[zfs-discuss] Re: mirror question

2007-03-24 Thread Richard L. Hamilton
> Yes, this is supported now. Replacing one half of a > mirror with a larger device; > letting it resilver; then replacing the other half > does indeed get a larger mirror. > I believe this is described somewhere but I can't > remember where now. Thanks; I sure didn't see the answer on the zpool m

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS over iSCSI question

2007-03-24 Thread Joerg Schilling
Thomas Nau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > fflush(fp); > > fsync(fileno(fp)); > > fclose(fp); > > > > and check errors. > > > > > > (It's remarkable how often people get the above sequence wrong and only > > do something like fsync(fileno(fp)); fclose(fp); > > > Thanks for clarifying! S

[zfs-discuss] missing features?Could/should zfs support a new ioctl, constrained if neede

2007-03-24 Thread Richard L. Hamilton
_FIOSATIME - why doesn't zfs support this (assuming I didn't just miss it)? Might be handy for backups. Could/should zfs support a new ioctl, constrained if needed to files of zero size, that sets an explicit (and fixed) blocksize for a particular file? That might be useful for performance in spe

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: asize is 300MB smaller than lsize - why?

2007-03-24 Thread Matthew Ahrens
Kangurek wrote: Thanks for info. My idea was to traverse changing filesystem, now I see that it will not work. I will try to traverse snapshots. Zreplicate will: 1. do snapshot @replicate_leatest and 2. send data to snapshot @replicate_leatest 3. wait X sec ( X = 20 ) 4. remove @replicate_pre

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS over iSCSI question

2007-03-24 Thread Frank Cusack
On March 23, 2007 11:06:33 PM -0700 Adam Leventhal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Fri, Mar 23, 2007 at 11:28:19AM -0700, Frank Cusack wrote: > I'm in a way still hoping that it's a iSCSI related Problem as > detecting dead hosts in a network can be a non trivial problem and it > takes quite some

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: asize is 300MB smaller than lsize - why?

2007-03-24 Thread Neil Perrin
Matthew Ahrens wrote On 03/24/07 12:13,: Kangurek wrote: Thanks for info. My idea was to traverse changing filesystem, now I see that it will not work. I will try to traverse snapshots. Zreplicate will: 1. do snapshot @replicate_leatest and 2. send data to snapshot @replicate_leatest 3. wai

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: asize is 300MB smaller than lsize - why?

2007-03-24 Thread Matthew Ahrens
Neil Perrin wrote: I'm not sure exactly what will be slow about taking snapshots, but one aspect might be that we have to suspend the intent log (see call to zil_suspend() in dmu_objset_snapshot_one()). I've been meaning to change that for a while now -- just let the snapshot have the (non-em

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: asize is 300MB smaller than lsize - why?

2007-03-24 Thread Neil Perrin
Matthew Ahrens wrote On 03/24/07 12:36,: Neil Perrin wrote: I'm not sure exactly what will be slow about taking snapshots, but one aspect might be that we have to suspend the intent log (see call to zil_suspend() in dmu_objset_snapshot_one()). I've been meaning to change that for a while n

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS over iSCSI question

2007-03-24 Thread Brian Hechinger
On Sat, Mar 24, 2007 at 11:20:38AM -0700, Frank Cusack wrote: > >>iscsi doesn't use TCP, does it? Anyway, the problem is really transport > >>independent. > > > >It does use TCP. Were you thinking UDP? > > or its own IP protocol. I wouldn't have thought iSCSI would want to be > subject to the va