Re: [zfs-discuss] OT: Formatting Problem of ZFS Adm Guide (pdf)

2008-07-23 Thread David Collier-Brown
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Re: [zfs-discuss] [zfs-code] Peak every 4-5 second

2008-07-24 Thread David Collier-Brown
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Re: [zfs-discuss] [zfs-code] Peak every 4-5 second

2008-07-25 Thread David Collier-Brown
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Re: [zfs-discuss] [zfs-code] Peak every 4-5 second

2008-07-26 Thread David Collier-Brown
Brandon High wrote: > On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 9:17 AM, David Collier-Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > >>And do you really have 4-sided raid 1 mirrors, not 4-wide raid-0 stripes??? > > > Or perhaps 4 RAID1 mirrors concatenated? > I wondered that too, but he

Re: [zfs-discuss] Supermicro AOC-SAT2-MV8 hang when drive removed

2008-07-29 Thread David Collier-Brown
find problems writing from the cache, it >>really needs to log somewhere the names of all the files affected, and >>the action that could not be carried out. ZFS knows the files it was >>meant to delete here, it also knows the files that were written. I >>can accept that

[zfs-discuss] Sidebar to ZFS Availability discussion

2008-08-31 Thread David Collier-Brown
to have it report failures to complete the local writes in time t0 and remote in time t1, much as the resource management or fast/slow cases would need to be visible to FMA. --dave (at home) c-b -- David Collier-Brown| Always do right. This will gratify Sun Microsystems, Toronto

Re: [zfs-discuss] Sidebar to ZFS Availability discussion

2008-09-01 Thread David Collier-Brown
e result >was that the volume manager will declare the disks bad and >system administration intervention is required to regain access to > the data in the array. Since this was an integrated product, we >solved it by inducing a delay loop in the server boot

[zfs-discuss] Sidebar re ABI stability (was Segmentation fault / core dump)

2008-10-01 Thread David Collier-Brown
vid J. Brown's team, back when I was an employee. --dave (who's a contractor) c-b -- David Collier-Brown| Always do right. This will gratify Sun Microsystems, Toronto | some people and astonish the rest [EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- Mark Tw

Re: [zfs-discuss] Tuning for a file server, disabling data cache (almost)

2008-10-17 Thread David Collier-Brown
it with the level 1 and 2 caches, although if I understood it properly, the particular machine also had to narrow a stripe for the particular load being discussed... --dave -- David Collier-Brown| Always do right. This will gratify Sun Microsystems, Toronto | some people and astonis

Re: [zfs-discuss] Why is st_size of a zfs directory equal to the

2009-01-14 Thread David Collier-Brown
s more than 640 KB of memory, either... Ah well, at least the ZFS folks found it for us, so I can add it to my database of porting problems. What OSs did you folks find it on? --dave (an external consultant, these days) c-b -- David Collier-Brown| Always do right. This will gratify Sun Mi

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS core contributor nominations

2009-02-03 Thread David Collier-Brown
r all of these (including myself) >>>> >>>> Feel free to nominate others for Contributor or Core Contributor. >>>> >>>> >>>>-Mark >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> _

Re: [zfs-discuss] Does your device honor write barriers?

2009-02-10 Thread David Collier-Brown
-dave (who hasn't even Copious Spare Time, much less Infinite) c-b -- David Collier-Brown| Always do right. This will gratify Sun Microsystems, Toronto | some people and astonish the rest dav...@sun.com | -- Mark Twain cell: (647) 833-9377, br

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS: unreliable for professional usage?

2009-02-13 Thread David Collier-Brown
ng them to a web page which can be updated with the newest information on the problem. That's a good spot for "This pool was not unmounted cleanly due to a hardware fault and data has been lost. The "" line contains the date which can be recovered to. Use the command # zfs refr

Re: [zfs-discuss] How many ZFS pools is it sensible to use on a single server?

2008-04-12 Thread David Collier-Brown
y in a similar discussion about how best to do this allocation on a 9990v, so I expect it's not peculiar to the UofT (:-)) --dave (about 6 miles north of Chris) c-b -- David Collier-Brown| Always do right. This will gratify Sun Microsystems, Toronto | some people and asto

Re: [zfs-discuss] How many ZFS pools is it sensible to use on a single server?

2008-04-15 Thread David Collier-Brown
We've discussed this in considerable detail, but the original question remains unanswered: if an organization *must* use multiple pools, is there an upper bound to avoid or a rate of degradation to be considered? --dave -- David Collier-Brown| Always do right. This will gr

Re: [zfs-discuss] Issue with simultaneous IO to lots of ZFS pools

2008-05-01 Thread David Collier-Brown
to have, what happens when it goes wrong, and how to mitigate it (;-)) --dave ps: as always, having asked for something, I'm also volunteering to help provide it: I'm not a storage or ZFS guy, but I am an author, and will happily help my Smarter Colleagues[tm] to write it up. -- David Co

Re: [zfs-discuss] Issue with simultaneous IO to lots of ZFS pools

2008-05-01 Thread David Collier-Brown
r an NFS->home-directories workload without cutting into performance. --dave -- David Collier-Brown| Always do right. This will gratify Sun Microsystems, Toronto | some people and astonish the rest [EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- Mark Twain (905) 9

Re: [zfs-discuss] Filesystem for each home dir - 10,000 users?

2008-06-13 Thread David Collier-Brown
heras another server is just N | thousand dollars in one time costs and some rack space. This is also common in organizations where IT is a cost center, including some *very* large ones I've encountered in the past and several which are just, well, conservative. --dave -- David Col

[zfs-discuss] Some basic questions about getting the best performance for database usage

2008-06-30 Thread David Collier-Brown
clustering and recreated last. --dave -- David Collier-Brown| Always do right. This will gratify Sun Microsystems, Toronto | some people and astonish the rest [EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- Mark Twain (905) 943-1983, cell: (647) 833-9377, (800) 555-9786

Re: [zfs-discuss] Some basic questions about getting the best performance for database usage

2008-06-30 Thread David Collier-Brown
David Collier-Brown wrote: >> ZFS copy-on-write results in tables' contents being spread across >> the full width of their stripe, which is arguably a good thing >> for transaction processing performance (or at least can be), but >> makes sequential table-scan speed

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS deduplication

2008-07-08 Thread David Collier-Brown
ta sets. It is meant to >>be fast at the expense of collisions. This issue can show much more dedup >>possible than really exists on large datasets. > > > Doing this using sha256 as the checksum algorithm would be much more > interesting. I'm going to try that now