[zfs-discuss] ZFS compression / ARC interaction

2006-12-07 Thread Andrew Miller
Quick question about the interaction of ZFS filesystem compression and the filesystem cache. We have an Opensolaris (actually Nexenta alpha-6) box running RRD collection. These files seem to be quite compressible. A test filesystem containing about 3,000 of these files shows a compressratio

[zfs-discuss] Re: ZFS compression / ARC interaction

2006-12-07 Thread Andrew Miller
> Looking at the source code overview, it looks like > the compression happens "underneath" the ARC layer, > so by that I am assuming the uncompressed blocks are > cached, but I wanted to ask to be sure. > > Thanks! > -Andy > > Yup, your assumption is correct. We currently do > compression

[zfs-discuss] Re: ZFS compression / ARC interaction

2006-12-07 Thread Andrew Miller
> Be careful here. If you are using files that have no > data in them yet > you will get much better compression than later in > life. Judging by > the fact that you got only 12.5x, I suspect that your > files are at > least partially populated. Expect the compression to > get worse over > time.

[zfs-discuss] ZFS not appearing after b54 kernel install

2006-12-17 Thread Andrew Li
D] 814M - 2.03G - stage 6.49G 979M 6.49G /stage Can someone point me to the right direction please? Thanks, Andrew IMPORTANT NOTICE: This e-mail and any attachment to it are intended only to be read or used by the named addressee. It is confidential and may contain legally

Re: [zfs-discuss] Can't find my pool

2006-12-20 Thread Andrew Li
c0d0s7ONLINE # zpool import stage internal error: No such device Abort - core dumped All is strange... Andrew IMPORTANT NOTICE: This e-mail and any attachment to it are intended only to be read or used by the named addressee. It is confidential and may contain legally privileged in

[zfs-discuss] ZFS

2006-12-20 Thread Andrew Summers
ase explain the importance of this other than the self heal and those other features. Thank you very much, Andrew This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

[zfs-discuss] Re: ZFS

2006-12-20 Thread Andrew Summers
Thanks Ben, and thanks Jason for clearing everything up for me via e-mail! Hope you two, and everyone here have a great Christmas and a happy holiday! This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org

[zfs-discuss] Re: What SATA controllers are people using for ZFS?

2007-01-10 Thread Andrew Miller
I am running a home fileserver with a pair of 4-port cheapo Silicon Image 3114 based cards. I had to down-rev the firmware on the cards to make them dumb SATA controllers vs. RAID cards. I bought them at Fry's, they were about $70/ea, they're "SIIG SATA 4-channel RAID", part number appears to

[zfs-discuss] Re: RE: On the SATA framework

2007-01-15 Thread Andrew Pattison
The SATA frame work has laready been integrated and is available on Solaris 10 Update 3 and Nevada. Cheers Andrew. This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org

[zfs-discuss] Re: Re: RE: On the SATA framework

2007-01-17 Thread Andrew Pattison
Sorry, yes - update 2. Andrew. This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

[zfs-discuss] Unable to destroy/rollback snapshot

2009-10-21 Thread Andrew Robert Nicols
@200908271200 347 r...@thumper1:~> zfs rollback -r thumperpool/m...@200908270100 cannot destroy 'thumperpool/m...@200908271200': dataset already exists This is an X4500 running Solaris U8. I'm running zpool version 15 and zfs version 2. Any guidance much appreciated. Andre

[zfs-discuss] zfs allow - internal error

2009-12-09 Thread Andrew Robert Nicols
months ago. Has anyone else seen this? Thanks, Andrew -- Systems Developer e: andrew.nic...@luns.net.uk im: a.nic...@jabber.lancs.ac.uk t: +44 (0)1524 5 10147 Lancaster University Network Services is a limited company registered in England and Wales. Registered number: 04311892. Registe

[zfs-discuss] ZFS incremental receives fail

2009-12-10 Thread Andrew Robert Nicols
We've been using ZFS for about two years now and make a lot of use of zfs send/receive to send our data from one X4500 to another. This has been working well for the past 18 months that we've been doing the sends. I recently upgraded the receiving thumper to Solaris 10 u8 and since then, I've been

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS incremental receives fail

2009-12-10 Thread Andrew Robert Nicols
On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 09:50:43AM +, Andrew Robert Nicols wrote: > We've been using ZFS for about two years now and make a lot of use of zfs > send/receive to send our data from one X4500 to another. This has been > working well for the past 18 months that we've been doin

Re: [zfs-discuss] Can I create a mirror for a root rpool?

2011-12-19 Thread Daugherity, Andrew W
Does "current" include sol10u10 as well as sol11? If so, when did that go in? Was it in sol10u9? Thanks, Andrew From: Cindy Swearingen mailto:cindy.swearin...@oracle.com>> Subject: Re: [zfs-discuss] Can I create a mirror for a root rpool? Date: December 16, 2011 10:38:2

Re: [zfs-discuss] Cannot remove zil device

2011-04-01 Thread Daugherity, Andrew W
Do you have any details on that CR? Either my Google-fu is failing or Oracle has moved the CR database private. I haven't encountered this problem but would like to know if there are certain behaviors to avoid to not risk this. Has it been fixed in Sol10 or OpenSolaris? Thanks, A

[zfs-discuss] ZFS Locking Up periodically

2009-04-01 Thread Andrew Robert Nicols
e so if anyone can suggest useful diagnostics to run on it while it's like this, please get back to me asap. I will need to restart the box so that our backups aren't too out of sync this afternoon. Thanks in advance, Andrew Nicols -- Systems Developer e: andrew.nic...@luns.net.uk im: a

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Locking Up periodically

2009-04-03 Thread Andrew Robert Nicols
core dump but not sure where the best place to start analysis of this is - any tips would be appreciated as I've not been into the nitty gritty of the Solaris kernel yet. Thanks in advance, Andrew -- Systems Developer e: andrew.nic...@luns.net.uk im: a.nic...@jabber.lancs.ac.uk t: +4

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Locking Up periodically

2009-04-17 Thread Andrew Robert Nicols
ical X4500 which was running Nevada release 110 though I've only seen it fail once so far. I've just upgraded this box to Nevada 112. I'm not sure whether it's related to the sending/receiving of snapshots but that's the only FS activity on these two boxes. TIA, Andrew On

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Locking Up periodically

2009-04-17 Thread Andrew Robert Nicols
On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 12:29:23PM +0100, Andrew Robert Nicols wrote: > I'm still seeing this problem frequently and the suggestions Viktor made > below haven't helped (exclude: drv/ohci in /etc/system). > > I've got a selection of core dumps for analysis if anyone can

Re: [zfs-discuss] Hanging receive

2009-07-08 Thread Andrew Robert Nicols
181800 cannot destroy 'thumperpool/m...@200906181900': dataset already exists As a result, I'm a bit scuppered. I'm going to try going back to by 112 installation instead to see if that resolves any of my issues. All of our thumpers have the following disk configuration:

Re: [zfs-discuss] Hanging receive

2009-07-08 Thread Andrew Robert Nicols
On Wed, Jul 08, 2009 at 08:31:54PM +1200, Ian Collins wrote: > Andrew Robert Nicols wrote: > >> The thumper unning 112 has continued to experience the issues described by >> Ian and others. I've just upgraded to 117 and am having even more issues - >> I'm unable

Re: [zfs-discuss] Hanging receive

2009-07-08 Thread Andrew Robert Nicols
On Wed, Jul 08, 2009 at 09:41:12AM +0100, Andrew Robert Nicols wrote: > On Wed, Jul 08, 2009 at 08:31:54PM +1200, Ian Collins wrote: > > Andrew Robert Nicols wrote: > > > >> The thumper unning 112 has continued to experience the issues described by > >> Ian and

[zfs-discuss] how is size of Volume computed?

2009-08-03 Thread Andrew A. Rutz
14.0K DMU dnode 1416K 8K 24.4G 38.0K zvol object <<<<<< 2116K512512 1K zvol prop thanks /andrew -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

[zfs-discuss] ZFS commands hang after several zfs receives

2009-08-28 Thread Andrew Robert Nicols
rmware. Unfortunately, the zpool and zfs versions are too high to downgrade thumper1 too. I've tried upgrading thumper1 to 117 and now 121. We were originally running 112. I'm still seeing exactly the same issues though. What can I do in an attempt to find out what is causing these lockup

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS commands hang after several zfs receives

2009-09-01 Thread Andrew Robert Nicols
. > The case has been identified and I've just received an IDR,which I will > test next week. I've been told the issue is fixed in update 8, but I'm > not sure if there is an nv fix target. > > I'll post back once I've abused a test system for a while.

[zfs-discuss] ZFS/zpool Versions in Solaris 10

2009-04-21 Thread Andrew Nicols on behalf of LUNS Root Output
All, Is there anywhere which suggests what versions of zfs and zpool will make it into Solaris 10 update 7 05/09 next month? I'm currently running Update 6 on an x4500 but would really like to have the new zpool scrub code released in version 11. Thanks in advance, Andrew -- Systems Deve

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