Re: [zfs-discuss] Beginner Question: Limited conf: file-based storage pools vs. FSs directly on rpool

2011-09-22 Thread Remco Lengers
Raul, > I must configure a small file server. It only has two disk drives, and they are (forcibly) destined to be used in a mirrored, hot-spare configuration. 2 disks and mirrored *and* a hotspare ...?? Imho you need 3 disks to do this setup. I just wanted to make sure you have your idea's

Re: [zfs-discuss] Zpool with data errors

2011-06-21 Thread Remco Lengers
Todd, Is that ZFS on top of VxVM ? Are those volumes okay? I wonder if this is really a sensible combination? ..Remco On 6/21/11 7:36 AM, Todd Urie wrote: I have a zpool that shows the following from a zpool status -v name> brsnnfs0104 [/var/spool/cron/scripts]# zpool status -v ABC0101 p

Re: [zfs-discuss] Troubleshooting help on ZFS

2011-01-20 Thread Remco Lengers
Hi Steve, Anything in: cat /var/adm/messages fmdump -ev ? ..Remco On 1/20/11 1:47 AM, Steve Kellam wrote: I have a home media server set up using OpenSolaris. All my experience with OpenSolaris has been through setting up and maintaining this server so it is rather limited. I have run

Re: [zfs-discuss] Help - Deleting files from a large pool results in less free space!

2010-10-07 Thread Remco Lengers
any snapshots? *zfs list -t snapshot* ..Remco On 10/7/10 7:24 PM, Jim Sloey wrote: I have a 20Tb pool on a mount point that is made up of 42 disks from an EMC SAN. We were running out of space and down to 40Gb left (loading 8Gb/day) and have not received disk for our SAN. Using df -h resu

Re: [zfs-discuss] Intermittent ZFS hang

2010-08-30 Thread Remco Lengers
Charles, Did you check for any HW issues reported during the hangs? fmdump -ev and the like? ..Remco On 8/30/10 6:02 PM, Charles J. Knipe wrote: Howdy, We're having a ZFS performance issue over here that I was hoping you guys could help me troubleshoot. We have a ZFS pool made up of 24 d

Re: [zfs-discuss] Solaris Filesystem

2010-07-14 Thread Remco Lengers
Beau, Not the right list but C=controller, T=target (SCSI), D= disk number (or LUN), S=slice number. Google in "solaris disk names" yielded lots of good results like: http://initialprogramload.blogspot.com/2008/07/how-solaris-disk-device-names-work.html ..Remco On 7/14/10 11:07 PM, Beau J.

Re: [zfs-discuss] ISCSI + RAID-Z + OpenSolaris HA

2010-03-21 Thread Remco Lengers
David, Thanks for the pointers! That version looks more mature from the listed functionality "Fencing, and Quorum etc." Would be interested to know how it performs in real life. ..Remco David Magda wrote: On Mar 20, 2010, at 14:37, Remco Lengers wrote: You seem to be concerned

Re: [zfs-discuss] ISCSI + RAID-Z + OpenSolaris HA

2010-03-20 Thread Remco Lengers
Vikkr, You seem to be concerned about the availability? Open HA seems to be a package last updated in 2005 (version 0.3.6). (?) It seems to me like a real fun toy project to build but I would be pretty reserved about the actual availability and putting using these kind of setup for production

Re: [zfs-discuss] Another user looses his pool (10TB) in this case and 40 days work

2010-02-13 Thread Remco Lengers
I just have the say this, and I don't mean it in a bad way... If you really care about your data why then use usb drives with lose cables and (apparently no backup) USB connected drives for data backup are okay, for playing around and getting to know ZFS seems also okay. Using it for onlin

Re: [zfs-discuss] zpool is very slow

2009-10-02 Thread Remco Lengers
David, May be you can you the iosnoop of the dtrace toolkit: http://www.solarisinternals.com/wiki/index.php/DTraceToolkit#Scripts ..Remco David Stewart wrote: I created a raidz zpool and shares and now the OS is very slow. I timed it and I can get about eight seconds of use before I get ten s

Re: [zfs-discuss] Status/priority of 6761786

2009-08-27 Thread Remco Lengers
E or it became one by mistake. Regards, ..Remco Tim Cook wrote: On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 3:24 PM, Remco Lengers <mailto:re...@lengers.com>> wrote: Dave, Its logged as an RFE (Request for Enhancement) not as a CR (bug). The status is 3-Accepted/ P1 RFE RFE'

Re: [zfs-discuss] Status/priority of 6761786

2009-08-27 Thread Remco Lengers
Dave, Its logged as an RFE (Request for Enhancement) not as a CR (bug). The status is 3-Accepted/ P1 RFE RFE's are generally looked at in a much different way then a CR. ..Remco Dave wrote: Can anyone from Sun comment on the status/priority of bug ID 6761786? Seems like this would be a ver

Re: [zfs-discuss] how to prevent that two clients open the same document

2009-06-02 Thread Remco Lengers
http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=91015 * Summary: data loss using concurently OOo3 and another editor in the same network Also searching for openoffice and locking yields quite a bit of insight. ..Remco C. Bergström wrote: Tobs wrote: Hi There, We're running the latest Op

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Panic

2009-04-09 Thread Remco Lengers
Grant, Didn't see a response so I'll give it a go. Ripping a disk away and silently inserting a new one is asking for trouble imho. I am not sure what you were trying to accomplish but generally replace a drive/lun would entail commands like zpool offline tank c1t3d0 cfgadm | grep c1t3d0 sa

Re: [zfs-discuss] reboot when copying large amounts of data

2009-03-11 Thread Remco Lengers
rvell SATA controller chip on it. Googling around I see connections between Supermicro and TMC. This is the card: http://www.supermicro.com/products/accessories/addon/AOC-SAT2-MV8.cfm On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 3:08 PM, Remco Lengers wrote: Something is not right in the IO space. The messages

Re: [zfs-discuss] reboot when copying large amounts of data

2009-03-11 Thread Remco Lengers
Something is not right in the IO space. The messages talk about vendor ID = 11AB 0x11AB Marvell Semiconductor TMC Research Vendor Id: 0x1030 Short Name: TMC Does "fmdump -eV" give any clue when the box comes back up? ..Remco Blake wrote: I'm attaching a screenshot of the console just bef

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs send over sbmfs results in invalid record type on zfs receive

2009-02-03 Thread Remco Lengers
Niels, I do this all the time, to a USB connected external drive. And I have managed to restore a snapshot too :-) I don't see why you could mount an NFS mount from the service where you want to backup too. I wonder if windows does something bad to the file, is it larger then 2 Gb? ..Remco Ni

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs send over sbmfs results in invalid record type on zfs receive

2009-02-03 Thread Remco Lengers
Niels, The zfs man page has an ssh example. Regards, ..Remco Niels Van Hee wrote: > Hi, > > I redirected a zfs send stream to a file on a smbfs mount (Windows share): > zfs send snapshot > /mnt/win/snapshot.zfs > > When zfs receiving this file, the process aborts due to an 'invalid backup >

[zfs-discuss] Zpool export failure or interrupt messes up mount ordering?

2009-01-28 Thread Remco Lengers
Hi, I have the following setup that worked fine for a couple of months. (root disk) - zfs rootpool (build 100) (on 2 mirrored data disks:) - datapool/export - datapool/export/home - datapool/export/fotos - datapool/export/fotos/2008 Now I tried to live upgrade from build 100 to 106 things got m