Re: [zfs-discuss] [storage-discuss] Disk Issues

2010-02-20 Thread Brian McKerr
Thanks everyone who has tried to help. this has gotten a bit crazier, I removed the 'faulty' drive and let the pool run in degraded mode. It would appear that now another drive has decided to play up; de-bash-4.0# zpool status pool: data state: DEGRADED status: One or more devices has b

Re: [zfs-discuss] Disk Issues

2010-02-08 Thread Brian McKerr
Ok, I changed the cable and also tried swapping the port on the motherboard. The drive continued to have huge asvc_t and also started to have huge wsvc_t. I unplugged it and the 'pool' is now operating as per expected performance wise. See the 'storage' forum for any further updates as I am now

Re: [zfs-discuss] Disk Issues

2010-02-07 Thread Brian McKerr
> > > I'd say your easiest two options are swap ports and > see if the problem > follows the drive. If it does, swap the drive out. > > > --Tim > ___ Yep, that sounds like a plan. Thanks for your suggestion. -- This message posted from opensolaris

[zfs-discuss] Disk Issues

2010-02-07 Thread Brian McKerr
While not strictly a ZFS issue as such I thought I'd post here as this and the storage forums are my best bet in terms of getting some help. I have a machine that I recently set up with b130, b131 and b132. With each build I have been playing around with ZFS raidz2 and mirroring to do a little

[zfs-discuss] Separate Zil on HDD ?

2009-12-02 Thread Brian McKerr
Hi all, I have a home server based on SNV_127 with 8 disks; 2 x 500GB mirrored root pool 6 x 1TB raidz2 data pool This server performs a few functions; NFS : for several 'lab' ESX virtual machines NFS : mythtv storage (videos, music, recordings etc) Samba : for home directories for all networke

Re: [zfs-discuss] Backing up ZVOLs

2009-11-14 Thread Brian McKerr
Thanks for the help. I was curious whether the zfs send|receive was considered suitable given a few things I've read which said somethings along the lines of "don't count on being able to restore this stuff". Ideally that is what I would use with the 'incremental' option so as to only backup ch

[zfs-discuss] Backing up ZVOLs

2009-11-14 Thread Brian McKerr
Hello all, Are there any best practices / recommendations for ways of doing this ? In this case the ZVOLs would be iSCSI LUNS containing ESX VMs .I am aware of the of the need for the VMs to be quiesced for the backups to be useful. Cheers. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _