[OpenIndiana-discuss] ashift 13?

jason matthews jason at broken.net
Thu Apr 9 00:12:56 UTC 2015


cross posting to zfs

The data seems to indicate that something strange is happening between 
the compression algorithms and  sector sizes > 512 bytes. ZFS reports 
virtually the same compression ratios for either ashift=9 or ashift=12 
zpools, but the number of data blocks consumed varies drastically 
between 9 bit and 12 bit sectors. Uncompressed file systems report the 
same disk usage so the problem seems tied towards the compression 
mechanisms. Moving to 13 bit, as the illumos advanced sector wiki page 
implies, results in even more amplication.

why should 4k sectors consume nearly 2x storage compressed versus 512 
byte zpools? this looks like some sort of bug to me.

With Identical datasets installed on each file system we see a almost 2x 
magnification in disk usage in ashift=12 versus ashift=9.

Do you any of you big brains on the ZFS team know why this happens?
Is this a bug? Some sort of errant behavior in the Intel DC S3700?
If it is not a bug, why would we want to move to 4k sectors?
Is this a case where ZFS compression isnt tuned against 4k blocks?

should I file a ticket?

root at dbb005:/root# zfs list -r ashift9 ashift12 |grep postgres
ashift12/128k/lz4/postgres              355G  40.7G   355G 
/ashift12/128k/lz4/postgres
ashift12/128k/lzjb/postgres             403G  40.7G   403G 
/ashift12/128k/lzjb/postgres
ashift12/128k/no-compression/postgres   640G  40.7G   640G 
/ashift12/128k/no-compression/postgres
ashift12/8k/lz4/postgres                355G  40.7G   355G 
/ashift12/8k/lz4/postgres
ashift12/8k/lzjb/postgres               403G  40.7G   403G 
/ashift12/8k/lzjb/postgres

ashift9/128k/lz4/postgres               224G  6.32T   224G 
/ashift9/128k/lz4/postgres
ashift9/128k/lzjb/postgres              277G  6.32T   277G 
/ashift9/128k/lzjb/postgres
ashift9/128k/no-compression/postgres    638G  6.32T   638G 
/ashift9/128k/no-compression/postgres
ashift9/8k/lz4/postgres                 224G  6.32T   224G 
/ashift9/8k/lz4/postgres
ashift9/8k/lzjb/postgres                224G  6.32T   224G 
/ashift9/8k/lzjb/postgres

root at dbb005:/root# zfs get -r compressratio ashift9 ashift12 | grep 
postgres |grep -v @
ashift12/128k/lz4/postgres                       compressratio 2.86x  -
ashift12/128k/lzjb/postgres                      compressratio 2.31x  -
ashift12/128k/no-compression/postgres            compressratio 1.00x  -
ashift12/8k/lz4/postgres                         compressratio 2.86x  -
ashift12/8k/lzjb/postgres                        compressratio 2.31x  -

ashift9/128k/lz4/postgres                        compressratio 2.86x  -
ashift9/128k/lzjb/postgres                       compressratio 2.31x  -
ashift9/128k/no-compression/postgres             compressratio 1.00x  -
ashift9/8k/lz4/postgres                          compressratio 2.86x  -
ashift9/8k/lzjb/postgres                         compressratio 2.86x  -



root at dbb005:/root# zpool status ashift12 ashift9
   pool: ashift12
  state: ONLINE
   scan: none requested
config:

         NAME                     STATE     READ WRITE CKSUM
         ashift12                 ONLINE       0     0     0
           c3t55CD2E404B63FCD9d0  ONLINE       0     0     0
           c3t55CD2E404B64033Bd0  ONLINE       0     0     0
           c3t55CD2E404B63F93Cd0  ONLINE       0     0     0

errors: No known data errors

root at dbb005:/root# zdb ashift12 |egrep ashift:
                 ashift: 12
                 ashift: 12
                 ashift: 12
                 ashift: 12
                 ashift: 12
                 ashift: 12



   pool: ashift9
  state: ONLINE
   scan: none requested
config:

         NAME                     STATE     READ WRITE CKSUM
         ashift9                  ONLINE       0     0     0
           c3t55CD2E404B417CFEd0  ONLINE       0     0     0
           c3t55CD2E404B43F0C9d0  ONLINE       0     0     0
           c3t55CD2E404B640592d0  ONLINE       0     0     0
           c3t55CD2E404B43F183d0  ONLINE       0     0     0
           c3t55CD2E404B417D1Fd0  ONLINE       0     0     0
           c3t55CD2E404B43F14Cd0  ONLINE       0     0     0
           c3t55CD2E404B43EFAAd0  ONLINE       0     0     0
           c3t55CD2E404B43EFCCd0  ONLINE       0     0     0
           c3t55CD2E404B41904Ad0  ONLINE       0     0     0
           c3t50015178F3659395d0  ONLINE       0     0     0
           c3t55CD2E404B64062Fd0  ONLINE       0     0     0

errors: No known data errors

root at dbb005:/root# zdb ashift9 |egrep ashift:
                 ashift: 9
                 ashift: 9
                 ashift: 9
                 ashift: 9
                 ashift: 9
                 ashift: 9
                 ashift: 9
                 ashift: 9
                 ashift: 9
                 ashift: 9
                 ashift: 9
                 ashift: 9
                 ashift: 9
                 ashift: 9
                 ashift: 9
                 ashift: 9
                 ashift: 9
                 ashift: 9
                 ashift: 9
                 ashift: 9
                 ashift: 9
                 ashift: 9

root at dbb005:/root# iostat -En
c3t55CD2E404B417CFEd0 Soft Errors: 0 Hard Errors: 0 Transport Errors: 0
Vendor: ATA      Product: INTEL SSDSC2BA80 Revision: DL04 Serial No: 
BTTV331202X3800
Size: 800.17GB <800166076416 bytes>
Media Error: 0 Device Not Ready: 0 No Device: 0 Recoverable: 0
Illegal Request: 0 Predictive Failure Analysis: 0
c3t55CD2E404B41904Ad0 Soft Errors: 0 Hard Errors: 0 Transport Errors: 0
Vendor: ATA      Product: INTEL SSDSC2BA80 Revision: DL04 Serial No: 
BTTV331207RE800
Size: 800.17GB <800166076416 bytes>
Media Error: 0 Device Not Ready: 0 No Device: 0 Recoverable: 0
Illegal Request: 0 Predictive Failure Analysis: 0
c3t55CD2E404B8149FAd0 Soft Errors: 0 Hard Errors: 0 Transport Errors: 0
Vendor: ATA      Product: INTEL SSDSC2CT18 Revision: 335u Serial No: 
CVKI338200ZT180
Size: 180.05GB <180045766656 bytes>
Media Error: 0 Device Not Ready: 0 No Device: 0 Recoverable: 0
Illegal Request: 0 Predictive Failure Analysis: 0
c3t55CD2E404B43EFAAd0 Soft Errors: 0 Hard Errors: 0 Transport Errors: 0
Vendor: ATA      Product: INTEL SSDSC2BA80 Revision: DL04 Serial No: 
BTTV333005CU800
Size: 800.17GB <800166076416 bytes>
Media Error: 0 Device Not Ready: 0 No Device: 0 Recoverable: 0
Illegal Request: 0 Predictive Failure Analysis: 0
c3t55CD2E404B406BBCd0 Soft Errors: 0 Hard Errors: 0 Transport Errors: 0
Vendor: ATA      Product: INTEL SSDSC2BA80 Revision: DL04 Serial No: 
BTTV330209W2800
Size: 800.17GB <800166076416 bytes>
Media Error: 0 Device Not Ready: 0 No Device: 0 Recoverable: 0
Illegal Request: 0 Predictive Failure Analysis: 0
c3t55CD2E404B417D1Fd0 Soft Errors: 0 Hard Errors: 0 Transport Errors: 0
Vendor: ATA      Product: INTEL SSDSC2BA80 Revision: DL04 Serial No: 
BTTV331202Y3800
Size: 800.17GB <800166076416 bytes>
Media Error: 0 Device Not Ready: 0 No Device: 0 Recoverable: 0
Illegal Request: 0 Predictive Failure Analysis: 0
c3t55CD2E404B43F0C9d0 Soft Errors: 0 Hard Errors: 0 Transport Errors: 0
Vendor: ATA      Product: INTEL SSDSC2BA80 Revision: DL04 Serial No: 
BTTV333005ME800
Size: 800.17GB <800166076416 bytes>
Media Error: 0 Device Not Ready: 0 No Device: 0 Recoverable: 0
Illegal Request: 0 Predictive Failure Analysis: 0
c3t55CD2E404B43EFCCd0 Soft Errors: 0 Hard Errors: 0 Transport Errors: 0
Vendor: ATA      Product: INTEL SSDSC2BA80 Revision: DL04 Serial No: 
BTTV333005DU800
Size: 800.17GB <800166076416 bytes>
Media Error: 0 Device Not Ready: 0 No Device: 0 Recoverable: 0
Illegal Request: 0 Predictive Failure Analysis: 0
c3t50015178F3659395d0 Soft Errors: 0 Hard Errors: 0 Transport Errors: 0
Vendor: ATA      Product: INTEL SSDSC2BA80 Revision: DL04 Serial No: 
BTTV326303UP800
Size: 800.17GB <800166076416 bytes>
Media Error: 0 Device Not Ready: 0 No Device: 0 Recoverable: 0
Illegal Request: 0 Predictive Failure Analysis: 0
c3t55CD2E404B43F14Cd0 Soft Errors: 0 Hard Errors: 0 Transport Errors: 0
Vendor: ATA      Product: INTEL SSDSC2BA80 Revision: DL04 Serial No: 
BTTV333005RC800
Size: 800.17GB <800166076416 bytes>
Media Error: 0 Device Not Ready: 0 No Device: 0 Recoverable: 0
Illegal Request: 0 Predictive Failure Analysis: 0
c3t55CD2E404B43F183d0 Soft Errors: 0 Hard Errors: 0 Transport Errors: 0
Vendor: ATA      Product: INTEL SSDSC2BA80 Revision: DL04 Serial No: 
BTTV333005T3800
Size: 800.17GB <800166076416 bytes>
Media Error: 0 Device Not Ready: 0 No Device: 0 Recoverable: 0
Illegal Request: 0 Predictive Failure Analysis: 0
c3t55CD2E404B63FCD9d0 Soft Errors: 0 Hard Errors: 0 Transport Errors: 0
Vendor: ATA      Product: INTEL SSDSC2BA80 Revision: 0270 Serial No: 
BTTV420600LD800
Size: 800.17GB <800166076416 bytes>
Media Error: 0 Device Not Ready: 0 No Device: 0 Recoverable: 0
Illegal Request: 0 Predictive Failure Analysis: 0
c3t55CD2E404B640592d0 Soft Errors: 0 Hard Errors: 0 Transport Errors: 0
Vendor: ATA      Product: INTEL SSDSC2BA80 Revision: 0270 Serial No: 
BTTV420602JK800
Size: 800.17GB <800166076416 bytes>
Media Error: 0 Device Not Ready: 0 No Device: 0 Recoverable: 0
Illegal Request: 0 Predictive Failure Analysis: 0
c3t55CD2E404B63F93Cd0 Soft Errors: 0 Hard Errors: 0 Transport Errors: 0
Vendor: ATA      Product: INTEL SSDSC2BA80 Revision: 0270 Serial No: 
BTTV420505XQ800
Size: 800.17GB <800166076416 bytes>
Media Error: 0 Device Not Ready: 0 No Device: 0 Recoverable: 0
Illegal Request: 0 Predictive Failure Analysis: 0
c3t55CD2E404B64062Fd0 Soft Errors: 0 Hard Errors: 0 Transport Errors: 0
Vendor: ATA      Product: INTEL SSDSC2BA80 Revision: 0270 Serial No: 
BTTV420602P6800
Size: 800.17GB <800166076416 bytes>
Media Error: 0 Device Not Ready: 0 No Device: 0 Recoverable: 0
Illegal Request: 0 Predictive Failure Analysis: 0
c3t55CD2E404B64033Bd0 Soft Errors: 0 Hard Errors: 0 Transport Errors: 0
Vendor: ATA      Product: INTEL SSDSC2BA80 Revision: 0270 Serial No: 
BTTV4206020X800
Size: 800.17GB <800166076416 bytes>
Media Error: 0 Device Not Ready: 0 No Device: 0 Recoverable: 0
Illegal Request: 0 Predictive Failure Analysis: 0

All Intel DC S3700 drives used in the ashift9 and ashift12 zpools




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