Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS + OpenSolaris for home NAS?

2008-11-09 Thread Alan Romeril
I had a problem like that on my laptop that also has an rge interface, ping worked fine, but ssh and ftp didn't. To get around it I had to add set ip:dohwcksum = 0 to /etc/system and reboot. That worked and is worth a try for you :) Cheers, Alan -- This message posted from opensolaris.org __

Re: [zfs-discuss] Phenom support in b78

2008-02-05 Thread Alan Romeril
Hi Al, Thanks for the tips, I've maxed the memory on the board now (Up to 8GB from 4GB) and you are dead right about it being cheap to do so. I'd upgraded the power supply as I thought that was an issue since the original couldn't provide enough start-up current but that didn't make much di

[zfs-discuss] Phenom support in b78

2008-01-12 Thread Alan Romeril
Hello All, In a moment of insanity I've upgraded from a 5200+ to a Phenom 9600 on my zfs server and I've had a lot of problems with hard hangs when accessing the pool. The motherboard is an Asus M2N32-WS, which has had the latest available BIOS upgrade installed to support the Phenom. bash-

[zfs-discuss] zpool iostat -v oddity with snv_73

2007-10-08 Thread Alan Romeril
Having recently upgraded from snv_57 to snv_73 I've noticed some strange behaviour with the -v option to zpool iostat. Without the -v option on an idle pool things look reasonable. bash-3.00# zpool iostat 1 capacity operationsbandwidth pool used avail read writ

[zfs-discuss] Re: A Plea for Help: Thumper/ZFS/NFS/B43

2006-12-07 Thread Alan Romeril
Hi Ben, Your sar output shows one core pegged pretty much constantly! From the Solaris Performance and Tools book that SLP state value has "The remainder of important events such as disk and network waits. along with other kernel wait events.. kernel locks or condition variables also a

[zfs-discuss] Re: Re: Managed to corrupt my pool

2006-12-06 Thread Alan Romeril
Hold fire on the re-init until one of the devs chips in, maybe I'm barking up the wrong tree ;) --a This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-di

[zfs-discuss] Re: Re: Managed to corrupt my pool

2006-12-06 Thread Alan Romeril
Hi Jim, That looks interesting though, I'm not a zfs expert by any means but look at some of the properties of the children elements of the mirror:- version=3 name='zmir' state=0 txg=770 pool_guid=5904723747772934703 vdev_tree type='root' id=0 guid=5904723747772934703 children[0] type='mirror' id

[zfs-discuss] Re: SPEC SFS97 benchmark of ZFS,UFS,VxFS

2006-08-20 Thread Alan Romeril
PxFS performance improvements of the order of 5-6 times are possible depending on the workload using Fastwrite option. Fantastic! Has this been targetted at directory operations? We've had issues with large directorys full of small files being very slow to handle over PxFS. Are there plans fo

[zfs-discuss] Re: Possible corruption after disk hiccups...

2006-05-09 Thread Alan Romeril
Eh maybe it's not a problem after all, the scrub has completed well... --a bash-3.00# zpool status -v pool: raidpool state: ONLINE scrub: scrub completed with 0 errors on Tue May 9 21:10:55 2006 config: NAMESTATE READ WRITE CKSUM raidpoolONLINE 0 0

[zfs-discuss] Possible corruption after disk hiccups...

2006-05-09 Thread Alan Romeril
I'm not sure exactly what happened with my box here, but something caused a hiccup on multiple sata disks... May 9 16:40:33 sol scsi: [ID 107833 kern.warning] WARNING: /[EMAIL PROTECTED],0/pci10de,[EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL PROTECTED] (ata6): May 9 16:47:43 sol scsi: [ID 10783