[zfs-discuss] ARC and patents

Hi there, I was looking at using something very similar to arc.c for an open source project. However, I'm a bit worried about the patent IBM is holding on the ARC data structure. http://appft1.uspto.gov/ne

[zfs-discuss] Where does the zpool info for it's label get saved, man page m. EFI label?

I reloaded my system on c0d0 messed up the rounding cyl, then when I reloaded the format command would only work on c0d1 and not c0d0, so then booted on the CD then redefined on c0d0 slice 3 - 7, to the original partition values. Where does the zpool info get saved, EFI label is mentioned in th

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS + ISCSI + LINUX QUESTIONS

On Thu, 2007-05-31 at 13:27 +0100, Darren J Moffat wrote: > > What errors and error rates have you seen? > > I have seen switches flip bits in NFS traffic such that the TCP checksum > still match yet the data was corrupted. One of the ways we saw this was > when files were being checked out of

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Boot manual setup in b65

I have also been trying to figure out the best strategy regarding ZFS boot... I currently have a single disk UFS boot and RAID-Z for data. I plan on getting a mirror for boot, but I still don't understand what my options are regarding: - Should I set up one zfs slice for the entire drive and mimi

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Wikipedia article (was: Slashdot Article)

Jesus Cea wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 eric kustarz wrote: Cindy has been doing a good job of putting the new features into the admin guide: http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/zfs/docs/zfsadmin.pdf Check out the "What's New in ZFS?" section. I will update the wik

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

Starfox wrote: First time around, create a snapshot and send it to remote: zfs snapshot master/[EMAIL PROTECTED] zfs send master/[EMAIL PROTECTED] | ssh mirror zfs recv backup/mirrorfs Once that's done, [EMAIL PROTECTED], correct? More accurately, master/[EMAIL PROTECTED] == backup/[EMAIL PROT

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

Vic Engle wrote: Hi All, Just curious about how the incremental send works. Is it changed blocks or files and how are the changed blocks or files identified? It's done at the DMU layer, based on blocks of objects. We use the block-pointer relationships (ie, the on-disk structure of files) to

Re: [zfs-discuss] Slashdot Article: Does ZFS Obsolete Expensive NAS/SANs?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 eric kustarz wrote: > Cindy has been doing a good job of putting the new features into the > admin guide: > http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/zfs/docs/zfsadmin.pdf > > Check out the "What's New in ZFS?" section. I will update the wikipedia entr

Re: [zfs-discuss] Slashdot Article: Does ZFS Obsolete Expensive NAS/SANs?

Would be very nice if the improvements would be documented anywhere :-) Cindy has been doing a good job of putting the new features into the admin guide: http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/zfs/docs/zfsadmin.pdf Check out the "What's New in ZFS?" section. eric _

Re: [zfs-discuss] Slashdot Article: Does ZFS Obsolete Expensive NAS/SANs?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 eric kustarz wrote: > There's going to be some very good stuff for ZFS in s10u4, can you > please update the issues *and* features when it comes out? Of course. That was my commitment when I decided to create the "beware" section in the wikipedia arti

Re: [zfs-discuss] Stop a resilver

Did you try issuing: zpool detach your_pool_name new_device That should detach the new device and stop the resilver. If you just want to stop the resilver (and leave the device), you should be able to do: zpool scrub -s your_pool_name Which will stop the scrub/resilver. --Bill On

[zfs-discuss] Re: ZFS Boot manual setup in b65

hi, from the following link there is no problem with b65 http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/zfs/boot/netinstall This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailm

[zfs-discuss] Stop a resilver

I'm in bit of a bind... I did a "replace" and the resilver has started properly. Unfortunately I need to now abort the "replace". Is there way to do this? Can I do some thing like take the new device "offline"? thank This message posted from opensolaris.org __

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Boot manual setup in b65

Hi Doug, On Tue, 2007-06-05 at 06:45 -0700, Douglas Atique wrote: > Hi, Tim. Thanks for your hints. No problem > Comments on each one follow (marked with "Doug:" and in blue). html mail :-/ > Tim Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There's a number of things you could check: >

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: ZFS and dynamic LUN reconfiguration

from what I know this operation goes via an zpool export, re-label (with format) , then zpool import it's not online On 6/5/07, Yan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: so does anyone know how to the LUN(s) part of its pool and detect new size of the LUN ? This message posted from opensolaris.org _

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Boot manual setup in b65

hi Doug, On Mon, 2007-06-04 at 12:25 -0700, Douglas Atique wrote: > I have been trying to setup a boot ZFS filesystem since b63 and found > out about bug 6553537 that was preventing boot from ZFS filesystems > starting from b63. First question is whether b65 has solved the > problem as was planned

[zfs-discuss] Re: ZFS and dynamic LUN reconfiguration

so does anyone know how to the LUN(s) part of its pool and detect new size of the LUN ? 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: Re: Re: Deterioration with zfs performance and recent zfs bits?

> Hello Jürgen, > > Monday, June 4, 2007, 7:09:59 PM, you wrote: > > >> > Patching zfs_prefetch_disable = 1 has helped > >> It's my belief this mainly aids scanning metadata. my > >> testing with rsync and yours with find (and seen with > >> du & ; zpool iostat -v 1 ) pans this out.. > >> mainly

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: Re: Deterioration with zfs performance and recent zfs bits?

Hello Jürgen, Monday, June 4, 2007, 7:09:59 PM, you wrote: >> > Patching zfs_prefetch_disable = 1 has helped >> It's my belief this mainly aids scanning metadata. my >> testing with rsync and yours with find (and seen with >> du & ; zpool iostat -v 1 ) pans this out.. >> mainly tracked in bug 643