[zfs-discuss] Re: NFS Performance and Tar

2006-10-03 Thread Ben Rockwood
I was really hoping for some option other than ZIL_DISABLE, but finally gave up the fight. Some people suggested NFSv4 helping over NFSv3 but it didn't... at least not enough to matter. ZIL_DISABLE was the solution, sadly. I'm running B43/X86 and hoping to get up to 48 or so soonish (I BFU'd

Re: [zfs-discuss] (OT: SVN branches) A versioning FS

2006-10-06 Thread Ben Gollmer
rks, though). Currently I just grep the commit log for the last merge from trunk (I use a consistent log message so this is easy). svn log https://svn.example.com/project/branches/ben | grep 'Merged from trunk' (note last merged revision) svn merge -r$LAST_MERGED_REV:HEAD https://svn.ex

Re: [zfs-discuss] A versioning FS

2006-10-07 Thread Ben Gollmer
here, but lots and lots of fsync(2)s would result in no useful versioning. Presumably you'd create a different fs for your database, turning the versioning property off. You'd be likely to want to adjust other fs parameters anyway, judging from some recent posts discussing how to get t

[zfs-discuss] A Plea for Help: Thumper/ZFS/NFS/B43

2006-12-07 Thread Ben Rockwood
I've got a Thumper doing nothing but serving NFS. Its using B43 with zil_disabled. The system is being consumed in waves, but by what I don't know. Notice vmstat: 3 0 0 25693580 2586268 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 926 91 703 0 25 75 21 0 0 25693580 2586268 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 13

Re: [zfs-discuss] A Plea for Help: Thumper/ZFS/NFS/B43

2006-12-08 Thread Ben Rockwood
eric kustarz wrote: So i'm guessing there's lots of files being created over NFS in one particular dataset? We should figure out how many creates/second you are doing over NFS (i should have put a timeout on the script). Here's a real simple one (from your snoop it looked like you're only do

Re: [zfs-discuss] A Plea for Help: Thumper/ZFS/NFS/B43

2006-12-09 Thread Ben Rockwood
Spencer Shepler wrote: Good to hear that you have figured out what is happening, Ben. For future reference, there are two commands that you may want to make use of in observing the behavior of the NFS server and individual filesystems. There is the trusty, nfsstat command. In this case, you

Re: [zfs-discuss] A Plea for Help: Thumper/ZFS/NFS/B43

2006-12-09 Thread Ben Rockwood
Bill Moore wrote: On Fri, Dec 08, 2006 at 12:15:27AM -0800, Ben Rockwood wrote: Clearly ZFS file creation is just amazingly heavy even with ZIL disabled. If creating 4,000 files in a minute squashes 4 2.6Ghz Opteron cores we're in big trouble in the longer term. In the meantime I

Re: [nfs-discuss] Re: [zfs-discuss] A Plea for Help: Thumper/ZFS/NFS/B43

2006-12-11 Thread Ben Rockwood
to) - is it a thumper? It's not clear why NFS-enforced synchronous semantics would induce different behavior than the same load to a local ZFS. ek> Actually i forgot he had 'zil_disable' turned on, so it won't matter in ek> this case. Ben, are you

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS works in waves

2006-12-15 Thread Ben Rockwood
Stuart Glenn wrote: A little back story: I have a Norco DS-1220, a 12 bay SATA box, it is connected to eSATA (SiI3124) via PCI-X two drives are straight connections, then the other two ports go to 5x multipliers within the box. My needs/hopes for this was using 12 500GB drives and ZFS make a v

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS

2006-12-20 Thread Ben Rockwood
Andrew Summers wrote: > So, I've read the wikipedia, and have done a lot of research on google about > it, but it just doesn't make sense to me. Correct me if I'm wrong, but you > can take a simple 5/10/20 GB drive or whatever size, and turn it into > exabytes of storage space? > > If that is n

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS over NFS extra slow?

2007-01-02 Thread Ben Rockwood
Brad Plecs wrote: I had a user report extreme slowness on a ZFS filesystem mounted over NFS over the weekend. After some extensive testing, the extreme slowness appears to only occur when a ZFS filesystem is mounted over NFS. One example is doing a 'gtar xzvf php-5.2.0.tar.gz'... over NFS onto

[zfs-discuss] ClearCase support for ZFS?

2008-03-27 Thread Nissim Ben-Haim
Hi, Does anybody know what is the latest status with ClearCase support for ZFS? I noticed this from IBM: http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=0&uid=swg21155708 I would like to make sure someone has installed and tested it before recommending to a customer. Regards, Nissim Ben-

[zfs-discuss] Removing a device from a zfs pool

2006-07-13 Thread Yacov Ben-Moshe
How can I remove a device or a partition from a pool. NOTE: The devices are not mirrored or raidz Thanks This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zf

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