Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS send/receive to Solaris/FBSD/OpenIndiana/Nexenta VM guest?

2011-04-07 Thread Joe Auty
-- Brandon High : bh...@freaks.com Joe Auty April 5, 2011 3:38 PM Hello, I'm debating an OS change and also thinking a

Re: [zfs-discuss] Assessing health/performance of individual drives in ZFS pool

2011-04-07 Thread Joe Auty
fault Completed - 293 - [- - -] ... /Tomas Joe Auty April 5, 2011 3:53 PM Hello, A while I was expl

[zfs-discuss] ZFS send/receive to Solaris/FBSD/OpenIndiana/Nexenta VM guest?

2011-04-06 Thread Joe Auty
a little less taxing than rsync cronjobs? -- Joe Auty, NetMusician NetMusician helps musicians, bands and artists create beautiful, professional, custom designed, career-essential websites that are easy to maintain and to int

[zfs-discuss] Assessing health/performance of individual drives in ZFS pool

2011-04-05 Thread Joe Auty
health of an individual SATA drive in my pool short of what ZFS itself reports?  -- Joe Auty, NetMusician NetMusician helps musicians, bands and artists create beautiful, professional, custom designed, career-essential websites that are easy

[zfs-discuss] ZFS send/receive to Solaris/FBSD/OpenIndiana/Nexenta VM guest?

2011-04-05 Thread Joe Auty
a little less taxing than rsync cronjobs? -- Joe Auty, NetMusician NetMusician helps musicians, bands and artists create beautiful, professional, custom designed, career-essential websites that are easy to maintain and to int

Re: [zfs-discuss] Reconfiguring a RAID-Z dataset

2010-06-13 Thread Joe Auty
, if there is corruption your mirror (i.e. machine you are using with zfs recv) will be corrupted too? At any rate, thanks for answering this question! At some point if I go this route I'll test send and recv functionality to give all of this a dry run. -- Joe Auty, NetMusician Ne

Re: [zfs-discuss] Reconfiguring a RAID-Z dataset

2010-06-11 Thread Joe Auty
tilfeller eksisterer adekvate og relevante synonymer på norsk. -- Joe Auty, NetMusician NetMusician helps musicians, bands and artists create beautiful, professional, custom designed, career-essential websites that are easy to maintain and to integrate with popular social networks. w

[zfs-discuss] Reconfiguring a RAID-Z dataset

2010-06-10 Thread Joe Auty
What other strategies might exist if I wanted to do this? What sort of pain would be in store for me if I were to go this route? Thanks in advance for your help, I've learned a lot from you guys! -- Joe Auty, NetMusician NetMusician helps musicians, bands and artists create beautiful, pr

Re: [zfs-discuss] Drive showing as "removed"

2010-06-10 Thread Joe Auty
time I'll know what to do! Still no clue why this happened, there were no error messages, and aside from having to add the -f flag with the export the whole task was quite uneventful. Thanks, Cindy On 06/08/10 23:56, Joe Auty wrote: Cindy Swearingen wrote: Accordi

Re: [zfs-discuss] General help with understanding ZFS performance bottlenecks

2010-06-10 Thread Joe Auty
o you think? -- Garrett Joe Auty wrote: I'm also noticing that I'm a little short on RAM. I have 6 320 gig drives and 4 gig of RAM. If the formula is POOL_SIZE/250, this would mean that I need at least 6.4 gig of RAM. What role does RAM play with queuing and caching a

Re: [zfs-discuss] Drive showing as "removed"

2010-06-09 Thread Joe Auty
ool's performance. Any idea what happened here? Some weird one time fluky thing? Something I ought to be concerned with? Thanks, Cindy On 06/08/10 11:39, Joe Auty wrote: Cindy Swearingen wrote: Joe, Yes, the device should resilver when its b

Re: [zfs-discuss] General help with understanding ZFS performance bottlenecks

2010-06-09 Thread Joe Auty
I'm also noticing that I'm a little short on RAM. I have 6 320 gig drives and 4 gig of RAM. If the formula is POOL_SIZE/250, this would mean that I need at least 6.4 gig of RAM. What role does RAM play with queuing and caching and other things which might impact overall disk performance? How much

Re: [zfs-discuss] General help with understanding ZFS performance bottlenecks

2010-06-08 Thread Joe Auty
Brandon High wrote: On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 11:27 AM, Joe Auty <j...@netmusician.org> wrote: things. I've also read this on a VMWare forum, although I don't know if this correct? This is in context to me questioning why I don't seem to have these same

Re: [zfs-discuss] General help with understanding ZFS performance bottlenecks

2010-06-08 Thread Joe Auty
the VMDKs. All user data on my VM guests that is subject to change is hosted on a ZFS share, only the OS and basic OS applications are saved to my VMDKs. -- Joe Auty, NetMusician NetMusician helps musicians, bands and artists create beautiful, professional, custom designed, career-essentia

Re: [zfs-discuss] Drive showing as "removed"

2010-06-08 Thread Joe Auty
What would your advice be here? What do you think happened, and what is the smartest way to bring this disk back up? Since there are no errors I'm inclined to throw it back into the pool and see what happens rather than trying to replace it straight away. Thoughts? -- Joe Auty,

Re: [zfs-discuss] Drive showing as "removed"

2010-06-08 Thread Joe Auty
= 0x0     __ttl = 0x1     __tod = 0x4c038270 0x15a8c478 Thanks, Cindy On 06/08/10 11:11, Joe Auty wrote: Cindy Swearingen wrote: Hi Joe, The REMOVED status generally means that a device was physically removed from the system. If nece

Re: [zfs-discuss] Drive showing as "removed"

2010-06-08 Thread Joe Auty
e. How would I do so? Attach? Replace? Some other command? I'm not sure how to add a disk to an already established Raid-Z pool safely. In fact, I didn't think it could be done... -- richard -- Joe Auty, NetMusician NetMusician helps musicians, bands and artists cre

Re: [zfs-discuss] Disk I/O in RAID-Z as new disks are added/removed

2009-11-17 Thread Joe Auty
n.com/bonwick/entry/raid_z > > Hey Tim, I have seen and read that page several times before and after writing this. I've see several comparisons to existing RAID solutions, but I'm not finding whether the more disks you add, the more I/O you can get, unless I'm missing

Re: [zfs-discuss] RAID-Z and virtualization

2009-11-10 Thread Joe Auty
Toby Thain wrote: > On 8-Nov-09, at 12:20 PM, Joe Auty wrote: > >> Tim Cook wrote: >>> On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 2:03 AM, besson3c >> <mailto:j...@netmusician.org>> wrote: >>> >>> ... >>> >>> >>> Why not just c

Re: [zfs-discuss] RAID-Z and virtualization

2009-11-09 Thread Joe Auty
was that you need these other pieces to make such an infrastructure useful? > > Cordialement, > > Erik Ableson > > On 8 nov. 2009, at 19:12, Tim Cook mailto:t...@cook.ms>> > wrote: > >> >> >> On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 11:48 AM, Joe Auty > &l

Re: [zfs-discuss] RAID-Z and virtualization

2009-11-09 Thread Joe Auty
Tim Cook wrote: > On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 11:20 AM, Joe Auty <mailto:j...@netmusician.org>> wrote: > > Tim Cook wrote: >> On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 2:03 AM, besson3c > <mailto:j...@netmusician.org>> wrote: >> >> I'm ente

Re: [zfs-discuss] RAID-Z and virtualization

2009-11-09 Thread Joe Auty
uld Virtualbox stack up against VMWare Server? Last I checked it doesn't have a remote console of any sort, which would be a deal breaker. Can I disable allocating virtual memory to Virtualbox VMs? Can I get my VMs to auto boot in a specific order at runlevel 3? Can I control my VMs via the comm

Re: [zfs-discuss] RAID-Z and virtualization

2009-11-09 Thread Joe Auty
ding Unbreakable Linux (Oracle's version of RHEL). > I remember now why Xen was a no-go from when I last tested it. I rely on the 64 bit version of FreeBSD for most of my VM guest machines, and FreeBSD only supports running as domU on i386 systems. This is a monkey wrench! Sorry, just think