Re: [zfs-discuss] Does a zvol use the zil?

2010-10-21 Thread Richard Elling
On Oct 21, 2010, at 5:26 PM, Erik Trimble wrote: > On Thu, 2010-10-21 at 17:09 -0700, Richard Elling wrote: >> On Oct 21, 2010, at 6:19 AM, Eff Norwood wrote: >>> Let me frame this in the context specifically of VMWare ESXi 4.x. If I >>> create a zvol and give it to ESXi via iSCSI our experience

Re: [zfs-discuss] Does a zvol use the zil?

2010-10-21 Thread Erik Trimble
On Thu, 2010-10-21 at 17:09 -0700, Richard Elling wrote: > On Oct 21, 2010, at 6:19 AM, Eff Norwood wrote: > > Let me frame this in the context specifically of VMWare ESXi 4.x. If I > > create a zvol and give it to ESXi via iSCSI our experience has been that it > > is very fast and guest response

Re: [zfs-discuss] Does a zvol use the zil?

2010-10-21 Thread Richard Elling
On Oct 21, 2010, at 6:19 AM, Eff Norwood wrote: > Let me frame this in the context specifically of VMWare ESXi 4.x. If I create > a zvol and give it to ESXi via iSCSI our experience has been that it is very > fast and guest response is excellent. If we use NFS without a zil (we use > DDRdrive X1

Re: [zfs-discuss] Performance problems due to smaller ZFS recordsize

2010-10-21 Thread Jim Mauro
There is nothing in here that requires zfs confidential. cross-posted to zfs discuss. On Oct 21, 2010, at 3:37 PM, Jim Nissen wrote: > Cross-posting. > > Original Message > Subject: Performance problems due to smaller ZFS recordsize > Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2010 14:00:42 -0500

Re: [zfs-discuss] Balancing LVOL fill?

2010-10-21 Thread Tuomas Leikola
On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 12:06 AM, Peter Jeremy wrote: > On 2010-Oct-21 01:28:46 +0800, David Dyer-Bennet wrote: >>On Wed, October 20, 2010 04:24, Tuomas Leikola wrote: >> >>> I wished for a more aggressive write balancer but that may be too much >>> to ask for. >> >>I don't think it can be too mu

Re: [zfs-discuss] Does a zvol use the zil?

2010-10-21 Thread Darren J Moffat
On 21/10/2010 18:59, Maurice Volaski wrote: Does the write cache referred to above refer to the "Writeback Cache" > property listed by stmfadm list-lu -v (when a zvol is a target) or > is that some other cache and if it is, how does it interact with the > first one? Yes it does, that basically

Re: [zfs-discuss] Does a zvol use the zil?

2010-10-21 Thread Maurice Volaski
Does the write cache referred to above refer to the "Writeback Cache" property listed by stmfadm list-lu -v (when a zvol is a target) or is that some other cache and if it is, how does it interact with the first one? -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___

Re: [zfs-discuss] When `zpool status' reports bad news

2010-10-21 Thread Khushil Dep
Could you show us 'iostat -En' please? On 21 Oct 2010 13:31, "Harry Putnam" wrote: Ian Collins writes: > On 10/21/10 03:47 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: >> build 133 >> zpool version 22 >> >> I'm getting: >> >> zpool status: >> NAMESTATE READ WRITE CKSUM >> z3

Re: [zfs-discuss] When `zpool status' reports bad news

2010-10-21 Thread Cindy Swearingen
Hi Harry, Generally, you need to use zpool clear to clear the pool errors, but I can't reproduce the removed files reappearing in zpool status on my own system when I corrupt data so I'm not sure this will help. Some other larger problem is going on here... Did any hardware changes lead up to th

Re: [zfs-discuss] Getting rid of RAID6 LUNs in a pool

2010-10-21 Thread Stephan Budach
Opps... answering myself here... ;) Am 21.10.10 14:08, schrieb Stephan Budach: Hi, my current pool looks like this: config: NAME STATE READ WRITE CKSUM obelixData ONLINE 0 0 0 c4t21D023038FA8d0 ONLINE 0

Re: [zfs-discuss] Does a zvol use the zil?

2010-10-21 Thread Darren J Moffat
Yes, ZVOLs do use the ZIL. If the write cache has been disabled on the zvol by the DKIOCSETWCE ioctl or the sync property is set to always. -- Darren J Moffat ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailma

[zfs-discuss] Does a zvol use the zil?

2010-10-21 Thread Eff Norwood
Let me frame this in the context specifically of VMWare ESXi 4.x. If I create a zvol and give it to ESXi via iSCSI our experience has been that it is very fast and guest response is excellent. If we use NFS without a zil (we use DDRdrive X1==awesome) because VMWare uses sync (Stable = FSYNC) wri

Re: [zfs-discuss] When `zpool status' reports bad news

2010-10-21 Thread Harry Putnam
Ian Collins writes: > On 10/21/10 03:47 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: >> build 133 >> zpool version 22 >> >> I'm getting: >> >> zpool status: >> NAMESTATE READ WRITE CKSUM >> z3 DEGRADED 0 0 167 >>mirror-0 DEGRADED 0 0 334 >>

[zfs-discuss] Getting rid of RAID6 LUNs in a pool

2010-10-21 Thread Stephan Budach
Hi, my current pool looks like this: config: NAME STATE READ WRITE CKSUM obelixData ONLINE 0 0 0 c4t21D023038FA8d0 ONLINE 0 0 0 c4t21D02305FF42d0 ONLINE 0 0 0 where c4t