Re: [zfs-discuss] Summary: Dedup memory and performance (again, again)

2011-07-10 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
> From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- > boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Edward Ned Harvey > > --- Performance loss: I ran one more test, that is rather enlightening. I repeated test #2 (tweak arc_meta_limit, use the default primarycache=all) but this time I wrote

Re: [zfs-discuss] Summary: Dedup memory and performance (again, again)

2011-07-10 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
> From: Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk [mailto:r...@karlsbakk.net] > Sent: Saturday, July 09, 2011 3:44 PM > > > > Could you test with some SSD SLOGs and see how well or bad the > > > system > > > performs? > > > > These are all async writes, so slog won't be used. Async writes that > > have a single fflush

Re: [zfs-discuss] Summary: Dedup memory and performance (again, again)

2011-07-10 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
> From: Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk [mailto:r...@karlsbakk.net] > Sent: Saturday, July 09, 2011 3:44 PM > > Sorry, my bad, I meant L2ARC to help buffer the DDT Also, bear in mind, the L2ARC is only for reads. So it can't help accelerate writing updates to the DDT. Those updates need to hit the pool,

[zfs-discuss] How create a FAT filesystem on a zvol?

2011-07-10 Thread Gary Mills
The `lofiadm' man page describes how to export a file as a block device and then use `mkfs -F pcfs' to create a FAT filesystem on it. Can't I do the same thing by first creating a zvol and then creating a FAT filesystem on it? Nothing I've tried seems to work. Isn't the zvol just another block d

Re: [zfs-discuss] How create a FAT filesystem on a zvol?

2011-07-10 Thread Fajar A. Nugraha
On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 10:10 PM, Gary Mills wrote: > The `lofiadm' man page describes how to export a file as a block > device and then use `mkfs -F pcfs' to create a FAT filesystem on it. > > Can't I do the same thing by first creating a zvol and then creating > a FAT filesystem on it? seems no

[zfs-discuss] race condition between zpool status and zio_suspend()

2011-07-10 Thread Zhiwen Zheng
hello, I encounter a deadlock condition in zfs recently, by creating a pool using one lun of a disk array through fibre channel,unplug the fiber cable when there is a dd writing to the pool,then do zpool status -v immediately, that command will hang forever. After reading the soure code and doin