illumos

2018-02-13

02:17 PM illumos gate Bug #9102 (Closed): zfs should be able to initialize storage devices

The first access to a disk block can incur a performance penalty on some platforms (e.g. AWS's EBS, VMware VMDKs). Th... George Wilson

2017-12-16

04:09 PM illumos gate Bug #8857: zio_remove_child() panic due to already destroyed parent zio

Pull Request for openzfs has been posted: https://github.com/openzfs/openzfs/pull/505 George Wilson

02:18 AM illumos gate Bug #8857: zio_remove_child() panic due to already destroyed parent zio

Normally, consumers of the zio will create logical zios which then can create logical, gang, or vdev children. When a... George Wilson

12:22 AM illumos gate Bug #8857: zio_remove_child() panic due to already destroyed parent zio

I've been testing a fix and have supplied a patch to Andriy to build on FreeBSD. Please let me know if the patch fixe... George Wilson

2016-08-15

08:12 PM illumos gate Bug #7303 (Closed): dynamic metaslab selection

This change introduces a new weighting algorithm to improve metaslab selection. The new weighting algorithm relies on... George Wilson

2016-06-09

03:16 PM illumos gate Feature #7090 (Closed): zfs should improve allocation order and throttle allocations

When write I/Os are issued, they are issued in block order but the ZIO pipeline will drive them asynchronously throug... George Wilson

2016-05-04

08:26 PM illumos gate Feature #6950 (Closed): ARC should cache compressed data

When reading compressed data from disk, the ARC should keep the compressed block cached and only decompress it when c... George Wilson

2016-02-24

02:54 PM illumos gate Feature #6673 (Closed): want a macro to convert seconds to nanoseconds and vice-versa

Illumos currently has macros to convert milliseconds to nanoseconds and nanoseconds to milliseconds defined in time.h... George Wilson

05:06 AM illumos gate Feature #6672 (Closed): arc_reclaim_thread() should use gethrtime() instead of ddi_get_lbolt()

Instead of using ddi_get_lbolt(), ZFS should use gethrtime() for timekeeping to provides better time resolution. This... George Wilson

2015-11-19

02:01 PM illumos gate Bug #6458: nfsauth_cache_get() deadlock with kmem reap thread

Keep in mind that this deadlock was detected prior to the changes made by Marcel's change:
commit 71da0c32412fe836... George Wilson