Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs w/ SATA port multipliers?

2008-11-20 Thread Richard Elling
Krenz von Leiberman wrote: > Does ZFS support pooled, mirrored, and raidz storage with > SATA-port-multipliers (http://www.serialata.org/portmultiplier.asp)? > Thanks. > ZFS supports block devices. You'll need port multiplier support in the OS before ZFS can use it. -- richard

Re: [zfs-discuss] Time-slider - zfs auto-snapshot services transition to maintenance?

2008-11-20 Thread Malachi de Ælfweald
Sounds like you are having this problem: http://malsserver.blogspot.com/2008/11/zfs-auto-snapshot-and-thus-time-slider.html On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 5:47 PM, Victor Hooi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > heya, > > I'm using OpenSolaris 2008.11 (101a), and trying to use the time-slider > functionality

[zfs-discuss] Time-slider - zfs auto-snapshot services transition to maintenance?

2008-11-20 Thread Victor Hooi
heya, I'm using OpenSolaris 2008.11 (101a), and trying to use the time-slider functionality. The SUNWgnoem-time-slider and SUNWzfs-auto-snapshot packages enabled, and I've enabled time-slider via System, Administration, Time-Slider Setup. However, the auto-snapshot services appear to go into m

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs w/ SATA port multipliers?

2008-11-20 Thread Andrew Gabriel
CR 6409327 SI:  Support for SiI3726 and SiI4726 storage processors / port multipliers Status: 4-Defer -- Andrew mike wrote: I think you'll need to get device support first. Last I checked there was still no device support for PMPs, sadly. On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 4:52 PM, Krenz von Leiber

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs w/ SATA port multipliers?

2008-11-20 Thread mike
I think you'll need to get device support first. Last I checked there was still no device support for PMPs, sadly. On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 4:52 PM, Krenz von Leiberman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does ZFS support pooled, mirrored, and raidz storage with > SATA-port-multipliers (http://www.serial

[zfs-discuss] zfs w/ SATA port multipliers?

2008-11-20 Thread Krenz von Leiberman
Does ZFS support pooled, mirrored, and raidz storage with SATA-port-multipliers (http://www.serialata.org/portmultiplier.asp)? Thanks. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.open

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs hardware failure questions

2008-11-20 Thread Miles Nordin
> "t" == Tim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: t> PSARC 2007/567 zpool failmode property I think this is in s10u6, so it's been in stable solaris for twenty-one days. It's not in the release I tested, so it's worth trying again on a newer release. I tried on snv_83a, and instead of getting

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs hardware failure questions

2008-11-20 Thread Miles Nordin
> "t" == Tim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: t> I gave you a the PSARC. test it. t> Which is why I told him not to do it, and that his chances t> were slim... his chances are zero. pgp8S8MQKP3kP.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ zfs

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs hardware failure questions

2008-11-20 Thread Tim
On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 5:37 PM, Miles Nordin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > "t" == Tim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > t> Uhh, yes. There's more than one post here describing how to > t> set what the system does when the pool is in a faulted > t> state/you lose a drive. Wait,

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs hardware failure questions

2008-11-20 Thread Miles Nordin
> "t" == Tim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: t> Uhh, yes. There's more than one post here describing how to t> set what the system does when the pool is in a faulted t> state/you lose a drive. Wait, panic, proceed. (a) search for it, try it, then report your results. Don't coun

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs hardware failure questions

2008-11-20 Thread Tim
On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 5:02 PM, Miles Nordin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > "t" == Tim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > t> Pretty sure ALL of the above are settings that can be changed. > > nope. But feel free to be more specific. Or repeat the test > yourself---it only takes like fifte

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs hardware failure questions

2008-11-20 Thread Tim
On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 5:02 PM, Miles Nordin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > "t" == Tim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > t> Pretty sure ALL of the above are settings that can be changed. > > nope. But feel free to be more specific. Or repeat the test > yourself---it only takes like fifte

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs hardware failure questions

2008-11-20 Thread Miles Nordin
> "t" == Tim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: t> Pretty sure ALL of the above are settings that can be changed. nope. But feel free to be more specific. Or repeat the test yourself---it only takes like fifteen minutes. It'd take five if not for the rebooting. t> Not to mention that

Re: [zfs-discuss] Best practice for ZFS on boot disk - use HW RAID? or ZFS Mirroring?

2008-11-20 Thread Raymond Scott
I always love answering my on questions http://www.solarisinternals.com/wiki/index.php/ZFS_Best_Practices_Guide -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/

Re: [zfs-discuss] raid-z with usb drives

2008-11-20 Thread Ian Collins
On Fri 21/11/08 08:43 , Krenz von Leiberman [EMAIL PROTECTED] sent: > I have a computer that contains 8 1TB drives. I have 3 USB drives that are > 750MB. So that's a total of 11 drives. Can I install solaris or opensolaris > on the first harddrive and mirror it on the second harddrive? Can I th

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZIL performance on "traditional" HDDs

2008-11-20 Thread Neil Perrin
On 11/20/08 12:52, Danilo Poccia wrote: > Hi, > > I was wondering is there is a performance gain for an OLTP-like workload > in putting the ZFS Intent Log (ZIL) on "traditional" HDDs. > It's probably always best to benchmark it yourself, but my experience has shown that it's better to only ha

Re: [zfs-discuss] raid-z with usb drives

2008-11-20 Thread David Magda
On Thu, November 20, 2008 14:43, Krenz von Leiberman wrote: > I have a computer that contains 8 1TB drives. I have 3 USB drives that are > 750MB. So that's a total of 11 drives. Can I install solaris or > opensolaris on the first harddrive and mirror it on the second harddrive? > Can I then use the

[zfs-discuss] ZIL performance on "traditional" HDDs

2008-11-20 Thread Danilo Poccia
Hi, I was wondering is there is a performance gain for an OLTP-like workload in putting the ZFS Intent Log (ZIL) on "traditional" HDDs. Moreover, I'd like to have a "rough" idea of relative performances for an OLTP workload with the same storage (e.g. an external storage with 12 x 300GB 15Krpm

[zfs-discuss] raid-z with usb drives

2008-11-20 Thread Krenz von Leiberman
I have a computer that contains 8 1TB drives. I have 3 USB drives that are 750MB. So that's a total of 11 drives. Can I install solaris or opensolaris on the first harddrive and mirror it on the second harddrive? Can I then use the 9 remaining drives as a RAID-Z2? Will there be a problem with u

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs hardware failure questions

2008-11-20 Thread Tim
On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 12:35 PM, Miles Nordin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > "t" == Tim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >> a fourth 500gb disk and add > >> it to the pool as the second vdev, what happens when that > >> fourth disk has a hardware failure? > > t> If you set cop

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs hardware failure questions

2008-11-20 Thread Miles Nordin
> "t" == Tim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> a fourth 500gb disk and add >> it to the pool as the second vdev, what happens when that >> fourth disk has a hardware failure? t> If you set copies=2, and get lucky enough t> that copies of every block on the standalone ar

[zfs-discuss] zfs hardware failure questions

2008-11-20 Thread Kam
I was asked a few interesting questions by a fellow co-worker regarding ZFS and after much google-bombing, still can't find answers. I've seen several people try to ask these questions, but only to have been answered indirectly. If I have a pool that consists of a raidz-1 w/ three 500gb disks an

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs hardware failure questions

2008-11-20 Thread Tim
On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 9:54 AM, Kam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I was asked a few interesting questions by a fellow co-worker regarding ZFS > and after much google-bombing, still can't find answers. I've seen several > people try to ask these questions, but only to have been answered > indirectl

Re: [zfs-discuss] Upgrading from a single disk.

2008-11-20 Thread Tim
On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 4:41 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >If you need to install bootblocks, it doesn't matter when you do it. > > > >But I found the answers I want, I think what I need to do is: > > > > > > zpool attach export disk#0 disk#1 > > > >(this makes the single pool into a m

Re: [zfs-discuss] expanding raid-z possible?

2008-11-20 Thread rarok
Thanks for replying. I was asking because maybe someone implemente it could be as a stand-alone software no in the repository. And I know that it could mean reading and rewriting all data, but I'm installing a personal NAS, so waiting even a week can be understable. Thanks again for the reply.

Re: [zfs-discuss] expanding raid-z possible?

2008-11-20 Thread Casper . Dik
>There is any change about this? Any developer tried it? "It won't work unless someone implements it". In the case of a RAIDZ, it means reading and rewriting all data. The only thing you can do is add a new raidz to the pool. So you start with NAMESTATE READ WRITE CKSUM

Re: [zfs-discuss] expanding raid-z possible?

2008-11-20 Thread rarok
There is any change about this? Any developer tried it? -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Error: value too large for defined data type

2008-11-20 Thread Joerg Schilling
Francois <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Did you try ? : > echo nfs_allow_preepoch_time/W1 | adb -wk if this also happens on a local ZFS filesysten, then his problem is a time stamp past 2038 Jörg -- EMail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [zfs-discuss] Upgrading from a single disk.

2008-11-20 Thread Casper . Dik
>If you need to install bootblocks, it doesn't matter when you do it. > >But I found the answers I want, I think what I need to do is: > > > zpool attach export disk#0 disk#1 > >(this makes the single pool into a mirror) > >And if resilvering is done, I can use: > > zpool replace expor