Re: [zfs-discuss] Compression

2011-11-28 Thread Matt Breitbach
adventure, and I got the info that I needed. Thanks to all that took the time to reply. -Matt Breitbach -Original Message- From: Donal Farrell [mailto:vmlinuz...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, November 23, 2011 10:42 AM To: Matt Breitbach Subject: Re: [zfs-discuss] Compression is this o

Re: [zfs-discuss] Compression

2011-11-23 Thread Matt Breitbach
Currently using NFS to access the datastore. -Matt -Original Message- From: Richard Elling [mailto:richard.ell...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, November 22, 2011 11:10 PM To: Matt Breitbach Cc: zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org Subject: Re: [zfs-discuss] Compression Hi Matt, On Nov 22, 2011, at

Re: [zfs-discuss] Compression

2011-11-22 Thread Richard Elling
Hi Matt, On Nov 22, 2011, at 7:39 PM, Matt Breitbach wrote: > So I'm looking at files on my ZFS volume that are compressed, and I'm > wondering to myself, "self, are the values shown here the size on disk, or > are they the pre-compressed values". Google gives me no great results on > the first

Re: [zfs-discuss] Compression

2011-11-22 Thread Jim Klimov
2011-11-23 8:21, Ian Collins wrote: If you use "du" on the ZFS filesystem, you'll see the logical storage size, which takes into account compression and sparse bytes. So the "du" size should be not greater than "ls" size. It can be significantly bigger: ls -sh x 2 x du -sh x 1K x Pun accept

Re: [zfs-discuss] Compression

2011-11-22 Thread Ian Collins
On 11/23/11 04:58 PM, Jim Klimov wrote: 2011-11-23 7:39, Matt Breitbach wrote: So I'm looking at files on my ZFS volume that are compressed, and I'm wondering to myself, "self, are the values shown here the size on disk, or are they the pre-compressed values". Google gives me no great results o

Re: [zfs-discuss] Compression

2011-11-22 Thread Jim Klimov
2011-11-23 7:39, Matt Breitbach wrote: So I'm looking at files on my ZFS volume that are compressed, and I'm wondering to myself, "self, are the values shown here the size on disk, or are they the pre-compressed values". Google gives me no great results on the first few pages, so I headed here.

[zfs-discuss] Compression

2011-11-22 Thread Matt Breitbach
So I'm looking at files on my ZFS volume that are compressed, and I'm wondering to myself, "self, are the values shown here the size on disk, or are they the pre-compressed values". Google gives me no great results on the first few pages, so I headed here. This really relates to my VMware environ

Re: [zfs-discuss] Compression block sizes

2010-09-16 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Wed, 15 Sep 2010, Brandon High wrote: When using compression, are the on-disk record sizes determined before or after compression is applied? In other words, if record size is set to 128k, is that the amount of data fed into the compression engine, or is the output size trimmed to fit? I thin

[zfs-discuss] Compression block sizes

2010-09-15 Thread Brandon High
When using compression, are the on-disk record sizes determined before or after compression is applied? In other words, if record size is set to 128k, is that the amount of data fed into the compression engine, or is the output size trimmed to fit? I think it's the former, but I'm not certain. Thi

Re: [zfs-discuss] compression property not received

2010-04-09 Thread Brandon High
On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 10:47 AM, Daniel Bakken wrote: > When I send a filesystem with compression=gzip to another server with > compression=on, compression=gzip is not set on the received filesystem. I am > using: Is compression set on the dataset, or is it being inherited from a parent dataset?

Re: [zfs-discuss] compression property not received

2010-04-08 Thread Tomas Ögren
On 08 April, 2010 - Cindy Swearingen sent me these 2,6K bytes: > Hi Daniel, > > D'oh... > > I found a related bug when I looked at this yesterday but I didn't think > it was your problem because you didn't get a busy message. > > See this RFE: > > http://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatabase/view_bug.d

Re: [zfs-discuss] compression property not received

2010-04-08 Thread Cindy Swearingen
Hi Daniel, D'oh... I found a related bug when I looked at this yesterday but I didn't think it was your problem because you didn't get a busy message. See this RFE: http://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6700597 Cindy On 04/07/10 17:59, Daniel Bakken wrote: We have found

Re: [zfs-discuss] compression property not received

2010-04-07 Thread Tom Erickson
Daniel Bakken wrote: We have found the problem. The mountpoint property on the sender was at one time changed from the default, then later changed back to defaults using zfs set instead of zfs inherit. Therefore, zfs send included these local "non-default" properties in the stream, even though

Re: [zfs-discuss] compression property not received

2010-04-07 Thread Tom Erickson
Daniel Bakken wrote: Here is the info from zstreamdump -v on the sending side: BEGIN record hdrtype = 2 features = 0 magic = 2f5bacbac creation_time = 0 type = 0 flags = 0x0 toguid = 0 fromguid = 0 toname = promise1/arch...@

Re: [zfs-discuss] compression property not received

2010-04-07 Thread Tom Erickson
Daniel Bakken wrote: The receive side is running build 111b (2009.06), so I'm not sure if your advice actually applies to my situation. The advice regarding received vs local properties definitely does not apply. You could still confirm the presence of the compression property in the send s

Re: [zfs-discuss] compression property not received

2010-04-07 Thread Tom Erickson
Daniel Bakken wrote: When I send a filesystem with compression=gzip to another server with compression=on, compression=gzip is not set on the received filesystem. I am using: zfs send -R promise1/arch...@daily.1 | zfs receive -vd sas The zfs manpage says regarding the -R flag: "When received,

Re: [zfs-discuss] compression property not received

2010-04-07 Thread Daniel Bakken
We have found the problem. The mountpoint property on the sender was at one time changed from the default, then later changed back to defaults using zfs set instead of zfs inherit. Therefore, zfs send included these local "non-default" properties in the stream, even though the local properties are

Re: [zfs-discuss] compression property not received

2010-04-07 Thread Daniel Bakken
Here is the info from zstreamdump -v on the sending side: BEGIN record hdrtype = 2 features = 0 magic = 2f5bacbac creation_time = 0 type = 0 flags = 0x0 toguid = 0 fromguid = 0 toname = promise1/arch...@daily.1 nvlist version

Re: [zfs-discuss] compression property not received

2010-04-07 Thread Daniel Bakken
The receive side is running build 111b (2009.06), so I'm not sure if your advice actually applies to my situation. Daniel Bakken On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 10:57 PM, Tom Erickson wrote: > After build 128, locally set properties override received properties, and > this would be the expected behavio

Re: [zfs-discuss] compression property not received

2010-04-07 Thread Daniel Bakken
I worked around the problem by first creating a filesystem of the same name with compression=gzip on the target server. Like this: zfs create sas/archive zfs set compression=gzip sas/archive Then I used zfs receive with the -F option: zfs send -vR promise1/arch...@daily.1 | zfs send zfs receive

Re: [zfs-discuss] compression property not received

2010-04-07 Thread Cindy Swearingen
Hi Daniel, I tried to reproduce this by sending from a b130 system to a s10u9 system, which vary in pool versions, but this shouldn't matter. I've been sending/receiving streams between latest build systems and older s10 systems for a long time. The zfs send -R option to send a recursive snapsh

Re: [zfs-discuss] compression property not received

2010-04-07 Thread Daniel Bakken
Cindy, The source server is OpenSolaris build 129 (zpool version 22) and the destination is stock OpenSolaris 2009.06 (zpool version 14). Both filesystems are zfs version 3. Mystified, Daniel Bakken On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 10:57 AM, Cindy Swearingen < cindy.swearin...@oracle.com> wrote: > Danie

Re: [zfs-discuss] compression property not received

2010-04-07 Thread Cindy Swearingen
Daniel, Which Solaris release is this? I can't reproduce this on my lab system that runs the Solaris 10 10/09 release. See the output below. Thanks, Cindy # zfs destroy -r tank/test # zfs create -o compression=gzip tank/test # zfs snapshot tank/t...@now # zfs send -R tank/t...@now | zfs re

[zfs-discuss] compression property not received

2010-04-07 Thread Daniel Bakken
When I send a filesystem with compression=gzip to another server with compression=on, compression=gzip is not set on the received filesystem. I am using: zfs send -R promise1/arch...@daily.1 | zfs receive -vd sas The zfs manpage says regarding the -R flag: "When received, all properties, snapshot

[zfs-discuss] compression ratio

2010-01-26 Thread Brad
With the default compression scheme (LZJB ), how does one calculate the ratio or amount compressed ahead of time when allocating storage? -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.op

Re: [zfs-discuss] compression at zfs filesystem creation

2009-06-19 Thread Darren J Moffat
Bill Sommerfeld wrote: On Wed, 2009-06-17 at 12:35 +0200, casper@sun.com wrote: I still use "disk swap" because I have some bad experiences with ZFS swap. (ZFS appears to cache and that is very wrong) I'm experimenting with running zfs swap with the primarycache attribute set to "metadata

Re: [zfs-discuss] compression at zfs filesystem creation

2009-06-19 Thread Bill Sommerfeld
On Wed, 2009-06-17 at 12:35 +0200, casper@sun.com wrote: > I still use "disk swap" because I have some bad experiences > with ZFS swap. (ZFS appears to cache and that is very wrong) I'm experimenting with running zfs swap with the primarycache attribute set to "metadata" instead of the defau

Re: [zfs-discuss] compression at zfs filesystem creation

2009-06-18 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Thu, 18 Jun 2009, Haudy Kazemi wrote: for text data, LZJB compression had negligible performance benefits (task times were unchanged or marginally better) and less storage space was consumed (1.47:1). for media data, LZJB compression had negligible performance benefits (task times were unc

Re: [zfs-discuss] compression at zfs filesystem creation

2009-06-17 Thread Haudy Kazemi
Bob Friesenhahn wrote: On Wed, 17 Jun 2009, Haudy Kazemi wrote: usable with very little CPU consumed. If the system is dedicated to serving files rather than also being used interactively, it should not matter much what the CPU usage is. CPU cycles can't be stored for later use. Ultimately,

Re: [zfs-discuss] compression at zfs filesystem creation

2009-06-17 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Wed, 17 Jun 2009, Haudy Kazemi wrote: usable with very little CPU consumed. If the system is dedicated to serving files rather than also being used interactively, it should not matter much what the CPU usage is. CPU cycles can't be stored for later use. Ultimately, it (mostly*) does not ma

Re: [zfs-discuss] compression at zfs filesystem creation

2009-06-17 Thread Haudy Kazemi
David Magda wrote: On Tue, June 16, 2009 15:32, Kyle McDonald wrote: So the cache saves not only the time to access the disk but also the CPU time to decompress. Given this, I think it could be a big win. Unless you're in GIMP working on JPEGs, or doing some kind of MPEG video editing

Re: [zfs-discuss] compression at zfs filesystem creation

2009-06-17 Thread Haudy Kazemi
Bob Friesenhahn wrote: On Mon, 15 Jun 2009, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: On Mon, 15 Jun 2009, Rich Teer wrote: You actually have that backwards.  :-)  In most cases, compression is very desirable.  Performance studies have shown that today's CPUs can compress data fast

Re: [zfs-discuss] compression at zfs filesystem creation

2009-06-17 Thread David Magda
On Wed, June 17, 2009 06:15, Fajar A. Nugraha wrote: >>> Perhaps compressing /usr could be handy, but why bother enabling >>> compression if the majority (by volume) of user data won't do >>> anything but burn CPU? > > How do you define "substantial"? My opensolaris snv_111b installation > has 1.4

Re: [zfs-discuss] compression at zfs filesystem creation

2009-06-17 Thread David Magda
On Wed, June 17, 2009 06:03, Kjetil Torgrim Homme wrote: > I'd be interested to see benchmarks on MySQL/PostgreSQL performance > with compression enabled. my *guess* would be it isn't beneficial > since they usually do small reads and writes, and there is little gain > in reading 4 KiB instead of

Re: [zfs-discuss] compression at zfs filesystem creation

2009-06-17 Thread Kjetil Torgrim Homme
"Monish Shah" writes: >> I'd be interested to see benchmarks on MySQL/PostgreSQL performance >> with compression enabled. my *guess* would be it isn't beneficial >> since they usually do small reads and writes, and there is little >> gain in reading 4 KiB instead of 8 KiB. > > OK, now you have s

Re: [zfs-discuss] compression at zfs filesystem creation

2009-06-17 Thread Monish Shah
Unless you're in GIMP working on JPEGs, or doing some kind of MPEG video editing--or ripping audio (MP3 / AAC / FLAC) stuff. All of which are probably some of the largest files in most people's homedirs nowadays. indeed. I think only programmers will see any substantial benefit from compression

Re: [zfs-discuss] compression at zfs filesystem creation

2009-06-17 Thread Kjetil Torgrim Homme
"Fajar A. Nugraha" writes: > Kjetil Torgrim Homme wrote: >> indeed.  I think only programmers will see any substantial benefit >> from compression, since both the code itself and the object files >> generated are easily compressible. > >>> Perhaps compressing /usr could be handy, but why bother e

Re: [zfs-discuss] compression at zfs filesystem creation

2009-06-17 Thread Casper . Dik
>On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 5:03 PM, Kjetil Torgrim Homme.no> wrote: >> indeed. =A0I think only programmers will see any substantial benefi= >t >> from compression, since both the code itself and the object files >> generated are easily compressible. > >>> Perhaps compressing /usr could be handy, but

Re: [zfs-discuss] compression at zfs filesystem creation

2009-06-17 Thread Fajar A. Nugraha
On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 5:03 PM, Kjetil Torgrim Homme wrote: > indeed.  I think only programmers will see any substantial benefit > from compression, since both the code itself and the object files > generated are easily compressible. >> Perhaps compressing /usr could be handy, but why bother enab

Re: [zfs-discuss] compression at zfs filesystem creation

2009-06-17 Thread Kjetil Torgrim Homme
"David Magda" writes: > On Tue, June 16, 2009 15:32, Kyle McDonald wrote: > >> So the cache saves not only the time to access the disk but also >> the CPU time to decompress. Given this, I think it could be a big >> win. > > Unless you're in GIMP working on JPEGs, or doing some kind of MPEG > vid

Re: [zfs-discuss] compression at zfs filesystem creation

2009-06-17 Thread Monish Shah
Hello Richard, Monish Shah wrote: What about when the compression is performed in dedicated hardware? Shouldn't compression be on by default in that case? How do I put in an RFE for that? Is there a bugs.intel.com? :-) I may have misled you. I'm not asking for Intel to add hardware comp

Re: [zfs-discuss] compression at zfs filesystem creation

2009-06-16 Thread David Magda
On Tue, June 16, 2009 15:32, Kyle McDonald wrote: > So the cache saves not only the time to access the disk but also the CPU > time to decompress. Given this, I think it could be a big win. Unless you're in GIMP working on JPEGs, or doing some kind of MPEG video editing--or ripping audio (MP3 / A

Re: [zfs-discuss] compression at zfs filesystem creation

2009-06-16 Thread Kyle McDonald
Darren J Moffat wrote: Kyle McDonald wrote: Bob Friesenhahn wrote: On Mon, 15 Jun 2009, Thommy M. wrote: In most cases compression is not desireable. It consumes CPU and results in uneven system performance. IIRC there was a blog about I/O performance with ZFS stating that it was faster

Re: [zfs-discuss] compression at zfs filesystem creation

2009-06-16 Thread Richard Elling
Monish Shah wrote: Hello, I would like to add one more point to this. Everyone seems to agree that compression is useful for reducing load on the disks and the disagreement is about the impact on CPU utilization, right? What about when the compression is performed in dedicated hardware? Sh

Re: [zfs-discuss] compression at zfs filesystem creation

2009-06-16 Thread Darren J Moffat
Kyle McDonald wrote: Bob Friesenhahn wrote: On Mon, 15 Jun 2009, Thommy M. wrote: In most cases compression is not desireable. It consumes CPU and results in uneven system performance. IIRC there was a blog about I/O performance with ZFS stating that it was faster with compression ON as it

Re: [zfs-discuss] compression at zfs filesystem creation

2009-06-16 Thread Kyle McDonald
Bob Friesenhahn wrote: On Mon, 15 Jun 2009, Thommy M. wrote: In most cases compression is not desireable. It consumes CPU and results in uneven system performance. IIRC there was a blog about I/O performance with ZFS stating that it was faster with compression ON as it didn't have to wait fo

Re: [zfs-discuss] compression at zfs filesystem creation

2009-06-16 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Mon, 15 Jun 2009, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: On Mon, 15 Jun 2009, Rich Teer wrote: You actually have that backwards. :-) In most cases, compression is very desirable. Performance studies have shown that today's CPUs can compress data faster than it takes for the uncompressed data to be read

Re: [zfs-discuss] compression at zfs filesystem creation

2009-06-16 Thread Robert Milkowski
On Mon, 15 Jun 2009, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: On Mon, 15 Jun 2009, Thommy M. wrote: In most cases compression is not desireable. It consumes CPU and results in uneven system performance. IIRC there was a blog about I/O performance with ZFS stating that it was faster with compression ON as i

Re: [zfs-discuss] compression at zfs filesystem creation

2009-06-16 Thread Monish Shah
Hello, I would like to add one more point to this. Everyone seems to agree that compression is useful for reducing load on the disks and the disagreement is about the impact on CPU utilization, right? What about when the compression is performed in dedicated hardware? Shouldn't compression b

Re: [zfs-discuss] compression at zfs filesystem creation

2009-06-15 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Mon, 15 Jun 2009, Rich Teer wrote: You actually have that backwards. :-) In most cases, compression is very desirable. Performance studies have shown that today's CPUs can compress data faster than it takes for the uncompressed data to be read or written. Do you have a reference for such

Re: [zfs-discuss] compression at zfs filesystem creation

2009-06-15 Thread Dennis Clarke
> On Mon, 15 Jun 2009, dick hoogendijk wrote: > >> IF at all, it certainly should not be the DEFAULT. >> Compression is a choice, nothing more. > > I respectfully disagree somewhat. Yes, compression shuould be a > choice, but I think the default should be for it to be enabled. I agree that "Comp

Re: [zfs-discuss] compression at zfs filesystem creation

2009-06-15 Thread Rich Teer
On Mon, 15 Jun 2009, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > In most cases compression is not desireable. It consumes CPU and results in > uneven system performance. You actually have that backwards. :-) In most cases, compression is very desirable. Performance studies have shown that today's CPUs can compr

Re: [zfs-discuss] compression at zfs filesystem creation

2009-06-15 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Mon, 15 Jun 2009, Thommy M. wrote: In most cases compression is not desireable. It consumes CPU and results in uneven system performance. IIRC there was a blog about I/O performance with ZFS stating that it was faster with compression ON as it didn't have to wait for so much data from the

Re: [zfs-discuss] compression at zfs filesystem creation

2009-06-15 Thread Rich Teer
On Mon, 15 Jun 2009, dick hoogendijk wrote: > IF at all, it certainly should not be the DEFAULT. > Compression is a choice, nothing more. I respectfully disagree somewhat. Yes, compression shuould be a choice, but I think the default should be for it to be enabled. -- Rich Teer, SCSA, SCNA, SC

Re: [zfs-discuss] compression at zfs filesystem creation

2009-06-15 Thread dick hoogendijk
On Mon, 15 Jun 2009 22:51:12 +0200 "Thommy M." wrote: > IIRC there was a blog about I/O performance with ZFS stating that it > was faster with compression ON as it didn't have to wait for so much > data from the disks and that the CPU was fast at unpacking data. But > sure, it uses more CPU (and

Re: [zfs-discuss] compression at zfs filesystem creation

2009-06-15 Thread Glenn Lagasse
* Shannon Fiume (shannon.fi...@sun.com) wrote: > Hi, > > I just installed 2009.06 and found that compression isn't enabled by > default when filesystems are created. Does is make sense to have an > RFE open for this? (I'll open one tonight if need be.) We keep telling > people to turn on compressi

Re: [zfs-discuss] compression at zfs filesystem creation

2009-06-15 Thread Thommy M.
Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > On Mon, 15 Jun 2009, Shannon Fiume wrote: > >> I just installed 2009.06 and found that compression isn't enabled by >> default when filesystems are created. Does is make sense to have an >> RFE open for this? (I'll open one tonight if need be.) We keep telling >> people to

Re: [zfs-discuss] compression at zfs filesystem creation

2009-06-15 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Mon, 15 Jun 2009, Shannon Fiume wrote: I just installed 2009.06 and found that compression isn't enabled by default when filesystems are created. Does is make sense to have an RFE open for this? (I'll open one tonight if need be.) We keep telling people to turn on compression. Are there any

[zfs-discuss] compression at zfs filesystem creation

2009-06-15 Thread Shannon Fiume
Hi, I just installed 2009.06 and found that compression isn't enabled by default when filesystems are created. Does is make sense to have an RFE open for this? (I'll open one tonight if need be.) We keep telling people to turn on compression. Are there any situations where turning on compressio

Re: [zfs-discuss] Compression/copies on root pool RFE

2009-05-07 Thread Casper . Dik
>I'll call bull* on that. Microsoft has an admirably simple installation >and 88% of the market. Apple has another admirably simple installation >and 10% of the market. Solaris has less than 1% of the market and has >had a very complex installation process. You can't win that battle by >increa

Re: [zfs-discuss] Compression/copies on root pool RFE

2009-05-07 Thread Richard Elling
Carson Gaspar wrote: Richard Elling wrote: Miles Nordin wrote: AIUI the later BE's are clones of the first, and not all blocks will be rewritten, so it's still an issue. no? In practice, yes, they are clones. But whether it is an issue depends on what the "issue" is. As I see it, the iss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Compression/copies on root pool RFE

2009-05-07 Thread Carson Gaspar
Richard Elling wrote: Miles Nordin wrote: AIUI the later BE's are clones of the first, and not all blocks will be rewritten, so it's still an issue. no? In practice, yes, they are clones. But whether it is an issue depends on what the "issue" is. As I see it, the issue is that someone wants

Re: [zfs-discuss] Compression/copies on root pool RFE

2009-05-06 Thread Richard Elling
Miles Nordin wrote: "re" == Richard Elling writes: re> Note: in the Caiman world, this is only an issue for the first re> BE. Later BEs can easily have other policies. -- richard AIUI the later BE's are clones of the first, and not all blocks will be rewritten, so it's

Re: [zfs-discuss] Compression/copies on root pool RFE

2009-05-06 Thread Mike Gerdts
On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 2:54 AM, wrote: > >>On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 6:09 PM, Ellis, Mike wrote: >>> PS: At one point the old JumpStart code was encumbered, and the >>> community wasn't able to assist. I haven't looked at the next-gen >>> jumpstart framework that was delivered as part of the OpenSo

Re: [zfs-discuss] Compression/copies on root pool RFE

2009-05-06 Thread Miles Nordin
> "re" == Richard Elling writes: re> Note: in the Caiman world, this is only an issue for the first re> BE. Later BEs can easily have other policies. -- richard AIUI the later BE's are clones of the first, and not all blocks will be rewritten, so it's still an issue. no? pgpsh8Y

Re: [zfs-discuss] Compression/copies on root pool RFE

2009-05-06 Thread Blake
On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 11:14 AM, Rich Teer wrote: > On Wed, 6 May 2009, Richard Elling wrote: > >> popular interactive installers much more simplified.  I agree that >> interactive installation needs to remain as simple as possible. > > How about offering a choice an installation time: "Custom or

Re: [zfs-discuss] Compression/copies on root pool RFE

2009-05-06 Thread Lori Alt
This sounds like a good idea to me, but it should be brought up on the caiman-disc...@opensolaris.org mailing list, since this is not just, or even primarily, a zfs issue. Lori Rich Teer wrote: On Wed, 6 May 2009, Richard Elling wrote: popular interactive installers much more simplified.

Re: [zfs-discuss] Compression/copies on root pool RFE

2009-05-06 Thread Rich Teer
On Wed, 6 May 2009, Richard Elling wrote: > popular interactive installers much more simplified. I agree that > interactive installation needs to remain as simple as possible. How about offering a choice an installation time: "Custom or default?"? Those that don't want/need the interactive flex

Re: [zfs-discuss] Compression/copies on root pool RFE

2009-05-06 Thread Richard Elling
ound/doc-link on that new JumpStart framework? -Original Message- From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Torrey McMahon Sent: Tuesday, May 05, 2009 6:38 PM To: zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org Subject: [zfs-discuss] Compression/copies o

Re: [zfs-discuss] Compression/copies on root pool RFE

2009-05-06 Thread Casper . Dik
>On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 6:09 PM, Ellis, Mike wrote: >> PS: At one point the old JumpStart code was encumbered, and the >> community wasn't able to assist. I haven't looked at the next-gen >> jumpstart framework that was delivered as part of the OpenSolaris SPARC >> preview. Can anyone provide any

Re: [zfs-discuss] Compression/copies on root pool RFE

2009-05-05 Thread Mike Gerdts
On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 6:09 PM, Ellis, Mike wrote: > PS: At one point the old JumpStart code was encumbered, and the > community wasn't able to assist. I haven't looked at the next-gen > jumpstart framework that was delivered as part of the OpenSolaris SPARC > preview. Can anyone provide any backg

Re: [zfs-discuss] Compression/copies on root pool RFE

2009-05-05 Thread Ellis, Mike
JumpStart framework? -Original Message- From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Torrey McMahon Sent: Tuesday, May 05, 2009 6:38 PM To: zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org Subject: [zfs-discuss] Compression/copies on root pool RFE Before I put on

[zfs-discuss] Compression/copies on root pool RFE

2009-05-05 Thread Torrey McMahon
Before I put one in ... anyone else seen one? Seems we support compression on the root pool but there is no way to enable it at install time outside of a custom script you run before the installer. I'm thinking it should be a real install time option, have a jumpstart keyword, etc. Same with c

Re: [zfs-discuss] compression on for zpool boot disk?

2008-11-05 Thread Robert Milkowski
Hello Krzys, Wednesday, November 5, 2008, 5:41:16 AM, you wrote: K> compression is not supported for rootpool? K> # zpool create rootpool c1t1d0s0 K> # zfs set compression=gzip-9 rootpool K> # lucreate -c ufsBE -n zfsBE -p rootpool K> Analyzing system configuration. K> ERROR: ZFS pool does not

Re: [zfs-discuss] compression on for zpool boot disk?

2008-11-04 Thread Fajar A. Nugraha
Krzys wrote: > compression is not supported for rootpool? > > # zpool create rootpool c1t1d0s0 > # zfs set compression=gzip-9 rootpool > I think gzip compression is not supported on zfs root. Try compression=on. Regards, Fajar smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature __

[zfs-discuss] compression on for zpool boot disk?

2008-11-04 Thread Krzys
compression is not supported for rootpool? # zpool create rootpool c1t1d0s0 # zfs set compression=gzip-9 rootpool # lucreate -c ufsBE -n zfsBE -p rootpool Analyzing system configuration. ERROR: ZFS pool does not support boot environments # why? are there any plans to have compression on that dis

Re: [zfs-discuss] compression=on and zpool attach

2007-09-12 Thread Mike DeMarco
> On 9/12/07, Mike DeMarco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Striping several disks together with a stripe width > that is tuned for your data > > model is how you could get your performance up. > Stripping has been left out > > of the ZFS model for some reason. Where it is true > that RAIDZ will s

Re: [zfs-discuss] compression=on and zpool attach

2007-09-12 Thread Richard Elling
Mike DeMarco wrote: > IO bottle necks are usually caused by a slow disk or one that has heavy > workloads reading many small files. Two factors that need to be considered > are Head seek latency and spin latency. Head seek latency is the amount > of time it takes for the head to move to the trac

Re: [zfs-discuss] compression=on and zpool attach

2007-09-12 Thread Matty
On 9/12/07, Mike DeMarco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Striping several disks together with a stripe width that is tuned for your > data > model is how you could get your performance up. Stripping has been left out > of the ZFS model for some reason. Where it is true that RAIDZ will stripe > the d

Re: [zfs-discuss] compression=on and zpool attach

2007-09-12 Thread Mike DeMarco
> On 11/09/2007, Mike DeMarco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > I've got 12Gb or so of db+web in a zone on a ZFS > > > filesystem on a mirrored zpool. > > > Noticed during some performance testing today > that > > > its i/o bound but > > > using hardly > > > any CPU, so I thought turning on compre

Re: [zfs-discuss] compression=on and zpool attach

2007-09-11 Thread Dick Davies
On 11/09/2007, Mike DeMarco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I've got 12Gb or so of db+web in a zone on a ZFS > > filesystem on a mirrored zpool. > > Noticed during some performance testing today that > > its i/o bound but > > using hardly > > any CPU, so I thought turning on compression would be > >

Re: [zfs-discuss] compression=on and zpool attach

2007-09-11 Thread Mike DeMarco
> I've got 12Gb or so of db+web in a zone on a ZFS > filesystem on a mirrored zpool. > Noticed during some performance testing today that > its i/o bound but > using hardly > any CPU, so I thought turning on compression would be > a quick win. If it is io bound won't compression make it worse? >

Re: [zfs-discuss] compression=on and zpool attach

2007-09-11 Thread Jonathan Adams
On 9/11/07, Dick Davies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I've got 12Gb or so of db+web in a zone on a ZFS filesystem on a mirrored > zpool. > Noticed during some performance testing today that its i/o bound but > using hardly > any CPU, so I thought turning on compression would be a quick win. > > I

[zfs-discuss] compression=on and zpool attach

2007-09-11 Thread Dick Davies
I've got 12Gb or so of db+web in a zone on a ZFS filesystem on a mirrored zpool. Noticed during some performance testing today that its i/o bound but using hardly any CPU, so I thought turning on compression would be a quick win. I know I'll have to copy files for existing data to be compressed, s

Re: [zfs-discuss] Compression with fixed record sizes

2006-08-22 Thread Matthew Ahrens
On Tue, Aug 22, 2006 at 04:04:50PM -0500, Neil A. Wilson wrote: > Do both compression and fixed record sizes work together? Yes. > Our Directory Server uses a fixed page size (8KB by default) for > database records, so I'm in the habit of setting the ZFS recordsize to > equal the database page

[zfs-discuss] Compression with fixed record sizes

2006-08-22 Thread Neil A. Wilson
Do both compression and fixed record sizes work together? Our Directory Server uses a fixed page size (8KB by default) for database records, so I'm in the habit of setting the ZFS recordsize to equal the database page size. However, we also typically use compression because it often helps imp