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Greeting All I have create a pool that consists oh a hard disk and a ssd as a cache zpool create hdd c11t0d0p3 zpool add hdd cache c8t0d0p0 - cache device I ran an OLTP bench mark to emulate a DMBS One I ran the benchmark, the pool started create the database file on the ssd cache device ??????????? can any one explain why this happening ? is not L2ARC is used to absorb the evicted data

What is the best way to tell if your bound by the number of individual operations per second / random io? "zpool iostat" has an "operations" column but this doesn''t really tell me if my disks are saturated. Traditional "iostat" doesn''t seem to be the greatest place to look when utilizing zfs. Thanks, Chris -------------- next part -------------- An

Hello, How do you tell how much of your l2arc is populated? I''ve been looking for a while now, can''t seem to find it. Must be easy, as this blog entry shows it over time: http://blogs.sun.com/brendan/entry/l2arc_screenshots And follow up, can you tell how much of each data set is in the arc or l2arc? -- This message posted from opensolaris.org

Today, Compellant announced their zNAS addition to their unified storage line. zNAS uses ZFS behind the scenes. http://www.compellent.com/Community/Blog/Posts/2010/4/Compellent-zNAS.aspx Congrats Compellant! -- richard ZFS storage and performance consulting at http://www.RichardElling.com ZFS training on deduplication, NexentaStor, and NAS performance Las Vegas, April 29-30, 2010

root at cs6:~# zpool import pool: content3 id: 14184872052409584084 state: FAULTED status: The pool metadata is corrupted. action: The pool cannot be imported due to damaged devices or data. The pool may be active on another system, but can be imported using the ''-f'' flag. see: http://www.sun.com/msg/ZFS-8000-72 config: content3

Gents, We want to understand the mechanism of zfs a bit better. Q: what is the design/algorithm of zfs in terms of reclaiming unused blocks? Q: what criteria is there for zfs to start reclaiming blocks Issue at hand is an LDOM or zone running in a virtual (thin-provisioned) disk on a NFS server and a zpool inside that vdisk. This vdisk tends to grow in size even if the user writes and deletes

Hi all I ran a workload that reads & writes within 10 files each file is 256M, ie, (10 * 256M = 2.5GB total Dataset Size). I have set the ARC max size to 1 GB on etc/system file In the worse case, let us assume that the whole dataset is hot, meaning my workingset size= 2.5GB My SSD flash size = 8GB and being used for L2ARC No slog is used in the pool My File system record size = 8K ,

Hi, We are using Solaris 10 update 7 with ZFS file system.And using the machine for informix db. Solaris Patch level Generic_142900-02 (Dec 09 PatchCluster release) Informix DB version 11.5FC6 We are facing an issue while enabling DIRECT_IO for the DB chunks. The error message which appears in the online.log file is "Direct I/O cannot be used for the chunk file <file_name>"

Hi gurus, I like zpool iostat and I like system monitoring, so I setup a script within sma to let me get the zpool iostat figures through snmp. The problem is that as zpool iostat is only run once for each snmp query, it always reports a static set of figures, like so: root at exodus:snmp # zpool iostat -v capacity operations bandwidth pool used avail read

Greeting ALL Can someone explain to me why I was successfully able issue (through application) an I/Os of 128K each (monitored by DTrace) while my Maxphys=56K only ?????? My understanding is that Maxphys is the max I/O size that the storage device can handle for a single I/O, it has been well documented that if and application issued an I/O larger than Maxphys, it would be break down to

Hello ZFS experts: I would like to study ZFS de-duplication feature. Can someone please let me know which directory/files I should be looking at? Thanks in advance. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org

I was trying to think of a way to set compression=on at the beginning of a jumpstart. The only idea I''ve come up with is to do so with a flash archive predeployment script. Has anyone else tried this approach? Thanks, Chad -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL:

Lets say I have two servers, both running opensolaris with ZFS. I basically want to be able to create a filesystem where the two servers have a common volume, that is mirrored between the two. Meaning, each server keeps an identical, real time backup of the other''s data directory. Set them both up as file servers, and load balance between the two for incoming requests. How would anyone

We are looking into the possibility of adding a dedicated ZIL and/or L2ARC devices to our pool. We are looking into getting 4 ? 32GB Intel X25-E SSD drives. Would this be a good solution to slow write speeds? We are currently sharing out different slices of the pool to windows servers using comstar and fibrechannel. We are currently getting around 300MB/sec performance with 70-100% disk busy.

I would have thought that the file movement from one FS to another within the same pool would be almost instantaneous. Why does it take to platter for such a movement? # time cp /tmp/blockfile /pcshare/1gb-tempfile real 0m5.758s # time mv /pcshare/1gb-tempfile . real 0m4.501s Both FSs are with compression=off. /tmp is RAM. -devsk -- This message posted from opensolaris.org

Hello. I want to know what is the unit of compression in ZFS. Is it 4 KB or larger? Is it tunnable? Thanks. Thanos -- This message posted from opensolaris.org

Hi, as Richard Elling wrote earlier: "For more background, low-cost SSDs intended for the boot market are perfect candidates. Take a X-25V @ 40GB and use 15-20 GB for root and the rest for an L2ARC. For small form factor machines or machines with max capacity of 8GB of RAM (a typical home system) this can make a pleasant improvement over a HDD-only implementation." For the upcoming

This must be resliver day :) I just had a drive failure. The hot spare kicked in, and access to the pool over NFS was effectively zero for about 45 minutes. Currently the pool is still reslivering, but for some reason I can access the file system now. Resliver speed has been beaten to death I know, but is there a way to avoid this? For example, is more enterprisy hardware less susceptible to

When somebody is hammering on the system, I want to be able to detect who''s doing it, and hopefully even what they''re doing. I can''t seem to find any way to do that. Any suggestions? Everything I can find ... iostat, nfsstat, etc ... AFAIK, just show me performance statistics and so forth. I''m looking for something more granular. Either *who* the

Hi, I''m running Opensolaris 2009.06, and I''m facing a serious performance loss with ZFS ! It''s a raidz1 pool, made of 4 x 1TB SATA disks : zfs_raid ONLINE 0 0 0 raidz1 ONLINE 0 0 0 c7t2d0 ONLINE 0 0 0 c7t3d0 ONLINE 0 0 0 c7t4d0 ONLINE 0 0