[zfs-discuss] Re: ZFS Hot Spare Behavior

2007-01-09 Thread Rob
Thanks for the response, please see my comments below . . . > It (hot-spare) should have kicked in. How long did you wait for it ? 10 to 15 minutes. > Was there any IO happening on the pool ? Not when I noticed the problem. I'm evaluating ZFS+NFS as a replacement for our NetApp filers and d

[zfs-discuss] Re: Distributed FS

2007-01-09 Thread Anton B. Rang
They're really not comparable at all. ZFS is a local on-disk file system. PVFS2 is a parallel file system built on top of a file system local to each of the nodes in a cluster with a lot of features for high-performance I/O. This message posted from opensolaris.org __

[zfs-discuss] Re: What SATA controllers are people using for ZFS?

2007-01-09 Thread Naveen Nalam
I have the P5M2, not the P5M2-M. It is a new board, not yet listed on Asus's website. The P5M2 is a LGA775 socket (I have an Intel Pentium D processor). This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [zfs-discuss] Limit ZFS Memory Utilization

2007-01-09 Thread Matt Ingenthron
Hi Jason, Depending on which hardware architecture you're working on, you may be able to get Studio 11 compiled binaries through the CoolStack project: http://cooltools.sunsource.net/coolstack/index.html Regardless, optimized compiler flags for MySQL with Studio 11 are in the source bundle l

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: Adding disk to a RAID-Z?

2007-01-09 Thread Matt Ingenthron
Hi Martin, Martin wrote: I agree for non enterprise users the expansion of raidz vdevs is a critical missing feature. Now you've got me curious. I'm not trying to be inflammatory here, but how is online expansion a non-enterprise feature? From my perspective, enterprise users are the

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Hot Spare Behavior

2007-01-09 Thread Sanjeev Bagewadi
Rob, It (hot-spare) should have kicked in. How long did you wait for it ? Was there any IO happening on the pool ? Try doing some IO to the disk and see if it kicks in. Also, another point to note is the size of the the hotspares. Please ensure that the hot-spares are of the same size as the

Re: [zfs-discuss] Limit ZFS Memory Utilization

2007-01-09 Thread Sanjeev Bagewadi
Jason, Apologies.. I missed out this mail yesterday... I am not too familiar with the options. Someoen else will have to answer this. Thanks and regards, Sanjeev. Jason J. W. Williams wrote: Sanjeev, Could you point me in the right direction as to how to convert the following GCC compile

[zfs-discuss] Re: ZFS on my iPhone?

2007-01-09 Thread Akhilesh Mritunjai
> So, does anyone know if I can run ZFS on my iPhone? > ;-) > -- richard Hi Richard Thanks for your interest in running ZFS, the final word in filesystems, on your iPhone. I'd be happy to help you. Please send the iPhone to me at the address provided below and I shall get you going as fast a

[zfs-discuss] Re: Adding disk to a RAID-Z?

2007-01-09 Thread Martin
> I agree for non enterprise users the expansion of > raidz vdevs is a critical missing feature. Now you've got me curious. I'm not trying to be inflammatory here, but how is online expansion a non-enterprise feature? From my perspective, enterprise users are the ones most likely to keep legac

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: Puzzling ZFS behavior with COMPRESS option

2007-01-09 Thread Neil Perrin
Ah, vi does an fsync. So I suspect that this is bug: 6413510 zfs: writing to ZFS filesystem slows down fsync() on other files in the same FS Here's a snippet from the Evaluation: --- ZFS keeps in list in memory of all transactions and will push *all* of them out on a fsync.

[zfs-discuss] Re: Puzzling ZFS behavior with COMPRESS option

2007-01-09 Thread Anantha N. Srirama
I've some important information that should shed some light on this behavior: This evening I created a new filesystem across the very same 50 disks including the COMPRESS attribute. My goal was to isolate some workload to the new filesystem and started moving a 100GB directory tree over to the n

Re: [zfs-discuss] iPod WAS::ZFS on my iPhone?

2007-01-09 Thread Jerry Kemp
this is more speculation that anything, but I would think that ZFS on my iPod would be a more relevant question at this time, as ZFS will ship with Leopard/Mac OS X 10.5, and the 1 Gb should be available for file system cache. Jerry Rich Teer wrote: On Tue, 9 Jan 2007, Richard Elling wrote:

Re: [zfs-discuss] Limit ZFS Memory Utilization

2007-01-09 Thread Jason J. W. Williams
Hi Sanjeev, Thank you! I was not able to find anything as useful on the subject as that! We are running build 54 on an X4500, would I be correct in my reading of that article that if I put "set zfs:zfs_arc_max = 0x1 #4GB" in my /etc/system, ZFS will consume no more than 4GB? Thank you in

[zfs-discuss] Re: Adding disk to a RAID-Z?

2007-01-09 Thread Anon
I agree for non enterprise users the expansion of raidz vdevs is a critical missing feature. This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

[zfs-discuss] Re: What SATA controllers are people using for ZFS?

2007-01-09 Thread Anon
> I've tested a box running two Marvell based 8-port > controllers (which has > been running great on Update 2) on the solaris Update > 3 beta without > issues. The specific card is the newer version of > the SuperMicro board: > > http://www.supermicro.com/products/accessories/addon/A > oC-SAT2 >

[zfs-discuss] Re: What SATA controllers are people using for ZFS?

2007-01-09 Thread Anon
> For future reference for someone looking to build a > ZFS storage server, the server config I am now using > is Solaris 10 U3, has two Supermicro AOC-SAT2-MV8 > controllers, 12 Seagate 750GB drives, 2 Seagate 160GB > drives, and an Asus P5M2 motherboard (don't think > these boards are yet for gen

[zfs-discuss] Re: ZFS remote mirroring

2007-01-09 Thread Ian Bonnycastle
Ok, I've been actively pouring through this discussion list reading everything I can about ZFS mirroring and remote setups. I have a feeling that on reading everyone's input, that ZFS is purely designed to have "persistance" or "recovery" mirroring rather than "backup" mirroring. There is no in

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS on my iPhone?

2007-01-09 Thread Rich Teer
On Tue, 9 Jan 2007, Richard Elling wrote: > So, does anyone know if I can run ZFS on my iPhone? ;-) Sure--provided it has at least 1GB of RAM for the file system cache. :-) -- Rich Teer, SCSA, SCNA, SCSECA, OpenSolaris CAB member President, Rite Online Inc. Voice: +1 (250) 979-1638 URL: http

[zfs-discuss] ZFS on my iPhone?

2007-01-09 Thread Richard Elling
So, does anyone know if I can run ZFS on my iPhone? ;-) -- richard ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

[zfs-discuss] Re: ZFS remote mirroring

2007-01-09 Thread Ian Bonnycastle
As an update, I found out that if I attempt a "zfs import -f -d ", it errors with: "no pools available to import" If I try to force with the pool name itself, it complains that no such pool exists. Ian This message posted from opensolaris.org ___

Re: [zfs-discuss] Samba and ZFS ACL Question

2007-01-09 Thread Wade . Stuart
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 01/09/2007 10:59:08 AM: > I have a zfs filesystem exported via samba. I can connect to the > filesystem over CIFS from a Windows box, but I get an access denied > when I try to create a file. I can create the file just fine from > the Solaris prompt as the same u

[zfs-discuss] Re: Samba and ZFS ACL Question

2007-01-09 Thread Eric Hill
New tidbit of information... I have a user account USER belonging to two groups GROUP1 and GROUP2. GROUP1 is the primary group. If the ZFS folder is owned by ROOT:GROUP1, I can create the file through Samba. If the folder is owned by ROOT:GROUP2, the create fails. This same problem occurs w

[zfs-discuss] Samba and ZFS ACL Question

2007-01-09 Thread Eric Hill
I have a zfs filesystem exported via samba. I can connect to the filesystem over CIFS from a Windows box, but I get an access denied when I try to create a file. I can create the file just fine from the Solaris prompt as the same user account. Does samba try to control permissions itself, or

[zfs-discuss] ZFS remote mirroring

2007-01-09 Thread Ian Bonnycastle
Good morning. I am interested in implementing a remote mirror with ZFS and iSCSI. I've gotten the mirroring to work no problem (with a little bit of forcing), but I am concerned about recovery if the mirror fails. If the mirror fails remotely (I.E. the remote node goes down), no problem. I can

[zfs-discuss] Re: Re: What SATA controllers are people using for ZFS?

2007-01-09 Thread Naveen Nalam
I'm using the Chenbro RM31212B. I highly recommend Chenbro rackmount chassis. http://usa.chenbro.com/corporatesite/products_01features.php?serno=33 This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http

Re: [zfs-discuss] hard-hang on snapshot rename

2007-01-09 Thread James Carlson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > Understood. Two things, does the rename loop hit any of the fs in > > question, and does putting a " sort -r | " before the while make any > > difference? > > > The reason I ask is because I had a similar issue running through batch > renames (from epoch -> human) o

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS reference

2007-01-09 Thread Robert Milkowski
Hello Sunil, Tuesday, January 9, 2007, 1:06:49 AM, you wrote: SS> Hi, SS> Are there any customer references available who have deployed ZFS in SS> production? SS> Thanks. We've been using ZFS for over 2 years in a production. Right now we've got over 100TB data on ZFS and we're still putting

[zfs-discuss] Re: Adding disk to a RAID-Z?

2007-01-09 Thread Tom Buskey
[i]* Maximizing the use of different disk sizes[/i] [i]If such capabilities exist, you could start with a single disk vdev and grow it to consume a large disk farm with any number of parity drives, all while the system is fully available.[/i] Now you're just teasing me ;-) This message post

[zfs-discuss] Re: ZFS reference

2007-01-09 Thread Anantha N. Srirama
We've been using ZFS for at least 3 months in a production environment. Not only are we using the basic functionality but we use the snapshot/cloning feature heavily along with Zones. We're running Solaris 10 Update 2 (aka 06/06) version and are going to Update 3 shortly. Our diskspace is large

[zfs-discuss] Re: Puzzling ZFS behavior with COMPRESS option

2007-01-09 Thread Anantha N. Srirama
I'll see if I can confirm what you are suggesting. Thanks. 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] Re: What SATA controllers are people using for ZFS?

2007-01-09 Thread Al Hopper
On Mon, 8 Jan 2007, Naveen Nalam wrote: > For future reference for someone looking to build a ZFS storage server, > the server config I am now using is Solaris 10 U3, has two Supermicro > AOC-SAT2-MV8 controllers, 12 Seagate 750GB drives, 2 Seagate 160GB > drives, and an Asus P5M2 motherboard (don

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: Re: RAIDZ2 vs. ZFS RAID-10

2007-01-09 Thread Robert Milkowski
Hello Anton, Saturday, January 6, 2007, 6:29:29 AM, you wrote: >> It's not about the checksum but about how a fs block is stored in >> raid-z[12] case - it's spread out to all non-parity disks so in order >> to read one fs block you have to read from all disks except parity >> disks. ABR> Howeve

Re: [zfs-discuss] NFS and ZFS, a fine combination

2007-01-09 Thread Roch - PAE
Dennis Clarke writes: > > > On Mon, Jan 08, 2007 at 03:47:31PM +0100, Peter Schuller wrote: > >> > http://blogs.sun.com/roch/entry/nfs_and_zfs_a_fine > >> > >> So just to confirm; disabling the zil *ONLY* breaks the semantics of > >> fsync() > >> and synchronous writes from the a