Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS+NFS on storedge 6120 (sun t4)

2007-10-17 Thread Joel Miller
Ok...got a break from the 25xx release... Trying to catch up so...sorry for the late response... The 6120 firmware does not support the Cache Sync command at all... You could try using a smaller blocksize setting on the array to attempt to reduce the number of read/modify/writes that you will in

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS+NFS on storedge 6120 (sun t4)

2007-08-06 Thread Ɓukasz
I think you have a problem with pool fragmentation. We have the same problem and changing recordsize will help. You have to set smaller recordsize for pool ( all filesystem must have the same size or smaller size ). First check if you have problems with finding blocks with this dtrace script: #

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS+NFS on storedge 6120 (sun t4)

2007-04-23 Thread Roch - PAE
Albert Chin writes: > On Sat, Apr 21, 2007 at 09:05:01AM +0200, Selim Daoud wrote: > > isn't there another flag in /etc/system to force zfs not to send flush > > requests to NVRAM? > > I think it's zfs_nocacheflush=1, according to Matthew Ahrens in > http://blogs.digitar.com/jjww/?itemid=44.

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS+NFS on storedge 6120 (sun t4)

2007-04-21 Thread Torrey McMahon
to zvol iscsi targets. thanks anyways.. back to the drawing board on how to resolve this! -Andy -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Torrey McMahon Sent: Fri 4/20/2007 6:00 PM To: Marion Hakanson Cc: zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org Subject: Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS+NFS on s

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS+NFS on storedge 6120 (sun t4)

2007-04-21 Thread Albert Chin
On Sat, Apr 21, 2007 at 09:05:01AM +0200, Selim Daoud wrote: > isn't there another flag in /etc/system to force zfs not to send flush > requests to NVRAM? I think it's zfs_nocacheflush=1, according to Matthew Ahrens in http://blogs.digitar.com/jjww/?itemid=44. > s. > > > On 4/20/07, Marion Haka

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS+NFS on storedge 6120 (sun t4)

2007-04-21 Thread Selim Daoud
Roch, isn't there another flag in /etc/system to force zfs not to send flush requests to NVRAM? s. On 4/20/07, Marion Hakanson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > We have been combing the message boards and it looks like there was a lot of > talk about this interaction of zfs

RE: [zfs-discuss] ZFS+NFS on storedge 6120 (sun t4)

2007-04-20 Thread Andy Lubel
From: Bill Moore [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Fri 4/20/2007 5:13 PM To: Andy Lubel Cc: zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org Subject: Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS+NFS on storedge 6120 (sun t4) When you say rewrites, can you give more detail? For example, are you rewriting in 8K chunks, random sizes, etc? The

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS+NFS on storedge 6120 (sun t4)

2007-04-20 Thread Marion Hakanson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > The 6120 isn't the same as a 6130/61340/6540. The instructions referenced > above won't work on a T3/T3+/6120/6320 Sigh. I can't keep up (:-). Thanks for the correction. Marion ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@ope

RE: [zfs-discuss] ZFS+NFS on storedge 6120 (sun t4)

2007-04-20 Thread Andy Lubel
solve this! -Andy -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Torrey McMahon Sent: Fri 4/20/2007 6:00 PM To: Marion Hakanson Cc: zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org Subject: Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS+NFS on storedge 6120 (sun t4) Marion Hakanson wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: >

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS+NFS on storedge 6120 (sun t4)

2007-04-20 Thread Torrey McMahon
Marion Hakanson wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: We have been combing the message boards and it looks like there was a lot of talk about this interaction of zfs+nfs back in november and before but since i have not seen much. It seems the only fix up to that date was to disable zil, is that sti

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS+NFS on storedge 6120 (sun t4)

2007-04-20 Thread Marion Hakanson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > We have been combing the message boards and it looks like there was a lot of > talk about this interaction of zfs+nfs back in november and before but since > i have not seen much. It seems the only fix up to that date was to disable > zil, is that still the case? Did any

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS+NFS on storedge 6120 (sun t4)

2007-04-20 Thread Bill Moore
When you say rewrites, can you give more detail? For example, are you rewriting in 8K chunks, random sizes, etc? The reason I ask is because ZFS will, by default, use 128K blocks for large files. If you then rewrite a small chunk at a time, ZFS is forced to read 128K, modify the small chunk you'