Re: [zfs-discuss] resilver that never finishes

2010-09-19 Thread Tom Bird
On 18/09/10 15:25, George Wilson wrote: Tom Bird wrote: In my case, other than an hourly snapshot, the data is not significantly changing. It'd be nice to see a response other than "you're doing it wrong", rebuilding 5x the data on a drive relative to its capacit

Re: [zfs-discuss] resilver that never finishes

2010-09-18 Thread Tom Bird
On 18/09/10 13:06, Edho P Arief wrote: On Sat, Sep 18, 2010 at 7:01 PM, Tom Bird wrote: All said and done though, we will have to live with snv_134's bugs from now on, or perhaps I could try Sol 10. or OpenIllumos. Or Nexenta. Or FreeBSD. Or. ... none of which will receive ZFS code up

Re: [zfs-discuss] resilver that never finishes

2010-09-18 Thread Tom Bird
On 18/09/10 09:02, Ian Collins wrote: On 09/18/10 06:47 PM, Carsten Aulbert wrote: Has someone an idea how it is possible to resilver 678G of data on a 500G drive? I see this all the time on a troublesome Thumper. I believe this happens because the data in the pool is continuously changing.

Re: [zfs-discuss] resilver that never finishes

2010-09-17 Thread Tom Bird
Bob Friesenhahn wrote: On Fri, 17 Sep 2010, Tom Bird wrote: Morning, c7t5000CCA221F4EC54d0 is a 2T disk, how can it resilver 5.63T of it? This is actually an old capture of the status output, it got to nearly 10T before deciding that there was an error and not completing, reseat disk and

[zfs-discuss] resilver that never finishes

2010-09-17 Thread Tom Bird
Morning, c7t5000CCA221F4EC54d0 is a 2T disk, how can it resilver 5.63T of it? This is actually an old capture of the status output, it got to nearly 10T before deciding that there was an error and not completing, reseat disk and it's doing it all again. It's happened on another pool as well,

[zfs-discuss] pool won't import

2010-03-29 Thread Tom Bird
r...@cs6:~# zpool import pool: content3 id: 14184872052409584084 state: FAULTED status: The pool metadata is corrupted. action: The pool cannot be imported due to damaged devices or data. The pool may be active on another system, but can be imported using the '-f' flag. s

Re: [zfs-discuss] demise of community edition

2010-01-31 Thread Tom Bird
Richard Elling wrote: It is not true that there is only a "horrible Gnome based installer." Try the Automated Installation (AI) version instead of the LiveCD if you've used JumpStart previously. But if you just want a text-based installer and AI is overkill, then b131 is available with the

[zfs-discuss] demise of community edition

2010-01-31 Thread Tom Bird
Afternoon, I note to my dismay that I can't get the "community edition" any more past snv_129, this version was closest to the normal way of doing things that I am used to with Solaris <= 10, the standard OpenSolaris releases seem only to have this horrible Gnome based installer that gives you

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS tale of woe and fail

2009-08-20 Thread Tom Bird
Ross wrote: Yup, that one was down to a known (and fixed) bug though, so it isn't the normal story of ZFS problems. Got a bug ID or anything for that, just out of interest? As an update on my storage situation, I've got some JBODs now, see how that goes. -- Tom // www.portfast.co.uk -- int

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS tale of woe and fail

2009-08-14 Thread Tom Bird
Victor Latushkin wrote: This issue (and previous one reported by Tom) has got some publicity recently - see here http://www.uknof.org.uk/uknof13/Bird-Redux.pdf So i feel like i need to provide a little bit more information about the outcome (sorry that it is delayed and not as full as previo

[zfs-discuss] poor performance / lots of disk activity with low throughput, seems prefetch related

2009-07-07 Thread Tom Bird
Hi guys, I've been having trouble with my archival kit, in the performance department rather than data loss this time (phew!). At the point when I took these stats where was about 250 mbit of traffic outbound on an ixgb NIC on the thing, also about 100 mbit of new stuff incoming. As you ca

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS tale of woe and fail

2009-01-19 Thread Tom Bird
Toby Thain wrote: > On 18-Jan-09, at 6:12 PM, Nathan Kroenert wrote: > >> Hey, Tom - >> >> Correct me if I'm wrong here, but it seems you are not allowing ZFS any >> sort of redundancy to manage. Every other file system out there runs fine on a single LUN, when things go wrong you have a fsck uti

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS tale of woe and fail

2009-01-18 Thread Tom Bird
Tim wrote: > On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 8:02 AM, Tom Bird <mailto:t...@marmot.org.uk>> wrote: > errors: Permanent errors have been detected in the following files: > >content:<0x0> >content:<0x2c898> > > r...@cs4:~# f

[zfs-discuss] ZFS tale of woe and fail

2009-01-18 Thread Tom Bird
Morning, For those of you who remember last time, this is a different Solaris, different disk box and different host, but the epic nature of the fail is similar. The RAID box that is the 63T LUN has a hardware fault and has been crashing, up to now the box and host got restarted and both came up

Re: [zfs-discuss] SDXC and the future of ZFS

2009-01-11 Thread Tom Bird
Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > On Sun, 11 Jan 2009, Eric D. Mudama wrote: >> My impression is not that other OS's aren't interested in ZFS, they >> are, it's that the licensing restrictions limit native support to >> Solaris, BSD, and OS-X. > > Perhaps the philosophical issues of the "other OS's" (i.e. L

Re: [zfs-discuss] more ZFS recovery

2008-08-26 Thread Tom Bird
Victor Latushkin wrote: > Hi Tom and all, >> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# uname -a >> SunOS cs3.kw 5.10 Generic_127127-11 sun4v sparc SUNW,Sun-Fire-T200 > > Btw, have you considered opening support call for this issue? As a follow up to the whole story, with the fantastic help of Victor, the failed pool

Re: [zfs-discuss] more ZFS recovery

2008-08-11 Thread Tom Bird
Victor Latushkin wrote: > Hi Tom and all, > > Tom Bird wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Have a problem with a ZFS on a single device, this device is 48 1T SATA >> drives presented as a 42T LUN via hardware RAID 6 on a SAS bus which had >> a ZFS on it as a single device.

Re: [zfs-discuss] more ZFS recovery

2008-08-06 Thread Tom Bird
Richard Elling wrote: > I see no evidence that the data is or is not correct. What we know is that > ZFS is attempting to read something and the device driver is returning EIO. > Unfortunately, EIO is a catch-all error code, so more digging to find the > root cause is needed. I'm currently check

[zfs-discuss] more ZFS recovery

2008-08-06 Thread Tom Bird
Hi, Have a problem with a ZFS on a single device, this device is 48 1T SATA drives presented as a 42T LUN via hardware RAID 6 on a SAS bus which had a ZFS on it as a single device. There was a problem with the SAS bus which caused various errors including the inevitable kernel panic, the thing ca