Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS doesn't notice errors in mirrored log device?

2010-11-24 Thread StorageConcepts
See this thread - it dealt with the same question somehow. http://www.mail-archive.com/zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org/msg41715.html Regards, Robert -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org htt

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Crypto in Oracle Solaris 11 Express

2010-11-23 Thread StorageConcepts
I just tested crypto a little and I have some send/receive specific questions about it. It would be great if someone could clarify. Currently ZFS has no background rewriter. However the fact that ZFS applies most of the properties and tunables (like dedup or compression) on write time for all n

Re: [zfs-discuss] RAID-Z/mirror hybrid allocator

2010-11-23 Thread StorageConcepts
Hi, I did a quick test (because I'm curious also). The Hardware was a 3 SATA Disk RaidZ1. What I did: 1) Create a pool with NexentaStor 3.0.4 (Pool Version 26, Raidz1 with 3 disks) 2) Disabled all caching (primarycache=none, secondarycache=none) to force media access 3) Copied and extracted

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS offline ZIL corruption not detected

2010-08-26 Thread StorageConcepts
Actually - I can't read ZFS code, so the next assumtions are more or less based on brainware - excuse me in advance :) How does ZFS detect "up to date" zil's ? - with the tnx check of the ueberblock - right ? In our corruption case, we had 2 valid ueberblocks at the end and ZFS used those t

Re: [zfs-discuss] (preview) Whitepaper - ZFS Pools Explained - feedback welcome

2010-08-26 Thread StorageConcepts
> This paper is exactly what is needed -- giving an > overview to a wide audience of the ZFS fundamental > components and benefits. Thanks :) > I found several grammar errors -- to be expected in a > draft and I think at least one technical error. Will be fixed :) > The paper seems to imply tha

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS offline ZIL corruption not detected

2010-08-25 Thread StorageConcepts
Hello, actually this is bad news. I always assumed that the mirror redundancy of zil can also be used to handle bad blocks on the zil device (just as the main pool self healing does for data blocks). I actually dont know how SSD's "die", because of the "wear out" characteristics I can think

Re: [zfs-discuss] (preview) Whitepaper - ZFS Pools Explained - feedback welcome

2010-08-25 Thread StorageConcepts
Thanks for the feedback, the idea of it is to give people new to ZFS a understanding of the terms and mode of operations to avoid common problems (wide stripe pools etc.). Also agreed that it is a little NexentaStor "tweaked" :) I think I have to rework the zil section anyhow because of http:/

[zfs-discuss] (preview) Whitepaper - ZFS Pools Explained - feedback welcome

2010-08-25 Thread StorageConcepts
Hello list, while following this list for more then 1 year, I feel that this list was a great way to get insights into ZFS. Thank you all for contributing. Over the last month's I was writing a little "whitepaper" trying to consolidate the knowledge collected here. It has now reached a "beta"

[zfs-discuss] ZFS offline ZIL corruption not detected

2010-08-23 Thread StorageConcepts
Hello, we are currently extensivly testing the DDRX1 drive for ZIL and we are going through all the corner cases. The headline above all our tests is "do we still need to mirror ZIL" with all current fixes in ZFS (zfs can recover zil failure, as long as you don't export the pool, with latest

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS read performance terrible

2010-07-29 Thread StorageConcepts
Actually writes faster then reads are typical fora Copy on Write FC (or Write Anywhere). I usually describe it like this. CoW in ZFS works like when you come home after a long day and you ust want to go to bed. You take of one pice of clothing after another and drop it on the floor just where