[zfs-discuss] [OT] Multipathing on Mac OS X

2007-03-01 Thread Ben Gollmer
This is pretty OT, but a bit ago there was some discussion of Mac OS X's multipathing support (or its lack thereof). According to this technote, multipathing support has been included Mac OS X since 10.3.5, but there are some particular requirements on the target devices & HBAs. http://de

Re: [zfs-discuss] FAULTED ZFS volume even though it is mirrored

2007-03-01 Thread Dan Mick
Luke Scharf wrote: This is also OT -- but what is the boot-archive, really? Is it analogous to the initrd on Linux? precisely. ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] FAULTED ZFS volume even though it is mirrored

2007-03-01 Thread Luke Scharf
Frank Cusack wrote: On March 1, 2007 12:19:22 AM -0800 Jeff Bonwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: import it. Assuming this works, you can fix the stupid boot archive thank you. i hate the boot archive. i have just spent MANY unnecessary hours on some machines thanks to the stupid boot archive.

Re: [zfs-discuss] FAULTED ZFS volume even though it is mirrored

2007-03-01 Thread Frank Cusack
On March 1, 2007 12:19:22 AM -0800 Jeff Bonwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: import it. Assuming this works, you can fix the stupid boot archive thank you. i hate the boot archive. i have just spent MANY unnecessary hours on some machines thanks to the stupid boot archive. (sorry, OT) -frank

Re: [zfs-discuss] renumbering and its potential side effects.

2007-03-01 Thread Eric Schrock
It should not matter if the controller numbers have changed. There are a few scenarios: 1. If the pool is active, and the underlying driver supports devids, then ZFS will still be able to open the correct devices. If the underlying driver doesn't support devids, or if the devids have al

[zfs-discuss] Re: Why number of NFS threads jumps to the max value?

2007-03-01 Thread Leon Koll
Hi Jim, here are the answers to your questions : > > What size and type of server? SUNW,Sun-Fire-V240, Memory size: 2048 Megabytes > What size and type of storage? SAN-attached storage array, dual-path 2GB FC connection 4 LUNs 96GB each : # mpathadm list lu /dev/rdsk/c3t001738010140003

Re: [zfs-discuss] renumbering and its potential side effects.

2007-03-01 Thread Nicolas Williams
On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 11:05:44AM -0500, ozan s. yigit wrote: > i am forced to reinstall s10u3 on my x4500. SP 1.1.1. exported zpool, > and discovered during the reinstall that the controller numbers have > changed. what used to be c5t0d0 is now c6t0d0. it it happens the exported > zpool is using

Re: [zfs-discuss] renumbering and its potential side effects.

2007-03-01 Thread Wade . Stuart
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 03/01/2007 10:05:44 AM: > i am forced to reinstall s10u3 on my x4500. SP 1.1.1. exported zpool, > and discovered during the reinstall that the controller numbers have > changed. what used to be c5t0d0 is now c6t0d0. it it happens the exported > zpool is using only h

[zfs-discuss] renumbering and its potential side effects.

2007-03-01 Thread ozan s. yigit
i am forced to reinstall s10u3 on my x4500. SP 1.1.1. exported zpool, and discovered during the reinstall that the controller numbers have changed. what used to be c5t0d0 is now c6t0d0. it it happens the exported zpool is using only half the disks, and has no reference to a c6t0d0, but still a d

Re[4]: [zfs-discuss] FAULTED ZFS volume even though it ismirrored

2007-03-01 Thread Robert Milkowski
Hello Stuart, Thursday, March 1, 2007, 2:02:26 PM, you wrote: > Heya, > SL> 1) Doing a zpool destroy on the volume > SL> 2) Doing a zpool import -D on the volume > SL> It would appear to me that primarily what has occurred is one or all of > SL> the metadata stores ZFS has created have

[zfs-discuss] Re: Cluster File System Use Cases

2007-03-01 Thread Dagobert Michelsen
Hi, my main interest is sharing a zpool between machines, so the zfs filesystems on different hosts can share a single lun. When you run several applications each in a different zone and allow the zones to be run on one of several hosts individually (!) this currently means at least one separat

Re: Re[2]: [zfs-discuss] FAULTED ZFS volume even though it is mirrored

2007-03-01 Thread Stuart Low
Heya, > SL> 1) Doing a zpool destroy on the volume > SL> 2) Doing a zpool import -D on the volume > SL> It would appear to me that primarily what has occurred is one or all of > SL> the metadata stores ZFS has created have become corrupt? Will a zpool > SL> import -D ignore metadata and rebuild us

Re[2]: [zfs-discuss] FAULTED ZFS volume even though it is mirrored

2007-03-01 Thread Robert Milkowski
Hello Stuart, Thursday, March 1, 2007, 4:25:14 AM, you wrote: SL> Further to this, I've considered doing the following: SL> 1) Doing a zpool destroy on the volume SL> 2) Doing a zpool import -D on the volume SL> It would appear to me that primarily what has occurred is one or all of SL> the met

Re: [zfs-discuss] FAULTED ZFS volume even though it is mirrored

2007-03-01 Thread Stuart Low
Hi Jeff, > One possibility: I've seen this happen when a system doesn't shut down > cleanly after the last change to the pool configuration. In this case, > what can happen is that the boot archive (an annoying implementation > detail of the new boot architecture) can be out of date relative to >

Re: [zfs-discuss] FAULTED ZFS volume even though it is mirrored

2007-03-01 Thread Jeff Bonwick
> However, I logged in this morning to discover that the ZFS volume could > not be read. In addition, it appears to have marked all drives, mirrors > & the volume itself as 'corrupted'. One possibility: I've seen this happen when a system doesn't shut down cleanly after the last change to the pool