Re: [zfs-discuss] Inconcistancies with scrub and zdb

2008-05-05 Thread Jonathan Loran
Jonathan Loran wrote: > Since no one has responded to my thread, I have a question: Is zdb > suitable to run on a live pool? Or should it only be run on an exported > or destroyed pool? In fact, I see that it has been asked before on this > forum, but is there a users guide to zdb? > >

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS and Linux

2008-05-05 Thread Bill McGonigle
Is it also true that ZFS can't be re-implemented in GPLv2 code because then the CDDL-based patent protections don't apply? This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/m

Re: [zfs-discuss] sharesmb settings not working with some filesystems

2008-05-05 Thread Rob
> cannot share 'tank/software': smb add share failed you meant to post this in storage-discuss but type: chmod 777 /tank/software zfs set sharesmb=name=software tank/software ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.openso

[zfs-discuss] sharesmb settings not working with some filesystems

2008-05-05 Thread Benjamin Staffin
This is really strange. Check out this error: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# zfs get sharesmb tank/software tank/music NAME PROPERTY VALUE SOURCE tank/music sharesmb offdefault tank/software sharesmb offdefault (same begin state for both filesystems) [E

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS still crashing after patch

2008-05-05 Thread eric kustarz
On May 5, 2008, at 4:43 PM, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > On Mon, 5 May 2008, eric kustarz wrote: >> >> That's not true: >> http://blogs.sun.com/erickustarz/entry/zil_disable >> >> Perhaps people are using "consistency" to mean different things >> here... > > Consistency means that fsync() assures t

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS and disk usage management?

2008-05-05 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Mon, 5 May 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > The problem is the fact that NFS mounts cannot be done across > filesystems as implemented with ZFS and Solaris 10. For example, we have > client machines mounting to /groups/accounting... but we also have > clients mounting to /groups directly. On my

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS still crashing after patch

2008-05-05 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Mon, 5 May 2008, Marcelo Leal wrote: > I'm calling consistency, "a coherent local view"... > I think that was one option to debug (if not a NFS server), without > generate a corrupted filesystem. In other words your flight reservation will not be lost if the system crashes. Bob ==

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS still crashing after patch

2008-05-05 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Mon, 5 May 2008, eric kustarz wrote: > > That's not true: > http://blogs.sun.com/erickustarz/entry/zil_disable > > Perhaps people are using "consistency" to mean different things here... Consistency means that fsync() assures that the data will be written to disk so no data is lost. It is not

[zfs-discuss] ZFS and disk usage management?

2008-05-05 Thread John.Stewart
After struggling for some time to try and wedge a ZFS file server into our environment, I have come to the conclusion that I'm simply going to have to live without quotas. They have been immensely useful in the past 5 years or so in allowing us to keep track of which groups are hogging disk space

Re: [zfs-discuss] Inconcistancies with scrub and zdb

2008-05-05 Thread Jonathan Loran
Since no one has responded to my thread, I have a question: Is zdb suitable to run on a live pool? Or should it only be run on an exported or destroyed pool? In fact, I see that it has been asked before on this forum, but is there a users guide to zdb? Thanks, Jon -- - _/

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS still crashing after patch

2008-05-05 Thread eric kustarz
On May 5, 2008, at 1:43 PM, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > On Mon, 5 May 2008, Marcelo Leal wrote: > >> Hello, If you believe that the problem can be related to ZIL code, >> you can try to disable it to debug (isolate) the problem. If it is >> not a fileserver (NFS), disabling the zil should not impact

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS still crashing after patch

2008-05-05 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Mon, 5 May 2008, Marcelo Leal wrote: > Hello, If you believe that the problem can be related to ZIL code, > you can try to disable it to debug (isolate) the problem. If it is > not a fileserver (NFS), disabling the zil should not impact > consistency. In what way is NFS special when it come

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS still crashing after patch

2008-05-05 Thread Rustam
Hello Leal, I've been already warned (http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/message.jspa?messageID=231349) that ZIL could be a cause and I made tests with zil_disabled. I run scrub and system crashed exactly at after the same period and the same error. ZIL known to cause some problems on writes, whi

[zfs-discuss] read errors observed after scrub

2008-05-05 Thread Jeremy Kister
I have a Solaris 10u3 x86 patched up with the important kernel/zfs/fs patches (now running kernel 120012-14). after executing a 'zpool scrub' on one of my pools, i see I/O read errors: # zpool status | grep ONLINE | grep -v '0 0 0' state: ONLINE c2t1d0 ONLINE 9

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS still crashing after patch

2008-05-05 Thread Marcelo Leal
Hello, If you believe that the problem can be related to ZIL code, you can try to disable it to debug (isolate) the problem. If it is not a fileserver (NFS), disabling the zil should not impact consistency. Leal. This message posted from opensolaris.org

Re: [zfs-discuss] Issue with simultaneous IO to lots of ZFS pools

2008-05-05 Thread Chris Siebenmann
[Jeff Bonwick:] | That said, I suspect I know the reason for the particular problem | you're seeing: we currently do a bit too much vdev-level caching. | Each vdev can have up to 10MB of cache. With 132 pools, even if | each pool is just a single iSCSI device, that's 1.32GB of cache. | | We need

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS still crashing after patch

2008-05-05 Thread Richard Elling
Rustam wrote: > Hello Robert, > >> Which would happen if you have problem with HW and you're getting >> wring checksums on both side of your mirrors. Maybe PS? >> >> Try memtest anyway or sunvts >> > Unfortunately, SunVTS doesn't run on non-Sun/OEM hardware. And memtest > requires too much

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS still crashing after patch

2008-05-05 Thread Rustam
Hello Robert, > Which would happen if you have problem with HW and you're getting > wring checksums on both side of your mirrors. Maybe PS? > > Try memtest anyway or sunvts Unfortunately, SunVTS doesn't run on non-Sun/OEM hardware. And memtest requires too much downtime which I cannot afford right