Re: [zfs-discuss] bad seagate drive?

2011-09-11 Thread Matt Harrison
On 11/09/2011 18:32, Krunal Desai wrote: On Sep 11, 2011, at 13:01 , Richard Elling wrote: The removed state can be the result of a transport issue. If this is a Solaris-based OS, then look at "fmadm faulty" for a diagnosis leading to a removal. If none, then look at "fmdump -eV" for errors rel

[zfs-discuss] bad seagate drive?

2011-09-11 Thread Matt Harrison
Hi list, I've got a system with 3 WD and 3 seagate drives. Today I got an email that zpool status indicated one of the seagate drives as REMOVED. I've tried clearing the error but the pool becomes faulted again. Taken out the offending drive and plugged into a windows box with seatools insta

Re: [zfs-discuss] monitoring ops

2011-06-28 Thread Matt Harrison
On 28/06/2011 16:44, Tomas Ögren wrote: Matt Harrison wrote: Hi list, I want to monitor the read and write ops/bandwidth for a couple of pools and I'm not quite sure how to proceed. I'm using rrdtool so I either want an accumulated counter or a gauge. According to the ZFS a

[zfs-discuss] monitoring ops

2011-06-28 Thread Matt Harrison
Hi list, I want to monitor the read and write ops/bandwidth for a couple of pools and I'm not quite sure how to proceed. I'm using rrdtool so I either want an accumulated counter or a gauge. According to the ZFS admin guide, running zpool iostat without any parameters should show the activit

Re: [zfs-discuss] changing vdev types

2011-06-01 Thread Matt Harrison
On 01/06/2011 20:53, Cindy Swearingen wrote: Hi Matt, You have several options in terms of migrating the data but I think the best approach is to do something like I have described below. Thanks, Cindy 1. Create snapshots of the file systems to be migrated. If you want to capture the file sys

Re: [zfs-discuss] changing vdev types

2011-06-01 Thread Matt Harrison
On 01/06/2011 20:52, Eric Sproul wrote: On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 3:47 PM, Matt Harrison wrote: Thanks Eric, however seeing as I can't have two pools named 'tank', I'll have to name the new one something else. I believe I will be able to rename it afterwards, but I just w

Re: [zfs-discuss] changing vdev types

2011-06-01 Thread Matt Harrison
On 01/06/2011 20:45, Eric Sproul wrote: On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 2:54 PM, Matt Harrison wrote: Hi list, I've got a pool thats got a single raidz1 vdev. I've just some more disks in and I want to replace that raidz1 with a three-way mirror. I was thinking I'd just make a ne

[zfs-discuss] changing vdev types

2011-06-01 Thread Matt Harrison
Hi list, I've got a pool thats got a single raidz1 vdev. I've just some more disks in and I want to replace that raidz1 with a three-way mirror. I was thinking I'd just make a new pool and copy everything across, but then of course I've got to deal with the name change. Basically, what is th

Re: [zfs-discuss] just can't import

2011-04-12 Thread Matt Harrison
On 13/04/2011 00:36, David Magda wrote: On Apr 11, 2011, at 17:54, Brandon High wrote: I suspect that the minimum memory for most moderately sized pools is over 16GB. There has been a lot of discussion regarding how much memory each dedup'd block requires, and I think it was about 250-270 bytes

Re: [zfs-discuss] just can't import

2011-04-11 Thread Matt Harrison
On 11/04/2011 10:04, Brandon High wrote: On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 10:01 PM, Matt Harrison wrote: The machine only has 4G RAM I believe. There's your problem. 4G is not enough memory for dedup, especially without a fast L2ARC device. It's time I should be heading to bed so I

Re: [zfs-discuss] just can't import

2011-04-10 Thread Matt Harrison
On 11/04/2011 05:25, Brandon High wrote: On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 9:01 PM, Matt Harrison wrote: I had a de-dup dataset and tried to destroy it. The command hung and so did anything else zfs related. I waited half and hour or so, the dataset was only 15G, and rebooted. How much RAM does the

[zfs-discuss] just can't import

2011-04-10 Thread Matt Harrison
be doing anything. Any tips greatly appreciated, thanks Matt Harrison ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] SSDs get faster and less expensive

2009-07-21 Thread Matt Harrison
Richard Elling wrote: On Jul 21, 2009, at 12:49 PM, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: On Tue, 21 Jul 2009, Andrew Gabriel wrote: The X25-M drives referred to are Intel's Mainstream drives, using MLC flash. The Enterprise grade drives are X25-E, which currently use SLC flash (less dense, more reliable,

Re: [zfs-discuss] recovering fs's

2009-06-22 Thread Matt Harrison
Simon Breden wrote: Hi Matt! As kim0 says, that s/w PhotoRec looks like it might work, if it can work with ZFS... would be interested to hear if it works. Good luck, Simon I'll give it a go as soon as I get a chance. I've had a very quick look and ZFS isn't in the list of supported FSs...bu

Re: [zfs-discuss] recovering fs's

2009-06-22 Thread Matt Harrison
Simon Breden wrote: Yep, normally you can't get the data back, especially if new files have been written to the drives AND the files were written over the old ones. You have a slight chance, or big chance, depending on how many files have been written since deletion of files, and if ZFS tries

Re: [zfs-discuss] recovering fs's

2009-06-22 Thread Matt Harrison
dick hoogendijk wrote: On Mon, 22 Jun 2009 21:42:23 +0100 Matt Harrison wrote: She's now desperate to get it back as she's realised there some important work stuff hidden away in there. Without snapshots you're lost. Ok, thanks. It was worth a shot. Guess she'll

[zfs-discuss] recovering fs's

2009-06-22 Thread Matt Harrison
I know this may have been discussed before but my google-fu hasn't turned up anything directly related. My girlfriend had some files stored in a zfs dataset on my home server. She assured me that she didn't need them any more so I destroyed the dataset (I know I should have kept it anyway for

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS extended ACL

2009-01-29 Thread Matt Harrison
Christine Tran wrote: >> There was a very long discussion about this a couple of weeks ago on >> one of the lists. Apparently the decision was made to put the GNU >> utilities in default system wide path before the native Sun utilities >> in order to make it easier to attract Linux users by making

Re: [zfs-discuss] cifs perfomance

2009-01-22 Thread Matt Harrison
Brandon High wrote: > On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 5:40 PM, Bob Friesenhahn > wrote: >> Several people reported this same problem. They changed their >> ethernet adaptor to an Intel ethernet interface and the performance >> problem went away. It was not ZFS's fault. > > It may not be a ZFS problem,

Re: [zfs-discuss] 4 disk raidz1 with 3 disks...

2009-01-16 Thread Matt Harrison
Jonny Gerold wrote: > Meh this is retarted. It looks like zpool list shows an incorrect > calculation? Can anyone agree that this looks like a bug? > > r...@fsk-backup:~# df -h | grep ambry > ambry 2.7T 27K 2.7T 1% /ambry > > r...@fsk-backup:~# zpool list > NAMESIZE US

Re: [zfs-discuss] 4 disk raidz1 with 3 disks...

2009-01-16 Thread Matt Harrison
JZ wrote: > Beloved Jonny, > > I am just like you. > > > There was a day, I was hungry, and went for a job interview for sysadmin. > They asked me - what is a "protocol"? > I could not give a definition, and they said, no, not qualified. > > But they did not ask me about CICS and mainframe. Too

Re: [zfs-discuss] Degraded zpool without any kind of alert

2008-12-28 Thread Matt Harrison
Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > On Sun, 28 Dec 2008, Robert Bauer wrote: > >> It would be nice if gnome could notify me automatically when one of >> my zpools are degraded or if any kind of ZFS error occurs. > > Yes. It is a weird failing of Solaris to have an advanced fault > detection system withou

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS filesystem and CIFS permissions issue?

2008-12-25 Thread Matt Harrison
Jeff Waddell wrote: > I'm having a permission issue with a ZFS fs over CIFS. I'm new to > OpenSolaris, and fairly new to *nix (only real experience being OS > X), so any help would be appreciated. Sounds like you're falling foul as I did when I started. Child filesystems are not accessible via

Re: [zfs-discuss] diagnosing read performance problem

2008-10-31 Thread Matt Harrison
Well, somehow it's fixed: Since putting in the new Intel card, the transfer from the box dropped so badly, I couldn't even copy a snoop from it. So I removed the dohwchksum line from /etc/system and rebooted. Then just to clean up a bit I disabled the onboard NICs in the bios. Now I'm still seei

Re: [zfs-discuss] diagnosing read performance problem

2008-10-31 Thread Matt Harrison
On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 11:52:09AM +, Matt Harrison wrote: > Ok, I have recieved a new set of NICs and a new switch and the problem still > remains. > > Just for something to do I ran some tests: > > Copying a 200Mb file over scp from the main problem workstation to a t

Re: [zfs-discuss] diagnosing read performance problem

2008-10-31 Thread Matt Harrison
Ok, I have recieved a new set of NICs and a new switch and the problem still remains. Just for something to do I ran some tests: Copying a 200Mb file over scp from the main problem workstation to a totally unrelated gentoo linux box. Absolutely no problems. So I thought it was down to the zfs fi

Re: [zfs-discuss] diagnosing read performance problem

2008-10-30 Thread Matt Harrison
Nigel Smith wrote: > Hi Matt > Well this time you have filtered out any SSH traffic on port 22 successfully. > > But I'm still only seeing half of the conversation! Grr this is my day, I think I know what the problem was...user error as I'm not used to snoop. > I see packets sent from client to

Re: [zfs-discuss] diagnosing read performance problem

2008-10-29 Thread Matt Harrison
On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 05:32:39PM -0700, Nigel Smith wrote: > Hi Matt > In your previous capture, (which you have now confirmed was done > on the Windows client), all those 'Bad TCP checksum' packets sent by the > client, > are explained, because you must be doing hardware TCP checksum offloadin

Re: [zfs-discuss] diagnosing read performance problem

2008-10-29 Thread Matt Harrison
On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 10:01:09AM -0700, Nigel Smith wrote: > Hi Matt > Can you just confirm if that Ethernet capture file, that you made available, > was done on the client, or on the server. I'm beginning to suspect you > did it on the client. That capture was done from the client > You can ge

Re: [zfs-discuss] diagnosing read performance problem

2008-10-29 Thread Matt Harrison
On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 05:45:48PM -0700, Richard Elling wrote: > I replied to Matt directly, but didn't hear back. It may be a driver issue > with checksum offloading. Certainly the symptoms are consistent. > To test with a workaround see > http://bugs.opensolaris.org/view_bug.do?bug_id=6686

Re: [zfs-discuss] diagnosing read performance problem

2008-10-29 Thread Matt Harrison
On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 05:30:55PM -0700, Nigel Smith wrote: > Hi Matt. > Ok, got the capture and successfully 'unzipped' it. > (Sorry, I guess I'm using old software to do this!) > > I see 12840 packets. The capture is a TCP conversation > between two hosts using the SMB aka CIFS protocol. > >

Re: [zfs-discuss] diagnosing read performance problem

2008-10-28 Thread Matt Harrison
On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 06:18:59PM -0700, Nigel Smith wrote: > Hi Matt > Unfortunately, I'm having problems un-compressing that zip file. > I tried with 7-zip and WinZip reports this: > > skipping _1_20081027010354.cap: this file was compressed using an unknown > compression method. >Plea

Re: [zfs-discuss] diagnosing read performance problem

2008-10-26 Thread Matt Harrison
Nigel Smith wrote: > Ok on the answers to all my questions. > There's nothing that really stands out as being obviously wrong. > Just out of interest, what build of OpenSolaris are you using? Damn forgot to add that, I'm running SXCE snv_97. Thanks Matt __

Re: [zfs-discuss] diagnosing read performance problem

2008-10-26 Thread Matt Harrison
Nigel Smith wrote: > Ok on the answers to all my questions. > There's nothing that really stands out as being obviously wrong. > Just out of interest, what build of OpenSolaris are you using? > > One thing you could try on the Ethernet capture file, is to set > the WireShark 'Time' column like thi

Re: [zfs-discuss] diagnosing read performance problem

2008-10-26 Thread Matt Harrison
On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 06:50:46PM -0700, Nigel Smith wrote: > Hi Matt > What chipset is your PCI network card? > (obviously, it not Intel, but what is it?) > Do you know which driver the card is using? I believe it's some sort of Realtek (8139 probably). It's coming up as rtls0 > You say '..The

Re: [zfs-discuss] diagnosing read performance problem

2008-10-25 Thread Matt Harrison
On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 11:10:42AM -0500, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > Hmmm, this may indicate that there is an ethernet cable problem. Use > 'netstat -I interface' (where interface is the interface name shown by > 'ifconfig -a') to see if the interface error count is increasing. If you > are usin

Re: [zfs-discuss] diagnosing read performance problem

2008-10-25 Thread Matt Harrison
Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > Other people on this list who experienced the exact same problem > ultimately determined that the problem was with the network card. I > recall that Intel NICs were the recommended solution. > > Note that 100MBit is now considered to be a slow link and PCI is also > consi

[zfs-discuss] diagnosing read performance problem

2008-10-24 Thread Matt Harrison
Hi all, I've got a lot of video files on a zfs/cifs fileserver running SXCE. A little while ago the dual onboard NICs died and I had to replace them with a PCI 10/100 NIC. The system was fine for a couple of weeks but now the performance when viewing a video file from the cifs share is appauling.

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

2008-08-24 Thread Matt Harrison
Todd H. Poole wrote: >> But you're not attempting hotswap, you're doing hot plug > > Do you mean hot UNplug? Because I'm not trying to get this thing to recognize > any new disks without a restart... Honest. I'm just trying to prevent the > machine from freezing up when a drive fails. I have

Re: [zfs-discuss] are these errors dangerous

2008-08-03 Thread Matt Harrison
Richard Elling wrote: > Matt Harrison wrote: >> Aug 2 14:46:06 exodus Error for Command: read_defect_data >> Error Level: Informational >> > > key here: "Informational" > >> Aug 2 14:46:06 exodus scsi: [ID 107833 kern.notice]Reques

Re: [zfs-discuss] are these errors dangerous

2008-08-03 Thread Matt Harrison
Johan Hartzenberg wrote: > On Sun, Aug 3, 2008 at 8:48 PM, Matt Harrison > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > >> Miles Nordin wrote: >>>>>>>> "mh" == Matt Harrison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>> mh> I'm worried about is

Re: [zfs-discuss] are these errors dangerous

2008-08-03 Thread Matt Harrison
Miles Nordin wrote: >>>>>> "mh" == Matt Harrison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > mh> I'm worried about is if the entire batch is failing slowly > mh> and will all die at the same time. > > If you can download smartctl, you c

Re: [zfs-discuss] are these errors dangerous

2008-08-03 Thread Matt Harrison
Ross wrote: > Hi, > > First of all, I really should warn you that I'm very new to Solaris, I'll > happily share my thoughts but be aware that there's not a lot of experience > backing them up. > >>From what you've said, and the logs you've posted I suspect you're hitting >>recoverable read err

Re: [zfs-discuss] are these errors dangerous

2008-08-02 Thread Matt Harrison
Matt Harrison wrote: > Ross wrote: >> What does zpool status say? > > zpool status says everythings fine, i've run another scrub and it hasn't > found any errors, so can i just consider this harmless? its filling up > my log quickly though > I've just

Re: [zfs-discuss] are these errors dangerous

2008-08-02 Thread Matt Harrison
Ross wrote: > What does zpool status say? zpool status says everythings fine, i've run another scrub and it hasn't found any errors, so can i just consider this harmless? its filling up my log quickly though thanks Matt No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG - http://www.avg.

[zfs-discuss] are these errors dangerous

2008-08-02 Thread Matt Harrison
Hi everyone, I've been running a zfs fileserver for about a month now (on snv_91) and it's all working really well. I'm scrubbing once a week and nothing has come up as a problem yet. I'm a little worried as I've just noticed these messages in /var/adm/message and I don't know if they're bad o

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

2008-07-23 Thread Matt Harrison
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Steve wrote: | I'm a fan of ZFS since I've read about it last year. | | Now I'm on the way to build a home fileserver and I'm thinking to go with Opensolaris and eventually ZFS!! | | Apart from the other components, the main problem is to choose the mo

Re: [zfs-discuss] planning for upgrades

2008-07-07 Thread Matt Harrison
Arne Schwabe wrote: > A time ago a zpool needed a export/import to get to the new capacity (or > a reboot). I don't know if this still holds true but it is worth a try. > > Arne Aah, excellent, just did an export/import and its now showing the expected capacity increase. Thanks for that, I shoul

Re: [zfs-discuss] planning for upgrades

2008-07-07 Thread Matt Harrison
James C. McPherson wrote: > Matt Harrison wrote: > >> I seem to have overlooked the first part of your reply, I can just >> replace the disks one at a time, and of course the pool would rebuild >> itself onto the new disk. Would this automatically extend the size o

Re: [zfs-discuss] iostat and monitoring

2008-07-05 Thread Matt Harrison
Mike Gerdts wrote: > $ kstat -p ::vopstats_zfs:{nread,read_bytes,nwrite,write_bytes} > unix:0:vopstats_zfs:nread 418787 > unix:0:vopstats_zfs:read_bytes612076305 > unix:0:vopstats_zfs:nwrite163544 > unix:0:vopstats_zfs:write_bytes 255725992 Thanks Mike, thats exactly what I w

[zfs-discuss] iostat and monitoring

2008-07-05 Thread Matt Harrison
Hi gurus, I like zpool iostat and I like system monitoring, so I setup a script within sma to let me get the zpool iostat figures through snmp. The problem is that as zpool iostat is only run once for each snmp query, it always reports a static set of figures, like so: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:snmp #

Re: [zfs-discuss] planning for upgrades

2008-06-28 Thread Matt Harrison
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 James C. McPherson wrote: | Matt Harrison wrote: | |> I seem to have overlooked the first part of your reply, I can just |> replace the disks one at a time, and of course the pool would rebuild |> itself onto the new disk. W

Re: [zfs-discuss] planning for upgrades

2008-06-28 Thread Matt Harrison
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Matt Harrison wrote: | Tomas Ögren wrote: | | On 28 June, 2008 - Matt Harrison sent me these 0,6K bytes: | | | |> Hi gurus, | |> | |> Just wanted some input on this for the day when an upgrade is necessary. | |> | |> Lets say I have s

Re: [zfs-discuss] planning for upgrades

2008-06-28 Thread Matt Harrison
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tomas Ögren wrote: | On 28 June, 2008 - Matt Harrison sent me these 0,6K bytes: | |> Hi gurus, |> |> Just wanted some input on this for the day when an upgrade is necessary. |> |> Lets say I have simple pool made up of 3 750gb SATA

[zfs-discuss] planning for upgrades

2008-06-28 Thread Matt Harrison
Hi gurus, Just wanted some input on this for the day when an upgrade is necessary. Lets say I have simple pool made up of 3 750gb SATA disks in raidz1, giving around 1.3tb usable space. If we wanted to upgrade the disks, what is the accepted procedure? There are 6 SATA ports in the machine in

Re: [zfs-discuss] [cifs-discuss] sharesmb on multiple fs

2008-06-25 Thread Matt Harrison
public/audio via the public share, but it doesn't allow detailed management of audio as it would with individual zfs'. I hope this is a better explanation, Thanks - -- Matt Harrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mattharrison.org -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9

[zfs-discuss] sharesmb on multiple fs

2008-06-25 Thread Matt Harrison
iction and I really can't access individual zfs's under one share, i guess i will have to have 6 network drives instead of one but this will of course confuse the users no end. Thanks - -- Matt Harrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mattharrison.org -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-