Re: [zfs-discuss] Freeing unused space in thin provisioned zvols

2013-02-10 Thread Koopmann, Jan-Peter
I forgot about compression. Makes sense. As long as the zeroes find their way to the backend storage this should work. Thanks! Kind regards JP smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.

Re: [zfs-discuss] Freeing unused space in thin provisioned zvols

2013-02-10 Thread Koopmann, Jan-Peter
Why should it? Unless you do a shrink on the vmdk and use a zfs variant with scsi unmap support (I believe currently only Nexenta but correct me if I am wrong) the blocks will not be freed, will they? Kind regards JP Sent from a mobile device. Am 10.02.2013 um 11:01 schrieb "Datnus" : > I

Re: [zfs-discuss] Scrub performance

2013-02-04 Thread Koopmann, Jan-Peter
Hi, OK then, I guess my next question would be what's the best way to "undedupe" the data I have? Would it work for me to zfs send/receive on the same pool (with dedup off), deleting the old datasets once they have been 'copied'? yes. Worked for my. I think I remember reading somewhere that

Re: [zfs-discuss] Scrub performance

2013-02-04 Thread Koopmann, Jan-Peter
Hi Edward, From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org<mailto:zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org> [mailto:zfs-discuss- boun...@opensolaris.org<mailto:boun...@opensolaris.org>] On Behalf Of Koopmann, Jan-Peter all I can tell you is that I've had terrible scrub rates when I u

Re: [zfs-discuss] Scrub performance

2013-02-04 Thread Koopmann, Jan-Peter
Hi Karl, Recently, however, it has started taking over 20hours to complete. Not much has happened to it in that time: A few extra files added, maybe a couple of deletions, but not a huge amount. I am finding it difficult to understand why performance would have dropped so dramatically. FYI th

Re: [zfs-discuss] Recommendation for home NAS external JBOD

2012-06-19 Thread Koopmann, Jan-Peter
Hi Timothy, > > I think that if you are running an illumos kernel, you can use > /kernel/drv/sd.conf and tell it that the physical sectors for a disk > model are 4k, despite what the disk says (and whether they really > are). So, if you want an ashift=12 pool on disks that report 512 > sectors,

Re: [zfs-discuss] Recommendation for home NAS external JBOD

2012-06-18 Thread Koopmann, Jan-Peter
> > What makes you think the Barracuda 7200.14 drives report 4k sectors? http://www.mail-archive.com/zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org/msg48912.html Nigel stated this here a few days ago. I did not check for myself. Maybe Nigel can comment on this? As for the question "why do you want 4k drives":

Re: [zfs-discuss] Recommendation for home NAS external JBOD

2012-06-18 Thread Koopmann, Jan-Peter
8/12 12:19 AM, Koopmann, Jan-Peter wrote: >> Hi Carson, >> >> >>I have 2 Sans Digital TR8X JBOD enclosures, and they work very well. >>They also make a 4-bay TR4X. >> >>http://www.sansdigital.com/towerraid/tr4xb.html >>http://www.sansdig

Re: [zfs-discuss] Recommendation for home NAS external JBOD

2012-06-18 Thread Koopmann, Jan-Peter
Hi Bob, > On Mon, 18 Jun 2012, Koopmann, Jan-Peter wrote: >> >> looks nice! The only thing coming to mind is that according to the >> specifications the enclosure is 3Gbits "only". If I choose >> to put in a SSD with 6Gbits this would be not optimal. I

Re: [zfs-discuss] Recommendation for home NAS external JBOD

2012-06-18 Thread Koopmann, Jan-Peter
Hi Carson, > > I have 2 Sans Digital TR8X JBOD enclosures, and they work very well. > They also make a 4-bay TR4X. > > http://www.sansdigital.com/towerraid/tr4xb.html > http://www.sansdigital.com/towerraid/tr8xb.html looks nice! The only thing coming to mind is that according to the specificati

Re: [zfs-discuss] Recommendation for home NAS external JBOD

2012-06-17 Thread Koopmann, Jan-Peter
Hi Tim, thanks to you and the others for answering. > worst case). The worst case for 512 emulated sectors on zfs is > probably small (4KB or so) synchronous writes (which if they mattered > to you, you would probably have a separate log device, in which case > the data disk write penalty may no

[zfs-discuss] Recommendation for home NAS external JBOD

2012-06-17 Thread Koopmann, Jan-Peter
Hi, my oi151 based home NAS is approaching a frightening "drive space" level. Right now the data volume is a 4*1TB Raid-Z1, 3 1/2" local disks individually connected to an 8 port LSI 6Gbit controller. So I can either exchange the disks one by one with autoexpand, use 2-4 TB disks and be happy.

Re: [zfs-discuss] Dell PERC H200: drive failed to power up

2012-05-16 Thread Koopmann, Jan-Peter
Hi, are those DELL branded WD disks? DELL tends to manipulate the firmware of the drives so that power handling with Solaris fails. If this is the case here: Easiest way to make it work is to modify /kernel/drv/sd.conf and add an entry for your specific drive similar to this sd-config-list= "WD

Re: [zfs-discuss] Compatibility of Hitachi Deskstar 7K3000 HDS723030ALA640 with ZFS

2012-03-06 Thread Koopmann, Jan-Peter
Hi Brandon, On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 9:52 AM, luis Johnstone mailto:l...@luisjohnstone.com>> wrote: As far as I can tell, the Hitachi Deskstar 7K3000 (HDS723030ALA640) uses 512B sectors and so I presume does not suffer from such issues (because it doesn't lie about the physical layout of sectors o

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS on Dell with FreeBSD

2011-10-20 Thread Koopmann, Jan-Peter
> > On the Dell website I've the choice between : > > >SAS 6Gbps External Controller >PERC H800 RAID Adapter for External JBOD, 512MB Cache, PCIe >PERC H800 RAID Adapter for External JBOD, 512MB NV Cache, PCIe >PERC H800 RAID Adapter for External JBOD, 1GB NV Cache, PCIe >

[zfs-discuss] Gen-ATA read sector errors

2011-07-28 Thread Koopmann, Jan-Peter
Hi, my system is running oi148 on a super micro X8SIL-F board. I have two pools (2 disc mirror, 4 disc RAIDZ) with RAID level SATA drives. (Hitachi HUA72205 and SAMSUNG HE103UJ). The system runs as expected however every few days (sometimes weeks) the system comes to a halt due to these errors