Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS fragmentation with MySQL databases

2008-11-21 Thread Kees Nuyt
[Default] On Fri, 21 Nov 2008 17:20:48 PST, Vincent Kéravec <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just try ZFS on one of our slave and got some really > bad performance. > > When I start the server yesterday, it was able to keep > up with the main server without problem but after two > days of consecuti

Re: [zfs-discuss] So close to better, faster, cheaper.... zfs stripe pool survival

2008-11-21 Thread MC
> Posted for my friend Marko: > > I've been reading up on ZFS with the idea to build a > home NAS. > > My ideal home NAS would have: > > - high performance via striping > - fault tolerance with selective use of multiple > copies attribute > - cheap by getting the most efficient space > utilizati

Re: [zfs-discuss] RC1 Zfs writes a lot slower when running X

2008-11-21 Thread Tim
On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 11:33 PM, zerk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I have OpenSolaris on an Amd64 Asus-A8NE with 2gig of Rams and 4x320 gig > sata drives in raidz1. > > With dd, I can write at quasi disk maximum speed of 80meg each for a total > of 250meg/s if I have no Xsession at all (o

[zfs-discuss] RC1 Zfs writes a lot slower when running X

2008-11-21 Thread zerk
Hi, I have OpenSolaris on an Amd64 Asus-A8NE with 2gig of Rams and 4x320 gig sata drives in raidz1. With dd, I can write at quasi disk maximum speed of 80meg each for a total of 250meg/s if I have no Xsession at all (only console tty). But as soon as I have an Xsession running, the write speed

Re: [zfs-discuss] `zfs list` doesn't show my snapshot

2008-11-21 Thread Tim
On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 9:38 PM, Jens Elkner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > The uncomplete one - where is the '-t all' option? It's really annoying, > error prone, time consuming to type stories on the command line ... > Does anybody remember the "keep it small and simple" th

Re: [zfs-discuss] `zfs list` doesn't show my snapshot

2008-11-21 Thread Jens Elkner
On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 03:42:17PM -0800, David Pacheco wrote: > Pawel Tecza wrote: > > But I still don't understand why `zfs list` doesn't display snapshots > > by default. I saw it in the Net many times at the examples of zfs usage. > > This was PSARC/2008/469 - excluding snapshot info from 'zfs

[zfs-discuss] ZFS fragmentation with MySQL databases

2008-11-21 Thread Vincent Kéravec
I just try ZFS on one of our slave and got some really bad performance. When I start the server yesterday, it was able to keep up with the main server without problem but after two days of consecutive run the server is crushed by IO. After running the dtrace script iopattern, I notice that the

Re: [zfs-discuss] `zfs list` doesn't show my snapshot

2008-11-21 Thread Pawel Tecza
Andrew Gabriel pisze: > Pawel Tecza wrote: >> But I still don't understand why `zfs list` doesn't display snapshots >> by default. I saw it in the Net many times at the examples of zfs usage. >> > > It was changed. > > zfs list -t all > > gives you everything, like zfs list used to. Hi Andrew,

Re: [zfs-discuss] `zfs list` doesn't show my snapshot

2008-11-21 Thread David Pacheco
Pawel Tecza wrote: > But I still don't understand why `zfs list` doesn't display snapshots > by default. I saw it in the Net many times at the examples of zfs usage. This was PSARC/2008/469 - excluding snapshot info from 'zfs list' http://opensolaris.org/os/community/on/flag-days/pages/2008091003

Re: [zfs-discuss] `zfs list` doesn't show my snapshot

2008-11-21 Thread Malachi de Ælfweald
It used to. Although, with the Time Slider now, I agree that it shouldn't by default Malachi On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 3:29 PM, Pawel Tecza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ahmed Kamal pisze: > > zfs list -t snapshot ? > Hi Ahmed, > > Thanks a lot for the hint! It works. I didn't know that I have so m

Re: [zfs-discuss] `zfs list` doesn't show my snapshot

2008-11-21 Thread Pawel Tecza
Prabahar Jeyaram pisze: > 'zfs list' by default does not list the snapshots. > > You need to use '-t snapshot' option with "zfs list" to view the snapshots. Hello Prabahar, Thank you very much for your fast explanation! Did `zfs list` always work in that way or it is default behaviour of the lates

Re: [zfs-discuss] `zfs list` doesn't show my snapshot

2008-11-21 Thread Andrew Gabriel
Pawel Tecza wrote: > But I still don't understand why `zfs list` doesn't display snapshots > by default. I saw it in the Net many times at the examples of zfs usage. > It was changed. zfs list -t all gives you everything, like zfs list used to. -- Andrew

Re: [zfs-discuss] `zfs list` doesn't show my snapshot

2008-11-21 Thread Pawel Tecza
Ahmed Kamal pisze: > zfs list -t snapshot ? Hi Ahmed, Thanks a lot for the hint! It works. I didn't know that I have so many snapshots :D # zfs list -t snapshot NAMEUSED AVAIL REFER MOUNTPOINT [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [zfs-discuss] `zfs list` doesn't show my snapshot

2008-11-21 Thread Prabahar Jeyaram
'zfs list' by default does not list the snapshots. You need to use '-t snapshot' option with "zfs list" to view the snapshots. -- Prabahar. On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 12:14:47AM +0100, Pawel Tecza wrote: > Hello All, > > This is my zfs list: > > # zfs list > NAME USED AVAIL

Re: [zfs-discuss] `zfs list` doesn't show my snapshot

2008-11-21 Thread Ahmed Kamal
zfs list -t snapshot ? On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 1:14 AM, Pawel Tecza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello All, > > This is my zfs list: > > # zfs list > NAME USED AVAIL REFER MOUNTPOINT > rpool 10,5G 3,85G61K /rpool > rpool/ROOT9,04G

[zfs-discuss] `zfs list` doesn't show my snapshot

2008-11-21 Thread Pawel Tecza
Hello All, This is my zfs list: # zfs list NAME USED AVAIL REFER MOUNTPOINT rpool 10,5G 3,85G61K /rpool rpool/ROOT9,04G 3,85G18K legacy rpool/ROOT/opensolaris89,7M 3,85G 5,44G legacy rpool/ROOT/opensolaris-1 8,95G 3

[zfs-discuss] So close to better, faster, cheaper....

2008-11-21 Thread Kam
Posted for my friend Marko: I've been reading up on ZFS with the idea to build a home NAS. My ideal home NAS would have: - high performance via striping - fault tolerance with selective use of multiple copies attribute - cheap by getting the most efficient space utilization possible (not raidz,

Re: [zfs-discuss] Peculiar disk loading on raidz2

2008-11-21 Thread Charles Menser
The drives are all connected to the motherboard's (Intel S3210SHLX) SATA ports. I've scrubbed the pool several times in the last two days, no errors: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# zpool status -v pool: main_pool state: ONLINE scrub: none requested config: NAMESTATE READ WRITE CKSU

Re: [zfs-discuss] Peculiar disk loading on raidz2

2008-11-21 Thread Will Murnane
On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 14:35, Charles Menser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a 5 drive raidz2 pool which I have a iscsi share on. While > backing up a MacOS drive to it I noticed some very strange access > patterns, and wanted to know if what I am seeing is normal, or not. > > There are times

[zfs-discuss] Peculiar disk loading on raidz2

2008-11-21 Thread Charles Menser
I have a 5 drive raidz2 pool which I have a iscsi share on. While backing up a MacOS drive to it I noticed some very strange access patterns, and wanted to know if what I am seeing is normal, or not. There are times when all five drives are accessed equally, and there are times when only three of

Re: [zfs-discuss] Scrubbing the ZIL

2008-11-21 Thread Darren J Moffat
Chris Gerhard wrote: > If you have a separate ZIL device is there any way to scrub the data in it? zpool scrub traverses the ZIL regardless of wither or not it is in a slog device on in one of the normal pool devices. > I appreciate that the data in the ZIL is only there for a short time but >

[zfs-discuss] Scrubbing the ZIL

2008-11-21 Thread Chris Gerhard
If you have a separate ZIL device is there any way to scrub the data in it? I appreciate that the data in the ZIL is only there for a short time but since it is never read if you had a misbehaving ZIL device that was just throwing the data away you could potentially run like this for many months