Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Random Read Performance

2009-11-24 Thread Richard Elling
more below... On Nov 24, 2009, at 9:29 AM, Paul Kraus wrote: On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 11:03 AM, Richard Elling wrote: Try disabling prefetch. Just tried it... no change in random read (still 17-18 MB/sec for a single thread), but sequential read performance dropped from about 200 MB/sec. to

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs-raidz - simulate disk failure

2009-11-24 Thread Daniel Carosone
Those are great, but they're about testing the zfs software. There's a small amount of overlap, in that these injections include trying to simulate the hoped-for system response (e.g, EIO) to various physical scenarios, so it's worth looking at for scenario suggestions. However, for most of us

[zfs-discuss] Lost zfs root partition after zfs upgrade

2009-11-24 Thread Neil Conner
Using an HP DL 360 G5 with an HP smart array P400i controller. Created 2 mirrored (hardware) RAID volumes. I installed Solaris onto a ZFS partition during setup onto one of the mirrored volumes. Used the second mirrored volume to create another ZFS pool. I patched the OS, rebooted, then ran z

Re: [zfs-discuss] Heads up: SUNWzfs-auto-snapshot obsoletion in snv 128

2009-11-24 Thread Daniel Carosone
> you can fetch the "cr_txg" (cr for creation) for a > snapshot using zdb, yes, but this is hardly an appropriate interface. zdb is also likely to cause disk activity because it looks at many things other than the specific item in question. > but the very creation of a snapshot requires a new >

Re: [zfs-discuss] sharemgr

2009-11-24 Thread dick hoogendijk
glidic anthony wrote: > I have a solution with use zfs set sharenfs=rw,nosuid zpool but i prefer > use the sharemgr command. Then you prefere wrong. ZFS filesystems are not shared this way. Read up on ZFS and NFS. -- Dick Hoogendijk -- PGP/GnuPG key: F86289CE +http://nagual.nl/ | SunOS 10u7 05

Re: [zfs-discuss] Best practices for zpools on zfs

2009-11-24 Thread Mike Gerdts
On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 1:39 PM, Richard Elling wrote: > On Nov 24, 2009, at 11:31 AM, Mike Gerdts wrote: > >> On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 9:46 AM, Richard Elling >> wrote: >>> >>> Good question!  Additional thoughts below... >>> >>> On Nov 24, 2009, at 6:37 AM, Mike Gerdts wrote: >>> Suppose I

Re: [zfs-discuss] Best practices for zpools on zfs

2009-11-24 Thread Richard Elling
On Nov 24, 2009, at 11:31 AM, Mike Gerdts wrote: On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 9:46 AM, Richard Elling wrote: Good question! Additional thoughts below... On Nov 24, 2009, at 6:37 AM, Mike Gerdts wrote: Suppose I have a storage server that runs ZFS, presumably providing file (NFS) and/or block (i

[zfs-discuss] sharemgr

2009-11-24 Thread glidic anthony
Hi all, I want to share a folder where i have mount many zfs filesystem. But when i mount this share i have acces on this folder but no on my zfs filesystem. If anyone have a solution other make one share by zfs that's be great. I have a solution with use zfs set sharenfs=rw,nosuid zpool but i pre

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs-raidz - simulate disk failure

2009-11-24 Thread Richard Elling
On Nov 23, 2009, at 11:41 AM, Richard Elling wrote: On Nov 23, 2009, at 9:44 AM, sundeep dhall wrote: All, I have a test environment with 4 internal disks and RAIDZ option. Q) How do I simulate a sudden 1-disk failure to validate that zfs / raidz handles things well without data errors NB

Re: [zfs-discuss] Large ZFS server questions

2009-11-24 Thread Orvar Korvar
Lustre is coming in a year(?). It will then use ZFS -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Best practices for zpools on zfs

2009-11-24 Thread Mike Gerdts
On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 9:46 AM, Richard Elling wrote: > Good question!  Additional thoughts below... > > On Nov 24, 2009, at 6:37 AM, Mike Gerdts wrote: > >> Suppose I have a storage server that runs ZFS, presumably providing >> file (NFS) and/or block (iSCSI, FC) services to other machines that

Re: [zfs-discuss] Workaround for mpt timeouts in snv_127

2009-11-24 Thread James C. McPherson
Thankyou for all who've procvided data about this. I've updated the bugs mentioned earlier and I believe we can now make progress on diagnosis. The new synopsis (should show up on b.o.o tomorrow) is as follows: 6894775 mpt's msi support is suboptimal with xVM James C. McPherson -- Senior Ke

Re: [zfs-discuss] Workaround for mpt timeouts in snv_127

2009-11-24 Thread Travis Tabbal
> Travis Tabbal wrote: > > I have a possible workaround. Mark Johnson > has > > been emailing me today about this issue and he > proposed the > > following: > > > >> You can try adding the following to /etc/system, > then rebooting... > >> set xpv_psm:xen_support_msi = -1 > > I am also running

Re: [zfs-discuss] Workaround for mpt timeouts in snv_127

2009-11-24 Thread Travis Tabbal
> > On Nov 23, 2009, at 7:28 PM, Travis Tabbal wrote: > > > I have a possible workaround. Mark Johnson > > > has been emailing me today about this issue and he > proposed the > > following: > > > >> You can try adding the following to /etc/system, > then rebooting... > >> set xpv_psm:xen_sup

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Random Read Performance

2009-11-24 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Tue, 24 Nov 2009, Paul Kraus wrote: On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 11:03 AM, Richard Elling wrote: Try disabling prefetch. Just tried it... no change in random read (still 17-18 MB/sec for a single thread), but sequential read performance dropped from about 200 MB/sec. to 100 MB/sec. (as expect

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Random Read Performance

2009-11-24 Thread Paul Kraus
On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 11:03 AM, Richard Elling wrote: > Try disabling prefetch. Just tried it... no change in random read (still 17-18 MB/sec for a single thread), but sequential read performance dropped from about 200 MB/sec. to 100 MB/sec. (as expected). Test case is a 3 GB file accessed in

Re: [zfs-discuss] X45xx storage vs 7xxx Unified storage

2009-11-24 Thread Erik Trimble
Erik Trimble wrote: Miles Nordin wrote: "lz" == Len Zaifman writes: lz> So I now have 2 disk paths and two network paths as opposed to lz> only one in the 7310 cluster. You're configuring all your failover on the client, so the HA stuff is stateless wrt the server? so

Re: [zfs-discuss] X45xx storage vs 7xxx Unified storage

2009-11-24 Thread Erik Trimble
Miles Nordin wrote: "lz" == Len Zaifman writes: lz> So I now have 2 disk paths and two network paths as opposed to lz> only one in the 7310 cluster. You're configuring all your failover on the client, so the HA stuff is stateless wrt the server? sounds like the smart w

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Random Read Performance

2009-11-24 Thread Richard Elling
Try disabling prefetch. -- richard On Nov 24, 2009, at 6:45 AM, Paul Kraus wrote: I know there have been a bunch of discussion of various ZFS performance issues, but I did not see anything specifically on this. In testing a new configuration of an SE-3511 (SATA) array, I ran into an int

Re: [zfs-discuss] Best practices for zpools on zfs

2009-11-24 Thread Richard Elling
Good question! Additional thoughts below... On Nov 24, 2009, at 6:37 AM, Mike Gerdts wrote: Suppose I have a storage server that runs ZFS, presumably providing file (NFS) and/or block (iSCSI, FC) services to other machines that are running Solaris. Some of the use will be for LDoms and zones[

[zfs-discuss] ZFS Random Read Performance

2009-11-24 Thread Paul Kraus
I know there have been a bunch of discussion of various ZFS performance issues, but I did not see anything specifically on this. In testing a new configuration of an SE-3511 (SATA) array, I ran into an interesting ZFS performance issue. I do not believe that this is creating a major issue f

[zfs-discuss] Best practices for zpools on zfs

2009-11-24 Thread Mike Gerdts
Suppose I have a storage server that runs ZFS, presumably providing file (NFS) and/or block (iSCSI, FC) services to other machines that are running Solaris. Some of the use will be for LDoms and zones[1], which would create zpools on top of zfs (fs or zvol). I have concerns about variable block s

Re: [zfs-discuss] Heads up: SUNWzfs-auto-snapshot obsoletion in snv 128

2009-11-24 Thread Kjetil Torgrim Homme
Daniel Carosone writes: >> I don't think it is easy to do, the txg counter is on >> a pool level, >> [..] >> it would help when the entire pool is idle, though. > > .. which is exactly the scenario in question: when the disks are > likely to be spun down already (or to spin down soon without furt

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Deduplication Replication

2009-11-24 Thread Peter Brouwer, Principal Storage Architect
Hi Darren, Could you post the -D part of the man pages? I have no access to a system (yet) with the latest man pages. http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/819-2240/zfs-1m has not been updated yet. Regards Peter Darren J Moffat wrote: Steven Sim wrote: Hello; Dedup on ZFS is an abs