Re: [zfs-discuss] Very poor pool performance - no zfs/controller errors?!

2011-12-18 Thread Jan-Aage Frydenbø-Bruvoll
On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 22:14, Nathan Kroenert wrote: > Do you realise that losing a single disk in that pool could pretty much > render the whole thing busted? Ah - didn't pick up on that one until someone here pointed it out - all my disks are mirrored, however some of them are mirrored on the

Re: [zfs-discuss] Very poor pool performance - no zfs/controllererrors?!

2011-12-18 Thread Jan-Aage Frydenbø-Bruvoll
Hi, On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 22:38, Matt Breitbach wrote: > I'd look at iostat -En.  It will give you a good breakdown of disks that > have seen errors.  I've also spotted failing disks just by watching an > iostat -nxz and looking for the one who's spending more %busy than the rest > of them, or

Re: [zfs-discuss] Very poor pool performance - no zfs/controller errors?!

2011-12-18 Thread Jan-Aage Frydenbø-Bruvoll
Hi Craig, On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 22:33, Craig Morgan wrote: > Try fmdump -e and then fmdump -eV, it could be a pathological disk just this > side of failure doing heavy retries that id dragging the pool down. Thanks for the hint - didn't know about fmdump. Nothing in the log since 13 Dec, thou

Re: [zfs-discuss] Very poor pool performance - no zfs/controllererrors?!

2011-12-18 Thread Matt Breitbach
I'd look at iostat -En. It will give you a good breakdown of disks that have seen errors. I've also spotted failing disks just by watching an iostat -nxz and looking for the one who's spending more %busy than the rest of them, or exhibiting longer than normal service times. -Matt -Original

Re: [zfs-discuss] Very poor pool performance - no zfs/controller errors?!

2011-12-18 Thread Craig Morgan
Try fmdump -e and then fmdump -eV, it could be a pathological disk just this side of failure doing heavy retries that id dragging the pool down. Craig -- Craig Morgan On 18 Dec 2011, at 16:23, Jan-Aage Frydenbø-Bruvoll wrote: > Hi, > > On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 22:14, Nathan Kroenert wrote:

Re: [zfs-discuss] Very poor pool performance - no zfs/controller errors?!

2011-12-18 Thread Jan-Aage Frydenbø-Bruvoll
Hi, On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 22:14, Nathan Kroenert wrote: >  I know some others may already have pointed this out - but I can't see it > and not say something... > > Do you realise that losing a single disk in that pool could pretty much > render the whole thing busted? > > At least for me - the

Re: [zfs-discuss] Very poor pool performance - no zfs/controller errors?!

2011-12-18 Thread Nathan Kroenert
I know some others may already have pointed this out - but I can't see it and not say something... Do you realise that losing a single disk in that pool could pretty much render the whole thing busted? At least for me - the rate at which _I_ seem to lose disks, it would be worth considering

Re: [zfs-discuss] Can I create a mirror for a root rpool?

2011-12-18 Thread Nathan Kroenert
Do note, that though Frank is correct, you have to be a little careful around what might happen should you drop your original disk, and only the large mirror half is left... ;) On 12/16/11 07:09 PM, Frank Cusack wrote: You can just do fdisk to create a single large partition. The attached mi

Re: [zfs-discuss] Very poor pool performance - no zfs/controller errors?!

2011-12-18 Thread Jan-Aage Frydenbø-Bruvoll
Hi, On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 22:00, Fajar A. Nugraha wrote: > From http://www.solarisinternals.com/wiki/index.php/ZFS_Best_Practices_Guide > (or at least Google's cache of it, since it seems to be inaccessible > now: > > " > Keep pool space under 80% utilization to maintain pool performance. > Cur

Re: [zfs-discuss] Very poor pool performance - no zfs/controller errors?!

2011-12-18 Thread Fajar A. Nugraha
On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 12:40 AM, Jan-Aage Frydenbø-Bruvoll wrote: > Hi, > > On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 16:41, Fajar A. Nugraha wrote: >> Is the pool over 80% full? Do you have dedup enabled (even if it was >> turned off later, see "zpool history")? > > The pool stands at 86%, but that has not chang

Re: [zfs-discuss] Scrub found error in metadata:0x0, is that always fatal? No checksum errors now...

2011-12-18 Thread Jim Klimov
2011-12-17 21:59, Steve Gonczi wrote: Coincidentally, I am pretty sure entry 0 of these meta dnode objects is never used, so the block with the checksum error does never comes into play. Steve I wonder if this is true indeed - seems so, because the pool seems to work reardless of the seemingly

Re: [zfs-discuss] Very poor pool performance - no zfs/controller errors?!

2011-12-18 Thread Jan-Aage Frydenbø-Bruvoll
Hi, On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 16:41, Fajar A. Nugraha wrote: > Is the pool over 80% full? Do you have dedup enabled (even if it was > turned off later, see "zpool history")? The pool stands at 86%, but that has not changed in any way that corresponds chronologically with the sudden drop in perform

Re: [zfs-discuss] Very poor pool performance - no zfs/controller errors?!

2011-12-18 Thread Fajar A. Nugraha
On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 10:46 PM, Jan-Aage Frydenbø-Bruvoll wrote: > The affected pool does indeed have a mix of straight disks and > mirrored disks (due to running out of vdevs on the controller), > however it has to be added that the performance of the affected pool > was excellent until around

Re: [zfs-discuss] Very poor pool performance - no zfs/controller errors?!

2011-12-18 Thread Jan-Aage Frydenbø-Bruvoll
Hi, On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 15:13, "Hung-Sheng Tsao (Lao Tsao 老曹) Ph.D." wrote: > what are the output of zpool status pool1 and pool2 > it seems that you have mix configuration of pool3 with disk and mirror The other two pools show very similar outputs: root@stor:~# zpool status pool1 pool: p

Re: [zfs-discuss] Very poor pool performance - no zfs/controller errors?!

2011-12-18 Thread Hung-Sheng Tsao (Lao Tsao 老曹) Ph.D.
what are the output of zpool status pool1 and pool2 it seems that you have mix configuration of pool3 with disk and mirror On 12/18/2011 9:53 AM, Jan-Aage Frydenbø-Bruvoll wrote: Dear List, I have a storage server running OpenIndiana with a number of storage pools on it. All the pools' disks c

[zfs-discuss] Very poor pool performance - no zfs/controller errors?!

2011-12-18 Thread Jan-Aage Frydenbø-Bruvoll
Dear List, I have a storage server running OpenIndiana with a number of storage pools on it. All the pools' disks come off the same controller, and all pools are backed by SSD-based l2arc and ZIL. Performance is excellent on all pools but one, and I am struggling greatly to figure out what is wron

Re: [zfs-discuss] Can I create a mirror for a root rpool?

2011-12-18 Thread Pawel Jakub Dawidek
On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 07:24:27PM +0700, Fajar A. Nugraha wrote: > On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 6:52 PM, Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote: > > BTW. Can you, Cindy, or someone else reveal why one cannot boot from > > RAIDZ on Solaris? Is this because Solaris is using GRUB and RAIDZ code > > would have to be l

Re: [zfs-discuss] Can I create a mirror for a root rpool?

2011-12-18 Thread Fajar A. Nugraha
On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 6:52 PM, Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote: > BTW. Can you, Cindy, or someone else reveal why one cannot boot from > RAIDZ on Solaris? Is this because Solaris is using GRUB and RAIDZ code > would have to be licensed under GPL as the rest of the boot code? > > I'm asking, because I

Re: [zfs-discuss] Can I create a mirror for a root rpool?

2011-12-18 Thread Pawel Jakub Dawidek
On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 04:39:07PM -0700, Cindy Swearingen wrote: > Hi Anon, > > The disk that you attach to the root pool will need an SMI label > and a slice 0. > > The syntax to attach a disk to create a mirrored root pool > is like this, for example: > > # zpool attach rpool c1t0d0s0 c1t1d0s

[zfs-discuss] SUNWsmbs & SUNWsmbskr for Sparc OSOL snv_134?

2011-12-18 Thread andy thomas
Does anyone know where I can still find the SUNWsmbs and SUNWsmbskr packages for the Sparc version of OpenSolaris? I wanted to experiment with ZFS/CIFS on my Sparc server but the ZFS share command fails with: zfs set sharesmb=on tank1/windows cannot share 'tank1/windows': smb ad