Re: [zfs-discuss] Help - Deleting files from a large pool results in less free space!

2010-10-07 Thread Jim Sloey
One of us found the following: The presence of snapshots can cause some unexpected behavior when you attempt to free space. Typically, given appropriate permissions, you can remove a file from a full file system, and this action results in more space becoming available in the file system. Howev

Re: [zfs-discuss] Help - Deleting files from a large pool results in less free space!

2010-10-07 Thread Jim Sloey
Yes. We run a snap in cron to a disaster recovery site. NAME USED AVAIL REFER MOUNTPOINT po...@20100930-22:20:00 13.2M - 19.5T - po...@20101001-01:20:00 4.35M - 19.5T - po...@20101001-04:20:00 0 - 19.5T - po...@20101001-07:20:00

Re: [zfs-discuss] Help - Deleting files from a large pool results in less free space!

2010-10-07 Thread Jim Sloey
Yes, you're correct. There was a typo when I copied to the forum. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

[zfs-discuss] Help - Deleting files from a large pool results in less free space!

2010-10-07 Thread Jim Sloey
I have a 20Tb pool on a mount point that is made up of 42 disks from an EMC SAN. We were running out of space and down to 40Gb left (loading 8Gb/day) and have not received disk for our SAN. Using df -h results in: Filesystem size used avail capacity Mounted on pool1

Re: [zfs-discuss] Recovering a broken mirror

2010-01-15 Thread Jim Sloey
Never mind. It looks like the controller is flakey. Neither disk in the mirror is clean. Attempts to backup and recover the remaining disk produced I/O errors that were traced to the controller. Thanks for your help Victor. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _

Re: [zfs-discuss] Recovering a broken mirror

2010-01-13 Thread Jim Sloey
No. Only slice 6 from what I understand. I didn't create this (the person who did has left the company) and all I know is that the pool was mounted on /oraprod before it faulted. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list

[zfs-discuss] Recovering a broken mirror

2010-01-13 Thread Jim Sloey
We have a production SunFireV240 that had a zfs mirror until this week. One of the drives (c1t3d0) in the mirror failed. The system was shutdown and the bad disk replaced without an export. I don't know what happened next but by the time I got involved there was no evidence that the remaining go

[zfs-discuss] Re: Re: Re: Recommendation ZFS on StorEdge 3320

2006-09-08 Thread Jim Sloey
rbourbon writes: > I don't think it was the point of the post. I've read > it to mean that some customers because of outside > consideration from ZFS have some need to use storage array in ways > that may not allow ZFS to develop it's full potential. I've been following this thread because we ha

[zfs-discuss] Re: Re: Recommendation ZFS on StorEdge 3320

2006-09-08 Thread Jim Sloey
> Roch - PAE wrote: > The hard part is getting a set of simple requirements. As you go into > more complex data center environments you get hit with older Solaris > revs, other OSs, SOX compliance issues, etc. etc. etc. The world where > most of us seem to be playing with ZFS is on the lower end