Re: [zfs-discuss] best migration path from Solaris 10

2011-03-23 Thread Edho P Arief
On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 3:50 PM, Nikola M. wrote: > I think site: Phoronix.com already did comparisons with ZFS under several > platforms and other (Linux) file systems without sweat. with single disk configuration no less (er, more) ;) You may want to check this instead: http://www.zfsbuild.com

Re: [zfs-discuss] Upgrade a degraded pool

2010-10-14 Thread Edho P Arief
On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 11:47 PM, Oskar wrote: > I know that this is not necessarily the right forum, but the FreeBSD forum > haven't been able to help me... > > I recently updated my FreeBSD 8.0 RC3 to 8.1 and after the update I can't > import my zpool. My computer says that no such pool exists

Re: [zfs-discuss] best way to check zfs/zpool version programatically

2010-10-09 Thread Edho P Arief
On Sun, Oct 10, 2010 at 3:18 AM, sridhar surampudi wrote: > Hi, > > what is the right way to check versions of zfs and zpool ?? > > I am writing piece of code which call zfs command line further. Before > actually initiating and going ahead I wan to check the kind of version zfs > and zpool pres

Re: [zfs-discuss] Howto reclaim space under legacy mountpoint?

2010-09-19 Thread Edho P Arief
On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 7:42 PM, Gary Gendel wrote: > I moved my home directories to a new disk and then mounted the disk using a > legacy mount point over /export/home.  Here is the output of the zfs list: > > NAME                 USED  AVAIL  REFER  MOUNTPOINT > rpool               55.8G  11.1G

Re: [zfs-discuss] resilver that never finishes

2010-09-18 Thread Edho P Arief
On Sat, Sep 18, 2010 at 7:01 PM, Tom Bird wrote: > All said and done though, we will have to live with snv_134's bugs from now > on, or perhaps I could try Sol 10. > or OpenIllumos. Or Nexenta. Or FreeBSD. Or . -- O< ascii ribbon campaign - stop html mail - www.asciiribbon.org _

Re: [zfs-discuss] 4k block alignment question (X-25E)

2010-08-30 Thread Edho P Arief
On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 6:03 AM, Ray Van Dolson wrote: > In any case -- any thoughts on whether or not I'll be helping anything > if I change my slog slice starting cylinder to be 4k aligned even > though slice 0 isn't? > some people claims that due to how zfs works, there will be performance hit

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs lists discrepancy after added a new vdev to pool

2010-08-27 Thread Edho P Arief
On Sat, Aug 28, 2010 at 7:54 AM, Darin Perusich wrote: > Hello All, > > I'm sure this has been discussed previously but I haven't been able to find an > answer to this. I've added another raidz1 vdev to an existing storage pool and > the increased available storage isn't reflected in the 'zfs list

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS SCRUB

2010-08-09 Thread Edho P Arief
On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 6:33 PM, Mohammed Sadiq wrote: > Hi > > Is it recommended to do scrub while the filesystem is mounted . yes > How > frequently do we have to do scrub and at what circumstances. > some people say weekly, some other monthly, some other, like myself, whenever remember to. Us

Re: [zfs-discuss] Encryption?

2010-07-10 Thread Edho P Arief
On Sun, Jul 11, 2010 at 11:51 AM, Michael Johnson wrote: > I'm planning on running FreeBSD in VirtualBox (with a Linux host) and giving > it raw disk access to four drives, which I plan to configure as a raidz2 > volume. > On top of that, I'm considering using encryption.  I understand that ZFS >

Re: [zfs-discuss] Migrating to ZFS

2010-06-04 Thread Edho P Arief
On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 2:59 PM, zfsnoob4 wrote: > "It's not easy to make Solaris slices on the boot drive." > > As I am just realizing. The installer does not have any kind of partition > software. > > I have a linux boot disc and I am contemplating using gparted to resize the > win partition to

Re: [zfs-discuss] Can RAIDZ disks be slices ?

2010-04-19 Thread Edho P Arief
On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 12:32 PM, Sunil wrote: > ouch! My apologies! I did not understand what you were trying to say. > > I was gearing towards: > > 1. Using the newer 1TB in the eventual RAIDZ. Newer hardware typically means > (slightly) faster access times and sequential throughput. > 2. Getti

Re: [zfs-discuss] Can RAIDZ disks be slices ?

2010-04-19 Thread Edho P Arief
On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 12:07 PM, Ian Collins wrote: >> And lose my existing data on those 2 500GB disks? >> >> > > Copy it back form the temporary pool, you are replacing your existing pool, > aren't you?  So you'll loose the data on it regardless. > >> Please, at least read the post before reply

Re: [zfs-discuss] Q : recommendations for zpool configuration

2010-03-19 Thread Edho P Arief
On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 2:34 PM, taemun wrote: > A pool with a 4-wide raidz2 is a completely nonsensical idea. It has the > same amount of accessible storage as two striped mirrors. And would be > slower in terms of IOPS, and be harder to upgrade in the future (you'd need > to keep adding four dri

Re: [zfs-discuss] Posible newbie question about space between zpool and zfs file systems

2010-03-17 Thread Edho P Arief
On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 9:09 PM, Giovanni Tirloni wrote: > IMHO, what matters is that pretty much everything from the disk controller > to the CPU and network interface is advertised in power-of-2 terms and disks > sit alone using power-of-10. And students are taught that computers work > with bit

Re: [zfs-discuss] Posible newbie question about space between zpool and zfs file systems

2010-03-16 Thread Edho P Arief
On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 5:45 AM, Erik Trimble wrote: > Up until 5 years ago (or so), GigaByte meant a power of 2 to EVERYONE, not > just us techies.   I would hardly call 40+ years of using the various > giga/mega/kilo  prefixes as a power of 2 in computer science as > non-authoritative.  In fact,