Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS questions with mirrors

2006-08-21 Thread George Wilson
Peter, Are you sure your customer is not hitting this: 6456939 sd_send_scsi_SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE_biodone() can issue TUR which calls biowait()and deadlock/hangs host I have a fix that you could have your customer try. Thanks, George Peter Wilk wrote: IHAC that is asking the following. any tho

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: SCSI synchronize cache cmd

2006-08-21 Thread Bill Moore
On Mon, Aug 21, 2006 at 02:40:40PM -0700, Anton B. Rang wrote: > Yes, ZFS uses this command very frequently. However, it only does this > if the whole disk is under the control of ZFS, I believe; so a > workaround could be to use slices rather than whole disks when > creating a ZFS pool on a buggy

Re: [zfs-discuss] Niagara and ZFS compression?

2006-08-21 Thread Mike Gerdts
On 8/21/06, Richard Elling - PAE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I haven't done measurements of this in years, but...I'll wager that compression is memory bound, not CPU bound, for today'sservers.  A system with low latency and high bandwidth memory will performwell (UltraSPARC-T1).  Threading may not h

[zfs-discuss] Re: SCSI synchronize cache cmd

2006-08-21 Thread Anton B. Rang
Yes, ZFS uses this command very frequently. However, it only does this if the whole disk is under the control of ZFS, I believe; so a workaround could be to use slices rather than whole disks when creating a ZFS pool on a buggy device. This message posted from opensolaris.org

Re: [zfs-discuss] destroyed pools signatures

2006-08-21 Thread eric kustarz
Robert Milkowski wrote: Hello zfs-discuss, I've got many ydisks in a JBOD (>100) and while doing tests there are lot of destroyed pools. Then some disks are re-used to be part of new pools. Now if I do zpool import -D I can see lot of destroyed pool in a state that I can't import them anywa

[zfs-discuss] SCSI synchronize cache cmd

2006-08-21 Thread Steve Powers
Hi, I work on a support team for the Sun StorEdge 6920 and have a question about the use of the SCSI sync cache command in Solaris and ZFS. We have a bug in our 6920 software that exposes us to a memory leak when we receive the SCSI sync cache command: 6456312 - SCSI Synchronize Cache Command is

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Load-balancing over vdevs vs. real disks?

2006-08-21 Thread eric kustarz
Constantin Gonzalez wrote: Hi, my ZFS pool for my home server is a bit unusual: pool: pelotillehue state: ONLINE scrub: scrub completed with 0 errors on Mon Aug 21 06:10:13 2006 config: NAMESTATE READ WRITE CKSUM pelotillehue ONLINE 0 0 0 m

Re: [zfs-discuss] Niagara and ZFS compression?

2006-08-21 Thread Richard Elling - PAE
Mike Gerdts wrote: not an expert, but most if not all compression is integer based, and I don't think floating point is supported inside the kernel anyway so it has to be integer based. Not too long ago Roch said "compression runs in the context of a single thread per pool", which makes me wor

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS questions with mirrors

2006-08-21 Thread Eric Schrock
The current behavior depends on the implementation of the driver and support for hotplug events. When a drive is yanked, one of two things can happen: - I/Os will fail, and any attempt to re-open the device will result in failure. - I/Os will fail, but the device can continued to be opened by

RE: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Filesytem Corrpution

2006-08-21 Thread Srivastava, Sanjaya
I agree with you, but only 50%. Mirroring will only mask the problem and will delay the fs corruption (Depending on who zfs responds to data corruption. Does it go back and recheck the blocks later or just marks them bad?) The problem lies in somewhere in hardware, but certainly not in disks.

[zfs-discuss] ZFS questions with mirrors

2006-08-21 Thread Peter Wilk
IHAC that is asking the following. any thoughts would be appreciated Take two drives, zpool to make a mirror. Remove a drive - and the server HANGS. Power off and reboot the server, and everything comes up cleanly. Take the same two drives (still Solaris 10). Install Veritas Volume Manager (4.1).

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

2006-08-21 Thread Anantha N. Srirama
I've a few questions: - Does 'zpool iostat' report numbers from the top of the ZFS stack or at the bottom? I've corelated the zpool iostat numbers with the system iostat numbers and they matchup. This tells me the numbers are from the 'bottom' of the ZFS stack, right? Having said that it'd be

Re: [zfs-discuss] in-kernel gzip compression

2006-08-21 Thread Michael Shapiro
> Matthew Ahrens wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 02:53:09PM +0200, Robert Milkowski wrote: > >> Hello zfs-discuss, > >> > >> Is someone actually working on it? Or any other algorithms? > >> Any dates? > > > > Not that I know of. Any volunteers? :-) > > > > (Actually, I think that a RLE c

Re: [zfs-discuss] zpool iostat, scrubbing increases used disk space

2006-08-21 Thread Cindy Swearingen
Hi Ricardo, Nevermind my previous email. I think what happened is that a new set of Solaris Express man pages was downloaded over the weekened for the SX 8/06 and this breaks the links on the opensolaris...zfs page. Noel, thanks for fixing them. I'll set a reminder to fix these for every Solari

Re: [zfs-discuss] Proposal: user-defined properties

2006-08-21 Thread Eric Schrock
On Mon, Aug 21, 2006 at 12:21:44PM +0200, Roch wrote: > > We might need something to 'destroy' those properties, locally and > recursively ? This is what this piece of text is for: "Inheriting a property which is not set in any parent is equivalent to clearing the property, as there is no defaul

Re: [zfs-discuss] Proposal: user-defined properties

2006-08-21 Thread Roch
Eric Schrock writes: > Following up on a string of related proposals, here is another draft > proposal for user-defined properties. As usual, all feedback and > comments are welcome. > > The prototype is finished, and I would expect the code to be integrated > sometime within the next mon

Re: [zfs-discuss] destroyed pools signatures

2006-08-21 Thread Roch
Hi Robert, Maybe this RFE would contribute to alleviate your problem: 6417135 need generic way to dissociate disk or slice from it's filesystem http://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6417135 -r Robert Milkowski writes: > Hello zfs-discuss, > > I've got many y

[zfs-discuss] pool ID

2006-08-21 Thread Robert Milkowski
Hello zfs-discuss, Looks like I can't get pool ID once pool is imported. IMHO zpool show should display it also. -- Best regards, Robert mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://milek.blogspot.com

[zfs-discuss] destroyed pools signatures

2006-08-21 Thread Robert Milkowski
Hello zfs-discuss, I've got many ydisks in a JBOD (>100) and while doing tests there are lot of destroyed pools. Then some disks are re-used to be part of new pools. Now if I do zpool import -D I can see lot of destroyed pool in a state that I can't import them anyway (like only two disks

[zfs-discuss] ZFS Load-balancing over vdevs vs. real disks?

2006-08-21 Thread Constantin Gonzalez
Hi, my ZFS pool for my home server is a bit unusual: pool: pelotillehue state: ONLINE scrub: scrub completed with 0 errors on Mon Aug 21 06:10:13 2006 config: NAMESTATE READ WRITE CKSUM pelotillehue ONLINE 0 0 0 mirrorONLINE 0