That's why I was asking (: Someone wake Linda up!

On Tue, 11 Mar 2014, Jake Vath wrote:

> 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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