Call me stupid, but I forgot we were talking about ZFS on Linux... you're
right. No *fstab* and no *vfstab*.
Sorry about that.

-> Jake


On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 3:01 PM, Jeremy MountainJohnson <
jeremy.mountainjohnson at gmail.com> wrote:

> Not sure on the distro you have, but with ZFSonLinux you don't use fstab.
> For example, in Arch there is a service to handle this if enabled at boot
> (part of the zfs package). The file system mount point is configured with
> zfs user space tools, or defaults to what you set originally when you
> created the volume.
>
> Also, curious on the ram problems. Arch, the distro I use, is tweaked to
> be heavy on caching to RAM. So, often times when I am working with
> extensive I/O and large files, 90% of memory will be dedicated to caching
> in RAM and never touch swap (ext4, sw raid1). If I need that cached RAM, it
> diverts it out of the cache automatically. The free command shows how RAM
> is allocated. I'm no zfs expert, but perhaps zfs is caching like crazy to
> RAM, although now that you're stable with more RAM, this kinda debunks
> that.
>
>
> --
> Jeremy MountainJohnson
> Jeremy.MountainJohnson at gmail.com
>
>
> On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 2:42 PM, <tclug at freakzilla.com> wrote:
>
>> Course I'm not using ECC RAM. This is a home system (:
>>
>> The data is... well, be nice if it didn't get corrupted, but if a video
>> file gets a small glitch in it, it's not a huge deal. I can always rerip
>> one disc if I need to. I also figured that's why I have two smaller raidz1
>> (which is equivalent to raid5, right?) pools - it should be able to fix the
>> occasional checksum error.
>>
>> I've not seen any crop up on this setup until that scrub, which was after
>> I copied and erased about 8TB a couple of times. So not super worried.
>>
>> I can't really not use the filesystem during a scrub, since a scrub takes
>> over 24 hours. I could restrict it to read-only.
>>
>> Hey, that reminds me, for some reason the thing mounts as read-only when
>> I reboot. And since it's not in fstab I don't know where to fix that...
>> anyone?...
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, 11 Mar 2014, Jake Vath wrote:
>>
>>
>>>       Now, I am seeing occasional checksum errors. I stress-tested the
>>>       heck out of the thing for a week or so (filled up the
>>>       filesystem, then deleted most the junk I used for that, etc) and
>>>       when I ran a scrub it found 12 of them. I'm assuming that since
>>>       I am running multiple redundancies that that's not a huge
>>>       problem. Is this correct? Should I cronjob a scrub once a month?
>>>
>>> Are you using ECC RAM?
>>> If you're not, then you'll see some checksumming/parity calculation
>>> errors.
>>> Is this a huge problem? I guess it could be when you consider how
>>> important
>>> your data is to you.
>>> Your ZPool(s) could get really screwed up if you're getting checksumming
>>> errors.
>>>
>>> A cronjob to scrub the system isn't a bad idea, I guess you'd have to
>>> make
>>> sure that nothing is going to try and use the system during the scrubbing
>>> process though.
>>>
>>> -> Jake
>>>
>>>
>>> -> Jake
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 2:24 PM, <tclug at freakzilla.com> wrote:
>>>       This is a follow-up to my ZFS woes from a month or so ago.
>>>
>>>       Funny thing. When that machine had 16gigs of RAM + 16gigs of
>>>       swap, it was using 15gig of RAM and not touching swap at all,
>>>       and ZFS performace was horrible.
>>>
>>>       So I threw another 16gigs of RAM in there.
>>>
>>>       Now it uses 20gigs of RAM (still not touching swap, obviously)
>>>       and ZFS performance is fine.
>>>
>>>       Now, I am seeing occasional checksum errors. I stress-tested the
>>>       heck out of the thing for a week or so (filled up the
>>>       filesystem, then deleted most the junk I used for that, etc) and
>>>       when I ran a scrub it found 12 of them. I'm assuming that since
>>>       I am running multiple redundancies that that's not a huge
>>>       problem. Is this correct? Should I cronjob a scrub once a month?
>>>
>>>       I'm pretty gald I didn't need to move away from ZFS...
>>>
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