Naumov
gptboot. I didn't make any changes to the stock Makefiles and used GENERIC kernel config. Do I need to adjust some options for gptzfsboot to get built? - Dan Naumov >> > > 5/25/09 - last month > ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.o

Re: /boot/loader and RELENG_7 (WAS: gptzfsboot and RELENG_7)

2009-06-08 Thread Dan Naumov
from 8-CURRENT? Is that getting MFC'ed into into RELENG_7 anytime soon? Where are all make.conf options documented by the way? Neither /usr/share/examples/etc/make.conf nor "man make.conf" make any reference to the LOADER_ZFS_SUPPORT option. - Dan Naumov On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 7

trouble building a "make release" snapshot of 7.2-STABLE

2009-06-09 Thread Dan Naumov
=== And... === agathon# which install /usr/bin/install === Any ideas? - Dan Naumov ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send

Re: Issues with gjournal (heaaaaaaaaaaalp!)

2009-06-10 Thread Dan Naumov
You need to mount your /dev/ad6s1d.journal as /usr and not /dev/ad6s1d, because this is the new device provided to you by GEOM. - Dan Naumov On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 5:50 AM, Garrett Cooper wrote: > On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 7:44 PM, Garrett Cooper wrote: >> Hi Pawel, ATA, and Sta

Does this disk/filesystem layout look sane to you?

2009-06-14 Thread Dan Naumov
or a 3-way one? - Sincerely, Dan Naumov ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: Does this disk/filesystem layout look sane to you?

2009-06-14 Thread Dan Naumov
fs on partitions instead and keeping a few gb unused on each disk leaves us with some room to play and be able to avoid this issue. - Dan Naumov On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 5:16 AM, Freddie Cash wrote: > I don't know for sure if it's the same on FreeBSD, but on Solaris, ZFS will > disable t

Re: Does this disk/filesystem layout look sane to you?

2009-06-15 Thread Dan Naumov
If this is true, some magic has been done to the FreeBSD port of ZFS, because according to SUN documentation is is definitely not supposed to be possible. - Dan Naumov On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 10:48 AM, Pete French wrote: >> The new 2tb disk you buy can very often be actually a few s

Re: Does this disk/filesystem layout look sane to you?

2009-06-15 Thread Dan Naumov
e. I guess this probably varies from manufacturer to manufacturer, but some average estimates would be nice, just so that one could evaluate whether this 64k barrier is enough. - Dan Naumov On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 11:35 AM, Pete French wrote: >> If this is true, some magic has been done to th

ZFS performance on 7.2-release/amd64 low compared to UFS2 + SoftUpdates

2009-06-17 Thread Dan Naumov
make up for the huge difference in performance or is there something else in play? The system is an Intel Atom 330 dualcore, 2gb ram, Western Digital Green 2tb disk. Also what would be another good way to get good numbers for comparing the performance of UFS2 vs ZFS on the sam

Re: ZFS performance on 7.2-release/amd64 low compared to UFS2 + SoftUpdates

2009-06-17 Thread Dan Naumov
All the ZFS tuning guides for FreeBSD (including one on the FreeBSD ZFS wiki) have recommended values between 64M and 128M to improve stability, so that what I went with. How much of my max kmem is it safe to give to ZFS? - Dan Naumov On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 2:51 AM, Ronald Klop wrote

ufs2 / softupdates / ZFS / disk write cache

2009-06-20 Thread Dan Naumov
a GJOURNAL for the root filesystem... Sincerely, - Dan Naumov ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: Zpool on raw disk and weird GEOM complaint

2009-06-29 Thread Dan Naumov
es and potential data loss. In your case, I would have the pool built as a group of 2 x 6-disk raidz. Sincerely, - Dan Naumov ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: mergemaster merge left/right

2009-07-03 Thread Dan Naumov
nstall the new file. This would help avoid having to manually approve installation of hundreds of files in /etc when you upgrade to new releases using freebsd-update. - Sincerely, Dan Naumov On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 11:51 AM, Dominic Fandrey wrote: > I'd really like mergemaster to tell m

ZFS and df weirdness

2009-07-04 Thread Dan Naumov
of tank/DATA 1.8T while the others are 1.5T? - Sincerely, Dan Naumov ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: ZFS and df weirdness

2009-07-04 Thread Dan Naumov
On Sun, Jul 5, 2009 at 2:26 AM, Freddie Cash wrote: > > > On Sat, Jul 4, 2009 at 2:55 PM, Dan Naumov wrote: >> >> Hello list. >> >> I have a single 2tb disk used on a 7.2-release/amd64 system with a >> small part of it given to UFS and most of the disk give

Re: bug in ufs?

2009-07-05 Thread Dan Naumov
stem is reserved, the amount reserved has historically varied between 5-8%. This is adjustable. See the "-m" switch to tunefs. - Sincerely, Dan Naumov ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: What is /boot/kernel/*.symbols?

2009-07-06 Thread Dan Naumov
md64 updated to -p1 with freebsd-update, 2 kernels is the maximum that would fit into the default 512mb partition size for /, a bit too tight for my liking. - Sincerely, Dan Naumov ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/

7.2-release/amd64: panic, spin lock held too long

2009-07-06 Thread Dan Naumov
ly serving files to my home network over Samba and running a few irssi instances in a screen. What do I need to do to catch more information if/when this happens again? - Sincerely, Dan Naumov ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.f

Re: 7.2-release/amd64: panic, spin lock held too long

2009-07-06 Thread Dan Naumov
On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 4:18 AM, Attilio Rao wrote: > 2009/7/7 Dan Naumov : >> I just got a panic following by a reboot a few seconds after running >> "portsnap update", /var/log/messages shows the following: >> >> Jul  7 03:49:38 atom syslogd: kernel boot fil

Re: FreeBSD 8.0-BETA1 Available

2009-07-07 Thread Dan Naumov
ll isn't exactly up to the task. - Sincerely, Dan Naumov ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: What is /boot/kernel/*.symbols?

2009-07-07 Thread Dan Naumov
en't available for >> > sparc64? >> >> Yes, That's probably it. > > It was just a theory; I don't have sparc64.  What's your output of > "ls -1 /boot/kernel | wc"? > > -- Rick C. Petty atom# uname -a FreeBSD atom.localdomain

Re: ZFS: drive replacement performance

2009-07-07 Thread Dan Naumov
every filesystem used by FreeBSD (ufs, zfs, etc) hardcoded to ignore the last few sectors of any disk and/or partition and not write data to it to avoid such issues? - Sincerely, Dan Naumov ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

glabel metadata protection (WAS: ZFS: drive replacement performance)

2009-07-07 Thread Dan Naumov
ts this command to make the freebsd-zfs partition take "entiredisk minus last sector" ? I can understand the logic of metadata being protected if I do a: "gpart add -b 1 -s -t freebsd-zfs /dev/label/disk01" since gpart will have to go through the actual la

Re: 7.2-release/amd64: panic, spin lock held too long

2009-07-07 Thread Dan Naumov
On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 4:27 AM, Attilio Rao wrote: > 2009/7/7 Dan Naumov : >> On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 4:18 AM, Attilio Rao wrote: >>> 2009/7/7 Dan Naumov : >>>> I just got a panic following by a reboot a few seconds after running >>>> "portsnap

Re: 7.2-release/amd64: panic, spin lock held too long

2009-07-08 Thread Dan Naumov
On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 3:57 AM, Dan Naumov wrote: > On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 4:27 AM, Attilio Rao wrote: >> 2009/7/7 Dan Naumov : >>> On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 4:18 AM, Attilio Rao wrote: >>>> 2009/7/7 Dan Naumov : >>>>> I just got a panic foll

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