Re: [zfs-discuss] Identifying drives (SATA)

2011-02-05 Thread rwalists
On Feb 5, 2011, at 2:43 PM, David Dyer-Bennet wrote: > Is there a clever way to figure out which drive is which? And if I have to > fall back on removing a drive I think is right, and seeing if that's true, > what admin actions will I have to perform to get the pool back to safety? > (I've g

Re: [zfs-discuss] mirrored drive

2010-11-29 Thread rwalists
On Nov 29, 2010, at 8:05 AM, Dick Hoogendijk wrote: > OK, I've got a proble I can't solve by myself. I've installed solaris 11 > using just one drive. > Now I want to create a mirror by attached a second one tot the rpool. > However, the first one has NO partition 9 but the second one does. This

Re: [zfs-discuss] Tips for ZFS tuning for NFS store of VM images

2010-07-29 Thread rwalists
On Jul 28, 2010, at 3:11 PM, sol wrote: > A partial workaround was to turn off access time on the share and to mount > with > noatime,actimeo=60 > > But that's not perfect because when left along the VM got into a "stuck" > state. > I've never seen that state before when the VM was hosted on

Re: [zfs-discuss] [ZIL device brainstorm] intel x25-M G2 has ram cache?

2010-05-24 Thread rwalists
On May 24, 2010, at 4:28 AM, Erik Trimble wrote: > yes, both the X25-M (both G1 and G2) plus the X25-E have a DRAM buffer on the > controller, and neither has a supercapacitor (or other battery) to back it > up, so there is the potential for data loss (but /not/ data corruption) in a > power-lo

Re: [zfs-discuss] [osol-discuss] Moving Storage to opensolaris+zfs. What about backup?

2010-03-09 Thread rwalists
On Mar 8, 2010, at 7:55 AM, Erik Trimble wrote: > Assume your machine has died the True Death, and you are starting with new > disks (and, at least a similar hardware setup). > > I'm going to assume that you named the original snapshot > 'rpool/ROOT/whate...@today' > > (1) Boot off the OpenS

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS for my home RAID? Or Linux Software RAID?

2010-03-07 Thread rwalists
On Mar 8, 2010, at 12:05 AM, Dedhi Sujatmiko wrote: > 2. OpenSolaris (and EON) does not have proper implementation of SMART > monitoring. Therefore I cannot get to know the temperature of my hard disks. > Since they are DIY storage without chassis environment monitoring, I consider > this an im

Re: [zfs-discuss] suggested ssd for zil

2010-02-28 Thread rwalists
On Mar 1, 2010, at 12:05 AM, Daniel Carosone wrote: >> Is there anything that is safe to use as a ZIL, faster than the >> Mtron but more appropriate for home than a Stec? > > ACARD ANS-9010, as mentioned several times here recently (also sold as > hyperdrive5) You are right. I saw that in a

Re: [zfs-discuss] suggested ssd for zil

2010-02-28 Thread rwalists
On Feb 28, 2010, at 11:51 PM, rwali...@washdcmail.com wrote: > And what won't work are: > > - Intel X-25M > - Most/all of the consumer drives prices beneath the X-25M > > all because they use capacitors to get write speed w/o respecting cache flush > requests. Sorry, meant to say "they use c

[zfs-discuss] suggested ssd for zil

2010-02-28 Thread rwalists
If anyone has specific SSD drives they would recommend for ZIL use would you mind a quick response to the list? My understanding is I need to look for: 1) Respect cache flush commands (which is my real question...the answer to this isn't very obvious in most cases) 2) Fast on small writes It s

Re: [zfs-discuss] verging OT: how to buy J4500 w/o overpriced

2010-02-10 Thread rwalists
On Feb 9, 2010, at 1:55 PM, matthew patton wrote: >> It might help people to understand how ridiculous they >> sound going on and on >> about buying a premium storage appliance without any >> storage. > > Since I started this, let me explain to those who can't begin to understand > why I propose

Re: [zfs-discuss] sharemgr

2009-11-25 Thread rwalists
On Nov 24, 2009, at 3:41 PM, dick hoogendijk wrote: >> I have a solution with use zfs set sharenfs=rw,nosuid zpool but i prefer >> use the sharemgr command. > > Then you prefere wrong. ZFS filesystems are not shared this way. > Read up on ZFS and NFS. It can also be done with sharemgr. Shaving

Re: [zfs-discuss] marvell88sx2 driver build126

2009-11-11 Thread rwalists
On Nov 11, 2009, at 12:01 AM, Tim Cook wrote: On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 5:15 PM, Tim Cook wrote: One thing I'm noticing is a lot of checksum errors being generated during the resilver. Is this normal? Anyone? It's up to 7.35M checksum errors and it's rebuilding extremely slowly (as evi

Re: [zfs-discuss] Comments on home OpenSolaris/ZFS server

2009-09-29 Thread rwalists
On Sep 29, 2009, at 2:41 AM, Eugen Leitl wrote: On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 06:04:01PM -0400, Thomas Burgess wrote: personally i like this case: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811219021 it's got 20 hot swap bays, and it's surprisingly well built. For the money, it's an