Re: [zfs-discuss] freeNAS moves to Linux from FreeBSD

2009-12-09 Thread James Andrewartha
the claims are meaningless. http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-help/2009-November/015824.html -- James Andrewartha ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs inotify?

2009-11-11 Thread James Andrewartha
for gam_server / gamin. $ nm /usr/lib/gam_server | grep port_create [458] | 134589544| 0|FUNC |GLOB |0|UNDEF |port_create The patch for port_create has never gone upstream however, while gvfs uses glib's gio, which has backends for inotify, solari

[zfs-discuss] Sun Flash Accelerator F20

2009-09-24 Thread James Andrewartha
's no pricing on the webpage though - does anyone know how it compares in price to a logzilla? -- James Andrewartha ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Finding SATA cards for ZFS; was Lundman home NAS

2009-09-01 Thread James Andrewartha
h use Marvell MV88SX and works very well in Solaris. (Package SUNWmv88sx). They're PCI-X SATA cards, the AOC-SASLP-MV8 is a PCIe SAS card and has no (Open)Solaris driver. -- James Andrewartha ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolari

Re: [zfs-discuss] Another user looses his pool (10TB) in this case and 40 days work

2009-07-29 Thread James Andrewartha
you do it in theory? > And in practice? > > Now say we are talking about a virtual hard drive, > rather than a physical hard drive. > How would that affect the answer to the above questions? http://brad.livejournal.com/2116715.html has a utility that can be used to test if your sy

Re: [zfs-discuss] Why is Solaris 10 ZFS performance so terrible?

2009-07-16 Thread James Andrewartha
s mount space/zfscachetest Doing initial (unmount/mount) 'cpio -C 131072 -o > /dev/null' 48000256 blocks real5m45.66s user0m5.63s sys 1m14.66s Doing second 'cpio -C 131072 -o > /dev/null' 48000256 blocks real15m29.42s user0m5.65

Re: [zfs-discuss] surprisingly poor performance

2009-07-07 Thread James Andrewartha
James Lever wrote: > > On 07/07/2009, at 8:20 PM, James Andrewartha wrote: > >> Have you tried putting the slog on this controller, either as an SSD or >> regular disk? It's supported by the mega_sas driver, x86 and amd64 only. > > What exactly are you suggest

Re: [zfs-discuss] surprisingly poor performance

2009-07-07 Thread James Andrewartha
James Lever wrote: > We also have a PERC 6/E w/512MB BBWC to test with or fall back to if we > go with a Linux solution. Have you tried putting the slog on this controller, either as an SSD or regular disk? It's supported by the mega_sas driver, x86 and amd64 only. -- James

Re: [zfs-discuss] Why is Solaris 10 ZFS performance so terrible?

2009-07-07 Thread James Andrewartha
even faster than it is now. Are you aware of posix_fadvise(2) and madvise(2)? -- James Andrewartha ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] [storage-discuss] Supermicro AOC-SASLP-MV8

2009-04-21 Thread James Andrewartha
rvell SAS driver for Solaris at all, so I'd say it's not supported. http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1397855 has a fair few people testing it out, but mostly under Windows. -- James Andrewartha ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@op

[zfs-discuss] rename(2), atomicity, crashes and fsync()

2009-03-17 Thread James Andrewartha
ion-and-the-zero-length-file-problem/ http://lwn.net/Articles/323169/ http://mjg59.livejournal.com/108257.html http://lwn.net/Articles/323464/ http://thunk.org/tytso/blog/2009/03/15/dont-fear-the-fsync/ http://lwn.net/Articles/323752/ * http://lwn.net/Articles/322823/ * * are currently subscriber-only,

Re: [zfs-discuss] web interface not showing up

2008-09-24 Thread James Andrewartha
08-June/048457.html http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/zfs-discuss/2008-June/048550.html -- James Andrewartha ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS over multiple iSCSI targets

2008-09-10 Thread James Andrewartha
ess > by calculating the best theoretical correct speed (which should be > really slow, one write per disc spin) > > this has been on my TODO list for ages.. :( Does the perl script at http://brad.livejournal.com/2116715.html do what you want? -- James Andrewartha ___

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs send and recordsize

2008-06-25 Thread James Andrewartha
do not exist on the sending side are des- troyed. -- James Andrewartha ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs send and recordsize

2008-06-24 Thread James Andrewartha
too. My impression is you should change the recordsize on the first filesystem before performing the zfs send. This will then be used for all files when you receive the filesystem. I haven't tested this with recordsize, but I did with compression and I imagine recordsize (and others) will beha

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Project Hardware

2008-05-28 Thread James Andrewartha
icles.x/13732 http://www.techreport.com/articles.x/13253 http://www.techreport.com/articles.x/14583 http://www.storagereview.com/ is promising some SSD benchmarks soon. James Andrewartha ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Project Hardware

2008-05-28 Thread James Andrewartha
ith battery backup RAM, Areca (who formerly specialised in SATA controlers) now do SAS RAID at reasonable prices, and have Solaris drivers. -- James Andrewartha ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailm

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs send/receive of an entire pool

2008-02-14 Thread James Andrewartha
James Andrewartha wrote: > On Thu, 2008-01-17 at 09:29 -0800, Richard Elling wrote: >> You don't say which version of ZFS you are running, but what you >> want is the -R option for zfs send. See also the example of send >> usage in the zfs(1m) man page. > > Sorry

Re: [zfs-discuss] ? Removing a disk from a ZFS Storage Pool

2008-02-07 Thread James Andrewartha
Dave Lowenstein wrote: > Couldn't we move fixing "panic the system if it can't find a lun" up to > the front of the line? that one really sucks. That's controlled by the failmode property of the zpool, added in PSARC 2007/567 which was integrated

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs send/receive of an entire pool

2008-01-17 Thread James Andrewartha
ention of send -R in the man page. Ah, it's PSARC/2007/574 and nv77. I'm not convinced it'll solve my problem (sending the root filesystem of a pool), but I'll upgrade and give it a shot. Thanks, James Andrewartha ___ zfs-discuss m

[zfs-discuss] zfs send/receive of an entire pool

2008-01-17 Thread James Andrewartha
t receive: destination 'space' exists # zfs send [EMAIL PROTECTED] | ssh musundo "zfs recv -vn [EMAIL PROTECTED]" cannot receive: destination does not exist What am I missing here? I can't recv to space, because it exists, but I can't make it not exist since it's t