Re: [zfs-discuss] New Supermicro SAS/SATA controller: AOC-USAS2-L8e in SOHO NAS and HD HT

2010-08-12 Thread TheJay
Not myself yet - but here is some really interesting reading on it: http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?p=1035820555 On Aug 12, 2010, at 7:03 PM, valrh...@gmail.com wrote: > Has anyone bought one of these cards recently? It seems to list for around > $170 at various places, which seems like qu

Re: [zfs-discuss] New Supermicro SAS/SATA controller: AOC-USAS2-L8e in SOHO NAS and HD HT

2010-08-12 Thread valrh...@gmail.com
Has anyone bought one of these cards recently? It seems to list for around $170 at various places, which seems like quite a decent deal. But no well-known reputable vendor I know seems to sell these, and I want to be able to have someone backing the sale if something isn't perfect. Where do you

Re: [zfs-discuss] Backup zpool

2010-08-12 Thread Marty Scholes
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Re: [zfs-discuss] User level transactional API

2010-08-12 Thread Nicolas Williams
On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 07:48:10PM -0500, Norm Jacobs wrote: > For single file updates, this is commonly solved by writing data to > a temp file and using rename(2) to move it in place when it's ready. For anything more complicated you need... a more complicated approach. Note that "transactional

Re: [zfs-discuss] User level transactional API

2010-08-12 Thread Norm Jacobs
For single file updates, this is commonly solved by writing data to a temp file and using rename(2) to move it in place when it's ready. -Norm On 08/12/10 04:51 PM, Jason wrote: Has any thought been given to exposing some sort of transactional API for ZFS at the user level (even if just

[zfs-discuss] Need to convert or remove some "un-removable" drives

2010-08-12 Thread TheJay
Guys, Need your help. My DEV134 OSOL build with my 30TB disk system got really screwed due to my fat fingers :-( I added 3 drives to my pool with the intent to add them to my RAIDz2... This is what my zpool status looks like: pool: rzpool2 state: ONLINE scrub: none requested config:

[zfs-discuss] User level transactional API

2010-08-12 Thread Jason
Has any thought been given to exposing some sort of transactional API for ZFS at the user level (even if just consolidation private)? Just recently, it would seem a poorly timed unscheduled poweroff while NWAM was attempting to update nsswitch.conf left me with a 0 byte nsswitch.conf (which when t

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS and VMware

2010-08-12 Thread Miles Nordin
> "sw" == Saxon, Will writes: sw> It was and may still be common to use RDM for VMs that need sw> very high IO performance. It also used to be the only sw> supported way to get thin provisioning for an individual VM sw> disk. However, VMware regularly makes a lot of noise abou

Re: [zfs-discuss] one ZIL SLOG per zpool?

2010-08-12 Thread Chris Twa
Thank you everyone for your answers. Cost is a factor, but the main obstacle is that the chassis will only support four SSDs (and that's with using the spare 5.25 bay for a 4x2.5 hotswap bay). My plan now is to buy the ssd's and do extensive testing. I want to focus my performance efforts on

Re: [zfs-discuss] Problems with big ZFS send/receive in b134

2010-08-12 Thread David Dyer-Bennet
On Wed, August 11, 2010 15:11, Paul Kraus wrote: > On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 10:36 AM, David Dyer-Bennet wrote: Am I looking for too much here?  I *thought* I was doing something that should be simple and basic and frequently used nearly everywhere, and hence certain to work.  

[zfs-discuss] EMC migration and zfs

2010-08-12 Thread Mike DeMarco
We are going to be migrating to a new EMC frame using Open Replicator. ZFS is sitting on volumes that are running MPXIO. So the controller number/disk number is going to change when we reboot the server. I would like to konw if anyone has done this and will the zfs filesystems "just work" and fi

Re: [zfs-discuss] one ZIL SLOG per zpool?

2010-08-12 Thread Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk
> People are always tempted to put more than one log onto a SSD because > "Hey, > the system could never use more than 8G, but I've got a 32G drive! > What a > waste of money!" Which has some truth in it. But the line of thought > you > should have is "Hey, the system will do its best to max out th

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS and VMware

2010-08-12 Thread Richard Jahnel
We are using zfs backed fibre targets for ESXi 4.1 and previously 4.0 and have had good performance with no issues. The fibre LUNS were formated with vmfs by the ESXi boxes. SQLIO benchmarks from guest system running on fibre attacted ESXi host. File Size MBThreads Read/Write Duration

[zfs-discuss] ZFS data from snv_b134 to fbsd

2010-08-12 Thread Dick Hoogendijk
I want to transfer a lot of ZFS data from an old OpenSolaris ZFS mirror (v22) to a new FreeBSD-8.1 ZFs mirror (v14). If I boot off the OpenSolaris boot CD and import both mirrors will the copying from v22 ZFS to v14 ZFS be harmless? I'm not sure if this is teh right mailinglist for this question.

Re: [zfs-discuss] Backup zpool

2010-08-12 Thread Simone Caldana
Il giorno 12/ago/2010, alle ore 15.10, Marty Scholes ha scritto: > Say the word and I'll send you a copy. pretty please :) thanks (meanwhile, I created the top dataset on the backup pool, set compression to gzip-2, removed any local compression setting on the source dataset children and I am

Re: [zfs-discuss] Backup zpool

2010-08-12 Thread Marty Scholes
> Hello, > > I would like to backup my main zpool (originally > called "data") inside an equally originally named > "backup"zpool, which will also holds other kinds of > backups. > > Basically I'd like to end up with > backup/data > backup/data/dataset1 > backup/data/dataset2 > backup/otherthing

Re: [zfs-discuss] one ZIL SLOG per zpool?

2010-08-12 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
> From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- > boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Chris Twa > > I have three zpools on a server and want to add a mirrored pair of > ssd's for the ZIL. Can the same pair of SSDs be used for the ZIL of > all three zpools or is it one ZIL SLOG

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS and VMware

2010-08-12 Thread Eff Norwood
We are doing NFS in VMWare 4.0U2 production, 50K users using OpenSolaris SNV_134 on SuperMicro boxes with SATA drives. Yes, I am crazy. Our experience has been that iSCSI for ESXi 4.x is fast and works well with minimal fussing until there is a problem. When that problem happens, getting to data

Re: [zfs-discuss] Degraded Pool, Spontaneous Reboots

2010-08-12 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
I am guessing you're experiencing cpu or memory failure. Or motherboard, or disk controller. > -Original Message- > From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- > boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Michael Anderson > Sent: Thursday, August 12, 2010 3:46 AM > To: zfs

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS and VMware

2010-08-12 Thread Paul Kraus
On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 6:15 PM, Saxon, Will wrote: > > It really depends on your VM system, what you plan on doing with VMs and how > you plan to do it. > > I have the vSphere Enterprise product and I am using the DRS feature, so VMs > are vmotioned around > my cluster all throughout the day.

Re: [zfs-discuss] Backup zpool

2010-08-12 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
> From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- > boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Simone Caldana > > I would like to backup my main zpool (originally called "data") inside > an equally originally named "backup"zpool, which will also holds other > > Basically I'd like to end

Re: [zfs-discuss] Raidz - what is stored in parity?

2010-08-12 Thread Adam Leventhal
> In my case, it gives an error that I need at least 11 disks (which I don't) > but the point is that raidz parity does not seem to be limited to 3. Is this > not true? RAID-Z is limited to 3 parity disks. The error message is giving you false hope and that's a bug. If you had plugged in 11 dis

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs replace problems please please help

2010-08-12 Thread Seth Keith
> -Original Message- > From: Mark J Musante [mailto:mark.musa...@oracle.com] > Sent: Wednesday, August 11, 2010 5:03 AM > To: Seth Keith > Cc: zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org > Subject: Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs replace problems please please help > > On Tue, 10 Aug 2010, seth keith wrote: > >

Re: [zfs-discuss] Raidz - what is stored in parity?

2010-08-12 Thread Arne Schwabe
Am 11.08.10 00:40, schrieb Peter Taps: > Hi, > > I am going through understanding the fundamentals of raidz. From the man > pages, a raidz configuration of P disks and N parity provides (P-N)*X storage > space where X is the size of the disk. For example, if I have 3 disks of 10G > each and I c

[zfs-discuss] Unable to import ZFS pool after disk issues

2010-08-12 Thread Peter Van Buren
I have a 8 disk raidz2 pool (ZP02) that I am having some issues with. The pool is using WD20EADS 2TB drives connected to a Intel SASUC8I controller (LSI 1068E chip). The pool was originally created when the machine was running SXDE 1/08. I later installed OpenSolaris 2009.06 and imported the poo

Re: [zfs-discuss] one ZIL SLOG per zpool?

2010-08-12 Thread Darren J Moffat
On 12/08/2010 07:27, Chris Twa wrote: I have three zpools on a server and want to add a mirrored pair of ssd's for the ZIL. Can the same pair of SSDs be used for the ZIL of all three zpools or is it one ZIL SLOG device per zpool? Only if you partition it up and give slices to the pools, howe

[zfs-discuss] Degraded Pool, Spontaneous Reboots

2010-08-12 Thread Michael Anderson
Hello, I've been getting warnings that my zfs pool is degraded. At first it was complaining about a few corrupt files, which were listed as hex numbers instead of filenames, i.e. VOL1:<0x0> After a scrub, a couple of the filenames appeared - turns out they were in snapshots I don't really nee

[zfs-discuss] Optimizing performance on a ZFS-based NAS

2010-08-12 Thread valrh...@gmail.com
Thanks to the help from many people on this board, I finally got my OpenSolaris-based NAS box up and running. I have a Dell T410 with a Xeon E5504 2.0 GHz (Nehalem) quad-core processor, 8 GB of RAM. I have six 2TB Hitachi Deskstar (HD32000IDK/7K) SATA drives, set up as stripes across three mirr