Re: [zfs-discuss] how to set up solaris os and cache within one SSD

2011-11-10 Thread darkblue
2011/11/11 Ian Collins > On 11/11/11 02:42 AM, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: > >> From: >> zfs-discuss-bounces@**opensolaris.org[mailto: >>> zfs-discuss- >>> boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of darkblue >>> >>> 1 * XEON 5606 >>> 1 * supermirco X8DT3-LN4F >>> 6 * 4G RECC RAM >>> 22 * WD RE3 1T hardd

Re: [zfs-discuss] weird bug with Seagate 3TB USB3 drive

2011-11-10 Thread David Magda
On Nov 10, 2011, at 18:41, Daniel Carosone wrote: > On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 08:17:55PM -0400, John D Groenveld wrote: >> Under both Solaris 10 and Solaris 11x, I receive the evil message: >> | I/O request is not aligned with 4096 disk sector size. >> | It is handled through Read Modify Write but t

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs sync=disabled property

2011-11-10 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
> From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- > boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Bob Friesenhahn > > The silent corruption (of zfs) does not occur due to simple reason > that flushing all of the block writes are acknowledged by the disks > and then a new transaction occurs

Re: [zfs-discuss] weird bug with Seagate 3TB USB3 drive

2011-11-10 Thread Daniel Carosone
On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 08:17:55PM -0400, John D Groenveld wrote: > Under both Solaris 10 and Solaris 11x, I receive the evil message: > | I/O request is not aligned with 4096 disk sector size. > | It is handled through Read Modify Write but the performance is very low. I got similar with 4k secto

Re: [zfs-discuss] how to set up solaris os and cache within one SSD

2011-11-10 Thread Ian Collins
On 11/11/11 02:42 AM, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of darkblue 1 * XEON 5606 1 * supermirco X8DT3-LN4F 6 * 4G RECC RAM 22 * WD RE3 1T harddisk 4 * intel 320 (160G) SSD 1 * supermicro 846E1-900B chassis

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs sync=disabled property

2011-11-10 Thread Tomas Forsman
On 10 November, 2011 - Will Murnane sent me these 1,5K bytes: > On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 14:12, Tomas Forsman wrote: > > On 10 November, 2011 - Bob Friesenhahn sent me these 1,6K bytes: > >> On Wed, 9 Nov 2011, Tomas Forsman wrote: > > At all times, if there's a server crash, ZFS will co

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs sync=disabled property

2011-11-10 Thread Will Murnane
On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 14:12, Tomas Forsman wrote: > On 10 November, 2011 - Bob Friesenhahn sent me these 1,6K bytes: >> On Wed, 9 Nov 2011, Tomas Forsman wrote: At all times, if there's a server crash, ZFS will come back along at next boot or mount, and the filesystem will be in a

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs sync=disabled property

2011-11-10 Thread Tomas Forsman
On 10 November, 2011 - Bob Friesenhahn sent me these 1,6K bytes: > On Wed, 9 Nov 2011, Tomas Forsman wrote: >>> >>> At all times, if there's a server crash, ZFS will come back along at next >>> boot or mount, and the filesystem will be in a consistent state, that was >>> indeed a valid state which

Re: [zfs-discuss] weird bug with Seagate 3TB USB3 drive

2011-11-10 Thread Cindy Swearingen
Hi John, CR 7102272: ZFS storage pool created on a 3 TB USB 3.0 device has device label problems Let us know if this is still a problem in the OS11 FCS release. Thanks, Cindy On 11/10/11 08:55, John D Groenveld wrote: In message<4e9db04b.80...@oracle.com>, Cindy Swearingen writes: This

Re: [zfs-discuss] how to set up solaris os and cache within one SSD

2011-11-10 Thread Jeff Savit
On 11/10/2011 06:38 AM, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Jeff Savit Also, not a good idea for performance to partition the disks as you suggest. Not totally true. By default, if you partition the disks

Re: [zfs-discuss] weird bug with Seagate 3TB USB3 drive

2011-11-10 Thread John D Groenveld
In message <4e9db04b.80...@oracle.com>, Cindy Swearingen writes: >This is CR 7102272. What is the title of this BugId? I'm trying to attach my Oracle CSI to it but Chuck Rozwat and company's support engineer can't seem to find it. Once I get upgraded from S11x SRU12 to S11, I'll reproduce on a mo

Re: [zfs-discuss] Couple of questions about ZFS on laptops

2011-11-10 Thread Garrett D'Amore
On Nov 9, 2011, at 6:08 PM, Francois Dion wrote: > Some laptops have pc card and expresscard slots, and you can get an adapter > for sd card, so you could set up your os non mirrored and just set up home on > a pair of sd cards. Something like > http://www.amazon.com/Sandisk-SDAD109A11-Digital-

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs sync=disabled property

2011-11-10 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Wed, 9 Nov 2011, Tomas Forsman wrote: At all times, if there's a server crash, ZFS will come back along at next boot or mount, and the filesystem will be in a consistent state, that was indeed a valid state which the filesystem actually passed through at some moment in time. So as long as al

Re: [zfs-discuss] how to set up solaris os and cache within one SSD

2011-11-10 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
> From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- > boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of darkblue > > Why would you want your root pool to be on the SSD? Do you expect an > extremely high I/O rate for the OS disks? Also, not a good idea for > performance to partition the disks as y

Re: [zfs-discuss] how to set up solaris os and cache within one SSD

2011-11-10 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
> From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- > boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of darkblue > > 1 * XEON 5606 > 1 * supermirco X8DT3-LN4F > 6 * 4G RECC RAM > 22 * WD RE3 1T harddisk > 4 * intel 320 (160G) SSD > 1 * supermicro 846E1-900B chassis I just want to say, this isn't

[zfs-discuss] Reversing fdisk changes

2011-11-10 Thread Peter Tribble
I have a Solaris 10 machine that I've been having an interesting time with today. (Live Upgrade didn't work, stmsboot didn't work, I managed to rebuild it with jumpstart at about the 10th attempt.) Anyway, it looks like one of my drives has had its label overwritten by fdisk, pool: disk00 i

Re: [zfs-discuss] how to set up solaris os and cache within one SSD

2011-11-10 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
> From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- > boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Jeff Savit > > Also, not a good idea for > performance to partition the disks as you suggest. Not totally true. By default, if you partition the disks, then the disk write cache gets disable

Re: [zfs-discuss] Data distribution not even between vdevs

2011-11-10 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
> From: Gregg Wonderly [mailto:gregg...@gmail.com] > > > There is no automatic way to do it. > For me, this is a key issue. If there was an automatic rebalancing mechanism, > that same mechanism would work perfectly to allow pools to have disk sets > removed. It would provide the needed basic me

Re: [zfs-discuss] Oracle releases Solaris 11 for Sparc and x86 servers

2011-11-10 Thread Hung-Sheng Tsao (Lao Tsao 老曹) Ph.D.
AFAIK, there is no change in open source policy for Oracle Solaris On 11/9/2011 10:34 PM, Fred Liu wrote: ... so when will zfs-related improvement make it to solaris- derivatives :D ? I am also very curious about Oracle's policy about source code. ;-) Fred __