Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Meaning of `list list' header columns particularly REFER

On Wed, Dec 25, 2019 at 2:58 PM Till Wegmüller wrote: > I can't remember where I learned it but I know what they mean. > > I think all if from the zfs man page. > > Refer is short for Blocks referenced. It shows the size of the > Filesystem table at that the Snapshot or Dataset References. Even i

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Help test hplip with libusb-1

On Tue, Sep 10, 2019 at 2:26 PM Stephan Althaus < stephan.alth...@duedinghausen.eu> wrote: > Hello! > > I made some dirty hack to get rid of the permission problem > > # /devices/pci@0,0/pci1028,7b1@14$ sudo chmod -R a+rw * > > (*btw maybe someone can point me to a hint where i can solve this the

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] VNC Server?

Another detail if you are going to use a browser over VNC: turn off "smooth scrolling" to reduce the number of screen updates. I hate smooth scrolling anyway, but sadly it is on by default in firefox... Tim On Thu, Aug 29, 2019 at 11:10 AM Bob Friesenhahn < bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us> wrote:

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] PATH=/usr/xpg4/bin /bin/ksh -c "rm -f"

I'm not really familiar with ksh, but in bash, "type" shows these kinds of details, and ksh appears to have something similar: $ type /usr/xpg4/bin/rm /usr/xpg4/bin/rm is a shell builtin $ PATH="/usr/xpg4/bin:$PATH" $ type rm rm is a shell builtin version of /usr/xpg4/bin/rm Tim On Mon, Jun 17,

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] help needed: reinstall bootloader

On Sat, Apr 14, 2018 at 1:43 AM, Nikola M wrote: > And also there is the question weather Hard disk cache is turned on if ZFS > uses partition and not the whole drive. Previoiusly, Hard disk caching used > to be turned OFF if ZFS is on partition and not on the whole drive, for UFS > compatibility

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] hipster conversion

I had two 151a9 systems (with very little installed) which upgraded fairly cleanly to a 2015 snapshot of hipster, following this page: https://wiki.openindiana.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=30802657 Make backups, YMMV, etc. Tim On Tue, Sep 26, 2017 at 9:43 AM, Daniel Kjar wrote: > I think

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Help with some error while upgrading to latest open indiana

There is an intermediate hipster snapshot that is preserved for the purpose of *testing* a migration from dev 151a9 to hipster, with a process outlined here: https://wiki.openindiana.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=30802657 It worked for me within the last month on a fairly basic OI install, tho

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Σχετ: Re: USB 3 on OI Hipster 2017.05

On Tue, May 9, 2017 at 6:55 AM, Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss wrote: > Hello, > The computer has this motherboard > GA-78LMT-USB3 (rev. 6.0) > > http://www.gigabyte.com/Motherboard/GA-78LMT-USB3-rev-60#ov > And this processor: > AMD FX(tm)-6300 Six-Core: > FX-6300 > > > The CPU is

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Comparison of mbuffer/tamp to ssh (A novice attempt)

On Fri, Mar 31, 2017 at 7:29 AM, Harry Putnam wrote: > > Sending end (29.7 GB): > > root # time zfs send p0/tst.2/isos@170330 | tamp | mbuffer -s 128k -m > 1000m -O oi0:31337 > tamp is compression, which takes cpu time. Since your network is gigabit and you are running substantially below that,

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] mbuffer connection refused on varius ports ... what to try

On Mon, Mar 27, 2017 at 9:44 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: > Geoff Nordli writes: > > [...] > > > > > Just a thought here, you may want to try a different ssh cipher. Give > > arcfour a try and see if that is fast enough for you. > > > > Can that be done on ssh command line or must be done in ssh_conf

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] 800GB in 6 discs - 460GB in raidz

On Fri, Mar 24, 2017 at 6:44 PM, jason matthews wrote: > > > On 3/24/17 4:33 PM, jason matthews wrote: > >> >> I lost 18TB on 192TB raw pool or about 10% and I am using way more parity >> disks than you are. my ratio is 1:4 you claim yours is 1:6 but we'll see >> when you send zpool status p0 >>

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] 800GB in 6 discs - 460GB in raidz

On Fri, Mar 24, 2017 at 5:43 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: > > On the vm, I've created discs like so: > > 2 @ 96G > 2 @ 116G > 2 @ 216G > > These have just over 2x variation in size, and you put them all in a single raidz vdev, that is why your space is "missing" - it is just like making a mirror out o

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] How to manage a send over ssh

On Thu, Mar 23, 2017 at 6:19 PM, jason matthews wrote: > > > On 3/23/17 2:56 PM, Timothy Coalson wrote: > >> The main advantage with this way is that you don't leave root ssh exposed >> for people to try to break into, and the special user for receiving can&#

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] How to manage a send over ssh

I did this a different way a while ago to set up a backup script (probably the old way you mention) - I made a new user solely for the purpose of receiving (rather than enabling root login), and assigned the "ZFS File System Management" profile to it (probably with the gui tool for users, a long ti

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Support for 10 TB HDD SATA / SAS

He may be remembering a 2TB usable disk size limit for the root pool, due to use of MBR and modified grub 0.97 (I don't know if this has been fixed). I would expect it to be possible to use larger disks for the rpool, but not have access to the extra space, even for use as storage. Storage pools

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Help on Rescue Pool

On Wed, Jun 3, 2015 at 2:18 AM, Nikola M wrote: > > After this, I issue : >> >> -- >> %zpool destroy datapool >> >> %zpool create -f -m /datapool datapool /dev/rdsk/c14t2d0 >> >> -- >> >> and the datapool is created, and all

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Antwort: Transferring everything in one zpool to be a, subtree in another larger zpool (Hans J. Albertsson)

If you transfer many snapshots, especially if some are small, there is a benefit from buffering: the receive end, after each snapshot, stops consuming data, possibly for several seconds. Without a buffer, this will stall the sending side, so that nothing gets done during those pauses. I have put

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] rpool defragmentation

On Fri, Jan 16, 2015 at 11:47 AM, Andrew Gabriel < illu...@cucumber.demon.co.uk> wrote: > On 01/16/15 03:47 PM, Gary Gendel wrote: > >> On 01/16/2015 10:22 AM, Andrew Gabriel wrote: >> >>> On 01/16/15 02:37 PM, Gary Gendel wrote: >>> I thought about creating a new BE and then sending th

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] paging any HP xw8600 users.. or knowledgeable others

On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 11:53 AM, Alexander Lesle < gro...@tierarzt-mueller.de> wrote: > Hello Harry, > > when you want to connect SATA drives it is recommend to use only > 4 drives per SFF8087-SAS-connector and not more. When you use SAS > drives you can use up to 256 HDDs but you need the corres

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] paging any HP xw8600 users.. or knowledgeable others

On Wed, Aug 6, 2014 at 10:52 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: > I hope there are folks here who are using HP xw8600 servers. Or are > knowledgable about them. (Timothy C? perhaps) > I haven't used the model, nor much HP stuff at all...I thought there was a reply from someone who had used one earlier...

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Disk Space Disappearing.

On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 10:47 PM, Dormition Skete (Hotmail) < dormitionsk...@hotmail.com> wrote: > > On Jul 30, 2014, at 8:20 PM, Timothy Coalson wrote: > > >> And does anything else stand out to any of you? > >> > >> I see these: > > > >

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] problem adding drives HP xw8600

On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 8:46 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: > Harry Putnam writes: > > [...] > > > , > > | SATA Emulation—Sets the SATA emulation mode with the following > options: > > | > > |RAID + AHCI–both the RAID and AHCI OPROMs execute. This emulation > > |mode is the default and of

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Disk Space Disappearing.

On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 9:20 PM, Timothy Coalson wrote: > > As I understand it, the swap zvol is always preallocated, and default size > appears to be roughly half the available RAM at install time. This does > not mean any swap is in use. > > Sorry, scratch that, It looks t

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Disk Space Disappearing.

On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 8:22 PM, Dormition Skete (Hotmail) < dormitionsk...@hotmail.com> wrote: > On Jul 30, 2014, at 6:06 PM, Timothy Coalson wrote: > > > > > No, it refers to how many total bytes are referenced by the filesystem - > > this includes all the bytes t

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Disk Space Disappearing.

On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 12:48 PM, Dormition Skete (Hotmail) < dormitionsk...@hotmail.com> wrote: > > On Jul 30, 2014, at 4:49 AM, Jim Klimov wrote: > > > > > Hello Peter, nice to hear from you again! > > > > after a quick look at zfs-list'ings, I see that many of your current > ZBE's have more an

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] 2x Xeon XS8600

On Sat, Jul 19, 2014 at 4:03 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: > Timothy Coalson writes: > > > Those pics make me wonder where you are going to put all those hard > drives > > (and if duct tape will be involved). I see only 2 spots meant for them > > that are empty. > >

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] 2x Xeon XS8600

Those pics make me wonder where you are going to put all those hard drives (and if duct tape will be involved). I see only 2 spots meant for them that are empty. The system does have the indications of supporting IDE. I've never tried IDE drives in OI, so someone else will have to speak for that

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] 2x Xeon XS8600

damaged." - Jean-Luc Picard, quoting Judge Aaron Satie, Star Trek: TNG > episode "The Drumhead" > - Alex Smith > - Huntsville, Alabama metropolitan area USA > > > On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 7:10 PM, Timothy Coalson wrote: > > > On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 5:32 PM, Ha

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] 2x Xeon XS8600

On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 5:32 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: > "Alex Smith (K4RNT)" writes: > > > SATA disks can run on a SAS controller no problem - they are backwards > > compatible, however SAS disks will NOT work on a SATA only controller. > > > > The blue colored SATA socket is port 0, probably for

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] MPT SGL mem alloc failed

I started that thread you mentioned, and it didn't go any further than that. I have stayed back on 151a7 for unrelated reasons, so I don't know if a8/a9 cause the issue on my hardware. I have also moved to firmware 16.00.00.00, bios 07.31.00.00 on the LSI HBAs (and there are now three of them).

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Formula raidz storage space caclulation

On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 11:03 AM, Jim Klimov wrote: > > 1024 vs 1000 is another way around: a 3TB disk is > 3 / 1024 / 1024 / 1024 / 1024 = 2.72Tb or > 3 / 1024 / 1024 / 1024 = 2793.97Gb > > Times 9, and that amounts to 24.55Tb or 25145.7Gb > > (I am sometimes confused by

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] How to let find 'see' .zfs directories

On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 9:55 AM, Harry Putnam wrote: > Timothy Coalson writes: > > > There is the "snapdir" property, which when set to "hidden" will prevent > > things from knowing that the .zfs directory is there from a directory > > listing -

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] How to let find 'see' .zfs directories

There is the "snapdir" property, which when set to "hidden" will prevent things from knowing that the .zfs directory is there from a directory listing - note, however, that changing it to show the directory may cause GNU find to behave strangely whenever it looks at the root of a zfs filesystem (in

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] zpool replace says the disk has a different sector alignment

On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 5:48 AM, Frank Swasey wrote: > On Tue, 19 Nov 2013 at 6:57pm, Timothy Coalson wrote: > > Is it possible to reflash the controller to the older firmware that >> reported them as 512? Not the first thing I'd want to try, but... >> > >

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] zpool replace says the disk has a different sector alignment

On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 6:18 PM, Frank Swasey wrote: > Today at 5:31pm, Timothy Coalson wrote: > > I would hope that attaching one new drive wouldn't make the controller >> suddenly decide all other disks also had 4k sectors - he said he was >> getting "larger blo

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] spool replace says the disk has a different sector alignment

Wups, I meant that the page may help querying the reported block sizes on openindiana - I have used it successfully on 151a7 by building from the source file, I didn't try the binary. Tim On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 5:31 PM, Timothy Coalson wrote: > I would hope that attaching one n

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] spool replace says the disk has a different sector alignment

I would hope that attaching one new drive wouldn't make the controller suddenly decide all other disks also had 4k sectors - he said he was getting "larger block size" for all existing disks in the pool. Perhaps it would help to get an answer from the disks about their reported block sizes: hook o

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] About zpools and usage plan

On Sat, Aug 3, 2013 at 3:58 AM, Harry Putnam wrote: > "dormitionsk...@hotmail.com" writes: > > > On Aug 2, 2013, at 9:08 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: > > > >> Looking for a little advice about setting up a home lan server. > >> > >> So far just tinkering with a vbox oi as guest install hoping to make

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana server networking problem.

When I set up a static IP and manual DNS server, I just used the GUI, it is under the "locations" button on the network preferences dialog that appears when you click the network icon in the notification area (or go to system->administration->network). Since you used the GUI to set up the IP anywa

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] zpool degraded

On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 2:42 PM, alessio wrote: > Yes but... what disk? It is c6d0, I suppose, but why all disks are > reported as degraded? At a guess, since writes to a raidz vdev get striped across all component disks, if it can't successfully reconstruct a block, it can't figure out which

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Email cron job results

On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 9:17 PM, dormitionsk...@hotmail.com < dormitionsk...@hotmail.com> wrote: > How do I get cron to email me the results of a cron job? > > In Linux, cron had a "MAILTO=myadmin" setting in my crontab file. I > haven't been able to find anything in OI / Solaris about the MAILTO

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] vdev reliability was: Recommendations for fast storage

On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 8:14 AM, Sebastian Gabler wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 10:24 AM, Sebastian Gabler >wrote: > > > One of Elling's posts cited by another poster did >> take that into account, but the graphs don't load due to url changes (and >> they seem to have the wrong MIME type wit

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] vdev reliability was: Recommendations for fast storage

>> > >> >> To: Discussion list for OpenIndiana >> >> >> > >> Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Recommendations for fast storage >> Message-ID: >> > namprd04.prod.outlook.com >> > >> >> Content-

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Recommendations for fast storage

On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 7:38 AM, Edward Ned Harvey (openindiana) < openindi...@nedharvey.com> wrote: > You also said the raidz2 will offer more protection against failure, > because you can survive any two disk failures (but no more.) I would argue > this is incorrect (I've done the probability a

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Recommendations for fast storage

On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 6:01 PM, Jim Klimov wrote: > On 2013-04-16 23:56, Jay Heyl wrote: > >> result in more devices being hit for both read and write. Or am I wrong >> about reads being issued in parallel to all the mirrors in the array? >> > > Yes, in normal case (not scrubbing which makes a p

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Recommendations for fast storage

On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 4:44 PM, Sašo Kiselkov wrote: > On 04/16/2013 11:37 PM, Timothy Coalson wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 4:29 PM, Sašo Kiselkov >wrote: > > > >> If you are IOPS constrained, then yes, raid-zn will be slower, simply > >> because any

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Recommendations for fast storage

On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 4:29 PM, Sašo Kiselkov wrote: > If you are IOPS constrained, then yes, raid-zn will be slower, simply > because any read needs to hit all data drives in the stripe. This is > even worse on writes if the raidz has bad geometry (number of data > drives isn't a power of 2). >

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Recommendations for fast storage

On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 3:48 PM, Jay Heyl wrote: > My question about the rationale behind the suggestion of mirrored SSD > arrays was really meant to be more in relation to the question from the OP. > I don't see how mirrored arrays of SSDs would be effective in his > situation. > There is anoth

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] ZfS migration scenario including zvols

On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 5:53 AM, Sebastian Gabler wrote: > I have also learned that there are obviously methods to prevent a > replicated stream from mounting. But I still wonder how exactly I should > have proceeded here to achieve that the replicated data could not be > tempered with while waiti

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] ZFS Rollback Question

On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 6:18 PM, dormitionsk...@hotmail.com < dormitionsk...@hotmail.com> wrote: > > On Mar 8, 2013, at 5:04 PM, Timothy Coalson wrote: > > > Correction to 1)...first off, you did use -r, but second, from the man > page: > > > > " The

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] ZFS Rollback Question

. To completely roll back a recursive snapshot, you must rollback the individual child snapshots." Tim On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 6:02 PM, Timothy Coalson wrote: > Two thoughts: > > 1) you didn't use the -r or -R flags to zfs rollback > > 2) are /usr or /var on a d

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] ZFS Rollback Question

Two thoughts: 1) you didn't use the -r or -R flags to zfs rollback 2) are /usr or /var on a different filesystem? Probably not, but good to check. Tim On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 5:58 PM, dormitionsk...@hotmail.com < dormitionsk...@hotmail.com> wrote: > I decided to try out the zfs rollback featur

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Installing OI on USB stick

On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 8:06 PM, Jim Klimov wrote: > On 2013-03-01 02:40, Peter Wood wrote: >> >> Any reason not to install OI on USB sticks? Anything I should be careful >> about? >> > > We did have a box with USB sticks in it "forever", written rather > intensively. Every few months they wore o

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] time-slider

I haven't seen that error, but I would guess that the time-slider service specified a user of "zfssnap", and something had problems while trying to use that user. On my system, zfssnap is a role: in /etc/user_attr: zfssnaptype=role;auths=solaris.smf.manage.zfs-auto-snapshot;profiles=ZFS File

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] RAIDZ performance

ce > > To: openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org > > Date: Thursday, February 21, 2013, 2:08 PM > > On 02/21/2013 07:27 PM, Timothy > > Coalson wrote: > > > I think last time this was asked, the consensus was > > that the implementation > > > was based on line

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] RAIDZ performance

I think last time this was asked, the consensus was that the implementation was based on linear feedback shift registers and xor, which happens to be a reed-solomon code (not as clear on this part, but what matters is what it is, not what it isn't). Regardless, from reading the source previously,

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] RAIDZ performance

A shot in the dark here, but what controller is it using? If it is using a PCIe 1.0 x1 interface, that could explain the slowdown, and the much faster reads. Tim On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 1:05 PM, Reginald Beardsley wrote: > On an N40L running oi_151a7 w/ four ST2000DM001 drives I'm seeing a larg

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Linux software-raid with two Comstar iSCSI volumes

On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 5:38 AM, Florian wrote: > Hello, > > has someone experience with Linux software-raid with two Comstar iSCSI > volumes from two OI servers? > > I tested this on a virtual machine, but it would be great, if I can get > some experience with such a combination! > > Will this

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] time-slider service and clock adjustments

On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 3:40 PM, Oscar del Rio wrote: > > This sounds familiar and I found this old bug report: > https://groups.google.com/**forum/?fromgroups=#!msg/comp.** > unix.solaris/VAf6v02EQZk/-**Mook698kXYJ

[OpenIndiana-discuss] time-slider service and clock adjustments

So, previously I installed with the wrong timezone, and after fixing the timezone, I found the time-slider service in maintenance mode, which seemed to be because it tried to make a snapshot with a name that already existed, due to the time having been adjusted back by an hour. I shrugged it off b

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] ZFS remote receive

On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 8:44 PM, Richard Elling < richard.ell...@richardelling.com> wrote: > > > On the target system I am seeing writes up to > >> 160 MB/s with frequent zpool iostat probes. When iostat probes are up to > >> 5s+, there is a steady stream of 62 MB/s. > > > > I believe this *may* m

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] ZFS; what the manuals don't say ...

On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 6:17 AM, Robin Axelsson < gu99r...@student.chalmers.se> wrote: > > It would be interesting to know how you convert a raidz2 stripe to say a > raidz3 stripe. Let's say that I'm on a raidz2 pool and want to add an extra > parity drive by converting it to a raidz3 pool. I'm im

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] ZFS remote receive

> You could try to set the crypo algorithm to none if you do not need > encryption. > > ssh -c none > If I really needed the extra speed, it would probably be better to spawn a netcat over ssh so I don't have to modify the target's sshd_config. I played with the ciphers and arcfour128 seemed

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] ZFS remote receive

I set this up with pfexec, I think on 151a4, and it has survived updates without change so far (currently working on a7), and all I had to do was add the "ZFS File System Management" profile to the backup user. I did this via the users-admin gui, I think usermod -P does the same thing, but here i

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Seagate 3000GB Drive only shows 746GB

Something worth noting, if you intend to purchase a card to expand via SATA drives, is that SATA controllers and OI smartctl don't get along yet (the interface for ATA commands isn't implemented, I think is the story), if you get a SAS/SAS2 controller, you can get smartctl to work with "-d sat" on

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Backup User for zfs send and receive

> >> I used this command: > >> zfs send -R tank/raid1-0@20120831-2017 | ssh > >> backup@192.168.10.201"/usr/sbin/zfs > receive -Fduv tank/backup_raid" > > On Sun, Sep 2, 2012 at 1:07 PM, Timothy Coalson wrote: > > [...] used "pfexec > >

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Backup User for zfs send and receive

Well, when I set something similar up, I added the "ZFS File System Management" profile to the user with the users-admin GUI, and used "pfexec zfs receive ..." for the receive command. As I understand it, it means that it is allowed to run "zfs" with root privileges, so it wouldn't be limited to o

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] sata hba choice

On Sat, Aug 25, 2012 at 1:56 PM, Sašo Kiselkov wrote: > On 08/25/2012 03:42 PM, Jordan McQuown wrote: >> I can say from experience chaining supermicro sas chassis with any type of >> disk can be a recipe for disaster. Lsiutil reported a couple million errors >> in a couple months time which even

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] sata hba choice

Would, say, a scrub cause that kind of bus contention, and trigger the bad behavior? That would be rather problematic for ZFS if you couldn't even scrub your pool without devices dropping. I ask because I built a storage system with SATA on LSI HBAs, luckily went with direct connection without kn

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Correct syntax for ZFS sharenfs 'no root squash' on OI 148

The manpages have an answer, though it takes a bit to get there. The zfs man page, under sharenfs, redirects to the share manpage, which redirects to the share_nfs manpage, which after a bit of looking, has this gem: When specifying individual IP addresses, use the same @ notat

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Installing one package triggered upgrade

>> It may be that the installed root pool version was 5000 rather than 28 and >> the boot environment from 151a3 does not handle that (a5 would be needed). > > Is this something the user can fix? Or is the packaging broken? I don't think that you should be able to have the rpool at version 5000 wi

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] MPT SGL mem alloc failed

> The DMA alloc failure appears to be caused by improperly constrained > kernel memory usage. Probably unrelated to the driver in question, but > could be related to recent ZFS changes. Perhaps ::memstat prior to the > import and scrub of the pool in question may show something > significant. Prio

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] MPT SGL mem alloc failed

). Additionally, no mpt_sas errors in /var/adm/messages. Created bug #2994 for it: https://www.illumos.org/issues/2994 Not sure if newer firmware on the HBAs would help, but I will wait for someone to pick up the bug before trying anything. Tim On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 5:29 PM, Timothy Coalson wrote

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Seagate ST3000DM001

While I haven't used that particular model, if it mentions advanced format/smartalign, then it probably at least has a version that uses 4k sectors, and smartalign as I understand it basically means that the drive exposes this in a way that the OS can detect (part of the identify command I think?).

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] MPT SGL mem alloc failed

> there are configurable services for automatic snapshotting and zfs > send/receive, so it should be quite doable. > > svc:/system/filesystem/zfs/auto-snapshot:daily > svc:/system/filesystem/zfs/auto-snapshot:frequent > svc:/system/filesystem/zfs/auto-snapshot:hourly > svc:/system/filesystem/zfs/a

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] MPT SGL mem alloc failed

eeter). This machine also doesn't have nvidia graphics, so can't compare there, either. Tim On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 5:09 PM, Bill Sommerfeld wrote: > On 07/09/12 13:17, Timothy Coalson wrote: >> I upgraded a machine to oi_151a5 from oi_151a4 last week, and when its >> weekly

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] MPT SGL mem alloc failed

zfs send/receive over network would require a little more work to set up (managing snapshots manually, netcat or ssh tunnel). In theory, yes, it would be better for data integrity (though I am unclear as to what it does if a transmission error does occur, since the communication isn't 2-way, just

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] MPT SGL mem alloc failed

practice, I would not be surprised if half that were sufficient). > > - Rich > > On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 4:17 PM, Timothy Coalson wrote: >> I upgraded a machine to oi_151a5 from oi_151a4 last week, and when its >> weekly scrub rolled around, /var/adm/messages gath

[OpenIndiana-discuss] MPT SGL mem alloc failed

I upgraded a machine to oi_151a5 from oi_151a4 last week, and when its weekly scrub rolled around, /var/adm/messages gathered a lot of these, in groups of dozens at a time: Jul 7 01:15:21 myelin2 scsi: [ID 107833 kern.warning] WARNING: /pci@0,0/pci8086 ,340a@3/pci1000,30c0@0 (mpt_sas0): Jul 7 01