Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS hangs/freezes after disk failure,

2008-08-27 Thread Florin Iucha
On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 11:18:51PM -0700, MC wrote: > The two bonus things to do are: come to the forum and bitch about the bugs to > give them some attention, and come to the forum asking for help on making > solaris recognize your ACHI SATA hardware properly :) Been there, done that. No t-shi

Re: [zfs-discuss] OT: Formatting Problem of ZFS Adm Guide (pdf)

2008-08-27 Thread Florin Iucha
On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 12:06:13AM -0700, W. Wayne Liauh wrote: > > It takes significant amount of work to typeset any > > large document. Especially if it is a technical > > document in which you have to adhere to a set of > > strict typesetting guidelines. In these cases > > separation of content

Re: [zfs-discuss] CF to SATA adapters for boot device

2008-08-20 Thread Florin Iucha
On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 05:17:45PM +1200, Ian Collins wrote: > Has anyone here had any luck using a CF to SATA adapter? > > I've just tried an Addonics ADSACFW CF to SATA adaptor with an 8GB card that > I wanted to use for a boot pool and even though the BIOS reports the disk, > Solaris B95 (or

Re: [zfs-discuss] FW: Supermicro AOC-SAT2-MV8 hang when drive removed

2008-08-15 Thread Florin Iucha
On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 10:07:31AM -0500, Tim wrote: > You could always try FreeBSD :) > > > Unfortunately for me, Windows doesn't support ZFS... right now it's > > looking a whole load more stable. Nope: FreeBSD doesn't have proper power management either. florin -- Bruce Schneier expects the

Re: [zfs-discuss] The best motherboard for a home ZFS fileserver

2008-08-01 Thread Florin Iucha
On Fri, Aug 01, 2008 at 06:37:29AM -0700, Steve wrote: > So, better AMD with ECC but not optimal power mgt (and seems cheaper), or > Intel with NO-ECC but power mgt? How about we complain enough to shame somebody into adding power management to the K8 chips? We can start by reminding SUN on how

Re: [zfs-discuss] The best motherboard for a home ZFS fileserver

2008-07-28 Thread Florin Iucha
On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 04:13:54PM -0700, Steve wrote: > Since the information obtained it seems that the better choice is ASUS > M2A-VM: tested "happily", enough cheap (47€), not bad performing, 4 sata, gb > ethernet, dvi, firewire, ecc. The only notice was a possible DMA bug of the > south bri

Re: [zfs-discuss] The best motherboard for a home ZFS fileserver

2008-07-24 Thread Florin Iucha
On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 08:22:16AM -0400, Charles Menser wrote: > Yes, I am vary happy with the M2A-VM. You will need at least SNV_93 to use it in AHCI mode. The northbridge gets quite hot, but that does not seem to be impairing its performance. I have the M2A-VM with an AMD 64 BE-2400 (45W) and

Re: [zfs-discuss] The best motherboard for a home ZFS fileserver

2008-07-24 Thread Florin Iucha
On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 10:38:49AM -0400, Charles Menser wrote: > I installed it with snv_86 in IDE controller mode, and have since > upgraded ending up at snv_93. > > Do you know what implications there are for using AHCI vs IDE modes? I had the same question and Neal Pollack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: [zfs-discuss] Case study/recommended ZFS setup for home file server

2008-07-17 Thread Florin Iucha
On Wed, Jul 09, 2008 at 11:18:23PM -0500, Florin Iucha wrote: > On Wed, Jul 09, 2008 at 06:02:24PM -0700, Brandon High wrote: > > Here's the component list that I'm planning to use right now: > > http://secure.newegg.com/WishList/PublicWishDetail.aspx?Source=MSWD&Wish

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS send/receive questions

2008-07-10 Thread Florin Iucha
On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 09:02:35AM -0700, Tim Spriggs wrote: > > zfs(1) man page, Examples 12 and 13 show how to use senn/receive with > > ssh. What isn't clear about them ? > > I found that the overhead of SSH really hampered my ability to transfer > data between thumpers as well. When I simply

Re: [zfs-discuss] Case study/recommended ZFS setup for home file server

2008-07-10 Thread Florin Iucha
On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 12:47:26AM -0700, Ross wrote: > My recommendation: buy a small, cheap 2.5" SATA hard drive (or 1.8" SSD) and > use that as your boot volume, I'd even bolt it to the side of your case if > you have to. Then use the whole of your three large disks as a raid-z set. Yup, I'

Re: [zfs-discuss] Case study/recommended ZFS setup for home file server

2008-07-09 Thread Florin Iucha
On Wed, Jul 09, 2008 at 06:02:24PM -0700, Brandon High wrote: > On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 3:37 PM, Florin Iucha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The reason for using a whole disk is that ZFS will turn on the drive's > cache. When using slices, the cache is normally disabled. If all &g

Re: [zfs-discuss] Case study/recommended ZFS setup for home file

2008-07-09 Thread Florin Iucha
On Wed, Jul 09, 2008 at 08:42:37PM -0700, Bohdan Tashchuk wrote: > > I cannot use OpenSolaris 2008.05 since it does not > > recognize the SATA disks attached to the southbridge. > > A fix for this problem went into build 93. > > Which forum/mailing list discusses SATA issues like the above? #open

Re: [zfs-discuss] Case study/recommended ZFS setup for home file server

2008-07-09 Thread Florin Iucha
Hello, I plan to use (Open)Solaris for a home file server. I wanted cool and quiet hardware, so I picked a mini-atx motherboard and case, an AMD64 CPU and 4 GB of RAM. My case has room for three hard drives and I have chosen 3x WD 750 Green Power hard drives. The file server will serve out via