Re: ZFS patches.

>>> The patch above contains the most recent ZFS version that could be found
>>> in OpenSolaris as of today. Apart for large amount of new functionality,
>>> I belive there are many stability (and also performance) improvements
>>> compared to the version from the base system.
>>>
>>> Please test, test, test. If I get enough positive feedback, I may be
>>> able to squeeze it into 7.1-RELEASE, but this might be hard.
>>>
>>
>> I applied your patch to a current as of July the 31'st. I had to
>> remove /usr/src and perform a clean csup and remove the two empty
>> files as mentioned in this thread.
>>
>> I have a areca arc-1680 sas-card and an external sas-cabinet with 16
>> sas-drives each 1 TB (931 binary GB). They have been setup in three
>> raidz-partitions with five disks each in one zpool and one spare.
>>
>> There does seem to be a speed-improvement. I nfs-mounted a partition
>> from solaris 9 on sparc and is copying approx.400 GB using rsync. I
>> saw write of 429 MB/s. The spikes occured every 10 secs. to begin
>> with. After some minutes I get writes almost every sec. (watching
>> zpool iostat 1). The limit is clearly the network-connection between
>> the two hosts. I'll do some internal copying later.
>>
>> It's to early to say whether zfs is stable (enough) allthough I
>> haven't been able to make it halt unless I removed a disk. This was
>> with version 6. I'll remove a disk tomorrow and see how it goes.
>
> Replying to my own mail! :-)
>
> My conclusion about it's stability was a bit hasty. I was copying
> approx. 400 GB from a nfs-share mounted from a solaris 9 on sparc
> using tcp and read- and write-size of 32768. The files are images
> slightly less than 1 MB and a thumbnail (approx. 983000 files).

Replying once more to my own mail.

There seems to be a hardware-related problem to my setup. I'm getting
some 'arcmsr0: scsi id=1 lun=4 ccb='0xffffff02d5cc8e00' outstanding
command timeout' (in solaris). I'll check with my vendor. I did not
see such errors in FreeBSD.

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regards
Claus

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