Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: system unresponsive after issuing a zpool attach

2006-08-16 Thread Jeff Bonwick
> And it started replacement/resilvering... after few minutes system became unavailbale. Reboot only gives me a few minutes, then resilvering make system unresponsible. > > Is there any workaroud or patch for this problem??? Argh, sorry -- the problem is that we don't do aggressive enough scrub

Re[2]: [zfs-discuss] zpool import - cannot mount [...] directory is not empty

2006-08-16 Thread Robert Milkowski
Hello Eric, Wednesday, August 16, 2006, 4:48:46 PM, you wrote: ES> What does 'zfs list -o name,mountpoint' and 'zfs mount' show after the ES> import? My only guess is that you have some explicit mountpoint set ES> that's confusing the DSl-orderered mounting code. If this is the case, ES> this w

Re: [zfs-discuss] system unresponsive after issuing a zpool attach

2006-08-16 Thread George Wilson
I believe this is what you're hitting: 6456888 zpool attach leads to memory exhaustion and system hang We are currently looking at fixing this so stay tuned. Thanks, George Daniel Rock wrote: Joseph Mocker schrieb: Today I attempted to upgrade to S10_U2 and migrate some mirrored UFS SVM part

Re: [zfs-discuss] Why is ZFS raidz slower than simple ufs mount?

2006-08-16 Thread Robert Milkowski
Hello Bob, Wednesday, August 16, 2006, 3:55:26 PM, you wrote: BE> Hi, this is a follow up to "Significant pauses to zfs writes". BE> I'm getting about 15% slower performance using ZFS raidz than if BE> I just mount the same type of drive using ufs. BE> Based on some of the suggestions I receive

[zfs-discuss] Re: system unresponsive after issuing a zpool attach

2006-08-16 Thread Rustam
I have similar behaviour on S10 U2 but in a different situation. I had working mirror with one of mirrors failed: mirror DEGRADED 0 0 0 c0d0 ONLINE 0 0 0 c0d1 UNAVAILABLE 0 0 0 After replacing corrupted hard disk i've run: # zpool replace tank c0d1 And it started replacement/resilvering... afte

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS write performance problem with compression set to ON

2006-08-16 Thread Jeff Bonwick
> - When the filesystems have compress=ON I see the following: reads from compressed filesystems come in waves; zpool will report for long durations (60+ seconds) no read activity while the write activity is consistently reported at 20MB/S (no variation in the write rate throughtout the test).

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS & se6920

2006-08-16 Thread Torrey McMahon
Wee Yeh Tan wrote: Hi all, My company will be acquiring the Sun SE6920 for our storage virtualization project and we intend to use quite a bit of ZFS as well. The 2 technologies seems somewhat at odds since the 6920 means layers of hardware abstraction but ZFS seems to prefer more direct access

[zfs-discuss] Re: ZFS write performance problem with compression set to ON

2006-08-16 Thread Anantha N. Srirama
Completely forgot to mention the OS in my previous post; Solaris 10 06/06. This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

[zfs-discuss] ZFS write performance problem with compression set to ON

2006-08-16 Thread Anantha N. Srirama
Test setup: - E2900 with 12 US-IV+ 1.5GHz processor, 96GB memory, 2x2Gbps FC HBAs, MPxIO in round-robbin config. - 50x64GB EMC disks presented on both 2 FCs. - ZFS pool defined using all 50 disks - Multiple ZFS filesystems built on the above pool. I'm observing the following: - When the

[zfs-discuss] Overview (rollup) of recent activity on zfs-discuss

2006-08-16 Thread Eric Boutilier
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Re: Re: Re: [zfs-discuss] multi-layer ZFS filesystems and exporting: my stupid question for the day

2006-08-16 Thread Joe Little
On 8/16/06, Frank Cusack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On August 16, 2006 10:34:31 AM -0700 Joe Little <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 8/16/06, Frank Cusack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On August 16, 2006 10:25:18 AM -0700 Joe Little <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > Is there a way to allow simple ex

Re: [zfs-discuss] neopath vs automount

2006-08-16 Thread Nicolas Williams
On Wed, Aug 16, 2006 at 01:09:59PM -0700, Frank Cusack wrote: > Sorry, I'm an email deleter, not a hoarder, so this is a new thread. > Usually I save a thread I'm interested in for awhile before killing it, > but I jumped the gun this time. Anyway ... > > I looked up neopath, cool product! See a

[zfs-discuss] neopath vs automount

2006-08-16 Thread Frank Cusack
Sorry, I'm an email deleter, not a hoarder, so this is a new thread. Usually I save a thread I'm interested in for awhile before killing it, but I jumped the gun this time. Anyway ... I looked up neopath, cool product! But ISTM that to use it would give up some zfs features like snapshots. I wo

Re: [zfs-discuss] Information on ZFS API?

2006-08-16 Thread Eric Schrock
On Wed, Aug 16, 2006 at 01:44:48PM -0400, William Fretts-Saxton wrote: > Perhaps this JNI code is what I'm looking for? > > http://cvs.opensolaris.org/source/xref/on/usr/src/lib/libzfs_jni/ > > It says the ZFS GUI uses this so, I'm assuming, anyone could. Although > I am a Java programmer, I ha

Re: Re: [zfs-discuss] multi-layer ZFS filesystems and exporting: my stupid question for the day

2006-08-16 Thread Frank Cusack
On August 16, 2006 10:34:31 AM -0700 Joe Little <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 8/16/06, Frank Cusack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On August 16, 2006 10:25:18 AM -0700 Joe Little <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there a way to allow simple export commands the traverse multiple > ZFS filesystems for e

Re: [zfs-discuss] Information on ZFS API?

2006-08-16 Thread William Fretts-Saxton
Perhaps this JNI code is what I'm looking for? http://cvs.opensolaris.org/source/xref/on/usr/src/lib/libzfs_jni/ It says the ZFS GUI uses this so, I'm assuming, anyone could. Although I am a Java programmer, I have ZERO experience with JNI. Am I on the right track? Bill Sommerfeld wrote:

Re: Re: [zfs-discuss] multi-layer ZFS filesystems and exporting: my stupid question for the day

2006-08-16 Thread Joe Little
On 8/16/06, Frank Cusack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On August 16, 2006 10:25:18 AM -0700 Joe Little <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there a way to allow simple export commands the traverse multiple > ZFS filesystems for exporting? I'd hate to have to have hundreds of > mounts required for every p

Re: [zfs-discuss] multi-layer ZFS filesystems and exporting: my stupid question for the day

2006-08-16 Thread Frank Cusack
On August 16, 2006 10:25:18 AM -0700 Joe Little <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Is there a way to allow simple export commands the traverse multiple ZFS filesystems for exporting? I'd hate to have to have hundreds of mounts required for every point in a given tree (we have users, projects, src, etc)

Re: [zfs-discuss] Information on ZFS API?

2006-08-16 Thread William Fretts-Saxton
This is my first post on the opensolaris.org forums. I'm still trying to figure out whether I'm actually on the zfs-discuss alias and, if not, how to add myself to it! Anyway, I'm looking for a way to get information like "zpool list" or "zfs get all " through an API instead of parsing the i

[zfs-discuss] multi-layer ZFS filesystems and exporting: my stupid question for the day

2006-08-16 Thread Joe Little
One of the things espoused on this list again and again is that quotas for users are not ideal, and that one should just make a filesystem per user. Ok.. I did that. I now have per just one "volume" within my pool some 380 odd users. By way of example, lets say I have /pool/common/users/user1 ...

Re: [zfs-discuss] Information on ZFS API?

2006-08-16 Thread Bill Sommerfeld
On Wed, 2006-08-16 at 11:49 -0400, Eric Enright wrote: > On 8/16/06, William Fretts-Saxton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm having trouble finding information on any hooks into ZFS. Is > > there information on a ZFS API so I can access ZFS information > > directly as opposed to having to const

Re: [zfs-discuss] Information on ZFS API?

2006-08-16 Thread Eric Enright
On 8/16/06, William Fretts-Saxton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm having trouble finding information on any hooks into ZFS. Is there information on a ZFS API so I can access ZFS information directly as opposed to having to constantly parse 'zpool' and 'zfs' command output? libzfs: http://cvs.

[zfs-discuss] Information on ZFS API?

2006-08-16 Thread William Fretts-Saxton
I'm having trouble finding information on any hooks into ZFS. Is there information on a ZFS API so I can access ZFS information directly as opposed to having to constantly parse 'zpool' and 'zfs' command output? This message posted from opensolaris.org ___

Re: [zfs-discuss] zpool import/export

2006-08-16 Thread Eric Schrock
This seems like a reasonable RFE. Feel free to file it at bugs.opensolaris.org. - Eric On Wed, Aug 16, 2006 at 06:44:44AM +0200, Robert Milkowski wrote: > Hello zfs-discuss, > > I do have several pools in a SAN shared environment where some pools > are mounted by one server and some by anot

Re: [zfs-discuss] zpool import - cannot mount [...] directory is not empty

2006-08-16 Thread Eric Schrock
What does 'zfs list -o name,mountpoint' and 'zfs mount' show after the import? My only guess is that you have some explicit mountpoint set that's confusing the DSl-orderered mounting code. If this is the case, this was fixed in build 46 (likely to be in S10u4) to always mount datasets in mountpoi

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Boot Disk

2006-08-16 Thread Dick Davies
On 16/08/06, Joerg Schilling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: "Dick Davies" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As an aside, is there a general method to generate bootable > opensolaris DVDs? The only way I know of getting opensolaris on > is installing sxcr and then BFUing on top. A year ago, I did publish

Re[2]: [zfs-discuss] zpool import - cannot mount [...] directory is not empty

2006-08-16 Thread Robert Milkowski
Hello Mark, Wednesday, August 16, 2006, 3:23:43 PM, you wrote: MM> Robert, MM> Are you sure that nfs-s5-p0/d5110 and nfs-s5-p0/d5111 are mounted MM> following the import? These messages imply that the d5110 and d5111 MM> directories in the top-level filesystem of pool nfs-s5-p0 are not MM> empt

Re: [zfs-discuss] zpool import - cannot mount [...] directory is not empty

2006-08-16 Thread Mark Maybee
Robert, Are you sure that nfs-s5-p0/d5110 and nfs-s5-p0/d5111 are mounted following the import? These messages imply that the d5110 and d5111 directories in the top-level filesystem of pool nfs-s5-p0 are not empty. Could you verify that 'df /nfs-s5-p0/d5110' displays nfs-s5-p0/d5110 as the "Fil

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Boot Disk

2006-08-16 Thread Joerg Schilling
"Dick Davies" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As an aside, is there a general method to generate bootable > opensolaris DVDs? The only way I know of getting opensolaris on > is installing sxcr and then BFUing on top. A year ago, I did publish a toolkit to create bootable SchilliX CDs/DVDs. Would thi

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS & se6920

2006-08-16 Thread Jerome Haynes-Smith
On Wednesday 16 August 2006 11:55, Wee Yeh Tan wrote: > Hi all, > > My company will be acquiring the Sun SE6920 for our storage > virtualization project and we intend to use quite a bit of ZFS as > well. The 2 technologies seems somewhat at odds since the 6920 means > layers of hardware abstractio

Re: [zfs-discuss] Apple Time Machine

2006-08-16 Thread Steve Hoelzer
On 8/7/06, Adam Leventhal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Needless to say, this was a pretty interesting piece of the keynote from a technical point of view that had quite a few of us scratching our heads. After talking to some Apple engineers, it seems like what they're doing is more or less this: W

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: Query on ZFS

2006-08-16 Thread James C. McPherson
Jaganraj Janarthanan wrote: Customer had come back saying. I've tried this and it doesn't work. It still displays the size as 1 gig after saying it's bringing the lun back online. Eric Schrock wrote On 08/15/06 20:49,: [ For ZFS discussions, try 'zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org' or '[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS & se6920

2006-08-16 Thread James C. McPherson
Wee Yeh Tan wrote: My company will be acquiring the Sun SE6920 for our storage virtualization project and we intend to use quite a bit of ZFS as well. The 2 technologies seems somewhat at odds since the 6920 means layers of hardware abstraction but ZFS seems to prefer more direct access to disk.

Re: [zfs-discuss] Tunable parameter to zfs memory use

2006-08-16 Thread James C. McPherson
homerun wrote: been using now zfs since 06/06 u2 release has been out. one thing have notised. zfs eats a lot of memory. right after boot mem usage is about 280M but after accessing zfs disks usage rises fast to be 900M. and it seems to stay in level of 90% of tot mem. also noted it frees used m

[zfs-discuss] ZFS & se6920

2006-08-16 Thread Wee Yeh Tan
Hi all, My company will be acquiring the Sun SE6920 for our storage virtualization project and we intend to use quite a bit of ZFS as well. The 2 technologies seems somewhat at odds since the 6920 means layers of hardware abstraction but ZFS seems to prefer more direct access to disk. I tried t

[zfs-discuss] Tunable parameter to zfs memory use

2006-08-16 Thread homerun
Hi been using now zfs since 06/06 u2 release has been out. one thing have notised. zfs eats a lot of memory. right after boot mem usage is about 280M but after accessing zfs disks usage rises fast to be 900M. and it seems to stay in level of 90% of tot mem. also noted it frees used mem but running