OK, let’s compare the two snapshots, one taken today, the other taken on Monday. [dan@ngaio:/usr] $ sudo du -c -d 1 . Password: 4 ./.snap 62760 ./bin 37520 ./include 93068 ./lib 184 ./libdata 35384 ./libexec 75109696 ./local 37708 ./sbin 102480 ./share 1103840 ./src 250268 ./compat 376 ./games 4 ./obj 71082728 ./home 3584112 ./ports 4 ./tmp […]
I use a ZFS array for backups. The data is first copied to this array, and later copied to tape. This post contains some information which might be useful should I need to replace one of the drives in the array. We have 10 HDD in this system. Two are used in a gmirror for
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I’m about to double the RAM in my ZFS system. It will go from 4GB to 8GB. Right now, I have: real memory = 4294967296 (4096 MB) avail memory = 4100382720 (3910 MB) I’m not interested in any big extensive benchmarks. I just want something simple. Hence: $ cd /storage/bonnie/ [dan@kraken:/storage/bonnie] $ ls -l total
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Here I go, removing an old ZFS dataset that is no longer required. But first, some stats (which have been edited to remove non-zfs output): [dan@kraken:~] $ df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on storage 1.4T 15G 1.4T 1% /storage storage/bacula.DO.NOT.USE 5.8T 4.4T 1.4T 76% /storage/bacula.DO.NOT.USE storage/compressed 1.4T 49K 1.4T 0% /storage/compressed storage/compressed/bacula
For the record, I was doing a copy within a system recently: # time zfs send storage/bacula@transfer | mbuffer | zfs receive storage/compressed/bacula-buffer in @ 0.0 kB/s, out @ 0.0 kB/s, 4394 GB total, buffer 100% fullll summary: 4394 GByte in 35 h 11 min 35.5 MB/s real 2111m18.302s user 11m44.831s sys 258m59.151s I was
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I am impressed…. my gmirror array continued to work even after the drives were renamed from da20 and da24 to ada0 and ada1. This happened when I tried out the ahci(4) for my SATA drives. It’s the type of thing I’m striving for soon in my ZFS array. All this started when I wanted to
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From this morning’s log after a weekend power failure: Mar 15 09:15:45 subie kernel: GEOM_MIRROR: Device gm0: rebuilding provider ad8 finished. Mar 15 09:20:58 subie fsck: /dev/mirror/gm0s1f: UNREF FILE I=35 OWNER=root MODE=100400 Mar 15 09:20:58 subie fsck: /dev/mirror/gm0s1f: SIZE=151568652480 MTIME=Mar 13 16:03 2010 (CLEARED) Mar 15 09:20:58 subie fsck: /dev/mirror/gm0s1f: UNREF FILE I=15356429 OWNER=dan MODE=100644
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I thought I’d run some simple tests, based on a tuning thread I found: # dd if=/dev/urandom of=./file1 bs=1m count=1024 1024+0 records in 1024+0 records out 1073741824 bytes transferred in 14.283206 secs (75175127 bytes/sec) And while the above was running: # zpool iostat 5 capacity operations bandwidth pool used avail read write read write ———-
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Tonight’s goals: Install a second HDD get gmirror running install the remaining 5x2TB HDD add the two RAID cards After adding in the second HDD for the OS, dmesg shows this: ad4: 76319MB <seagate ST380815AS 4.AAB> at ata2-master UDMA100 SATA 3Gb/s acd0: DVDR <tsstcorp CDDVDW SH-S223C/SB01> at ata3-master UDMA100 SATA 1.5Gb/s ad8: 152587MB <wdc WD1600AAJS-75M0A0
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Interesting posts here on ZFS tuning, espcially posts #34 and #35. Post #37 has an interesting perl solution.