Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS for write-only media?

2008-04-21 Thread Dana H. Myers
Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > Are there any plans to support ZFS for write-only media such as > optical storage? It seems that if mirroring or even zraid is used > that ZFS would be a good basis for long term archival storage. I'm just going to assume that "write-only" here means "write-once, read-ma

Re: [zfs-discuss] Replacing a drive using ZFS

2007-02-21 Thread Dana H. Myers
Matt Cohen wrote: > We have a system with two drives in it, part UFS, part ZFS. It's a software > mirrored system with slices 0,1,3 setup as small UFS slices, and slice 4 on > each drive being the ZFS slice. > > One of the drives is failing and we need to replace it. > > I just want to make su

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: ZFS or UFS - what to do?

2007-01-26 Thread Dana H. Myers
Torrey McMahon wrote: > Dana H. Myers wrote: >> Ed Gould wrote: >> >>> On Jan 26, 2007, at 12:13, Richard Elling wrote: >>> >>>> On Fri, Jan 26, 2007 at 11:05:17AM -0800, Ed Gould wrote: >>>> >>>>> A number that

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: ZFS or UFS - what to do?

2007-01-26 Thread Dana H. Myers
Ed Gould wrote: > On Jan 26, 2007, at 12:13, Richard Elling wrote: >> On Fri, Jan 26, 2007 at 11:05:17AM -0800, Ed Gould wrote: >>> A number that I've been quoting, albeit without a good reference, >>> comes from Jim Gray, who has been around the data-management industry >>> for longer than I have

Re: [zfs-discuss] Can you turn on zfs compression when the fs is already populated?

2007-01-24 Thread Dana H. Myers
Neal Pollack wrote: > I have an 800GB raidz2 zfs filesystem. It already has approx 142Gb of > data. > Can I simply turn on compression at this point, or do you need to start > with compression at the creation time? As I understand it, you can turn compression on and off at will. Data will be writ

Re: [zfs-discuss] How to reconfigure ZFS?

2007-01-18 Thread Dana H. Myers
Karen Chau wrote: > How do you reconfigure ZFS on the server after an OS upgrade? I have a > ZFS pool on a 6130 storge array. > After upgrade the data on the storage array is still intact, but ZFS > configuration is gone due to new OS. > > Do I use the same commands/procedure to recreate the zpo

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: Production ZFS Server Death (06/06)

2006-12-01 Thread Dana H. Myers
Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: > > On Dec 2, 2006, at 12:06 AM, Ian Collins wrote: [...] >> I don't think that the issue here, it's more one of perceived data >> integrity. People who have been happily using a single RAID 5 are now >> finding that the array has been silently corrupting thei

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: Production ZFS Server Death (06/06)

2006-12-01 Thread Dana H. Myers
Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: > > On Dec 1, 2006, at 10:17 PM, Ian Collins wrote: > >> Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: >> >>> >>> On Dec 1, 2006, at 4:34 PM, Dana H. Myers wrote: >>> >>>> Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: &

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: Production ZFS Server Death (06/06)

2006-12-01 Thread Dana H. Myers
Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: > > On Dec 1, 2006, at 4:34 PM, Dana H. Myers wrote: > >> Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: >>> >>> On Dec 1, 2006, at 9:50 AM, Al Hopper wrote: >>> >>>> Followup: When you say you "fixed the HW&quo

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: Production ZFS Server Death (06/06)

2006-12-01 Thread Dana H. Myers
Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: > > On Dec 1, 2006, at 9:50 AM, Al Hopper wrote: > >> Followup: When you say you "fixed the HW", I'm curious as to what you >> found and if this experience with ZFS convinced you that your trusted >> RAID >> H/W did, in fact, have issues? >> >> Do you think that

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Inexpensive SATA Whitebox

2006-10-11 Thread Dana H. Myers
Al Hopper wrote: > On Wed, 11 Oct 2006, Dana H. Myers wrote: > >> Al Hopper wrote: >> >>> Memory: DDR-400 - your choice but Kingston is always a safe bet. 2*512Mb >>> sticks for a starter, cost effective, system. 4*512Mb for a good long >>> term solu

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Inexpensive SATA Whitebox

2006-10-11 Thread Dana H. Myers
Al Hopper wrote: > Memory: DDR-400 - your choice but Kingston is always a safe bet. 2*512Mb > sticks for a starter, cost effective, system. 4*512Mb for a good long > term solution. Due to fan-out considerations, every BIOS I've seen will run DDR400 memory at 333MHz when connected to more than 1

Re: [zfs-discuss] Hotswap not working

2006-09-08 Thread Dana H. Myers
David Dyer-Bennet wrote: [...] > So, having gotten this far, and it being a scratch install and all, I > reached over and pulled out C3D0. I then typed a zpool status > command. This hung after the first line of output. And I started > getting messages on the console, saying things like (retyp

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: zpool status panics server

2006-08-25 Thread Dana H. Myers
Neal Miskin wrote: > Hi Robert > >> When ZFS can't write to a pool then it panics system. > > Thanks for the info. > I find this hard to understand though, the same wouldnt happen for VxVM or > SVM. Is this a flaw with zfs? It is ZFS bug 6322646; a flaw. Dana __

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS bechmarks w/8 disk raid - Quirky results, any thoughts?

2006-07-17 Thread Dana H. Myers
Jonathan Wheeler wrote: I'm not a ZFS expert - I'm just an enthusiastic user inside Sun. Here are some brief observations: > Bonnie > ---Sequential Output ---Sequential Input-- > --Random-- > -Per Char- --Block--- -Rewrite-- -Per Char- --Block--- > --See

Re: [zfs-discuss] long time to schedule commands

2006-07-11 Thread Dana H. Myers
Richard Elling wrote: > Michael Schuster - Sun Microsystems wrote: >> Sean Meighan wrote: >>> I am not sure if this is ZFS, Niagara or something else issue? Does >>> someone know why commands have the latency shown below? >>> >>> *1) do a ls of a directory. 6.9 seconds total, truss only shows .07

Re: [zfs-discuss] 15 minute fdsync problem and ZFS: Solved

2006-06-22 Thread Dana H. Myers
Darren J Moffat wrote: > Bill Sommerfeld wrote: >> On Wed, 2006-06-21 at 14:15, Neil Perrin wrote: >>> Of course we would need to stress the dangers of setting 'deferred'. >>> What do you guys think? >> >> I can think of a use case for "deferred": improving the efficiency of a >> large mega-"transa

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS questions

2006-06-20 Thread Dana H. Myers
Richard Elling wrote: > Erik Trimble wrote: >> Oh, and the newest thing in the consumer market is called "hybrid >> drives", which is a melding of a Flash drive with a Winchester >> drive. It's originally targetted at the laptop market - think a 1GB >> flash memory welded to a 40GB 2.5" hard dri

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: nfsd threads hang in ZFS

2006-06-18 Thread Dana H. Myers
Robert Milkowski wrote: > I issued svcadm disable nfs/server > nfsd is still there with about 1300 threads (down from 2052). > stack pointer for thread 3002f4bd300: 2a1084b7021 > [ 02a1084b7021 cv_wait+0x40() ] > 02a1084b70d1 exitlwps+0x11c(0, 20, 4202, 300116ec7e0, 10, > 3

Re: [zfs-discuss] fdsync(5, FSYNC) problem and ZFS

2006-06-18 Thread Dana H. Myers
Daniel Rock wrote: > Sean Meighan schrieb: > >> The box runs less than 20% load. Everything has been working perfectly >> until two days ago, now it can take 10 minutes to exit from vi. The >> following truss shows that the 3 line file that is sitting on the ZFS >> volume (/archives) took almost 1

Re: [Fwd: Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: disk write cache, redux]

2006-06-16 Thread Dana H. Myers
Dana H. Myers wrote: > Phil Brown wrote: >> Pawel Wojcik wrote: >>> Only SATA drives that operate under SATA framework and SATA HBA >>> drivers have this option available to them via format -e. That's >>> because they are treated and controlled by the syst

Re: [Fwd: Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: disk write cache, redux]

2006-06-16 Thread Dana H. Myers
Phil Brown wrote: > Pawel Wojcik wrote: >> Only SATA drives that operate under SATA framework and SATA HBA >> drivers have this option available to them via format -e. That's >> because they are treated and controlled by the system as scsi drives. >> >From your e-mail it appears that you are talk