Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS getting slower over time

2010-04-06 Thread Marcus Wilhelmsson
The dips are gone. I've run simple copy operations via CIFS for two days and the problem hasn't appeared anymore. I'll try to find out what caused it though, thanks for trying to help me. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mail

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS getting slower over time

2010-04-05 Thread Marcus Wilhelmsson
Alright, I've made the benchmarks and there isn't a difference worth mentioning except that i only get about 30MB/s (to my Mac, which has an SSD as system disk). I've also tried copying to a ram disk with slightly better results. Well, now that I've restarted the server I probably won't see the

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS getting slower over time

2010-04-05 Thread Marcus Wilhelmsson
> > From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org > [mailto:zfs-discuss- > > boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Marcus > Wilhelmsson > > > > I have a problem with my zfs system, it's getting > slower and slower > > over time. When the OpenSolaris mach

[zfs-discuss] ZFS getting slower over time

2010-04-04 Thread Marcus Wilhelmsson
tion on what to do? I've tried some tuning by setting the following variables in /etc/system: set zfs:zfs_txg_timeout = 1 set zfs:zfs_vdev_max_pending = 1 But it doesn't seem to make any difference. Regards /Marcus Wilhelmsson, Kalmar, Sweden Message was edited by: tanngens -- This

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Tutorial at LISA09

2009-08-21 Thread Marcus
ld be my personal wishlist. I hope the presentation will be made public after the event. ;-) Thanks, Marcus On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 4:10 PM, Eric Sproul wrote: > Bob Friesenhahn wrote: >> An obvious item to cover is the new Flash Archive support as well as the >> changes to Liv

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS root mirror / moving disks to machine with different hostid

2009-02-03 Thread Marcus Reid
On Mon, Feb 02, 2009 at 08:41:13PM -0800, Frank Cusack wrote: > On January 30, 2009 2:26:36 PM -0800 Marcus Reid > wrote: > >I am investigating using ZFS as a possible replacement for SVM for > >root disk mirroring. > > I am doing the exact same thing. I just updated to

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS root mirror / moving disks to machine with different hostid

2009-02-02 Thread Marcus Reid
On Mon, Feb 02, 2009 at 08:41:13PM -0800, Frank Cusack wrote: > On January 30, 2009 2:26:36 PM -0800 Marcus Reid > wrote: > > But what is probably best, > > 3) when it comes time to make your backup system act as the failed system, > first boot it from the network or from c

[zfs-discuss] ZFS root mirror / moving disks to machine with different hostid

2009-01-30 Thread Marcus Reid
%l4-7: 0183ec00 0180c000 skipping system dump - no dump device configured rebooting... Resetting ... Is there a way to work through this? Thanks, Marcus ___ zfs-discuss mailing list z

Re: [zfs-discuss] Verify files' checksums

2008-10-25 Thread Marcus Sundman
Ian Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Marcus Sundman wrote: > > Are these I/O errors written to stdout or stderr or where? > > Yes, stderr. OK, good, thanks. > You will not be able top open the file. What?! Even if there are errors I want to still be able to read

Re: [zfs-discuss] Verify files' checksums

2008-10-25 Thread Marcus Sundman
Ian Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Marcus Sundman wrote: > > I couldn't see anything there describing either how to verify the > > checksums of individual files or why that would be impossible. > > If you can read the file, the checksum is OK. If it were n

Re: [zfs-discuss] Verify files' checksums

2008-10-25 Thread Marcus Sundman
"Scott Laird" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 1:57 PM, Marcus Sundman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > I don't want to scrub several TiB of data just to verify a 2 MiB > > file. I want to verify just the data of that file. (Well, I

Re: [zfs-discuss] Verify files' checksums

2008-10-25 Thread Marcus Sundman
"Johan Hartzenberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 6:49 PM, Marcus Sundman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > Richard Elling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Marcus Sundman wrote: > > > > How can I verify the checksum

Re: [zfs-discuss] Verify files' checksums

2008-10-25 Thread Marcus Sundman
Richard Elling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Marcus Sundman wrote: > > How can I verify the checksums for a specific file? > > ZFS doesn't checksum files. AFAIK ZFS checksums all data, including the contents of files. > So a file does not have a checksum to verify.

[zfs-discuss] Verify files' checksums

2008-10-24 Thread Marcus Sundman
How can I verify the checksums for a specific file? - Marcus ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] volname

2008-10-11 Thread Marcus Sundman
"James C. McPherson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Marcus Sundman wrote: > > [...] > blinder:jmcp $ for dev in `awk -F'"' '/sd/ {print > $2}' /etc/path_to_inst`; do prtconf -v /devices/$dev|egrep -i > "id1|dev.dsk.*s2" ; done >

Re: [zfs-discuss] volname

2008-10-11 Thread Marcus Sundman
"James C. McPherson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Marcus Sundman wrote: > > I couldn't figure out which controller got which numbers so I had > > to disconnect drives one by one > > I'm interested in what you did to figure out your drive > lo

Re: [zfs-discuss] volname

2008-10-11 Thread Marcus Sundman
A Darren Dunham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 03:19:49AM +0300, Marcus Sundman wrote: > > I've used format's "volname" command to give labels to my drives > > according to their physical location. I did quite a lot of work > >

[zfs-discuss] volname

2008-10-10 Thread Marcus Sundman
p. > Cannot label disk while its partitions are in use as described. > format> I get the same error message even if the device is offline (i.e., "zpool offline "). Am I doing something wrong, or is format just giving me the finger for no reason? Cheers, Marcus

Re: [zfs-discuss] create raidz with 1 disk offline

2008-09-27 Thread Marcus Sundman
"Brandon High" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 4:02 PM, Marcus Sundman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > So, is it possible to create a 5 * 1 TB raidz with 4 disks (i.e., > > with one disk offline)? > > [...] > 1. Create a spars

[zfs-discuss] create raidz with 1 disk offline

2008-09-27 Thread Marcus Sundman
opy the 1 TB of data from the 5th disk to the new raidz and finally add the 5th disk to the raidz.) Cheers, Marcus ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] raidz in zfs questions

2008-03-18 Thread Marcus Sundman
but I can't find the answers so I ask here.) - Marcus ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] path-name encodings

2008-03-05 Thread Marcus Sundman
ux box (I don't have X on any (Open)Solaris) and press the Ä-key on my keyboard it says "keycode 48" and "keysym 0xe4", and then "XLookupString gives 2 bytes: (c3 a4) "ä"". Thus at least XLookupString seems to

Re: [zfs-discuss] raidz in zfs questions

2008-03-05 Thread Marcus Sundman
the disks) on a 3rd, larger, disk? - Marcus ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] path-name encodings

2008-03-05 Thread Marcus Sundman
Bart Smaalders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Marcus Sundman wrote: > > Bart Smaalders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> UTF8 is the answer here. If you care about anything more than > >> simple ascii and you work in more than a single locale/encoding, &g

Re: [zfs-discuss] path-name encodings

2008-03-04 Thread Marcus Sundman
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Joerg Schilling) wrote: > Marcus Sundman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Joerg Schilling) wrote: > > > [...] ISO-8859-1 (the low 8 bits of UNOICODE) [...] > > > > Unicode is not an encoding, but you probably mean "the l

Re: [zfs-discuss] path-name encodings

2008-03-04 Thread Marcus Sundman
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Joerg Schilling) wrote: > [...] ISO-8859-1 (the low 8 bits of UNOICODE) [...] Unicode is not an encoding, but you probably mean "the low 8 bits of UCS-2" or "the first 256 codepoints in Unicode" or somesuch. Regards, Marcus

Re: [zfs-discuss] path-name encodings

2008-03-04 Thread Marcus Sundman
the NFS client can create two files named "a" and "A", but > the CIFS client can only see one of those. Not necessarily. There could be some (nonstandard) way of accessing such duplicates (e.g., by having the CIFS daemon append "[dup-N]" or somesuch to

Re: [zfs-discuss] path-name encodings

2008-03-04 Thread Marcus Sundman
Bart Smaalders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Marcus Sundman wrote: > > Bart Smaalders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> I'm unable to find more info about this. E.g., what does "reject > >>> file names" mean in practice? E.g., if a pro

Re: [zfs-discuss] path-name encodings

2008-02-28 Thread Marcus Sundman
d care about that. Isn't that the job of the CIFS daemon? As a matter of fact I don't see why the OS would need to know how to decode any filename-bytes to text. However, I firmly believe that user applications should have that opportunity. If the encoding of filenames is not known (expl

[zfs-discuss] utf8only-property

2008-02-27 Thread Marcus Sundman
replace them with ?s or somesuch? Or should it automatically convert the filename from the active locale's fs-encoding (LC_CTYPE?) to UTF-8? - Marcus ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Can ZFS be event-driven or not?

2008-02-27 Thread Marcus Sundman
"Wee Yeh Tan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 10:42 PM, Marcus Sundman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > Darren J Moffat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Marcus Sundman wrote: > > > > Nicolas Williams <[EMAIL

Re: [zfs-discuss] Can ZFS be event-driven or not?

2008-02-27 Thread Marcus Sundman
Darren J Moffat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Marcus Sundman wrote: > > Nicolas Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 05:54:29AM +0200, Marcus Sundman wrote: > >>> Nathan Kroenert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>&

Re: [zfs-discuss] path-name encodings

2008-02-27 Thread Marcus Sundman
E.g., do tar and similar programs convert utf8-incompatible filenames to utf8 upon extraction if my locale (or wherever the fs encoding is taken from) is set to use utf-8? If they don't, then what happens with archives containing utf8-incompatible filenames? - Marcus

Re: [zfs-discuss] Can ZFS be event-driven or not?

2008-02-27 Thread Marcus Sundman
Nicolas Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 05:54:29AM +0200, Marcus Sundman wrote: > > Nathan Kroenert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Are you indicating that the filesystem know's or should know what > > > an applicat

Re: [zfs-discuss] path-name encodings

2008-02-27 Thread Marcus Sundman
"[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Marcus Sundman wrote: > > Are path-names text or raw data in zfs? I.e., is it possible to know > > what the name of a file/dir/whatever is, or do I have to make more > > or less wild guesses what encoding is u

Re: [zfs-discuss] Can ZFS be event-driven or not?

2008-02-26 Thread Marcus Sundman
Nathan Kroenert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Are you indicating that the filesystem know's or should know what an > application is doing?? Maybe "snapshot file whenever a write-filedescriptor is closed" or somesuch? - Marcus

[zfs-discuss] path-name encodings

2008-02-26 Thread Marcus Sundman
Are path-names text or raw data in zfs? I.e., is it possible to know what the name of a file/dir/whatever is, or do I have to make more or less wild guesses what encoding is used where? - Marcus ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [zfs-discuss] missing files on copy

2008-01-29 Thread Marcus Sundman
ment grokking. Can't be, because the '[E]' wasn't part of the command line arguments (it was in a subdirectory). - Marcus ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Home NAS - Configuration & Questions

2008-01-24 Thread Marcus Sundman
s the heatsink it's attached to is way too small for the general air flow in the case). Regards, Marcus ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Home NAS - Configuration & Questions

2008-01-24 Thread Marcus Sundman
Marcus Sundman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Richard Elling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > It may be less expensive to purchase a new motherboard with 6 SATA > > ports on it. > > Sure, but which one? I've been trying to find one for many, many > mo

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Home NAS - Configuration & Questions

2008-01-24 Thread Marcus Sundman
Richard Elling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Marcus Sundman wrote: > > Kava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> Can anyone recommend a cheap (but reliable) SATA PCI or PCIX card? > >> > > > > Why would you get a PCI-X card for

[zfs-discuss] Drives of different size

2008-01-24 Thread Marcus Sundman
Let's say I have two 300 GB drives and one 500 GB drive. Can I put a RAID-Z on the three drives and a separate partition on the last 200 GB of the 500 GB drive? - Marcus ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Home NAS - Configuration & Questions

2008-01-24 Thread Marcus Sundman
, if someone is aware of some cheap (but reliable) SATA PCI-E card then I'd be very interested. - Marcus ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

[zfs-discuss] Re: Cheap ZFS homeserver.

2008-01-15 Thread Marcus Sundman
/07. However, there seems to have been new MCP55 (all nf570 are mcp55-based) drivers released since then: http://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6296435 Has anyone tested the "new" mcp55 drivers with the sata ports on an