[zfs-discuss] Corrupted pool

2006-12-14 Thread Ricardo Correia
Hi, I've been using a ZFS pool inside a VMware'd NexentaOS, on a single real disk partition, for a few months in order to store some backups. Today I noticed that there were some directories missing inside 2 separate filesystems, which I found strange. I went to the backup logs (also stored in

[zfs-discuss] Re: Re: ZFS Storage Pool advice

2006-12-14 Thread Kory Wheatley
Basically then wilth data being stored on the ZFS disks (no applications), and web servers logs, it would benefit us more to have the 3 luns setup in one ZFS Storage Pool? This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-dis

Re[2]: [zfs-discuss] Re: ZFS Storage Pool advice

2006-12-14 Thread Robert Milkowski
Hello Casper, Thursday, December 14, 2006, 6:40:31 PM, you wrote: >>Bill Sommerfeld wrote: >>> Similarly, the bulk of the synchronous I/O done during the import of SMF >>> manifests early in boot after an install or upgrade are wasted effort.. >> >>I've done hundreds of installs. Empirically, my

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS questions

2006-12-14 Thread Darren Dunham
> 1. Can I create ZFS volumes on a ZFS file system from one server, > attach the file system read-write to a different server (to load data), > then detach the file system from that server and attach the file system > read-only to multiple other servers? I don't think so today. Th

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS questions

2006-12-14 Thread Rich Teer
On Thu, 14 Dec 2006, Dave Burleson wrote: > 1. Can I create ZFS volumes on a ZFS file system from one server, > attach the file system read-write to a different server (to load data), > then detach the file system from that server and attach the file system > read-only to multiple oth

[zfs-discuss] ZFS questions

2006-12-14 Thread Dave Burleson
I will have a file system in a SAN using ZFS. Can someone answer my questions? 1. Can I create ZFS volumes on a ZFS file system from one server, attach the file system read-write to a different server (to load data), then detach the file system from that server and attach the file syst

Re: [zfs-discuss] Solaris 11/06 + iscsi integration

2006-12-14 Thread Adam Leventhal
Hey Robert, The iSCSI target is targetting Solaris 10 update 4. There wasn't any issue with the target, rather it was the timing of the its integration into Nevada, and the sheer quantity of projects targetting update 3. Adam On Thu, Dec 14, 2006 at 02:39:17PM -0500, Robert Petkus wrote: > Folks

[zfs-discuss] Solaris 11/06 + iscsi integration

2006-12-14 Thread Robert Petkus
Folks, Just wondering why iSCSI target disk support didn't make it into the latest Solaris release. Were there any problems? Robert -- Robert Petkus Brookhaven National Laboratory Physics Dept. - Bldg. 510A http://www.bnl.gov/RHIC http://www.acf.bnl.gov __

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: ZFS Storage Pool advice

2006-12-14 Thread Casper . Dik
>Bill Sommerfeld wrote: >> Similarly, the bulk of the synchronous I/O done during the import of SMF >> manifests early in boot after an install or upgrade are wasted effort.. > >I've done hundreds of installs. Empirically, my observation is that >the SMF manifest import scales well with processor

Re: [zfs-discuss] How does zfs mount at boot? How to let the system not to mount zfs?

2006-12-14 Thread Long Tran
Thanks Louwtjie and Darren. On 12/14/06, storage-disk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi all, I hope that I this is not the old thread. I'd like to know how zfs get mounted. After a pool is created, zfs got mounted? Where is the record? Which file got written? Traditional /etc/vfstab will mount

[zfs-discuss] ztest - ZFS developer maintained test suite

2006-12-14 Thread Jim Walker
Mike Byrne did a nice write-up on ztest at: http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/zfs/ztest Bill Moore also discusses ztest in his blog at: http://blogs.sun.com/bill/date/20051116 This is a "whitebox" test suite that is maintained by the ZFS developers, and is in the ON source code base on op

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: ZFS Storage Pool advice

2006-12-14 Thread eric kustarz
Roch - PAE wrote: Right on. And you might want to capture this in a blog for reference. The permalink will be quite useful. such as: http://blogs.sun.com/erickustarz/entry/zil_disable ? We did have a use case for zil synchronicity which was a big user controlled transaction : turn

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: ZFS Storage Pool advice

2006-12-14 Thread Richard Elling
Bill Sommerfeld wrote: Similarly, the bulk of the synchronous I/O done during the import of SMF manifests early in boot after an install or upgrade are wasted effort.. I've done hundreds of installs. Empirically, my observation is that the SMF manifest import scales well with processors. In o

Re: [zfs-discuss] How does zfs mount at boot? How to let the system not to mount zfs?

2006-12-14 Thread Darren J Moffat
storage-disk wrote: Hi all, I hope that I this is not the old thread. I'd like to know how zfs get mounted. After a pool is created, zfs got mounted? Where is the record? Which file got written? Traditional /etc/vfstab will mount all entries in that file. Where does Solaris find zfs mount

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: ZFS Storage Pool advice

2006-12-14 Thread James F. Hranicky
Anton B. Rang wrote: > The ZIL is a necessary part of ZFS. Just because the ZFS file structure will > be consistent after a system crash even with the ZIL disabled does not mean > that disabling it is safe! Is there a list of battery-backed RAID controllers supported by Solaris x86 somewhere? Doe

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: ZFS Storage Pool advice

2006-12-14 Thread Bill Sommerfeld
On Thu, 2006-12-14 at 11:33 +0100, Roch - PAE wrote: > We did have a use case for zil synchronicity which was a > big user controlled transaction : > > turn zil off > do tons of thing to the filesystem. > big sync > turn zil back on Yep. The bulk of the "heavy lifting" o

[zfs-discuss] How does zfs mount at boot? How to let the system not to mount zfs?

2006-12-14 Thread storage-disk
Hi all, I hope that I this is not the old thread. I'd like to know how zfs get mounted. After a pool is created, zfs got mounted? Where is the record? Which file got written? Traditional /etc/vfstab will mount all entries in that file. Where does Solaris find zfs mount at boot? How to I tell

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: ZFS Usage in Warehousing (lengthy intro, now slightly OT)

2006-12-14 Thread Brian Hechinger
On Wed, Dec 13, 2006 at 03:39:58PM -0800, Richard Elling wrote: > Jochen M. Kaiser wrote: > >Didn't find any decent SAS controllers though, qlogic has some, > >but the PCIe model with two external ports isn't supported on > >Solaris. The single port model would work though... > > We (Sun) sell LSI

[zfs-discuss] ZFS NFS/Samba server advice

2006-12-14 Thread Yuri Chebotarev
Hi there! I want to build el cheapo ZFS NFS/Samba server for storing user files and NFS mail storage. I'm planning to have one 0.5Tb SATA2 ZFS RAID10 pool with several filesystems: 1) 200 Gb filesystem with ~300K user files, shared with Samba, about 10 clients, very light load. 2) 15-20 Gb fil

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: Re: ZFS Usage in Warehousing (no more lengthy intro)

2006-12-14 Thread Robert Milkowski
Hello Jochen, Wednesday, December 13, 2006, 10:35:22 PM, you wrote: JMK> Robert, >> It's not that bad with CPU usage. >> For example with RAID-Z2 while doing scrub I get >> something like >> 800MB/s read from disks (550-600MB/s from zpool >> iostat perspective) >> and all four cores are mostly c

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: ZFS Storage Pool advice

2006-12-14 Thread Roch - PAE
Right on. And you might want to capture this in a blog for reference. The permalink will be quite useful. We did have a use case for zil synchronicity which was a big user controlled transaction : turn zil off do tons of thing to the filesystem. big sync turn zil