Re: [zfs-discuss] RFE: Un-dedup for unique blocks

2013-01-23 Thread Ray Arachelian
On 01/22/2013 10:50 PM, Gary Mills wrote: > On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 11:54:53PM +, Edward Ned Harvey > (opensolarisisdeadlongliveopensolaris) wrote: > Paging out unused portions of an executing process from real memory to > the swap device is certainly beneficial. Swapping out complete > proces

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

2013-01-17 Thread Ray Arachelian
On 01/16/2013 10:25 PM, Peter Wood wrote: > > Today I started migrating file systems from some old Open Solaris > servers to these Supermicro boxes and noticed the transfer to one of > them was going 10x slower then to the other one (like 10GB/hour). What does "dladm show-link" show? I'm guessing

Re: [zfs-discuss] Has anyone used a Dell with a PERC H310?

2013-01-08 Thread Ray Arachelian
On 01/07/2013 04:16 PM, Sašo Kiselkov wrote: > PERC H200 are well behaved cards that are easy to reflash and work > well (even in JBOD mode) on Illumos - they are essentially a LSI SAS > 9211. If you can get them, they're one heck of a reliable beast, and > cheap too! I've had trouble with one of

Re: [zfs-discuss] Repairing corrupted ZFS pool

2012-11-19 Thread Ray Arachelian
On 11/19/2012 12:03 PM, Peter Jeremy wrote: > On 2012-Nov-19 11:02:06 -0500, Ray Arachelian wrote: > > > The damage exists in the oldest snapshot for that filesystem. > Are you able to delete that snapshot? ___ zfs-discuss mailing l

Re: [zfs-discuss] Repairing corrupted ZFS pool

2012-11-19 Thread Ray Arachelian
On 11/16/2012 07:15 PM, Peter Jeremy wrote: > I have been tracking down a problem with "zfs diff" that reveals > itself variously as a hang (unkillable process), panic or error, > depending on the ZFS kernel version but seems to be caused by > corruption within the pool. I am using FreeBSD but the

Re: [zfs-discuss] Scrub and checksum permutations

2012-10-27 Thread Ray Arachelian
On 10/26/2012 04:29 AM, Karl Wagner wrote: > > Does it not store a separate checksum for a parity block? If so, it > should not even need to recalculate the parity: assuming checksums > match for all data and parity blocks, the data is good. > > I could understand why it would not store a checksum

Re: [zfs-discuss] Changing rpool device paths/drivers

2012-10-03 Thread Ray Arachelian
On 10/03/2012 05:54 AM, Jim Klimov wrote: > Hello all, > > It was often asked and discussed on the list about "how to > change rpool HDDs from AHCI to IDE mode" and back, with the > modern routine involving reconfiguration of the BIOS, bootup > from separate live media, simple import and export o

Re: [zfs-discuss] Recover data after zpool create -f

2012-08-20 Thread Ray Arachelian
On 08/20/2012 02:55 PM, Ernest Dipko wrote: > Is there any way to recover the data within a zpool after a spool create -f > was issued on the disks? > > We had a pool that contained two internal disks (mirrored) and we added a > zvol to it our of an existing pool for some temporary space. After

Re: [zfs-discuss] How do I import a zpool with a file as a member device?

2012-08-13 Thread Ray Arachelian
On 08/13/2012 06:50 AM, Sašo Kiselkov wrote: > See the -d option to zpool import. -- Saso Many thanks for this, it worked very nicely, though the first time I ran it, it failed. So what -d does is to substitute /dev. In order for it to work, you also have to make links to the drive devices in t

[zfs-discuss] How do I import a zpool with a file as a member device?

2012-08-13 Thread Ray Arachelian
While attempting to fix the last of my damaged zpools, there's one that consists of 4 drives + one 60G file. The file happened by accident - I attempted to add a partition off an SSD drive but missed the cache keyword. Of course, once this is done, there's no way to remove the new unwanted member

Re: [zfs-discuss] encfs on top of zfs

2012-07-31 Thread Ray Arachelian
On 07/31/2012 09:46 AM, opensolarisisdeadlongliveopensolaris wrote: > Dedup: First of all, I don't recommend using dedup under any > circumstance. Not that it's unstable or anything, just that the > performance is so horrible, it's never worth while. But particularly > with encrypted data, you're g