Re: [zfs-discuss] x4540 dead HDD replacement, remains "configured".

2009-08-05 Thread Jorgen Lundman
I suspect this is what it is all about: # devfsadm -v devfsadm[16283]: verbose: no devfs node or mismatched dev_t for /devices/p...@0,0/pci10de,3...@b/pci1000,1...@0/s...@5,0:a [snip] and indeed: brw-r- 1 root sys 30, 2311 Aug 6 15:34 s...@4,0:wd crw-r- 1 root sys

Re: [zfs-discuss] Lundman home NAS

2009-08-05 Thread Jorgen Lundman
The case is made by Chyangfun, and the model made for Mini-ITX motherboards is called CGN-S40X. They had 6 pcs left last I talked to them, and need 3 week lead for more if I understand it correctly. I need to finish my LCD panel work before I will open shop to sell these. As for temperature,

[zfs-discuss] x4540 dead HDD replacement, remains "configured".

2009-08-05 Thread Jorgen Lundman
x4540 snv_117 We lost a HDD last night, and it seemed to take out most of the bus or something and forced us to reboot. (We have yet to experience losing a disk that didn't force a reboot mind you). So today, I'm looking at replacing the broken HDD, but no amount of work makes it "turn on t

Re: [zfs-discuss] Motherboard for home zfs/solaris file server

2009-08-05 Thread chris
Ok, i am ready to try. 2 last questions before I go for it: - which version of (open)solaris for Ecc support (which seems to have been dropped from 200906) and general as-few-headaches-as-possible installation? - do you think this issue with the AMD Athlon II X2 250 http://www.anandtech.com/cpu

[zfs-discuss] Can I setting 'zil_disable' to increase ZFS/iscsi performance ?

2009-08-05 Thread Mr liu
Is there any way to increase the ZFS performance? -- 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] limiting the ARC cache during early boot, without /etc/system

2009-08-05 Thread Sanjeev
Matt, On Wed, Aug 05, 2009 at 07:06:06PM -0700, Matt Ingenthron wrote: > Hi, > > Other than modifying /etc/system, how can I keep the ARC cache low at boot > time? > > Can I somehow create an SMF service and wire it in at a very low level to put > a fence around ZFS memory usage before other s

Re: [zfs-discuss] Recovering from ZFS command lock up after yanking a non-redundant drive?

2009-08-05 Thread Sanjeev
Chris, On Wed, Aug 05, 2009 at 05:33:24AM -0700, Chris Baker wrote: > Sanjeev > > Thanks for taking an interest. Unfortunately I did have failmode=continue, > but I have just destroyed/recreated and double confirmed and got exactly the > same results. > > zpool status shows both drives mirror,

Re: [zfs-discuss] Shrinking a zpool?

2009-08-05 Thread Ross
And along those lines, why stop at SSD's? Get ZFS shrink working, and Sun could release a set of upgrade kits for x4500's and x4540's. Kits could range from a couple of SSD devices to crazy specs like 40 2TB drives, and 8 SSD's. And zpool shrink would be a key facilitator driving sales of thes

Re: [zfs-discuss] Lundman home NAS

2009-08-05 Thread Anon
I have the same case which I use as directed attached storage. I never thought about using it with a motherboard inside. Could you provide a complete parts list? What sort of temperatures at the chip, chipset, and drives did you find? Thanks! -- This message posted from opensolaris.org __

Re: [zfs-discuss] Live Upgrade UFS --> ZFS

2009-08-05 Thread Bill Korb
I can confirm that it is fixed in 121430-37, too. Bill -- 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] Shrinking a zpool?

2009-08-05 Thread Elizabeth Schwartz
A lot of us have run *with * the ability to shrink because we were using Veritas. Once you have a feature, processes tend to expand to use it. Moving to ZFS was a good move for many reasons but I still missed being able to do something that used to be so easy __

Re: [zfs-discuss] Shrinking a zpool?

2009-08-05 Thread Martin
Bob wrote: > Perhaps the problem is one of educating the customer > so that they can > ammend their accounting practices. Different > business groups can > share the same pool if necessary. Bob, while I don't mean to pick on you, that statement captures a major thinking flaw in IT when it com

[zfs-discuss] limiting the ARC cache during early boot, without /etc/system

2009-08-05 Thread Matt Ingenthron
Hi, Other than modifying /etc/system, how can I keep the ARC cache low at boot time? Can I somehow create an SMF service and wire it in at a very low level to put a fence around ZFS memory usage before other services come up? I have a deployment scenario where I will have some reasonably large

Re: [zfs-discuss] clone rpool to smaller disk

2009-08-05 Thread nawir
cindy, You are brilliant. I can successfully boot os after follow the steps below. But I got some small problem 1. when I "zpool list", I saw two pools (altrpool & rpool) I want to delete altrpool using "zpool destroy altrpool" but after I reboot it panic 2. I got this error message ERROR MSG: /

Re: [zfs-discuss] [cifs-discuss] ZFS CIFS problem with Ubuntu, NFS as an alternative?

2009-08-05 Thread Alan M Wright
On 08/05/09 07:10, Mark Shellenbaum wrote: Christian Flaig wrote: Hello, I got a very strange problem here, tried out many things, can't solve it. I run a virtual machine via VirtualBox 2.2.4, with Ubuntu 9.04. OpenSolaris as the host is 2009-06, with snv118. Now I try to mount (via CIFS) a s

Re: [zfs-discuss] [cifs-discuss] ZFS CIFS problem with Ubuntu, NFS as an alternative?

2009-08-05 Thread Afshin Salek
How does the permission look like on one of these files that you have problem copying? A network trace would also be helpful. Start the trace before you do the mount to have a complete context, and stop it after trying to copy a file. Don't do any extra stuff between mounting and copying so the t

Re: [zfs-discuss] ?: SMI vs. EFI label and a disk's write cache

2009-08-05 Thread Steffen Weiberle
Hi Cindy, thanks for the reply... On 08/05/09 18:55, cindy.swearin...@sun.com wrote: Hi Steffen, Go with a mirrored root pool is my advice with all the disk space in s0 on each disk. Simple is best and redundant simple is even better. I will suggest that. Had already considered it. Since they

Re: [zfs-discuss] Shrinking a zpool?

2009-08-05 Thread Jordan Schwartz
>Preface: yes, shrink will be cool. But we've been running highly available, >mission critical datacenters for more than 50 years without shrink being >widely available. Agreed, and shrink IS cool, I used it to migrate VxVM volumes from direct attached storage to slightly smaller SAN LUNS on a s

Re: [zfs-discuss] Shrinking a zpool?

2009-08-05 Thread Matthew Ahrens
Brian Kolaci wrote: So Sun would see increased hardware revenue stream if they would just listen to the customer... Without [pool shrink], they look for alternative hardware/software vendors. Just to be clear, Sun and the ZFS team are listening to customers on this issue. Pool shrink has be

Re: [zfs-discuss] Shrinking a zpool?

2009-08-05 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Wed, 5 Aug 2009, Richard Elling wrote: Thanks Cindy, This is another way to skin the cat. It works for simple volumes, too. But there are some restrictions, which could impact the operation when a large change in vdev size is needed. Is this planned to be backported to Solaris 10? CR 6844090

Re: [zfs-discuss] Shrinking a zpool?

2009-08-05 Thread Brian Kolaci
cindy.swearin...@sun.com wrote: Brian, CR 4852783 was updated again this week so you might add yourself or your customer to continue to be updated. Will do. I thought I was on it, but didn't see any updates... In the meantime, a reminder is that a mirrored ZFS configuration is flexible in

Re: [zfs-discuss] Shrinking a zpool?

2009-08-05 Thread Richard Elling
On Aug 5, 2009, at 4:06 PM, cindy.swearin...@sun.com wrote: Brian, CR 4852783 was updated again this week so you might add yourself or your customer to continue to be updated. In the meantime, a reminder is that a mirrored ZFS configuration is flexible in that devices can be detached (as long

Re: [zfs-discuss] Shrinking a zpool?

2009-08-05 Thread Brian Kolaci
Bob Friesenhahn wrote: On Wed, 5 Aug 2009, Brian Kolaci wrote: I have a customer that is trying to move from VxVM/VxFS to ZFS, however they have this same need. They want to save money and move to ZFS. They are charged by a separate group for their SAN storage needs. The business group st

Re: [zfs-discuss] Shrinking a zpool?

2009-08-05 Thread Cindy . Swearingen
Brian, CR 4852783 was updated again this week so you might add yourself or your customer to continue to be updated. In the meantime, a reminder is that a mirrored ZFS configuration is flexible in that devices can be detached (as long as the redundancy is not compromised) or replaced as long as t

Re: [zfs-discuss] Shrinking a zpool?

2009-08-05 Thread Brian Kolaci
Richard Elling wrote: On Aug 5, 2009, at 2:58 PM, Brian Kolaci wrote: I'm chiming in late, but have a mission critical need of this as well and posted as a non-member before. My customer was wondering when this would make it into Solaris 10. Their complete adoption depends on it. I have a

Re: [zfs-discuss] ?: SMI vs. EFI label and a disk's write cache

2009-08-05 Thread Cindy . Swearingen
Hi Steffen, Go with a mirrored root pool is my advice with all the disk space in s0 on each disk. Simple is best and redundant simple is even better. I'm no write cache expert, but a few simple tests on Solaris 10 5/09, show me that the write cache is enabled on a disk that is labeled with an SM

Re: [zfs-discuss] Shrinking a zpool?

2009-08-05 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Wed, 5 Aug 2009, Brian Kolaci wrote: I have a customer that is trying to move from VxVM/VxFS to ZFS, however they have this same need. They want to save money and move to ZFS. They are charged by a separate group for their SAN storage needs. The business group storage needs grow and shr

Re: [zfs-discuss] Shrinking a zpool?

2009-08-05 Thread Richard Elling
On Aug 5, 2009, at 2:58 PM, Brian Kolaci wrote: I'm chiming in late, but have a mission critical need of this as well and posted as a non-member before. My customer was wondering when this would make it into Solaris 10. Their complete adoption depends on it. I have a customer that is tr

Re: [zfs-discuss] Shrinking a zpool?

2009-08-05 Thread Brian Kolaci
I'm chiming in late, but have a mission critical need of this as well and posted as a non-member before. My customer was wondering when this would make it into Solaris 10. Their complete adoption depends on it. I have a customer that is trying to move from VxVM/VxFS to ZFS, however they have

Re: [zfs-discuss] `zfs list -t filesystem` shouldn't return snapshots

2009-08-05 Thread Mark Shellenbaum
Robert Lawhead wrote: I recently tried to post this as a bug, and received an auto-ack, but can't tell whether its been accepted. Does this seem like a bug to anyone else? Default for zfs list is now to show only filesystems. However, a `zfs list` or `zfs list -t filesystem` shows filesystem

Re: [zfs-discuss] article on btrfs, comparison with zfs

2009-08-05 Thread Henk Langeveld
Roch wrote: I don't know what 'enters the txg' exactly is but ZFS disk-block allocation is done in the ZIO pipeline at the latest possible time. Thanks Roch, I stand corrected in my assumptions. Cheers, Henk ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@o

[zfs-discuss] `zfs list -t filesystem` shouldn't return snapshots

2009-08-05 Thread Robert Lawhead
I recently tried to post this as a bug, and received an auto-ack, but can't tell whether its been accepted. Does this seem like a bug to anyone else? Default for zfs list is now to show only filesystems. However, a `zfs list` or `zfs list -t filesystem` shows filesystems AND incomplete snapsho

[zfs-discuss] ?: SMI vs. EFI label and a disk's write cache

2009-08-05 Thread Steffen Weiberle
For Solaris 10 5/09... There are supposed to be performance improvements if you create a zpool on a full disk, such as one with an EFI label. Does the same apply if the full disk is used with an SMI label, which is required to boot? I am trying to determine the trade-off, if any, of having a

[zfs-discuss] zfs export and import between diferent controllers

2009-08-05 Thread miks
Problem itself happened on FreeBSD, but as I understand it's ZFS related, not FreeBSD. So: I got error when tried to migrate zfs disk between 2 different servers. After exporting on first, import on second one are failing with following: Output from import pool: #zpool import storage750 cannot i

Re: [zfs-discuss] Shrinking a zpool?

2009-08-05 Thread Richard Elling
On Aug 5, 2009, at 1:06 PM, Martin wrote: richard wrote: Preface: yes, shrink will be cool. But we've been running highly available, mission critical datacenters for more than 50 years without shrink being widely available. I would debate that. I remember batch windows and downtime delaying

Re: [zfs-discuss] Pool iscsi /zfs performance in opensolaris 0906

2009-08-05 Thread Henrik Johansen
Joseph L. Casale wrote: Quick snipped from zpool iostat : mirror 1.12G 695G 0 0 0 0 c8t12d0 - - 0 0 0 0 c8t13d0 - - 0 0 0 0 c7t2d04K 29.0G 0 1.56K 0 200M c7t3d04K 29

Re: [zfs-discuss] Shrinking a zpool?

2009-08-05 Thread Jacob Ritorto
Interesting, this is the same procedure I invented (with the exception that the zfs send came from the net) and used to hack OpenSolaris 2009.06 onto my home SunBlade 2000 since it couldn't do AI due to low OBP rev.. I'll have to rework it this way, then, which will unfortunately cause downti

Re: [zfs-discuss] Pool iscsi /zfs performance in opensolaris 0906

2009-08-05 Thread Joseph L. Casale
>Quick snipped from zpool iostat : > > mirror 1.12G 695G 0 0 0 0 > c8t12d0 - - 0 0 0 0 > c8t13d0 - - 0 0 0 0 > c7t2d04K 29.0G 0 1.56K 0 200M > c7t3d04K 29.0G 0 1.

Re: [zfs-discuss] Sol10u7: can't "zpool remove" missing hot spare

2009-08-05 Thread Kyle McDonald
Will Murnane wrote: I'm using Solaris 10u6 updated to u7 via patches, and I have a pool with a mirrored pair and a (shared) hot spare. We reconfigured disks a while ago and now the controller is c4 instead of c2. The hot spare was originally on c2, and apparently on rebooting it didn't get foun

Re: [zfs-discuss] Shrinking a zpool?

2009-08-05 Thread Martin
richard wrote: > Preface: yes, shrink will be cool. But we've been > running highly > available, > mission critical datacenters for more than 50 years > without shrink being > widely available. I would debate that. I remember batch windows and downtime delaying one's career movement. Today w

Re: [zfs-discuss] Shrinking a zpool?

2009-08-05 Thread Kyle McDonald
Kyle McDonald wrote: Jacob Ritorto wrote: Is this implemented in OpenSolaris 2008.11? I'm moving move my filer's rpool to an ssd mirror to free up bigdisk slots currently used by the os and need to shrink rpool from 40GB to 15GB. (only using 2.7GB for the install). Your best bet would be

Re: [zfs-discuss] Shrinking a zpool?

2009-08-05 Thread Kyle McDonald
Jacob Ritorto wrote: Is this implemented in OpenSolaris 2008.11? I'm moving move my filer's rpool to an ssd mirror to free up bigdisk slots currently used by the os and need to shrink rpool from 40GB to 15GB. (only using 2.7GB for the install). Your best bet would be to install the new ssd

Re: [zfs-discuss] Shrinking a zpool?

2009-08-05 Thread Kyle McDonald
Martin wrote: C, I appreciate the feedback and like you, do not wish to start a side rant, but rather understand this, because it is completely counter to my experience. Allow me to respond based on my anecdotal experience. What's wrong with make a new pool.. safely copy the data. verify

Re: [zfs-discuss] Shrinking a zpool?

2009-08-05 Thread Richard Elling
Preface: yes, shrink will be cool. But we've been running highly available, mission critical datacenters for more than 50 years without shrink being widely available. On Aug 5, 2009, at 9:17 AM, Martin wrote: You are the 2nd customer I've ever heard of to use shrink. This attitude seems to

Re: [zfs-discuss] Sol10u7: can't "zpool remove" missing hot spare

2009-08-05 Thread Cindy . Swearingen
Hi Will, I simulated this issue on s10u7 and then imported the pool on a current Nevada release. The original issue remains, which is you can't remove a spare device that no longer exists. My sense is that the bug fix prevents the spare from getting messed up in the first place when the device I

Re: [zfs-discuss] Recovering from ZFS command lock up after yanking a non-redundant drive?

2009-08-05 Thread roland
doesn´t solaris have the great builtin dtrace for issues like these ? if we knew in which syscall or kernel-thread the system is stuck, we may get a clue... unfortunately, i don´t have any real knowledge of solaris kernel internals or dtrace... -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _

Re: [zfs-discuss] Pool Layout Advice Needed

2009-08-05 Thread Chris Du
> On 4-Aug-09, at 19:46 , Chris Du wrote: > > Yes Constellation, they also have sata version. > CA$350 is way too > > high. It's CA$280 for SAS and CA$235 for SATA, > 500GB in Vancouver. > > > Wow, that is a much better price than I've seen: > > http://pricecanada.com/p.php/Seagate-Constellati

Re: [zfs-discuss] Shrinking a zpool?

2009-08-05 Thread Jacob Ritorto
+1 Thanks for putting this in a real world perspective, Martin. I'm faced with this exact circumstance right now (see my post to the list from earlier today). Our ZFS filers are highly utilised, highly trusted components at the core of our enterprise and serve out OS images, mail storage, cus

Re: [zfs-discuss] Shrinking a zpool?

2009-08-05 Thread Martin
C, I appreciate the feedback and like you, do not wish to start a side rant, but rather understand this, because it is completely counter to my experience. Allow me to respond based on my anecdotal experience. > What's wrong with make a new pool.. safely copy the data. verify data > and then de

[zfs-discuss] atomicity of zfs rename

2009-08-05 Thread Roman V. Shaposhnik
POSIX specification of rename(2) provides a very nice property for building atomic transcations: If the old argument points to the pathname of a file that is not a directory, the new argument shall not po

Re: [zfs-discuss] Recovering from ZFS command lock up after yanking a non-redundant drive?

2009-08-05 Thread Ross
Yeah, sounds just like the issues I've seen before. I don't think you're likely to see a fix anytime soon, but the good news is that so far I've not seen anybody reporting problems with LSI 1068 based cards (and I've been watching for a while). With the 1068 being used in the x4540 Thumper 2,

Re: [zfs-discuss] Pool Layout Advice Needed

2009-08-05 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Wed, 5 Aug 2009, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: Quite a few computers still come with a legacy PCI slot. Are there PCI cards which act as a carrier for one or two CompactFlash devices and support system boot? For example, does this product work well with OpenSolaris? Can it work as a boot devi

Re: [zfs-discuss] Shrinking a zpool?

2009-08-05 Thread C. Bergström
Martin wrote: You are the 2nd customer I've ever heard of to use shrink. This attitude seems to be a common theme in ZFS discussions: "No enterprise uses shrink, only grow." Maybe. The enterprise I work for requires that every change be reversible and repeatable. Every change requires

Re: [zfs-discuss] Pool Layout Advice Needed

2009-08-05 Thread Adam Sherman
On 5-Aug-09, at 12:21 , Bob Friesenhahn wrote: i would be VERY surprised if you couldn't fit these in there SOMEWHERE, the sata to compactflash adapter i got was about 1.75 inches across and very very thin, i was able to mount them side by side on top of the drive tray in my machine, you can

Re: [zfs-discuss] Pool Layout Advice Needed

2009-08-05 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Wed, 5 Aug 2009, Thomas Burgess wrote: i would be VERY surprised if you couldn't fit these in there SOMEWHERE, the sata to compactflash adapter i got was about 1.75 inches across and very very thin, i was able to mount them side by side on top of the drive tray in my machine, you can easily m

Re: [zfs-discuss] Shrinking a zpool?

2009-08-05 Thread Martin
> You are the 2nd customer I've ever heard of to use shrink. This attitude seems to be a common theme in ZFS discussions: "No enterprise uses shrink, only grow." Maybe. The enterprise I work for requires that every change be reversible and repeatable. Every change requires a backout plan and

Re: [zfs-discuss] Pool Layout Advice Needed

2009-08-05 Thread Adam Sherman
On 5-Aug-09, at 12:07 , Thomas Burgess wrote: i would be VERY surprised if you couldn't fit these in there SOMEWHERE, the sata to compactflash adapter i got was about 1.75 inches across and very very thin, i was able to mount them side by side on top of the drive tray in my machine, you can

Re: [zfs-discuss] Pool Layout Advice Needed

2009-08-05 Thread Thomas Burgess
i would be VERY surprised if you couldn't fit these in there SOMEWHERE, the sata to compactflash adapter i got was about 1.75 inches across and very very thin, i was able to mount them side by side on top of the drive tray in my machine, you can easily make a bracket...i know a guy who used double

Re: [zfs-discuss] which version that the ZFS performance is better ?

2009-08-05 Thread Thomas Burgess
i think you need to give more information about your setup On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 5:40 AM, Mr liu wrote: > 0811 or 0906 or sun solairs > > I read a lot of aarticles about zfs performance .and test 0811/0906 > /nexentastor 2.0 . > > The write performance is at most 60Mb/s (32k),the other only a

Re: [zfs-discuss] How Virtual Box handles the IO

2009-08-05 Thread Thomas Burgess
>From what i understand, and from everything i've read by following threads here, there are ways to do it but there is not a standardized tool yet, and it's complicated and on a per-case basis but people who pay for support have recovered pools. i'm sure they are working on it, and i would imagine

Re: [zfs-discuss] Would ZFS will bring IO when the file is VERY short-lived?

2009-08-05 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Tue, 4 Aug 2009, Chookiex wrote: You know, ZFS afford a very Big buffer for write IO. So, When we write a file, the first stage is put it to buffer. But, if the file is VERY short-lived? Is it bring IO to disk? or else, it just put the meta data and data to memory, and then removed it? This

Re: [zfs-discuss] Recovering from ZFS command lock up after yanking a non-redundant drive?

2009-08-05 Thread Chris Baker
I've left it hanging about 2 hours. I've also just learned that whatever the issue is it is also blocking an "init 5" shutdown. I was thinking about setting a watchdog with a forced reboot but that will get me nowhere if I need I reset button restart. Thanks for the advice re the LSI 1068, not

Re: [zfs-discuss] clone rpool to smaller disk

2009-08-05 Thread Cindy . Swearingen
Hi Nawir, I haven't tested these steps myself, but the error message means that you need to set this property: # zpool set bootfs=rpool/ROOT/BE-name rpool Cindy On 08/05/09 03:14, nawir wrote: Hi, I have sol10u7 OS with 73GB HD in c1t0d0. I want to clone it to 36GB HD These steps below is w

Re: [zfs-discuss] Sol10u7: can't "zpool remove" missing hot spare

2009-08-05 Thread Cindy . Swearingen
Hi Will, Since no workaround is provided in the CR, I don't know if importing on a more recent OpenSolaris release and trying to remove it will work. I will simulate this error, try this approach, and get back to you. Thanks, Cindy On 08/04/09 18:34, Will Murnane wrote: On Tue, Aug 4, 2009

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS CIFS problem with Ubuntu, NFS as an alternative?

2009-08-05 Thread Mark Shellenbaum
Christian Flaig wrote: Hello, I got a very strange problem here, tried out many things, can't solve it. I run a virtual machine via VirtualBox 2.2.4, with Ubuntu 9.04. OpenSolaris as the host is 2009-06, with snv118. Now I try to mount (via CIFS) a share in Ubuntu from OpenSolaris. Mounting is

Re: [zfs-discuss] Shrinking a zpool?

2009-08-05 Thread Jacob Ritorto
Is this implemented in OpenSolaris 2008.11? I'm moving move my filer's rpool to an ssd mirror to free up bigdisk slots currently used by the os and need to shrink rpool from 40GB to 15GB. (only using 2.7GB for the install). thx jake -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _

Re: [zfs-discuss] Recovering from ZFS command lock up after yanking a non-redundant drive?

2009-08-05 Thread Ross
Just a thought, but how long have you left it? I had problems with a failing drive a while back which did eventually get taken offline, but took about 20 minutes to do so. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-di

Re: [zfs-discuss] Slow Resilvering Performance

2009-08-05 Thread Galen
I'm still struggling with slow resilvering performance. There doesn't seem to be any clear bottleneck at this point.. and it's going glacially slow. scrub: resilver in progress for 11h2m, 27.86% done, 28h35m to go Load averages are like 0.13-0.15 range, CPU usage is <10%, the machine is doing n

Re: [zfs-discuss] Slow Resilvering Performance

2009-08-05 Thread Galen
I'm still struggling with slow resilvering performance. There doesn't seem to be any clear bottleneck at this point.. and it's going glacially slow. scrub: resilver in progress for 11h2m, 27.86% done, 28h35m to go Load averages are like 0.13-0.15 range, CPU usage is <10%, the machine is doing n

Re: [zfs-discuss] Pool iscsi /zfs performance in opensolaris 0906

2009-08-05 Thread Henrik Johansen
Ross Walker wrote: On Aug 5, 2009, at 2:49 AM, Henrik Johansen wrote: Ross Walker wrote: On Aug 4, 2009, at 8:36 PM, Carson Gaspar wrote: Ross Walker wrote: I get pretty good NFS write speeds with NVRAM (40MB/s 4k sequential write). It's a Dell PERC 6/e with 512MB onboard. ... there,

Re: [zfs-discuss] Remove disk from ZFS Pool

2009-08-05 Thread Ross Walker
On Aug 5, 2009, at 8:50 AM, Ketan wrote: How can we remove disk from zfs pool, i want to remove disk c0d3 zpool status datapool pool: datapool state: ONLINE scrub: none requested config: NAMESTATE READ WRITE CKSUM datapoolONLINE 0 0 0 c0d2

Re: [zfs-discuss] Pool iscsi /zfs performance in opensolaris 0906

2009-08-05 Thread Henrik Johansen
Ross Walker wrote: On Aug 5, 2009, at 3:09 AM, Henrik Johansen wrote: Ross Walker wrote: On Aug 4, 2009, at 10:22 PM, Bob Friesenhahn > wrote: On Tue, 4 Aug 2009, Ross Walker wrote: Are you sure that it is faster than an SSD? The data is indeed pushed closer to the disks, but there may

Re: [zfs-discuss] Pool iscsi /zfs performance in opensolaris 0906

2009-08-05 Thread Ross Walker
On Aug 5, 2009, at 3:09 AM, Henrik Johansen wrote: Ross Walker wrote: On Aug 4, 2009, at 10:22 PM, Bob Friesenhahn > wrote: On Tue, 4 Aug 2009, Ross Walker wrote: Are you sure that it is faster than an SSD? The data is indeed pushed closer to the disks, but there may be considerably mor

Re: [zfs-discuss] Pool iscsi /zfs performance in opensolaris 0906

2009-08-05 Thread Ross Walker
On Aug 5, 2009, at 2:49 AM, Henrik Johansen wrote: Ross Walker wrote: On Aug 4, 2009, at 8:36 PM, Carson Gaspar wrote: Ross Walker wrote: I get pretty good NFS write speeds with NVRAM (40MB/s 4k sequential write). It's a Dell PERC 6/e with 512MB onboard. ... there, dedicated slog devic

Re: [zfs-discuss] Remove disk from ZFS Pool

2009-08-05 Thread Andre van Eyssen
On Wed, 5 Aug 2009, Ketan wrote: How can we remove disk from zfs pool, i want to remove disk c0d3 [snip] Currently, you can't remove a vdev without destroying the pool. -- Andre van Eyssen. mail: an...@purplecow.org jabber: an...@interact.purplecow.org purplecow.org: UNIX for the ma

[zfs-discuss] Remove the zfs snapshot keeping the original volume and clone

2009-08-05 Thread Ketan
I created a snapshot and subsequent clone of a zfs volume. But now i 'm not able to remove the snapshot it gives me following error zfs destroy newpool/ldom2/zdi...@bootimg cannot destroy 'newpool/ldom2/zdi...@bootimg': snapshot has dependent clones use '-R' to destroy the following datasets: ne

[zfs-discuss] Remove disk from ZFS Pool

2009-08-05 Thread Ketan
How can we remove disk from zfs pool, i want to remove disk c0d3 zpool status datapool pool: datapool state: ONLINE scrub: none requested config: NAMESTATE READ WRITE CKSUM datapoolONLINE 0 0 0 c0d2 ONLINE 0 0 0

Re: [zfs-discuss] Pool Layout Advice Needed

2009-08-05 Thread Adam Sherman
On 4-Aug-09, at 19:46 , Chris Du wrote: Yes Constellation, they also have sata version. CA$350 is way too high. It's CA$280 for SAS and CA$235 for SATA, 500GB in Vancouver. Wow, that is a much better price than I've seen: http://pricecanada.com/p.php/Seagate-Constellation-7200-500GB-7200-ST9

Re: [zfs-discuss] Pool Layout Advice Needed

2009-08-05 Thread Adam Sherman
On 5-Aug-09, at 0:14 , Thomas Burgess wrote: i boot from compact flash. it's not a big deal if you mirror it because you shouldn't be booting up very often. Also, they make these great compactflash to sata adapters so if yer motherboard has 2 open sata ports then you'll be golden there.

Re: [zfs-discuss] Recovering from ZFS command lock up after yanking a non-redundant drive?

2009-08-05 Thread Chris Baker
Sanjeev Thanks for taking an interest. Unfortunately I did have failmode=continue, but I have just destroyed/recreated and double confirmed and got exactly the same results. zpool status shows both drives mirror, ONLINE, no errors dmesg shows: SATA device detached at port 0 cfgadm shows: sa

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS CIFS problem with Ubuntu, NFS as an alternative?

2009-08-05 Thread Christian Flaig
Little update... I can read files (within the share) with the following ACL: -r--r--r--+ 1 chrisstaff 35 Aug 5 13:18 .txt user:tmns:r-x---a-R-c---:--I:allow user:chris:rwxpdDaARWc--s:--I:allow everyone@:r-a-R-c--s:---:a

[zfs-discuss] ZFS CIFS problem with Ubuntu, NFS as an alternative?

2009-08-05 Thread Christian Flaig
Hello, I got a very strange problem here, tried out many things, can't solve it. I run a virtual machine via VirtualBox 2.2.4, with Ubuntu 9.04. OpenSolaris as the host is 2009-06, with snv118. Now I try to mount (via CIFS) a share in Ubuntu from OpenSolaris. Mounting is successful, I can see al

[zfs-discuss] which version that the ZFS performance is better ?

2009-08-05 Thread Mr liu
0811 or 0906 or sun solairs I read a lot of aarticles about zfs performance .and test 0811/0906 /nexentastor 2.0 . The write performance is at most 60Mb/s (32k),the other only around 10Mb/s. I test it from comstar iscsi target and used IOMeter in windows. What shall I do , I am very very di

[zfs-discuss] clone rpool to smaller disk

2009-08-05 Thread nawir
Hi, I have sol10u7 OS with 73GB HD in c1t0d0. I want to clone it to 36GB HD These steps below is what come in my mind STEPS TAKEN # zpool create -f altrpool c1t1d0s0 # zpool set listsnapshots=on rpool # SNAPNAME=`date +%Y%m%d` # zfs snapshot -r rpool/r...@$snapname # zfs list -t snapshot # zfs se

Re: [zfs-discuss] zdb CKSUM stats vary?

2009-08-05 Thread Victor Latushkin
On 05.08.09 11:40, Tristan Ball wrote: Can anyone tell me why successive runs of "zdb" would show very different values for the cksum column? I had thought these counters were "since last clear" but that doesn't appear to be the case? zdb is not intended to be run on live pools. For a live pool

[zfs-discuss] ZFS clone destroyed by rollback of it's parent filesystem... recoverable???

2009-08-05 Thread Euan Thoms
I created a clone from the most recent snapshot of a filesystem, the clone's parent filesystem was the same as the snapshot itself. When I did a rollback to a previous snapshot it erased my clone. Yes it was really stupid to keep the colne on the same filesystem, I was tired and wasn't thinking

[zfs-discuss] zdb CKSUM stats vary?

2009-08-05 Thread Tristan Ball
Can anyone tell me why successive runs of "zdb" would show very different values for the cksum column? I had thought these counters were "since last clear" but that doesn't appear to be the case? If I run "zdb poolname", right at the end of the output, it lists pool statistics:

Re: [zfs-discuss] Pool iscsi /zfs performance in opensolaris 0906

2009-08-05 Thread Henrik Johansen
Ross Walker wrote: On Aug 4, 2009, at 10:17 PM, James Lever wrote: On 05/08/2009, at 11:41 AM, Ross Walker wrote: What is your recipe for these? There wasn't one! ;) The drive I'm using is a Dell badged Samsung MCCOE50G5MPQ-0VAD3. So the key is the drive needs to have the Dell badging

Re: [zfs-discuss] Would ZFS will bring IO when the file is VERY short-lived?

2009-08-05 Thread Roch Bourbonnais
Le 5 août 09 à 06:06, Chookiex a écrit : Hi All, You know, ZFS afford a very Big buffer for write IO. So, When we write a file, the first stage is put it to buffer. But, if the file is VERY short-lived? Is it bring IO to disk? or else, it just put the meta data and data to memory, and then re

Re: [zfs-discuss] Pool iscsi /zfs performance in opensolaris 0906

2009-08-05 Thread Henrik Johansen
Ross Walker wrote: On Aug 4, 2009, at 10:22 PM, Bob Friesenhahn > wrote: On Tue, 4 Aug 2009, Ross Walker wrote: Are you sure that it is faster than an SSD? The data is indeed pushed closer to the disks, but there may be considerably more latency associated with getting that data into the c