Re: [zfs-discuss] [storage-discuss] ZFS snapshot send/recv "hangs" X4540 servers

2009-06-06 Thread Rick Romero
Is it the version of ZFS? I think it was upgraded. I noticed something similar after upgrading ZFS on FreeBSD 7 STABLE. I was trying to zfs send my @Tuesday, and an automatic script ran (which deletes @Tuesday and takes a new snap) - and rather than failing as I expected, the destroy and snaps

[zfs-discuss] File System snapshot and Hierarchical Storage Management

2008-07-10 Thread Rick Matthews
Hi. I am working on the ADM project within OpenSolaris. ADM is a Hierarchical Storage manager (HSM) for ZFS. An HSM serves several purposes. One is a virtualization of amount of disk space by copying (archiving to other media) a files data, then freeing that data space, when needed. Another is as

Re: [zfs-discuss] SMC Webconsole 3.1 and ZFS Administration 1.0 - stacktraces in snv_b89

2008-06-11 Thread Rick
Yeah. The command line works fine. Thought it to be a bit curious that there was an issue with the HTTP interface. It's low priority I guess because it doesn't impact the functionality really. Thanks for the responses. This message posted from opensolaris.org

Re: [zfs-discuss] SMC Webconsole 3.1 and ZFS Administration 1.0 - stacktraces in snv_b89

2008-06-10 Thread Rick
snv_89 is the same. The ZFS Administration console worked fine to create my first 2 pools. I've been unable to use it since then. I have the same stack trace errors. Did you find a workaround for this issue? -Rick This message posted from opensolari

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS, CIFS, slow write speed

2008-04-29 Thread Rick
that 11.5 or so is the most you'd be able to get on a 100Mbit link. Of course, I've not talked network in a bit, so maybe I have my terms mixed. I've been trying to review external references just to make sure I'm speaking in the correct terms. Feel free to let me know i

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS, CIFS, slow write speed

2008-04-29 Thread Rick
that the high read/write speeds for FTP and HTTP showed that the issue was with CIFS. I'm still kind of baffled as to why CIFS was so terrible for the write speed only when, in the end, the issue was the NIC. Thanks to those that helped. rick This message posted from opensolaris.org

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS, CIFS, slow write speed

2008-04-29 Thread Rick
thumb drive to do it. It appears that the 1401 BIOS was just released on 2008-04-24. > Lastly, could there be a bug in the build 86 > regarding the nge driver? So far, looks like something I did. :( > That's all I can think of, good luck! :) Thanks! I'll check thr

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS, CIFS, slow write speed

2008-04-29 Thread Rick
> Rick, I have the same motherboard on my backup > machine and got 48MBytes/sec sustained on a 650GB > transfer (but that was using iSCSI), so I suggest two > things: > > 1. Make sure you are using the latest stable -- i.e. > not beta, BIOS update. You can use a USB thumb

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS, CIFS, slow write speed

2008-04-25 Thread Rick
transfers. It's not like I did 10 tests. Jose Borrego noted the following in the cifs discuss list: I should put back a fix related to performance this week CR 6686647. I don't know if it's related to what you are experiencing but the performance boos

[zfs-discuss] ZFS, CIFS, slow write speed

2008-04-24 Thread Rick
ts. So these tests are all done with an 8GB file. I would imagine that write speeds and read speeds across the network should be much closer. At this point, I'm assuming that I'm doing something wrong here. Anyone want to let me know what I'm missing? rick This message poste

Re: [zfs-discuss] scrub halts

2007-08-14 Thread Rick Wager
We see similar problems on a SuperMicro with 5 500 GB Seagate sata drives. This is using the AHCI driver. We do not, however, see problems with the same hardware/drivers if we use 250GB drives. We sometimes see bad blocks reported (are these automatically remapped somehow so they are not used

[zfs-discuss] Re: Best use of 4 drives?

2007-06-15 Thread Rick Mann
Richard Elling wrote: > For the time being, these SATA disks will operate in IDE compatibility mode, > so > don't worry about the write cache. There is some debate about whether the > write > cache is a win at all, but that is another rat hole. Go ahead and split off > some > space for boot a

[zfs-discuss] Re: Best use of 4 drives?

2007-06-15 Thread Rick Mann
I'm having a heckuva time posting to individual replies (keep getting exceptions). I have a 1U rackmount server with 4 bays. I don't think there's any way to squeeze in a small IDE drive, and I don't want to reduce the swap transfer rate if I can avoid it. The machine has 4 500 GB SATA drives,

[zfs-discuss] Re: Best use of 4 drives?

2007-06-14 Thread Rick Mann
Ian Collins wrote: > Bung in (add a USB one if you don't have space) a small boot drive and > use all the others for for ZFS. Not a bad idea; I'll have to see where I can put one. But, I thought I read somewhere that one can't use ZFS for swap. Or maybe I read this: "Slices should only be used

[zfs-discuss] Re: Best use of 4 drives?

2007-06-14 Thread Rick Mann
> Hi Rick, > > what do you think about this configuration: > > Part all disks like this > 7GiB > 493GiB > > Make a RAIDz1 out of the 493GiB partitions and a > RAID5 out of the 7GiB > partitions. Create a swap, and the root in the RAID5, > the dirs wit

[zfs-discuss] Best use of 4 drives?

2007-06-14 Thread Rick Mann
I'm putting together a NexentaOS (b65)-based server that has 4 500 GB drives on it. Currently it has two, set up as a ZFS mirror. I'm able to boot Nexenta from it, and it seems to work ok. But, as I've learned, the mirror is not properly redundant, and so I can't just have a drive fail (when I p

[zfs-discuss] Difference between "add" and "attach" a device?

2007-06-13 Thread Rick Mann
Hi. I've been reading the ZFS admin guide, and I don't understand the distinction between "adding" a device and "attaching" a device to a pool? TIA This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org htt

[zfs-discuss] Re: Re: Mac OS X "Leopard" to use ZFS

2007-06-13 Thread Rick Mann
>From >(http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml;?articleID=199903525) --- [...] Seeking to clarify a statement made on Monday by Brian Croll, senior director of Mac OS X Product Marketing, to two InformationWeek reporters that Apple's new "Leopard" operating system would not inclu

[zfs-discuss] Re: Re: Mac OS X "Leopard" to use ZFS

2007-06-13 Thread Rick Mann
>On Mon, 11 Jun 2007, Rick Mann wrote: >> ZFS Readonly implemntation is loaded! >Is that a copy-n-paste error, or is that typo in the actual output? It's a typo in the actual output. This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zf

[zfs-discuss] Re: Mac OS X "Leopard" to use ZFS

2007-06-12 Thread Rick Mann
Since the copy I have I did not get through normal channels, I don't have WWDC access to the dev site, so I don't know if it's there or not. However, my friend looked, and couldn't find it, either. This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-di

[zfs-discuss] Re: Mac OS X "Leopard" to use ZFS

2007-06-11 Thread Rick Mann
I just installed the Leopard beta that was distributed at WWDC. Sadly, the installer provided no ZFS option (the only options were HFS Extended Journaled and a case-sensitive version of the same). However, typing this in the terminal: $ sudo zpool status Returned this: ZFS Readonly implemntat

[zfs-discuss] Re: Mac OS X "Leopard" to use ZFS

2007-06-07 Thread Rick Mann
On Thu, Jun 07, 2007 at 08:38:10PM -0300, Toby Thain wrote: > When should we expect Solaris kernel under OS X? 10.6? 10.7? :-) I'm hoping for L4, myself. http://ertos.nicta.com.au/software/darbat/ This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-dis

[zfs-discuss] Mac OS X "Leopard" to use ZFS

2007-06-07 Thread Rick Mann
>From Macintouch (http://macintouch.com/#other.2007.06.07): --- On stage Wednesday in Washington D.C., Sun Microsystems Inc. CEO Jonathan Schwartz revealed that his company's open-source ZFS file system will replace Apple's long-used HFS+ in Mac OS X 10.5, a.k.a. "Leopard," when the new operati

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs and iscsi: cannot open : I/O error

2007-03-05 Thread Rick McNeal
scuss list more frequently than this one. Ced. -- Cedric BRINER Geneva - Switzerland ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss Rick McNeal "If ignorance is blis

Re: [zfs-discuss] iSCSI on a single interface?

2007-01-19 Thread Rick McNeal
On Jan 18, 2007, at 6:17 AM, Dick Davies wrote: On 15/01/07, Rick McNeal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Jan 15, 2007, at 8:34 AM, Dick Davies wrote: > Hi, are there currently any plans to make an iSCSI target created by > setting shareiscsi=on on a zvol > bindable to a s

Re: [zfs-discuss] iSCSI on a single interface?

2007-01-15 Thread Rick McNeal
ns http://number9.hellooperator.net/ ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss Rick McNeal "If ignorance is bliss, this lesson would appear to be a deliberate attempt on your part to deprive me of

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS and ISCSI

2006-12-15 Thread Rick McNeal
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Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS/iSCSI target integration

2006-11-02 Thread Rick McNeal
Cyril Plisko wrote: On 11/2/06, Rick McNeal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> That's how the shareiscsi property works today. > > So, why manipulating LUN is impossible via zfs ??? > A ZVOL is a single LU, so there's nothing to manipulate. Could you give

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS/iSCSI target integration

2006-11-02 Thread Rick McNeal
Cyril Plisko wrote: On 11/2/06, Rick McNeal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The administration of FC devices for the target mode needs some serious thinking so that we don't end up with a real nightmare on our hands. As you point out the FC world doesn't separate the po

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: [storage-discuss] ZFS/iSCSI target integration

2006-11-02 Thread Rick McNeal
nge the accepted value to be "disk". "direct" is a term that comes from the T10 world. Other values are sequential for tapes, printer, scanner, etc.. Adam -- Rick McNeal A good friend will come and bail you out of jail...but, a true friend will be sitting ne

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS/iSCSI target integration

2006-11-02 Thread Rick McNeal
Dick Davies wrote: On 01/11/06, Rick McNeal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I too must be missing something. I can't imagine why it would take 5 minutes to online a target. A ZVOL should automatically be brought online since now initialization is required. s/now/no/ ? Correct.

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS/iSCSI target integration

2006-11-02 Thread Rick McNeal
ut why would you want/need to change the LUN? Well, with iSCSI specifically it is of less importance, since one can easily created multiple units identified by other means, than LUN. I, however, trying to look forward for FC SCSI target functionality mirroring that of the iSCSI (AFAIK it is on

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS/iSCSI target integration

2006-11-01 Thread Rick McNeal
Or did I miss something ? I too must be missing something. I can't imagine why it would take 5 minutes to online a target. A ZVOL should automatically be brought online since now initialization is required. -- Rick McNeal A good friend will come and bail you out of jail...bu

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS/iSCSI target integration

2006-11-01 Thread Rick McNeal
e to create logical units that are hole-y files, but doing so requires a special XML tag to be added. I've been thinking about adding this as an option to the CLI if enough folks would find it useful. Hope this helps. If it's a non-issue th

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS/iSCSI target integration

2006-11-01 Thread Rick McNeal
ee it. BTW where is the iscsitadm(1M) man page it doesn't seem to be in snv_50. Rick probably has an answer. The man page is scheduled to go into build 52. It's been available for some time, but because of vacation schedules and documentation gate schedules the man page

Re: [storage-discuss] Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS/iSCSI target integration

2006-11-01 Thread Rick McNeal
able simplified authentication administration. -- richard ___ storage-discuss mailing list storage-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/storage-discuss -- Rick McNeal A good friend will come and bail you out of jai

Re: [storage-discuss] Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS/iSCSI target integration

2006-11-01 Thread Rick McNeal
lation type, plus a few other miscellaneous bits of information. The zfs command goes through some effort to determine the longest property name and value. It then displays that information in uniform column widths. The iscsi property value blows that out of the water. -- Rick McNeal A goo