Re: [zfs-discuss] first public offering of NexentaStor

2007-11-01 Thread Selim Daoud
interesting project..I shall try it out be carefully..NTAPP might sue you ;) selim -- -- Blog: http://fakoli.blogspot.com/ On 11/1/07, Joe Little <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I consider myself an early adopter of ZFS and pushed it hard on this

[zfs-discuss] New versions of ZFS SMF services - snapshots & backups

2007-11-01 Thread Tim Foster
Hi all, Just in case anyone uses these, I've got new versions of the ZFS Automatic Snapshot SMF Service and the ZFS Automatic Backup SMF Service on my blog now. http://blogs.sun.com/timf/entry/zfs_automatic_for_the_people All comments would be most welcome! cheers,

Re: [zfs-discuss] How does Resilver works?

2007-11-01 Thread Bill Sommerfeld
On Thu, 2007-11-01 at 18:15 -0700, Denis wrote: > But after the reboot, where the resilvering restarted by itself > without a problem I noticed that it started from the beginning!? that's expected behavior today. it remembers it has work to do but not where it left off. > Why is that the case w

Re: [zfs-discuss] Internal Drives

2007-11-01 Thread Bill Sommerfeld
On Thu, 2007-11-01 at 08:08 -0700, Scott Spyrison wrote: > Given 4 internal drives in a server, what kind of ZFS layout would you use? Assuming you needed more than one disk's worth of ZFS space after mirroring: disks 0+1: partition them with a "space hog" partition at the start of the disk fol

[zfs-discuss] Odd zpool status error

2007-11-01 Thread Scott Laird
I've had this happen once or twice now, running n74. I'll run 'zpool scrub' on my root pool and *immediately* get an error reported: # zpool status -v tank pool: tank state: ONLINE status: One or more devices has experienced an error resulting in data corruption. Applications may be a

[zfs-discuss] How does Resilver works?

2007-11-01 Thread Denis
Hi Today I attached two disks to my two disk zfs stripe. The resilvering started immediately and everything worked fine. But while it was running I had to reboot and thought that the resilvering would continue where it was because it works Top-down like Bonwick said in his blog. But after the

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS very slow under xVM

2007-11-01 Thread Nathan Kroenert
I observed something like this a while ago, but assumed it was something I did. (It usually is... ;) Tell me - If you watch with an iostat -x 1, do you see bursts of I/O then periods of nothing, or just a slow stream of data? I was seeing intermittent stoppages in I/O, with bursts of data on o

Re: [zfs-discuss] [osol-help] Squid Cache on a ZFS file system

2007-11-01 Thread eric kustarz
> >> >>> Basically, I want to know if somebody here on this list is using >>> a ZFS >>> file system for a proxy cache and what will be it's performance? >>> Will it >>> improve and degrade Squid's performance? Or better still, is >>> there any >>> kind of benchmark tools for ZFS performance?

Re: [zfs-discuss] Please help! ZFS crash & burn in SXCE b70!

2007-11-01 Thread sunvts
If SunVTS is installed you may also want to consider running ramtest: SunVTS 7.0: cd /usr/sunvts/bin/sparcv9 ( or bin/64 ) ./ramtest -xo pass=2 HTH, Marion This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolar

[zfs-discuss] ZFS very slow under xVM

2007-11-01 Thread Martin
Hello I've got Solaris Express Community Edition build 75 (75a) installed on an Asus P5K-E/WiFI-AP (ip35/ICH9R based) board. CPU=Q6700, RAM=8Gb, disk=Samsung HD501LJ and (older) Maxtor 6H500F0. When the O/S is running on bare metal, ie no xVM/Xen hypervisor, then everything is fine. When it'

[zfs-discuss] first public offering of NexentaStor

2007-11-01 Thread Joe Little
I consider myself an early adopter of ZFS and pushed it hard on this list and in real life with regards to iSCSI integration, zfs performance issues with latency there of, and how best to use it with NFS. Well, I finally get to talk more about the ZFS-based product I've been beta testing for quite

Re: [zfs-discuss] Internal Drives

2007-11-01 Thread Will Murnane
On 11/1/07, Scott Spyrison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Given 4 internal drives in a server, what kind of ZFS layout would you use? What's wrong with mirroring? What are you doing with the machine in question? I think that will make a big difference in what best to do with the disks. Will _

[zfs-discuss] Internal Drives

2007-11-01 Thread Scott Spyrison
Hello, I've been turning this over in my mind, thought I'd post and see what creative ideas came up here. Given 4 internal drives in a server, what kind of ZFS layout would you use? This is SPARC, so I can't boot off ZFS, and ideally the OS should be mirrored. Right now I feel tied to SVM mi

Re: [zfs-discuss] [osol-help] Squid Cache on a ZFS file system

2007-11-01 Thread Tek Bahadur Limbu
Hi Davies, Dick Davies wrote: > On 29/10/2007, Tek Bahadur Limbu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I created a ZFS file system like the following with /mypool/cache being >> the partition for the Squid cache: >> >> 18:51:27 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ zfs list >> NAME USED AVAIL REFER

Re: [zfs-discuss] the number of mount points

2007-11-01 Thread Darren J Moffat
Hidehiko Jono wrote: > Hi, > > IHAC who wants to use ZFS for user's home directory. > He is worry about the number of mount points. > Does ZFS have any limitation about the number of mount points in a server? In theory yes but in all practical terms no (IIRC there isn't enough storage on earth n