Re: [zfs-discuss] Fwd: [ilugb] Does ZFS support Hole Punching/Discard

2009-09-07 Thread Ritesh Raj Sarraf
The Discard/Trim command is also available as part of the SCSI standard now. Now, if you look from a SAN perspective, you will need a little of both. Filesystems will need to be able to deallocate blocks and then the same should be triggered as a SCSI Trim to the Storage Controller. For a virtual

[zfs-discuss] Incremental backup via zfs send / zfs receive

2009-09-07 Thread David Dyer-Bennet
Under my OpenSolaris 2008-11 install I reached the conclusion this didn't work due to a combination of bugs. Is this fixed in 2009-6? Specifically, I want to do a nightly incremental send from the most recent common snapshot and apply it to an external (USB) drive also formatted as ZFS. I wa

Re: [zfs-discuss] This is the scrub that never ends...

2009-09-07 Thread Will Murnane
On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 15:59, Henrik Johansson wrote: > Hello Will, > On Sep 7, 2009, at 3:42 PM, Will Murnane wrote: > > What can cause this kind of behavior, and how can I make my pool > finish scrubbing? > > > No idea what is causing this but did you try to stop the scrub? I haven't done so yet

Re: [zfs-discuss] This is the scrub that never ends...

2009-09-07 Thread Will Murnane
On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 12:05, Chris Gerhard wrote: > Looks like this bug: > > http://bugs.opensolaris.org/view_bug.do?bug_id=6655927 > > Workaround: Don't run zpool status as root. I'm not, and yet the scrub continues. To be more specific, here's a complete current interaction with zpool status:

Re: [zfs-discuss] This is the scrub that never ends...

2009-09-07 Thread Henrik Johansson
Hello Will, On Sep 7, 2009, at 3:42 PM, Will Murnane wrote: What can cause this kind of behavior, and how can I make my pool finish scrubbing? No idea what is causing this but did you try to stop the scrub? If so what happened? (Might not be a good idea since this is not a normal state?

Re: [zfs-discuss] Fwd: [ilugb] Does ZFS support Hole Punching/Discard

2009-09-07 Thread Chris Csanady
2009/9/7 Richard Elling : > On Sep 7, 2009, at 10:20 AM, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > >> The purpose of the TRIM command is to allow the FLASH device to reclaim >> and erase storage at its leisure so that the writer does not need to wait >> for erasure once the device becomes full.  Otherwise the FLASH

Re: [zfs-discuss] Fwd: [ilugb] Does ZFS support Hole Punching/Discard

2009-09-07 Thread Richard Elling
On Sep 7, 2009, at 11:48 AM, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: On Mon, 7 Sep 2009, Richard Elling wrote: Yep, it is there to try and solve the problem of rewrites in a small area, smaller than the bulk erase size. While it would be trivial to traverse the spacemap and TRIM the free blocks, it might

Re: [zfs-discuss] Fwd: [ilugb] Does ZFS support Hole Punching/Discard

2009-09-07 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Mon, 7 Sep 2009, Richard Elling wrote: Yep, it is there to try and solve the problem of rewrites in a small area, smaller than the bulk erase size. While it would be trivial to traverse the spacemap and TRIM the free blocks, it might not improve performance for COW file systems. My crystal b

Re: [zfs-discuss] Fwd: [ilugb] Does ZFS support Hole Punching/Discard

2009-09-07 Thread Richard Elling
On Sep 7, 2009, at 10:20 AM, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: On Mon, 7 Sep 2009, Richard Elling wrote: This is an article about the new TRIM command. It would be important for file systems which write their metadata to the same physical location or use a MRU replacement algorithm. But ZFS is copy-o

Re: [zfs-discuss] Fwd: [ilugb] Does ZFS support Hole Punching/Discard

2009-09-07 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Mon, 7 Sep 2009, Richard Elling wrote: This is an article about the new TRIM command. It would be important for file systems which write their metadata to the same physical location or use a MRU replacement algorithm. But ZFS is copy-on-write, so the metadata is allocated from free space and

Re: [zfs-discuss] Fwd: [ilugb] Does ZFS support Hole Punching/Discard

2009-09-07 Thread Richard Elling
On Sep 7, 2009, at 3:49 AM, Sriram Narayanan wrote: Folks: I gave a presentation last weekend on how one could use Zones, ZFS and Crossbow to recreate deployments scenarios on one's computer (to the extent possible). I've received the following question, and would like to ask the ZFS Community

Re: [zfs-discuss] This is the scrub that never ends...

2009-09-07 Thread Chris Gerhard
Looks like this bug: http://bugs.opensolaris.org/view_bug.do?bug_id=6655927 Workaround: Don't run zpool status as root. --chris -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolari

Re: [zfs-discuss] periodic slow responsiveness

2009-09-07 Thread Ross Walker
On Sep 7, 2009, at 1:32 AM, James Lever wrote: On 07/09/2009, at 10:46 AM, Ross Walker wrote: zpool is RAIDZ2 comprised of 10 * 15kRPM SAS drives behind an LSI 1078 w/ 512MB BBWC exposed as RAID0 LUNs (Dell MD1000 behind PERC 6/E) with 2x SSDs each partitioned as 10GB slog and 36GB remain

Re: [zfs-discuss] Motherboard for home zfs/solaris file server

2009-09-07 Thread Tim Cook
On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 2:01 AM, Karel Gardas wrote: > What's your uptime? Usually it scrubs memory during the idle time and > usually waits quite a long nearly till the deadline -- which is IIRC 12 > hours. So do you have more than 12 hours of uptime? > -- > 10:43am up 30 days 6:47, 1 user,

Re: [zfs-discuss] This is the scrub that never ends...

2009-09-07 Thread Markus Kovero
Hi, I noticed that counters will not get updated if data amount increases during scrub/resilver, so if application has written new data during scrub, counter will not give realistic estimate. This happens with resilvering and scrub, somebody could fix this? Yours Markus Kovero -Original

[zfs-discuss] This is the scrub that never ends...

2009-09-07 Thread Will Murnane
I have a pool composed of a single raidz2 vdev, which is currently degraded (missing a disk): config: NAME STATE READ WRITE CKSUM pool DEGRADED 0 0 0 raidz2 DEGRADED 0 0 0 c8d1 ONLINE 0 0 0

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs performance cliff when over 80% util, still occuring when pool in 6

2009-09-07 Thread John-Paul Drawneek
Final rant on this. Managed to get the box re-installed and the performance issue has vanished. So there is a performance bug in zfs some where. Not sure to put in a bug log as I can't now provide any more information. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org

[zfs-discuss] A note on Apache using ZFS

2009-09-07 Thread Sriram Narayanan
http://www.scmagazineuk.com/Apache-publishes-detailed-report-about-security-breach-with-aims-to-prevent-a-recurrence/article/148282/ -- Sriram ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discu

[zfs-discuss] Fwd: [ilugb] Does ZFS support Hole Punching/Discard

2009-09-07 Thread Sriram Narayanan
Folks: I gave a presentation last weekend on how one could use Zones, ZFS and Crossbow to recreate deployments scenarios on one's computer (to the extent possible). I've received the following question, and would like to ask the ZFS Community for answers. -- Sriram -- Forwarded message

Re: [zfs-discuss] Motherboard for home zfs/solaris file server

2009-09-07 Thread Karel Gardas
What's your uptime? Usually it scrubs memory during the idle time and usually waits quite a long nearly till the deadline -- which is IIRC 12 hours. So do you have more than 12 hours of uptime? -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discus