Re: [zfs-discuss] Opensolaris 2010.03 / snv releases

2010-02-23 Thread Jeffry Molanus
There is no clustering package for it and available source seems very old also the de-dup bug is there iirc. So if you don't need HA cluster and dedup.. BR, Jeffry > -Original Message- > From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- > boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZIL to disk

2010-01-16 Thread Jeffry Molanus
Thx all, I understand now. BR, Jeffry > > if an application requests a synchronous write then it is commited to > ZIL immediately, once it is done the IO is acknowledged to application. > But data written to ZIL is still in memory as part of an currently open > txg and will be committed to a pool

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZIL to disk

2010-01-15 Thread Jeffry Molanus
> -Original Message- > From: neil.per...@sun.com [mailto:neil.per...@sun.com] > I think you misunderstand the function of the ZIL. It's not a journal, > and doesn't get transferred to the pool as of a txg. It's only ever > written except > after a crash it's read to do replay. See: > >

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZIL to disk

2010-01-15 Thread Jeffry Molanus
> Sometimes people get confused about the ZIL and separate logs. For > sizing purposes, > the ZIL is a write-only workload. Data which is written to the ZIL is > later asynchronously > written to the pool when the txg is committed. Right; the tgx needs time to transfer the ZIL. > The ZFS wri

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZIL to disk

2010-01-14 Thread Jeffry Molanus
> > There are different kinds of "IOPS". The expensive ones are random > IOPS whereas sequential IOPS are much more efficient. The intention > of the SSD-based ZIL is to defer the physical write so that would-be > random IOPS can be converted to sequential scheduled IOPS like a > normal write.

[zfs-discuss] ZIL to disk

2010-01-14 Thread Jeffry Molanus
Hi all, Are there any recommendations regarding min IOPS the backing storage pool needs to have when flushing the SSD ZIL to the pool? Consider a pool of 3x 2TB SATA disks in RAIZ1, you would roughly have 80 IOPS. Any info about the relation between ZIL <> pool performance? Or will the ZIL sim

Re: [zfs-discuss] file concatenation with ZFS copy-on-write

2009-12-04 Thread Jeffry Molanus
> In my experience, cloning is done for basic provisioning, so how would > you get > to the case where you could not clone any particular VM? > -- richard Well, a situation where this might come in handy is when you have your typical ISP provider that has multiple ESX hosts with multiple datas

Re: [zfs-discuss] file concatenation with ZFS copy-on-write

2009-12-04 Thread Jeffry Molanus
Actually, I asked about this a while ago only called it file-level cloning. Consider you have 100VM's and you want to clone just one? BTRFS added a specialized IOCTL() call to make the FS aware that it has to clone this obviously saves copy time and dedup time. Regards, Jeffry > -Oorspro

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs/io performance on Netra X1

2009-11-13 Thread Jeffry Molanus
Agreed, but still: wy zpool iostat 15MB en iostat 615KB? Regard, Jeff From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Bob Friesenhahn [bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us] Sent: Friday, November 13, 2009 4:05 PM To: in

Re: [zfs-discuss] FW: File level cloning

2009-10-30 Thread Jeffry Molanus
Yes but the number of nfs mounts/datastores for ESX is limited; so that would leave me with limited numer of clones. Jeff From: Robert Milkowski [mi...@task.gda.pl] Sent: Friday, October 30, 2009 2:31 AM To: Jeffry Molanus Cc: zfs-discuss

[zfs-discuss] FW: File level cloning

2009-10-28 Thread Jeffry Molanus
ay, October 28, 2009 9:33 PM >>Aan: Jeffry Molanus >>Onderwerp: Re: [zfs-discuss] File level cloning >> >>What are you doing with your vmdk file(s) from the clone? >> >> >>On 10/28/09 9:36 AM, "Jeffry Molanus" wrote: >> >>> Agreed

[zfs-discuss] File level cloning

2009-10-28 Thread Jeffry Molanus
Hi all, Does zfs/solaris provide a easy way to clone at file level? I.e clone a large vmdk? Regards, jeff ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss