Re: [zfs-discuss] snapdir visable recursively throughout a dataset

2007-02-06 Thread Darren J Moffat
Ben Rockwood wrote: Robert Milkowski wrote: I haven't tried it but what if you mounted ro via loopback into a zone /zones/myzone01/root/.zfs is loop mounted in RO to /zones/myzone01/.zfs That is so wrong. ;) Besides just being evil, I doubt it'd work. And if it does, it

Re: [zfs-discuss] snapdir visable recursively throughout a dataset

2007-02-06 Thread Ben Rockwood
Darren J Moffat wrote: Ben Rockwood wrote: Robert Milkowski wrote: I haven't tried it but what if you mounted ro via loopback into a zone /zones/myzone01/root/.zfs is loop mounted in RO to /zones/myzone01/.zfs That is so wrong. ;) Besides just being evil, I doubt it'd wo

Re[2]: [zfs-discuss] snapdir visable recursively throughout a dataset

2007-02-06 Thread Robert Milkowski
Hello Ben, Tuesday, February 6, 2007, 10:19:54 AM, you wrote: BR> Darren J Moffat wrote: >> Ben Rockwood wrote: >>> Robert Milkowski wrote: I haven't tried it but what if you mounted ro via loopback into a zone /zones/myzone01/root/.zfs is loop mounted in RO to /zones/myzone01

[zfs-discuss] se3510 and ZFS

2007-02-06 Thread Robert Milkowski
Hello zfs-discuss, It looks like when zfs issues write cache flush commands se3510 actually honors it. I do not have right now spare se3510 to be 100% sure but comparing nfs/zfs server with se3510 to another nfs/ufs server with se3510 with "Periodic Cache Flush Time" set to disable or so

Re: [zfs-discuss] se3510 and ZFS

2007-02-06 Thread Robert Milkowski
Hello Robert, Tuesday, February 6, 2007, 12:55:19 PM, you wrote: RM> Hello zfs-discuss, RM> It looks like when zfs issues write cache flush commands se3510 RM> actually honors it. I do not have right now spare se3510 to be 100% RM> sure but comparing nfs/zfs server with se3510 to another n

Re: [zfs-discuss] se3510 and ZFS

2007-02-06 Thread Jonathan Edwards
On Feb 6, 2007, at 06:55, Robert Milkowski wrote: Hello zfs-discuss, It looks like when zfs issues write cache flush commands se3510 actually honors it. I do not have right now spare se3510 to be 100% sure but comparing nfs/zfs server with se3510 to another nfs/ufs server with se3510 w

Re[2]: [zfs-discuss] se3510 and ZFS

2007-02-06 Thread Robert Milkowski
Hello Jonathan, Tuesday, February 6, 2007, 5:00:07 PM, you wrote: JE> On Feb 6, 2007, at 06:55, Robert Milkowski wrote: >> Hello zfs-discuss, >> >> It looks like when zfs issues write cache flush commands se3510 >> actually honors it. I do not have right now spare se3510 to be 100% >> sure

Re: [storage-discuss] Re[2]: [zfs-discuss] se3510 and ZFS

2007-02-06 Thread eric kustarz
IIRC Bill posted here some tie ago saying the problem with write cache on the arrays is being worked on. Yep, the bug is: 6462690 sd driver should set SYNC_NV bit when issuing SYNCHRONIZE CACHE to SBC-2 devices We have a case going through PSARC that will make things works correctly with

Re: Re[2]: [zfs-discuss] se3510 and ZFS

2007-02-06 Thread Jonathan Edwards
On Feb 6, 2007, at 11:46, Robert Milkowski wrote: Does anybody know how to tell se3510 not to honor write cache flush commands? JE> I don't think you can .. DKIOCFLUSHWRITECACHE *should* tell the array JE> to flush the cache. Gauging from the amount of calls that zfs makes to JE>

Re: [zfs-discuss] boot disks & controller layout...

2007-02-06 Thread Richard Elling
ozan s. yigit wrote: not strictly a zfs question but related: after giving a lot of thought to the appropriate zpool layout in an x4500, we decided to use raidz2 5x(7+2)+1 layout, paying attention to having no more than two disks per set in each controller. in the process, i want to move my root

Re: [zfs-discuss] boot disks & controller layout...

2007-02-06 Thread ozan s. yigit
ah, good stuff. thanks. oz Richard Elling [in response to my question] wrote: ozan s. yigit wrote: ... is there any reason why factory install comes with C5T0 and C5T4? a limitation of the bios or some other reason i am missing? (i may need to RTFM harder... :) BIOS limitation.

Re[2]: [storage-discuss] Re[2]: [zfs-discuss] se3510 and ZFS

2007-02-06 Thread Robert Milkowski
Hello eric, Tuesday, February 6, 2007, 5:55:23 PM, you wrote: >> >> IIRC Bill posted here some tie ago saying the problem with write cache >> on the arrays is being worked on. ek> Yep, the bug is: ek> 6462690 sd driver should set SYNC_NV bit when issuing SYNCHRONIZE ek> CACHE to ek> SBC-2 devi

Re[2]: [zfs-discuss] Re: ZFS volume is hosing BIOS POST on Ultra20 (BIOS 2.1.7)

2007-02-06 Thread Robert Milkowski
Hello Casper, Monday, January 22, 2007, 2:56:16 PM, you wrote: >>Is there an BIOS uptade for Ultra20 to make it understand EFI? CDSC> Understanding EFI is perhaps asking too much; but I believe the CDSC> latest BIOS no longer hangs/crashes when it encountered EFI labels CDSC> on disks it examin

Re: [zfs-discuss] Meta data corruptions on ZFS.

2007-02-06 Thread dudekula mastan
Hi All, No one has any idea on this ? -Masthan dudekula mastan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi All, In my test set up, I have one zpool of size 1000M bytes. On this zpool, my application writes 100 files each of size 10 MB. First 96 files were written successfully

Re: [storage-discuss] Re[2]: [zfs-discuss] se3510 and ZFS

2007-02-06 Thread Neil Perrin
Robert Milkowski wrote On 02/06/07 11:43,: Hello eric, Tuesday, February 6, 2007, 5:55:23 PM, you wrote: IIRC Bill posted here some tie ago saying the problem with write cache on the arrays is being worked on. ek> Yep, the bug is: ek> 6462690 sd driver should set SYNC_NV bit when issuing

[zfs-discuss] The ZFS MOS and how DNODES are stored

2007-02-06 Thread Bill Moloney
ZFS documentation lists snapshot limits on any single file system in a pool at 2**48 snaps, and that seems to logically imply that a snap on a file system does not require an update to the pool’s currently active uberblock. That is to say, that if we take a snapshot of a file system in a pool,

Re: Re[2]: [storage-discuss] Re[2]: [zfs-discuss] se3510 and ZFS

2007-02-06 Thread eric kustarz
On Feb 6, 2007, at 10:43 AM, Robert Milkowski wrote: Hello eric, Tuesday, February 6, 2007, 5:55:23 PM, you wrote: IIRC Bill posted here some tie ago saying the problem with write cache on the arrays is being worked on. ek> Yep, the bug is: ek> 6462690 sd driver should set SYNC_NV bit

[zfs-discuss] Re: solaris - ata over ethernet - zfs - HPC

2007-02-06 Thread roland
>We've considered looking at porting the AOE _server_ module to Solaris, >especially since the Solaris loopback driver (/dev/lofi) is _much_ more >stable than the loopback module in Linux (the Linux loopback module is a >stellar piece of crap). ok, it`s quite old and probably not the most elegant

[zfs-discuss] Re: solaris - ata over ethernet - zfs - HPC

2007-02-06 Thread Wes Felter
Kevin Abbey wrote: Does this seem like a good idea? I am not a storage expert and am attempting to create a scalable distributed storage cluster for an HPC cluster. An AOE/ZFS/NFS setup doesn't sound scalable or distributed; your ZFS/NFS server may turn out to be a bottleneck. Wes Felter

[zfs-discuss] Re: Limit ZFS Memory Utilization

2007-02-06 Thread Richard L. Hamilton
If I understand correctly, at least some systems claim not to guarantee consistency between changes to a file via write(2) and changes via mmap(2). But historically, at least in the case of regular files on local UFS, since Solaris used the page cache for both cases, the results should have been c

Re: [zfs-discuss] VxVM volumes in a zpool.

2007-02-06 Thread Mike Gerdts
On 1/18/07, Tan Shao Yi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, Was wondering if anyone had experience working with VxVM volumes in a zpool. We are using VxVM 5.0 on a Solaris 10 11/06 box. The volume is on a SAN, with two FC HBAs connected to a fabric. The setup works, but we observe a very strange mes

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: Limit ZFS Memory Utilization

2007-02-06 Thread Sanjeev Bagewadi
Richard, Richard L. Hamilton wrote: If I understand correctly, at least some systems claim not to guarantee consistency between changes to a file via write(2) and changes via mmap(2). But historically, at least in the case of regular files on local UFS, since Solaris used the page cache for bo

Re: [zfs-discuss] Meta data corruptions on ZFS.

2007-02-06 Thread Sanjeev Bagewadi
Masthan, */dudekula mastan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>/* wrote: Hi All, In my test set up, I have one zpool of size 1000M bytes. Is this the size given by zfs list ? Or is the amount of disk space that you had ? The reason I ask this is because ZFS/Zpool takes up some amount of