RE: [zfs-discuss] Need input on implementing a ZFS layout

2006-09-05 Thread Oatway, Ted
Thanks for the response Richard. Forgive my ignorance but the following questions come to mind as I read your response. I would then have to create 80 RAIDz(6+1) Volumes and the process of creating these Volumes can be scripted. But - 1) I would then have to create 80 mount points to mount each o

Re: [zfs-discuss] Need input on implementing a ZFS layout

2006-09-05 Thread Richard Elling - PAE
Oatway, Ted wrote: IHAC that has 560+ LUNs that will be assigned to ZFS Pools and some level of protection. The LUNs are provided by seven Sun StorageTek FLX380s. Each FLX380 is configured with 20 Virtual Disks. Each Virtual Disk presents four Volumes/LUNs. (4 Volumes x 20 Virtual Disks x 7 Di

[zfs-discuss] Need input on implementing a ZFS layout

2006-09-05 Thread Oatway, Ted
IHAC that has 560+ LUNs that will be assigned to ZFS Pools and some level of protection. The LUNs are provided by seven Sun StorageTek FLX380s. Each FLX380 is configured with 20 Virtual Disks. Each Virtual Disk presents four Volumes/LUNs.  (4 Volumes x 20 Virtual Disks x 7 Disk Arrays = 560

[zfs-discuss] Re: ZFS forces system to paging to the point it is

2006-09-05 Thread Robert Milkowski
Yes, server has 8GB of RAM. Most of the time there's about 1GB of free RAM. bash-3.00# mdb 0 Loading modules: [ unix krtld genunix dtrace specfs ufs sd md ip sctp usba fcp fctl qlc ssd lofs zfs random logindmux ptm cpc nfs ipc ] > arc::print { anon = ARC_anon mru = ARC_mru mru_ghost =

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS forces system to paging to the point it is unresponsive

2006-09-05 Thread Mark Maybee
Robert, I would be interested in seeing your crash dump. ZFS will consume much of your memory *in the absence of memory pressure*, but it should be responsive to memory pressure, and give up memory when this happens. It looks like you have 8GB of memory on your system? ZFS should never consum

[zfs-discuss] Re: ZFS issues too much IOs

2006-09-05 Thread Robert Milkowski
IIRC there was a tunable variable to set how much data to read-in. And default was 64KB... This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS issues too much IOs

2006-09-05 Thread Matthew Ahrens
Robert Milkowski wrote: Hi. S10U2+patches, SPARC. NFS v3/tcp server with ZFS as local storage. ZFS does only striping, actual RAID-10 is done on 3510. I can see MUCH more throutput generated to disks than over the net to nfs server. Nothing else runs on the server. It looks like you are seeing

[zfs-discuss] ZFS issues too much IOs

2006-09-05 Thread Robert Milkowski
Hi. S10U2+patches, SPARC. NFS v3/tcp server with ZFS as local storage. ZFS does only striping, actual RAID-10 is done on 3510. I can see MUCH more throutput generated to disks than over the net to nfs server. Nothing else runs on the server. bash-3.00# ./nicstat.pl 1 Time Int rKb/s wK

[zfs-discuss] ZFS forces system to paging to the point it is unresponsive

2006-09-05 Thread Robert Milkowski
Hi. v440, S10U2 + patches OS and Kernel Version: SunOS X 5.10 Generic_118833-20 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Fire-V440 NFS server with ZFS as a local storage. We were rsyncing UFS filesystem to ZFS filesystem exported over NFS. After some time server which exports ZFS over NFS was unresponsiv

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: Recommendation ZFS on StorEdge 3320

2006-09-05 Thread Richard Elling - PAE
Jonathan Edwards wrote: Here's 10 options I can think of to summarize combinations of zfs with hw redundancy: # ZFS ARRAY HWCAPACITYCOMMENTS -- --- 1 R0 R1 N/2 hw mirror - no zfs healing (XXX) 2 R0 R5

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: Recommendation ZFS on StorEdge 3320

2006-09-05 Thread Torrey McMahon
Wee Yeh Tan wrote: Perhaps, the question should be how one could mix them to get the best of both worlds instead of going to either extreme. In the specific case of a 3320 I think Jonathan's chart has a lot of good info that can be put to use. In the general case, well, I hate to say this

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS uses 1.1GB more space, reports conflicting information...

2006-09-05 Thread Matthew Ahrens
UNIX admin wrote: [Solaris 10 6/06 i86pc] Shortly thereafter, I ran out of space on my "space" pool, but `zfs list` kept reporting I still had about a GigaByte worth of free space, while `zpool status` seemed to correctly report I ran out of space. Please send us the output of 'zpool status

Re: Re[2]: [zfs-discuss] Re: Recommendation ZFS on StorEdge 3320

2006-09-05 Thread Jonathan Edwards
On Sep 5, 2006, at 06:45, Robert Milkowski wrote:Hello Wee,Tuesday, September 5, 2006, 10:58:32 AM, you wrote:WYT> On 9/5/06, Torrey McMahon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: This is simply not true. ZFS would protect against the same type oferrors seen on an individual drive as it would on a pool made of

[zfs-discuss] Re: ZFS uses 1.1GB more space, reports conflicting information...

2006-09-05 Thread UNIX admin
> AFAIK, no. The "attach" semantics only works for > adding mirrors. > Would be nice if that can be overloaded for RAIDZ. Sure would be. > Not sure exactly which blog entry but you might be > confused that > stripes can be of different sizes (not different > sized disks). The > man page for zp

Re[2]: [zfs-discuss] Re: Recommendation ZFS on StorEdge 3320

2006-09-05 Thread Robert Milkowski
Hello Wee, Tuesday, September 5, 2006, 10:58:32 AM, you wrote: WYT> On 9/5/06, Torrey McMahon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> This is simply not true. ZFS would protect against the same type of >> errors seen on an individual drive as it would on a pool made of HW raid >> LUN(s). It might be overki

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: Recommendation ZFS on StorEdge 3320

2006-09-05 Thread Wee Yeh Tan
On 9/5/06, Torrey McMahon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: This is simply not true. ZFS would protect against the same type of errors seen on an individual drive as it would on a pool made of HW raid LUN(s). It might be overkill to layer ZFS on top of a LUN that is already protected in some way by the

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

2006-09-05 Thread Pawel Jakub Dawidek
On Tue, Sep 05, 2006 at 10:49:11AM +0200, Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote: > On Tue, Aug 22, 2006 at 12:45:16PM +0200, Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote: > > Hi. > > > > I started porting the ZFS file system to the FreeBSD operating system. > [...] > > Just a quick note about progress in my work. I needed slow

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

2006-09-05 Thread Pawel Jakub Dawidek
On Tue, Aug 22, 2006 at 12:45:16PM +0200, Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote: > Hi. > > I started porting the ZFS file system to the FreeBSD operating system. [...] Just a quick note about progress in my work. I needed slow down a bit, but: All file system operations seems to work. The only exception are

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS uses 1.1GB more space, reports conflicting information...

2006-09-05 Thread Wee Yeh Tan
Hi, On 9/4/06, UNIX admin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [Solaris 10 6/06 i86pc] ... Then I added two more disks to the pool with the `zpool add -fn space c2t10d0 c2t11d0`, whereby I determined that those would be added as a RAID0, which is not what I wanted. `zpool add -f raidz c2t10d0 c2t11d0`