Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs + NFS + FreeBSD with performance prob

2013-02-05 Thread Albert Shih
Le 04/02/2013 ? 11:21:12-0500, Paul Kraus a écrit > On Jan 31, 2013, at 5:16 PM, Albert Shih wrote: > > > Well I've server running FreeBSD 9.0 with (don't count / on > > differents disks) zfs pool with 36 disk. > > > > The performance is very very g

[zfs-discuss] zfs + NFS + FreeBSD with performance prob

2013-01-31 Thread Albert Shih
d that change nothing either. Anyone have any idea ? Regards. JAS -- Albert SHIH DIO bâtiment 15 Observatoire de Paris 5 Place Jules Janssen 92195 Meudon Cedex Téléphone : 01 45 07 76 26/06 86 69 95 71 xmpp: j...@obspm.fr Heure local/Local time: jeu 31 jan 2013 23:04:47 CET __

Re: [zfs-discuss] Remove disk

2012-12-06 Thread Albert Shih
00.4 > > > > And what happen if I have 24, 36 disks to change ? It's take mounth to do > > that. > > Those are the current limitations of zfs. Yes, with 12x2TB of data to > copy it could take about a month. OK. > > If you are feeling particularly risky and

Re: [zfs-discuss] Remove disk

2012-12-01 Thread Albert Shih
Le 30/11/2012 ? 15:52:09+0100, Tomas Forsman a écrit > On 30 November, 2012 - Albert Shih sent me these 0,8K bytes: > > > Hi all, > > > > I would like to knwon if with ZFS it's possible to do something like that : > > > > http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LV

[zfs-discuss] Remove disk

2012-11-30 Thread Albert Shih
put in the server, add in the zpool, ask zpool to migrate all data on those 12 old disk on the new and remove those old disk ? Regards. -- Albert SHIH DIO bâtiment 15 Observatoire de Paris 5 Place Jules Janssen 92195 Meudon Cedex Téléphone : 01 45 07 76 26/06 86 69 95 71 xmpp: j...@obspm.fr Heure l

[zfs-discuss] How many disk in one pool

2012-10-05 Thread Albert Shih
what I understand I can add more more MD1200. But if I loose one MD1200 for any reason I lost the entire pool. In your experience what's the «limit» ? 100 disk ? How FreeBSD manage 100 disk ? /dev/da100 ? Regards. JAS -- Albert SHIH DIO bâtiment 15 Observatoire de Paris 5 Place Jules J

Re: [zfs-discuss] snapshot size

2012-06-05 Thread Albert Shih
m. OK thanks. > > >        2/ How can I known the size of all snapshot size for a partition ? > >        (OK I can add zfs list -t snapshot) > > zfs get usedbysnapshots Thansk Can I say USED-REFER=snapshot size ? Regards. JAS -- Albert SHIH DIO bâtiment

[zfs-discuss] snapshot size

2012-06-05 Thread Albert Shih
Hi all, Two questions from a newbie. 1/ What REFER mean in zfs list ? 2/ How can I known the size of all snapshot size for a partition ? (OK I can add zfs list -t snapshot) Regards. JAS -- Albert SHIH DIO bâtiment 15 Observatoire de Paris 5 Place Jules Janssen

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs disapeare on FreeBSD.

2012-01-17 Thread Albert Shih
Le 17/01/2012 à 06:31:22-0800, Brad Stone a écrit > Try zpool import Thanks. It's working. Regards. -- Albert SHIH DIO batiment 15 Observatoire de Paris 5 Place Jules Janssen 92195 Meudon Cedex Téléphone : 01 45 07 76 26/06 86 69 95 71 Heure local/Local time: mar 17 jan 2012 15:3

[zfs-discuss] zfs disapeare on FreeBSD.

2012-01-17 Thread Albert Shih
ll /dev/da0 --> /dev/da47. I've create a zpool with 4 raidz2 (one for each MD1200). After that I re-install the server (I put some wrong swap size), and I don't find my zpool at all. Is that normal ? Regards. JAS -- Albert SHIH DIO batiment 15 Observatoire de Paris 5 Place

Re: [zfs-discuss] CPU sizing for ZFS/iSCSI/NFS server

2011-12-12 Thread Albert Chin
On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 03:01:08PM -0500, "Hung-Sheng Tsao (Lao Tsao 老曹) Ph.D." wrote: > 4c@2.4ghz Yep, that's the plan. Thanks. > On 12/12/2011 2:44 PM, Albert Chin wrote: > >On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 02:40:52PM -0500, "Hung-Sheng Tsao (Lao Tsao 老曹) > >Ph.D

Re: [zfs-discuss] CPU sizing for ZFS/iSCSI/NFS server

2011-12-12 Thread Albert Chin
On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 02:40:52PM -0500, "Hung-Sheng Tsao (Lao Tsao 老曹) Ph.D." wrote: > please check out the ZFS appliance 7120 spec 2.4Ghz /24GB memory and > ZIL(SSD) > may be try the ZFS simulator SW Good point. Thanks. > regards > > On 12/12/2011 2:28 PM,

[zfs-discuss] CPU sizing for ZFS/iSCSI/NFS server

2011-12-12 Thread Albert Chin
Recommendations? -- albert chin (ch...@thewrittenword.com) ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS on Dell with FreeBSD

2011-10-27 Thread Albert Shih
egards. -- Albert SHIH DIO batiment 15 Observatoire de Paris 5 Place Jules Janssen 92195 Meudon Cedex Téléphone : 01 45 07 76 26/06 86 69 95 71 Heure local/Local time: jeu 27 oct 2011 17:20:11 CEST ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.or

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS on Dell with FreeBSD

2011-10-20 Thread Albert Shih
Le 19/10/2011 à 10:52:07-0400, Krunal Desai a écrit > On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 10:14 AM, Albert Shih wrote: > > When we buy a MD1200 we need a RAID PERC H800 card on the server so we have > > two options : > > > >        1/ create a LV on the PERC H800 so the se

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS on Dell with FreeBSD

2011-10-20 Thread Albert Shih
so > > 12x2To disk) > > The more the better :) Well, my employer is not so rich. It's first time I'm going to use ZFS on FreeBSD on production (I use on my laptop but that's mean nothing), so what's in your opinion the minimum ram I need ? Is something like 48

[zfs-discuss] ZFS on Dell with FreeBSD

2011-10-19 Thread Albert Shih
on ? Any advise about the RAM I need on the server (actually one MD1200 so 12x2To disk) Regards. JAS -- Albert SHIH DIO batiment 15 Observatoire de Paris 5 Place Jules Janssen 92195 Meudon Cedex Téléphone : 01 45 07 76 26/06 86 69 95 71 Heure local/Local time: mer 19 oct 2011 16:

Re: [zfs-discuss] [OpenIndiana-discuss] zpool lost, and no pools available?

2011-05-24 Thread Albert Lee
man zpool /failmode -Albert On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 1:20 PM, Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk wrote: > Hi all > > I just attended this HTC conference and had a chat with a guy from UiO > (university of oslo) about ZFS. He claimed Solaris/OI will die silently if a > single pool fails. I ha

Re: [zfs-discuss] Zpool resize

2011-04-04 Thread Albert
W dniu 04.04.2011 12:44, Fajar A. Nugraha pisze: On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 4:49 PM, For@ll wrote: What can I do that zpool show new value? zpool set autoexpand=on TEST zpool set autoexpand=off TEST -- richard I tried your suggestion, but no effect. Did you modify the partition table? IIRC if

[zfs-discuss] Disk failed, System not booting

2010-12-20 Thread Albert Frenz
hi there, i got freenas installed with a raidz1 pool of 3 disks. one of them now failed and it gives me errors like "Unrecovered red errors: autorreallocatefailed" or "MEDIUM ERROR asc:11,4" and the system won't even boot up. so i bought a replacement drive, but i am a bit concerned since norma

[zfs-discuss] Best choice - file system for system

2010-12-08 Thread Albert
Hi, I wonder what is the better option to install the system on solaris ufs and zfs sensitive data on whether this is the best all on zfs? What are the pros and cons of such a solution? f...@ll ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS snapshot limit?

2010-12-01 Thread Albert
W dniu 2010-12-01 15:19, Menno Lageman pisze: f...@ll wrote: Hi, I must send zfs snaphost from one server to another. Snapshot have size 130GB. Now I have question, the zfs have any limit of sending file? If you are sending the snapshot to another zpool (i.e. using 'zfs send | zfs recv') then

[zfs-discuss] Open Solaris installation help for backup application

2010-06-23 Thread Albert Davis
This forum has been tremendously helpful, but I decided to get some help from a Solaris Guru install Solaris for a backup application. I do not want to disturb the flow of this forum, but where can I post to get some paid help on this forum? We are located in the San Francisco Bay Area. Any hel

Re: [zfs-discuss] upgrade zfs stripe

2010-04-20 Thread Albert Frenz
ok thanks for the fast info. that sounds really awesome. i am glad i tried out zfs, so i no longer have to worry about this issues and the fact that i can upgrad forth and back between stripe and mirror is amazing. money was short, so only 2 disks had been put in and since the data is not that w

[zfs-discuss] upgrade zfs stripe

2010-04-19 Thread Albert Frenz
hi there, since i am really new to zfs, i got 2 important questions for starting. i got a nas up and running zfs in stripe mode with 2x 1,5tb hdd. my question for future proof would be, if i could add just another drive to the pool and zfs can integrate it flawlessly? and second if this hdd cou

Re: [zfs-discuss] raidz using partitions

2010-01-27 Thread Albert Frenz
ok nice to know :) thank you very much for your quick answer -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

[zfs-discuss] raidz using partitions

2010-01-27 Thread Albert Frenz
hi there, maybe this is a stupid question, yet i haven't found an answer anywhere ;) let say i got 3x 1,5tb hdds, can i create equal partitions out of each and make a raid5 out of it? sure the safety would drop, but that is not that important to me. with roughly 500gb partitions and the raid5 fo

[zfs-discuss] cannot receive new filesystem stream: invalid backup stream

2009-12-27 Thread Albert Chin
oots/hppa1.1-hp-hpux11...@ab zfs snapshot tww/opt/chroots/hppa1.1-hp-hpux11...@ab zfs clone tww/opt/chroots/hppa1.1-hp-hpux11...@ab tww/opt/chroots/ab/hppa1.1-hp-hpux11.11 ... and then perform another zfs send/receive, the error above occurs. Why? -- albert chin (ch...@the

Re: [zfs-discuss] heads up on SXCE build 125 (LU + mirrored root pools)

2009-11-05 Thread Albert Chin
the thread: http://opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=115503&tstart=0 -- albert chin (ch...@thewrittenword.com) ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] STK 2540 and Ignore Cache Sync (ICS)

2009-10-26 Thread Albert Chin
p://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ > GraphicsMagick Maintainer,http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/ > ___ > zfs-discuss mailing list > zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss > > _

Re: [zfs-discuss] "zfs send..." too slow?

2009-10-26 Thread Albert Chin
ans it will > take 100 hours. Is this normal? If I had 30TB to back up, it would > take 1000 hours, which is more than a month. Can I speed this up? It's not immediately obvious what the cause is. Maybe the server running zfs send has slow MB/s performance reading from disk. Maybe the

Re: [zfs-discuss] Performance problems with Thumper and >7TB ZFS pool using RAIDZ2

2009-10-24 Thread Albert Chin
> ZFS ACL activity shown by DTrace. I wonder if there is a lot of sync >> I/O that would benefit from separately defined ZILs (whether SSD or >> not), so I've asked them to look for fsync activity. >> >> Data collected thus far is listed below. I've asked f

Re: [zfs-discuss] Help! System panic when pool imported

2009-10-20 Thread Albert Chin
On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 09:02:20PM -0500, Albert Chin wrote: > On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 03:31:46PM -0700, Matthew Ahrens wrote: > > Thanks for reporting this. I have fixed this bug (6822816) in build > > 127. > > Thanks. I just installed OpenSolaris Preview based on 125

Re: [zfs-discuss] Help! System panic when pool imported

2009-10-19 Thread Albert Chin
t; --matt > > Albert Chin wrote: >> Running snv_114 on an X4100M2 connected to a 6140. Made a clone of a >> snapshot a few days ago: >> # zfs snapshot a...@b >> # zfs clone a...@b tank/a >> # zfs clone a...@b tank/b >> >> The system started pan

Re: [zfs-discuss] iscsi/comstar performance

2009-10-13 Thread Albert Chin
- switching to Comstar, snv124, VBox > 3.08, etc., but such a dramatic loss of performance probably has a > single cause. Is anyone willing to speculate? Maybe this will help: http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/storage-discuss/2009-September/007118.html -- a

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs receive should allow to keep received system

2009-09-28 Thread Albert Chin
receive [-vnF] -d > > For the property list, run: zfs set|get > > For the delegated permission list, run: zfs allow|unallow > r...@xxx:~# uname -a > SunOS xxx 5.10 Generic_13-03 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Fire-V890 > > What's wrong? Looks like -u wa

Re: [zfs-discuss] Should usedbydataset be the same after zfs send/recv for a volume?

2009-09-28 Thread Albert Chin
On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 07:33:56PM -0500, Albert Chin wrote: > When transferring a volume between servers, is it expected that the > usedbydataset property should be the same on both? If not, is it cause > for concern? > > snv114# zfs list tww/opt/vms/images/vios/

[zfs-discuss] Should usedbydataset be the same after zfs send/recv for a volume?

2009-09-28 Thread Albert Chin
USED AVAIL REFER MOUNTPOINT t/opt/vms/images/vios/near.img 14.5G 2.42T 14.5G - snv119# zfs get usedbydataset t/opt/vms/images/vios/near.img NAMEPROPERTY VALUE SOURCE t/opt/vms/images/vios/near.img usedbydataset 14.5G - -- albert chin (ch

[zfs-discuss] refreservation not transferred by zfs send when sending a volume?

2009-09-28 Thread Albert Chin
properties are not sent? -- albert chin (ch...@thewrittenword.com) ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Quickest way to find files with cksum errors without doing scrub

2009-09-28 Thread Albert Chin
On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 10:16:20AM -0700, Richard Elling wrote: > On Sep 28, 2009, at 3:42 PM, Albert Chin wrote: > >> On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 12:09:03PM -0500, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: >>> On Mon, 28 Sep 2009, Richard Elling wrote: >>>> >>>> Scrub co

Re: [zfs-discuss] Quickest way to find files with cksum errors without doing scrub

2009-09-28 Thread Albert Chin
a. >> So you simply need to read the data. > > This should work but it does not verify the redundant metadata. For > example, the duplicate metadata copy might be corrupt but the problem > is not detected since it did not happen to be used. Too bad we cannot scrub a data

[zfs-discuss] Quickest way to find files with cksum errors without doing scrub

2009-09-28 Thread Albert Chin
Without doing a zpool scrub, what's the quickest way to find files in a filesystem with cksum errors? Iterating over all files with "find" takes quite a bit of time. Maybe there's some zdb fu that will perform the check for me? -- albert chin (ch..

Re: [zfs-discuss] Help! System panic when pool imported

2009-09-27 Thread Albert Chin
l. I'd pop up there and ask. There are somewhat similar bug reports at bugs.opensolaris.org. I'd post a bug report just in case. -- albert chin (ch...@thewrittenword.com) ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Help! System panic when pool imported

2009-09-27 Thread Albert Chin
I started getting this as > well.. My Mirror array is unaffected. > > snv111b (2009.06 release) What does the panic dump look like? -- albert chin (ch...@thewrittenword.com) ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mai

Re: [zfs-discuss] Help! System panic when pool imported

2009-09-24 Thread Albert Chin
On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 05:21:23AM +, Albert Chin wrote: > [[ snip snip ]] > > We really need to import this pool. Is there a way around this? We do > have snv_114 source on the system if we need to make changes to > usr/src/uts/common/fs/zfs/dsl_dataset.c. It seems like the

[zfs-discuss] Help! System panic when pool imported

2009-09-24 Thread Albert Chin
t seems like the "zfs destroy" transaction never completed and it is being replayed, causing the panic. This cycle continues endlessly. -- albert chin (ch...@thewrittenword.com) ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://ma

[zfs-discuss] zfs snapshot -r panic on b114

2009-09-23 Thread Albert Chin
c40 zfs:txg_sync_thread+265 () ff00104c0c50 unix:thread_start+8 () System is a X4100M2 running snv_114. Any ideas? -- albert chin (ch...@thewrittenword.com) ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mail

[zfs-discuss] How to recover from "can't open objset", "cannot iterate filesystems"?

2009-09-21 Thread Albert Chin
0 0 c4t6d0 ONLINE 0 0 0 c4t7d0 ONLINE 0 0 0 errors: 855 data errors, use '-v' for a list -- albert chin (ch...@thewrittenword.com) ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opens

[zfs-discuss] zpool replace complete but old drives not detached

2009-09-06 Thread Albert Chin
INUSE currently in use c6t600A0B800029996605C84668F461d0 INUSE currently in use c6t600A0B80002999660A454A93CEDBd0 AVAIL c6t600A0B80002999660ADA4A9CF2EDd0 AVAIL -- albert chin (ch...@thewrittenword.com

Re: [zfs-discuss] zpool scrub started resilver, not scrub (DTL non-empty?)

2009-09-02 Thread Albert Chin
On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 02:40:54PM -0500, Albert Chin wrote: > On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 02:33:39AM -0500, Albert Chin wrote: > > # cat /etc/release > > Solaris Express Community Edition snv_105 X86 > >Copyright 2008 Sun Microsystems, Inc.

Re: [zfs-discuss] zpool scrub started resilver, not scrub

2009-08-31 Thread Albert Chin
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 02:33:39AM -0500, Albert Chin wrote: > # cat /etc/release > Solaris Express Community Edition snv_105 X86 >Copyright 2008 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All Rights Reserved. > Use is subject to l

Re: [zfs-discuss] snv_110 -> snv_121 produces checksum errors on Raid-Z pool

2009-08-27 Thread Albert Chin
ation that might help track this down, just lots of checksum > errors. So, on snv_121, can you read the files with checksum errors? Is it simply the reporting mechanism that is wrong or are the files really damaged? -- albert chin (ch...@thewrittenword.com) _

[zfs-discuss] zpool scrub started resilver, not scrub

2009-08-26 Thread Albert Chin
up. see: http://www.sun.com/msg/ZFS-8000-8A scrub: resilver in progress for 0h11m, 2.82% done, 6h21m to go config: ... So, why is a resilver in progress when I asked for a scrub? -- albert chin (ch...@thewrittenword.com) ___ zfs-discuss mailing list z

Re: [zfs-discuss] Resilver complete, but device not replaced, odd zpool status output

2009-08-25 Thread Albert Chin
On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 06:05:16AM -0500, Albert Chin wrote: > [[ snip snip ]] > > After the resilver completed: > # zpool status tww > pool: tww > state: DEGRADED > status: One or more devices has experienced an error resulting in data > corruption. Appl

[zfs-discuss] Resilver complete, but device not replaced, odd zpool status output

2009-08-25 Thread Albert Chin
0299CCC0A194A89E634d0 \ c6t600A0B800029996609EE4A89DA51d0 invalid vdev specification use '-f' to override the following errors: /dev/dsk/c6t600A0B800029996609EE4A89DA51d0s0 is part of active ZFS pool tww. Please see zpool(1M). So, what is going on? -- al

Re: [zfs-discuss] Why so many data errors with raidz2 config and one failing drive?

2009-08-24 Thread Albert Chin
On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 02:01:39PM -0500, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > On Mon, 24 Aug 2009, Albert Chin wrote: >> >> Seems some of the new drives are having problems, resulting in CKSUM >> errors. I don't understand why I have so many data errors though. Why >> does th

[zfs-discuss] Why so many data errors with raidz2 config and one failing drive?

2009-08-24 Thread Albert Chin
ors though. Why does the third raidz2 vdev report 34.0K CKSUM errors? The number of data errors appears to be increasing as well as the resilver process continues. -- albert chin (ch...@thewrittenword.com) ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opens

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS space efficiency when copying files from another source

2008-11-24 Thread Albert Chin
On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 08:43:18AM -0800, Erik Trimble wrote: > I _really_ wish rsync had an option to "copy in place" or something like > that, where the updates are made directly to the file, rather than a > temp copy. Isn't this what --inplace does? -- alber

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZIL & NVRAM partitioning?

2008-09-06 Thread Albert Chin
unfortunately I am unable > to verify the driver. "pkgadd -d umem_Sol_Drv_Cust_i386_v01_11.pkg" > hangs on "## Installing part 1 of 3." on snv_95. I do not have other > Solaris versions to experiment with; this is really just a hobby for > me. Does the card c

Re: [zfs-discuss] How do you grow a ZVOL?

2008-07-17 Thread Albert Chin
he clients though. -- albert chin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs-discuss Digest, Vol 33, Issue 19

2008-07-07 Thread Albert Chin
t; > start thinking bigger. > > > > I'd also like to know if there's any easy way to see the current performance > > of the system once it's in use? I know VMware has performance monitoring > > built into the console, bu

Re: [zfs-discuss] J4200/J4400 Array

2008-07-03 Thread Albert Chin
ve too much ram Well, if the server attached to the J series is doing ZFS/NFS, performance will increase with zfs:zfs_nocacheflush=1. But, without battery-backed NVRAM, this really isn't "safe". So, for this usage case, unless the server has battery-backed NVRAM, I don't see how

Re: [zfs-discuss] J4200/J4400 Array

2008-07-02 Thread Albert Chin
e is an another version called > J4400 with 24 disks. > > Doc is here : > http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/coll/j4200 -- albert chin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS configuration for VMware

2008-06-27 Thread Albert Chin
tp://www.vmetro.com/category4304.html, and I don't have any space in > this server to mount a SSD. Maybe you can call Vmetro and get the names of some resellers whom you could call to get pricing info? -- albert chin ([EMAIL PROTECTED])

Re: [zfs-discuss] SXCE build 90 vs S10U6?

2008-06-12 Thread Albert Lee
oid? Any other caveats I would want to take into consideration? > I don't think there will be any spec changes for S10u6 from the ZFS boot support currently available in SX, but the JumpStart configuration for SX might not be compatible for other reasons (install-discuss may know better).

Re: [zfs-discuss] system backup and recovery

2008-06-05 Thread Albert Lee
en asking zfs-discuss about a backup solution. This is 2008, not 1960. If he wanted that he could just use dd (or partimage for a slight optimisation). =P -Albert ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS root compressed ?

2008-06-05 Thread Albert Lee
e no data > would be rewritten. Correct, and Live Upgrade also clones the active BE when you do lucreate. Unless you copy all the data manually, it's going to inherit the uncompressed blocks from the current filesystem. -Albert ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

[zfs-discuss] Live Upgrade to snv_90 on a system with existing ZFS boot

2008-06-05 Thread Albert Lee
it manually: # zpool set bootfs=zpl/ROOT/snv_90 zpl Update the boot archive (which is stale for some reason): # mount -F zfs zpl/ROOT/snv_90 /a # bootadm update-archive -R /a # umount /a Cross fingers, reboot! # init 6 -Albert ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Liveupgrade snv_77 with a ZFS root to snv_89

2008-05-29 Thread Albert Lee
gt; Suggestions welcome, maybe we'll try out some of them and report ;) The LU support for ZFS root is part of a set of updates to the installer that are not available until snv_90. There is a hack to do an offline upgrade from DVD/CD (zfs_ttinstall), if you can't wait. -Albert

Re: [zfs-discuss] ? ZFS boot in nv88 on SPARC ?

2008-04-30 Thread Albert Lee
t; Same with: boot disk1 -Z Root/nv88_zfs > > What is missing in the setup? > Unfortunately opensolaris contains only the preliminary setup for x86, > so it does not help me... > > Regards, > > Ulrich > Does newboot automatically construct

Re: [zfs-discuss] Downgrade zpool version?

2008-04-08 Thread Albert Lee
instead of SAMBA (or, you > know your macs can speak NFS ;>). Alternatively you could run Banshee or mt-daapd on the Solaris box and just rely on iTunes sharing. =P Seriously, NFS is a totally reasonable way to go. -Albert ___ zfs-discuss mailing

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs send/recv question

2008-03-10 Thread Albert Chin
yesterday's date to do the incremental > dump. Not if you set a ZFS property with the date of the last backup. -- albert chin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Panic when ZFS pool goes down?

2008-02-25 Thread Albert Lee
current scoop? > > Thanks! > PSARC 2007/567 added the "failmode" option to the zpool(1) command to specify what happens when a pool fails. This was integrated in Nevada b77, it probably won't be available in S10 until the next update. -Albert _

Re: [zfs-discuss] Performance with Sun StorageTek 2540

2008-02-15 Thread Albert Chin
as terrible. I then manually transferred half the LUNs > to controller A and it started to fly. http://groups.google.com/group/comp.unix.solaris/browse_frm/thread/59b43034602a7b7f/0b500afc4d62d434?lnk=st&q=#0b500afc4d62d434 -- albert chin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs send / receive between different opensolaris versions?

2008-02-07 Thread Albert Lee
=255 You will have to edit it to fit your zfs layout. > -- > Michael Hale > <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Manager of Engineering SupportEnterprise > Engineering Group > Transcom Enhanced Services > http://www

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS configuration for a thumper

2008-02-01 Thread Albert Shih
thumper_bench.html > Lots of thanks for making this work. And let me to read it. Regards. -- Albert SHIH Observatoire de Paris Meudon SIO batiment 15 Heure local/Local time: Ven 1 fév 2008 23:03:59 CET ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discus

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS configuration for a thumper

2008-01-30 Thread Albert Shih
Le 30/01/2008 à 11:01:35-0500, Kyle McDonald a écrit > Albert Shih wrote: >> What's kind of pool you use with 46 disk ? (46=2*23 and 23 is prime number >> that's mean I can make raidz with 6 or 7 or any number of disk). >> >> > Depending on needs for

[zfs-discuss] ZFS configuration for a thumper

2008-01-30 Thread Albert Shih
pool uses 5-way raidz and new vdev uses 6-way raidz I can force this with «-f» option. But what's that mean (sorry if the question is stupid). What's kind of pool you use with 46 disk ? (46=2*23 and 23 is prime number that's mean I can make raidz with 6 or 7 or any number of dis

Re: [zfs-discuss] LowEnd Batt. backed raid controllers that will deal with ZFS commit semantics correctly?

2008-01-25 Thread Albert Chin
ething equivalent to the performance of ZIL disabled with ZIL/RAM. I'd do ZIL with a battery-backed RAM in a heartbeat if I could find a card. I think others would as well. -- albert chin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@open

Re: [zfs-discuss] sharenfs with over 10000 file systems

2008-01-23 Thread Albert Chin
pt. > > All these things are being worked on, but it might take sometime > before everything is made aware that yes it's no longer unusual that > there can be 1+ filesystems on one machine. But shouldn't sharemgr(1M) be "a

Re: [zfs-discuss] LowEnd Batt. backed raid controllers that will deal with ZFS commit semantics correctly?

2008-01-22 Thread Albert Chin
S to > do the mirroring. Why even both with a H/W RAID array when you won't use the H/W RAID? Better to find a decent SAS/FC JBOD with cache. Would definitely be cheaper. -- albert chin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) ___ zfs-discuss mai

Re: [zfs-discuss] LowEnd Batt. backed raid controllers that will deal with ZFS commit semantics correctly?

2008-01-22 Thread Albert Chin
Unfortunately, no inexpensive cards exist for the common consumer (with ECC memory anyways). If you convince http://www.micromemory.com/ to sell you one, let us know :) Set "set zfs:zil_disable = 1" in /etc/system to gauge the type of improvement you can expect. Don't use this in p

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Not Offlining Disk on SCSI Sense Error (X4500)

2008-01-03 Thread Albert Chin
behavior? It really makes > ZFS less than desirable/reliable. http://blogs.sun.com/eschrock/entry/zfs_and_fma FMA For ZFS Phase 2 (PSARC/2007/283) was integrated in b68: http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/arc/caselog/2007/283/ http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/on/flag-days

[zfs-discuss] In-place upgrades of Solaris Express on ZFS root (updated)

2007-12-06 Thread Albert Lee
it works for earlier builds, too. Good luck, -Albert ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Trial x4500, zfs with NFS and quotas.

2007-11-28 Thread Albert Chin
; > Computer Officer, University of Cambridge, Unix Support > > > > -- > Jorgen Lundman | <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Unix Administrator | +81 (0)3 -5456-2687 ext 1017 (work) > Shibuya-ku, Tokyo| +81 (0)90-5578-8500 (cell) > Japan| +81 (0)3 -3375-1767 (home) >

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFSboot : Initial disk layout

2007-11-26 Thread Albert Lee
On Mon, 2007-11-26 at 08:21 -0800, Roman Morokutti wrote: > Hi > > I am very interested in using ZFS as a whole: meaning > on the whole disk in my laptop. I would now make a > complete reinstall and don´t know how to partition > the disk initially for ZFS. > > -- > Roman > > > This message

Re: [zfs-discuss] Why did resilvering restart?

2007-11-21 Thread Albert Chin
On Tue, Nov 20, 2007 at 11:39:30AM -0600, Albert Chin wrote: > On Tue, Nov 20, 2007 at 11:10:20AM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 11/20/2007 10:11:50 AM: > > > > > On Tue, Nov 20, 2007 at 10:01:49AM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: [zfs-discuss] Why did resilvering restart?

2007-11-20 Thread Albert Chin
| tail -1 > > > > 2007-11-20.02:37:13 zpool replace tww > > > c0t600A0B8000299966059E4668CBD3d0 > > > > c0t600A0B8000299CCC06734741CD4Ed0 > > > > > > > > So, why did resilvering restart when no zfs operations occurred? I > > &

Re: [zfs-discuss] Why did resilvering restart?

2007-11-20 Thread Albert Chin
and now I get: > > # zpool status tww > > pool: tww > >state: DEGRADED > > status: One or more devices is currently being resilvered. The pool > will > > continue to function, possibly in a degraded state. > > action: Wait for the resilve

[zfs-discuss] Why did resilvering restart?

2007-11-20 Thread Albert Chin
graded state. action: Wait for the resilver to complete. scrub: resilver in progress, 0.00% done, 134h45m to go What's going on? -- albert chin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.openso

Re: [zfs-discuss] Oops (accidentally deleted replaced drive)

2007-11-19 Thread Albert Chin
On Mon, Nov 19, 2007 at 06:23:01PM -0800, Eric Schrock wrote: > You should be able to do a 'zpool detach' of the replacement and then > try again. Thanks. That worked. > - Eric > > On Mon, Nov 19, 2007 at 08:20:04PM -0600, Albert Chin wrote: > > Running ON b66

[zfs-discuss] Oops (accidentally deleted replaced drive)

2007-11-19 Thread Albert Chin
0 cannot replace c0t600A0B8000299966059E4668CBD3d0 with c0t600A0B8000299CCC06734741CD4Ed0: cannot replace a replacing device -- albert chin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.o

Re: [zfs-discuss] Mixing SATA & PATA Drives

2007-11-07 Thread Albert Lee
re drive. > > Ian. AFAIK the write cache is always enabled for PATA drives: http://src.opensolaris.org/source/search?q=ata_write_cache+&defs=&refs=&path=&hist=&project=%2Fonnv -Albert ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@ope

Re: [zfs-discuss] Did ZFS boot/root make it into Solaris Express Developer Edition 9/07 ?

2007-10-20 Thread Albert Lee
t; > It didn't. It still isn't supported by the installer in SXCE either. > > Ian ZFS root and boot work fine since the later snv_6x builds, the installer is a different matter. You'll have to install to UFS and move to ZFS

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS & array NVRAM cache?

2007-09-25 Thread Albert Chin
http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/storage-discuss/2007-July/003080.html You'll need to determine the performance impact of removing NVRAM from your data LUNs. Don't blindly do it. -- albert chin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) ___ zfs-discuss mailing li

[zfs-discuss] Successful SXCE upgrade from DVD media on ZFS root

2007-09-24 Thread Albert Lee
please read the script. Let me know if this was helpful, -Albert ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Zfs log device (zil) ever coming to Sol10?

2007-09-18 Thread Albert Chin
On Tue, Sep 18, 2007 at 12:59:02PM -0400, Andy Lubel wrote: > I think we are very close to using zfs in our production environment.. Now > that I have snv_72 installed and my pools set up with NVRAM log devices > things are hauling butt. How did you get NVRAM log devices? -- al

Re: [zfs-discuss] Solaris HDD crash, Restore?

2007-09-04 Thread Albert Lee
f exporting is not possible, 'zpool import -f' will ignore that warning and allow importing anyway. -Albert ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] separate intent log blog

2007-07-27 Thread Albert Chin
connector and not sure if it is worth the whole effort > for my personal purposes. Huh? So your MM-5425CN doesn't fit into a PCI slot? > Any comment are very appreciated How did you obtain your card? -- albert chin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) ___

Re: [zfs-discuss] separate intent log blog

2007-07-18 Thread Albert Chin
On Wed, Jul 18, 2007 at 01:54:23PM -0600, Neil Perrin wrote: > Albert Chin wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 18, 2007 at 01:29:51PM -0600, Neil Perrin wrote: > >> I wrote up a blog on the separate intent log called "slog blog" > >> which describes the interface; some

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