Re: [zfs-discuss] pool layout vs resilver times

2013-01-05 Thread Dave Pooser
y understanding is that the combination of SATA drives and SAS expanders is a large economy-sized bucket of pain. -- Dave Pooser Manager of Information Services Alford Media http://www.alfordmedia.com ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.

Re: [zfs-discuss] Sonnet Tempo SSD supported?

2012-12-03 Thread Dave Pooser
play with in the Jan-Feb timeframe, but as of now I have no knowledge of that subject. -- Dave Pooser Manager of Information Services Alford Media http://www.alfordmedia.com ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Zvol vs zfs send/zfs receive

2012-09-16 Thread Dave Pooser
les from one zvol to the other. (Leaning toward option 3 because the files are mostly largish graphics files and the like.) Thanks for the help! -- Dave Pooser Manager of Information Services Alford Media http://www.alfordmedia.com ___ z

Re: [zfs-discuss] Zvol vs zfs send/zfs receive

2012-09-15 Thread Dave Pooser
export another volume on a second zpool and then let the Mac copy from one zvol to the other-- this is starting to feel like voodoo here.) -- Dave Pooser Manager of Information Services Alford Media http://www.alfordmedia.com ___ zfs-discuss mailing

[zfs-discuss] Zvol vs zfs send/zfs receive

2012-09-14 Thread Dave Pooser
paring zfs list -t snapshot and looking at the 5.34 ref for the snapshot vs zfs list on the new system and looking at space used.) Is this a problem? Should I be panicking yet? -- Dave Pooser Manager of Information Services Alford Media http://www.alfordmedia.com _

[zfs-discuss] Question on 4k sectors

2012-07-18 Thread Dave U . Random
Hi. Is the problem with ZFS supporting 4k sectors or is the problem mixing 512 byte and 4k sector disks in one pool, or something else? I have seen alot of discussion on the 4k issue but I haven't understood what the actual problem ZFS has with 4k sectors is. It's getting harder and harder to find

[zfs-discuss] Zombie damaged zpool won't die

2012-05-29 Thread Dave Pooser
t, but I'd like to get rid of that error. -- Dave Pooser Manager of Information Services Alford Media http://www.alfordmedia.com ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

[zfs-discuss] 4k sector support in Solaris 11?

2012-02-16 Thread Dave Pooser
If I want to use a batch of new Seagate 3TB Barracudas with Solaris 11, will zpool let me create a new pool with ashift=12 out of the box or will I need to play around with a patched zpool binary (or the iSCSI loopback)? -- Dave Pooser Manager of Information Services Alford Media http

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

2011-10-19 Thread Dave Pooser
dual disks and ZFS can handle redundancy and recovery. -- Dave Pooser Manager of Information Services Alford Media http://www.alfordmedia.com ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

[zfs-discuss] ZIL, L2ARC, rpool -- partitions and mirrors oh my!

2011-07-07 Thread Dave Pooser
smarter way to do it, suggestions gratefully accepted. My current ZFS storage servers are all built around sustained reads/sustained writes, so tuning the ZIL and L2ARC are still outside my experience. -- Dave Pooser Manager of Information Services Alford

Re: [zfs-discuss] Server with 4 drives, how to configure ZFS?

2011-06-23 Thread Dave U . Random
Edward Ned Harvey wrote: > Well ... > Slice all 4 drives into 13G and 60G. > Use a mirror of 13G for the rpool. > Use 4x 60G in some way (raidz, or stripe of mirrors) for tank > Use a mirror of 13G appended to tank Hi Edward! Thanks for your post. I think I understand what you are saying but I

Re: [zfs-discuss] Server with 4 drives, how to configure ZFS?

2011-06-22 Thread Dave U . Random
Hello! > I don't see the problem. Install the OS onto a mirrored partition, and > configure all the remaining storage however you like - raid or mirror or > watever. I didn't understand your point of view until I read the next paragraph. > My personal preference, assuming 4 disks, since the OS

Re: [zfs-discuss] Server with 4 drives, how to configure ZFS?

2011-06-21 Thread Dave U . Random
Hello Jim! I understood ZFS doesn't like slices but from your reply maybe I should reconsider. I have a few older servers with 4 bays x 73G. If I make a root mirror pool and swap on the other 2 as you suggest, then I would have about 63G x 4 left over. If so then I am back to wondering what to do a

Re: [zfs-discuss] Is another drive worth anything? [Summary]

2011-06-02 Thread Dave U . Random
Many thanks to all who responded. I learned a lot from this thread! For now I have decided to make a 3 way mirror because of the read performance. I don't want to take a risk on an unmirrored drive. Instead of replying to everyone separately I am following the Sun Managers system since I read that

Re: [zfs-discuss] Good SLOG devices?

2011-03-02 Thread Dave Pooser
7;m building Probably not a great product for the home hobbyist, though. :^) -- Dave Pooser, ACSA Manager of Information Services Alford Media http://www.alfordmedia.com ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Format returning bogus controller info

2011-02-28 Thread Dave Pooser
,340c@5 even if other controllers are active? -- Dave Pooser, ACSA Manager of Information Services Alford Media http://www.alfordmedia.com ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Format returning bogus controller info

2011-02-28 Thread Dave Pooser
or all your help-- not only can I fully, unequivocally retract my "failed bit" crack, but I just ordered two more of these cards for my next project! :^) -- Dave Pooser, ACSA Manager of Information Services Alford Media http://www.alfordmedia.com <http://www.alfordmedia.com/> _

Re: [zfs-discuss] Format returning bogus controller info

2011-02-27 Thread Dave Pooser
here's a 340b@4 and a 340d@6 if I add more drives and try 'format' again?) >>I'd like to revise and extend my remarks and replace that with "a >>suboptimal choice for this project." >Not knowing your other requirements for the project, I'll settle &

Re: [zfs-discuss] Format returning bogus controller info

2011-02-27 Thread Dave Pooser
quot;a failed bit". I'd like to revise and extend my remarks and replace that with "a suboptimal choice for this project." In fact, if I can't make this work my backup plan is to take some of my storage towers that have only one HBA, put the 9211s in them and gra

Re: [zfs-discuss] Format returning bogus controller info

2011-02-27 Thread Dave Pooser
. IMHO this looks more >like a design flaw in the driver code Especially since the SAS3081 cards work as expected. I guess I'll start looking for some more of the 3Gb SAS controllers and chalk the 9211s up as a failed bit. -- Dave Pooser, ACSA Manager of Information Services

Re: [zfs-discuss] Format returning bogus controller info

2011-02-27 Thread Dave Pooser
On 2/27/11 5:15 AM, "James C. McPherson" wrote: >On 27/02/11 05:24 PM, Dave Pooser wrote: >>On 2/26/11 7:43 PM, "Bill Sommerfeld" wrote: >> >>>On your system, c12 is the mpxio virtual controller; any disk which is >>>potentially multipath-a

Re: [zfs-discuss] Format returning bogus controller info

2011-02-26 Thread Dave Pooser
86,340e@7/pci1000,3020@0/iport@8/disk@w5000cca222e046b7,0 9. c21t5000CCA222E0533Fd0 /pci@0,0/pci8086,340a@3/pci1000,72@0/iport@20/disk@w5000cca222e0533f,0 So now I'm more baffled than I started. Any other suggestions will be gratefully accepted... -- Dave Pooser, ACSA Manager

[zfs-discuss] Format returning bogus controller info

2011-02-26 Thread Dave Pooser
): ^C Any suggestions? -- Dave Pooser, ACSA Manager of Information Services Alford Media http://www.alfordmedia.com ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] vidoe files residing on zfs used from cifs fail to work

2010-11-21 Thread Dave Pooser
files are on a zfs server the same files fail to > play. > > Is it a local phenomena or a common problem? We don't have that problem, and we have roughly 25TB of QuickTime files on an OpenSolaris box shared over CIFS to mostly Mac clients. -- Dave Pooser, ACSA Manager of

Re: [zfs-discuss] Apparent SAS HBA failure-- now what?

2010-11-06 Thread Dave Pooser
27;t catch any errors last scrub), all on the same controller-- well, that seems much less likely than the idea that I just have a bad controller that needs replacing. -- Dave Pooser, ACSA Manager of Information Services Alford Media http://www.alfordmedia.com ___

Re: [zfs-discuss] Apparent SAS HBA failure-- now what?

2010-11-06 Thread Dave Pooser
rors: 9 Vendor: ATA Product: Hitachi HDS72202 Revision: A20N Serial No: Size: 2000.40GB <2000398934016 bytes> Media Error: 0 Device Not Ready: 0 No Device: 0 Recoverable: 0 Illegal Request: 0 Predictive Failure Analysis: 0 -- Dave Pooser, ACSA Manager of Information Services Alford Medi

Re: [zfs-discuss] Apparent SAS HBA failure-- now what?

2010-11-06 Thread Dave Pooser
: Read and write I/Os cannot be serviced. Action : Make sure the affected devices are connected, then run 'zpool clear'. -- Dave Pooser, ACSA Manager of Information Services Alford Media http://www.alfordmedia.com _

[zfs-discuss] Apparent SAS HBA failure-- now what?

2010-11-06 Thread Dave Pooser
0 c11t6d0 ONLINE 0 0 0 c11t7d0 ONLINE 0 0 0 c11t8d0 ONLINE 0 0 0 errors: 1 data errors, use '-v' for a list -- Dave Pooser, ACSA Manager of Information Services Alford Media http://www.alfordmedia.com

[zfs-discuss] Changing vdev controller

2010-10-22 Thread Dave
I have a 14 drive pool, in a 2x 7 drive raidz2, with l2arc and slog devices attached. I had a port go bad on one of my controllers (both are sat2-mv8), so I need to replace it (I have no spare ports on either card). My spare controller is a LSI 1068 based 8 port card. My plan is to remove the

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS disk space monitoring with SNMP

2010-10-02 Thread Dave
I just query for the percentage in use via snmp (net-snmp) In my snmpd.conf I have: extend .1.3.6.1.4.1.2021.60 drive15 /usr/gnu/bin/sh /opt/utils/zpools.ksh rpool space and the zpools.ksh is: #!/bin/ksh export PATH=/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib zpool list -H -o capa

Re: [zfs-discuss] dedup status

2010-09-30 Thread Dave
Can you provide some specifics to see how bad the writes are? -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Opensolaris is apparently dead

2010-08-14 Thread Dave Pooser
ill be a lot more interest in the BTRFS project, much of it from the same folks who have experience producing enterprise-grade ZFS. Speaking for myself, if Solaris 11 doesn't include COMSTAR I'm going to have to take a serious look at another alternative for our show storage towers --

Re: [zfs-discuss] Problems with big ZFS send/receive in b134

2010-08-10 Thread Dave Pacheco
David Dyer-Bennet wrote: On Tue, August 10, 2010 13:23, Dave Pacheco wrote: David Dyer-Bennet wrote: My full backup still doesn't complete. However, instead of hanging the entire disk subsystem as it did on 111b, it now issues error messages. Errors at the end. [...] cannot re

Re: [zfs-discuss] Problems with big ZFS send/receive in b134

2010-08-10 Thread Dave Pacheco
ut I don't expect any different outcome. Any other ideas? Is it possible that snapshots were renamed on the sending pool during the send operation? -- Dave -- David Pacheco, Sun Microsystems Fishworks. http://blogs.sun.com/dap/ ___ zfs-dis

Re: [zfs-discuss] Confused about consumer drives and zfs can someone help?

2010-07-24 Thread Dave
I've been looking at using consumer 2.5" drives also, I think the ones I've settled on are the hitachi 7K500 500 GB. These are 7200 rpm, I'm concerned the 5400's might be a little too low performance wise. The main reasons for hitachi were performance seems to be among the top 2 or 3 in the lapt

[zfs-discuss] ZFS bug - CVE-2010-2392

2010-07-15 Thread Dave Pooser
Looks like the bug affects through snv_137. Patches are available from the usual location-- <https://pkg.sun.com/opensolaris/support> for OpenSolaris. -- Dave Pooser, ACSA Manager of Information Services Alford Media http://www.alfordmed

Re: [zfs-discuss] Legality and the future of zfs...

2010-07-15 Thread Dave Pooser
> Ok guys, can we please kill this thread about commodity versus enterprise > hardware? +1 -- Dave Pooser, ACSA Manager of Information Services Alford Media http://www.alfordmedia.com ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.or

Re: [zfs-discuss] preparing for future drive additions

2010-07-14 Thread Dave Pooser
AID 10. *You can't really compare ZFS to conventional RAID implementations, but if you look at it from 50,000 feet and squint you get the similarities. -- Dave Pooser, ACSA Manager of Information Services Alford Media http://www.alfordmedia.com ___ z

Re: [zfs-discuss] Legality and the future of zfs...

2010-07-13 Thread Dave Pooser
ithout my having to send multiple emails to multiple addresses-- may yet push me back to my default CentOS platform, but to the extent that Oracle is even in the running it's because of ZFS.) -- Dave Pooser, ACSA Manager of Information Services Alford Media http://www.alfordmedia.com ___

Re: [zfs-discuss] Please trim posts

2010-06-10 Thread Dave Koelmeyer
I trimmed, and then got complained at by a mailing list user that the context of what I was replying to was missing. Can't win :P -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolari

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs send to S7000

2010-05-26 Thread Dave Pacheco
, described in the administration guide: http://wikis.sun.com/display/FishWorks/Documentation -- Dave -- David Pacheco, Sun Microsystems Fishworks. http://blogs.sun.com/dap/ ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http

Re: [zfs-discuss] Performance drop during scrub?

2010-05-02 Thread Dave Pooser
Data loss may be unavoidable, but that's why we keep backups. It's the invisible data loss that makes life suboptimal. -- Dave Pooser, ACSA Manager of Information Services Alford Media http://www.alfordmedia.com ___ zfs-discuss mailing lis

Re: [zfs-discuss] SAS vs SATA: Same size, same speed, why SAS?

2010-04-26 Thread Dave Pooser
Is there a good resource on doing something like that with an OpenSolaris storage server? I could see that as a project I might want to attempt. -- Dave Pooser, ACSA Manager of Information Services Alford Media http://www.alfordmedia.com ___ zfs-disc

[zfs-discuss] Identifying drives

2010-04-25 Thread Dave Pooser
being enough to make the hardware ID it as bad. -- Dave Pooser, ACSA Manager of Information Services Alford Media http://www.alfordmedia.com ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs

[zfs-discuss] SAS vs SATA: Same size, same speed, why SAS?

2010-04-25 Thread Dave Pooser
ories (lots of small writes/reads), how much benefit will I see from the SAS interface? -- Dave Pooser, ACSA Manager of Information Services Alford Media http://www.alfordmedia.com ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://

Re: [zfs-discuss] Mac OS X clients with ZFS server

2010-04-25 Thread Dave Pooser
On 4/25/10 6:11 PM, "Rich Teer" wrote: > I tried going to that URL, but got a 404 error... :-( What's the correct > one, please? <http://code.google.com/p/maczfs/> -- Dave Pooser, ACSA Manager of Information Services Alford Media

Re: [zfs-discuss] Mac OS X clients with ZFS server

2010-04-25 Thread Dave Pooser
Ethereal); works great for me. It does require X11 on your machine. -- Dave Pooser, ACSA Manager of Information Services Alford Media http://www.alfordmedia.com ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] SSD best practices

2010-04-18 Thread Dave Vrona
> IMHO, whether a dedicated log device needs redundancy > (mirrored), should > be determined by the dynamics of each end-user > environment (zpool version, > goals/priorities, and budget). > Well, I populate a chassis with dual HBAs because my _perception_ is they tend to fail more than other ca

Re: [zfs-discuss] SSD best practices

2010-04-18 Thread Dave Vrona
Or, DDRDrive X1 ? Would the X1 need to be mirrored? -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] SSD best practices

2010-04-18 Thread Dave Vrona
The Acard device mentioned in this thread looks interesting: http://opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?messageID=401719񢄷 -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailm

Re: [zfs-discuss] SSD best practices

2010-04-18 Thread Dave Vrona
> > On 18 apr 2010, at 00.52, Dave Vrona wrote: > > > Ok, so originally I presented the X-25E as a > "reasonable" approach. After reading the follow-ups, > I'm second guessing my statement. > > > > Any decent alternatives at a reasonable price? &

Re: [zfs-discuss] SSD best practices

2010-04-17 Thread Dave Vrona
Ok, so originally I presented the X-25E as a "reasonable" approach. After reading the follow-ups, I'm second guessing my statement. Any decent alternatives at a reasonable price? -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list

Re: [zfs-discuss] SSD best practices

2010-04-17 Thread Dave Vrona
> > From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org > [mailto:zfs-discuss- > > boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Edward Ned > Harvey > > > > > From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org > [mailto:zfs-discuss- > > > boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of D

[zfs-discuss] SSD best practices

2010-04-17 Thread Dave Vrona
Hi all, I'm planning a new build based on a SuperMicro chassis with 16 bays. I am looking to use up to 4 of the bays for SSD devices. After reading many posts about SSDs I believe I have a _basic_ understanding of a reasonable approach to utilizing SSDs for ZIL and L2ARC. Namely: ZIL: Intel

Re: [zfs-discuss] Areca ARC-1680 on OpenSolaris 2009.06?

2010-04-12 Thread Dave Pooser
d if they fudge compatibility information on one product....) -- Dave Pooser, ACSA Manager of Information Services Alford Media http://www.alfordmedia.com ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/lis

[zfs-discuss] Areca ARC-1680 on OpenSolaris 2009.06?

2010-04-09 Thread Dave Pooser
ear to offer greater drive densities, but a quick Google search shows that they've overpromised and underdelivered on Solaris support in the past. Is anybody currently using those cards on OpenSolaris? -- Dave Pooser, ACSA Manager of Information Services Alford Media h

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS: clarification on meaning of the autoreplace propert

2010-03-17 Thread Dave Johnson
> Hi Dave, > > I'm unclear about the autoreplace behavior with one > spare that is > connected to two pools. I don't see how it could work > if the autoreplace > property is enabled on both pools, which formats and > replaces a spare Because I already partit

[zfs-discuss] ZFS: clarification on meaning of the autoreplace property

2010-03-17 Thread Dave Johnson
>From pages 29,83,86,90 and 284 of the 10/09 Solaris ZFS Administration guide, it sounds like a disk designated as a hot spare will: 1. Automatically take the place of a bad drive when needed 2. The spare will automatically be detached back to the spare pool when a new device is inserted and bro

Re: [zfs-discuss] Listing snapshots in a pool

2010-02-21 Thread Dave
Try: zfs list -r -t snapshot zp1 -- Dave On 2/21/10 5:23 PM, David Dyer-Bennet wrote: I thought this was simple. Turns out not to be. bash-3.2$ zfs list -t snapshot zp1 cannot open 'zp1': operation not applicable to datasets of this type Fails equally on all the variants of pool

Re: [zfs-discuss] Speed question: 8-disk RAIDZ2 vs 10-disk RAIDZ3

2010-02-16 Thread Dave Pooser
at's most important is sequential write speed. -- Dave Pooser, ACSA Manager of Information Services Alford Media http://www.alfordmedia.com ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

[zfs-discuss] Speed question: 8-disk RAIDZ2 vs 10-disk RAIDZ3

2010-02-16 Thread Dave Pooser
LSI 3018 PCIe SATA controllers (latest IT firmware) 8x 2TB Hitachi 7200RPM SATA drives (2 connected to each LSI and 2 to motherboard SATA ports) 2x 60GB Imation M-class SSD (boot mirror) Qlogic 2440 PCIe Fibre Channel HBA -- Dave Pooser, ACSA Manager of Information Services Alford Me

Re: [zfs-discuss] Painfully slow RAIDZ2 as fibre channel COMSTAR export

2010-02-14 Thread Dave Pooser
.06 where iSCSI (and apparently FC) forced all writes to be synchronous -- thanks to Richard for that pointer. Five hours from tearing my hair out to toasting a success-- this list is a great resource! -- Dave Pooser, ACSA Manager of Information Service

Re: [zfs-discuss] Painfully slow RAIDZ2 as fibre channel COMSTAR export

2010-02-14 Thread Dave Pooser
> on my motherboard, i can make the onboard sata ports show up as IDE or SATA, > you may look into that.  It would probably be something like AHCI mode. Yeah, I changed the motherboard setting from "enhanced" to AHCI and now those ports show up as SATA. -- Dave Pooser,

Re: [zfs-discuss] Painfully slow RAIDZ2 as fibre channel COMSTAR export

2010-02-14 Thread Dave Pooser
nd possibly grab some dinner while I'm about it. I'll report back to the list with any progress or lack thereof. -- Dave Pooser, ACSA Manager of Information Services Alford Media http://www.alfordmedia.com ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-di

[zfs-discuss] Painfully slow RAIDZ2 as fibre channel COMSTAR export

2010-02-14 Thread Dave Pooser
0 1816.2 0.0 0.10.00.5 0 6 c9t0d0 0.0 191.00.0 1816.2 0.0 0.10.00.5 0 6 c9t1d0 -- Dave Pooser, ACSA Manager of Information Services Alford Media http://www.alfordmedia.com ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opens

Re: [zfs-discuss] Mounting a snapshot of an iSCSI volume using Windows

2010-02-08 Thread Dave
cess works for mounting cloned volumes under linux with b130. I don't have any windows clients to test with. -- Dave On 2/8/10 11:23 AM, Scott Meilicke wrote: Sure, but that will put me back into the original situation. -Scott ___ zfs-discuss m

Re: [zfs-discuss] Mounting a snapshot of an iSCSI volume using Windows

2010-02-08 Thread Dave
Use create-lu to give the clone a different GUID: sbdadm create-lu /dev/zvol/rdsk/data01/san/gallardo/g-testandlab -- Dave On 2/8/10 10:34 AM, Scott Meilicke wrote: Thanks Dan. When I try the clone then import: pfexec zfs clone data01/san/gallardo/g...@zfs-auto-snap:monthly-2009-12-01-00

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS + fsck

2009-11-05 Thread Dave Koelmeyer
Thanks for taking the time to write this - very useful info :) -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

[zfs-discuss] Crazy Phantom Zpools Again

2009-09-18 Thread Dave Abrahams
in Advance, -- Dave Abrahams BoostPro Computing http://boostpro.com ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS commands hang after several zfs receives

2009-09-15 Thread Dave
> The case has been identified and I've just received > an IDR,which I will > test next week. I've been told the issue is fixed in > update 8, but I'm > not sure if there is an nv fix target. > Anyone know if there Is an opensolaris fix for this issue and when? These seem to be related. htt

Re: [zfs-discuss] zpool status OK but zfs filesystem seems hung

2009-09-14 Thread Dave
Thanks for the reply but this seems to be a bit different. a couple of things I failed to mention; 1) this is a secondary pool and not the root pool. 2) the snapshot are trimmed to only keep 80 or so. The system boots and runs fine. It's just an issue for this secondary pool and filesystem.

[zfs-discuss] zpool status OK but zfs filesystem seems hung

2009-09-14 Thread Dave
Hello all, I have a situation where zpool status shows no known data errors but all processes on a specific filesystem are hung. This has happened 2 times before since we installed Opensolaris 2009.06 snv_111b. For instance there are two files systems in this pool 'zfs get all' on one fil

Re: [zfs-discuss] check a zfs rcvd file

2009-09-02 Thread Dave
s as the zfs send stream. It does not verify the ZFS format/integrity of the stream - the only way to do that is to zfs recv the stream into ZFS. -- Dave ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman

Re: [zfs-discuss] Status/priority of 6761786

2009-08-28 Thread Dave
Richard Elling wrote: On Aug 28, 2009, at 12:15 AM, Dave wrote: Thanks, Trevor. I understand the RFE/CR distinction. What I don't understand is how this is not a bug that should be fixed in all solaris versions. In a former life, I worked at Sun to identify things like this that a

Re: [zfs-discuss] Status/priority of 6761786

2009-08-28 Thread Dave
ation that it has been fixed in OpenSolaris as well. I can't tell by the info on the bugs DB - it seems like it hasn't been fixed in OpenSolaris. If it has, then the status should reflect it as Fixed/Closed in the bug database... -- Dave Trevor Pretty wrote: Dave Yep that's

Re: [zfs-discuss] Status/priority of 6761786

2009-08-27 Thread Dave
shots. According to the link/bug report above it will take roughly 5.5 hours to import my pool (even when the pool is operating perfectly fine and is not degraded or faulted). This is obviously unacceptable to anyone in an HA environment. Hopefully someone close to the issue can clarify. -- Dave

[zfs-discuss] Status/priority of 6761786

2009-08-27 Thread Dave
Can anyone from Sun comment on the status/priority of bug ID 6761786? Seems like this would be a very high priority bug, but it hasn't been updated since Oct 2008. Has anyone else with thousands of volume snapshots experienced the hours long import process? --

Re: [zfs-discuss] How to find poor performing disks

2009-08-26 Thread Dave Koelmeyer
Maybe you can run a Dtrace probe using Chime? http://blogs.sun.com/observatory/entry/chime Initial Traces -> Device IO -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mail

Re: [zfs-discuss] Zfs deduplication

2009-07-31 Thread Dave McDorman
I don't think is at liberty to discuss ZFS Deduplication at this point in time: http://www.itworld.com/storage/71307/sun-tussles-de-duplication-startup Hopefully, the matter is resolved and discussions can proceed openly. "Send lawyers, guns and money." - Warren Zevon -- This message posted fro

Re: [zfs-discuss] Another user looses his pool (10TB) in this case and 40

2009-07-31 Thread Dave Stubbs
> I don't mean to be offensive Russel, but if you do > ever return to ZFS, please promise me that you will > never, ever, EVER run it virtualized on top of NTFS > (a.k.a. worst file system ever) in a production > environment. Microsoft Windows is a horribly > unreliable operating system in situatio

[zfs-discuss] Tunable iSCSI timeouts - ZFS over iSCSI fix

2009-07-29 Thread Dave
Anyone (Ross?) creating ZFS pools over iSCSI connections will want to pay attention to snv_121 which fixes the 3 minute hang after iSCSI disk problems: http://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=649 Yay! ___ zfs-discuss mailing li

Re: [zfs-discuss] APPLE: ZFS need bug corrections instead of new func! Or?

2009-06-19 Thread Dave
Haudy Kazemi wrote: I think a better question would be: what kind of tests would be most promising for turning some subclass of these lost pools reported on the mailing list into an actionable bug? my first bet would be writing tools that test for ignored sync cache commands leading to lost

[zfs-discuss] Things I Like About ZFS

2009-06-19 Thread Dave Ringkor
I'll start: - The commands are easy to remember -- all two of them. Which is easier, SVM or ZFS, to mirror your disks? I've been using SVM for years and still have to break out the manual to use metadb, metainit, metastat, metattach, metadetach, etc. I hardly ever have to break out the ZFS m

Re: [zfs-discuss] Server Cloning With ZFS?

2009-06-19 Thread Dave Ringkor
Cindy, my question is about what "system specific info" is maintained that would need to be changed? To take my example, my E450, "homer", has disks that are failing and it's a big clunky server anyway, and management wants to decommission it. But we have an old 220R racked up doing nothing, a

[zfs-discuss] Server Cloning With ZFS?

2009-06-17 Thread Dave Ringkor
So I had an E450 running Solaris 8 with VxVM encapsulated root disk. I upgraded it to Solaris 10 ZFS root using this method: - Unencapsulate the root disk - Remove VxVM components from the second disk - Live Upgrade from 8 to 10 on the now-unused second disk - Boot to the new Solaris 10 install

Re: [zfs-discuss] CR# 6574286, remove slog device

2009-05-20 Thread Dave
slog. -- richard I can't test this myself at the moment, but the reporter of Bug ID 6733267 says even one failed slog from a pair of mirrored slogs will prevent an exported zpool from being imported. Has anyone tested this recently? -- Dave ___ z

Re: [zfs-discuss] CR# 6574286, remove slog device

2009-05-19 Thread Dave
Eric Schrock wrote: On May 19, 2009, at 12:57 PM, Dave wrote: If you don't have mirrored slogs and the slog fails, you may lose any data that was in a txg group waiting to be committed to the main pool vdevs - you will never know if you lost any data or not. None of the above is co

Re: [zfs-discuss] CR# 6574286, remove slog device

2009-05-19 Thread Dave
s in a txg group waiting to be committed to the main pool vdevs - you will never know if you lost any data or not. I think this thread is the latest discussion about slogs and their behavior: https://opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=102392&tstart=0 -- Dave _

Re: [zfs-discuss] How recoverable is an 'unrecoverable error'?

2009-04-17 Thread Dave
Carson Gaspar wrote: Tim wrote (although it wasn't his error originally): Unless you want to have a different response for each of the repair methods, I'd just drop that part: status: One or more devices has experienced an error. The error has been automatically corrected by zfs.

Re: [zfs-discuss] reboot when copying large amounts of data

2009-03-12 Thread Dave
C-USAS-L8i.cfm This is the low profile card that will fit in a 2U: http://www.supermicro.com/products/accessories/addon/AOC-USASLP-L8i.cfm They both work in normal PCI-E slots on my Tyan 2927 mobos. Finding good non-Sun hardware that works very well under OpenSolaris is frustrating to say the least.

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs related google summer of code ideas - your vote

2009-03-06 Thread Dave
en snapshots. If this could be done at the ZFS level instead of the application level it would be very cool. -- Dave ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs related google summer of code ideas - your vote

2009-03-04 Thread Dave
Gary Mills wrote: On Wed, Mar 04, 2009 at 06:31:59PM -0700, Dave wrote: Gary Mills wrote: On Wed, Mar 04, 2009 at 01:20:42PM -0500, Miles Nordin wrote: "gm" == Gary Mills writes: gm> I suppose my RFE for two-level ZFS should be included, It's a simply a consequence o

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs related google summer of code ideas - your vote

2009-03-04 Thread Dave
ld not be the responsibility of ZFS. If you want to make sure your data is not corrupted over the wire, use IPSec. If you want to prevent corruption in RAM, use ECC sticks, etc. -- Dave ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS disable startup import

2009-03-02 Thread Dave
nsistent! What I want is to disable this ZFS behaviour and force it to wait until my cluster software decides about the active server. Use the cachefile=none option whenever you import the pool on either server: zpool import -o cachefile=none xpool -- Dave

Re: [zfs-discuss] Confused about zfs recv -d, apparently

2009-02-22 Thread Dave
Frank Cusack wrote: When you try to backup the '/' part of the root pool, it will get mounted on the altroot itself, which is of course already occupied. At that point, the receive will fail. So far as I can tell, mounting the received filesystem is the last step in the process. So I guess mayb

Re: [zfs-discuss] Two zvol devices one volume?

2009-02-12 Thread Dave
Henrik Johansson wrote: I tried to export the zpool also, and I got this, the strange part is that it sometimes still thinks that the ubuntu-01-dsk01 dataset exists: # zpool export zpool01 cannot open 'zpool01/xvm/dsk/ubuntu-01-dsk01': dataset does not exist cannot unmount '/zpool01/dump': De

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS: unreliable for professional usage?

2009-02-12 Thread Dave
, but I have nowhere near the ability to do so. -- Dave ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Supermicro AOC-USAS-L8i

2009-02-12 Thread Dave
Will Murnane wrote: On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 20:05, Tim wrote: Are you selectively ignoring responses to this thread or something? Dave has already stated he *HAS IT WORKING TODAY*. No, I saw that post. However, I saw one unequivocal "it doesn't work" earlier (even if I c

Re: [zfs-discuss] Supermicro AOC-USAS-L8i

2009-02-11 Thread Dave
Dave wrote: Brent wrote: Does anyone know if this card will work in a standard pci express slot? Yes. I have an AOC-USAS-L8i working in a regular PCI-E slot in my Tyan 2927 motherboard. The AOC-SAT2-MV8 also works in a regular PCI slot (although it is PCI-X card). Please let the list

Re: [zfs-discuss] Supermicro AOC-USAS-L8i

2009-02-11 Thread Dave
Brent wrote: Does anyone know if this card will work in a standard pci express slot? Yes. I have an AOC-USAS-L8i working in a regular PCI-E slot in my Tyan 2927 motherboard. The AOC-SAT2-MV8 also works in a regular PCI slot (although it is PCI-X card). _

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