Re: [zfs-discuss] Why can zfs receive an incremental stream?

2011-06-24 Thread Maurice Volaski
This is a known bug, CR 7043668. -- 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] Any limit on pool hierarchy?

2010-11-09 Thread Maurice Volaski
>On 09/11/10 11:46 AM, Maurice Volaski wrote: >> ... >> > >Is that horrendous mess Outlook's fault? If so, please consider not >using it. Yes, it is. :-( Outlook 2011 on the Mac, which just came out, so perhaps I'll get lucky and they will fix it..eventually.

Re: [zfs-discuss] X4540 RIP

2010-11-09 Thread Maurice Volaski
n something else, such as another 12-port backplane, is connected to one of the cascade ports in the back? What do you mean by a non-expander equipped LSI controller? BTW, I have three SuperMicro SC846 systems, which 24-port backplanes, and haven't any problem with them. -- Maurice Volaski,

Re: [zfs-discuss] Any limit on pool hierarchy?

2010-11-09 Thread Maurice Volaski
ources (disk space and RAM) never run low, the >deadlock scenarios may not arise. It sounds like you mean any low resource condition. Presumably, utilizing complex pool structures like these will tax resources, but there are many other ways to do that. -- Maurice Volaski, maurice.vola...@eins

Re: [zfs-discuss] Any limit on pool hierarchy?

2010-11-09 Thread Maurice Volaski
e you mean any low resource condition. Presumably, utilizing complex pool structures like these will tax resources, but there are many other ways to do that.--Maurice Volaski, mailto:maurice.vola...@einstein.yu.edu";>maurice.vola...@einstein.yu.eduComputing SupportDominick P. Purpura

Re: [zfs-discuss] Does a zvol use the zil?

2010-10-21 Thread Maurice Volaski
Does the write cache referred to above refer to the "Writeback Cache" property listed by stmfadm list-lu -v (when a zvol is a target) or is that some other cache and if it is, how does it interact with the first one? -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___

Re: [zfs-discuss] vdev failure -> pool loss ?

2010-10-18 Thread Maurice Volaski
A workaround is to create two pools each with your 1 vdev, make zvols for each of them and export them via iscsi through the localhost interface. Then make a third mirrored pool out of those two iscsi'ed zvols. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _

Re: [zfs-discuss] Supermicro AOC-USAS2-L8i

2010-10-15 Thread Maurice Volaski
s not just the AOC-USAS2-L8i and when it's directly connected and not through the backplane? Prior reports here seem to be implicating the card only when it was connected to the backplane. -- Maurice Volaski, maurice.vola...@einstein.yu.edu Computing Support, Rose F. Kennedy Center

Re: [zfs-discuss] Pools inside pools

2010-09-22 Thread Maurice Volaski
27;s pool. -- Maurice Volaski, maurice.vola...@einstein.yu.edu Computing Support, Rose F. Kennedy Center Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/li

Re: [zfs-discuss] Mirrored raidz

2010-07-26 Thread Maurice Volaski
twork. -- Maurice Volaski, maurice.vola...@einstein.yu.edu Computing Support, Rose F. Kennedy Center Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinf

Re: [zfs-discuss] Making a zvol unavailable to iSCSI trips up ZFS

2010-07-19 Thread Maurice Volaski
one device in the mirror failed, it really isn't failed, just degraded. These are my iSCSI parameters: recv-login-rsp-timeout=6 conn-login-max=3 polling-login-delay=2 -- Maurice Volaski, maurice.vola...@einstein.yu.edu Computing Support, Rose F. Kennedy Center Albert Einstein C

[zfs-discuss] Making a zvol unavailable to iSCSI trips up ZFS

2010-07-15 Thread Maurice Volaski
ailed, it really isn't failed, just degraded. These are my iSCSI parameters: recv-login-rsp-timeout=6 conn-login-max=3 polling-login-delay=2 -- Maurice Volaski, maurice.vola...@einstein.yu.edu Computing Support, Rose F. Kennedy Center Albert Einstein C

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS host to host replication with AVS?

2010-06-10 Thread Maurice Volaski
rarily reverses the direction of data flow from the secondary to the primary to sync up an outdated primary. After that, the data flow reverts back to primary to secondary. Reversing the roles requires many more steps (and time)... http://docs.sun.com/source/819-6148-10/chap4.html#pgfId-10091

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS host to host replication with AVS?

2010-06-09 Thread Maurice Volaski
you're implying Nexenta has done something to AVS' code to change this behavior. -- Maurice Volaski, maurice.vola...@einstein.yu.edu Computing Support, Rose F. Kennedy Center Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University ___ zfs

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS host to host replication with AVS?

2010-06-09 Thread Maurice Volaski
rm basic heartbeat functionality. -- Maurice Volaski, maurice.vola...@einstein.yu.edu Computing Support, Rose F. Kennedy Center Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS host to host replication with AVS?

2010-06-09 Thread Maurice Volaski
mirrored pool to the secondary. -- Maurice Volaski, maurice.vola...@einstein.yu.edu Computing Support, Rose F. Kennedy Center Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Mirrored Servers

2010-05-10 Thread Maurice Volaski
to perform NFS, it has been said here, http://opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?messageID=174846𪫾, that this will fail because the secondary's filesystem will have a different FSID, which the NFS client won't recognize. -- Maurice Volaski, maurice.vola...@einstein.yu.edu Computing Supp

Re: [zfs-discuss] In iSCSI hell...

2010-04-22 Thread Maurice Volaski
Log info 0x3114 received for target 27. Apr 21 19:58:45 storage scsi_status=0x0, ioc_status=0x8048, scsi_state=0xc -- Maurice Volaski, maurice.vola...@einstein.yu.edu Computing Support, Rose F. Kennedy Center Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University

Re: [zfs-discuss] Workaround for mpt timeouts in snv_127

2010-04-10 Thread Maurice Volaski
be a temporary workaround provided they would eventually fix the problem in firmware, but I'm getting new drives, so I guess I can't complain :-) -- Maurice Volaski, maurice.vola...@einstein.yu.edu Computing Support, Rose F. Kennedy Center Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva

Re: [zfs-discuss] Workaround for mpt timeouts in snv_127

2010-04-09 Thread Maurice Volaski
At 11:19 AM +1000 2/19/10, James C. McPherson wrote: On 19/02/10 12:51 AM, Maurice Volaski wrote: For those who've been suffering this problem and who have non-Sun jbods, could you please let me know what model of jbod and cables (including length thereof) you have in your configuration.

Re: [zfs-discuss] Workaround for mpt timeouts in snv_127

2010-02-18 Thread Maurice Volaski
Feb 17 04:47:57 thecratewallLog info 0x31110630 received for target 33. Feb 17 04:47:57 thecratewallscsi_status=0x0, ioc_status=0x804b, scsi_state=0xc -- Maurice Volaski, maurice.vola...@einstein.yu.edu Computing Support, Rose F. Kennedy Center Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Ye

Re: [zfs-discuss] Workaround for mpt timeouts in snv_127

2010-02-10 Thread Maurice Volaski
c1: LogInfo(0x31123000): Originator={PL}, Code={Abort}, SubCode(0x3000) - Last output repeated 11 times - -- Maurice Volaski, maurice.vola...@einstein.yu.edu Computing Support, Rose F. Kennedy Center Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University _

Re: [zfs-discuss] Workaround for mpt timeouts in snv_127

2010-02-06 Thread Maurice Volaski
d0 ONLINE 0 0 0 c4t22d0 ONLINE 0 0 0 256K repaired c4t23d0 ONLINE 0 0 0 c4t24d0 ONLINE 0 0 0 109K repaired I have another identical system and it's behaving the same way. -- Maurice Volask

Re: [zfs-discuss] Is LSI SAS3081E-R suitable for a ZFS NAS ?

2010-01-11 Thread Maurice Volaski
including hotplugging. -- Maurice Volaski, maurice.vola...@einstein.yu.edu Computing Support, Rose F. Kennedy Center Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.o

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS on JBOD storage, mpt driver issue - server not responding

2009-11-11 Thread Maurice Volaski
0:44 dellserver Disconnected command timeout for Target 0 -- -- Maurice Volaski, maurice.vola...@einstein.yu.edu Computing Support, Rose F. Kennedy Center Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@

Re: [zfs-discuss] sync replication easy way?

2009-09-11 Thread Maurice Volaski
failover automatically on Linux systems. You can configure a stonith device to "shoot the other node in the head." I had heartbeat running on OpenSolaris, though I never tested failover. Did you get decent performance when you tested? -- Maurice Volaski, maurice.vola...@einstein.yu.edu

Re: [zfs-discuss] sync replication easy way?

2009-09-11 Thread Maurice Volaski
This method also allows one to nest mirroring or some RAID-z level with mirroring. When I tested it with a older build a while back, I found performance really poor, about 1-2 MB/second, but my environment was also constrained. A major showstopper had been the infamous 3 minute iSCSI timeout,

Re: [zfs-discuss] 24x1TB ZFS system. Best practices for OS install without wasting space.

2009-06-02 Thread Maurice Volaski
At 3:40 PM -0700 6/1/09, Ray Van Dolson wrote: On Mon, Jun 01, 2009 at 03:30:11PM -0700, Maurice Volaski wrote: >So we have a 24x1TB system (from Silicon Mechanics). It's using an LSI >SAS card so we don't have any hardware RAID virtual drive type options. > >Solar

Re: [zfs-discuss] 24x1TB ZFS system. Best practices for OS install without wasting space.

2009-06-01 Thread Maurice Volaski
boot from. You can still have a DVD drive in the other bay, too. -- Maurice Volaski, mvola...@aecom.yu.edu Computing Support, Rose F. Kennedy Center Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-dis

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS send/receive filehandle issue

2009-04-21 Thread Maurice Volaski
this?) I was also trying to build a Cheapo-HA-NFS-Cluster using zfs send|recv some weeks ago and ended up with a patched version of unfs3d. unfs3d is not as fast (and reliable) as nfsd but it has one big advantage: It works ;-) . -- Maurice Volaski, mvola...@aecom.yu.edu Computing Support, Rose

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

2009-03-03 Thread Maurice Volaski
http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?messageID=256373. -- Maurice Volaski, mvola...@aecom.yu.edu Computing Support, Rose F. Kennedy Center Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [zfs-discuss] Availability: ZFS needs to handle disk removal / driver failure better

2008-12-03 Thread Maurice Volaski
hich time your pool >will hang, no matter how many redundant drives you have available. This is CR 649, http://bugs.opensolaris.org/view_bug.do?bug_id=649, which is separate from the boot time timeout, though, and also one that Sun so far has been unable to fix! -- Maurice Vol

Re: [zfs-discuss] Poor read/write performance when using ZFS iSCSI target

2008-11-10 Thread Maurice Volaski
e near-Gigabit speeds I expect, which has me thinking this isn't a >network problem of some sort (I've already disabled the Neagle >algorithm if you're wondering). It's not until I add the iSCSI >target to the stack that the speeds go south, so I am concerned that

Re: [zfs-discuss] Nexenta/ZFS vs Heartbeat/DRBD

2008-09-10 Thread Maurice Volaski
>I disagree, there are many ways to remotely replicate Solaris systems. >TrueCopy and SRDF are perhaps the most popular, but almost all I was referring to cost free options. -- Maurice Volaski, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Computing Support, Rose F. Kennedy Center Alber

Re: [zfs-discuss] Nexenta/ZFS vs Heartbeat/DRBD

2008-09-10 Thread Maurice Volaski
>On Wed, 2008-09-10 at 19:10 -0400, Maurice Volaski wrote: >> >On Wed, 2008-09-10 at 18:37 -0400, Maurice Volaski wrote: >> >> >On Wed, 2008-09-10 at 15:00 -0400, Maurice Volaski wrote: >> >> >> >On Wed, 2008-09-10 at 14:36 -0400, Mauri

Re: [zfs-discuss] Nexenta/ZFS vs Heartbeat/DRBD

2008-09-10 Thread Maurice Volaski
>On Wed, 2008-09-10 at 18:37 -0400, Maurice Volaski wrote: >> >On Wed, 2008-09-10 at 15:00 -0400, Maurice Volaski wrote: >> >> >On Wed, 2008-09-10 at 14:36 -0400, Maurice Volaski wrote: >> >> >> A disadvantage, however, is that Sun StorageTek A

Re: [zfs-discuss] Nexenta/ZFS vs Heartbeat/DRBD

2008-09-10 Thread Maurice Volaski
>On Wed, 2008-09-10 at 15:00 -0400, Maurice Volaski wrote: >> >On Wed, 2008-09-10 at 14:36 -0400, Maurice Volaski wrote: >> >> A disadvantage, however, is that Sun StorageTek Availability Suite >> >> (AVS), the DRBD equivalent in OpenSolaris, is much

Re: [zfs-discuss] Nexenta/ZFS vs Heartbeat/DRBD

2008-09-10 Thread Maurice Volaski
>On Wed, 2008-09-10 at 14:36 -0400, Maurice Volaski wrote: >> A disadvantage, however, is that Sun StorageTek Availability Suite >> (AVS), the DRBD equivalent in OpenSolaris, is much less flexible than >> DRBD. For example, AVS is intended to replicate in one direction, &g

Re: [zfs-discuss] Nexenta/ZFS vs Heartbeat/DRBD

2008-09-10 Thread Maurice Volaski
See http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=68881&tstart=30 for details on this. -- Maurice Volaski, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Computing Support, Rose F. Kennedy Center Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University ___ zfs-discuss mailing l

Re: [zfs-discuss] [Q] Am I misunderstanding snapshotting and zfs send/recv or is it really this complicated?

2008-08-26 Thread Maurice Volaski
in an actual script, "yesterday" must be substituted with a variable that specifies the prior snapshot) -- Maurice Volaski, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Computing Support, Rose F. Kennedy Center Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University ___

[zfs-discuss] [Q] Am I misunderstanding snapshotting and zfs send/recv or is it really this complicated?

2008-08-24 Thread Maurice Volaski
So to prevent a buildup of these snapshots, they can be renamed just as the current snapshot of the source system and then that renamed snapshot can be deleted after another snapshot from the source is sent over. Incidentally, the target system also gets copies of the two snapshots m

Re: [zfs-discuss] [Q] Why can't zpool import on the secondary see the AVS-synced pool?

2008-07-30 Thread Maurice Volaski
I rebooted both systems and now it's working! This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

[zfs-discuss] [Q] Why can't zpool import on the secondary see the AVS-synced pool?

2008-07-30 Thread Maurice Volaski
zpool on the secondary doesn't see anything. -- Maurice Volaski, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Computing Support, Rose F. Kennedy Center Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://m

Re: [zfs-discuss] 24-port SATA controller options?

2008-04-15 Thread Maurice Volaski
ive drunk :-) -- Maurice Volaski, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Computing Support, Rose F. Kennedy Center Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] 24-port SATA controller options?

2008-04-15 Thread Maurice Volaski
>is far too great to be worth it if you care about your data. /rant -- Maurice Volaski, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Computing Support, Rose F. Kennedy Center Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-d