[OpenIndiana-discuss] Sunfire v20z success continued....

2011-04-23 Thread Gary Gendel
Alasdair, Success with 148 dev_il and the Thinkpad Z61 as well! It's nice to be able to install OpenIndiana after failed attempts with 148 and 148b. The Thinkpad is a bit starved for memory (1G) for OpenSolaris/OpenIndiana, but 148 dev_il boots up and shuts down in roughly half the time tha

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] ZFS with Dedupication for NFS server

2011-04-23 Thread Ware Adams
On Apr 23, 2011, at 12:29 PM, Gary Driggs wrote: >> Unless you buy the fishworks based storage products, which I believe >> includes the dedup feature and is sold for production environments. I just >> don't remember if the dedup feature is labelled experimental or similar. > > The unified sto

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] CIFS slow reads but fast writes

2011-04-23 Thread Dan Swartzendruber
Not at this time. Most of the traffic is writes and I'm probably going to go iSCSI for now - I don't really have the time or inclination to chase this anymore at this point, although I do appreciate the helpful suggestions various people have made. -Original Message- From: Gordon Ross [m

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] CIFS slow reads but fast writes

2011-04-23 Thread Gordon Ross
[...] >> Redid the CIFS bench just now.  38MB/sec read, 77MB/sec write.  So ftp is >> almost twice as fast. > > OK, so next I'd grab a network capture of just a couple seconds during > the "middle" part of both of these transfer tests, and compare the delays > seen between requests and responses. >

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] ZFS with Dedupication for NFS server

2011-04-23 Thread Alan Coopersmith
On 04/23/11 06:01 AM, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: >> From: Alan Coopersmith [mailto:alan.coopersm...@oracle.com] >> >> While I'm fairly sure Oracle disagrees with Mr. Harvey's claim that it's >> not considered production worthy, > > Here's what I meant when I said that: > The current production rele

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] ZFS with Dedupication for NFS server

2011-04-23 Thread Gary Driggs
On Apr 23, 2011, at 8:21 AM, Gregory Youngblood wrote: > Unless you buy the fishworks based storage products, which I believe includes > the dedup feature and is sold for production environments. I just don't > remember if the dedup feature is labelled experimental or similar. The unified stor

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] ZFS with Dedupication for NFS server

2011-04-23 Thread Gregory Youngblood
Unless you buy the fishworks based storage products, which I believe includes the dedup feature and is sold for production environments. I just don't remember if the dedup feature is labelled experimental or similar. Sent from my Droid Incredible. Edward Ned Harvey wrote: >> From: Alan Coope

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] ZFS with Dedupication for NFS server

2011-04-23 Thread Toomas Soome
On 23.04.2011, at 16:10, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: >> From: Toomas Soome [mailto:toomas.so...@mls.ee] >> >> well, do a bit math. if ima correct, with 320B DTT the 1.75GB of ram can > fit >> 5.8M entries, 1TB of data, assuming 128k recordsize would produce 8M >> entries thats with default meta

[OpenIndiana-discuss] NTFS-3G

2011-04-23 Thread Apostolos Syropoulos
Hello, I have compiled ntfs-3g under OpenIndiana 148 and it works just fine. Also, I have made some patches and I have send them to the developers for review. If anyone wants to test the package, please send me an e-mail off-list. Regards, A.S.   -- Apostolos Syropoulos Xan

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] ZFS with Dedupication for NFS server

2011-04-23 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
> From: Tomas Bodzar [mailto:tomas.bod...@gmail.com] > > Isn't it too much? "Too much ram" is an oxymoron. Always add more ram. And then double the ram. Or else don't complain about performance. ;-) ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndi

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] ZFS with Dedupication for NFS server

2011-04-23 Thread Tomas Bodzar
On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 3:06 PM, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: >> From: Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk [mailto:r...@karlsbakk.net] >> >> That's theory, in practice, even with sufficient RAM/L2ARC and some amount >> of SLOG, dedup slows down writes to a minimum. My test was done with 8TB >> net storage, 8GB RAM,

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] ZFS with Dedupication for NFS server

2011-04-23 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
> From: Toomas Soome [mailto:toomas.so...@mls.ee] > > well, do a bit math. if ima correct, with 320B DTT the 1.75GB of ram can fit > 5.8M entries, 1TB of data, assuming 128k recordsize would produce 8M > entries thats with default metadata limit. unless i did my calculations > wrong, that wil

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] ZFS with Dedupication for NFS server

2011-04-23 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
> From: Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk [mailto:r...@karlsbakk.net] > > That's theory, in practice, even with sufficient RAM/L2ARC and some amount > of SLOG, dedup slows down writes to a minimum. My test was done with 8TB > net storage, 8GB RAM, and two 80GB x25-M SSDs devided into 2x4GB SLOG > (mirrored) an

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] ZFS with Dedupication for NFS server

2011-04-23 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
> From: Alan Coopersmith [mailto:alan.coopersm...@oracle.com] > > While I'm fairly sure Oracle disagrees with Mr. Harvey's claim that it's > not considered production worthy, Here's what I meant when I said that: The current production release is still Solaris 10, which does not include dedup ye

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] CIFS slow reads but fast writes

2011-04-23 Thread Nikola M.
On 04/22/11 05:55 AM, Dan Swartzendruber wrote: > Hmmm, looks like it might be realtek lossage. Crystaldiskmark just finished > the read phase. Getting about 56MB/sec, which isn't tremendous, but it > beats the snot out of the 33 or so the RT was generating. I then re-ran the > iSCSI crystaldisk