Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs performance so bad on my system

2008-04-29 Thread Chris Linton-Ford
> > For example I am trying to copy 1.4G file from my /var/mail to /d/d1 > > directory > > which is zfs file system on mypool2 pool. It takes 25 minutes to copy it, > > while > > copying it to tmp directory only takes few seconds. Whats wrong with this? > > Why > > its so long to copy that wil

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS, CIFS, slow write speed

2008-04-25 Thread Chris Linton-Ford
> I didn't cross post the following, it was sent only to the cifs discuss list: > nge. Onboard nvidia nforce 570 Ultra MCP onboard gigabit nic for the Asus > M2N-E board. > > nge: [ID 801725 kern.info] NOTICE: nge0: Using FIXED interrupt type > mac: [ID 469746 kern.info] NOTICE: nge0 registered >

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS, CIFS, slow write speed

2008-04-25 Thread Chris Linton-Ford
On Thu, 2008-04-24 at 09:46 -0700, Rick wrote: > Recently I've installed SXCE nv86 for the first time in hopes of getting rid > of my linux file server and using Solaris and ZFS for my new file server. > After setting up a simple ZFS mirror of 2 disks, I enabled smb and set about > moving over a

Re: [zfs-discuss] backup for x4500?

2008-04-21 Thread Chris Linton-Ford
> I haven't done that particular comparison. (zfs send isn't useful for backup > - doesn't span tapes, doesn't hold an index of the files.) But I have compared > it against various varieties of tar for moving data between machines, and > the performance of 'zfs send' wasn't particularly good - I

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Administration

2008-04-11 Thread Chris Linton-Ford
> It would be nice to have a single place to define "keep the 6 most > recent hourly snaps, then a nightly for the next 7 days" > > Whether the snapshots are created/removed from within the ZFS stack, > or from a cron job that reads the config doesn't matter, but having > the configuration tied t

Re: [zfs-discuss] Preferred backup s/w

2008-02-22 Thread Chris Linton-Ford
On Thu, 2008-02-21 at 21:00 +, Gavin Maltby wrote: > On 02/21/08 16:31, Rich Teer wrote: > > > What is the current preferred method for backing up ZFS data pools, > > preferably using free ($0.00) software, and assuming that access to > > individual files (a la ufsbackup/ufsrestore) is require

Re: [zfs-discuss] five megabytes per second with Microsoft iSCSI initiator (2.06)

2008-02-20 Thread Chris Linton-Ford
Over a pretty quiet Gigabit link, 3x 10k SCSI disks, all on the same controller, in a RAIDZ pool exported using shareiscsi: # time dd if=/dev/urandom of=/var/log/maillogs/test bs=1024 count=10 10+0 records in 10+0 records out real0m6.958s user0m0.065s sys 0m6.893s (second

[zfs-discuss] ls on directory in ZFS f/s unusably slow

2008-02-05 Thread Chris Linton-Ford
Hi all, I posted to osol-discuss with this but got no resolution - I'm hoping a more focused mailing list will yield better results. I have a ZFS filesystem (zpool version 8, on SXDE 9/07) on which there was a directory that contained a large number of files (~2 million). After deleting these fil