Re: [zfs-discuss] System started crashing hard after zpool reconfigure and OI upgrade

2013-03-20 Thread Peter Wood
. I thought I'll collect some advice to make each crash as useful as possible. Any pointers are appreciated. Thanks, -- Peter On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 8:34 AM, Peter Wood wrote: > I have two identical Supermicro boxes with 32GB ram. Hardware details at > the end of the message. &g

Re: [zfs-discuss] System started crashing hard after zpool reconfigure and OI upgrade

2013-03-20 Thread Peter Wood
700, Peter Wood wrote: > >I'm sorry. I should have mentioned it that I can't find any errors in > the > >logs. The last entry in /var/adm/messages is that I removed the > keyboard > >after the last reboot and then it shows the new boot up messages whe

Re: [zfs-discuss] [BULK] System started crashing hard after zpool reconfigure and OI upgrade

2013-03-20 Thread Peter Wood
e oi151a5 image from > grub. Apologies in advance if I'm stating the obvious. > > -- Trey > > > On Mar 20, 2013, at 11:34 AM, "Peter Wood" wrote: > > I have two identical Supermicro boxes with 32GB ram. Hardware details > at the end of the message

Re: [zfs-discuss] System started crashing hard after zpool reconfigure and OI upgrade

2013-03-20 Thread Peter Wood
Hi Jim, Thanks for the pointers. I'll definitely look into this. -- Peter Blajev IT Manager, TAAZ Inc. Office: 858-597-0512 x125 On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 11:29 AM, Jim Klimov wrote: > On 2013-03-20 17:15, Peter Wood wrote: > >> I'm going to need some help with the cra

Re: [zfs-discuss] System started crashing hard after zpool reconfigure and OI upgrade

2013-03-20 Thread Peter Wood
? > > michael > > > On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 4:50 PM, Peter Wood wrote: > >> I'm sorry. I should have mentioned it that I can't find any errors in the >> logs. The last entry in /var/adm/messages is that I removed the keyboard >> after the last reboot and t

Re: [zfs-discuss] System started crashing hard after zpool reconfigure and OI upgrade

2013-03-20 Thread Peter Wood
oes the Supermicro IPMI show anything when it crashes? Does anything > show up in event logs in the BIOS, or in system logs under OI? > > > On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 11:34 AM, Peter Wood wrote: > >> I have two identical Supermicro boxes with 32GB ram. Hardware details at >> the

[zfs-discuss] System started crashing hard after zpool reconfigure and OI upgrade

2013-03-20 Thread Peter Wood
e max memory they can take. In summary all I did is upgrade to OI 151.a.7 and reconfigured zpool. Any idea what could be the problem. Thank you -- Peter Supermicro X9DRH-iF Xeon E5-2620 @ 2.0 GHz 6-Core LSI SAS9211-8i HBA 32x 3TB Hitachi HUS723030ALS640, SAS,

Re: [zfs-discuss] Is there performance penalty when adding vdev to existing pool

2013-02-20 Thread Peter Wood
20, 2013 at 5:46 PM, Bob Friesenhahn < > bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us> wrote: > >> On Thu, 21 Feb 2013, Sašo Kiselkov wrote: >> >> On 02/21/2013 12:27 AM, Peter Wood wrote: >>> >>>> Will adding another vdev hurt the performance? >>>>

[zfs-discuss] Is there performance penalty when adding vdev to existing pool

2013-02-20 Thread Peter Wood
spares c8t5000CCA01ABDB020d0AVAIL c8t5000CCA01ABDB060d0AVAIL errors: No known data errors # Will adding another vdev hurt the performance? Thank you, -- Peter ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolari

Re: [zfs-discuss] Freeing unused space in thin provisioned zvols

2013-02-10 Thread Koopmann, Jan-Peter
I forgot about compression. Makes sense. As long as the zeroes find their way to the backend storage this should work. Thanks! Kind regards JP smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.

Re: [zfs-discuss] Freeing unused space in thin provisioned zvols

2013-02-10 Thread Koopmann, Jan-Peter
Why should it? Unless you do a shrink on the vmdk and use a zfs variant with scsi unmap support (I believe currently only Nexenta but correct me if I am wrong) the blocks will not be freed, will they? Kind regards JP Sent from a mobile device. Am 10.02.2013 um 11:01 schrieb "Datnus" : > I

Re: [zfs-discuss] Scrub performance

2013-02-04 Thread Koopmann, Jan-Peter
Hi, OK then, I guess my next question would be what's the best way to "undedupe" the data I have? Would it work for me to zfs send/receive on the same pool (with dedup off), deleting the old datasets once they have been 'copied'? yes. Worked for my. I think I remember reading somewhere that

Re: [zfs-discuss] Scrub performance

2013-02-04 Thread Koopmann, Jan-Peter
Hi Edward, From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org<mailto:zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org> [mailto:zfs-discuss- boun...@opensolaris.org<mailto:boun...@opensolaris.org>] On Behalf Of Koopmann, Jan-Peter all I can tell you is that I've had terrible scrub rates when I u

Re: [zfs-discuss] Scrub performance

2013-02-04 Thread Koopmann, Jan-Peter
Hi Karl, Recently, however, it has started taking over 20hours to complete. Not much has happened to it in that time: A few extra files added, maybe a couple of deletions, but not a huge amount. I am finding it difficult to understand why performance would have dropped so dramatically. FYI th

Re: [zfs-discuss] Heavy write IO for no apparent reason

2013-01-18 Thread Peter Blajev
Right on Tim. Thanks. I didn't know that. I'm sure it's documented somewhere and I should have read it so double thanks for explaining it. -- Peter Blajev IT Manager, TAAZ Inc. Office: 858-597-0512 x125 On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 4:18 PM, Timothy Coalson wrote: > On Thu, Jan 1

Re: [zfs-discuss] Heavy write IO for no apparent reason

2013-01-17 Thread Peter Wood
Great points Jim. I have requested more information how the gallery share is being used and any temporary data will be moved out of there. About atime, it is set to "on" right now and I've considered to turn it off but I wasn't sure if this will effect incremental zfs send/receive. 'zfs send -i s

Re: [zfs-discuss] Heavy write IO for no apparent reason

2013-01-17 Thread Peter Wood
Right on Tim. Thanks. I didn't know that. I'm sure it's documented somewhere and I should have read it so double thanks for explaining it. On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 4:18 PM, Timothy Coalson wrote: > On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 5:33 PM, Peter Wood wrote: > >> >>

Re: [zfs-discuss] Heavy write IO for no apparent reason

2013-01-17 Thread Peter Wood
re these write operations are applied. The 'zpool iostat -v' output is uncomfortably static. The values of read/write operations and bandwidth are the same for hours and even days. I'd expect at least some variations between morning and night. The load on the servers is different for

Re: [zfs-discuss] pool metadata has duplicate children

2013-01-10 Thread Peter Jeremy
arget 0 lun 0 >da1 at twa0 bus 0 scbus0 target 1 lun 0 >da2 at twa0 bus 0 scbus0 target 2 lun 0 >da3 at twa0 bus 0 scbus0 target 3 lun 0 >da4 at twa0 bus 0 scbus0 target 4 lun 0 Are these all JBOD devices? -- Peter Jeremy pgpykCYjUFT7j.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [zfs-discuss] Sonnet Tempo SSD supported?

2012-12-03 Thread Peter Tripp
HI Eugen, Whether it's compatible entirely depends on the chipset of the SATA controller. Basically that card is just a dual port 6gbps PCIe SATA controller with the space to mount one ($149) or two ($299) 2.5inch disks. Sonnet, a mac focused company, offers it as a way to better utilize exist

Re: [zfs-discuss] suggestions for e-SATA HBA card on x86/x64

2012-11-20 Thread Peter Tripp
Hi Jerry, Couple of things that might help you troubleshoot your Intel SASUC8I HBA: 1. Are you seeing all the 8 devices in the BIOS for the card? 2. If yes, do other operating systems (say a Linux LiveCD) see all the disks too? 3. Is there any difference between the disks (e.g. four 2TB Seagate

Re: [zfs-discuss] zvol wrapped in a vmdk by Virtual Box and double writes?

2012-11-20 Thread Peter Tripp
Hi Nathan, You've misunderstood how the Zil works and why it reduces write latency for synchronous writes. Since you've partitioned a single SSD into two silces, one as pool storage and one as Zil for that pool, all sync writes will be 2X amplified. There's no way around it. ZFS will write to

Re: [zfs-discuss] Hardware Recommendations: SAS2 JBODs

2012-11-20 Thread Peter Tripp
magine those come cheap and I'm sure they are deeper than most things in your rack. Dell/DataOn do 60 disks in 4U, but with eleven of the SGI JBODs in a single rack (44U), that's a whopping 660 4TB disks (2.4PB raw) per cabinet. Truly silly silly dense. On Nov 13, 2012, at 3:57

Re: [zfs-discuss] Repairing corrupted ZFS pool

2012-11-19 Thread Peter Jeremy
I assumed that ZFS reset the parent to "unknown" rather than leaving it as a pointer to a random no-longer-valid object. This probably needs to be documented as a caveat on "zfs diff" - especially since it can cause hangs and panics with older kernel code. -- Pete

Re: [zfs-discuss] Repairing corrupted ZFS pool

2012-11-19 Thread Peter Jeremy
On 2012-Nov-19 21:10:56 +0100, Jim Klimov wrote: >On 2012-11-19 20:28, Peter Jeremy wrote: >> Yep - that's the fallback solution. With 1874 snapshots spread over 54 >> filesystems (including a couple of clones), that's a major undertaking. >> (And it loses time

Re: [zfs-discuss] Repairing corrupted ZFS pool

2012-11-19 Thread Peter Jeremy
On 2012-Nov-19 13:47:01 -0500, Ray Arachelian wrote: >On 11/19/2012 12:03 PM, Peter Jeremy wrote: >> The damage exists in the oldest snapshot for that filesystem. >Are you able to delete that snapshot? Yes but it has no effect - the corrupt object exists in the current pool so del

Re: [zfs-discuss] Repairing corrupted ZFS pool

2012-11-19 Thread Peter Jeremy
ing. (And it loses timestamp information). -- Peter Jeremy pgpxBLIU3wbVi.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Repairing corrupted ZFS pool

2012-11-19 Thread Peter Jeremy
t if you know the damage is recent. The damage exists in the oldest snapshot for that filesystem. -- Peter Jeremy pgpxQIIBICxmG.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

[zfs-discuss] Repairing corrupted ZFS pool

2012-11-16 Thread Peter Jeremy
at is a last resort (since there are 54 filesystems and ~1900 snapshots in the pool). -- Peter Jeremy pgpi6E6cZupsp.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] LUN expansion choices

2012-11-14 Thread Peter Tribble
On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 6:16 PM, Karl Wagner wrote: > On 2012-11-13 17:42, Peter Tribble wrote: > > > Given storage provisioned off a SAN (I know, but sometimes that's > > what you have to work with), what's the best way to expand a pool? > > > > Specific

[zfs-discuss] Hardware Recommendations: SAS2 JBODs

2012-11-13 Thread Peter Tripp
s what folks were using when they needed more than two dozen 3.5" SAS disks for use with ZFS. Thanks -Peter ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS best practice for FreeBSD?

2012-10-12 Thread Peter Jeremy
starts slowing down? > so I was planning to rebuild the server with FreeBSD >9.0 and ZFS 28 but I didn't want to make any basic design mistakes in >doing this. I'd suggest you test 9.1-RC2 (just released) with a view to using 9.1, rather than installing 9.0. Since your qu

Re: [zfs-discuss] FreeBSD ZFS

2012-08-09 Thread Peter Jeremy
re flags, and that is currently >supported by oi_151a5 prebuilt distro (I don't know of other >builds with that - feature integrated into code this summer). FreeBSD-head does. -- Peter Jeremy pgpaswWHOLhMp.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [zfs-discuss] Can the ZFS "copies" attribute substitute HW disk redundancy?

2012-08-02 Thread Peter Jeremy
ly repair the sector thanks to copies=2. b) Attempt to rebuild your laptop and restore from backups (left securely at home) via the dodgy hotel wifi. -- Peter Jeremy pgpvosNQQa9DJ.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Can the ZFS "copies" attribute substitute HW disk redundancy?

2012-08-01 Thread Peter Jeremy
it'll be available in ZFS in the near future. -- Peter Jeremy pgpNyzMT6fOdD.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Interaction between ZFS intent log and mmap'd files

2012-07-04 Thread Peter Jeremy
but if you want a guarantee that your data is securely written to stable storage then you need to wait for that stable storage. msync(MS_ASYNC) should have no impact on a later munmap(2) and it should always be safe to call msync(MS_ASYNC) before munmap(2) (in fact, it's a good idea to maximi

Re: [zfs-discuss] Recommendation for home NAS external JBOD

2012-06-19 Thread Koopmann, Jan-Peter
Hi Timothy, > > I think that if you are running an illumos kernel, you can use > /kernel/drv/sd.conf and tell it that the physical sectors for a disk > model are 4k, despite what the disk says (and whether they really > are). So, if you want an ashift=12 pool on disks that report 512 > sectors,

Re: [zfs-discuss] Recommendation for home NAS external JBOD

2012-06-18 Thread Koopmann, Jan-Peter
> > What makes you think the Barracuda 7200.14 drives report 4k sectors? http://www.mail-archive.com/zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org/msg48912.html Nigel stated this here a few days ago. I did not check for myself. Maybe Nigel can comment on this? As for the question "why do you want 4k drives":

Re: [zfs-discuss] Recommendation for home NAS external JBOD

2012-06-18 Thread Koopmann, Jan-Peter
8/12 12:19 AM, Koopmann, Jan-Peter wrote: >> Hi Carson, >> >> >>I have 2 Sans Digital TR8X JBOD enclosures, and they work very well. >>They also make a 4-bay TR4X. >> >>http://www.sansdigital.com/towerraid/tr4xb.html >>http://www.sansdig

Re: [zfs-discuss] Recommendation for home NAS external JBOD

2012-06-18 Thread Koopmann, Jan-Peter
Hi Bob, > On Mon, 18 Jun 2012, Koopmann, Jan-Peter wrote: >> >> looks nice! The only thing coming to mind is that according to the >> specifications the enclosure is 3Gbits "only". If I choose >> to put in a SSD with 6Gbits this would be not optimal. I

Re: [zfs-discuss] Recommendation for home NAS external JBOD

2012-06-18 Thread Koopmann, Jan-Peter
Hi Carson, > > I have 2 Sans Digital TR8X JBOD enclosures, and they work very well. > They also make a 4-bay TR4X. > > http://www.sansdigital.com/towerraid/tr4xb.html > http://www.sansdigital.com/towerraid/tr8xb.html looks nice! The only thing coming to mind is that according to the specificati

Re: [zfs-discuss] Recommendation for home NAS external JBOD

2012-06-17 Thread Koopmann, Jan-Peter
Hi Tim, thanks to you and the others for answering. > worst case). The worst case for 512 emulated sectors on zfs is > probably small (4KB or so) synchronous writes (which if they mattered > to you, you would probably have a separate log device, in which case > the data disk write penalty may no

[zfs-discuss] Recommendation for home NAS external JBOD

2012-06-17 Thread Koopmann, Jan-Peter
Hi, my oi151 based home NAS is approaching a frightening "drive space" level. Right now the data volume is a 4*1TB Raid-Z1, 3 1/2" local disks individually connected to an 8 port LSI 6Gbit controller. So I can either exchange the disks one by one with autoexpand, use 2-4 TB disks and be happy.

Re: [zfs-discuss] Spare drive inherited cksum errors?

2012-05-29 Thread Peter Jeremy
ld leave your drive seriously fragmented. If you do try this, I'd recommend creating a snapshot first and then rolling back to it, rather than just deleting the junk file. Also, this (obviously) won't work at all on a filesystem with compressi

Re: [zfs-discuss] Dell PERC H200: drive failed to power up

2012-05-16 Thread Koopmann, Jan-Peter
Hi, are those DELL branded WD disks? DELL tends to manipulate the firmware of the drives so that power handling with Solaris fails. If this is the case here: Easiest way to make it work is to modify /kernel/drv/sd.conf and add an entry for your specific drive similar to this sd-config-list= "WD

Re: [zfs-discuss] IOzone benchmarking

2012-05-04 Thread Peter Tribble
ch vdev in a raidz configuration. In practice we're finding that our raidz systems actually perform pretty well when compared with dynamic stripes, mirrors, and hardware raid LUNs.) -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/ ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Drive upgrades

2012-04-17 Thread Peter Jeremy
y 6) Verify data written in (2) can be read. 7) Argue with drive vendor that drive doesn't meet specifications :-) A similar approach can also be used to verify that NCQ & cache flush commands actually work. -- Peter Jeremy pgp4WNXKBfWaW.pgp Description: PGP signature ___

Re: [zfs-discuss] Drive upgrades

2012-04-16 Thread Peter Jeremy
verhead there. FreeBSD leaves the drive cache enabled in either situation. I'm not sure how OI or Linux behave. -- Peter Jeremy pgprzpycAxFkZ.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://ma

Re: [zfs-discuss] Replacing root pool disk

2012-04-12 Thread Peter Wood
Thank you all for the replies. I'll try the suggested solutions. -- Peter On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 2:06 PM, Roberto Waltman wrote: > Cindy Swearingen wrote: > >> >> We don't yet have an easy way to clear a disk label, ... >> > > dd if=/dev/zero of=...

[zfs-discuss] Replacing root pool disk

2012-04-12 Thread Peter Wood
ps with /dev/dsk/c2t5000CCA369C89636d0s2 root:~# I used -f and it worked but I was wondering is there a way to completely "reset" the new disk? Remove all partitions and start from scratch. Thank you Peter ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-disc

Re: [zfs-discuss] Improving snapshot write performance

2012-04-11 Thread Peter Jeremy
a dying (or dead) disk in the target pool? -- Peter Jeremy ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Compatibility of Hitachi Deskstar 7K3000 HDS723030ALA640 with ZFS

2012-03-06 Thread Koopmann, Jan-Peter
Hi Brandon, On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 9:52 AM, luis Johnstone mailto:l...@luisjohnstone.com>> wrote: As far as I can tell, the Hitachi Deskstar 7K3000 (HDS723030ALA640) uses 512B sectors and so I presume does not suffer from such issues (because it doesn't lie about the physical layout of sectors o

Re: [zfs-discuss] Does raidzN actually protect against bitrot? If yes - how?

2012-01-15 Thread Peter Tribble
are therefore a good thing.) >   How *do* some things get fixed then - can only dittoed data >   or metadata be salvaged from second good copies on raidZ? You can recover anything you have enough redundancy for. Which means everything, up to the redundancy of the vdev. B

Re: [zfs-discuss] arc_no_grow is set to 1 and never set back to 0

2012-01-05 Thread Peter Radig
It's supposed to be 7111576: arc shrinks in the absence of memory pressure currently in status "accepted" and an RPE escalation pending. -Original Message- From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Tomas Forsman Sent: Donnerstag,

Re: [zfs-discuss] arc_no_grow is set to 1 and never set back to 0

2012-01-04 Thread Peter Radig
Thanks. The guys from Oracle are currently looking at some new code that was introduced in arc_reclaim_thread() between b151a and b175. Peter Radig, Ahornstrasse 34, 85774 Unterföhring, Germany tel: +49 89 99536751 - fax: +49 89 99536754 - mobile: +49 171 2652977 email: pe...@radig.de<mailto

Re: [zfs-discuss] arc_no_grow is set to 1 and never set back to 0

2012-01-03 Thread Peter Radig
) 5504210% Free (freelist) 3284924 12831 78% Total 4192012 16375 Physical 4192011 16375 I will create an SR with Oracle. Thanks, Peter -Original Message- From: Tomas Forsman

[zfs-discuss] arc_no_grow is set to 1 and never set back to 0

2012-01-03 Thread Peter Radig
not seeing this on SolEx 11/10. Thanks, Peter *** ::memstat *** Page SummaryPagesMB %Tot Kernel 860254 3360 21% ZFS File Data304711

Re: [zfs-discuss] Can I create a mirror for a root rpool?

2011-12-19 Thread Peter Jeremy
ining a mirrored root with RAIDZ data aren't that great. At home, I have 6 1TB disks and I've carved out 8GB from the front of each (3GB for swap and 5GB for root) and the remainder in a RAIDZ2 pool - that's less than 1% overhead. 5GB is big enough to hold the comple

[zfs-discuss] Reversing fdisk changes

2011-11-10 Thread Peter Tribble
the system is out of service and I can reconstruct the data if necessary. Although knowing how to fix this would be generally useful in the future... Thanks, -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/ ___ zfs-discuss mail

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS on Dell with FreeBSD

2011-10-20 Thread Koopmann, Jan-Peter
> > On the Dell website I've the choice between : > > >SAS 6Gbps External Controller >PERC H800 RAID Adapter for External JBOD, 512MB Cache, PCIe >PERC H800 RAID Adapter for External JBOD, 512MB NV Cache, PCIe >PERC H800 RAID Adapter for External JBOD, 1GB NV Cache, PCIe >

Re: [zfs-discuss] about btrfs and zfs

2011-10-18 Thread Peter Jeremy
s seldom needed at >my former site once UFS journalling >became available. Sweet update. Whilst Solaris very rarely insists we run fsck, we have had a number of cases where we have found files corrupted following a crash - even with UFS journalling enabled. Unfortunately, this isn'

Re: [zfs-discuss] about btrfs and zfs

2011-10-18 Thread Peter Tribble
On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 9:12 PM, Tim Cook wrote: > > > On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 3:06 PM, Peter Tribble > wrote: >> >> On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 8:52 PM, Tim Cook wrote: >> > >> > Every scrub I've ever done that has found an error required manual >

Re: [zfs-discuss] about btrfs and zfs

2011-10-18 Thread Peter Tribble
as a result of a scrub, and I've never had to intervene manually. -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/ ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] aclmode gone in S10u10?

2011-09-13 Thread Peter Tribble
On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 8:34 PM, Paul B. Henson wrote: > On 9/13/2011 5:21 AM, Peter Tribble wrote: > >> Update 10 has been out for about 3 weeks. > > Where was any announcement posted? I haven't heard anything about it. As far > as I can tell, the Oracle site still o

Re: [zfs-discuss] aclmode gone in S10u10?

2011-09-13 Thread Peter Tribble
(This doesn't affect me all that much, as ACLs on ZFS have never really worked right, so anything where the ACL is critical gets stored on ufs [yuck].) Also, aclmode is no longer listed in the usage message you see if you do 'zfs get'. -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribb

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS

2011-09-13 Thread Peter Tribble
have the ability to slot that copy of the data instantly into service if the primary copy fails. For tar, you can substitute a free or commercial backup solution. It works the same way. -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/ __

Re: [zfs-discuss] Issues with supermicro

2011-08-10 Thread Peter Tribble
ent to disk in the background. Second, use a proper benchmark suite, and one that isn't itself a bottleneck. Something like vdbench, although there are others. -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/ ___ zfs-disc

Re: [zfs-discuss] Large scale performance query

2011-08-08 Thread Peter Jeremy
s of snapshots and a fair amount of activity. A scrub takes around 17 hours. This is another area where the mythical block rewrite would help a lot. -- Peter Jeremy pgpH1dpSOBHnT.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-dis

[zfs-discuss] Gen-ATA read sector errors

2011-07-28 Thread Koopmann, Jan-Peter
Hi, my system is running oi148 on a super micro X8SIL-F board. I have two pools (2 disc mirror, 4 disc RAIDZ) with RAID level SATA drives. (Hitachi HUA72205 and SAMSUNG HE103UJ). The system runs as expected however every few days (sometimes weeks) the system comes to a halt due to these errors

Re: [zfs-discuss] SSD vs "hybrid" drive - any advice?

2011-07-26 Thread Peter Jeremy
performance would still improve. This means you either get better system performance from the same SSD, or you can get the same system performance from a lower-performance (cheaper) SSD. -- Peter Jeremy pgpoOozgavEXj.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Changed to AHCI, can not access disk???

2011-07-05 Thread Peter Jeremy
ode. ZFS makes it easier to switch modes because it doesn't care about the actual device name - at worst, you will need an export and import. -- Peter Jeremy pgpHPygB4VeNl.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@ope

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS working group and feature flags proposal

2011-05-25 Thread Peter Jeremy
o OS-X would want to know whether the pool contained resource forks even if opened R/O but this should not stop a different ZFS port from reading (and maybe even writing to) the pool. -- Peter Jeremy pgpj1BokjEkft.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS, Oracle and Nexenta

2011-05-24 Thread Peter Jeremy
be a disadvantage). -- Peter Jeremy ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Backup complete rpool structure and data to tape

2011-05-11 Thread Peter Jeremy
lesystem. BTW, if you do elect to build a bootable, removable drive for backups, you should be aware that gzip compression isn't supported - at least in v15, trying to make a gzip compressed filesystem bootable or trying to set compression=gzip on a bootable filesystem gives a very uninformative err

Re: [zfs-discuss] Quick zfs send -i performance questions

2011-05-03 Thread Peter Jeremy
CPUs and 2 GB of RAM. Hopefully a silly question but does the SB1000 support USB2? All of the Sun hardware I've dealt with only has USB1 ports. And, BTW, 2GB RAM is very light on for ZFS (though I note you only have a very small amount of data). -- Peter Jeremy

Re: [zfs-discuss] arcstat updates

2011-04-26 Thread Peter Tribble
s (maybe one showing the sizes, one showing the ARC efficiency, another one for L2ARC). > 5. Who wants to help with this little project? I'm definitely interested in emulating arcstat in jkstat. OK, I have an old version, but it's pretty much

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs incremental send?

2011-03-28 Thread Peter Jeremy
o the backup host). -- Peter Jeremy pgpn3inOqECRR.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] "Invisible" snapshot/clone

2011-03-17 Thread Peter Jeremy
ly be better >switching to nexenta or openindiana or solaris 11 express, because they all >support ZFS much better than freebsd. I'm primarily interested in running FreeBSD and will be upgrading to ZFSv28 once it's been shaken out a bit longer. -- Peter

[zfs-discuss] "Invisible" snapshot/clone

2011-03-16 Thread Peter Jeremy
3-17.11:17:31 zpool import zroot 2011-03-17.11:30:13 [internal rollback txg:872819992] dataset = 469 2011-03-17.11:30:13 zfs rollback zroot/home@20110309 2011-03-17.12:01:02 zfs recv -vd zroot 2011-03-17.12:03:57 [internal rollback txg:872820399] dataset = 469 2011-03-17.12:03:57 zfs rollback

Re: [zfs-discuss] Free space on ZFS file system unexpectedly missing

2011-03-09 Thread Peter Jeremy
d upgrade your pool to v15 or rebuild your pool (via send/recv or similar). -- Peter Jeremy pgp2oCcOvB9YH.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] RAID Failure Calculator (for 8x 2TB RAIDZ)

2011-02-07 Thread Peter Jeremy
Z1 with a hot spare (7+1+1) is better than 9-way RAIDZ2 (7+2). In the latter case, your "hot spare" is already part of the pool so you don't lose the time-to-notice plus time-to-resilver before regaining redundancy. The downside is that actively using the "hot spar

[zfs-discuss] 40MB repaired on a disk during scrub but no errors

2011-02-07 Thread Peter Tripp
Hey folks, While scrubbing, zpool status shows nearly 40MB "repaired" but 0 in each of the read/write/checksum columns for each disk. One disk has "(repairing)" to the right but once the scrub completes there's no mention that anything ever needed fixing. Any idea what would need to be repair

Re: [zfs-discuss] multiple disk failure

2011-01-30 Thread Peter Jeremy
y "gpart list" - which will display FreeBSD's view of the physical disks. It might also be worthwhile looking at a hexdump of the first and last few MB of the "faulty" disks - it's possible that the controller has decided to just shift things by a few sectors so the labels a

Re: [zfs-discuss] Best choice - file system for system

2011-01-30 Thread Peter Jeremy
g - which might let me recover it in other ways. -- Peter Jeremy pgppzMAxBmwjV.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] reliable, enterprise worthy JBODs?

2011-01-25 Thread Peter Tribble
BA (and one slot in the server) for each MD1200, which chews up slots pretty quick. -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/ ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] (Fletcher+Verification) versus (Sha256+No Verification)

2011-01-14 Thread Peter Taps
nd not 128 bits or 512 bits? I guess Sha512 may be an overkill. In your formula, how many blocks of data would be needed to have one collision using Sha128? Appreciate your help. Regards, Peter -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discu

Re: [zfs-discuss] (Fletcher+Verification) versus (Sha256+No Verification)

2011-01-14 Thread Peter Taps
a would be needed to have one collision using Sha128? Appreciate your help. Regards, Peter -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

[zfs-discuss] How to increase iometer reading?

2011-01-09 Thread Peter Taps
identify the bottlenecks. Don't want to replace a component just to find that there was no improvement in iometer reading. Thank you in advance for your insight. Regards, Peter -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing lis

Re: [zfs-discuss] (Fletcher+Verification) versus (Sha256+No Verification)

2011-01-09 Thread Peter Taps
y* it is possible to reconstruct the original block from the 256-bit signature by using a simple lookup. Essentially, we would now have world's best compression algorithm irrespective of whether the data is text or binary. This is hard to digest. Peter -- This message posted from opens

[zfs-discuss] (Fletcher+Verification) versus (Sha256+No Verification)

2011-01-06 Thread Peter Taps
) is more efficient than (Sha256+Verification). And both are 100% accurate in detecting duplicate blocks. Thank you in advance for your help. Peter -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [zfs-discuss] stupid ZFS question - floating point operations

2010-12-22 Thread Peter Jeremy
oint within the kernel also means changes to when FPU context is saved - and, unless this can be implemented lazily, it will adversely impact the cost of all context switches and potentially system calls. -- Peter Jeremy pgphVXYz2zc3s.pgp Description: PG

Re: [zfs-discuss] How many files & directories in a ZFS filesystem?

2010-12-09 Thread Peter Tribble
ifree %iused Mounted on /images/fred 140738056 36000718887 0% /images/fred average 11k I've never seen ZFS run out of inodes, though. -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/ ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] How to safely parse "zpool get all" output?

2010-12-06 Thread Peter Taps
Hi, Thank you for your help. I actually had the script working. However, I just wanted to make sure that spaces are not permitted within the field value itself. Otherwise, the regular expression would break. Regards, Peter -- This message posted from opensolaris.org

[zfs-discuss] How to safely parse "zpool get all" output?

2010-12-06 Thread Peter Taps
the field values. If this is the case, I can split the output across spaces. Thank you in advance for your help. Regards, Peter -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opens

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Crypto in Oracle Solaris 11 Express

2010-11-17 Thread Peter Tribble
sted and supported", and it's reasonably clear that the way to get support is via the existing Premier Support offering. And it's just the same deal as with S10 - you want to use it in production, you need to have a support contract. It's not hard to find this out, just a few seconds

Re: [zfs-discuss] Growing the swap vol?

2010-11-14 Thread Peter Jeremy
ailing list I'm subscribed to where signatures get mangled. -- Peter Jeremy ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] How to grow root vdevs?

2010-11-10 Thread Peter Taps
Thank you for your help. Regards, Peter -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

[zfs-discuss] How to grow root vdevs?

2010-11-09 Thread Peter Taps
The only option to grow a root-vdev seems to be to use "zpool replace" and replace an existing disk with a bigger disk. Is my understanding correct? Thank you in advance for your help. Regards, Peter -- This message posted from opensolaris.org __

Re: [zfs-discuss] How to create a checkpoint?

2010-11-09 Thread Peter Taps
er is "active" is also the "default?" Regards, Peter -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

[zfs-discuss] How to create a checkpoint?

2010-11-08 Thread Peter Taps
to manage checkpoints. I would appreciate your help in how I can create, destroy and roll back to a checkpoint, and how I can list all the checkpoints. Thank you in advance for your help. Regards, Peter -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _

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