Re: [zfs-discuss] Dedup... still in beta status

2010-06-16 Thread Fco Javier Garcia
I had the same experience. Finally i could remove the dedup dataset (1,7 TB)... i was wrong... it wasnt 30 hours... it was "only" 21 (the reason of the mistake: first i tried to delete with nexentastor enterprises trial 3.02... but when i see that there was a new version of nexentastor comunity

Re: [zfs-discuss] Dedup... still in beta status

2010-06-16 Thread Brandon High
On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 3:39 AM, Fco Javier Garcia wrote: > The main problem is not performance (for a home server is not a problem)... > but what really is a BIG PROBLEM is when you try to delete a snapshot a > little big... (try yourself...create a big random file with 90 Gb of data... > then

Re: [zfs-discuss] Dedup... still in beta status

2010-06-16 Thread Ross Walker
On Jun 16, 2010, at 9:02 AM, Carlos Varela wrote: Does the machine respond to ping? Yes If there is a gui does the mouse pointer move? There is no GUI (nexentastor) Does the keyboard numlock key respond at all ? Yes I just find it very hard to believe that such a situation cou

Re: [zfs-discuss] Dedup... still in beta status

2010-06-16 Thread Eric Schrock
On Jun 16, 2010, at 6:46 AM, Dennis Clarke wrote: > > I have been lurking in this thread for a while for various reasons and > only now does a thought cross my mind worth posting : Are you saying that > a reasonably fast computer with 8GB of memory is entirely non-responsive > due to a ZFS relate

Re: [zfs-discuss] Dedup... still in beta status

2010-06-16 Thread Carlos Varela
> > > > Does the machine respond to ping? > > Yes > > > > > If there is a gui does the mouse pointer move? > > > > There is no GUI (nexentastor) > > > Does the keyboard numlock key respond at all ? > > Yes > > > > > I just find it very hard to believe that such a > > situation could exist

Re: [zfs-discuss] Dedup... still in beta status

2010-06-16 Thread Fco Javier Garcia
> > Does the machine respond to ping? Yes > > If there is a gui does the mouse pointer move? > There is no GUI (nexentastor) > Does the keyboard numlock key respond at all ? Yes > > I just find it very hard to believe that such a > situation could exist as I > have done some *abusive* tes

Re: [zfs-discuss] Dedup... still in beta status

2010-06-16 Thread Dennis Clarke
>> >> I think, with current bits, it's not a simple matter >> of "ok for >> enterprise, not ok for desktops". with an ssd for >> either main storage >> or l2arc, and/or enough memory, and/or a not very >> demanding workload, it >> seems to be ok. > > > The main problem is not performance (for a h

Re: [zfs-discuss] Dedup... still in beta status

2010-06-16 Thread Fco Javier Garcia
> > I think, with current bits, it's not a simple matter > of "ok for > enterprise, not ok for desktops". with an ssd for > either main storage > or l2arc, and/or enough memory, and/or a not very > demanding workload, it > seems to be ok. The main problem is not performance (for a home serve

Re: [zfs-discuss] Dedup... still in beta status

2010-06-16 Thread Darren J Moffat
On 16/06/2010 11:30, Fco Javier Garcia wrote: This may also be accomplished by using snapshots and clones of data sets. At least for OS images: user profiles and documents could be something else entirely. Yes... but that will need a manager with access to zfs itself... but with dedupe you can

Re: [zfs-discuss] Dedup... still in beta status

2010-06-16 Thread Fco Javier Garcia
> This may also be accomplished by using snapshots and > clones of data > sets. At least for OS images: user profiles and > documents could be > something else entirely. Yes... but that will need a manager with access to zfs itself... but with dedupe you can use a userland manager (much more

Re: [zfs-discuss] Dedup... still in beta status

2010-06-15 Thread Mike Gerdts
On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 7:28 PM, David Magda wrote: > On Jun 15, 2010, at 14:20, Fco Javier Garcia wrote: > >> I think dedup may have its greatest appeal in VDI environments (think >> about a environment with 85% if the data that the virtual machine needs is >> into ARC or L2ARC... is like a dream

Re: [zfs-discuss] Dedup... still in beta status

2010-06-15 Thread David Magda
On Jun 15, 2010, at 14:20, Fco Javier Garcia wrote: I think dedup may have its greatest appeal in VDI environments (think about a environment with 85% if the data that the virtual machine needs is into ARC or L2ARC... is like a dream...almost instantaneous response... and you can boot a new

Re: [zfs-discuss] Dedup... still in beta status

2010-06-15 Thread Bill Sommerfeld
On 06/15/10 10:52, Erik Trimble wrote: Frankly, dedup isn't practical for anything but enterprise-class machines. It's certainly not practical for desktops or anything remotely low-end. We're certainly learning a lot about how zfs dedup behaves in practice. I've enabled dedup on two desktops

Re: [zfs-discuss] Dedup... still in beta status

2010-06-15 Thread Erik Trimble
On 6/15/2010 11:53 AM, Fco Javier Garcia wrote: or as a member of the ZFS team (which I'm not). Then you have to be brutally good with Java Thanks, but I do get it wrong every so often (hopefully, rarely). More importantly, I don't know anything about the internal goings-on o

Re: [zfs-discuss] Dedup... still in beta status

2010-06-15 Thread Erik Trimble
On 6/15/2010 11:49 AM, Geoff Nordli wrote: From: Fco Javier Garcia Sent: Tuesday, June 15, 2010 11:21 AM Realistically, I think people are overtly-enamored with dedup as a feature - I would generally only consider it worth-while in cases where you get significant savings. And by significa

Re: [zfs-discuss] Dedup... still in beta status

2010-06-15 Thread Fco Javier Garcia
or as a member of the ZFS team > (which I'm not). > Then you have to be brutally good with Java > -- > Erik Trimble > Java System Support > Mailstop: usca22-123 > Phone: x17195 > Santa Clara, CA > > ___ > zfs-discuss mailing list > zfs-discus

Re: [zfs-discuss] Dedup... still in beta status

2010-06-15 Thread Geoff Nordli
>From: Fco Javier Garcia >Sent: Tuesday, June 15, 2010 11:21 AM > >> Realistically, I think people are overtly-enamored with dedup as a >> feature - I would generally only consider it worth-while in cases >> where you get significant savings. And by significant, I'm talking an >> order of magnitude

Re: [zfs-discuss] Dedup... still in beta status

2010-06-15 Thread Erik Trimble
On 6/15/2010 10:52 AM, Erik Trimble wrote: Frankly, dedup isn't practical for anything but enterprise-class machines. It's certainly not practical for desktops or anything remotely low-end. This isn't just a ZFS issue - all implementations I've seen so far require enterprise-class solutions

Re: [zfs-discuss] Dedup... still in beta status

2010-06-15 Thread Fco Javier Garcia
> Realistically, I think people are overtly-enamored > with dedup as a > feature - I would generally only consider it > worth-while in cases where > you get significant savings. And by significant, I'm > talking an order of > magnitude space savings. A 2x savings isn't really > enough to counte

Re: [zfs-discuss] Dedup... still in beta status

2010-06-15 Thread Erik Trimble
On 6/15/2010 9:03 AM, Fco Javier Garcia wrote: Data: 90% of current computers has less than 9 GB of RAM, less than 5% has SSD systems. Let use a computer storage "standard", with a capacity of 4 TB ... dedupe on, dataset with blocks of 32 kb ..., 2 TB of data in use ... need 16 GB of memory jus

[zfs-discuss] Dedup... still in beta status

2010-06-15 Thread Fco Javier Garcia
Data: 90% of current computers has less than 9 GB of RAM, less than 5% has SSD systems. Let use a computer storage "standard", with a capacity of 4 TB ... dedupe on, dataset with blocks of 32 kb ..., 2 TB of data in use ... need 16 GB of memory just only for DTT ... but this will not see it unti