[zfs-discuss] Monitoring ZFS host memory use

2009-05-05 Thread Troy Nancarrow (MEL)
Hi, Please forgive me if my searching-fu has failed me in this case, but I've been unable to find any information on how people are going about monitoring and alerting regarding memory usage on Solaris hosts using ZFS. The problem is not that the ZFS ARC is using up the memory, but that the scr

Re: [zfs-discuss] Compression/copies on root pool RFE

2009-05-05 Thread Mike Gerdts
On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 6:09 PM, Ellis, Mike wrote: > PS: At one point the old JumpStart code was encumbered, and the > community wasn't able to assist. I haven't looked at the next-gen > jumpstart framework that was delivered as part of the OpenSolaris SPARC > preview. Can anyone provide any backg

Re: [zfs-discuss] SAS 15K drives as L2ARC

2009-05-05 Thread Rob Logan
> use a bunch of 15K SAS drives as L2ARC cache for several TBs of SATA disks? perhaps... depends on the workload, and if the working set can live on the L2ARC > used mainly as astronomical images repository hmm, perhaps two trays of 1T SATA drives all mirrors rather than raidz sets of one tra

[zfs-discuss] snapshot management issues

2009-05-05 Thread Edward Pilatowicz
hey all, so recently i wrote some zones code to manage zones on zfs datasets. the code i wrote did things like rename snapshots and promote filesystems. while doing this work, i found a few zfs behaviours that, if changed, could greatly simplify my work. the primary issue i hit was that when ren

Re: [zfs-discuss] SAS 15K drives as L2ARC

2009-05-05 Thread Robert Milkowski
Hello Roger, Tuesday, May 5, 2009, 9:07:22 PM, you wrote: > Hello, Does it make any sense to  use a bunch of 15K SAS drives as L2ARC cache for several TBs of SATA disks? For example: A STK2540 storage array with this configuration: Tray 1: Twelve (12) 146 GB @ 15K SAS HDDs. Tray 2:

Re: [zfs-discuss] Compression/copies on root pool RFE

2009-05-05 Thread Ellis, Mike
How about a generic "zfs options" field in the JumpStart profile? (essentially an area where options can be specified that are all applied to the boot-pool (with provisions to deal with a broken-out-var)) That should future proof things to some extent allowing for compression=x, copies=x, blocksiz

[zfs-discuss] SAS 15K drives as L2ARC

2009-05-05 Thread Roger Solano
Hello, Does it make any sense to use a bunch of 15K SAS drives as L2ARC cache for several TBs of SATA disks? For example: A STK2540 storage array with this configuration: * Tray 1: Twelve (12) 146 GB @ 15K SAS HDDs. * Tray 2: Twelve (12) 1 TB @ 7200 SATA HDDs. I was thinking about us

[zfs-discuss] Compression/copies on root pool RFE

2009-05-05 Thread Torrey McMahon
Before I put one in ... anyone else seen one? Seems we support compression on the root pool but there is no way to enable it at install time outside of a custom script you run before the installer. I'm thinking it should be a real install time option, have a jumpstart keyword, etc. Same with c

[zfs-discuss] Fwd: ? ZFS encryption with root pool

2009-05-05 Thread Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko
On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 12:40 PM, Darren J Moffat wrote: > Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: > >> >> >> On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 10:57 AM, Darren J Moffat >> > darr...@opensolaris.org>> wrote: >> >>Ulrich Graef wrote: >> >>According: ZFS encryption >> >>Will it be possible to