Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS raid is very slow???

2007-07-07 Thread Orvar Korvar
I am using Solaris Express Community build 67 installed on a 40GB harddrive (UFS filesystem on Solaris), dual boot with Windows XP. I have a zfsraid with 4 samsung drives. It is a [EMAIL PROTECTED] and 1GB RAM. When I copy a 1.3G file from ZFSpool to ZFSpool the command "time cp file file2"

[zfs-discuss] Take Three: PSARC 2007/171 ZFS Separate Intent Log

2007-07-07 Thread Cyril Plisko
Hello, This is a third request to open the materials of the PSARC case 2007/171 ZFS Separate Intent Log I am not sure why two previous requests were completely ignored (even when seconded by another community member). In any case that is absolutely unaccepted practice. On 6/30/07, Cyril Plisko

Re: [zfs-discuss] Take Three: PSARC 2007/171 ZFS Separate Intent Log

2007-07-07 Thread Mike Gerdts
On 7/7/07, Cyril Plisko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > This is a third request to open the materials of the PSARC case > 2007/171 ZFS Separate Intent Log > I am not sure why two previous requests were completely ignored > (even when seconded by another community member). > In any case that

Re: [zfs-discuss] Take Three: PSARC 2007/171 ZFS Separate Intent Log

2007-07-07 Thread Casper . Dik
>On 7/7/07, Cyril Plisko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hello, >> >> This is a third request to open the materials of the PSARC case >> 2007/171 ZFS Separate Intent Log >> I am not sure why two previous requests were completely ignored >> (even when seconded by another community member). >> In any

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Compression algorithms - Project Proposal

2007-07-07 Thread roland
nice idea! :) >We plan to start with the development of a fast implementation of a Burrows >Wheeler Transform based algorithm (BWT). why not starting with lzo first - it`s already in zfs-fuse on linux and it looks, that it`s just "in between lzjb and gzip" in terms of performance and compressi

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS performance and memory consumption

2007-07-07 Thread Ɓukasz
> When tuning recordsize for things like databases, we > try to recommend > that the customer's recordsize match the I/O size of > the database > record. On this filesystem I have: - file links and they are rather static - small files ( about 8kB ) that keeps changing - big files ( 1MB - 20 MB

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Performance as a function of Disk Slice

2007-07-07 Thread Richard Elling
Scott Lovenberg wrote: > First Post! > Sorry, I had to get that out of the way to break the ice... Welcome! > I was wondering if it makes sense to zone ZFS pools by disk slice, and if it > makes a difference with RAIDZ. As I'm sure we're all aware, the end of a > drive is half as fast as the b

Re: [zfs-discuss] Take Three: PSARC 2007/171 ZFS Separate Intent Log

2007-07-07 Thread Neil Perrin
Cyril, I wrote this case and implemented the project. My problem was that I didn't know what policy (if any) Sun has about publishing ARC cases, and a mail log with a gazillion email addresses. I did receive an answer to this this in the form: http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/arc/arc-faq/

Re: [zfs-discuss] Take Three: PSARC 2007/171 ZFS Separate Intent Log

2007-07-07 Thread Cyril Plisko
On 7/7/07, Neil Perrin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Cyril, > > I wrote this case and implemented the project. My problem was > that I didn't know what policy (if any) Sun has about publishing > ARC cases, and a mail log with a gazillion email addresses. > > I did receive an answer to this this in t

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs space efficiency

2007-07-07 Thread -=dave
agreed. while a bitwise check is the only assured way to determine duplicative nature of two blocks, if the check were done in a streaming method as you suggest, performance, while a huge impact compared to not, would be more than bearable if used within an environment with large known levels o

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs space efficiency

2007-07-07 Thread -=dave
one other thing... the checksums for all files to send *could* be checked first in batch and known unique blocks prioritized and sent first, then the possibly duplicative data sent afterwards to be verified a dupe, thereby decreasing the possible data loss for the backup window to levels equivol

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS raid is very slow???

2007-07-07 Thread Sean Hafeez
ZFS is a 128 bit file system. The performance on your 32-bit CPU will not be that good. ZFS was designed for a 64-bit CPU. Another GB of RAM might help. There are a bunch of post in the archive about 32-bit CPUs and performance. -Sean Orvar Korvar wrote: > I am using Solaris Express Communi

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS raid is very slow???

2007-07-07 Thread Jonathan Edwards
On Jul 7, 2007, at 06:14, Orvar Korvar wrote: When I copy that file from ZFS to /dev/null I get this output: real0m0.025s user0m0.002s sys 0m0.007s which can't be correct. Is it wrong of me to use "time cp fil fil2" when measuring disk performance? well you're reading and writin

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Compression algorithms - Project Proposal

2007-07-07 Thread MC
Awesome initiative. One thing ZFS is missing is the ability to select which files to compress. Even a simple heuristic like "don't compress mp3,avi,zip,tar files" would yield a tremendous change in which data is compressed on consumer computers. I don't know if such a heuristic is planned o