[zfs-discuss] booting from ashift=12 pool..

2011-07-28 Thread Daniel Carosone
.. evidently doesn't work. GRUB reboots the machine moments after loading stage2, and doesn't recognise the fstype when examining the disk loaded from an alernate source. This is with SX-151. Here's hoping a future version (with grub2?) resolves this, as well as lets us boot from raidz. Just a

[zfs-discuss] locate any file

2011-07-28 Thread Alexander Lesle
Hello All, is there a way where I can locking where a file on my pool is? I mean is there a way where i can see where/on which HD zfs is saving a file. root@ripley:~# zpool list NAMESIZE ALLOC FREECAP DEDUP HEALTH ALTROOT archepool 5,44T 4,40T 1,04T80% 1.00x ONLINE -

Re: [zfs-discuss] Recover data from detached ZFS mirror

2011-07-28 Thread Cindy Swearingen
Hi Judy, The disk label of the detached disk is intact but the pool info is no longer accessible so no easy way exists to solve this problem. Its not simply a matter of getting the boot info back on there, its the pool info. Your disk will have to meet up with its other half before it can be bo

Re: [zfs-discuss] SSD vs "hybrid" drive - any advice?

2011-07-28 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Thu, 28 Jul 2011, Nico Williams wrote: Seems to me that it'd be nicer to have an interface to raw flash (no wear leveling, direct access to erasure, read, write, read-modify-write [as an optimization]). Then the filesystem could do a much better job of using flash efficiently. But a raw int

Re: [zfs-discuss] Recover data from detached ZFS mirror

2011-07-28 Thread Judy Wheeler (QTSI) X7567
Hi Cindy, Well, the other half of the zfs mirror is on a truck via snail mail to another location. We thought we were saving a copy of the root disk when we did a zfs detach. We didn't know it would remove the zfs label information. Is there a way to get the disk back to a "bootable" state? Th

Re: [zfs-discuss] Recover data from detached ZFS mirror

2011-07-28 Thread Cindy Swearingen
Hi Judy, Without much to go on, let's try the easier task first. Is it possible that you can re-attach the detached disk back to original root mirror disk? Thanks, Cindy On 07/28/11 13:16, Judy Wheeler (QTSI) X7567 wrote: Does anyone know where the "Jeff Bonwick tool to recover a ZFS label"

[zfs-discuss] Recover data from detached ZFS mirror

2011-07-28 Thread Judy Wheeler (QTSI) X7567
Does anyone know where the "Jeff Bonwick tool to recover a ZFS label" is? The old link was: http://www.mail-archive.com/zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org/msg15620.html But it does not exist anymore. I have a zfs detached disk that was part of a root mirror and I need to boot from it. Thank you for

Re: [zfs-discuss] SSD vs "hybrid" drive - any advice?

2011-07-28 Thread Nico Williams
On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 9:22 PM, Daniel Carosone wrote: > Absent TRIM support, there's another way to do this, too.  It's pretty > easy to dd /dev/zero to a file now and then.  Just make sure zfs > doesn't prevent these being written to the SSD (compress and dedup are > off).  I have a separate "f

Re: [zfs-discuss] Adding mirrors to an existing zfs-pool]

2011-07-28 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Thu, 28 Jul 2011, David Dyer-Bennet wrote: I'm still impressed by the ability to attach and detach arbitrary numbers of disks to mirrors. It makes upgrading mirrored disks very very safe, Zfs mirrors are super-cool. They are really flexible and recover quickly. Bob -- Bob Friesenhahn bf

Re: [zfs-discuss] Adding mirrors to an existing zfs-pool]

2011-07-28 Thread David Dyer-Bennet
On Tue, July 26, 2011 09:55, Cindy Swearingen wrote: > > Subject: Re: [zfs-discuss] Adding mirrors to an existing zfs-pool > Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2011 08:54:38 -0600 > From: Cindy Swearingen > To: Bernd W. Hennig > References: <342994905.11311662049567.JavaMail.Twebapp@sf-app1> > > Hi Bernd, > > If

Re: [zfs-discuss] Gen-ATA read sector errors

2011-07-28 Thread Jens Elkner
On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 01:55:27PM +0200, Koopmann, Jan-Peter wrote: Hi, > >my system is running oi148 on a super micro X8SIL-F board. I have two pools >(2 disc mirror, 4 disc RAIDZ) with RAID level SATA drives. (Hitachi > HUA72205 >and SAMSUNG HE103UJ). The system runs as expected h

[zfs-discuss] Gen-ATA read sector errors

2011-07-28 Thread Koopmann, Jan-Peter
Hi, my system is running oi148 on a super micro X8SIL-F board. I have two pools (2 disc mirror, 4 disc RAIDZ) with RAID level SATA drives. (Hitachi HUA72205 and SAMSUNG HE103UJ). The system runs as expected however every few days (sometimes weeks) the system comes to a halt due to these errors

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs rename query

2011-07-28 Thread Nishchaya Bahuguna
Thank you. I will follow the steps and post my queries in case this doesn't work out. Thanks much. Nishchaya Mike Gerdts wrote: On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 6:37 AM, Nishchaya Bahuguna wrote: Hi, I have a query regarding the zfs rename command. There are 5 zones and my requirement is to chan