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

2009-08-09 Thread Sanjeev
Chris, Thanks for providing the details and the dump. I shall look into this and update with my findings. Thanks and regards, Sanjeev On Sun, Aug 09, 2009 at 05:53:12PM -0700, Chris Baker wrote: > Hi Sanjeev > > OK - had a chance to do more testing over the weekend. Firstly some extra > data:

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

2009-08-09 Thread Sanjeev
Matt, On Thu, Aug 06, 2009 at 11:28:50AM -0700, Matt Ingenthron wrote: > > If ZFS is not beinng used significantly, then ARC > > should not grow. ARC grows > > based on the usage (ie. amount of ZFS files/data > > accessed). Hence, if you are > > sure that the ZFS usage is low, things should be >

Re: [zfs-discuss] Help: Advice for a NAS

2009-08-09 Thread Thomas Burgess
While it is true that you can not add a single device to a raidz vdev, you can easily add more vdevs, and this is by far the best way to grow because each vdev adds much speed to the array. Raidz is more advanced than raid5, the fact that your card doesn't do the raid calculations is not a limitat

[zfs-discuss] Help: Advice for a NAS

2009-08-09 Thread Chester
Hi guys, Previously, I had three 1TB drives in my desktop using the Intel's southbridge RAID for storage. The only problem with that is every time Windows Vista took a dump, I would be in jeopardy of corrupting the storage space; thus, I decided to have a dedicated machine just for serving up

Re: [zfs-discuss] [driver-discuss] Supported Motherboard SATA controller chipsets?

2009-08-09 Thread ying tian - Beijing China
Hi Kyle, AMD/ATI SB700/750 will use 64-bit DMA for data transfer with Solaris ahci driver since snv_116. Morever Solaris ahci driver has already supported nVidia AHCI SATA controller.(0x10de,0ad4). Thanks, - ying - Kyle McDonald wrote: Hi all, I think I've read that the AMD 790FX/750SB

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

2009-08-09 Thread Chris Baker
Hi Sanjeev OK - had a chance to do more testing over the weekend. Firstly some extra data: Moving the mirror to both drives on ICH10R ports and on sudden disk power-off the mirror faulted cleanly to the remaining drive no problem. Having a one drive pool on the ICH10R under heavy write traffic

[zfs-discuss] Zync

2009-08-09 Thread Omry Yadan
Hi all, I wrote a little java program that combines Rsync and ZFS snapshots to backup remote servers. configuration is really easy, check it out at http://projects.firefang.net/wiki/Zync Comments are most welcomed. Omry. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org __

Re: [zfs-discuss] pathnames in zfs(1M) arguments

2009-08-09 Thread Menno Lageman
Mike Gerdts wrote: This was previously discussed... http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/zfs-discuss/2008-July/019762.html Thanks for the pointer (I remember this being discussed, but couldn't find it again). That seems to be pretty much the same as what I came up with. The difference wi

Re: [zfs-discuss] pathnames in zfs(1M) arguments

2009-08-09 Thread Mike Gerdts
On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 6:50 AM, Menno Lageman wrote: > Having to type the full dataset names as arguments to zfs(1M), e.g. > > $ zfs snapshot rpool/export/home/ml93401/onnv-cl...@onnv_121 > $ zfs clone rpool/export/home/ml93401/onnv-cl...@onnv_121 \ >    rpool/export/home/ml93401/ws/somebugfix > $

[zfs-discuss] pathnames in zfs(1M) arguments

2009-08-09 Thread Menno Lageman
Having to type the full dataset names as arguments to zfs(1M), e.g. $ zfs snapshot rpool/export/home/ml93401/onnv-cl...@onnv_121 $ zfs clone rpool/export/home/ml93401/onnv-cl...@onnv_121 \ rpool/export/home/ml93401/ws/somebugfix $ cd ws/somewbugfix [do some work] $ zfs snapshot rpool/export

Re: [zfs-discuss] Pool Layout Advice Needed

2009-08-09 Thread Erik Trimble
Ian Collins wrote: Adam Sherman wrote: On 6-Aug-09, at 15:16 , Ian Collins wrote: This ended up being a costly mistake, the environment I ended up with didn't play well with Live Upgrade. So I suggest what ever you do, make sure you can create a new BE and boot into it before committing. I