[zfs-discuss] cachefile for snail zpool import mystery?

2009-10-01 Thread Max Holm
Hi, We are seeing more long delays in zpool import, say, 4~5 or even 25~30 minutes, especially when backup jobs are going on in the FC SAN the LUNs resides (no iSCSI LUNs yet). On the same node for the LUNs of the same array, some pools takes a few seconds, but minutes for some. the pattern see

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS commands sudden slow down, cpu spiked

2008-02-22 Thread Max Holm
thanks. but when this happens, any ZFS command will take forever to complete not just 'zpool import' - but it might have been triggered by the import action.(?) By the way, the symptoms were first noticed not long after adding LUNs from a IBM DS8100 array. But no error messages or complains about

[zfs-discuss] ZFS commands sudden slow down, cpu spiked

2008-02-21 Thread Max Holm
nyone has same problem or know what might be the cause/fix? Thanks. Max Holm This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

[zfs-discuss] Re: remote replication with huge data using zfs?

2006-05-12 Thread Max Holm
Hi, Much thanks to the advices from Jeff & Ricard (and maybe others.). More questions of this topic: If not to have ZFS do the mirroring job, the users have to take care of this by some scripts and handle the errors. If use a pair of servers to replicate a big archive, 100TB(can grow to PT), wit

[zfs-discuss] remote replication with huge data using zfs?

2006-05-11 Thread Max Holm
Hi, We are to archive huge amount, say, 100TB, of data/images and keep a replicate at a remote site. I thought ZFS will be a good choice. Can someone comment and advice if it's practical: plan A. To mirror on iSCSI devices: keep one server with a set of zfs file systems with 2