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Hello zfs-discuss, http://milek.blogspot.com/2007/04/hw-raid-vs-zfs-software-raid-part-iii.html -- Best regards, Robert Milkowski mailto:rmilkowski at task.gda.pl http://milek.blogspot.com

Hello zfs-discuss, If you do ''zpool create -f test A B C spare D E'' and D or E contains UFS filesystem then despite of -f zpool command will complain that there is UFS file system on D. workaround: create a test pool with -f on D and E, destroy it and that create first pool with D and E as hotspares. I''ve tested it on s10u3 + patches - can someone confirm

Hello zfs-discuss, What would you rather propose for ZFS+ORACLE - zvols or just files from the performance standpoint? -- Best regards, Robert mailto:rmilkowski at task.gda.pl http://milek.blogspot.com

Hello zfs-discuss, Just to be sure - if I create ZFS filesystems on snv_39 and then later I would want just to import that pool on S10U2 - can I safely assume it will just work (I mean nothing new to on-disk format was added or changed in last few snv releases which is not going to be in u2)? I want to put right now (I have to do it now) some data on ZFS and later I want to

Hello zfs-discuss, I''m writing a script to do automatically snapshots and destroy old one. I think it would be great to add to zfs destroy another option so only snapshots can be destroyed. Something like: zfs destroy -s SNAPSHOT so if something other than snapshot is provided as an argument zfs destroy wouldn''t actually destroy it. That way it would

Hello zfs-discuss, Relatively low traffic to the pool but sync takes too long to complete and other operations are also not that fast. Disks are on 3510 array. zil_disable=1. bash-3.00# ptime sync real 1:21.569 user 0.001 sys 0.027 During sync zpool iostat and vmstat look like: f3-1 504G 720G 370 859 995K 10.2M misc 20.6M 52.0G 0 0

Hi, OSOL, b118 > milek at r600:~# flowadm show-flow > FLOW LINK IPADDR PROTO PORT > DSFLD > local_25 iwh0 -- tcp 25 -- > local_22 iwh0 -- tcp 22 -- > milek at r600:~# flowadm show-flow -s -i 1 > FLOW IPACKETS RBYTES IERRORS

What is a use case of setting a reservation on the base pool object? Say I have a pool of 3 100GB drives dynamic striped (pool size of 300GB), and I set the reservation to 200GB. I don''t see any commands that let me ever reduce a pool''s size, so how is the 200GB reservation used? Related question: is there a plan in the future to allow me to replace the 3 100GB drives with 2

Hello zfs-code, http://cvs.opensolaris.org/source/xref/onnv/onnv-gate/usr/src/uts/common/fs/zfs/vdev_cache.c 72 * All i/os smaller than zfs_vdev_cache_max will be turned into 73 * 1<<zfs_vdev_cache_bshift byte reads by the vdev_cache (aka software 74 * track buffer). At most zfs_vdev_cache_size bytes will be kept in each 75 * vdev''s vdev_cache. While it

Hello zfs-discuss, Is someone actually working on it? Or any other algorithms? Any dates? -- Best regards, Robert mailto:rmilkowski at task.gda.pl http://milek.blogspot.com

If anyone is running this configuration, I have some questions for you about Page83 data errors. This message posted from opensolaris.org

Is there an existing RFE for, what I''ll wrongly call, "recursively visable snapshots"? That is, .zfs in directories other than the dataset root. Frankly, I don''t need it available in all directories, although it''d be nice, but I do have a need for making it visiable 1 dir down from the dataset root. The problem is that while ZFS and Zones work smoothly

Hello zfs-discuss, http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-1-6604198-1 Is there a patch for S10? I thought it''s been fixed. -- Best regards, Robert mailto:rmilkowski at task.gda.pl http://milek.blogspot.com

HI, T5220, S10U4 + patches mdb -k > ::memstat While above is working (takes some time, ideally ::memstat -n 4 to use 4 threads could be useful) mpstat 1 shows: CPU minf mjf xcal intr ithr csw icsw migr smtx srw syscl usr sys wt idl 48 0 0 1922112 9 0 0 8 0 0 0 15254 6 94 0 0 So about 2mln xcalls per second. Let''s check with dtrace:

Hi, When deploying ZFS in cluster environment it would be nice to be able to have some SSDs as local drives (not on SAN) and when pool switches over to the other node zfs would pick up the node''s local disk drives as L2ARC. To better clarify what I mean lets assume there is a 2-node cluster with 1sx 2540 disk array. Now lets put 4x SSDs in each node (as internal/local drives). Now

hi all, i''ve been using a SAN LUN as the sole member of a zpool with one additional zfs filesystem. this is a flat SAN fabric, so this LUN was available to other systems on the fabric, and one of them came up with "wrong magic number" for several drives, and, as best i can tell, the vtoc for my zpool LUN was over-written on that host via format labeling to correct the error.

for s10u2, documentation recommends 3 to 9 devices in raidz. what is the basis for this recommendation? i assume it is performance and not failure resilience, but i am just guessing... [i know, recommendation was intended for people who know their raid cold, so it needed no further explanation] thanks... oz -- ozan s. yigit | oz at somanetworks.com | 416 977 1414 x 1540 I have a hard time

All, I understand that ZFS gives you more error correction when using two LUNS from a SAN. But, does it provide you with less features than UFS does on one LUN from a SAN (i.e is it less stable). Thanks, Shawn This message posted from opensolaris.org

Is there a best practice guide for using zfs as a basic rackable small storage solution? I''m considering zfs with a 2U 12 disk Xeon based server system vs something like a second hand FAS250. Target enviroment is mixature of Xen or VI hosts via iSCSI and nfs/cifs. Being able to take snapshots of running (or maybe paused) xen iscsi vols and re-export then for cloning and remote backup

Hi zfs-discuss, I have some questions about throttling on ZFS 1) I know that throttling is activating while one sync is waiting for another. (http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/roch?entry=the_dynamics_of_zfs) Is it possible to throttle only selected processes (e.g. nfsd) ? 2) How can I obtain some statistics about it? I want to know how often throttling is activating on my host etc. 3) Is it