Re: [zfs-discuss] Metadata corrupted

2008-04-28 Thread Siegfried Nikolaivich
> Were you able to fix this problem in the end? Unfortunately, no. I believe Matthew Ahrens took a look at it and couldn't find the cause or how to fix it. We had to destroy the pool and re-create it from scratch. Fortunately, this was during the ZFS testing period, and no critically importa

Re: [zfs-discuss] NFS and Tar/Star Performance

2007-06-13 Thread Siegfried Nikolaivich
On 12-Jun-07, at 9:02 AM, eric kustarz wrote: Comparing a ZFS pool made out of a single disk to a single UFS filesystem would be a fair comparison. What does your storage look like? The storage looks like: NAMESTATE READ WRITE CKSUM tankONLINE 0

[zfs-discuss] NFS and Tar/Star Performance

2007-06-10 Thread Siegfried Nikolaivich
This is an old topic, discussed many times at length. However, I still wonder if there are any workarounds to this issue except disabling ZIL, since it makes ZFS over NFS almost unusable (it's a whole magnitude slower). My understanding is that the ball is in the hands of NFS due to ZFS's

Re: [zfs-discuss] Saving scrub results before scrub completes

2006-12-28 Thread Siegfried Nikolaivich
00 BYTES 0x19c000 0x11da000 00 EREAD 0 EWRITE0 ECKSUM0 This will show you and read/write/cksum errors. Thanks, George Siegfried Nikolaivich wrote: Hello All, I am wondering if there is a

[zfs-discuss] Saving scrub results before scrub completes

2006-12-26 Thread Siegfried Nikolaivich
Hello All, I am wondering if there is a way to save the scrub results right before the scrub is complete. After upgrading to Solaris 10U3 I still have ZFS panicing right as the scrub completes. The scrub results seem to be "cleared" when system boots back up, so I never get a chance to see th

Re: [zfs-discuss] Panic while scrubbing

2006-10-25 Thread Siegfried Nikolaivich
On 24-Oct-06, at 9:47 PM, James McPherson wrote: Could you look through your msgbuf and/or /var/adm/messages and find the full text of when these Illegal Request errors were logged. That will give an idea of where to look next. Ok it doesn't look like it's the controller, I ran some tests

Re: [zfs-discuss] Panic while scrubbing

2006-10-24 Thread Siegfried Nikolaivich
On 24-Oct-06, at 9:47 PM, James McPherson wrote: On 10/25/06, Siegfried Nikolaivich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: And this is shown on the rest of the ports: c0t?d0 Soft Errors: 6 Hard Errors: 0 Transport Errors: 0 Vendor: ATA Product: ST3320620AS Revision: CSer

Re: [zfs-discuss] Panic while scrubbing

2006-10-24 Thread Siegfried Nikolaivich
On 24-Oct-06, at 9:11 PM, James McPherson wrote: this error from the marvell88sx driver is of concern, The 10b8b decode and disparity error messages make me think that you have a bad piece of hardware. I hope it's not your controller but I can't tell without more data. You should have a look

[zfs-discuss] Panic while scrubbing

2006-10-24 Thread Siegfried Nikolaivich
Hello, I am not sure if I am posting in the correct forum, but it seems somewhat zfs related, so I thought I'd share it. While the machine was idle, I started a scrub. Around the time the scrubbing was supposed to be finished, the machine panicked. This might be related to the 'metadata corru

[zfs-discuss] Re: Re: Re: Metadata corrupted

2006-10-11 Thread Siegfried Nikolaivich
> On Mon, Oct 09, 2006 at 11:08:14PM -0700, Matthew > Ahrens wrote: > You may also want to try 'fmdump -eV' to get an idea > of what those > faults were. I am not sure how to interpret the results, maybe you can help me. It looks like the following with many more similar pages following: % fmdu

[zfs-discuss] Re: Re: Re: Metadata corrupted

2006-10-09 Thread Siegfried Nikolaivich
> Yeah, good catch. So this means that it seems to be > able to read the > label off of each device OK, and the labels look > good. I'm not sure > what else would cause us to be unable to open the > pool... Can you try > running 'zpool status -v'? The command seems to return the same thing:

[zfs-discuss] Re: Re: Metadata corrupted

2006-10-09 Thread Siegfried Nikolaivich
> zdb -l /dev/dsk/c0t1d0 Sorry for posting again, but I think you might have meant /dev/dsk/c0t1d0s0 there. The only difference between the following outputs is the guid for each device. # zdb -l /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s0 LABEL 0 --

[zfs-discuss] Re: Re: Metadata corrupted

2006-10-09 Thread Siegfried Nikolaivich
> > zdb -v tank Forgot to add "zdb: can't open tank: error 5" to the end of the output of that command. This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zf

[zfs-discuss] Re: Re: Metadata corrupted

2006-10-09 Thread Siegfried Nikolaivich
Thanks for the response Matthew. > > I don't think it's a hardware issue because it > seems to be still > > working fine, and has been for months. > > "Working fine", except that you can't access your > pool, right? :-) Well the computer and disk controller work fine when I tried it in Linux wit

[zfs-discuss] Re: Metadata corrupted

2006-10-09 Thread Siegfried Nikolaivich
> status: The pool metadata is corrupted and the pool > cannot be opened. Is there at least a way to determine what caused this error? Is it a hardware issue? Is it a possible defect in ZFS? I don't think it's a hardware issue because it seems to be still working fine, and has been for months

[zfs-discuss] Re: A versioning FS

2006-10-07 Thread Siegfried Nikolaivich
> So, if I build it, people will want it? ;) I think implementing this feature would help Apple adopt ZFS for Time Machine, which is essentially a versioning FS in practice. Actually I don't know if Apple does this, but you can increment versions with kernel notifications of file changes (Spot

[zfs-discuss] Metadata corrupted

2006-10-07 Thread Siegfried Nikolaivich
I was in the middle of doing a large transfer to my ZFS pool over CIFS. Near the end of the transfer, the Solaris machine froze. Both ethernet links were down. I walked over to the machine and pushed the reset button, as it wouldn't respond to any key-presses. After the machine booted up, I

[zfs-discuss] Re: x86 CPU Choice for ZFS

2006-07-06 Thread Siegfried Nikolaivich
> But for ZFS, it has been said often that it currently performs > much better with a 64bit address space, such as that with > Opterons and other AMD64 CPUs. I think this would play a > bigger part in a ZFS server performing well than just MHZ > and cache size. I will no doubt be selecting a 64-bi

[zfs-discuss] x86 CPU Choice for ZFS

2006-07-06 Thread Siegfried Nikolaivich
Hello, What kind of x86 CPU does ZFS prefer? In particular, what kind of CPU is optimal when using RAID-Z with a large number of disks (8)? Does L2 cache size play a big role, 256kb vs 512kb vs 1MB? Are there any performance improvements when using a dual core or quad processor machine? I am