Re: [zfs-discuss] Zfs disk device name

2010-06-17 Thread Simon Gao
Thanks James. Yes. The controller is LSI Logic SAS1068E. When device name changed, the following command as described by ZFS documentation will fail: zpool replace mypool Instead one must use: zpool replace mypool ZFS document says if replacing disk is inserted into the same slot positio

[zfs-discuss] Zfs disk device name

2010-06-17 Thread Simon Gao
Hi, I replaced one faulty disk with a new disk in the same disk slot. The faulty disk has a device name as c2t6d0. I expect the system would use the same device name for the new disk. However, it did not. Instead, the system uses c2t14d0, which is next free available device name, for the new di

[zfs-discuss] Find out file changes by comparing snapshots?

2009-10-02 Thread Simon Gao
Hi, Is there a way or script that helps to find out what files have changed by comparing two snapshots? Thanks, Simon -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mai

Re: [zfs-discuss] How to find poor performing disks

2009-08-26 Thread Simon Gao
Running "iostat -nxce 1", I saw write sizes alternate between two raidz groups in the same pool. At one time, drives on cotroller 1 have larger writes (3-10 times) than ones on controller2: extended device statistics errors --- r/sw/s

[zfs-discuss] How to find poor performing disks

2009-08-26 Thread Simon Gao
Hi, I'd appreciate if anyone can point me how to identify poor performing disks that might have dragged down performance of the pool. Also the system logged following error about one of the drives. Does it show the disk was having problem? Aug 17 13:45:56 zfs1.domain.com scsi: [ID 107833 kern.

Re: [zfs-discuss] Recover ZFS pool

2008-11-12 Thread Simon Gao
I figured it out. Exporting and re-importing fixed the problem. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

[zfs-discuss] Recover ZFS pool

2008-11-12 Thread Simon Gao
I am having problem with one ZFS pool and the raid controller was moved around. The OS is Solaris 10 8/07 X86. All the drives are found by the OS, but ZFS can't find two hot spare drives for some reason. And the pool is unavailable. Here is what "zpool status -x" shows: pool: scrpool

[zfs-discuss] Problem with sharing multiple zfs file systems

2007-11-21 Thread Simon Gao
Here is one issue I am running into when setting up a new NFS server to share several zfs file systems. I created following zfs file system from a zfs pool called bigpool. The bigpool is the top level file system and mounted as /export/bigpool. file system mount point bigpool