Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS, Oracle and Nexenta

2011-05-26 Thread Nico Williams
On May 25, 2011 7:15 AM, "Garrett D'Amore" wrote: > > You are welcome to your beliefs. There are many groups that do standards that do not meet in public. [...] True. > [...] In fact, I can't think of any standards bodies that *do* hold open meetings. I can: the IETF, for example. All busin

Re: [zfs-discuss] pool history length

2011-05-26 Thread Daniel Carosone
On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 11:54:16PM -0700, Matthew Ahrens wrote: > > > > On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 08:52:04PM +1000, Daniel Carosone wrote: > > > Other than the initial create, and the most > > > recent scrub, the history only contains a sequence of auto-snapshot > > > creations and removals. None of

Re: [zfs-discuss] DDT sync?

2011-05-26 Thread Daniel Carosone
On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 10:25:04AM -0400, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: > (2) Now, in a pool with 2.4M unique blocks and dedup enabled (no verify), a > test file requires 10m38s to write and 2m54s to delete, but with dedup > disabled it only requires 0m40s to write and 0m13s to delete exactly the > same

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS, Oracle and Nexenta

2011-05-26 Thread Garrett D'Amore
I actually didn't know that their meetings were totally open. I'm more familiar with IEEE, T10, and similar bodies which are most definitely not open. -- Garrett D'Amore On May 25, 2011, at 6:12 PM, "Bob Friesenhahn" wrote: > On Wed, 25 May 2011, Garrett D'Amore wrote: > >> You are welcom

Re: [zfs-discuss] offline dedup

2011-05-26 Thread Daniel Carosone
On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 04:32:03AM +0400, Jim Klimov wrote: > One more rationale in this idea is that with deferred dedup > in place, the DDT may be forced to hold only non-unique > blocks (2+ references), and would require less storage in > RAM, disk, L2ARC, etc. - in case we agree to remake the >

Re: [zfs-discuss] DDT sync?

2011-05-26 Thread Daniel Carosone
On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 07:38:05AM -0400, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: > > From: Daniel Carosone [mailto:d...@geek.com.au] > > Sent: Wednesday, May 25, 2011 10:10 PM > > > > These are additional > > iops that dedup creates, not ones that it substitutes for others in > > roughly equal number. > > Hey

Re: [zfs-discuss] offline dedup

2011-05-26 Thread Jim Klimov
2011-05-26 19:37, Edward Ned Harvey ?: Hey, I got another question for ZFS developers - Given: If you enable dedup and write a bunch of data, and then disable dedup, the formerly written data will remain dedup'd. Given: The zdb -s command, which simulates dedup to provide dedup statis

Re: [zfs-discuss] offline dedup

2011-05-26 Thread Daniel Carosone
On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 09:04:04AM -0700, Brandon High wrote: > On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 8:37 AM, Edward Ned Harvey > wrote: > > Question:? Is it possible, or can it easily become possible, to periodically > > dedup a pool instead of keeping dedup running all the time?? It is easy to > > I think i

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS issues and the choice of platform

2011-05-26 Thread Daniel Carosone
On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 08:20:03AM -0400, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: > > From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- > > boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Daniel Carosone > > > > On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 10:59:19PM +0200, Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk wrote: > > > The systems where we h

Re: [zfs-discuss] optimal layout for 8x 1 TByte SATA (consumer)

2011-05-26 Thread Ian Collins
On 05/27/11 04:34 AM, Eugen Leitl wrote: How bad would raidz2 do on mostly sequential writes and reads (Athlon64 single-core, 4 GByte RAM, FreeBSD 8.2)? The best way is to go is striping mirrored pools, right? I'm worried about losing the two "wrong" drives out of 8. These are all 7200.11 Seaga

Re: [zfs-discuss] optimal layout for 8x 1 TByte SATA (consumer)

2011-05-26 Thread Brandon High
On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 9:34 AM, Eugen Leitl wrote: > How bad would raidz2 do on mostly sequential writes and reads > (Athlon64 single-core, 4 GByte RAM, FreeBSD 8.2)? I was using a similar but slightly higher spec setup (quad-core cpu & 8 GB RAM) at home and didn't have any problems with an 8-dr

Re: [zfs-discuss] Sun Storage 7320 system

2011-05-26 Thread Gustav Potgieter
Thank you, I will be creating one big pool on the 7320, and with hardware raid four hard drives for the WALL locally. I have read the documentation, and have used the principles from there, but it is not all applicable to my needs, I will look at the help in the application Simulator as well,

Re: [zfs-discuss] optimal layout for 8x 1 TByte SATA (consumer)

2011-05-26 Thread Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk
> How bad would raidz2 do on mostly sequential writes and reads > (Athlon64 single-core, 4 GByte RAM, FreeBSD 8.2)? > > The best way is to go is striping mirrored pools, right? > I'm worried about losing the two "wrong" drives out of 8. > These are all 7200.11 Seagates, refurbished. I'd scrub > on

Re: [zfs-discuss] Compatibility between Sun-Oracle Fishworks appliance zfs and other zfs implementations

2011-05-26 Thread Freddie Cash
On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 9:30 PM, Matthew Ahrens wrote: > On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 8:01 PM, Matt Weatherford > wrote: > >> pike# zpool get version internal >> NAME PROPERTY VALUESOURCE >> internal version 28 default >> pike# zpool get version external-J4400-12x1TB >> NAME

[zfs-discuss] optimal layout for 8x 1 TByte SATA (consumer)

2011-05-26 Thread Eugen Leitl
How bad would raidz2 do on mostly sequential writes and reads (Athlon64 single-core, 4 GByte RAM, FreeBSD 8.2)? The best way is to go is striping mirrored pools, right? I'm worried about losing the two "wrong" drives out of 8. These are all 7200.11 Seagates, refurbished. I'd scrub once a week, t

Re: [zfs-discuss] offline dedup

2011-05-26 Thread Brandon High
On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 8:37 AM, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: > Question:  Is it possible, or can it easily become possible, to periodically > dedup a pool instead of keeping dedup running all the time?  It is easy to I think it's been discussed before, and the conclusion is that it would require bp_

[zfs-discuss] offline dedup

2011-05-26 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
Hey, I got another question for ZFS developers - Given: If you enable dedup and write a bunch of data, and then disable dedup, the formerly written data will remain dedup'd. Given: The zdb -s command, which simulates dedup to provide dedup statistics without actually enabling dedup.

Re: [zfs-discuss] Sun Storage 7320 system

2011-05-26 Thread Giovanni Tirloni
On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 8:13 AM, Gustav wrote: > Hi All, > > Can someone please give some advise on the following? > > We are installing a 7320 with 2 18 GB Write Accelerators, 20 x 1 TB disks > and 96 GB of ram. > > Postgres will be running on a Oracle x6270 device with 96GB of ram > installed a

Re: [zfs-discuss] DDT sync?

2011-05-26 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
> From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- > boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Edward Ned Harvey > > Both the necessity to read & write the primary storage pool... That's very > hurtful. Actually, I'm seeing two different modes of degradation: (1) Previously describe

Re: [zfs-discuss] Compatibility between Sun-Oracle Fishworks appliance zfs and other zfs implementations

2011-05-26 Thread John D Groenveld
In message <4dddc270.6060...@u.washington.edu>, Matt Weatherford writes: >amount of $ on. This is a great box and we love it, although the EDU >discounts that Sun used to provide for hardware and support contracts >seem to have dried up so the cost of supporting it moving forward is >still unkno

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS issues and the choice of platform

2011-05-26 Thread LaoTsao
Any support contract is worth some things In your case you will need 1. Server contract 2. Array contract or part of server 3. Solaris/solaris express support There is no free lunch, if you want support you will need to pay $ or your xxx is on the line My 2c Sent from my iPad Hung-Sheng Tsao (

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS issues and the choice of platform

2011-05-26 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
> From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- > boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Daniel Carosone > > On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 10:59:19PM +0200, Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk wrote: > > The systems where we have had issues, are two 100TB boxes, with some > > 160TB "raw" storage each,

Re: [zfs-discuss] DDT sync?

2011-05-26 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
> From: Daniel Carosone [mailto:d...@geek.com.au] > Sent: Wednesday, May 25, 2011 10:10 PM > > These are additional > iops that dedup creates, not ones that it substitutes for others in > roughly equal number. Hey ZFS developers - Of course there are many ways to possibly address these issues. T