Re: [zfs-discuss] SAS/short stroking vs. SSDs for ZIL

2010-12-29 Thread Kevin Walker
disks in mirrors and they work well and are far cheaper than STEC or other enterprise SSD's and have non of the issue related to trim... Highly recommended... ;-) http://www.hyperossystems.co.uk/ Kevin On 29 December 2010 13:40, Edward Ned Harvey < opensolarisisdeadlonglive

Re: [zfs-discuss] Swapping disks in pool to facilitate pool growth

2010-10-07 Thread Kevin Walker
the smaller disks? I would assume this would degrade the pool and require it to resilver? Any advice would be gratefully received. Kind regards Kevin ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS development moving behind closed doors

2010-08-15 Thread Kevin Walker
ed in FreeBSD? On 15 August 2010 15:13, David Magda wrote: > On Aug 14, 2010, at 19:39, Kevin Walker wrote: > > I once watched a video interview with Larry from Oracle, this ass rambled >> on >> about how he hates cloud computing and that everyone was getting into >&g

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS development moving behind closed doors

2010-08-14 Thread Kevin Walker
I once watched a video interview with Larry from Oracle, this ass rambled on about how he hates cloud computing and that everyone was getting into cloud computing and in his opinion no one understood cloud computing, apart from him... :-| From that day on I felt enlightened about Oracle and how the

Re: [zfs-discuss] raidz2 drive failure zpool will not import

2010-04-17 Thread Kevin Denton
empted the old trick of putting the failed drive in the freezer for an hour and it did spin up, but only for a minute and not long enough to be recognized by the system. Not sure what to try next. ~kevin -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ z

[zfs-discuss] raidz2 drive failure zpool will not import

2010-04-15 Thread Kevin Denton
dupe. The suggestions I have read include "playing with" the metadata and this is something I would need help with as I am just an "informed" user. I am hoping that as only one drive failed and this is a dual parity raid that there is someway to recover the pool. Thanks in advance,

[zfs-discuss] vPool unavailable but RaidZ1 is online

2010-04-04 Thread Kevin
I am trying to recover a raid set, there are only three drives that are part of the set. I attached a disk and discovered it was bad. It was never part of the raid set. The disk is now gone and when I try to import the pool I get the error listed below. Is there a chance to recover? TIA! S

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS + fsck

2009-11-04 Thread Kevin Walker
Hi all, Just subscribed to the list after a debate on our helpdesk lead me to the posting about ZFS corruption and the need for a fsck repair tool of some kind... Has there been any update on this? Kind regards,   Kevin Walker Coreix Limited   DDI: (+44) 0207 183 1725 ext 90 Mobile: (+44

[zfs-discuss] strange performance drop of solaris 10/zfs

2009-01-29 Thread Kevin Maguire
ess using significant CPU load. The system has 8GB of RAM, vmstat shows nothing interesting. I have another V245, with the same SCSI/RAID/zfs setup, and a similar (though a bit less) load of data and users where this problem is NOT apparent there? Suggestions? Kevin Thu Jan 29 11:32:29 CE

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS iSCSI (For VirtualBox target) and SMB

2009-01-05 Thread Kevin Pattison
Thanks Sanjeevb, By the way, this only seems to fail when I set up a volume instead of a file system. Should I be setting up a volume in this case, or will a file system suffice? If I turn off snapshots for this then it should work. I'll try this. Regards, Kevin -- This message posted

[zfs-discuss] ZFS iSCSI (For VirtualBox target) and SMB

2009-01-02 Thread Kevin Pattison
Hey all, I'm setting up a ZFS based fileserver to use both as a shared network drive and separately to have an iSCSI target to be used as the "Hard disk" of a windows based VM runninf on another machine. I've built the machine, installed the OS, created the RAIDZ pool and now have a couple of

[zfs-discuss] lofiadm -d keeps a lock on file in an nbmand-mounted zfs

2008-12-29 Thread Kevin Sze
Hi, Has anyone seen the following problem? After "lofiadm -d" removes an association, the file is still locked and cannot be moved or deleted if the file resides in a ZFS mounted with nbmand=on. There are two ways to remove the lock. (1) remount the zfs by the unmount+mount; the lock is remov

Re: [zfs-discuss] Any commands to dump all zfs snapshots like NetApp "snapmirror"

2008-09-11 Thread Haiou Fu (Kevin)
Excuse me but could you please copy and paste the part of "zfs send -l " ? I couldn't find it in the link you send me: http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/819-2240/zfs-1m?a=view What release is this "send -l " option available ? -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _

Re: [zfs-discuss] Any commands to dump all zfs snapshots like NetApp "snapmirror"

2008-09-10 Thread Haiou Fu (Kevin)
The closest thing I can find is: http://bugs.opensolaris.org/view_bug.do?bug_id=6421958 But just like it says: " Incremental + recursive will be a bit tricker, because how do you specify the multiple source and dest snaps? " Let me clarify this more: Without "send -r" I need do something l

Re: [zfs-discuss] Any commands to dump all zfs snapshots like NetApp "snapmirror"

2008-09-10 Thread Haiou Fu (Kevin)
Can you explain more about "zfs send -l " I know "zfs send -i" but didn't know there is a "-l" option? In which release is this option available? Thanks! -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.o

[zfs-discuss] Any commands to dump all zfs snapshots like NetApp "snapmirror"

2008-09-10 Thread Haiou Fu (Kevin)
I wonder if there are any equivalent commands in zfs to dump all its associated snapshots at maximum efficiency (only the changed data blocks among all snapshots)? I know you can just "zfs send" all snapshots but each one is like a full dump and if you use "zfs send -i" it is hard to maintain

[zfs-discuss] raid card vs zfs

2008-06-22 Thread kevin williams
digg linked to an article related to the apple port of ZFS (http://www.dell.com/content/products/productdetails.aspx/print_1125?c=us&cs=19&l=en&s=dhss). I dont have a mac but was interested in ZFS. The article says that ZFS eliminates the need for a RAID card and is faster because the stripin

Re: [zfs-discuss] Disabling ZFS ACL

2008-05-28 Thread kevin kramer
that is my thread and I'm still having issues even after applying that patch. It just came up again this week. [locahost] uname -a Linux dv-121-25.centtech.com 2.6.18-53.1.14.el5 #1 SMP Wed Mar 5 11:37:38 EST 2008 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux [localhost] cat /etc/issue CentOS release 5 (Final)

Re: [zfs-discuss] ACL invalid argument from client

2008-04-16 Thread kevin kramer
new problem. We have patched the system and it has fixed the error creating dirs/files on the ZFS filesystem. now I am getting permission errors with mv/cp from one of these ZFS areas to a regular FreeBSD server using UFS. thoughts? This message posted from opensolaris.org ___

[zfs-discuss] ACL invalid argument from client

2008-03-11 Thread kevin kramer
client CentOS 5.1 latest kernel mount option for zfs filesystem = rw,nosuid,nodev,remount,noatime,nfsvers=3,udp,intr,bg ,hard,rsize=8192,wsize=8192 directory and parent owned by user and users GID, 775 on client touch /tmp/dummy cd to zfs area mv

[zfs-discuss] ?REFER in zfs list

2008-01-15 Thread Kevin Rabito
What does the REFER column represent in zfs list. Thanks, kevin ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

[zfs-discuss] Degraded zpool won't online disk device, instead resilvers spare

2007-12-11 Thread Kevin
.2. Could this be causing ZFS to get confused when the device is brought online? We are willing to try zpool replace -f on the disks that need to be brought online during the weekend to see what happens. Here is the system info: ROOT $ uname -a SunOS x.x.com 5.10 Generic_120012-14 i86pc i386 i8

Re: [zfs-discuss] [xen-discuss] xVm blockers!

2007-11-29 Thread Kevin Fox
On Nov 28, 2007, at 5:38 AM, K wrote: > > 1/ Anchor vNic, the equivalent of linux dummy interfaces, we need more > flexibility in the way we setup xen networking. What is sad is that > the code is already available in the unreleased crossbow bits... but > it won't appear in nevada until Q1 2008 :

Re: [zfs-discuss] Mysterious corruption with raidz2 vdev

2007-07-30 Thread Kevin
We'll try running all of the diagnostic tests to rule out any other issues. But my question is, wouldn't I need to see at least 3 checksum errors on the individual devices in order for there to be a visible error in the top level vdev? There doesn't appear to be enough raw checksum errors on the

Re: [zfs-discuss] Mysterious corruption with raidz2 vdev (1 checksum err on disk, 2 on vd

2007-07-25 Thread Kevin
Here's some additional output from the zpool and zfs tools: $ zpool list NAMESIZEUSED AVAILCAP HEALTH ALTROOT tank 10.2T 8.58T 1.64T83% ONLINE - $ zfs list NAME USED AVAIL REFER MOUNTPOINT tank

[zfs-discuss] Mysterious corruption with raidz2 vdev (1 checksum err on disk, 2 on vdev?)

2007-07-25 Thread Kevin
After a scrub of a pool with 3 raidz2 vdevs (each with 5 disks in them) I see the following status output. Notice that the raidz2 vdev has 2 checksum errors, but only one disk inside the raidz2 vdev has a checksum error. How is this possible? I thought that you would have to have 3 errors in the

[zfs-discuss] zpool lost

2007-02-13 Thread Kevin Maguire
(end detector) pool = tank pool_guid = 0x347b6d721b99340d pool_context = 1 __ttl = 0x1 __tod = 0x45cc963a 0x4e744c0 Any ideas/suggestions? Kevin This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing li

[zfs-discuss] NFS share problem with mac os x client

2007-02-07 Thread Kevin Bortis
ience with nfs. Any ideas? Kevin This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

[zfs-discuss] solaris - ata over ethernet - zfs - HPC

2007-02-05 Thread Kevin Abbey
k you, Kevin -- Kevin C. Abbey System Administrator Rutgers University - BioMaPS Institute Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hill Center - Room 279 110 Frelinghuysen Road Piscataway, NJ 08854 Phone and Voice mail: 732-445-3288 Wright-Rieman Laboratories Room 201 610 Taylor Rd. Piscataway, NJ 08854

[zfs-discuss] commercial backup software and zfs

2006-08-15 Thread Kevin Maguire
work if you use "legacy" mouning of zfs filesytsem (but even then wont include any ALCs). Or backup via NFS mounts. (2) IBM's TSM - no current or official support from IBM. Will/wont work? (3) Veritas NetBackup - client v5.1+ works out of the box, but without full/any ACL sup