Re: [zfs-discuss] Recommended many-port SATA controllers for budget ZFS

2007-11-02 Thread Al Hopper
On Fri, 2 Nov 2007, Peter Schuller wrote: snip > Does anyone have suggestions on what to choose, that will actually work the > way you want it for JBOD use with ZFS? Or avenus of investigation? Is there > any chance of a lowly consumer getting any information out of LSI? Is there

Re: [zfs-discuss] Force SATA1 on AOC-SAT2-MV8

2007-11-02 Thread Al Hopper
On Fri, 2 Nov 2007, Eric Haycraft wrote: reformatted > I have a supermicro AOC-SAT2-MV8 and am having some issues getting > drives to work. From what I can tell, my cables are to long to use > with SATA2. I got some drives to work by jumpering them down to > sata1, but other drives I c

Re: [zfs-discuss] Recommended many-port SATA controllers for budget ZFS

2007-11-02 Thread Andy Lubel
Marvell controllers work great with solaris. Supermicro AOC-SAT2-MV8 is what I currently use. I bought it on recommendation from this list actually. I think I paid 110$ for mine. -Andy On 11/2/07 4:10 PM, "Peter Schuller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > Short version: Can anyone reco

Re: [zfs-discuss] the number of mount points

2007-11-02 Thread Christine Tran
Hidehiko Jono wrote: > Hi, > > IHAC who wants to use ZFS for user's home directory. > He is worry about the number of mount points. > Does ZFS have any limitation about the number of mount points in a server? > No limit as far as I know, but you may want to check out CR 6425094; that one has to

[zfs-discuss] Recommended many-port SATA controllers for budget ZFS

2007-11-02 Thread Peter Schuller
Hello, Short version: Can anyone recommend a *many port* (8 or more) SATA/SAS controller (RAID or otherwise) that will allow *SAFE* use of ZFS, including honoring cache flush commands in the sense of submitting them to the underlying device, that is also *low budget* (suitable for personal use;

Re: [zfs-discuss] Force SATA1 on AOC-SAT2-MV8

2007-11-02 Thread Andy Lubel
Jumpering drives by removing the cover? Do you mean opening the chassis because they aren't removable from the outside? Your cable is longer than 1 meter inside of a chasis?? I think sataI is 2 meters and sataII is 1 meter. As far as a system setting for demoting these to sataI I don't know, b

Re: [zfs-discuss] Backport of vfs_zfsacl.c to samba 3.0.26a, [and NexentaStor]

2007-11-02 Thread Joe Little
On 11/2/07, Rob Logan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm confused by this and NexentaStor... wouldn't it be better > to use b77? with: > > Heads Up: File system framework changes (supplement to CIFS' "head's up") > Heads Up: Flag Day (Addendum) (CIFS Service) > Heads Up: Flag Day (CIFS Service) > c

Re: [zfs-discuss] What is the correct way to replace a good disk?

2007-11-02 Thread Bill Sommerfeld
On Fri, 2007-11-02 at 11:20 -0700, Chris Williams wrote: > I have a 9-bay JBOD configured as a raidz2. One of the disks, which > is on-line and fine, needs to be swapped out and replaced. I have > been looking though the zfs admin guide and am confused on how I > should go about swapping out. I

[zfs-discuss] ZFS Jumpstart integration and the amazing invisible zpool.cache

2007-11-02 Thread Dave Pratt
I've been wrestling with implementing some ZFS mounts for /var and /usr into a jumpstart setup. I know that jumpstart does "know" anything about zfs as in your can't define ZFS volumes or pools in the profile. I've gone ahead and let the JS do a base install into a single ufs slice and the

Re: [zfs-discuss] What is the correct way to replace a good disk?

2007-11-02 Thread Cindy . Swearingen
Chris, You need to use the zpool replace command. I recently enhanced this section of the admin guide with more explicit instructions on page 68, here: http://opensolaris.org/os/community/zfs/docs/zfsadmin.pdf If these are hot-swappable disks, for example, c0t1d0, then use this syntax: # zpool

Re: [zfs-discuss] first public offering of NexentaStor

2007-11-02 Thread Tim Spriggs
Joe Little wrote: > On 11/2/07, MC <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> I consider myself an early adopter of ZFS and pushed >>> it hard on this >>> list and in real life with regards to iSCSI >>> integration, zfs >>> performance issues with latency there of, and how >>> best to use it with >>> NFS.

[zfs-discuss] What is the correct way to replace a good disk?

2007-11-02 Thread Chris Williams
I have a 9-bay JBOD configured as a raidz2. One of the disks, which is on-line and fine, needs to be swapped out and replaced. I have been looking though the zfs admin guide and am confused on how I should go about swapping out. I though I could put the disk off-line, remove it, put a new dis

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS very slow under xVM

2007-11-02 Thread Gary Pennington
Hmm, I just repeated this test on my system: bash-3.2# uname -a SunOS soe-x4200m2-6 5.11 onnv-gate:2007-11-02 i86pc i386 i86xpv bash-3.2# prtconf | more System Configuration: Sun Microsystems i86pc Memory size: 7945 Megabytes bash-3.2# prtdiag | more System Configuration: Sun Microsystems Sun

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS very slow under xVM

2007-11-02 Thread Martin
I've removed half the memory, leaving 4Gb, and rebooted into "Solaris xVM", and re-tried under Dom0. Sadly, I still get a similar problem. With "dd if=/dev/zero of=myfile bs=16k count=15" I get command returning in 15 seconds, and "zpool iostat 1 1000" shows 22 records with an IO rate of a

[zfs-discuss] Force SATA1 on AOC-SAT2-MV8

2007-11-02 Thread Eric Haycraft
I have a supermicro AOC-SAT2-MV8 and am having some issues getting drives to work. From what I can tell, my cables are to long to use with SATA2. I got some drives to work by jumpering them down to sata1, but other drives I can't jumper without opening the case and voiding the drive warranty. Do

Re: [zfs-discuss] first public offering of NexentaStor

2007-11-02 Thread Joe Little
On 11/2/07, MC <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I consider myself an early adopter of ZFS and pushed > > it hard on this > > list and in real life with regards to iSCSI > > integration, zfs > > performance issues with latency there of, and how > > best to use it with > > NFS. Well, I finally get to t

Re: [zfs-discuss] Backport of vfs_zfsacl.c to samba 3.0.26a, [and NexentaStor]

2007-11-02 Thread Rob Logan
I'm confused by this and NexentaStor... wouldn't it be better to use b77? with: Heads Up: File system framework changes (supplement to CIFS' "head's up") Heads Up: Flag Day (Addendum) (CIFS Service) Heads Up: Flag Day (CIFS Service) caller_context_t in all VOPs - PSARC/2007/218 VFS Feature Regist

[zfs-discuss] Backport of vfs_zfsacl.c to samba 3.0.26a

2007-11-02 Thread Carson Gaspar
As 3.2.0 isn't released yet, and I didn't want to wait, I've backported vfs_zfsacl.c from SAMBA_3_2. You can grab the patch from http://taltos.dreamhosters.com/samba-3.0.26a.zfs.patch if interested. It all appears to work, although Vista complains about ACL ordering. -- Carson ___

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS very slow under xVM

2007-11-02 Thread Jürgen Keil
> I've got Solaris Express Community Edition build 75 > (75a) installed on an Asus P5K-E/WiFI-AP (ip35/ICH9R > based) board. CPU=Q6700, RAM=8Gb, disk=Samsung > HD501LJ and (older) Maxtor 6H500F0. > > When the O/S is running on bare metal, ie no xVM/Xen > hypervisor, then everything is fine. > >

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS very slow under xVM

2007-11-02 Thread Paul Kraus
On 11/1/07, Nathan Kroenert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Tell me - If you watch with an iostat -x 1, do you see bursts of I/O > then periods of nothing, or just a slow stream of data? > > I was seeing intermittent stoppages in I/O, with bursts of data on > occasion... I have seen this wit

Re: [zfs-discuss] first public offering of NexentaStor

2007-11-02 Thread MC
> I consider myself an early adopter of ZFS and pushed > it hard on this > list and in real life with regards to iSCSI > integration, zfs > performance issues with latency there of, and how > best to use it with > NFS. Well, I finally get to talk more about the > ZFS-based product I've > been beta