Re: [zfs-discuss] minimum physical memory requirement?

2007-10-24 Thread Anton B. Rang
256 MB is really tight for ZFS. You can try it. FreeBSD suggests a minimum of 1 GB at http://wiki.freebsd.org/ZFSTuningGuide . This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.

Re: [zfs-discuss] Due to 128KB limit in ZFS it can't

2007-10-24 Thread Anton B. Rang
See the QFS documentation: http://docs.sun.com/source/817-4091-10/chapter8.html#59255 (Steps 1 through 4 would apply to any file system which can issue multi-megabyte I/O requests.) This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing

[zfs-discuss] memory issue

2007-10-24 Thread Jeff Meidinger
Hello, I received the following question from a company I am working with: We are having issues with our early experiments with ZFS with volumes mounted from a 6130. Here is what we have and what we are seeing: T2000 (geronimo) on the fibre with a 6130. 6130 configured with UFS volumes

Re: [zfs-discuss] S10u4 in kernel sharetab

2007-10-24 Thread Prabahar Jeyaram
Nope. It is not there in S10U4. -- Prabahar. On Oct 24, 2007, at 9:11 AM, Matthew C Aycock wrote: > There was a log of talk about ZFS and NFS shares being a problem > when there was a large number of filesystems. There was a fix that > in part included an in kernel sharetab (I think :) Does

[zfs-discuss] Yager on ZFS

2007-10-24 Thread Francois Dion
Not sure if it's been posted yet, my email is currently down... http://weblog.infoworld.com/yager/archives/2007/10/suns_zfs_is_clo.html Interesting piece. This is the second post from Yager that shows solaris in a pretty good light. I particularly like his closing comment: "If you haven't checke

Re: [zfs-discuss] Parallel zfs destroy results in No more processes

2007-10-24 Thread Stuart Anderson
On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 10:40:41AM -0700, David Bustos wrote: > Quoth Stuart Anderson on Sun, Oct 21, 2007 at 07:09:10PM -0700: > > Running 102 parallel "zfs destroy -r" commands on an X4500 running S10U4 has > > resulted in "No more processes" errors in existing login shells for several > > minute

Re: [zfs-discuss] Parallel zfs destroy results in No more processes

2007-10-24 Thread David Bustos
Quoth Stuart Anderson on Sun, Oct 21, 2007 at 07:09:10PM -0700: > Running 102 parallel "zfs destroy -r" commands on an X4500 running S10U4 has > resulted in "No more processes" errors in existing login shells for several > minutes of time, but then fork() calls started working again. However, none

Re: [zfs-discuss] Limiting the power of zfs destroy

2007-10-24 Thread Manyam
how abt trying a "touch /path/to/snapshot/x" if it succeeds its not a ZFS snapshot - so you should probably not destroy it . /Balu This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.openso

Re: [zfs-discuss] Due to 128KB limit in ZFS it can't saturate disks

2007-10-24 Thread Paul
Hi, what is the exact syntax to enable large transfer sizes? I didn't find any documentation, so I guessed the following: etc/system: set maxphys=8338608 /kernel/drv/sd.conf: name="sd" parent="scsi" sd_max_xfer_size=0x80; /kernel/drv/ssd.conf: name="ssd" parent="scsi_vhci" sd_max_xfer_

Re: [zfs-discuss] Sequential reading/writting from large stripe faster on SVM than ZFS?

2007-10-24 Thread Roch - PAE
I would suspect the checksum part of this (I do believe it's being actively worked on) : 6533726 single-threaded checksum & raidz2 parity calculations limit write bandwidth on thumper -r Robert Milkowski writes: > Hi, > > snv_74, x4500, 48x 500GB, 16GB RAM, 2x dual core > > # zp

Re: [zfs-discuss] minimum physical memory requirement?

2007-10-24 Thread Ian
Is this true, that ZFS does not require more memory than any other file system? I am planning to run ZFS on a low memory system (~256MB) and I'm hoping this will be sufficient. This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zf

[zfs-discuss] S10u4 in kernel sharetab

2007-10-24 Thread Matthew C Aycock
There was a log of talk about ZFS and NFS shares being a problem when there was a large number of filesystems. There was a fix that in part included an in kernel sharetab (I think :) Does anyone know if this has made it into S10u4? Thanks, BlueUmp This message posted from opensolaris.org __

Re: [zfs-discuss] Sequential vs Random I/O on array controller for

2007-10-24 Thread Vincent Fox
Thanks, we have switched over a couple of our arrays. Have not noticed a performance change so perhaps the effect is minor. Yes we are using ZFS to do the mirroring between the array LUNs and quite happy with it for reliability. As someone else said, speed and costs are metrics to look at but

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZIL reliability/replication questions

2007-10-24 Thread Roch - PAE
> > This should work. It shouldn't even lose the in-flight transactions. > ZFS reverts to using the main pool if a slog write fails or the > slog fills up. So, the only way to lose transactions would be a crash or power loss, leaving outstanding transactions in the log, followed by th

[zfs-discuss] who can tell me why zfs reduce the block numbers when removing files?

2007-10-24 Thread Yan Zhu
I am removing files on ZFS, but I found the the "df" data is interesting: I am removing file all the while, but when I run command "df", I've gotten the data following: bash-3.00# date;df /zfs-test Wed Oct 24 15:46:25 CST 2007 /zfs-test (zfs-test ):3424842971 blocks 342484297