Re: [zfs-discuss] Intel SASUC8I - worth every penny

2010-03-11 Thread Richard Elling
On Mar 11, 2010, at 10:02 PM, Tonmaus wrote: > Hi, > thanks for sharing. > Is your LSI card running in IT or IR mode? I had some issues getting all > drives connected in IR mode which is the factory default of the LSI branded > cards. > I am also curious why your controller shows up as "c11". Doe

[zfs-discuss] zpool reporting corrupt metadata

2010-03-11 Thread Paul Tetley
Hi, My zpool is reporting unrecoverable errors with the metadata: pool: rpool2 > state: ONLINE > status: One or more devices has experienced an error resulting in data > corruption. Applications may be effected. > action: Restore the file in question if possible. Otherwise re

Re: [zfs-discuss] Intel SASUC8I - worth every penny

2010-03-11 Thread tomwaters
Hi, I suspect mine are already IT mode...not sure how to confirm that though...I have had no issues. My controller is showing as C8...odd isn't it. It's in the 16xPCIE slot at the moment...I am not sure how it gets the number... -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___

Re: [zfs-discuss] Intel SASUC8I - worth every penny

2010-03-11 Thread Tonmaus
Hi, thanks for sharing. Is your LSI card running in IT or IR mode? I had some issues getting all drives connected in IR mode which is the factory default of the LSI branded cards. I am also curious why your controller shows up as "c11". Does anybody know more about the way this is enumerated? I a

[zfs-discuss] ZFS error while enabling DIRECT_IO for the DB chunks

2010-03-11 Thread Kashif Mumtaz
Hi, We are using Solaris 10 update 7 with ZFS file system.And using the machine for informix db. Solaris Patch level Generic_142900-02 (Dec 09 PatchCluster release) Informix DB version 11.5FC6 We are facing an issue while enabling DIRECT_IO for the DB chunks. The error message which appears

Re: [zfs-discuss] Intel SASUC8I - worth every penny

2010-03-11 Thread Dedhi Sujatmiko
On Friday 12,March,2010 12:02 PM, Erik Trimble wrote: In general, I would heartily agree with Russ, in that the 8-port LSI-based PCI-E cards are very, very well worth the price. I'm a satisfied user of the Marvell-based PCI-X cards, too (at least, since the 2009.06 release). That all said,

Re: [zfs-discuss] Intel SASUC8I - worth every penny

2010-03-11 Thread Erik Trimble
Russ Price wrote: Can you tell us the build version of the opensolaris? I'm currently on b134 (but I had the performance issues with 2009.06, b130, b131, b132, and b133 as well). I may end up swapping the Phenom II X2 550 with an Athlon II X4 630 that I've put into another M4A785-M syst

Re: [zfs-discuss] sharenfs option rw,root=host1 don't take effect

2010-03-11 Thread mingli
Thank Erik, and I will try it, but the new question is that the root of the NFS server mapped as nobody at the NFS client. For this issue, I set up a new test NFS server and NFS client, and with the same option, at this test environment, the file owner mapped correctly, it confused me. Thank

Re: [zfs-discuss] Intel SASUC8I - worth every penny

2010-03-11 Thread Russ Price
> Can you tell us the build > version of the opensolaris? I'm currently on b134 (but I had the performance issues with 2009.06, b130, b131, b132, and b133 as well). I may end up swapping the Phenom II X2 550 with an Athlon II X4 630 that I've put into another M4A785-M system. I noticed that the

Re: [zfs-discuss] sharenfs option rw,root=host1 don't take effect

2010-03-11 Thread Damon Atkins
pantzer5 wrote: > > > These days I am a fan for forward check access > lists, because any one who > > owns a DNS server can say that for IPAddressX > returns aserver.google.com. > > They can not set the forward lookup outside of > their domain but they can > > setup a reverse lookup. The other adv

Re: [zfs-discuss] Intel SASUC8I - worth every penny

2010-03-11 Thread tomwaters
Glad you got it humming! I got my (2x) 8 port LSI cards from here for $130USD... http://cgi.ebay.com/BRAND-NEW-SUPERMICRO-AOC-USASLP-L8I-UIO-SAS-RAID_W0QQitemZ280397639429QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item4149006f05 Works perfectly. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _

Re: [zfs-discuss] Intel SASUC8I - worth every penny

2010-03-11 Thread Zhu Han
Hi, Thank you for sharing it. Seems like it's more cheaper than the HBA from LSI, isn't it? Can you tell us the build version of the opensolaris? best regards, hanzhu On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 8:52 AM, Russ Price wrote: > I had recently started setting up a homegrown OpenSolaris NAS with a lar

Re: [zfs-discuss] zpool iostat / how to tell if your iop bound

2010-03-11 Thread Richard Elling
On Mar 10, 2010, at 4:18 PM, Chris Banal wrote: > What is the best way to tell if your bound by the number of individual > operations per second / random io? If no other resource is the bottleneck :-) > "zpool iostat" has an "operations" column but this doesn't really tell me if > my disks are

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs send and receive ... any ideas for FEC?

2010-03-11 Thread Daniel Carosone
On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 02:00:41AM -0800, Svein Skogen wrote: > I can't help but keep wondering if not some sort of FEC wrapper > (optional of course) might solve both the "backup" and some of the > long-distance-transfer (where retransmissions really isn't wanted) > issues. Retransmissions aren

[zfs-discuss] Intel SASUC8I - worth every penny

2010-03-11 Thread Russ Price
I had recently started setting up a homegrown OpenSolaris NAS with a large RAIDZ2 pool, and had found its RAIDZ2 performance severely lacking - more like downright atrocious. As originally set up: * Asus M4A785-M motherboard * Phenom II X2 550 Black CPU * JMB363-based PCIe X1 SATA card (2 ports)

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs send and receive ... any ideas for FEC?

2010-03-11 Thread Richard Elling
On Mar 11, 2010, at 2:00 AM, Svein Skogen wrote: > I can't help but keep wondering if not some sort of FEC wrapper (optional of > course) might solve both the "backup" and some of the long-distance-transfer > (where retransmissions really isn't wanted) issues. I don't think retransmissions of b

Re: [zfs-discuss] How to verify ecc for ram is active and enabled?

2010-03-11 Thread Richard Elling
On Mar 11, 2010, at 7:49 AM, R.G. Keen wrote: >> I think ZFS has no specific mechanisms in respect to >> RAM integrity. It will just count on a healthy and >> robust foundation for any component in the machine. > I'd really like to understand what OS does with respect to ECC. Anyone who > does un

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS - VMware ESX --> vSphere Upgrade : Zpool Faulted

2010-03-11 Thread Ross Walker
On Mar 11, 2010, at 12:31 PM, Andrew wrote: Hi Ross, Ok - as a Solaris newbie.. i'm going to need your help. Format produces the following:- c8t4d0 (VMware-Virtualdisk-1.0 cyl 65268 alt 2 hd 255 sec 126) / p...@0,0/pci15ad,1...@10/s...@4,0 what dd command do I need to run to reference thi

Re: [zfs-discuss] Replacing a failed/failed mirrored root disk

2010-03-11 Thread Cindy Swearingen
Hi David, In general, an I/O error means that the slice 0 doesn't exist or some other problem exists with the disk. The installgrub command is like this: # installgrub /boot/grub/stage1 /boot/grub/stage2 /dev/rdsk/c1t0d0s0 Thanks, Cindy On 03/11/10 15:45, David L Kensiski wrote: At Wed, 10

Re: [zfs-discuss] Replacing a failed/failed mirrored root disk

2010-03-11 Thread David L Kensiski
At Wed, 10 Mar 2010 15:28:40 -0800 Cindy Swearingen wrote: > Hey list, > > Grant says his system is hanging after the zpool replace on a v240, running Solaris 10 5/09, 4 GB of memory, and no ongoing snapshots. > No errors from zpool replace so it sounds like the disk was physically > replaced

Re: [zfs-discuss] " . . formatted using older on-disk format . ."

2010-03-11 Thread Harry Putnam
Erik Trimble writes: [...] > The Warning only applies to this circumstance: if you've upgraded > from an older build, then upgrading the zpool /may/ mean that you will > NOT be able to reboot to the OLDER build and still read the > now-upgraded zpool. Lots of good details snipped... thanks for

Re: [zfs-discuss] Snapshot recycle freezes system activity

2010-03-11 Thread Gary Mills
On Thu, Mar 04, 2010 at 04:20:10PM -0600, Gary Mills wrote: > We have an IMAP e-mail server running on a Solaris 10 10/09 system. > It uses six ZFS filesystems built on a single zpool with 14 daily > snapshots. Every day at 11:56, a cron command destroys the oldest > snapshots and creates new ones

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS - VMware ESX --> vSphere Upgrade : Zpool Faulted

2010-03-11 Thread Andrew
Hi Ross, Ok - as a Solaris newbie.. i'm going to need your help. Format produces the following:- c8t4d0 (VMware-Virtualdisk-1.0 cyl 65268 alt 2 hd 255 sec 126) /p...@0,0/pci15ad,1...@10/s...@4,0 what dd command do I need to run to reference this disk? I've tried /dev/rdsk/c8t4d0 and /dev/dsk

Re: [zfs-discuss] How to verify ecc for ram is active and enabled?

2010-03-11 Thread Christo Kutrovsky
Robert, That's great info. Do you know how you can check the number of CORRECTED errors by ECC in OpenSolaris? -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/li

Re: [zfs-discuss] How to verify ecc for ram is active and enabled?

2010-03-11 Thread Robert Milkowski
On 11/03/2010 15:49, R.G. Keen wrote: I think ZFS has no specific mechanisms in respect to RAM integrity. It will just count on a healthy and robust foundation for any component in the machine. I'd really like to understand what OS does with respect to ECC. Anyone who does understand the

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS - VMware ESX --> vSphere Upgrade : Zpool Faulted

2010-03-11 Thread Andrew
Hi Ross, Thanks for your advice. I've tried presenting as Virtual and Physical but sadly to no avail. I'm guessing if it was going to work then a quick zpool import or zpool status should at the very show me the "data" pool thats gone missing. The RDM is from a FC SAN so unfortunately I can't

Re: [zfs-discuss] How to verify ecc for ram is active and enabled?

2010-03-11 Thread Tonmaus
> I'd really like to understand what OS does with > respect to ECC. In information technology ECC (Error Correction Code, Wikipedia article is worth reading.) normally protects point-to-point "channels". Hence, this is entirely a "hardware" thing here. Regards, Tonmaus -- This message posted

Re: [zfs-discuss] How to verify ecc for ram is active and enabled?

2010-03-11 Thread R.G. Keen
> I think ZFS has no specific mechanisms in respect to > RAM integrity. It will just count on a healthy and > robust foundation for any component in the machine. I'd really like to understand what OS does with respect to ECC. Anyone who does understand the internal operation and can comment would

Re: [zfs-discuss] Convert from rz2 to rz1

2010-03-11 Thread Mark J Musante
On Thu, 11 Mar 2010, Lars-Gunnar Persson wrote: > Is it possible to convert a rz2 array to rz1 array? I have a pool with > to rz2 arrays. I would like to convert them to rz1. Would that be > possible? No, you'll have to create a second pool with raidz1 and do a "send | recv" operation to copy th

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS - VMware ESX --> vSphere Upgrade : Zpool Faulted

2010-03-11 Thread Ross Walker
On Mar 11, 2010, at 8:27 AM, Andrew wrote: Ok, The fault appears to have occurred regardless of the attempts to move to vSphere as we've now moved the host back to ESX 3.5 from whence it came and the problem still exists. Looks to me like the fault occurred as a result of a reboot. Any

[zfs-discuss] Convert from rz2 to rz1

2010-03-11 Thread Lars-Gunnar Persson
Is it possible to convert a rz2 array to rz1 array? I have a pool with to rz2 arrays. I would like to convert them to rz1. Would that be possible? If not, is it ok to remove one disk from a rz2 array and just let the array keep running with one disk missing? Regards, Lars-Gunnar Persson Syste

Re: [zfs-discuss] How to verify ecc for ram is active and enabled?

2010-03-11 Thread Tonmaus
> Is the nature of the scrub that it walks through > memory doing read/write/read and looking at the ECC > reply in hardware? I think ZFS has no specific mechanisms in respect to RAM integrity. It will just count on a healthy and robust foundation for any component in the machine. As far as I un

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS - VMware ESX --> vSphere Upgrade : Zpool Faulted

2010-03-11 Thread Andrew
Ok, The fault appears to have occurred regardless of the attempts to move to vSphere as we've now moved the host back to ESX 3.5 from whence it came and the problem still exists. Looks to me like the fault occurred as a result of a reboot. Any help and advice would be greatly appreciated. -

Re: [zfs-discuss] [Fwd: ZFS and FM(A)]

2010-03-11 Thread Tzongyu Paul Lee
http://bugs.opensolaris.org/ Enter 6846560 will get 3 BugID's for this sort of support.  But it will come later in the year and I don't know whether the 1068e HBA will work automatically or not since the solution will be targeted for SAS2.0 HBA cards. /T. Paul On 03/11/10 10:02 AM, Brian Xu

[zfs-discuss] ZFS - VMware ESX --> vSphere Upgrade : Zpool Faulted

2010-03-11 Thread Andrew
Hi All, We recently upgraded our Solaris 10 servers from ESX 3.5 to vSphere and in the process, the zpools appeared to become FAULTED even though we did not touch the OS. We detached the Physical RDM (1TB) from the Virtual Machine and attached to another idential Virtual machine to see if that

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs send and receive ... any ideas for FEC?

2010-03-11 Thread Svein Skogen
I can't help but keep wondering if not some sort of FEC wrapper (optional of course) might solve both the "backup" and some of the long-distance-transfer (where retransmissions really isn't wanted) issues. Reason I'm saying long-distance, is this is where latency-on-the-link starts rearing its

[zfs-discuss] ZFS Discuss - Excess Mailing List Digests

2010-03-11 Thread grarpamp
To whom it may concern... Those who subscribe to this list in digest format are receiving upwards of ten (10) digest mailings a day. This is not standard list practice for digests, which should commonly be sent/expected once a day. No apparrent message overlap, missing or repetition. Seems like ran

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs send and receive ... any ideas for FEC?

2010-03-11 Thread Daniel Carosone
On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 07:23:43PM +1100, Daniel Carosone wrote: > You have reminded me to go back and look again, and either find that > whatever issue was at fault last time was transient and now gone, or > determine what it actually was and get it resolved. > > In case you want to: http://allm

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs send and receive ... any ideas for FEC?

2010-03-11 Thread Daniel Carosone
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 02:54:18PM +0100, Svein Skogen wrote: > Are there any good options for encapsulating/decapsulating a zfs send > stream inside FEC (Forward Error Correction)? This could prove very > useful both for backup purposes, and for long-haul transmissions. I used par2 for this for s