[zfs-discuss] (1) zfs list memory usage (2) zfs send/recv safety

2007-03-25 Thread Samuel Hexter
Hi all, Two separate questions: 1. We have a pool with 134 filesystems which collectively have about 75000 snapshots. The "zfs list" command grows to over 650MB resident before printing its output. This doesn't overly bother me since the box in question (snv53) has plenty of memory but I thoug

Re[2]: [zfs-discuss] ZFS over iSCSI question

2007-03-25 Thread Robert Milkowski
Hello Thomas, Saturday, March 24, 2007, 1:06:47 AM, you wrote: >> The problem is that the failure modes are very different for networks and >> presumably reliable local disk connections. Hence NFS has a lot of error >> handling code and provides well understood error handling semantics. Maybe

Re: [zfs-discuss] gzip compression support

2007-03-25 Thread Robert Milkowski
Hello Adam, Friday, March 23, 2007, 8:31:25 PM, you wrote: AL> I recently integrated this fix into ON: AL> 6536606 gzip compression for ZFS AL> With this, ZFS now supports gzip compression. To enable gzip compression Great! AL> just set the 'compression' property to 'gzip' (or 'gzip-N' wher

Re: [zfs-discuss] gzip compression support

2007-03-25 Thread Victor Latushkin
Hi Robert, AL> With this, ZFS now supports gzip compression. To enable gzip compression Great! AL> just set the 'compression' property to 'gzip' (or 'gzip-N' where N=1..9). AL> Existing pools will need to upgrade in order to use this feature, and, yes, AL> this is the second ZFS version number

Re[2]: [zfs-discuss] ZFS over iSCSI question

2007-03-25 Thread Thomas Nau
Hi Robert, On Sun, 25 Mar 2007, Robert Milkowski wrote: The problem is that the failure modes are very different for networks and presumably reliable local disk connections. Hence NFS has a lot of error handling code and provides well understood error handling semantics. Maybe what you really

Re[2]: [zfs-discuss] gzip compression support

2007-03-25 Thread Robert Milkowski
Hello Victor, Sunday, March 25, 2007, 12:08:03 PM, you wrote: VL> Hi Robert, >> AL> With this, ZFS now supports gzip compression. To enable gzip compression >> >> Great! >> >> AL> just set the 'compression' property to 'gzip' (or 'gzip-N' where N=1..9). >> AL> Existing pools will need to upgra

Re: Re[2]: [zfs-discuss] ZFS over iSCSI question

2007-03-25 Thread David Magda
On Mar 25, 2007, at 06:14, Thomas Nau wrote: We use a cluster ;) but in the backend it doesn't solve the sync problem as you mention The StorageTek Availability Suite was recently open-sourced: http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/avs/ ___ zfs-d

Re: [zfs-discuss] 6410 expansion shelf

2007-03-25 Thread Louwtjie Burger
Greetings... Although I've not tried to directly connect a 6140 JBOD unit to a host, I've noticed that the JBOD's disk drives do not online on their own. Without the controller unit activated, the drives continue to flash as if waiting to online... when the hardware controller switches on it dis