Re: [zfs-discuss] x4500 vs AVS ?

2008-09-16 Thread Ralf Ramge
Jorgen Lundman wrote: > If we were interested in finding a method to replicate data to a 2nd > x4500, what other options are there for us? If you already have an X4500, I think the best option for you is a cron job with incremental 'zfs send'. Or rsync. -- Ralf Ramge Senior Solaris Administ

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS system requirements

2008-09-16 Thread Cyril Plisko
On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 6:06 AM, Erik Trimble <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just one more things on this: > > Run with a 64-bit processor. Don't even think of using a 32-bit one - > there are known issues with ZFS not quite properly using 32-bit only > structures. That is, ZFS is really 64-bit clea

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS system requirements

2008-09-16 Thread Erik Trimble
Just one more things on this: Run with a 64-bit processor. Don't even think of using a 32-bit one - there are known issues with ZFS not quite properly using 32-bit only structures. That is, ZFS is really 64-bit clean, but not 32-bit clean. -- Erik Trimble Java System Support Mailstop: usca2

Re: [zfs-discuss] x4500 vs AVS ?

2008-09-16 Thread Jorgen Lundman
Sorry, I popped up to Hokkdaido for a holiday. I want to thank you all for the replies. I mentioned AVS as I thought it to do be the only product close to enabling us to do a (makeshift) fail-over setup. We have 5-6 ZFS filesystem, and 5-6 zvol with UFS (for quotas). To do "zfs send" snapshot

Re: [zfs-discuss] [storage-discuss] A few questions

2008-09-16 Thread mike
On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 2:28 PM, Peter Tribble <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > For what it's worth, we put all the disks on our thumpers into a single pool - > mostly it's 5x 8+1 raidz1 vdevs with a hot spare and 2 drives for the OS and > would happily go much bigger. so you have 9 drive raidz1 (8 d

Re: [zfs-discuss] [storage-discuss] iscsi target problems on snv_97

2008-09-16 Thread tim szeto
Moore, Joe wrote: > I've recently upgraded my x4500 to Nevada build 97, and am having problems > with the iscsi target. > > Background: this box is used to serve NFS underlying a VMware ESX environment > (zfs filesystem-type datasets) and presents iSCSI targets (zfs zvol datasets) > for a Window

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZPOOL Import Problem

2008-09-16 Thread Miles Nordin
> "jd" == Jim Dunham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: jd> If at the time the SNDR replica is deleted the set was jd> actively replicating, along with ZFS actively writing to the jd> ZFS storage pool, I/O consistency will be lost, leaving ZFS jd> storage pool in an indeterministic st

Re: [zfs-discuss] [storage-discuss] A few questions

2008-09-16 Thread Peter Tribble
On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 10:03 PM, Ben Rockwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > gm_sjo wrote: >> 2008/9/15 gm_sjo: >> >>> 2008/9/15 Ben Rockwood: >>> On Thumpers I've created single pools of 44 disks, in 11 disk RAIDZ2's. I've come to regret this. I recommend keeping pools reasonably sized >

[zfs-discuss] iscsi target problems on snv_97

2008-09-16 Thread Moore, Joe
I've recently upgraded my x4500 to Nevada build 97, and am having problems with the iscsi target. Background: this box is used to serve NFS underlying a VMware ESX environment (zfs filesystem-type datasets) and presents iSCSI targets (zfs zvol datasets) for a Windows host and to act as zoneroot

Re: [zfs-discuss] [storage-discuss] A few questions

2008-09-16 Thread gm_sjo
2008/9/15 gm_sjo: > 2008/9/15 Ben Rockwood: >> On Thumpers I've created single pools of 44 disks, in 11 disk RAIDZ2's. >> I've come to regret this. I recommend keeping pools reasonably sized >> and to keep stripes thinner than this. > > Could you clarify why you came to regret it? I was intending

Re: [zfs-discuss] Interesting Pool Import Failure

2008-09-16 Thread Miles Nordin
> "s" == Solaris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: s> Point being that even if you can't run OpenSolaris due to s> support issues, you may still be able to use OpenSolaris to s> help resolve ZFS issues that you might run into in Solaris 10. glad ZFS is improving, but this sentence i

Re: [zfs-discuss] Do you grok it?

2008-09-16 Thread Wade . Stuart
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 09/15/2008 11:32:15 PM: > Brandon High wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 11:49 AM, Dale Ghent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> Did I detect a (well-done) metaphor for shared ZFS? > >> > > > > Probably not. It looks like a deduplication / MAID solution. > > > > Yeah

[zfs-discuss] Interesting Pool Import Failure

2008-09-16 Thread Solaris
Hello... Since there has been much discussion about zpool import failures resulting in loss of an entire pool, I thought I would illustrate a scenario I just went through to recover a faulted pool that wouldn't import under Solaris 10 U5. While this is a simple scenario, and the data was not terr

Re: [zfs-discuss] Do you grok it?

2008-09-16 Thread Wade . Stuart
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 09/16/2008 03:10:52 AM: > Marion Hakanson wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > > > >> greenBytes has a very well produced teaser commercial on their site. > >> http://www.green-bytes.com > >> Actually, I think it is one of the better commercials done by > tech compan