Re: [zfs-discuss] X4540 32GB SSD in x4500 as slog

On Wed, 13 May 2009, Richard Elling wrote: > > If I wanted to swap between a 32GB SSD and a 1TB SATA drive, I guess I > > would need to make a partition/slice on the TB drive of exactly the > > size of the SSD? > > Yes, but note that an SMI label hangs onto the outdated notion of > cylinders and y

Re: [zfs-discuss] can zfs create return with no error code before the mount takes place?

On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 7:08 PM, Bob Friesenhahn < bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us> wrote: > On Fri, 15 May 2009, Alastair Neil wrote: > >> >> The crux here is the abysmal scaling of zfs. When the script starts it >> can >> create a new filesystem every 3 seconds. after a day of running and with >>

Re: [zfs-discuss] can zfs create return with no error code before the mount takes place?

On Fri, 15 May 2009, Alastair Neil wrote: The crux here is the abysmal scaling of zfs. When the script starts it can create a new filesystem every 3 seconds. after a day of running and with 6200 filesystem created it now takes more than 30 seconds to create each filesystem. I shudder to think

Re: [zfs-discuss] With RAID-Z2 under load, machine stops responding to local or remote login

Are you running compression on the file systems that you're rsync'ing to? That'll drive up the load average pretty high, and it's in the kernel (from what I can tell). In particular, I've seen gzip compression on ZFS file systems bump the load average over 60 when running multiple parallel rsyncs

Re: [zfs-discuss] can zfs create return with no error code before the mount takes place?

On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 11:24 AM, Alastair Neil wrote: > > > On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 2:41 PM, Richard Elling > wrote: > >> Alastair Neil wrote: >> >>> >>> >>> On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 12:44 PM, Richard Elling < >>> richard.ell...@gmail.com > wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>>

Re: [zfs-discuss] changing zpool disk names

Hi, the simplest way, export & import are your friends ! $ *zpool status -v* pool: oldpool state: ONLINE scrub: none requested config: NAMESTATE READ WRITE CKSUM oldpool ONLINE 0 0 0 c0d1 ONLINE 0 0 0 c1d0 O