Re: [zfs-discuss] Workaround for mpt timeouts in snv_127

2009-12-06 Thread Stan Seibert
I've spent all weekend fighting this problem on our storage server after installing a ZFS log device, and your suggestion fixed it! I also have a LSI 3081E-R adapter (B3 revision) connected to a SAS expander backplane with 7 drives on it. None of the /etc/system options mentioned in this thre

Re: [zfs-discuss] Sans Digital Tower Raid TR8M

2009-07-03 Thread Stan Seibert
It sounds like this tower uses a port multiplier to multiplex 8 drives onto two eSATA cables. I know SATA port multiplier support is being worked on, but I'm not sure if it is done yet: http://opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=84068&tstart=0 -- This message posted from opensolaris.org

Re: [zfs-discuss] do zfs filesystems isolate corruption?

2007-08-11 Thread Stan Seibert
I did some tests with zfs-fuse where I created a pool with two vdevs (no mirror or raid-z) and filled it up with files. Then I deliberately corrupted bytes on the vdev and scrubbed the pool to see what happened. ZFS was able to pinpoint exactly which files were corrupted and reported their ful