similar to: Bad SWAP performance from zvol

What does it mean for the reported value of a zvol volsize to be less than the product of used and compressratio? For example, # zfs get -p all home1/home1mm01 NAME PROPERTY VALUE SOURCE home1/home1mm01 type volume - home1/home1mm01 creation 1254440045 - home1/home1mm01 used 14902492672

Can you use a different zvol for dump and swap rather than using the swap and dump zvol created by liveupgrade? Casper

Hi all! First off, if this has been discussed, please point me in that direction. I have searched high and low and really can''t find much info on the subject. We have a large-ish (200gb) UFS file system on a Sun Enterprise 250 that is being shared with samba (lots of files, mostly random IO). OS is Solaris 10u3. Disk set is 7x36gb 10k scsi, 4 internal 3 external. For several

Hi Richard, Richard Robinson wrote: > I should add that I also used truss and saw the same ENOMEM error. I am on a 4Gb system with swap -l reporting > > swapfile dev swaplo blocks free > /dev/zvol/dsk/rpool/swap 181,1 8 4194296 4194296 > > and I was trying to follow the directions for increasing swap here: >

Hi, My swap is on raidz1. Df -k and swap -l are showing almost no usage of swap, while zfs list and zpool list are showing me 96% capacity. Which should i believe? Justin # df -hk Filesystem size used avail capacity Mounted on /dev/dsk/c3t0d0s1 14G 4.0G 10G 28% / /devices 0K 0K 0K 0% /devices ctfs

So, what is the story about 4KB disk sectors? Should such disks be avoided with ZFS? Or, no problem? Or, need to modify some config file before usage? -- This message posted from opensolaris.org

I''ve been seeing read and write performance pathologies with Linux ext3 over iSCSI to zvols, especially with small writes. Does running a journalled filesystem to a zvol turn the block storage into swiss cheese? I am considering serving ext3 journals (and possibly swap too) off a raw, hardware-mirrored device. Before I do (and I''ll write up any results) I''d like to know

I sent a zvol from host a, to host b, twice. Host b has two pools, one ashift=9, one ashift=12. I sent the zvol to each of the pools on b. The original source pool is ashift=9, and an old revision (2009_06 because it''s still running xen). I sent it twice, because something strange happened on the first send, to the ashift=12 pool. "zfs list -o space" showed figures at

Dear all, Background: I have a ZFS volume with the incorrect volume blocksize for the filesystem (NTFS) that it is supporting. This volume contains important data that is proving impossible to copy using Windows XP Xen HVM that "owns" the data. The disparity in volume blocksize (current set to 512bytes!!) is causing significant performance problems. Question : Is there a way to

I''ve looked for anything I can find on the topic, but there does not appear to be anything documented. Can a ZVOL be expanded? In particular, can a ZVOL sharded via iscsi be expanded? Thanks, Charles

> I tried to copy a 8GB Xen domU disk image from a zvol device > to an image file on an ufs filesystem, and was surprised that > reading from the zvol character device doesn''t detect "EOF". > > On snv_66 (sparc) and snv_73 (x86) I can reproduce it, like this: > > # zfs create -V 1440k tank/floppy-img > > # dd if=/dev/zvol/dsk/tank/floppy-img

Good morning everybody I was migrating my ufs ? rootfilesystem to a zfs ? one, but was a little upset finding out that it became bigger (what was clear because of the swap and dump size). Now I am questioning myself if it is possible to set the swap and dump size by using the lucreate ? command (I wanna try it again but on less space). Unfortunately I did not find any advice in manpages.

I''ve tried using S10 U6 to reinstall the boot file (instead of U5) over jumpstart as its a ldom, noticed a another error. Boot device: /virtual-devices at 100/channel-devices at 200/network at 0 File and args: -s Requesting Internet Address for 0:14:4f:f9:84:f3 boot: cannot open kernel/sparcv9/unix Enter filename [kernel/sparcv9/unix]: Has anyone seen this error on U6 jumpstart or is

Hi list, I''ve did some tests and run into a very strange situation.. I created a zvol using "zfs create -V" and initialize an sam-filesystem on this zvol. After that I restored some testdata using a dump from another system. So far so good. After some big troubles I found out that releasing files in the sam-filesystem doesn''t create space on the underlying zvol.

hi all Try to learn how UFS root to ZFS root liveUG work. I download the vbox image of s10u8, it come up as UFS root. add a new disks (16GB) create zpool rpool run lucreate -n zfsroot -p rpool run luactivate zfsroot run lustatus it do show zfsroot will be active in next boot init 6 but it come up with UFS root, lustatus show ufsroot active zpool rpool is mounted but not used by boot Is this a

How can I set up a ZVOL that''s accessible by non-root users, too? The intent is to use sparse ZVOLs as raw disks in virtualization (reducing overhead compared to file-based virtual volumes). Thanks, -mg This message posted from opensolaris.org

I''ve got a server that freezes when I run a zpool scrub from cron. Zpool scrub runs fine from the command line, no errors. The freeze happens within 30 seconds of the zpool scrub happening. The one core dump I succeeded in taking showed an arccache eating up all the ram. The server''s running Solaris 10 u3, kernel patch 127727-11 but it''s been patched and seems to have

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. Can''t I do the same thing by first creating a zvol and then creating a FAT filesystem on it? Nothing I''ve tried seems to work. Isn''t the zvol just another block device? -- -Gary Mills- -Unix Group-

I''m trying to add extra zvols to a Solaris10 DomU, sv_113 Dom0 I can use virsh attach-disk <name> <zvol> hdb --device phy to attach the zvol as c0d1. Replacing hdb by hdd gives me c1d1 but then that is it. Being able to attach several more zvols would be nice but even being able to get at c1d0 would be useful Am I missing something or can I only attach to hda/hdb/hdd?

Hello, I was doing performance testing, validating zvol performance in particularly, and found that zvol write performance to be slow ~35-44MB/s at 1MB blocksize writes. I then tested the underlying zfs file system with the same test and got 121MB/s. Is there any way to fix this? I really would like to have compatible performance between the zfs filesystem and the zfs zvols. # first test is a