Re: [zfs-discuss] How to create a checkpoint?

2010-11-08 Thread Tomas Ă–gren
On 08 November, 2010 - Peter Taps sent me these 0,7K bytes: > Folks, > > My understanding is that there is a way to create a zfs "checkpoint" > before doing any system upgrade or installing a new software. If > there is a problem, one can simply rollback to the stable checkpoint. > > I am famil

Re: [zfs-discuss] X4540 RIP

2010-11-08 Thread matthew patton
> I have this with 36 2TB drives (and 2 separate boot drives). > > http://www.colfax-intl.com/jlrid/SpotLight_more_Acc.asp?L=134&S=58&B=2267 That's just a Supermicro SC847. http://www.supermicro.com/products/chassis/4U/?chs=847 Stay away from the 24 port expander backplanes. I've gone thru sever

[zfs-discuss] How to create a checkpoint?

2010-11-08 Thread Peter Taps
Folks, My understanding is that there is a way to create a zfs "checkpoint" before doing any system upgrade or installing a new software. If there is a problem, one can simply rollback to the stable checkpoint. I am familiar with snapshots and clones. However, I am not clear on how to manage

Re: [zfs-discuss] Drive randomly being removed from pool

2010-11-08 Thread Haudy Kazemi
besson3c wrote: This has happened to me several times now, I'm confused as to why... This one particular drive, and its always the same drive, randomly shows up as being removed from the pool. I have to export and import the pool in order to have this disk seen again and for re-silvering to re

[zfs-discuss] Drive randomly being removed from pool

2010-11-08 Thread besson3c
This has happened to me several times now, I'm confused as to why... This one particular drive, and its always the same drive, randomly shows up as being removed from the pool. I have to export and import the pool in order to have this disk seen again and for re-silvering to reoccur. When this l

Re: [zfs-discuss] X4540 RIP

2010-11-08 Thread Moazam Raja
I have this with 36 2TB drives (and 2 separate boot drives). http://www.colfax-intl.com/jlrid/SpotLight_more_Acc.asp?L=134&S=58&B=2267 It's not exactly the same (it has cons/pros), but it is definitely less expensive. I'm running b147 on it with an LSI controller. -Moazam On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at

[zfs-discuss] X4540 RIP

2010-11-08 Thread Ian Collins
Oracle have deleted the best ZFS platform I know, the X4540. Does anyone know of an equivalent system? None of the current Oracle/Sun offerings come close. -- Ian. ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.or

Re: [zfs-discuss] Any limit on pool hierarchy?

2010-11-08 Thread Haudy Kazemi
Bryan Horstmann-Allen wrote: +-- | On 2010-11-08 13:27:09, Peter Taps wrote: | | From zfs documentation, it appears that a "vdev" can be built from more vdevs. That is, a raidz vdev can be built across a bunch of mirrore

Re: [zfs-discuss] Any limit on pool hierarchy?

2010-11-08 Thread Bryan Horstmann-Allen
+-- | On 2010-11-08 13:27:09, Peter Taps wrote: | | From zfs documentation, it appears that a "vdev" can be built from more vdevs. That is, a raidz vdev can be built across a bunch of mirrored vdevs, and a mirror can be

Re: [zfs-discuss] Any limit on pool hierarchy?

2010-11-08 Thread Tim Cook
On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 3:27 PM, Peter Taps wrote: > Folks, > > From zfs documentation, it appears that a "vdev" can be built from more > vdevs. That is, a raidz vdev can be built across a bunch of mirrored vdevs, > and a mirror can be built across a few raidz vdevs. > > Is my understanding correc

[zfs-discuss] Any limit on pool hierarchy?

2010-11-08 Thread Peter Taps
Folks, >From zfs documentation, it appears that a "vdev" can be built from more vdevs. >That is, a raidz vdev can be built across a bunch of mirrored vdevs, and a >mirror can be built across a few raidz vdevs. Is my understanding correct? Also, is there a limit on the depth of a vdev? Thank

Re: [zfs-discuss] Maximum zfs send/receive throughput

2010-11-08 Thread Markus Kovero
> I'm wondering if #6975124 could be the cause of my problem, too. there are several zfs send (and receive) related issues with 111b. You might seriously want to consider upgrading to more recent opensolaris (134) or openindiana Yours Markus Kovero _

Re: [zfs-discuss] Maximum zfs send/receive throughput

2010-11-08 Thread Karsten Weiss
Does anyone know the current state of bug #6975124? Has there been any progress since August? I currently have an OpenSolaris 2009.06 snv_111b system (entire 0.5.11-0.111.14) which *repeatedly* gets stuck after a couple of minutes during a large (xxx GB) incremental zfs receive operation. The p