[zfs-discuss] ZFS write pauses and how TXG groups work

2008-08-08 Thread Tre Stylez
I currently have a Solaris u5 machine with 2gig memory and 6 disks in a RAIDZ config. When i write across the network to a smb/nfs share i notice a pause in the writes every 5seconds. Now from what i've read every 5seconds a TXG group goes in to the quiesced state and then gets sync'd to disk.

Re: [zfs-discuss] Poor ZFS performance when file system is close to full

2008-08-08 Thread Lance
> We had a situation where write speeds to a ZFS > consisting of 2 7TB RAID5 LUNs came to a crawl. Sounds like you've hit Bug# 6596237 "Stop looking and start ganging". We ran into the same problem on our X4500 Thumpers. Write throughput dropped to 200 KB/s. We now keep utilization under 90%

Re: [zfs-discuss] Booting from a USB HD

2008-08-08 Thread W. Wayne Liauh
> Your problem is almost certainly that your boot > device order differs, > probably due to thw BIOS differences you mention. Go > to the grub command > line, and do a "find /platform/i86pc/multiboot". Pay > attention to the > hd(n,m) it prints (I hope!) and edit your boot entry > to match. Once

Re: [zfs-discuss] RFE 4852783

2008-08-08 Thread Miles Nordin
> "t" == Tim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: t> Why would you have to buy smaller disks? You can replace the t> 320's with 1tb drives and after the last 320 is out of the t> raidgroup, it will grow automatically. This does work for me to grow a mirrored vdev on nevada b71. The w

Re: [zfs-discuss] resilver in progress - which disk is inconsistent?

2008-08-08 Thread Marion Hakanson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > AFAIK there is no way to tell resilvering to pause, so I want to detach the > inconsistent disk and attach it again tonight, when it won't affect users. To > do that I need to know which disk is inconsistent, but zpool status does not > show me any info in regard. > > Is

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs-auto-snapshot 0.11 work (was Re: zfs-auto-snapshot with at scheduling )

2008-08-08 Thread Dave
Tim Foster wrote: > On Wed, 2008-08-06 at 15:58 -0700, Rob wrote: >>> The other changes that will appear in 0.11 (which is >>> nearly done) are: >> Still looking forward to seeing .11 :) > > Wow, there's one user out there at least! Thanks! > Keep up the good work, Tim. There are more users of

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS on 32bit.

2008-08-08 Thread eric kustarz
I've filed specifically for ZFS: 6735425 some places where 64bit values are being incorrectly accessed on 32bit processors eric On Aug 6, 2008, at 1:59 PM, Brian D. Horn wrote: > In the most recent code base (both OpenSolaris/Nevada and S10Ux with > patches) > all the known marvell88sx probl

Re: [zfs-discuss] Kernel panic at zpool import

2008-08-08 Thread Richard Elling
There is a chance that a software bug or change has been made which will help you to recover from this. I suggest getting the latest SXCE DVD, booting single user, and attempt an import. Note: you may see a message indicating that you can upgrade the pool. Do not upgrade the pool if you intend t

[zfs-discuss] [install-discuss] lucreate into New ZFS pool

2008-08-08 Thread Johan Hartzenberg
Hello, Since I've got my disk partitioning sorted out now, I want to move my BE from the old disk to the new disk. I created a new zpool, named RPOOL for distinction with the existing "rpool". I then did lucreate -p RPOOL -n new95 This completed without error, the log is at the bottom of this ma

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs-auto-snapshot 0.11 work (was Re: zfs-auto-snapshot with at scheduling )

2008-08-08 Thread Tim Foster
On Wed, 2008-08-06 at 15:58 -0700, Rob wrote: > > The other changes that will appear in 0.11 (which is > > nearly done) are: > > Still looking forward to seeing .11 :) Wow, there's one user out there at least! Thanks! > Think we can expect a release soon? (or at least svn access so > that othe

[zfs-discuss] Jive Forum--Stupid? (Was: Booting from a USB HD)

2008-08-08 Thread W. Wayne Liauh
... > > However, I was unable to use this flash stick to > boot an Athlon X2 > > machine. Its MBR was read--and the GRUB options > were shown on the > > screen. But when I selected an option (e.g., the > rc3), the machine > > would go into the restart mode, and the GRUB screen > would be shown >

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs-auto-snapshot: Use at ? SMF prop caching?

2008-08-08 Thread Tim Foster
Hey Nils, On Sun, 2008-08-03 at 05:57 -0700, Nils Goroll wrote: > This does sound like a valid alternative solution for this requirement if you > want to avoid using "at", though this will involve additional complexity for > parsing timestamps of existing snapshots and calculating intervals, which

[zfs-discuss] resilver in progress - which disk is inconsistent?

2008-08-08 Thread Justin Vassallo
Hi, I've got a 'resilver in progress'. Since resilvering is slowing my pool down incredibly (db queries taking 20 times longer than normal), I want to pause the resilvering. AFAIK there is no way to tell resilvering to pause, so I want to detach the inconsistent disk and attach it again ton