Re: [zfs-discuss] Steps to Recover a ZFS pool.

2010-06-22 Thread Ron Mexico
I ran into the same thing where I had to manually delete directories. Once you export the pool you can plug in the drives anywhere else. Reimport the pool and the file systems come right up — as long as the drives can be seen by the system. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _

Re: [zfs-discuss] Hard drives for ZFS NAS

2010-05-13 Thread Ron Mexico
I use the RE4's at work on the storage server, but at home I use the consumer 1TB green drives. My system [2009.06] uses an Intel Atom 330 based motherboard, 4 gigs of non-ecc ram, a Supermicro AOC-SAT2-MV8 controller with 5 1TB Western Digital [WD10EARS] drives in a raidz1. There are many rea

Re: [zfs-discuss] Moved disks to new controller - cannot import pool even after moving ba

2010-05-13 Thread Ron Mexico
I have moved drives between controllers, rearranged drives in other slots, and moved disk sets between different machines and I've never had an issue with a zpool not importing. Are you sure you didn't remove the drives while the system was powered up? Try this: zpool import -D If zpool lists

[zfs-discuss] Zpool errors

2010-04-27 Thread Ron Mexico
I had a problems with a UFS file system on a hardware raid controller. It was spitting out errors like crazy, so I rsynced it to a ZFS volume on the same machine. There were a lot of read errors during the transfer and the RAID controller alarm was going off constantly. Rsync was copying the cor

Re: [zfs-discuss] In iSCSI hell...

2010-04-21 Thread Ron Mexico
> are you using comstar or the old iSCSI target (iscsitadm) to provision > targets? I'm using zfs set shareiscsi=on to confugure the logical units and COMSTAR for the rest on the OpenSolaris side. The targets are initiated on Solaris 10 with iscsiadm. This thing was humming right along and all

[zfs-discuss] In iSCSI hell...

2010-04-20 Thread Ron Mexico
I have a storage server with snv_134 installed. This has four zfs file systems shared with iscsi that are mounted as zfs volumes on a Sun v480. Everything has been working great for about a month, and all of a sudden the v480 has timeout errors when trying to connect to the iscsi volumes on the

[zfs-discuss] Zpool hosed during testing

2009-11-10 Thread Ron Mexico
This didn't occur on a production server, but I thought I'd post this anyway because it might be interesting. I'm currently testing a ZFS NAS machine consisting of a Dell R710 with two Dell 5/E SAS HBAs. Right now I'm in the middle of torture testing the system, simulating drive failures, expor

Re: [zfs-discuss] possibilities of AFP ever making it into ZFS like NFS an

2009-09-21 Thread Ron Mexico
I was able to get Netatalk built on OpenSolaris for my ZFS NAS at home. Everything is running great so far, and I'm planning on using it on the 96TB NAS I'm building for my office. It would be nice to have this supported out of the box, but there are probably licensing issues involved. -- This

Re: [zfs-discuss] Connect couple of SATA JBODs to one storage server

2009-08-27 Thread Ron Mexico
This non-raid sas controller is $199 and is based on the LSI SAS 1068. http://accessories.us.dell.com/sna/products/Networking_Communication/productdetail.aspx?c=us&l=en&s=bsd&cs=04&sku=310-8285&~lt=popup&~ck=TopSellers What kind of chassis do these drives currently reside in? Does the backplane

Re: [zfs-discuss] Using consumer drives in a zraid2

2009-08-24 Thread Ron Mexico
Is there a formula to determine the optimal size of dedicated cache space for zraid systems to improve speed? -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listin

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS configuration input needed.

2009-08-24 Thread Ron Mexico
> Suffice to say, 2 top-level raidz2 vdevs of similar size with copies=2 > should offer very nearly the same protection as raidz2+1. > -- richard This looks like the way to go. Thanks for your input. It's much appreciated! -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _

[zfs-discuss] Using consumer drives in a zraid2

2009-08-24 Thread Ron Mexico
I'm putting together a 48 bay NAS for my company [24 drives to start]. My manager has already ordered 24 2TB [b]WD Caviar Green[/b] consumer drives - should we send these back and order the 2TB [b]WD RE4-GP[/b] enterprise drives instead? I'm tempted to try these out. First off, they're about $

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS configuration input needed.

2009-08-21 Thread Ron Mexico
> You'll have to add a bit of meat to "this"! > > What are you resiliency, space and performance > requirements? Resiliency is most important, followed by space and then speed. It's primary function is to host digital assets for ad agencies and backups of other servers and workstations in the o

[zfs-discuss] ZFS configuration input needed.

2009-08-21 Thread Ron Mexico
I'm in the process of setting up a NAS for my company. It's going to be based on Open Solaris and ZFS, running on a Dell R710 with two SAS 5/E HBAs. Each HBA will be connected to a 24 bay Supermicro JBOD chassis. Each chassis will have 12 drives to start out with, giving us room for expansion as