Re: [zfs-discuss] How to bind the oracle 9i data file to zfs volumes

2007-04-16 Thread Richard Elling
Manoj Joseph wrote: Simon wrote: So,does mean this is oracle bug ? Or it's impossible(or inappropriate) to use ZFS/SVM volumes to create oracle data file,instead,should use zfs or ufs filesystem to do this. Oracle can use SVM volumes to hold its data. Unless I am mistaken, it should be able t

Re: [zfs-discuss] Testing of UFS, VxFS and ZFS

2007-04-16 Thread Torrey McMahon
Tony Galway wrote: I had previously undertaken a benchmark that pits “out of box” performance of UFS via SVM, VxFS and ZFS but was waylaid due to some outstanding availability issues in ZFS. These have been taken care of, and I am once again undertaking this challenge on behalf of my custome

Re: [zfs-discuss] snapshot features

2007-04-16 Thread Torrey McMahon
Frank Cusack wrote: On April 16, 2007 10:24:04 AM +0200 Selim Daoud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: hi all , when doing several zfs snapshot of a given fs, there are dependencies between snapshots that complexify the management of snapshots is there a plan to easy thes dependencies, so we can reach

Re: [zfs-discuss] How to bind the oracle 9i data file to zfs volumes

2007-04-16 Thread Manoj Joseph
Simon wrote: So,does mean this is oracle bug ? Or it's impossible(or inappropriate) to use ZFS/SVM volumes to create oracle data file,instead,should use zfs or ufs filesystem to do this. Oracle can use SVM volumes to hold its data. Unless I am mistaken, it should be able to use zvols as well.

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs send/receive question

2007-04-16 Thread Shawn Walker
On 16/04/07, Krzys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Ah, ok, not a problem, do you know Cindy when next Solaris Update is going to be released by SUN? Yes, I am running U3 at this moment. Summer is what I last read (July?). -- "Less is only more where more is no good." --Frank Lloyd Wright Shawn Walk

Re: [zfs-discuss] Testing of UFS, VxFS and ZFS

2007-04-16 Thread Robert Milkowski
Hello Tony, Monday, April 16, 2007, 7:10:41 PM, you wrote: > I had previously undertaken a benchmark that pits “out of box” performance of UFS via SVM, VxFS and ZFS but was waylaid due to some outstanding availability issues in ZFS. These have been taken care of, and I am once again unde

Re: [zfs-discuss] crashed remote system trying to do zfs send / receive

2007-04-16 Thread Krzys
Ah, perfect then... Thank you so much for letting me know... Regards, Chris On Tue, 17 Apr 2007, Robert Milkowski wrote: Hello Krzys, Sunday, April 15, 2007, 4:53:43 AM, you wrote: K> Strange thing, I did try to do zfs send/receive using zfs. K> On the from host I did the following: K>

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs send/receive question

2007-04-16 Thread Krzys
Ah, ok, not a problem, do you know Cindy when next Solaris Update is going to be released by SUN? Yes, I am running U3 at this moment. Regards, Chris On Mon, 16 Apr 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Chris, Looks like you're not running a Solaris release that contains the zfs receive -F option.

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS, Multiple Machines and NFS

2007-04-16 Thread Rayson Ho
Adrian, you can take a look at pNFS: http://opensolaris.org/os/community/os_user_groups/frosug/pNFS/FROSUG-pNFS.pdf Project homepage: http://opensolaris.org/os/project/nfsv41/ Rayson On 4/16/07, Jason A. Hoffman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Apr 16, 2007, at 3:24 PM, Adrian Thompson wrote:

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS, Multiple Machines and NFS

2007-04-16 Thread Jason A. Hoffman
On Apr 16, 2007, at 3:24 PM, Adrian Thompson wrote: Hi! I am very new to ZFS (never installed it), and I have a small question. Is it possible with ZFS to merge multiple machines with NFS into one ZFS filesystem so they look like one storage device? As I'm typing this I feel like a foo

Re: [zfs-discuss] crashed remote system trying to do zfs send / receive

2007-04-16 Thread Robert Milkowski
Hello Krzys, Sunday, April 15, 2007, 4:53:43 AM, you wrote: K> Strange thing, I did try to do zfs send/receive using zfs. K> On the from host I did the following: K> bash-3.00# zfs send mypool/zones/[EMAIL PROTECTED] | ssh 10.0.2.79 zfs receive K> mypool/zones/[EMAIL PROTECTED] K> Password: K

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs send/receive question

2007-04-16 Thread Cindy . Swearingen
Chris, Looks like you're not running a Solaris release that contains the zfs receive -F option. This option is in current Solaris community release, build 48. http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/817-2271/6mhupg6f1?a=view#gdsup Otherwise, you'll have to wait until an upcoming Solaris 10 release. C

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs question as to sizes

2007-04-16 Thread Eric Schrock
On Mon, Apr 16, 2007 at 05:13:37PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Why it was considered a valid data column in its current state is > anyone's guess. > This column is precise and valid. It represents the amount of space uniquely referenced by the snapshot, and therefore the amount of space

[zfs-discuss] ZFS, Multiple Machines and NFS

2007-04-16 Thread Adrian Thompson
Hi! I am very new to ZFS (never installed it), and I have a small question. Is it possible with ZFS to merge multiple machines with NFS into one ZFS filesystem so they look like one storage device? As I'm typing this I feel like a fool, but I'll ask anyway. :-) Thanks! -=//-\drian Thompson

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs send/receive question

2007-04-16 Thread Krzys
[18:19:00] [EMAIL PROTECTED]: /root > zfs send -i mypool/[EMAIL PROTECTED] mypool/[EMAIL PROTECTED] | zfs receive -F mypool2/[EMAIL PROTECTED] invalid option 'F' usage: receive [-vn] receive [-vn] -d For the property list, run: zfs set|get It does not seem to work unless I am

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs question as to sizes

2007-04-16 Thread Wade . Stuart
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 04/16/2007 04:57:43 PM: > one pool is mirror on 300gb dirives and the other is raidz1 on 7 x > 143gb drives. > > I did make clone of my zfs file systems with their snaps and something is not > right, sizes do not match... anyway here is what I have: > > [17:50:32] [

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs send/receive question

2007-04-16 Thread Nicholas Lee
On 4/17/07, Krzys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: and when I did try to run that last command I got the following error: [16:26:00] [EMAIL PROTECTED]: /root > zfs send -i mypool/[EMAIL PROTECTED] mypool/[EMAIL PROTECTED] | zfs receive mypool2/[EMAIL PROTECTED] cannot receive: destination has been mo

[zfs-discuss] zfs question as to sizes

2007-04-16 Thread Krzys
ok, here is what I have: [17:53:35] [EMAIL PROTECTED]: /root > zpool status -v pool: mypool state: ONLINE scrub: none requested config: NAMESTATE READ WRITE CKSUM mypool ONLINE 0 0 0 mirrorONLINE 0 0 0 c1t

[zfs-discuss] zfs send/receive question

2007-04-16 Thread Krzys
Hello folks, I have a question and a small problem... I did try to replicate my zfs with all the snaps, so I did run few commands: time zfs send mypool/[EMAIL PROTECTED] | zfs receive mypool2/[EMAIL PROTECTED] real6h35m12.34s user0m0.00s sys 29m32.28s zfs send -i mypool/[EMAIL PR

[zfs-discuss] Re: Testing of UFS, VxFS and ZFS

2007-04-16 Thread William D. Hathaway
Why are you using software-based RAID 5/RAIDZ for the tests? I didn't think this was a common setup in cases where file system performance was the primary consideration. This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-disc

RE: [zfs-discuss] Testing of UFS, VxFS and ZFS

2007-04-16 Thread Tony Galway
The volume is 7+1. I have created the volume using both the default (DRL) as well as 'nolog' to turn it off, both with similar performance. On the advice of Henk, after he had looked over my data, he is notice that the veritas test seems to be almost entirely using file system cache. I will retest

Re: [zfs-discuss] Testing of UFS, VxFS and ZFS

2007-04-16 Thread Frank Cusack
On April 16, 2007 10:51:41 AM -0700 Frank Cusack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On April 16, 2007 1:10:41 PM -0400 Tony Galway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I had previously undertaken a benchmark that pits "out of box" performance ... The test hardware is a T2000 connected to a 12 disk SE3510 (prese

Re: [zfs-discuss] Testing of UFS, VxFS and ZFS

2007-04-16 Thread Rayson Ho
On 4/16/07, Frank Cusack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: but there is another article somewhere about tuning for t2000, related to PCI on the t2000, ie it is t2000-specific. This one?? http://blogs.sun.com/ValdisFilks/entry/improving_i_o_throughput_for Rayson -frank __

Re: [zfs-discuss] Testing of UFS, VxFS and ZFS

2007-04-16 Thread Frank Cusack
On April 16, 2007 1:10:41 PM -0400 Tony Galway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I had previously undertaken a benchmark that pits "out of box" performance ... The test hardware is a T2000 connected to a 12 disk SE3510 (presenting as ... Now to my problem - Performance! Given the test as defined ab

Re: [zfs-discuss] snapshot features

2007-04-16 Thread Frank Cusack
On April 16, 2007 10:24:04 AM +0200 Selim Daoud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: hi all , when doing several zfs snapshot of a given fs, there are dependencies between snapshots that complexify the management of snapshots is there a plan to easy thes dependencies, so we can reach snapshot functionalit

Re: [zfs-discuss] Testing of UFS, VxFS and ZFS

2007-04-16 Thread Erast Benson
Did you measure CPU utilization by any chance during the tests? Its T2000 and CPU cores are quite slow on this box hence might be a bottleneck. just a guess. On Mon, 2007-04-16 at 13:10 -0400, Tony Galway wrote: > I had previously undertaken a benchmark that pits “out of box” > performance of UFS

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS and Linux

2007-04-16 Thread Joerg Schilling
"Paul Fisher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there any reason that the CDDL dictates, or that Sun would object, > to zfs being made available as an independently distributed Linux kernel > module? In other words, if I made an Nvidia-like distribution available, > would that be OK from the OpenSo

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS and Linux

2007-04-16 Thread Joerg Schilling
Nicolas Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sigh. We have devolved. Every thread on OpenSolaris discuss lists > seems to devolve into a license discussion. It is funny to see that in our case, the tecnical problems (those caused by the fact that linux implements a different VFS interface laye

[zfs-discuss] snapshot features

2007-04-16 Thread Selim Daoud
hi all , when doing several zfs snapshot of a given fs, there are dependencies between snapshots that complexify the management of snapshots is there a plan to easy thes dependencies, so we can reach snapshot functionalities that are offered in other products suchs as Compellent (http://www.compe

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs

2007-04-16 Thread Victor Latushkin
Hi Roman, from the provided data I suppose that you a running unpatched Solaris 10 Update 3. Since fault address is 0xc4 and in zio_create we manipulate mostly with zio_t structures, then 0xc4 most likely corresponds to io_child member of zio_t structure. If my assumption about Solaris updat