Re: [zfs-discuss] Performance of the ZIL

2010-05-06 Thread Marc Moreau
On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 11:34 AM, Brandon High wrote: > On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 10:19 AM, Tony MacDoodle > wrote: > > How would one determine if I should have a separate ZIL disk? We are > using > > ZFS as the backend of our Guest Domains boot drives using LDom's. And we > are > > seeing bad/very

Re: [zfs-discuss] Performance of the ZIL

2010-05-06 Thread Ross Walker
On May 6, 2010, at 8:34 AM, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: From: Pasi Kärkkäinen [mailto:pa...@iki.fi] In neither case do you have data or filesystem corruption. ZFS probably is still OK, since it's designed to handle this (?), but the data can't be OK if you lose 30 secs of writes.. 30 secs o

Re: [zfs-discuss] Performance of the ZIL

2010-05-06 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
> From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- > boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Ragnar Sundblad > > But if you have an application, protocol and/or user that demands > or expects persistant storage, disabling ZIL of course could be fatal > in case of a crash. Examples are

Re: [zfs-discuss] Performance of the ZIL

2010-05-06 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
> From: Pasi Kärkkäinen [mailto:pa...@iki.fi] > > > In neither case do you have data or filesystem corruption. > > > > ZFS probably is still OK, since it's designed to handle this (?), > but the data can't be OK if you lose 30 secs of writes.. 30 secs of > writes > that have been ack'd being done

Re: [zfs-discuss] Performance of the ZIL

2010-05-06 Thread Ragnar Sundblad
On 6 maj 2010, at 08.17, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: > On Wed, May 05, 2010 at 11:32:23PM -0400, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: >>> From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- >>> boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Robert Milkowski >>> >>> if you can disable ZIL and compare the perfor

Re: [zfs-discuss] Performance of the ZIL

2010-05-05 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Wed, May 05, 2010 at 11:32:23PM -0400, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: > > From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- > > boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Robert Milkowski > > > > if you can disable ZIL and compare the performance to when it is off it > > will give you an estim

Re: [zfs-discuss] Performance of the ZIL

2010-05-05 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
> From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- > boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Robert Milkowski > > if you can disable ZIL and compare the performance to when it is off it > will give you an estimate of what's the absolute maximum performance > increase (if any) by having

Re: [zfs-discuss] Performance of the ZIL

2010-05-04 Thread Robert Milkowski
On 04/05/2010 18:19, Tony MacDoodle wrote: How would one determine if I should have a separate ZIL disk? We are using ZFS as the backend of our Guest Domains boot drives using LDom's. And we are seeing bad/very slow write performance? if you can disable ZIL and compare the performance to when

Re: [zfs-discuss] Performance of the ZIL

2010-05-04 Thread Brandon High
On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 10:19 AM, Tony MacDoodle wrote: > How would one determine if I should have a separate ZIL disk? We are using > ZFS as the backend of our Guest Domains boot drives using LDom's. And we are > seeing bad/very slow write performance? There's a dtrace script that Richard Elling

[zfs-discuss] Performance of the ZIL

2010-05-04 Thread Tony MacDoodle
How would one determine if I should have a separate ZIL disk? We are using ZFS as the backend of our Guest Domains boot drives using LDom's. And we are seeing bad/very slow write performance? Thanks ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.or