Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS for my home RAID? Or Linux Software RAID?

2010-03-07 Thread rwalists
On Mar 8, 2010, at 12:05 AM, Dedhi Sujatmiko wrote: > 2. OpenSolaris (and EON) does not have proper implementation of SMART > monitoring. Therefore I cannot get to know the temperature of my hard disks. > Since they are DIY storage without chassis environment monitoring, I consider > this an im

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS for my home RAID? Or Linux Software RAID?

2010-03-07 Thread Dedhi Sujatmiko
On Monday 08,March,2010 10:09 AM, Slack-Moehrle wrote: OpenSolaris or FreeBSD with ZFS? I am also having some NAS storage at home, and consists of : a. OpenSolaris booted from hard disk with ZFS, mostly doing NFS and iSCSI Target for VMWare ESX, Intel Core Duo proc+ICH7 controller b. EON

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS for my home RAID? Or Linux Software RAID?

2010-03-07 Thread Slack-Moehrle
Hi Erik, >>Be sure to read the 3Ware info on their controllers under OpenSolaris: >>http://www.3ware.com/kb/article.aspx?id=15643 >>That said, 3ware controllers are hardly the best option for a >>OpenSolaris server. You DON'T want to make use of any of the hardware >>raid features of them, and

Re: [zfs-discuss] Should ZFS write data out when disk are idle

2010-03-07 Thread Damon Atkins
I think ZFS should look for more opportunities to write to disk rather than leaving it to the last second (5seconds) as it appears it does. e.g. if a file has record size worth of data outstanding it should be queued within ZFS to be written out. If the record is updated again before a txg, the

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS for my home RAID? Or Linux Software RAID?

2010-03-07 Thread Erik Trimble
Be sure to read the 3Ware info on their controllers under OpenSolaris: http://www.3ware.com/kb/article.aspx?id=15643 That said, 3ware controllers are hardly the best option for a OpenSolaris server. You DON'T want to make use of any of the hardware raid features of them, and you may not even

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS for my home RAID? Or Linux Software RAID?

2010-03-07 Thread Ian Collins
Slack-Moehrle wrote: Do you have any thoughts on implementation? I think I would just like to put my Home directory on the ZFS pool and just SCP files up as needed. I dont think I need to mount drives on my mac, etc. SCP seems to suite me. One important point to note is you can only boot off a

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS for my home RAID? Or Linux Software RAID?

2010-03-07 Thread Slack-Moehrle
Hi David, >Did you pick the chassis and disk size based on planned storage >requirements, or because it's what you could get to build a big honking >fileserver box? Just curious. I have a 4tb Buffalo Terastation that cannot be expanded further and I am using 2.7tb. Also, I have need to mak

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS replication send/receive errors out

2010-03-07 Thread David Dyer-Bennet
On 3/7/2010 2:08 PM, Richard Elling wrote: On Mar 5, 2010, at 7:32 AM, David Dyer-Bennet wrote: sending from @bup-4hr-20100228-04CST to zp1/l...@bup-4hr-20100228-08cst received 312B stream in 1 seconds (312B/sec) receiving incremental stream of zp1/l...@bup-4hr-20100224-12cst int

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS for my home RAID? Or Linux Software RAID?

2010-03-07 Thread Ian Collins
David Dyer-Bennet wrote: For a system where you care about capacity and safety, but not that much about IO throughput (that's my interpretation of what you said you would use it for), with 16 bays, I believe the expert opinion will tell you that two RAIDZ2 groups of 8 disks each is one of th

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS for my home RAID? Or Linux Software RAID?

2010-03-07 Thread David Dyer-Bennet
On 3/7/2010 8:09 PM, Slack-Moehrle wrote: I build a new Storage Server to backup my data, keep archives of client files, etc I recently had a near loss of important items. So I built a 16 SATA bay enclosure (16 hot swappable + 3 internal) enclosure, 2 x 3Ware 8 port RAID cards, 8gb RAM, dual

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS for my home RAID? Or Linux Software RAID?

2010-03-07 Thread Michael Shadle
On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 6:09 PM, Slack-Moehrle wrote: > OpenSolaris or FreeBSD with ZFS? zfs for sure. it's nice having something bitrot-resistant. it was designed with data integrity in mind. ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org ht

[zfs-discuss] ZFS for my home RAID? Or Linux Software RAID?

2010-03-07 Thread Slack-Moehrle
Hello All, I build a new Storage Server to backup my data, keep archives of client files, etc I recently had a near loss of important items. So I built a 16 SATA bay enclosure (16 hot swappable + 3 internal) enclosure, 2 x 3Ware 8 port RAID cards, 8gb RAM, dual AMD Opertron. I have a 1tb boot

[zfs-discuss] zpool will not import on a different controller

2010-03-07 Thread Ethan
I want to move my pool (consisting of five 1.5TB sata drives in raidz1) to a different computer. I am encountering issues with controllers - the motherboard (Asus P5BV-C/4L) has 8 sata ports: 4 on a marvell 88se6145, which seems not to be supported at all; and 4 on intel 82801G, which uses the pci-

Re: [zfs-discuss] Does OpenSolaris mpt driver support LSI 2008 controller

2010-03-07 Thread James C. McPherson
On 8/03/10 01:42 AM, Tim Cook wrote: On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 3:12 AM, James C. McPherson mailto:j...@opensolaris.org>> wrote: On 7/03/10 12:28 PM, norm.tallant wrote: I'm about to try it! My LSI SAS 9211-8i should arrive Monday or Tuesday. I bought the cable-less versio

Re: [zfs-discuss] getting drive serial number

2010-03-07 Thread Tim Cook
On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 3:12 PM, Ethan wrote: > On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 15:30, Tim Cook wrote: > >> >> >> On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 2:10 PM, Ethan wrote: >> >>> On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 14:55, Tim Cook wrote: >>> On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 1:05 PM, Dennis Clarke wrote: > > > O

Re: [zfs-discuss] getting drive serial number

2010-03-07 Thread Richard Elling
On Mar 7, 2010, at 10:30 AM, Ethan wrote: > I have a failing drive, and no way to correlate the device with errors in the > zpool status with an actual physical drive. > If I could get the device's serial number, I could use that as it's printed > on the drive. > I come from linux, so I tried

Re: [zfs-discuss] getting drive serial number

2010-03-07 Thread Ethan
On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 15:30, Tim Cook wrote: > > > On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 2:10 PM, Ethan wrote: > >> On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 14:55, Tim Cook wrote: >> >>> >>> >>> On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 1:05 PM, Dennis Clarke wrote: >>> > On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 12:30 PM, Ethan wrote: > >> I

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS priorization for filesystems / zvols ?

2010-03-07 Thread Richard Elling
On Mar 7, 2010, at 11:43 AM, Lutz Schumann wrote: > Hello list, > > when consolidating storage services, it may be required to prioritize I/O. > > e.g. the important SAP database get all the I/O we can deliver and that it > needs. The test systems should use whats left. > > While this is a

Re: [zfs-discuss] why L2ARC device is used to store files ?

2010-03-07 Thread Richard Elling
On Mar 6, 2010, at 9:31 PM, Abdullah Al-Dahlawi wrote: > Hi ALL > > I might be little bit confused !!! > > I will try to ask my question in a simple way ... > > Why would a 16GB L2ARC device got filled by running a benchmark that uses a > 2GB workingset while having a 2GB ARC max ? ZFS is

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS replication send/receive errors out

2010-03-07 Thread Richard Elling
On Mar 5, 2010, at 7:32 AM, David Dyer-Bennet wrote: > My full backup script errorred out the last two times I ran it. I've got > a full Bash trace of it, so I know exactly what was done. > > There are a moderate number of snapshots on the zp1 pool, and I'm > intending to replicate the whole thin

Re: [zfs-discuss] getting drive serial number

2010-03-07 Thread Tim Cook
On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 1:05 PM, Dennis Clarke wrote: > > > On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 12:30 PM, Ethan wrote: > > > >> I have a failing drive, and no way to correlate the device with errors > >> in > >> the zpool status with an actual physical drive. > >> If I could get the device's serial number, I

[zfs-discuss] ZFS priorization for filesystems / zvols ?

2010-03-07 Thread Lutz Schumann
Hello list, when consolidating storage services, it may be required to prioritize I/O. e.g. the important SAP database get all the I/O we can deliver and that it needs. The test systems should use whats left. While this is a difficult topic in disk based systems (even little I/o with long h

Re: [zfs-discuss] flying ZFS pools

2010-03-07 Thread Oleksii Dzhulai
Hello, to automate all these, the best thing to do is to create Sun Cluster HA Storage resource. Have a look: http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/819-2974/gbspx?a=view -- http://unixinmind.blogspot.com From: zfs-discuss-boun...

Re: [zfs-discuss] getting drive serial number

2010-03-07 Thread Dennis Clarke
> On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 12:30 PM, Ethan wrote: > >> I have a failing drive, and no way to correlate the device with errors >> in >> the zpool status with an actual physical drive. >> If I could get the device's serial number, I could use that as it's >> printed >> on the drive. >> I come from li

Re: [zfs-discuss] getting drive serial number

2010-03-07 Thread Tim Cook
On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 12:30 PM, Ethan wrote: > I have a failing drive, and no way to correlate the device with errors in > the zpool status with an actual physical drive. > If I could get the device's serial number, I could use that as it's printed > on the drive. > I come from linux, so I tried

[zfs-discuss] getting drive serial number

2010-03-07 Thread Ethan
I have a failing drive, and no way to correlate the device with errors in the zpool status with an actual physical drive. If I could get the device's serial number, I could use that as it's printed on the drive. I come from linux, so I tried dmesg, as that's what's familiar (I see that the man page

Re: [zfs-discuss] Wildcards to zfs list

2010-03-07 Thread David Dyer-Bennet
On 3/7/2010 11:23 AM, Tomas Ögren wrote: On 07 March, 2010 - David Dyer-Bennet sent me these 1,1K bytes: There isn't some syntax I'm missing to use wildcards in zfs list to list snapshots, is there? I find nothing in the man page, and nothing I've tried works (yes, I do understand that nor

Re: [zfs-discuss] Wildcards to zfs list

2010-03-07 Thread Tomas Ögren
On 07 March, 2010 - David Dyer-Bennet sent me these 1,1K bytes: > There isn't some syntax I'm missing to use wildcards in zfs list to list > snapshots, is there? I find nothing in the man page, and nothing I've > tried works (yes, I do understand that normally wildcards are expanded > by th

[zfs-discuss] Wildcards to zfs list

2010-03-07 Thread David Dyer-Bennet
There isn't some syntax I'm missing to use wildcards in zfs list to list snapshots, is there? I find nothing in the man page, and nothing I've tried works (yes, I do understand that normally wildcards are expanded by the shell, and I don't expect bash to have zfs-specific stuff like that in it

Re: [zfs-discuss] Does OpenSolaris mpt driver support LSI 2008 controller

2010-03-07 Thread Tim Cook
On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 3:12 AM, James C. McPherson wrote: > On 7/03/10 12:28 PM, norm.tallant wrote: > >> I'm about to try it! My LSI SAS 9211-8i should arrive Monday or >> Tuesday. I bought the cable-less version, opting instead to save a few >> $ and buy Adaptec 2247000-R SAS to SATA cables.

Re: [zfs-discuss] [caiman-discuss] image-update looping in libzfs or libbe

2010-03-07 Thread Evan Layton
It turns out that the problem that was being hit by Kristin was bug 10990 which is caused by using zoneadm cone to clone a zone. This causes a snapshot name collision that we where not catching due to bug 11062. To work around this issue there are two possibilites: 1) delete zones that have been

Re: [zfs-discuss] image-update looping in libzfs or libbe

2010-03-07 Thread Oleksii Dzhulai
Hi, have a look at http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=11062#c4 think it's related to your problem. -- http://unixinmind.blogspot.com From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris

Re: [zfs-discuss] Does OpenSolaris mpt driver support LSI 2008 controller

2010-03-07 Thread James C. McPherson
On 7/03/10 12:28 PM, norm.tallant wrote: I'm about to try it! My LSI SAS 9211-8i should arrive Monday or Tuesday. I bought the cable-less version, opting instead to save a few $ and buy Adaptec 2247000-R SAS to SATA cables. My rig will be based off of fairly new kit, so it should be interesti