[zfs-discuss] sd_max_throttle

2011-11-03 Thread Gary
t I'm wondering if anyone has had to touch this or other settings with ZFS appliances they've built...? -Gary ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] HP JBOD D2700 - ok?

2011-11-30 Thread Gary
om LSI resellers and they work wonderfully with ZFS. -Gary ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] IOzone benchmarking

2012-05-01 Thread Gary
h of huge files (are you writing a lot of 16GB files?) then you'll want to test for that. Caching anywhere in the pipeline is important for benchmarks because you aren't going to turn off a cache or remove RAM in production are you? -Gary ___ zf

Re: [zfs-discuss] IOzone benchmarking

2012-05-03 Thread Gary
, does filebench have an option for testing either of those? -Gary ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] New fast hash algorithm - is it needed?

2012-07-11 Thread Gary
so insulting that I couldn't finish the last 70 pages of the paperback. -Gary ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

[zfs-discuss] Snapshot recycle freezes system activity

2010-03-04 Thread Gary Mills
destroying old snapshots or creating new ones that causes this dead time? What does each of these procedures do that could affect the system? What can I do to make this less visible to users? -- -Gary Mills--Unix Group--Computer and Network Services

Re: [zfs-discuss] Snapshot recycle freezes system activity

2010-03-04 Thread Gary Mills
On Thu, Mar 04, 2010 at 07:51:13PM -0300, Giovanni Tirloni wrote: > >On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 7:28 PM, Ian Collins <[1]...@ianshome.com> >wrote: > >Gary Mills wrote: > > We have an IMAP e-mail server running on a Solaris 10 10/09 system. >

Re: [zfs-discuss] Snapshot recycle freezes system activity

2010-03-05 Thread Gary Mills
On Thu, Mar 04, 2010 at 04:20:10PM -0600, Gary Mills wrote: > We have an IMAP e-mail server running on a Solaris 10 10/09 system. > It uses six ZFS filesystems built on a single zpool with 14 daily > snapshots. Every day at 11:56, a cron command destroys the oldest > snapshots and

Re: [zfs-discuss] Snapshot recycle freezes system activity

2010-03-09 Thread Gary Mills
On Mon, Mar 08, 2010 at 03:18:34PM -0500, Miles Nordin wrote: > >>>>> "gm" == Gary Mills writes: > > gm> destroys the oldest snapshots and creates new ones, both > gm> recursively. > > I'd be curious if you try taking the same snaps

Re: [zfs-discuss] Snapshot recycle freezes system activity

2010-03-09 Thread Gary Mills
conds. > > Out of curiosity, how much physical memory does this system have? Mine has 64 GB of memory with the ARC limited to 32 GB. The Cyrus IMAP processes, thousands of them, use memory mapping extensively. I don't know if this design affects the snapshot recycle behavior. -- -G

Re: [zfs-discuss] Snapshot recycle freezes system activity

2010-03-11 Thread Gary Mills
On Thu, Mar 04, 2010 at 04:20:10PM -0600, Gary Mills wrote: > We have an IMAP e-mail server running on a Solaris 10 10/09 system. > It uses six ZFS filesystems built on a single zpool with 14 daily > snapshots. Every day at 11:56, a cron command destroys the oldest > snapshots and

Re: [zfs-discuss] Proposition of a new zpool property.

2010-03-20 Thread Gary Gendel
I'm not sure I like this at all. Some of my pools take hours to scrub. I have a cron job run scrubs in sequence... Start one pool's scrub and then poll until it's finished, start the next and wait, and so on so I don't create too much load and bring all I/O to a crawl. The job is launched on

Re: [zfs-discuss] SAS vs SATA: Same size, same speed, why SAS?

2010-04-26 Thread Gary Mills
also with only two disks. It should be easy to find a pair of 1U servers, but what's the smallest SAS array that's available? Does it need an array controller? What's needed on the servers to connect to it? -- -Gary Mills--Unix Group--Computer and Network Servic

[zfs-discuss] Is the J4200 SAS array suitable for Sun Cluster?

2010-05-03 Thread Gary Mills
d redundant SAS paths. I plan to use ZFS everywhere, for the root filesystem and the shared storage. The only exception will be UFS for /globaldevices . -- -Gary Mills--Unix Group--Computer and Network Services- ___ zfs-discuss mailing l

Re: [zfs-discuss] Does ZFS use large memory pages?

2010-05-07 Thread Gary Mills
On Thu, May 06, 2010 at 07:46:49PM -0700, Rob wrote: > Hi Gary, > I would not remove this line in /etc/system. > We have been combatting this bug for a while now on our ZFS file > system running JES Commsuite 7. > > I would be interested in finding out how you were able to pin p

Re: [zfs-discuss] Is the J4200 SAS array suitable for Sun Cluster?

2010-05-17 Thread Gary Mills
s also some > additional software setup for that configuration. That would be the SATA interposer that does that. -- -Gary Mills--Unix Group--Computer and Network Services- ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

[zfs-discuss] ZFS disks hitting 100% busy

2010-06-07 Thread Gary Mills
r disk device to the zpool will double the bandwidth. /var/log/syslog is quite large, reaching about 600 megabytes before it's rotated. This takes place each night, with compression bringing it down to about 70 megabytes. The server handles about 500,000 messages a day. -- -Gary

Re: [zfs-discuss] are these errors dangerous

2010-06-08 Thread Gary Mitchell
I have seen this too I 'm guessing you have SATA disks which are on a iSCSI target. I'm also guessing you have used something like iscsitadm create target --type raw -b /dev/dsk/c4t0d00 c4t0d0 ie you are not using a zfs shareiscsi property on a zfs volume but creating the target from the devi

[zfs-discuss] ZFS snapshot zvols/iscsi send backup

2010-07-12 Thread Gary Leong
ike they were before, I assume it assembles everything the way it was before, including the filesytem and such. Or am I incorrect about this? Gary -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensol

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS snapshot zvols/iscsi send backup

2010-07-13 Thread Gary Leong
Thanks for quick response. I appreciate it much. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

[zfs-discuss] root pool expansion

2010-07-28 Thread Gary Gendel
stand how to do this on a normal pool, but is there any restrictions for doing this on the root pool? Are there any grub issues? Thanks, Gary -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org

[zfs-discuss] zfs upgrade unmounts filesystems

2010-07-29 Thread Gary Mills
ap': Device busy cannot unmount '/space/log': Device busy cannot unmount '/space/mysql': Device busy 2 filesystems upgraded Do I have to shut down all the applications before upgrading the filesystems? This is on a Solaris 10 5/09 system. -- -Gary Mill

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs upgrade unmounts filesystems

2010-07-29 Thread Gary Mills
sable twelve services before doing the upgrade and enable them afterwards. `fuser -c' is useful to identify the processes. Mapping them to services can be difficult. The server is essentially down during the upgrade. For a root filesystem, you might have to boot off the failsafe

[zfs-discuss] ZFS development moving behind closed doors

2010-08-13 Thread Gary Mills
. -- -Gary Mills--Unix Group--Computer and Network Services- ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Opensolaris is apparently dead

2010-08-16 Thread Gary Mills
Code form of the Covered Software You distribute or otherwise make available. You must inform recipients of any such Covered Software in Executable form as to how they can obtain such Covered Software in Source Code form in a reasonable manner on or through a medium customarily u

[zfs-discuss] Slow reads with ZFS+NFS

2009-10-20 Thread Gary Gogick
that'd be a good idea for ZFS in this situation, or if there's some NFS tuning that should be done when dealing specifically with ZFS. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, -- ------ G

Re: [zfs-discuss] Slow reads with ZFS+NFS

2009-10-20 Thread Gary Gogick
gt; OpenSolaris testing tonight and see what happens. Thanks for the replies, appreciate the help! On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 1:43 PM, Trevor Pretty wrote: > Gary > > Where you measuring the Linux NFS write performance? It's well know that > Linux can use NFS in a very "unsafe

Re: [zfs-discuss] Apple shuts down open source ZFS project

2009-10-24 Thread Gary Gendel
Apple is known to strong arm in licensing negotiations. I'd really like to hear the straight-talk about what transpired. That's ok, it just means that I won't be using mac as a server. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailin

Re: [zfs-discuss] virsh troubling zfs!?

2009-11-04 Thread Gary Pennington
is destroyed (as I describe above), then the associated devices are also removed. > -- > This message posted from opensolaris.org > ___ > zfs-discuss mailing list > zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mail

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS + fsck

2009-11-05 Thread Gary Mills
pushed. It would be nice to see this information at: http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/view/Community+Group+on/126-130 but it hasn't changed since 23 October. -- -Gary Mills--Unix Group--Computer and Network Services- ___ zf

[zfs-discuss] Permanent errors on two files

2009-12-04 Thread Gary Mills
Will a scrub fix it? This is a production system, so I want to be careful. It's running Solaris 10 5/09 s10x_u7wos_08 X86. -- -Gary Mills--Unix Group--Computer and Network Services- ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@ope

Re: [zfs-discuss] Permanent errors on two files

2009-12-06 Thread Gary Mills
July. This is an X4450 with ECC memory. There were no disk errors reported. I suppose we can blame the memory. -- -Gary Mills--Unix Group--Computer and Network Services- ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://

[zfs-discuss] freeNAS moves to Linux from FreeBSD

2009-12-06 Thread Gary Gendel
OpenSolaris advocacy in this arena while the topic is hot. Gary -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Permanent errors on two files

2009-12-06 Thread Gary Mills
t worked. After the scrub, there are no errors reported. > >You might be able to identify these object numbers with zdb, but > >I'm not sure how do that. > > You can try to use zdb this way to check if these objects still exist > > zdb -d space/dcc 0x11e887

Re: [zfs-discuss] Accidentally added disk instead of attaching

2009-12-07 Thread Gary Gendel
hat we blocked it as a command. It saved us a lot of support calls. Gary -- 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 filesystems not mounted on reboot with Solaris 10 10/09

2009-12-19 Thread Gary Mills
[ Dec 19 08:09:11 Executing start method ("/lib/svc/method/fs-local") ] [ Dec 19 08:09:12 Method "start" exited with status 0 ] Is a dependancy missing? -- -Gary Mills--Unix Group--Computer and Network Services- __

[zfs-discuss] Repeating scrub does random fixes

2010-01-10 Thread Gary Gendel
red The middle one seems to be the issue I'd like to track down the source. Any docs on how to do this? Thanks, Gary -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Repeating scrub does random fixes

2010-01-10 Thread Gary Gendel
Mattias Pantzare wrote: On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 16:40, Gary Gendel wrote: I've been using a 5-disk raidZ for years on SXCE machine which I converted to OSOL. The only time I ever had zfs problems in SXCE was with snv_120, which was fixed. So, now I'm at OSOL snv_111b and I

Re: [zfs-discuss] Repeating scrub does random fixes

2010-01-11 Thread Gary Gendel
er of disks raidz bug I reported. Looks like I've got to bite the bullet and upgrade to the dev tree and hope for the best. Gary -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opens

[zfs-discuss] Does ZFS use large memory pages?

2010-01-11 Thread Gary Mills
ssume it's been fixed by now. It may have only affected Oracle database. I'd like to remove this line from /etc/system now, but I don't know if it will have any adverse effect on ZFS or the Cyrus IMAP server that runs on this machine. Does anyone know if ZFS uses large memory pages?

Re: [zfs-discuss] Does ZFS use large memory pages?

2010-01-12 Thread Gary Mills
On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 01:43:27PM -0600, Gary Mills wrote: > > This line was a workaround for bug 6642475 that had to do with > searching for for large contiguous pages. The result was high system > time and slow response. I can't find any public information on this > bu

Re: [zfs-discuss] Repeating scrub does random fixes

2010-01-12 Thread Gary Gendel
Thanks for all the suggestions. Now for a strange tail... I tried upgrading to dev 130 and, as expected, things did not go well. All sorts of permission errors flew by during the upgrade stage and it would not start X-windows. I've heard that things installed from the contrib and extras rep

[zfs-discuss] How do separate ZFS filesystems affect performance?

2010-01-12 Thread Gary Mills
0:50:31 79661 7547 6 3525830G 32G 10:50:361K 117 9 105812 5344 1030G 32G -- -Gary Mills--Unix Group--Computer and Network Services- ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-di

Re: [zfs-discuss] How do separate ZFS filesystems affect performance?

2010-01-12 Thread Gary Mills
On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 11:11:36AM -0600, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > On Tue, 12 Jan 2010, Gary Mills wrote: > > > >Is moving the databases (IMAP metadata) to a separate ZFS filesystem > >likely to improve performance? I've heard that this is important, but > >I

Re: [zfs-discuss] How do separate ZFS filesystems affect performance?

2010-01-13 Thread Gary Mills
On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 01:56:57PM -0800, Richard Elling wrote: > On Jan 12, 2010, at 12:37 PM, Gary Mills wrote: > > > On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 11:11:36AM -0600, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > >> On Tue, 12 Jan 2010, Gary Mills wrote: > >>> > >>> Is movin

Re: [zfs-discuss] How do separate ZFS filesystems affect performance?

2010-01-14 Thread Gary Mills
On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 10:58:48AM +1100, Daniel Carosone wrote: > On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 08:21:13AM -0600, Gary Mills wrote: > > Yes, I understand that, but do filesystems have separate queues of any > > sort within the ZIL? > > I'm not sure. If you can experi

Re: [zfs-discuss] How do separate ZFS filesystems affect performance?

2010-01-14 Thread Gary Mills
On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 01:47:46AM -0800, Roch wrote: > > Gary Mills writes: > > > > Yes, I understand that, but do filesystems have separate queues of any > > sort within the ZIL? If not, would it help to put the database > > filesystems into a separate zpool?

[zfs-discuss] Can I use a clone to split a filesystem?

2010-01-15 Thread Gary Mills
first filesystem but don't destroy the snapshot. I want to do the opposite. Is this possible? -- -Gary Mills--Unix Group--Computer and Network Services- ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris

Re: [zfs-discuss] What Happend to my OpenSolaris X86 Install?

2010-02-11 Thread Gary Gendel
My guess is that the grub bootloader wasn't upgraded on the actual boot disk. Search for directions on how to mirror ZFS boot drives and you'll see how to copy the correct grub loader onto the boot disk. If you want to do this simpler, swap the disks. I did this when I was moving from SXCE to

[zfs-discuss] ZFS forensics

2011-11-23 Thread Gary Driggs
Is zdb still the only way to dive in to the file system? I've seen the extensive work by Max Bruning on this but wonder if there are any tools that make this easier...? -Gary ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS forensics

2011-11-23 Thread Gary Driggs
On Nov 23, 2011, Hung-Sheng Tsao (Lao Tsao 老曹) Ph.D. : > did you see this link Thank you for this. Some of the other refs it lists will come in handy as well. kind regards, Gary ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org h

Re: [zfs-discuss] Improving L1ARC cache efficiency with dedup

2011-12-11 Thread Gary Driggs
What kind of drives are we talking about? Even SATA drives are available according to application type (desktop, enterprise server, home PVR, surveillance PVR, etc). Then there are drives with SAS & fiber channel interfaces. Then you've got Winchester platters vs SSD vs hybrids. But even before con

Re: [zfs-discuss] CPU sizing for ZFS/iSCSI/NFS server

2011-12-12 Thread Gary Driggs
't utilizing ZFS in the Linux version of the X2-2. Has that changed with the Solaris x86 versions of the appliance? Also, does OCZ or someone make an equivalent to the F20 now? -Gary ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://

Re: [zfs-discuss] Very poor pool performance - no zfs/controller errors?!

2011-12-19 Thread Gary Mills
ally when there are no contiguous blocks available. Deleting a snapshot provides some of these, but only temporarily. -- -Gary Mills--refurb--Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada- ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolari

Re: [zfs-discuss] Any HP Servers recommendation for Openindiana (Capacity Server) ?

2012-01-03 Thread Gary Driggs
I can't comment on their 4U servers but HP's 1&2U includwd SAS controllers rarely allow JBOD discovery of drives. So I'd recommend an LSI card and an external storage chassis like those available from Promise and others. -Gary ___

Re: [zfs-discuss] Any HP Servers recommendation for Openindiana (Capacity Server) ?

2012-01-03 Thread Gary Driggs
hey've changed in the last couple of years... Best you can do is try but if you don't see each drive individually you'll know it's by design and not lack of skill on your part. -Gary ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.or

Re: [zfs-discuss] Does raidzN actually protect against bitrot? If yes - how?

2012-01-15 Thread Gary Mills
7;s nothing inbetween. Of course, if something outside of ZFS writes to the disk, then data belonging to ZFS will be modified. I've heard of RAID controllers or SAN devices doing this when they modify the disk geometry or reserved areas on the disk. -- -Gary Mi

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs defragmentation via resilvering?

2012-01-16 Thread Gary Mills
folder whenever new messages arrived, making that portion slow as well. Performance degraded when the storage became 50% full. It would increase markedly when the oldest snapshot was deleted. -- -Gary Mills--refurb--Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada- _

Re: [zfs-discuss] unable to access the zpool after issue a reboot

2012-01-24 Thread Gary Mills
that imported the zpool later during the reboot. -- -Gary Mills--refurb--Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada- ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] unable to access the zpool after issue a reboot

2012-01-26 Thread Gary Mills
ult The zpool import (without the mount) is done earlier. Check to see if any of the FC services run too late during the boot. > As Gary and Bob mentioned, I saw this Issue with ISCSI Devices. > Instead of export / import is a zpool clear also working? > > mpathadm lis

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs and iscsi performance help

2012-01-27 Thread Gary Mills
available when the zpool import is done during the boot. Check with Oracle support to see if they have found a solution. -- -Gary Mills--refurb--Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada- ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

[zfs-discuss] ZFS Comes to OS X Courtesy of Apple's Former Chief ZFS Architect

2012-01-31 Thread Gary Driggs
It looks like the first iteration has finally launched... http://tenscomplement.com/our-products/zevo-silver-edition http://www.macrumors.com/2012/01/31/zfs-comes-to-os-x-courtesy-of-apples-former-chief-zfs-architect ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-dis

Re: [zfs-discuss] Seagate Constellation vs. Hitachi Ultrastar

2012-04-06 Thread Gary Driggs
I've seen a couple sources that suggest prices should be dropping by the end of April -- apparently not as low as pre flood prices due in part to a rise in manufacturing costs but about 10% lower than they're priced today. -Gary ___ zfs-discu

Re: [zfs-discuss] IOzone benchmarking

2012-05-01 Thread Gary Driggs
? The largest file size I've used in my still lengthy benchmarks was 16Gb. If you use the sizes you've proposed, it could take several days or weeks to complete. Try a web search for "iozone examples" if you want more details on the command switches. -Gary _

Re: [zfs-discuss] [developer] Re: History of EPERM for unlink() of directories on ZFS?

2012-06-26 Thread Gary Mills
non-empty directory to result in a recursive rm... But if they > really want hardlinks to directories, then yeah, that's horrible. This all sounds like a good use for LD_PRELOAD and a tiny library that intercepts and modernizes system calls. -- -Gary Mills--refurb-

Re: [zfs-discuss] What happens when you rm zpool.cache?

2012-10-21 Thread Gary Mills
o this by specifying the `cachefile' property on the command line. The `zpool' man page describes how to do this. -- -Gary Mills--refurb--Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada- ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@o

Re: [zfs-discuss] Zpool LUN Sizes

2012-10-28 Thread Gary Mills
t LUNs that behave as perfectly reliable virtual disks, guaranteed to be error free. Almost all of the time, ZFS will find no errors. If ZFS does find an error, there's no nice way to recover. Most commonly, this happens when the SAN is powered down or rebooted while the ZFS host is still runn

Re: [zfs-discuss] LUN sizes

2012-10-29 Thread Gary Mills
ck size of 512 bytes, even though the Netapp itself used a 4K block size. This means that the filer was doing the block size conversion, resulting in much more I/O than the ZFS layer intended. The fact that Netapp does COW made this situation even worse. My impression was that very few of their

Re: [zfs-discuss] Sonnet Tempo SSD supported?

2012-12-04 Thread Gary Driggs
On Dec 4, 2012, Eugen Leitl wrote: > Either way I'll know the hardware support situation soon > enough. Have you tried contacting Sonnet? -Gary ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/l

Re: [zfs-discuss] RFE: Un-dedup for unique blocks

2013-01-22 Thread Gary Mills
swap space for paging. Paging out unused portions of an executing process from real memory to the swap device is certainly beneficial. Swapping out complete processes is a desperation move, but paging out most of an idle process is a good thing. -- -Gary Mi

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Distro Advice

2013-02-26 Thread Gary Driggs
On Feb 26, 2013, at 12:44 AM, "Sašo Kiselkov" wrote: I'd also recommend that you go and subscribe to z...@lists.illumos.org, since this list is going to get shut down by Oracle next month. Whose description still reads, "everything ZFS running on illumos-based di

Re: [zfs-discuss] Sun X4200 Question...

2013-03-14 Thread Gary Driggs
On Mar 14, 2013, at 5:55 PM, Jim Klimov wrote: > However, recently the VM "virtual hardware" clocks became way slow. Does NTP help correct the guest's clock? ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/l

Re: [zfs-discuss] Solaris startup script location

2010-08-18 Thread Gary Mills
h the `dependency' and `/dependency' pairs. It should also specify a `single_instance/' and `transient' service. The method script can do whatever the mount requires, such as creating the ramdisk. -- -Gary Mills--Unix Group--Computer and Network Services-

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS with Equallogic storage

2010-08-22 Thread Gary Mills
x27;s because ZFS does not have a way to handle a large class of storage designs, specifically the ones with raw storage and disk management being provided by reliable SAN devices. -- -Gary Mills--Unix Group--Computer and Network Services- ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

[zfs-discuss] Newbie question

2010-09-05 Thread Gary Gendel
users to /export/home So, what are the appropriate commands for these steps? Thanks, Gary -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Newbie question

2010-09-05 Thread Gary Gendel
Norm, Thank you. I just wanted to double-check to make sure I didn't mess up things. There were steps that I was head-scratching after reading the man page. I'll spend a bit more time re-reading it using the steps outlined so I understand these fully. Gary -- This message p

[zfs-discuss] can ufs zones and zfs zones coexist on a single global zone

2010-09-17 Thread Gary Dunn
Looking at migrating zones built on an M8000 and M5000 to a new M9000. On the M9000 we started building new deployments using ZFS. The environments on the M8/M5 are UFS. these are whole root zones. they will use global zone resources. Can this be done? Or would a ZFS migration be needed? than

[zfs-discuss] Howto reclaim space under legacy mountpoint?

2010-09-19 Thread Gary Gendel
how to remove the files from the orginal rpool/export/home (non mount point) rpool? I a bit nervous to do a: zfs destroy rpool/export/home Is the the correct and safe methodology? Thanks, Gary -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs

Re: [zfs-discuss] Sliced iSCSI device for doing RAIDZ?

2010-09-23 Thread Gary Mills
ment with ZFS in this situation anyway because those aren't real disks. Disk management all has to be done on the SAN storage device. -- -Gary Mills--Unix Group--Computer and Network Services- ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Sliced iSCSI device for doing RAIDZ?

2010-09-24 Thread Gary Mills
debatable issue, one that quickly becomes exceedingly complex. The decision rests on probabilities rather than certainties. -- -Gary Mills--Unix Group--Computer and Network Services- ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

[zfs-discuss] zpool-poolname has 99 threads

2011-01-31 Thread Gary Mills
r at I/O performance. -- -Gary Mills--Unix Group--Computer and Network Services- ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

[zfs-discuss] One LUN per RAID group

2011-02-14 Thread Gary Mills
ouldn't ZFS I/O scheduling interfere with I/O scheduling already done by the storage device? Is there any reason not to use one LUN per RAID group? -- -Gary Mills--Unix Group--Computer and Network Services- ___ zfs-discuss mail

Re: [zfs-discuss] One LUN per RAID group

2011-02-14 Thread Gary Mills
On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 03:04:18PM -0500, Paul Kraus wrote: > On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 2:38 PM, Gary Mills wrote: > > > > Is there any reason not to use one LUN per RAID group? [...] > In other words, if you build a zpool with one vdev of 10GB and > another with two vde

Re: [zfs-discuss] Best practice for boot partition layout in ZFS

2011-04-06 Thread Gary Mills
y making it a separate dataset. People forget (c), the ability to set different filesystem options on /var. You might want to have `setuid=off' for improved security, for example. -- -Gary Mills--Unix Group--Computer and Network Services- _

Re: [zfs-discuss] JBOD recommendation for ZFS usage

2011-05-30 Thread Gary Mills
les up to 48 SAS/SATA disk drives # Provides up to 72 Gb/sec of total bandwidth * Up to 72 Gb/sec of total bandwidth * Four x4-wide 3 Gb/sec SAS host/uplink ports (48 Gb/sec bandwidth) * Two x4-wide 3 Gb/sec SAS expansion ports (24 Gb/sec bandwidth) * Scales up to 48 drives -

Re: [zfs-discuss] write cache partial-disk pools (was Server with 4 drives, how to configure ZFS?)

2011-06-20 Thread Gary Mills
ding IOs because it could distribute those IOs across the disks. It would, of course, require a non-volatile cache to provide fast turnaround for writes. -- -Gary Mills--Unix Group--Computer and Network Services- ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

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

2011-07-10 Thread Gary Mills
e zvol just another block device? -- -Gary Mills--Unix Group--Computer and Network Services- ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

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

2011-07-12 Thread Gary Mills
On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 11:16:02PM +0700, Fajar A. Nugraha wrote: > 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. > >

[zfs-discuss] Does the zpool cache file affect import?

2011-08-29 Thread Gary Mills
pool was last accessed by another system.' error, or will the import succeed? Does the cache change the import behavior? Does it recognize that the server is the same system? I don't want to include the `-f' flag in the commands above when it's not needed. -- -Gary Mills-

Re: [zfs-discuss] Does the zpool cache file affect import?

2011-08-29 Thread Gary Mills
server lost power. > Sent from my iPad Sent from my Sun type 6 keyboard. -- -Gary Mills--Unix Group--Computer and Network Services- ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Does the zpool cache file affect import?

2011-08-29 Thread Gary Mills
On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 05:24:18PM -0700, Richard Elling wrote: > We use this method to implement NexentaStor HA-Cluster and, IIRC, > Solaris Cluster uses shared cachefiles, too. More below... Mine's a cluster too, with quite a simple design. > On Aug 29, 2011, at 11:13 AM, Ga

Re: [zfs-discuss] zpool upgrade wrecked GRUB

2008-08-10 Thread Gary Mills
both disks. I can boot either one to get the same GRUB menu and the same default Nevada build. I'm very impressed with how well ZFS and Live Upgrade work together. -- -Gary Mills--Unix Support--U of M Academic Computing and Networking- _

Re: [zfs-discuss] Zfs and mpxio - device name changed

2008-08-18 Thread Gary Mills
the second path, we exported the pool. Then, we enabled mpxio and imported the pool again. `zpool import' will show the new device names, but you only need to specify the pool name. It worked perfectly. -- -Gary Mills--Unix Support--U of M Academic Computing and Networking- __

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS with Traditional SAN

2008-08-21 Thread Gary Mills
self-healing properties then make >sure you have some kind of redundancy on zfs level regardless of your >redundancy on the array. -- -Gary Mills--Unix Support--U of M Academic Computing and Networking- ___ zfs-discuss mailing

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS boot and LU

2008-08-26 Thread Gary Mills
. You can also put several boot environments on the same ZFS pool. So far, I've done upgrades to builds 95 and 96 that way. My AMD box has two 80-gig SATA disks in a ZFS mirror. I'm very impressed. -- -Gary Mills--Unix Support--U of M Acad

Re: [zfs-discuss] eWeek: corrupt file brought down FAA's antiquated IT system

2008-08-28 Thread Gary Mills
#x27; takes the blame all the time, in my experience, but what does it mean? It likely has nothing to do with the filesystem. Probably an application wrote incorrect information into a file. -- -Gary Mills--Unix Support--U of M Academic Com

[zfs-discuss] ZFS performance degradation when backups are running

2008-09-27 Thread Gary Mills
looked at zpool I/O statistics when the backup is running, but there's nothing clearly wrong. I'm wondering if perhaps all the read activity by the backup system is causing trouble with ZFS' caching. Is there some way to examine this area? -- -Gary Mills--Unix Support--U of

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS performance degradation when backups are running

2008-09-30 Thread Gary Mills
s another interesting place to look > http://www.solarisinternals.com/wiki/index.php/Solaris_Internals_and_Performance_FAQ Thanks. I'll review those documents. -- -Gary Mills--Unix Support--U of M Academic Computing and Networking- ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS performance degradation when backups are running

2008-09-30 Thread Gary Mills
On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 10:32:50AM -0700, William D. Hathaway wrote: > Gary - >Besides the network questions... Yes, I suppose I should see if traffic on the Iscsi network is hitting a limit of some sort. >What does your zpool status look like? Pretty simple: $ zpool status

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS performance degradation when backups are running

2008-09-30 Thread Gary Mills
of the best one. Those references are for network tuning. I don't want to change things blindly. How do I tell if they are necessary, that is if the network is the bottleneck in the I/O system? -- -Gary Mills--Unix Support--U of M Academic Computing and Networking- __

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