Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Distro Advice

2013-02-27 Thread Dan Swartzendruber
On 2/27/2013 2:05 PM, Tim Cook wrote: On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 2:57 AM, Dan Swartzendruber mailto:dswa...@druber.com>> wrote: I've been using it since rc13. It's been stable for me as long as you don't get into things like zvols and such... Then it de

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Distro Advice

2013-02-27 Thread Dan Swartzendruber
I've been using it since rc13. It's been stable for me as long as you don't get into things like zvols and such... -Original Message- From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Sašo Kiselkov Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2013 6:37

Re: [zfs-discuss] RFE: Un-dedup for unique blocks

2013-01-21 Thread Dan Swartzendruber
Zfs on linux (ZOL) has made some pretty impressive strides over the last year or so... ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Expanding a raidz vdev in zpool

2012-12-30 Thread Dan Swartzendruber
Did you set the autoexpand property?___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Dedicated server running ESXi with no RAID card, ZFS for storage?

2012-11-14 Thread Dan Swartzendruber
On 11/14/2012 9:44 AM, Edward Ned Harvey (opensolarisisdeadlongliveopensolaris) wrote: From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Dan Swartzendruber Well, I think I give up for now. I spent quite a few hours over the last couple of days

Re: [zfs-discuss] Dedicated server running ESXi with no RAID card, ZFS for storage?

2012-11-14 Thread Dan Swartzendruber
On 11/14/2012 9:44 AM, Edward Ned Harvey (opensolarisisdeadlongliveopensolaris) wrote: From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Dan Swartzendruber Well, I think I give up for now. I spent quite a few hours over the last couple of days

Re: [zfs-discuss] Dedicated server running ESXi with no RAID card, ZFS for storage?

2012-11-14 Thread Dan Swartzendruber
-Original Message- From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Jim Klimov Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2012 10:08 PM To: zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org Subject: Re: [zfs-discuss] Dedicated server running ESXi with no RAID card, ZFS for

Re: [zfs-discuss] Dedicated server running ESXi with no RAID card, ZFS for storage?

2012-11-14 Thread Dan Swartzendruber
storage? On 2012-11-14 03:20, Dan Swartzendruber wrote: > Well, I think I give up for now. I spent quite a few hours over the > last couple of days trying to get gnome desktop working on bare-metal > OI, followed by virtualbox. Supposedly that works in headless mode > with RDP fo

Re: [zfs-discuss] Dedicated server running ESXi with no RAID card, ZFS for storage?

2012-11-13 Thread Dan Swartzendruber
Well, I think I give up for now. I spent quite a few hours over the last couple of days trying to get gnome desktop working on bare-metal OI, followed by virtualbox. Supposedly that works in headless mode with RDP for management, but nothing but fail for me. Found quite a few posts on various f

Re: [zfs-discuss] Dedicated server running ESXi with no RAID card, ZFS for storage?

2012-11-08 Thread Dan Swartzendruber
storage? Dan, If you are going to do the all in one with vbox, you probably want to look at: http://sourceforge.net/projects/vboxsvc/ It manages the starting/stopping of vbox vms via smf. Kudos to Jim Klimov for creating and maintaining it. Geoff On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 7:32 PM, Dan

Re: [zfs-discuss] Dedicated server running ESXi with no RAID card, ZFS for storage?

2012-11-08 Thread Dan Swartzendruber
I have to admit Ned's (what do I call you?)idea is interesting. I may give it a try... ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Dedicated server running ESXi with no RAID card, ZFS for storage?

2012-11-08 Thread Dan Swartzendruber
wait my brain caught up with my fingers :) the guest is running on the same host, so there is no virtual switch in this setup. i'm still going to try the vmxnet3 and see what difference it makes... ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolar

Re: [zfs-discuss] Dedicated server running ESXi with no RAID card, ZFS for storage?

2012-11-08 Thread Dan Swartzendruber
On 11/8/2012 1:41 PM, Edward Ned Harvey (opensolarisisdeadlongliveopensolaris) wrote: From: Dan Swartzendruber [mailto:dswa...@druber.com] Now you have me totally confused. How does your setup get data from the guest to the OI box? If thru a wire, if it's gig-e, it's going to be 1

Re: [zfs-discuss] Dedicated server running ESXi with no RAID card, ZFS for storage?

2012-11-08 Thread Dan Swartzendruber
On 11/8/2012 12:35 PM, Edward Ned Harvey (opensolarisisdeadlongliveopensolaris) wrote: From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Jim Klimov the VM running "a ZFS OS" enjoys PCI-pass-through, so it gets dedicated hardware access to the HB

Re: [zfs-discuss] Dedicated server running ESXi with no RAID card, ZFS for storage?

2012-11-08 Thread Dan Swartzendruber
On 11/8/2012 12:35 PM, Edward Ned Harvey (opensolarisisdeadlongliveopensolaris) wrote: From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Jim Klimov the VM running "a ZFS OS" enjoys PCI-pass-through, so it gets dedicated hardware access to the HB

Re: [zfs-discuss] Dedicated server running ESXi with no RAID card, ZFS for storage?

2012-11-08 Thread Dan Swartzendruber
-Original Message- From: Edward Ned Harvey (opensolarisisdeadlongliveopensolaris) [mailto:opensolarisisdeadlongliveopensola...@nedharvey.com] Sent: Wednesday, November 07, 2012 11:44 PM To: Dan Swartzendruber; Edward Ned Harvey (opensolarisisdeadlongliveopensolaris) Cc: Tiernan OToole

Re: [zfs-discuss] Dedicated server running ESXi with no RAID card, ZFS for storage?

2012-11-07 Thread Dan Swartzendruber
On 11/7/2012 10:53 AM, Edmund White wrote: Same thing here. With the right setup, an all-in-one system based on VMWare can be very solid and perform well. I've documented my process here: http://serverfault.com/a/398579/13325 But I'm surprised at the negative comments about VMWare in this contex

Re: [zfs-discuss] Dedicated server running ESXi with no RAID card, ZFS for storage?

2012-11-07 Thread Dan Swartzendruber
On 11/7/2012 10:02 AM, Edward Ned Harvey (opensolarisisdeadlongliveopensolaris) wrote: I formerly did exactly the same thing. Of course performance is abysmal because you're booting a guest VM to share storage back to the host where the actual VM's run. Not to mention, there's the startup de

Re: [zfs-discuss] suggestions for e-SATA HBA card on x86/x64

2012-10-25 Thread Dan Swartzendruber
On 10/25/2012 11:44 AM, Sašo Kiselkov wrote: It may be that you'll get reduced cabling range (only up to SATA lengths, obviously), but it works. The voltage differences are very small and should only come into play when you're pushing the envelope of the cable length. I have a two-drive esat

Re: [zfs-discuss] vm server storage mirror

2012-10-04 Thread Dan Swartzendruber
On 10/4/2012 1:56 PM, Jim Klimov wrote: What if the backup host is down (i.e. the ex-master after the failover)? Will your failed-over pool accept no writes until both storage machines are working? What if internetworking between these two heads has a glitch, and as a result both of them become

Re: [zfs-discuss] vm server storage mirror

2012-10-04 Thread Dan Swartzendruber
On 10/4/2012 12:19 PM, Richard Elling wrote: On Oct 4, 2012, at 9:07 AM, Dan Swartzendruber <mailto:dswa...@druber.com>> wrote: On 10/4/2012 11:48 AM, Richard Elling wrote: On Oct 4, 2012, at 8:35 AM, Dan Swartzendruber <mailto:dswa...@druber.com>> wrote: This who

Re: [zfs-discuss] vm server storage mirror

2012-10-04 Thread Dan Swartzendruber
On 10/4/2012 11:48 AM, Richard Elling wrote: On Oct 4, 2012, at 8:35 AM, Dan Swartzendruber <mailto:dswa...@druber.com>> wrote: This whole thread has been fascinating. I really wish we (OI) had the two following things that freebsd supports: 1. HAST - provides a block-level dr

Re: [zfs-discuss] vm server storage mirror

2012-10-04 Thread Dan Swartzendruber
Forgot to mention: my interest in doing this was so I could have my ESXi host point at a CARP-backed IP address for the datastore, and I would have no single point of failure at the storage level. ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.

Re: [zfs-discuss] vm server storage mirror

2012-10-04 Thread Dan Swartzendruber
This whole thread has been fascinating. I really wish we (OI) had the two following things that freebsd supports: 1. HAST - provides a block-level driver that mirrors a local disk to a network "disk" presenting the result as a block device using the GEOM API. 2. CARP. I have a prototype w

Re: [zfs-discuss] Best way to measure performance of ZIL

2012-10-01 Thread Dan Swartzendruber
Matt, how about running the same disk benchmark(s), with sync=disabled vs sync=enabled and the ZIL accelerator in place? _ From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Matt Van Mater Sent: Monday, October 01, 2012 9:19 AM To: zfs-disc

Re: [zfs-discuss] Different size / manufacturer L2ARC

2012-09-26 Thread Dan Swartzendruber
On 9/26/2012 11:18 AM, Matt Van Mater wrote: If the added device is slower, you will experience a slight drop in per-op performance, however, if your working set needs another SSD, overall it might improve your throughput (as the cache hit ratio will increase). Thanks for your

Re: [zfs-discuss] Interesting question about L2ARC

2012-09-25 Thread Dan Swartzendruber
On 9/25/2012 3:38 PM, Jim Klimov wrote: 2012-09-11 16:29, Edward Ned Harvey (opensolarisisdeadlongliveopensolaris) wrote: From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Dan Swartzendruber My first thought was everything is hitting in ARC

Re: [zfs-discuss] all in one server

2012-09-18 Thread Dan Swartzendruber
On 9/18/2012 10:31 AM, Eugen Leitl wrote: I'm currently thinking about rolling a variant of http://www.napp-it.org/napp-it/all-in-one/index_en.html with remote backup (via snapshot and send) to 2-3 other (HP N40L-based) zfs boxes for production in our organisation. The systems themselves would

Re: [zfs-discuss] Interesting question about L2ARC

2012-09-14 Thread Dan Swartzendruber
f the datastore and back (to get new smaller recordsize.) I wonder if that has an effect? -Original Message- From: Sašo Kiselkov [mailto:skiselkov...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2012 10:12 AM To: Dan Swartzendruber Cc: 'James H'; zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [zfs-discuss] Interesting question about L2ARC

2012-09-11 Thread Dan Swartzendruber
-Original Message- From: Sašo Kiselkov [mailto:skiselkov...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2012 10:12 AM To: Dan Swartzendruber Cc: 'James H'; zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org Subject: Re: [zfs-discuss] Interesting question about L2ARC On 09/11/2012 04:06 PM, Dan Swar

Re: [zfs-discuss] Interesting question about L2ARC

2012-09-11 Thread Dan Swartzendruber
-Original Message- From: Sašo Kiselkov [mailto:skiselkov...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2012 9:52 AM To: Dan Swartzendruber Cc: 'James H'; zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org Subject: Re: [zfs-discuss] Interesting question about L2ARC On 09/11/2012 03:41 PM, Dan Swar

Re: [zfs-discuss] Interesting question about L2ARC

2012-09-11 Thread Dan Swartzendruber
like 160GB (thin provisioning in action), so it seems to me, I should be able to fit the entire thing in L2ARC? -Original Message- From: Sašo Kiselkov [mailto:skiselkov...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2012 9:35 AM To: Dan Swartzendruber Cc: 'James H'; zfs-discuss@opensola

Re: [zfs-discuss] Interesting question about L2ARC

2012-09-11 Thread Dan Swartzendruber
g] On Behalf Of James H Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2012 5:09 AM To: zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org Subject: Re: [zfs-discuss] Interesting question about L2ARC Dan, If you're not already familiar with it, I find the following command useful. It shows the realtime total read commands, number

Re: [zfs-discuss] Interesting question about L2ARC

2012-09-11 Thread Dan Swartzendruber
Hmmm, but the "real hit ratio" was 68%? -Original Message- From: Edward Ned Harvey (opensolarisisdeadlongliveopensolaris) [mailto:opensolarisisdeadlongliveopensola...@nedharvey.com] Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2012 8:30 AM To: Dan Swartzendruber; zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org S

[zfs-discuss] Interesting question about L2ARC

2012-09-10 Thread Dan Swartzendruber
I got a 256GB Crucial M4 to use for L2ARC for my OpenIndiana box. I added it to the tank pool and let it warm for a day or so. By that point, 'zpool iostat -v' said the cache device had about 9GB of data, but (and this is what has me puzzled) kstat showed ZERO l2_hits. That's right, zero. kst

[zfs-discuss] Cannot reset ZFS reservation and refreservation on volume

2012-07-09 Thread Dan Vatca
limited to zvol_volsize_to_reservation(volsize, nvl) for ZFS_PROP_REFRESERVATION (when type == ZFS_TYPE_VOLUME). Dan Vatca On 6 Jul 2012, at 0:00, Stefan Ring wrote: >> Actually, a write to memory for a memory mapped file is more similar to >> write(2). If two programs have t

[zfs-discuss] Cannot reset ZFS reservation and refreservation on volume

2012-07-06 Thread Dan Vâtca
limited to zvol_volsize_to_reservation(volsize, nvl) for ZFS_PROP_REFRESERVATION (when type == ZFS_TYPE_VOLUME). Dan PS: sorry if this message is a duplicate (I sent the original one from the wrong account). On 6 Jul 2012, at 0:00, Stefan Ring wrote: >> Actually, a write to memo

[zfs-discuss] Faster copy from UFS to ZFS

2011-04-29 Thread Dan Shelton
Is anyone aware of any freeware program that can speed up copying tons of data (2 TB) from UFS to ZFS on same server? Thanks. ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Using WD Green drives?

2010-05-18 Thread Dan Pritts
then you're OK. > > Anything else is going to suck. thanks for pointing out the obvious. :) Still, though, this is basically true for ANY drive. It's worse for slower RPM drives, but it's not like resilvers will exactly be fast with 7200rpm drives, either. danno -- Dan Prit

Re: [zfs-discuss] Using WD Green drives?

2010-05-17 Thread Dan Pritts
On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 06:25:18PM +0200, Tomas Ögren wrote: > Resilver does a whole lot of random io itself, not bulk reads.. It reads > the filesystem tree, not "block 0, block 1, block 2..". You won't get > 60MB/s sustained, not even close. Even with large, unfragmente

Re: [zfs-discuss] Using WD Green drives?

2010-05-17 Thread Dan Pritts
turns into random i/o. Which is slow on these drives. danno -- Dan Pritts, Sr. Systems Engineer Internet2 office: +1-734-352-4953 | mobile: +1-734-834-7224 Visit our website: www.internet2.edu Follow us on Twitter: www.twitter.com/internet2 Become a Fa

Re: [zfs-discuss] Hardware for high-end ZFS NAS file server - 2010 March edition

2010-03-05 Thread Dan Dascalescu
Thanks for your suggestions. In the meantime I had found this case and PSU - what do folks think? Antec Twelve Hundred Gaming Case - http://wiki.dandascalescu.com/reviews/gadgets/computers/cases#Antec_Twelve_Hundred_Gaming_Case_.E2.98.85 + 12 5.25" externally-accessible bays, in which you can e

Re: [zfs-discuss] Consolidating a huge stack of DVDs using ZFS dedup: automation?

2010-03-04 Thread Dan Pritts
tes to swap the disks out. I did something very similar but with over 1000 CDs. If you can scare up an external DVD drive, use it too - that way you'll have to change half as many times. danno -- Dan Pritts, Sr. Systems Engineer Internet2 office: +1-734-352-4953 | mobile: +1-734-834-722

[zfs-discuss] Hardware for high-end ZFS NAS file server - 2010 March edition

2010-03-04 Thread Dan Dascalescu
ly only #1 (reliable) and #2 (quiet) matter most. I've been mulling over this server for too long and want to get it over with. Looking forward to your recommendations, Dan -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss maili

Re: [zfs-discuss] verging OT: how to buy J4500 w/o overpriced

2010-02-11 Thread Dan Pritts
ul tales to tell about promise FC arrays. They were clearly not ready for prime time. OTOH a SAS jbod is a lot less complicated. danno -- Dan Pritts, Sr. Systems Engineer Internet2 office: +1-734-352-4953 | mobile: +1-734-834-7224 Internet2 Spring Member Meeting April 26-28, 2010 - Arlington, Vi

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS snapshot issue.

2010-02-03 Thread Dan
t possible that there is only 106M left?!? I also know that once there isn't enough space on the device, it should start to delete the old snapshot, if I'm right. Therefore I should never really run out of space unless I really fill it up with files. Thanks, Dan -- This message posted

[zfs-discuss] ZFS auto-snapshot in zone

2010-01-12 Thread Dan
in root 18 2010-01-12 15:40 zfs-auto-snap:hourly-2010-01-12-21:00 drwxrwxr-x 12 admin root 18 2010-01-12 15:40 zfs-auto-snap:monthly-2010-01-12-19:37 drwxrwxr-x 12 admin root 18 2010-01-12 15:40 zfs-auto-snap:weekly-2010-01-12-19:37 So what can I do to make all auto-snapshot available in zones?

Re: [zfs-discuss] need a few suggestions for a poor man's ZIL/SLOG device

2010-01-06 Thread Dan Pritts
the drive, especially for the price paid. I agree with Al that it probably isn't suitable as a ZIL. Maybe as a read cache though. danno -- Dan Pritts, Sr. Systems Engineer Internet2 office: +1-734-352-4953 | mobile: +1-734-834-7224 Winter 2010 ESCC/Internet2 Joint Techs Hosted by the Un

Re: [zfs-discuss] "zpool import -f" not forceful enough?

2010-01-05 Thread Dan McDonald
> Hi Dan, > > Can you describe what you are trying to recover from > with more details > because we can't quite follow what steps might have > lead to this > scenario. Sorry. I was running Nevada 103 with a root zpool called "hdc" with c1t0d0s0 and c1t1d0

[zfs-discuss] "zpool import -f" not forceful enough?

2010-01-03 Thread Dan McDonald
now the (wiped clean) c8t0d0s0. Any clues are, as always, welcome. I'd prefer not to restore my saved zfs-send streams, so I'd like to get the import of the old root pool (hdc) to work. Thanks! Dan McD. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _

Re: [zfs-discuss] (home NAS) zfs and spinning down of drives

2009-11-23 Thread dan pritts
On Nov 4, 2009, at 6:02 PM, Jim Klimov wrote: > Thanks for the link, but the main concern in spinning down drives of a ZFS > pool > is that ZFS by default is not so idle. Every 5 to 30 seconds it closes a > transaction > group (TXG) which requires a synchronous write of metadata to disk. I'm r

Re: [zfs-discuss] Replacing a failed drive

2009-10-02 Thread Dan Transue
Does the same thing apply for a "failing" drive? I have a drive that has not failed but by all indications, it's about to Can I do the same thing here? -dan Jeff Bonwick wrote: Yep, you got it. Jeff On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 04:15:41PM -0700, Simon Breden wrote: Hi

[zfs-discuss] 7110 questions

2009-06-18 Thread Dan Pritts
king it up to the 7110; it has plenty of PCI slots. finally, one question - I presume that I need to devote a pair of disks to the OS, so I really only get 14 disks for data. Correct? thanks! danno -- Dan Pritts, Sr. Systems Engineer Internet2 office: +1-734-352-4953 | mobile: +1-734-834-7224

[zfs-discuss] Rewrite vdev label?

2008-11-11 Thread Dan Mick
I have a situation where the first part of the first label on the vdev is corrupted (from 8K to 16K on the slice). Can I use a zfs/zpool command to rewrite that label from one of the other three? So far I've tried zpool update zpool export zpool import Some zdb magic? __

[zfs-discuss] /var/log as a single zfs filesystem --> problems at boot

2008-07-02 Thread Dan McDonald
vices explicitly depend on svc:/system/filesystem/local:default that don't already, but I get the feeling there's more to it than that. Any recent insights into /var/log being its own filesystem? Thanks! Dan This message posted from

Re: [zfs-discuss] SMC Webconsole 3.1 and ZFS Administration 1.0 - stacktraces in snv_b89

2008-06-24 Thread Dan Reiland
It would seem that the ZFS Web UI lacks a few requisite classes to support the updates ZFS features in snv_b89+. This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/lis

Re: [zfs-discuss] SMC Webconsole 3.1 and ZFS Administration 1.0 - stacktraces in snv_b89

2008-06-16 Thread Dan Reiland
> Yeah. The command line works fine. Thought it to be a > bit curious that there was an issue with the HTTP > interface. It's low priority I guess because it > doesn't impact the functionality really. > > Thanks for the responses. I was receiving the same stacktrace: [b]No enum const class com.s

Re: [zfs-discuss] [dtrace-discuss] periodic ZFS disk accesses

2008-03-17 Thread Dan Mick
Bill Shannon wrote: > I just wanted to follow up on this issue I raised a few weeks ago. > > With help from several of you, I had all the information and tools > I needed to start debugging my problem. Which of course meant that > my problem disappeared! > > At one point my theory was that ksh93

Re: [zfs-discuss] Synchronous scrub?

2008-01-23 Thread Dan McDonald
the grep output or > use the -q flag for grep (caveat: I don't know which grep you > prefer to use, so check the flags for your version) /usr/xpg4/bin/grep has -q, that's easy enough to code-in, as we do that for punchctl already. Thanks! Dan _

[zfs-discuss] Synchronous scrub?

2008-01-23 Thread Dan McDonald
ee no documentation mentioning how to scrub, then wait-until-completed. I'm happy to be pointed at any such documentation. I'm also happy to be otherwise clued-in if no such documentation exists, or if no such feature exists. Thanks! Dan McD. This message posted from

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs on a raid box

2007-11-19 Thread Dan Pritts
stec (Promise) or zfs. the way i'd try to do this would be to use the same box under solaris software RAID, or better yet linux or windows software RAID (to make sure it's not a solaris device driver problem). does pulling the disk then get noticed? If so, it's a zfs bug

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs on a raid box

2007-11-16 Thread Dan Pritts
a little pucker for my colleagues when it happened while i was on vacation. The support guy at the reseller we were working with (NOT Western Scientific) told them the raid was hosed and they should rebuild from scratch, hope you had a backup. danno -- Dan Pritts, System Administrator Interne

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs on a raid box

2007-11-15 Thread Dan Pritts
pull a disk and goes on and does the right thing. I wonder if you've got a scsi card/driver problem. We tried using an Adaptec card with solaris with poor results; switched to LSI, it "just works". danno -- Dan Pritts, System Administrator Internet

Re: [zfs-discuss] Securing a risky situation with zfs

2007-11-15 Thread Dan Pritts
windows > machinesis there any similar solution on the win machines? none that i'm aware of; windows does have software mirroring, of course. Make lots of backups :). danno -- Dan Pritts, System Administrator Internet2 office: +1-734-352-4953 | mobile: +1-734-834-7224 [1] http://www

Re: [zfs-discuss] X4500 device disconnect problem persists

2007-11-13 Thread Dan Poltawski
I've just discovered patch 125205-07, which wasn't installed on our system because we don't have SUNWhea.. Has anyone with problems tried this patch, and has it helped at all? This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs

Re: [zfs-discuss] X4500 device disconnect problem persists

2007-11-08 Thread Dan Poltawski
That is interesting, again we're having the same problem with our X4500s. I am trying to work out what is causing the problem with NFS, restarting the service causes it to try and stop and not bring it back up. Rebooting the whole box fails and it just hangs till a hard reset.. This message

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

2007-11-07 Thread Dan Pritts
ere i've heard about it) wants to be awful sure that the drive actually flushes its write cache when you ask for it. Regardless, the speed difference is marginal. danno -- Dan Pritts, System Administrator Internet2 office: +1-734-352-4953 | mobile: +1-734-834-7224 _

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

2007-11-07 Thread Dan Pritts
have NCQ, you'd lose on some random i/o workloads by adding the PATA disk. But, i think that you need SATA300 to support that feature. danno -- Dan Pritts, System Administrator Internet2 office: +1-734-352-4953 | mobile: +1-734-834-7224 ___ zfs-disc

[zfs-discuss] 'mv' and zfs filesystems

2007-07-25 Thread Dan Mick
I had a pool, p, with a filesystem p/local, mounted at /local. In that are several workspace filesystems, including "/local/ws/install-nv". I used "mv" from /local/ws to change install-nv to nv-install. it worked. nothing seemed wrong, except the output of "zfs list". Then I remembered there w

[zfs-discuss] 'mv' and zfs filesystems

2007-07-24 Thread Dan Mick
I had a pool, p, with a filesystem p/local, mounted at /local. In that are several workspace filesystems, including "/local/ws/install-nv". I used "mv" from /local/ws to change install-nv to nv-install. it worked. nothing seemed wrong, except the output of "zfs list". Then I remembered there

[zfs-discuss] ZFS and IBM's TSM

2007-07-09 Thread Dan [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Does anyone have a customer using IBM Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) with ZFS? I see that IBM has a client for Solaris 10, but does it work with ZFS? -- Dan Christensen System Engineer Sun Microsystems, Inc. Des Moines, IA 50266 US 877-263-2204

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: Suggestions on 30 drive configuration?

2007-06-27 Thread Dan Saul
I have 8 SATA on the motherboard, 4 PCI cards with 4 SATA each, one PCIe 4x sata card with two, and one PCIe 1x with two. The operating system itself will be on a hard drive attached to one ATA 100 connector. Kind of like a "poor man's" data centre, except not that cheap... It still is estimated

Re: [zfs-discuss] Suggestions on 30 drive configuration?

2007-06-22 Thread Dan Saul
I care more about data integrity then performance. Of course if performance is so bad that one would not be able to, say stream a video off of it that wouldn't be acceptable. On 6/22/07, Richard Elling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Dan Saul wrote: > Good day ZFS-Discuss, > > I

[zfs-discuss] Suggestions on 30 drive configuration?

2007-06-22 Thread Dan Saul
redundancy but still keeping as much disk space open for my uses as possible. I don't want to mirror 15 drives to 15 drives as that would drastically affect my storage capacity. Thank you for your time, Dan ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-di

Re: [zfs-discuss] si3124 controller problem and fix (fwd)

2007-06-07 Thread Dan Mick
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: it's been assigned CR 6566207 by Linda Bernal. Basically, if you look at si_intr and read the comments in the code, the bug is pretty obvious. si3124 driver's interrupt routine is incorrectly coded. The ddi_put32 that clears the interrupts should be enclosed in an "

Re: [zfs-discuss] Update/append of compressed files

2007-04-17 Thread Dan Mick
Robert Milkowski wrote: Hello Dan, Tuesday, April 17, 2007, 9:44:45 PM, you wrote: How can this work? With compressed data, its hard to predict its final size before compression. Because you are NOT compressing the file only compressing the blocks as they get written to disk. DM> I gu

Re: [zfs-discuss] Update/append of compressed files

2007-04-17 Thread Dan Mick
How can this work? With compressed data, its hard to predict its final size before compression. Because you are NOT compressing the file only compressing the blocks as they get written to disk. I guess this implies that the compression only can save integral numbers of blocks. _

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS and Linux

2007-04-12 Thread Dan Mick
Sigh. We have devolved. Every thread on OpenSolaris discuss lists seems to devolve into a license discussion. :0 B: * GPL /dev/null ___ zfs-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] FAULTED ZFS volume even though it is mirrored

2007-03-01 Thread Dan Mick
Luke Scharf wrote: This is also OT -- but what is the boot-archive, really? Is it analogous to the initrd on Linux? precisely. ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Is ZFS file system supports short writes ?

2007-02-23 Thread Dan Mick
So, that would be an "error", and, other than reporting it accurately, what would you want ZFS to do to "support" it? dudekula mastan wrote: If a write call attempted to write X bytes of data, and if writecall writes only x ( hwere x -Masthan > Please let me know the ZFS support for s

Re: [zfs-discuss] RACF: SunFire x4500 Thumper Evaluation

2007-02-11 Thread Dan Mick
Ian Collins wrote: Rayson Ho wrote: Interesting... http://www.rhic.bnl.gov/RCF/LiaisonMeeting/20070118/Other/thumper-eval.pdf I wonder where they got the information that "Solaris 10 doesn't support dual-core Intel" from? probably from evaluating Solaris 8 or something. __

Re: [zfs-discuss] Thumper Origins Q

2007-01-24 Thread Dan Mick
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bryan Cantrill wrote: well, "Thumper" is actually a reference to Bambi You'd have to ask Fowler, but certainly when he coined it, "Bambi" was the last thing on anyone's mind. I believe Fowler's intention was "one that thumps" (or, in the unique parlance of a certain Co

Re: [zfs-discuss] Thumper Origins Q

2007-01-24 Thread Dan Mick
Bryan Cantrill wrote: well, "Thumper" is actually a reference to Bambi You'd have to ask Fowler, but certainly when he coined it, "Bambi" was the last thing on anyone's mind. I believe Fowler's intention was "one that thumps" (or, in the unique parlance of a certain Commander-in-Chief, "one th

Re: [zfs-discuss] External drive enclosures + Sun Server for mass storage

2007-01-22 Thread Dan Mick
Frank Cusack wrote: On January 19, 2007 10:01:43 PM -0800 Dan Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Scouting around a bit, I see SIIG has a 3132 chip, for which they make a card, eSATA II, available in PCIe and PCIe ExpressCard formfactors. I can't promise, but chances seem good that it&

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: External drive enclosures + Sun Server for massstorage

2007-01-22 Thread Dan Mick
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That said, this definition is not always used consistently, as is the case with the x2100. I filed a bug against the docs in this case, and unfortunately it was closed as "will not fix." :-( In the context of a hardware platform it makes little sense to distinguish be

Re: [zfs-discuss] External drive enclosures + Sun Server for mass storage

2007-01-19 Thread Dan Mick
David J. Orman wrote: Hi, I'm looking at Sun's 1U x64 server line, and at most they support two drives. This is fine for the root OS install, but obviously not sufficient for many users. Specifically, I am looking at the: http://www.sun.com/servers/x64/x2200/ X2200M2. It only has "Riser car

[zfs-discuss] SVM - UFS Upgrade

2006-11-16 Thread Dan Christensen
Is it possible to convert/upgrade a file system that is currently under the control of Solaris Volume Manager to ZFS? Thanks This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.or

[zfs-discuss] experiences with zpool errors and glm flipouts

2006-10-26 Thread Dan Price
Tonight I've been moving some of my personal data around on my desktop system and have hit some on-disk corruption. As you may know, I'm cursed, and so this had a high probability of ending badly. I have two SCSI disks and use live upgrade, and I have a partition, /aux0, where I tend to keep pers