Re: [zfs-discuss] New ZFS Intent Log (ZIL) device available - Beta program now open!

2010-01-14 Thread Alex Lam S.L.
Very interesting product indeed! Given the volume one of these cards take up inside the server though, I couldn't help but think that 4GB is a bit on the low side. Alex. On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 5:51 PM, Christopher George wrote: > The DDRdrive X1 OpenSolaris device driver is now complete, > p

Re: [zfs-discuss] dedupe is in

2009-11-02 Thread Alex Lam S.L.
Looks great - and by the time OpenSolaris build has it, I will have a brand new laptop to put it on ;-) One question though - I have a file server at home with 4x750GB on raidz1. When I upgrade to the latest build and set dedup=on, given that it does not have an offline mode, there is no way to op

Re: [zfs-discuss] dedupe is in

2009-11-02 Thread Alex Lam S.L.
Terrific! Can't wait to read the man pages / blogs about how to use it... Alex. On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 12:21 PM, David Magda wrote: > Deduplication was committed last night by Mr. Bonwick: > >> Log message: >> PSARC 2009/571 ZFS Deduplication Properties >> 6677093 zfs should have dedup capabilit

[zfs-discuss] SMBS share disappears daily

2009-08-15 Thread Alex Lam S.L.
PM, Will Murnane wrote: > On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 13:35, Alex Lam S.L. wrote: >> Hi there, >> >> I have a raid-z(1) data pool with "smb=name=data" (4x750GB local SATA >> II), which I open up for my Windows machines to dump files into. >> >> Trouble i

[zfs-discuss] SMBS share disappears daily

2009-08-14 Thread Alex Lam S.L.
Hi there, I have a raid-z(1) data pool with "smb=name=data" (4x750GB local SATA II), which I open up for my Windows machines to dump files into. Trouble is, the SMB share would disappear from the network at least once a day, and when it happens, I have to reboot OpenSolaris (2009.06) in order to

Re: [zfs-discuss] LZO versus LZJB

2009-08-14 Thread Alex Lam S.L.
Just to answer my own question - this one might be interesting: http://www.quicklz.com/ Alex. On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 3:15 PM, Alex Lam S.L. wrote: > Thanks for the informative analysis! > > Just wondering - are there better candidates out there than even LZO > for this purpo

Re: [zfs-discuss] LZO versus LZJB

2009-08-14 Thread Alex Lam S.L.
Thanks for the informative analysis! Just wondering - are there better candidates out there than even LZO for this purpose? Alex. On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 8:05 AM, Denis Ahrens wrote: > Hi > > Some developers here said a long time ago that someone should show > the code for LZO compression suppo

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs fragmentation

2009-08-11 Thread Alex Lam S.L.
At a first glance, your production server's numbers are looking fairly similar to the "small file workload" results of your development server. I thought you were saying that the development server has faster performance? Alex. On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 1:33 PM, Ed Spencer wrote: > I've come up w

Re: [zfs-discuss] Apple Removes Nearly All Reference To ZFS

2009-06-10 Thread Alex Lam S.L.
On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 2:08 AM, Aaron Blew wrote: > That's quite a blanket statement.  MANY companies (including Oracle) > purchased Xserve RAID arrays for important applications because of their > price point and capabilities.  You easily could buy two Xserve RAIDs and > mirror them for what comp