[zfs-discuss] Spares cannot be released

2010-09-24 Thread Amer Ather
Due to storage outage, some LUNS were disappeared and replaced by spares. When the original LUNS came back, customer ran "zpool clear zpool05" (instead of zpool replace) that resulted ZFS clears all the errors on the original LUN and placed it ONLINE. Now both spare and the original device are

[zfs-discuss] Install/boot OS from ZFS iscsi target

2010-02-08 Thread Amer Ather
Is it possible to install and boot MS windows 7 from zfs iscsi target? What about Linux or even Solaris? Do the installation DVDs of these OS. have sufficient drivers to install it on an iscsi target. Please share if there is a document available. Thanks, -- Amer Ather Senior Staff

[zfs-discuss] zpool import failure

2010-01-27 Thread Amer Ather
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[zfs-discuss] fail to remove faulted and UNAVIL spares from zpool

2009-02-18 Thread Amer Ather
I have two separate system where "zpool remove " failed to remove the spare disks from pool. In both cases command is returning without any error (success). Also, dtracing an IOCTL ZFS_IOC_VDEV_REMOVE is also showing no error returned. I searched sunsolve for bugs but no match found. # zpo

[zfs-discuss] fail to remove faulted spares

2009-02-10 Thread Amer Ather
Need help on removing a faulted spare. We tried following with no success. There is no resilvering active as shown below: # zpool clear sybdump_pool c7t0d0 spare device cannot clear errors for c7t0d0: device is reserved as a hot spare # zpool remove sybdump_pool c7t0d0 # zpool status -

[zfs-discuss] zpool upgrade while some disks are faulted

2009-01-14 Thread Amer Ather
What happens when zpool upgrade is run on a zpool that has some faulted disks? I guess it is safe to run zpool upgrade while zpool is online. Thanks, ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/z

Re: [zfs-discuss] Long delays in txg_wait_open() - Waiting for transaction group to open

2008-11-23 Thread Amer Ather
nd track the syncing txg to get the reason for the > delay. > > -- > Prabahar. > > On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 05:51:44PM -0800, Amer Ather wrote: >> IHAC who is seeing very slow NFS transactions over ZFS. rfs3_write(), >> rfs3_create() and others are taking in the order

[zfs-discuss] Long delays in txg_wait_open() - Waiting for transaction group to open

2008-11-23 Thread Amer Ather
IHAC who is seeing very slow NFS transactions over ZFS. rfs3_write(), rfs3_create() and others are taking in the order of 17-20 seconds to complete. Profiling these transactions showing most of the time is spent in txg_wait_open() - waiting for transaction group to open. We tried "zfs_nocachefl

[zfs-discuss] zpool is getting checksum errors

2008-08-26 Thread Amer Ather
Is there any flaw with the process below, customer asked: Sun Cluser with each zpool composed of 1 Lun (yes, they have been advised to use redundant config instead). They do not export the pool to other host instead they use BCV to make a mirror of the lun. They then split the mirror and impor

[zfs-discuss] zpool detech hangs causes other zpool commands, format, df etc.. to hang

2007-11-27 Thread Amer Ather
ump. Still waiting for it to arrive. I would like to know if it is a known bug. -- Amer Ather TSC-KERNEL [EMAIL PROTECTED] 408-276-9780 (x19780) email Pager: [EMAIL PROTECTED] " If you fail to prepare,

[zfs-discuss] Limiting ZFS ARC does n't work on Sol10-Update 3

2007-05-24 Thread Amer Ather
here are several) that addresses this issue? 3- Is there a long-term fix planned that does not require manually limiting the ZFS ARC? Please provide bug #. Thanks, Amer Ather PTS-KERNEL [EMAIL PROTECTED] 408-276-9780 (x19780) ema