[zfs-discuss] Re: zfs lost function

2007-05-09 Thread Simon
Brothers, I've fixed the issue by reconfigure the system device tree as: # devfsadm -Cv Some new devices were added,and then zfs works fine. Thanks for your kind attention. Rgds, Simon On 5/10/07, Simon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Gurus, My fresh installed Solaris 10 U3 can't bootup normall

Re: [zfs-discuss] Resilvering speed?

2007-05-09 Thread Toby Thain
On 9-May-07, at 3:44 PM, Bakul Shah wrote: Robert Milkowski wrote: Hello Mario, Wednesday, May 9, 2007, 5:56:18 PM, you wrote: MG> I've read that it's supposed to go at full speed, i.e. as fast as MG> possible. I'm doing a disk replace and what zpool reports kind of MG> surprises me. The

[zfs-discuss] Re: Re: ZFS with raidz

2007-05-09 Thread Tom Haynes
> > Doug has been doing some performance optimization to > the sharemgr to allow faster boot up in loading > Doug has blogged about his performance numbers here: http://blogs.sun.com/dougm/entry/recent_performance_improvement_in_zfs This message posted from opensolaris.org _

[zfs-discuss] zfs lost function

2007-05-09 Thread Simon
Gurus, My fresh installed Solaris 10 U3 can't bootup normally on T2000 server(System Firmware 6.4.4 ),the OS can only enter into the single-user mode,as one critical service fails to start: # uname -a SunOS t2000 5.10 Generic_118833-33 sun4v sparc SUNW,Sun-Fire-T200 (it's not patched,just finish

[zfs-discuss] Automatic rotating snapshots

2007-05-09 Thread Malachi de Ælfweald
I was thinking of setting up rotating snapshots... probably do pool/[EMAIL PROTECTED] Is Tim's method ( http://blogs.sun.com/timf/entry/zfs_automatic_snapshots_0_8 ) the current preferred plan? Thanks, Malachi ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@

[zfs-discuss] Re: Extremely long ZFS destroy operations

2007-05-09 Thread Anantha N. Srirama
I've since stopped making the second clone when I realized the .zfs/snapshot/ still exists after the clone operation is completed. So my need for the local clone is met by the direct access to the snapshot. However, the poor performance of the destroy is still valid. It is quite possible that w

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: ZFS Support for remote mirroring

2007-05-09 Thread Bev Crair
Folks, We're following up with EMC on this. We'll post something on the alias when we get it. Please note that EMC would probably never say anything about OpenSolaris, but they'll talk about Solaris ZFS Bev. Torrey McMahon wrote: Anantha N. Srirama wrote: For whatever reason EMC notes

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: ZFS Support for remote mirroring

2007-05-09 Thread Torrey McMahon
Anantha N. Srirama wrote: For whatever reason EMC notes (on PowerLink) suggest that ZFS is not supported on their arrays. If one is going to use a ZFS filesystem on top of a EMC array be warned about support issues. They should have fixed that in their matrices. It should say something like,

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: Need guidance on RAID 5, ZFS, and RAIDZ on home file server

2007-05-09 Thread Robert Milkowski
Hello Michael, Tuesday, May 8, 2007, 9:20:56 PM, you wrote: >> Probably RAID-Z as you don't have enough disks to be interesting for doing >> 1+0. >> Paul MC> How do you configure ZFS RAID 1+0 ? MC> Will next lines do that right? : MC> [b]zpool create -f zfs_raid1 mirror c0t1d0 c1t1d0 MC> zpool

Re: [zfs-discuss] Resilvering speed?

2007-05-09 Thread Bakul Shah
> Robert Milkowski wrote: > > Hello Mario, > > > > Wednesday, May 9, 2007, 5:56:18 PM, you wrote: > > > > MG> I've read that it's supposed to go at full speed, i.e. as fast as > > MG> possible. I'm doing a disk replace and what zpool reports kind of > > MG> surprises me. The resilver goes on at 1

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Storage Pools Recommendations for Productive Environments

2007-05-09 Thread Selim Daoud
which one is the most performant: copies=2 or zfs-mirror? s. On 5/9/07, Richard Elling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: comment below... Toby Thain wrote: > > On 9-May-07, at 4:45 AM, Andreas Koppenhoefer wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> solaris Internals wiki contains many interesting things about zfs. >>

Re: [zfs-discuss] Filesystem Benchmark

2007-05-09 Thread Selim Daoud
go ahead with filebench and don't forget to set set zfs:zfs_nocacheflush=1 in /etc/system (if using nevada) s. On 5/9/07, cesare VoltZ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hy, I'm planning to test on pre-production data center a ZFS solution for our application and I'm searching a good filesystem benchm

Re[2]: [zfs-discuss] Resilvering speed?

2007-05-09 Thread Robert Milkowski
Hello Richard, Wednesday, May 9, 2007, 9:10:22 PM, you wrote: RE> Robert Milkowski wrote: >> Hello Mario, >> >> Wednesday, May 9, 2007, 5:56:18 PM, you wrote: >> >> MG> I've read that it's supposed to go at full speed, i.e. as fast as >> MG> possible. I'm doing a disk replace and what zpool rep

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: ZFS Support for remote mirroring

2007-05-09 Thread Robert Milkowski
Hello Anantha, Wednesday, May 9, 2007, 4:45:10 PM, you wrote: ANS> For whatever reason EMC notes (on PowerLink) suggest that ZFS is ANS> not supported on their arrays. If one is going to use a ZFS ANS> filesystem on top of a EMC array be warned about support issues. Nope. For a couple of months

Re: [zfs-discuss] Filesystem Benchmark

2007-05-09 Thread Ming Zhang
On Wed, 2007-05-09 at 21:09 +0200, Louwtjie Burger wrote: > > > LUN are configured as RAID5 accross 15 disks. > > Won't such a large amount of spindles have a negative impact on > performance (in a single RAID-5 setup) ... single I/O from system > generates lots of backend I/O's ? yes, single io

Re: [zfs-discuss] Resilvering speed?

2007-05-09 Thread Richard Elling
Robert Milkowski wrote: Hello Mario, Wednesday, May 9, 2007, 5:56:18 PM, you wrote: MG> I've read that it's supposed to go at full speed, i.e. as fast as MG> possible. I'm doing a disk replace and what zpool reports kind of MG> surprises me. The resilver goes on at 1.6MB/s. Did resilvering get

Re: [zfs-discuss] Filesystem Benchmark

2007-05-09 Thread Louwtjie Burger
> LUN are configured as RAID5 accross 15 disks. Won't such a large amount of spindles have a negative impact on performance (in a single RAID-5 setup) ... single I/O from system generates lots of backend I/O's ? ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Filesystem Benchmark

2007-05-09 Thread Ming Zhang
On Wed, 2007-05-09 at 16:27 +0200, cesare VoltZ wrote: > Hy, > > I'm planning to test on pre-production data center a ZFS solution for > our application and I'm searching a good filesystem benchmark for see > which configuration is the best solution. > > Server are Solaris 10 connected to a EMC C

Re: [zfs-discuss] Resilvering speed?

2007-05-09 Thread Robert Milkowski
Hello Mario, Wednesday, May 9, 2007, 5:56:18 PM, you wrote: MG> I've read that it's supposed to go at full speed, i.e. as fast as MG> possible. I'm doing a disk replace and what zpool reports kind of MG> surprises me. The resilver goes on at 1.6MB/s. Did resilvering get MG> throttled at some poin

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: Re: gzip compression throttles system?

2007-05-09 Thread Bart Smaalders
Adam Leventhal wrote: On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 11:52:06AM +0100, Darren J Moffat wrote: Can you give some more info on what these problems are. I was thinking of this bug: 6460622 zio_nowait() doesn't live up to its name Which was surprised to find was fixed by Eric in build 59. Adam It

Re: [zfs-discuss] Filesystem Benchmark

2007-05-09 Thread Richard Elling
cesare VoltZ wrote: Hy, I'm planning to test on pre-production data center a ZFS solution for our application and I'm searching a good filesystem benchmark for see which configuration is the best solution. Pedantically, your application is always best. -- richard _

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: Re: gzip compression throttles system?

2007-05-09 Thread Adam Leventhal
On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 11:52:06AM +0100, Darren J Moffat wrote: > Can you give some more info on what these problems are. I was thinking of this bug: 6460622 zio_nowait() doesn't live up to its name Which was surprised to find was fixed by Eric in build 59. Adam -- Adam Leventhal, Solaris

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Storage Pools Recommendations for Productive Environments

2007-05-09 Thread Richard Elling
comment below... Toby Thain wrote: On 9-May-07, at 4:45 AM, Andreas Koppenhoefer wrote: Hello, solaris Internals wiki contains many interesting things about zfs. But i have no glue about the reasons for this entry: In Section "ZFS Storage Pools Recommendations - Storage Pools" you can read

[zfs-discuss] Resilvering speed?

2007-05-09 Thread Mario Goebbels
I've read that it's supposed to go at full speed, i.e. as fast as possible. I'm doing a disk replace and what zpool reports kind of surprises me. The resilver goes on at 1.6MB/s. Did resilvering get throttled at some point between the builds, or is my ATA controller having bigger issues? Thanks

[zfs-discuss] Re: ZFS Support for remote mirroring

2007-05-09 Thread Anantha N. Srirama
For whatever reason EMC notes (on PowerLink) suggest that ZFS is not supported on their arrays. If one is going to use a ZFS filesystem on top of a EMC array be warned about support issues. This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss ma

Re: [zfs-discuss] Filesystem Benchmark

2007-05-09 Thread Rayson Ho
Tried filebench before?? http://www.solarisinternals.com/wiki/index.php/FileBench Rayson On 5/9/07, cesare VoltZ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I used in the past iozone (http://www.iozone.org/) but I'm wondering if there are other tools. Thanks. Cesare _

[zfs-discuss] Extremely long ZFS destroy operations

2007-05-09 Thread Anantha N. Srirama
We've Solaris 10 Update 3 (aka 11/06) running on an E2900 (24 x 96). On this server we've been running a large SAS environment totalling well over 2TB. We also take daily snapshots of the filesystems and clone them for use by a local zone. This setup has been in use for well over 6 months. Star

[zfs-discuss] Filesystem Benchmark

2007-05-09 Thread cesare VoltZ
Hy, I'm planning to test on pre-production data center a ZFS solution for our application and I'm searching a good filesystem benchmark for see which configuration is the best solution. Server are Solaris 10 connected to a EMC Clariion CX3-20 with two FC cable in a total high-availability (two H

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Storage Pools Recommendations for Productive Environments

2007-05-09 Thread Toby Thain
On 9-May-07, at 4:45 AM, Andreas Koppenhoefer wrote: Hello, solaris Internals wiki contains many interesting things about zfs. But i have no glue about the reasons for this entry: In Section "ZFS Storage Pools Recommendations - Storage Pools" you can read: [i]For all production environments

[zfs-discuss] zpool status faulted, but raid1z status is online?

2007-05-09 Thread Alex
Drive in my solaris box that had the OS on it decided to kick the bucket this evening, a joyous occasion for all, but luckly all my data is stored on a zpool and the OS is nothing but a shell to serve it up on. One quick install later and im back trying to import my pool, and things are not goin

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: Re: gzip compression throttles system?

2007-05-09 Thread Darren J Moffat
Adam Leventhal wrote: The in-kernel version is zlib is the latest version (1.2.3). It's not surprising that we're spending all of our time in zlib if the machine is being driving by I/O. There are outstanding problems with compression in the ZIO pipeline that may contribute to the bursty behavio

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: Re: gzip compression throttles system?

2007-05-09 Thread Adam Leventhal
On Thu, May 03, 2007 at 11:43:49AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I think this may be a premature leap -- It is still undetermined if we are > running up against a yet unknown bug in the kernel implementation of gzip > used for this compression type. From my understanding the gzip code has > bee

[zfs-discuss] ZFS Storage Pools Recommendations for Productive Environments

2007-05-09 Thread Andreas Koppenhoefer
Hello, solaris Internals wiki contains many interesting things about zfs. But i have no glue about the reasons for this entry: In Section "ZFS Storage Pools Recommendations - Storage Pools" you can read: [i]For all production environments, set up a redundant ZFS storage pool, such as a raidz, ra