Re: [zfs-discuss] surprisingly poor performance

2009-07-05 Thread James Lever
On 04/07/2009, at 3:08 AM, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: It seems like you may have selected the wrong SSD product to use. There seems to be a huge variation in performance (and cost) with so- called "enterprise" SSDs. SSDs with capacitor-backed write caches seem to be fastest. Do you have any

[zfs-discuss] Solaris ZFS native API publicly available??

2009-07-05 Thread Challa, Narsimha Reddy (STSD-HYD)
Hi All, I would like to know whether the ZFS native API for SunOS (http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/zfs/source/) is publicly available now? I see in some old mailing lists (2 years old) that they were not publicly available. Is this still true? Also I see there is a java API available at

[zfs-discuss] Remove the exported zpool

2009-07-05 Thread Ketan
I had a pool which was exported and due to some issues on my SAN i was never able to import it again. Can anyone tell me how can i destroy the exported pool to free up the LUN. I tried to create a new pool on the same pool but it gives me following error # zpool create emcpool4 emcpower0c cann

Re: [zfs-discuss] surprisingly poor performance

2009-07-05 Thread Richard Elling
James Lever wrote: On 04/07/2009, at 3:08 AM, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: It seems like you may have selected the wrong SSD product to use. There seems to be a huge variation in performance (and cost) with so-called "enterprise" SSDs. SSDs with capacitor-backed write caches seem to be fastest.

Re: [zfs-discuss] [storage-discuss] surprisingly poor performance

2009-07-05 Thread James Lever
On 05/07/2009, at 1:57 AM, Ross Walker wrote: Barriers are by default are disabled on ext3 mounts... Google it and you'll see interesting threads in the LKML. Seems there was some serious performance degradation in using them. A lot of decisions in Linux are made in favor of performance over da

Re: [zfs-discuss] surprisingly poor performance

2009-07-05 Thread Ross Walker
On Jul 5, 2009, at 6:06 AM, James Lever wrote: On 04/07/2009, at 3:08 AM, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: It seems like you may have selected the wrong SSD product to use. There seems to be a huge variation in performance (and cost) with so-called "enterprise" SSDs. SSDs with capacitor-backed wr

Re: [zfs-discuss] surprisingly poor performance

2009-07-05 Thread Richard Elling
Ross Walker wrote: On Jul 5, 2009, at 6:06 AM, James Lever wrote: On 04/07/2009, at 3:08 AM, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: It seems like you may have selected the wrong SSD product to use. There seems to be a huge variation in performance (and cost) with so-called "enterprise" SSDs. SSDs with c

Re: [zfs-discuss] surprisingly poor performance

2009-07-05 Thread James Lever
On 06/07/2009, at 9:31 AM, Ross Walker wrote: There are two types of SSD drives on the market, the fast write SLC (single level cell) and the slow write MLC (multi level cell). MLC is usually used in laptops as SLC drives over 16GB usually go for $1000+ which isn't cost effective in a lapt

[zfs-discuss] Disappearing snapshots

2009-07-05 Thread DL Consulting
I did a quick search but couldn't find anything about this little problem. I have an X4100 production machine (called monster) that has a J4200 full of 500GB drives attached. It's running OpenSolaris 2009.06 and fully up to date. It takes daily snapshots and sends them to another machine as a ba

Re: [zfs-discuss] surprisingly poor performance

2009-07-05 Thread Ross Walker
On Jul 5, 2009, at 7:47 PM, Richard Elling wrote: Ross Walker wrote: On Jul 5, 2009, at 6:06 AM, James Lever wrote: On 04/07/2009, at 3:08 AM, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: It seems like you may have selected the wrong SSD product to use. There seems to be a huge variation in performance (a

Re: [zfs-discuss] Disappearing snapshots

2009-07-05 Thread Richard Elling
DL Consulting wrote: I did a quick search but couldn't find anything about this little problem. I have an X4100 production machine (called monster) that has a J4200 full of 500GB drives attached. It's running OpenSolaris 2009.06 and fully up to date. It takes daily snapshots and sends them t

Re: [zfs-discuss] Disappearing snapshots

2009-07-05 Thread DL Consulting
Thanks. I'll fiddle things so it tells me what the return value is and use the last common snapshot rather than the last received snapshot. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail

Re: [zfs-discuss] surprisingly poor performance

2009-07-05 Thread Richard Elling
Ross Walker wrote: On Jul 5, 2009, at 7:47 PM, Richard Elling wrote: Ross Walker wrote: On Jul 5, 2009, at 6:06 AM, James Lever wrote: On 04/07/2009, at 3:08 AM, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: It seems like you may have selected the wrong SSD product to use. There seems to be a huge variation

Re: [zfs-discuss] Disappearing snapshots

2009-07-05 Thread DL Consulting
Just reread your response. If the send/recv fails the snapshot should NOT turn up on chucky (the recv machine) right? However, it is turning up but the original on the sending machine is being destroyed by something (which I'm guessing is the time-slider-cleanup cronjob below) Here's the full c

Re: [zfs-discuss] surprisingly poor performance

2009-07-05 Thread Ross Walker
On Jul 5, 2009, at 9:20 PM, Richard Elling wrote: Ross Walker wrote: Thanks for the info. SSD is still very much a moving target. I worry about SSD drives long term reliability. If I mirror two of the same drives what do you think the probability of a double failure will be in 3, 4, 5

[zfs-discuss] how to discover disks?

2009-07-05 Thread Hua-Ying Ling
Hi, How do I discover the disk name to use for zfs commands such as: c3d0s0? I tried using format command but it only gave me the first 4 letters: c3d1. Also why do some command accept only 4 letter disk names and others require 6 letters? Thanks Hua-Ying ___

Re: [zfs-discuss] how to discover disks?

2009-07-05 Thread Carsten Aulbert
Hi Hua-Ying Ling wrote: > How do I discover the disk name to use for zfs commands such as: > c3d0s0? I tried using format command but it only gave me the first 4 > letters: c3d1. Also why do some command accept only 4 letter disk > names and others require 6 letters? Usually i find cfgadm -a