Re: [zfs-discuss] Data balance across vdevs

2009-11-21 Thread Richard Elling
On Nov 20, 2009, at 11:22 PM, Erik Trimble wrote: Something occurs to me: how full is your current 4 vdev pool? I'm assuming it's not over 70% or so. yes, by adding another 3 vdevs, any writes will be biased towards the "empty" vdevs, but that's for less-than-full-stripe-width writes (

[zfs-discuss] Fwd: The 100, 000th beginner question about a zfs server

2009-11-21 Thread Al Hopper
-- Forwarded message -- From: Al Hopper Date: Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 8:23 PM Subject: Re: [zfs-discuss] The 100,000th beginner question about a zfs server To: "R.G. Keen" On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 7:08 PM, R.G. Keen wrote: > > With apologies for clogging up the forum with beginner

[zfs-discuss] The 100,000th beginner question about a zfs server

2009-11-21 Thread R.G. Keen
With apologies for clogging up the forum with beginner questions - I'm trying to figure out how to build a home zfs server. Common question. In the last two months of reading the net and here, I've found many answers, none of which would convince me to part with the $800-$1K to do it. So can

Re: [zfs-discuss] CIFS shares being lost

2009-11-21 Thread Emily Grettel
Eric, Good question, I will try this out tomorrow when I'm back at work but I do recall using cmd to navigate through some batch files when i was on the vanilla 2009.06 previously - as well as powershell which worked fine. I will confirm. Em > Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2009 23:46:52 -0700 > Fr

[zfs-discuss] Kernel panic - directed here from networking

2009-11-21 Thread David Bond
Hi, I have been having problems with reboots, it usually happens when I am either sending or receiving data on the server, it can be over CIFS, or HTTP, NNTP. SO could be a networking problem, but they directed me here or to CIFS, but as it happens when I'm not using CIFS (but the service is st

Re: [zfs-discuss] Workaround for mpt timeouts in snv_127

2009-11-21 Thread Jeremy Kitchen
On Nov 21, 2009, at 1:08 AM, James C. McPherson wrote: We currently have two bugs open on what I believe to be the same issue, namely 6894775 mpt driver timeouts and bus resets under load 6900767 Server hang with LSI 1068E based SAS controller under load If you and everybody else who is seeing

Re: [zfs-discuss] Comstar thin provisioning space reclamation

2009-11-21 Thread roland
sdelete may be the easiest, but not the best tool here, since it`s made for secure deletion and not made for filling a disk with zeroes quickly. i have no windows around here for performance testing, but dd may perform better: http://www.chrysocome.net/dd you should try "dd if=/dev/zero of=la

Re: [zfs-discuss] Workaround for mpt timeouts in snv_127

2009-11-21 Thread James C. McPherson
Carson Gaspar wrote: For all of those suffering from mpt timeouts in snv_127, I decided to give the ancient itmpt driver a whirl. It works fine, and in my brief testing a zfs scrub that would generate about 1 timeout every 2 minutes or so now runs with no problems. The downside is that lsiutil

[zfs-discuss] Workaround for mpt timeouts in snv_127

2009-11-21 Thread Carson Gaspar
For all of those suffering from mpt timeouts in snv_127, I decided to give the ancient itmpt driver a whirl. It works fine, and in my brief testing a zfs scrub that would generate about 1 timeout every 2 minutes or so now runs with no problems. The downside is that lsiutil and raidctl both fai