[zfs-discuss] ZFS recovery

2007-07-01 Thread Jesse Hallio
I built a file store three months ago to replace a dedicated NAS box that didn't quite perform even in one-person environment. I built a generic intel box and planned to run solaris/ZFS on it. I installed a 4-disk raidz (EFI labels) and used a USB stick as a boot media. I first tried to install

[zfs-discuss] Re: cross fs/same pool mv

2007-07-01 Thread roland
> > You can just re-copy all of the data after enabling compression (it's fairly > > easy to write a script, or just do something like: > > > > find . -xdev -type f | cpio -ocB | cpio -idmuv > > > > to re-write all of the data. > > and to destroy the content of all files > 5k. i tried the abo

[zfs-discuss] Re: Re: LZO compression?

2007-07-01 Thread roland
this is on linux with zfs-fuse (since no other zfs implementation besides zfs-fuse has support for lzo at this time) btw - here is some additional comparison - now with some real-world data. copying over some mysql database dir (var/lib/mysql) of size 231M gives: lzo | 0m41.152s | 2.31x lzjb |

[zfs-discuss] ZFS Boot != ZFS Root

2007-07-01 Thread Jesse Hallio
I'm having problems figuring out how to configure ZFS root under the new ZFS boot system. I'm not interested in ZFS boot, only in ZFS root. My system consists of two 4-disk raidz arrays configured as a single pool. The disks have EFI labels and are not bootable. The computer boots off an USB d

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: ZFS Performance with Thousands of File Systems

2007-07-01 Thread Matthew Ahrens
Stephen Le wrote: I think you will find that managing quotas for services is better when implemented by the service, rather than the file system. Thanks for the suggestion, Richard, but we're very happy with our current mail software, and we'd rather use file system quotas to control inbox siz