Re: [zfs-discuss] 'zfs recv' is very slow

2009-01-09 Thread Brent Jones
On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 7:53 PM, Ian Collins wrote: > Ian Collins wrote: >> Send/receive speeds appear to be very data dependent. I have several >> different filesystems containing differing data types. The slowest to >> replicate is mail and my guess it's the changes to the index files that >

Re: [zfs-discuss] 'zfs recv' is very slow

2009-01-09 Thread Ian Collins
Ian Collins wrote: > Send/receive speeds appear to be very data dependent. I have several > different filesystems containing differing data types. The slowest to > replicate is mail and my guess it's the changes to the index files that takes > the time. Similar sized filesystems with similar

Re: [zfs-discuss] Looking for new SATA/SAS HBA; JBOD is not always JBOD

2009-01-09 Thread Dale Ghent
On Jan 9, 2009, at 9:28 AM, Erik Trimble wrote: > I'm pretty darned sure that the LSI 1068-based HBAs will do "true" > JBOD. Indeed they do, and the mpt driver works fine with these cards. /dale ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [zfs-discuss] Desperate question about MPXIO with ZFS-iSCSI

2009-01-09 Thread Stephen Yum
Hi James, I set 'mpxio_disable = no' in the /kernel/drv/iscsi.conf file (not /kernel/drv/scsi_vhci.h) and tried running /usr/bin/stmsboot -e. It then listed the pci ids of the NICs, and I said yes and rebooted. Still no joy. At this point, I'm assuming that my Solaris/ZFS box is enabled for MPX

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS + OpenSolaris for home NAS?

2009-01-09 Thread JZ
Ok, since this thread is the official spot for home based chatting, I am off work now. Similar feeling from an enterprise perspective -- I am the last person at work that has not even once, logged on to FaceBook. [no need, I insist] And I can do a zFaceBook on 100% zCode anytime, only if I wan

Re: [zfs-discuss] Looking for new SATA/SAS HBA; JBOD is not always JBOD

2009-01-09 Thread JZ
Hi B, thx for hitting on the expander issue that I need to finish your job - On top of as Rich said, Sun sells many expander-based stuff, please also understand why you even need that -- the LSI SAS HBA that Sun resells does up to over 200 JBOD disks by itself. But the new HDS AMS2000 SAS implem

Re: [zfs-discuss] Solaris destroys large discs?? Bug in install?

2009-01-09 Thread Ian Collins
Orvar Korvar wrote: > I have taken a Samsung 500GB from my old ZFS raid. I have created a 100GB > Windows XP partition and installed WinXP. The rest of the disk is > unformatted. And then I wanted to install SXCE b104, so I started the SXCE > install with ZFS. But it refused to install. Said tha

[zfs-discuss] Solaris destroys large discs?? Bug in install?

2009-01-09 Thread Orvar Korvar
I have taken a Samsung 500GB from my old ZFS raid. I have created a 100GB Windows XP partition and installed WinXP. The rest of the disk is unformatted. And then I wanted to install SXCE b104, so I started the SXCE install with ZFS. But it refused to install. Said that the partitions overlap and

[zfs-discuss] zpool add dumping core

2009-01-09 Thread Brad Plecs
I'm trying to add some additional devices to my existing pool, but it's not working. I'm adding a raidz group of 5 300 GB drives, but the command always fails: r...@kronos:/ # zpool add raid raidz c8t8d0 c8t13d0 c7t8d0 c3t8d0 c5t8d0 Assertion failed: nvlist_lookup_string(cnv, "path", &path) ==

[zfs-discuss] zpool add dumping core

2009-01-09 Thread Brad Plecs
I'm trying to add some additional devices to my existing pool, but it's not working. I'm adding a raidz group of 5 300 GB drives, but the command always fails: r...@kronos:/ # zpool add raid raidz c8t8d0 c8t13d0 c7t8d0 c3t8d0 c5t8d0 Assertion failed: nvlist_lookup_string(cnv, "path", &path) ==

Re: [zfs-discuss] Looking for new SATA/SAS HBA; JBOD is not always JBOD

2009-01-09 Thread Richard Elling
Brandon High wrote: > On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 9:45 AM, Carson Gaspar wrote: > >> On 1/9/2009 8:21 AM, Will Murnane wrote: >> >> >>> You might consider a case with a SAS expander in it; you can plug sata >>> >> Except Solaris still lacks support for port expanders, or did last I >> ch

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS encryption?? - [Fwd: [osol-announce] SXCE Build 105 available]

2009-01-09 Thread Richard Elling
Nicolas Williams wrote: > On Fri, Jan 09, 2009 at 12:13:17PM -0800, Richard Elling wrote: > >> Jerry K wrote: >> >>> It was rumored that Nevada build 105 would have ZFS encrypted file >>> systems integrated into the main source. >>> >>> >> No ZFS crypto, but it has lofi crypto.

Re: [zfs-discuss] separate home "partition"?

2009-01-09 Thread Johan Hartzenberg
On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 6:25 PM, noz wrote: > > The above is very dangerous, if it > > will even work. The output of the zfs send is > > redirected to /tmp, which is a ramdisk. If you > > have enough space (RAM + Swap), it will work, but if > > there is a reboot or crash before the zfs receive >

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS encryption?? - [Fwd: [osol-announce] SXCE Build 105 available]

2009-01-09 Thread Nicolas Williams
On Fri, Jan 09, 2009 at 12:13:17PM -0800, Richard Elling wrote: > Jerry K wrote: > > It was rumored that Nevada build 105 would have ZFS encrypted file > > systems integrated into the main source. > > > > No ZFS crypto, but it has lofi crypto.You can use lofi for ZFS, > though. Perhaps tha

Re: [zfs-discuss] How to find out the zpool of an uberblock printed with the fbt:zfs:uberblock_update: probes?

2009-01-09 Thread Bernd Finger
Marcelo, I just finished writing up my test results. Hopefully it will answer most of your questions. You can find it in my blog, as permalink http://blogs.sun.com/blogfinger/entry/zfs_and_the_uberblock_part Regards, Bernd Marcelo Leal wrote: >> Marcelo, > Hello there... >> I did some more

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS encryption?? - [Fwd: [osol-announce] SXCE Build 105 available]

2009-01-09 Thread Richard Elling
Jerry K wrote: > It was rumored that Nevada build 105 would have ZFS encrypted file > systems integrated into the main source. > No ZFS crypto, but it has lofi crypto.You can use lofi for ZFS, though. Perhaps that was confusing? -- richard > In reviewing the Change logs (URL's below) I d

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs root, jumpstart and flash archives

2009-01-09 Thread Lori Alt
This is in the process of being resolved right now. Stay tuned for when it will be available. It might be a patch to Update 6. In the meantime, you might try this: http://blogs.sun.com/scottdickson/entry/flashless_system_cloning_with_zfs - Lori On 01/09/09 12:28, Jerry K wrote: > I understa

[zfs-discuss] zfs root, jumpstart and flash archives

2009-01-09 Thread Jerry K
I understand that currently, at least under Solaris 10u6, it is not possible to jumpstart a new system with a zfs root using a flash archive as a source. Can anyone comment as to whether this restriction will pass in the near term, or if this is a while out (6+ months) before this will be possi

[zfs-discuss] ZFS encryption?? - [Fwd: [osol-announce] SXCE Build 105 available]

2009-01-09 Thread Jerry K
It was rumored that Nevada build 105 would have ZFS encrypted file systems integrated into the main source. In reviewing the Change logs (URL's below) I did not see anything mentioned that this had come to pass. Its going to be another week before I have a chance to play with b105. Does anyone k

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs list improvements?

2009-01-09 Thread Richard Morris - Sun Microsystems - Burlington United States
On 01/09/09 01:44, Ross wrote: > Can I ask why we need to use -c or -d at all? We already have -r to > recursively list children, can't we add an optional depth parameter to that? > > You then have: > zfs list : shows current level (essentially -r 0) > zfs list -r : shows all levels (infinite rec

Re: [zfs-discuss] Looking for new SATA/SAS HBA; JBOD is not always JBOD

2009-01-09 Thread Brandon High
On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 9:45 AM, Carson Gaspar wrote: > On 1/9/2009 8:21 AM, Will Murnane wrote: > >> You might consider a case with a SAS expander in it; you can plug sata > > Except Solaris still lacks support for port expanders, or did last I > checked. Has this changed? A SAS expander is diffe

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS + OpenSolaris for home NAS?

2009-01-09 Thread Miles Nordin
> "re" == Richard Elling writes: re> Flash has been around for well over 25 years there is NOR flash and NAND flash, though. I think NOR is 25 years old, and MLC and SLC FLASH are both NAND right? NOR and NAND have completely different behavior and implementation, and even within NAND

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS + OpenSolaris for home NAS?

2009-01-09 Thread David Dyer-Bennet
On Thu, January 8, 2009 15:35, Tim wrote: > On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 8:43 PM, JZ wrote: >> >> Can we focus on commercial usage? >> please! > I dunno about you, but I need somewhere to store that music so I can > stream > it throughout the house while I'm drinking that wine ;) A single disk > wind

Re: [zfs-discuss] Looking for new SATA/SAS HBA; JBOD is not always JBOD

2009-01-09 Thread Carson Gaspar
On 1/9/2009 8:21 AM, Will Murnane wrote: > You might consider a case with a SAS expander in it; you can plug sata Except Solaris still lacks support for port expanders, or did last I checked. Has this changed? -- Carson ___ zfs-discuss mailing list z

Re: [zfs-discuss] separate home "partition"?

2009-01-09 Thread noz
> The above is very dangerous, if it > will even work. The output of the zfs send is > redirected to /tmp, which is a ramdisk. If you > have enough space (RAM + Swap), it will work, but if > there is a reboot or crash before the zfs receive > completes then everything is gone. > In stead, do the

Re: [zfs-discuss] Looking for new SATA/SAS HBA; JBOD is not always JBOD

2009-01-09 Thread Will Murnane
On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 09:28, Erik Trimble wrote: > I'm pretty darned sure that the LSI 1068-based HBAs will do "true" > JBOD. Supermicro makes two such beasts: AOC-USAS-L8i and > AOC-USASLP-L8i Both are 8-port PCI-Express x4 cards. No, both are UIO cards. They're compatible with PCI expre

Re: [zfs-discuss] can't import zpool after upgrade to solaris 10u6

2009-01-09 Thread Steve Goldthorpe
After having a think I've come up with the following hypothesis: 1) When I was on Solaris 10u4 things were working fine. 2) When I re-installed with Solaris 10u6 and imported the zpool (with zpool import -f), it created a zpool.cache file and didn't update the on disk data structures for some re

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs, raidz, spare and jbod

2009-01-09 Thread Diego Remolina
Could you explain if you did any specific configuration on the Areca Raid controller other than setting it to Raid and manually marking every disk as pass-trhough so that the disks are viewable from opensolaris? I have an ARC-1680ix-16. I have tried two configurations. JBOD and RAID but making

Re: [zfs-discuss] Looking for new SATA/SAS HBA; JBOD is not always JBOD

2009-01-09 Thread Erik Trimble
I'm pretty darned sure that the LSI 1068-based HBAs will do "true" JBOD. Supermicro makes two such beasts: AOC-USAS-L8i and AOC-USASLP-L8i Both are 8-port PCI-Express x4 cards. The "low-cost" LSI SATA HBAs should also give you what you want. E.g. LSISAS3081E-R These use the same fa

[zfs-discuss] Looking for new SATA/SAS HBA; JBOD is not always JBOD

2009-01-09 Thread Pål Baltzersen
Why do they throw these fancy RAID-controllers at us when we have plenty CPU force to do zfs mirror and even raidz1 and raidz2? I have 12 SATA disks and would like to prepare to add 12 new internal SATA disks to my home server. The cabinet (Lian Li Modular Cube http://www.microplex.no/aspx/prod

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS + OpenSolaris for home NAS?

2009-01-09 Thread The Moog
I wouldn't know which laptops (beside macbooks) that specifically support zfs, but I'm sure with a little twiddling around and some general know-how, many a system would operate the latest version of opensolaris. Driver support is always my biggest worry. Sent from my BlackBerry Bold® http://

Re: [zfs-discuss] I/O error when import

2009-01-09 Thread Steve Goldthorpe
I wonder if your problem is related to mine: (can't import zpool after upgrade to solaris 10u6 - http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?messageID=324994#324994). What does zdb -l give you? zdb -l /dev/dsk/c1d1 zdb -l /dev/dsk/c2d0 zdb -l /dev/dsk/c2d1 -Steve -- This message posted from op

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS + OpenSolaris for home NAS?

2009-01-09 Thread Ian Collins
Joel Buckley wrote: > > Search "http://store.sun.com"; for the item that matches your > needs and run with it. Sun currently has a promotion on X4150 > Servers... That will easily be able to serve NFS, SunRay, > etc... to your home. > > Do they come with free ear plugs for the family? :) --

Re: [zfs-discuss] separate home "partition"?

2009-01-09 Thread Johan Hartzenberg
On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 9:55 AM, hardware technician wrote: > I want to create a separate home, shared, read/write zfs partition on a > tri-boot OpenSolaris, Ubuntu, and CentOS system. I have successfully > created and exported the zpools that I would like to use, in Ubuntu using > zfs-fuse. Howe

Re: [zfs-discuss] separate home "partition"?

2009-01-09 Thread Johan Hartzenberg
On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 4:10 AM, noz wrote: > > Here's my solution: > (1) n...@holodeck:~# zpool create epool mirror c4t1d0 c4t2d0 c4t3d0 > > n...@holodeck:~# zfs list > NAME USED AVAIL REFER MOUNTPOINT > epool 69K 15.6G18K /epool > rpool