Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs/sol10u8 less stable than in sol10u5?

2010-02-13 Thread sean walmsley
We recently patched our X4500 from Sol10 U6 to Sol10 U8 and have not noticed anything like what you're seeing. We do not have any SSD devices installed. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [zfs-discuss] building zpools on device aliases

2009-11-20 Thread Sean Walmsley
mdump doesn't produce any "human readable" disk ids, only guids which then have to be correlated via a "zdb -c" Sean >Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:18:52 -0700 >From: Cindy Swearingen >Subject: Re: [zfs-discuss] building zpools on device aliases >To: se

[zfs-discuss] building zpools on device aliases

2009-11-16 Thread sean walmsley
We have a number of Sun J4200 SAS JBOD arrays which we have multipathed using Sun's MPxIO facility. While this is great for reliability, it results in the /dev/dsk device IDs changing from cXtYd0 to something virtually unreadable like "c4t5000C5000B21AC63d0s3". Since the entries in /dev/{rdsk,d

Re: [zfs-discuss] cryptic vdev name from fmdump

2009-10-23 Thread sean walmsley
ed rather than there being a real issue with ZFS. Despite this, we're happy to know that we can now match vdevs against physical devices using either the mdb trick or zdb. We've followed Eric's work on ZFS device enumeration for the Fishwork project with great interest - hopefully

Re: [zfs-discuss] cryptic vdev name from fmdump

2009-10-23 Thread sean walmsley
Thanks for this information. We have a weekly scrub schedule, but I ran another just to be sure :-) It completed with 0 errors. Running fmdump -eV gives: TIME CLASS fmdump: /var/fm/fmd/errlog is empty Dumping the faultlog (no -e) does give some output, but again there

[zfs-discuss] cryptic vdev name from fmdump

2009-10-23 Thread sean walmsley
This morning we got a fault management message from one of our production servers stating that a fault in one of our pools had been detected and fixed. Looking into the error using fmdump gives: fmdump -v -u 90ea244e-1ea9-4bd6-d2be-e4e7a021f006 TIME UUID

Re: [zfs-discuss] questions regarding RFE 6334757 and CR 6322205 disk write cache. thanks (case 11356581)

2009-07-13 Thread sean walmsley
Something caused my original message to get cut off. Here is the full post: 1) Turning on write caching is potentially dangerous because the disk will indicate that data has been written (to cache) before it has actually been written to non-volatile storage (disk). Since the factory has no way o

Re: [zfs-discuss] questions regarding RFE 6334757 and CR 6322205 disk write cache. thanks (case 11356581)

2009-07-13 Thread sean walmsley
1) Turning on write caching is potentially dangerous because the disk will indicate that data has been written (to cache) before it has actually been written to non-volatile storage (disk). Since the factory has no way of knowing how you'll use your T5140, I'm guessing that they set the disk wri

Re: [zfs-discuss] Why is Solaris 10 ZFS performance so terrible?

2009-07-13 Thread sean walmsley
Sun X4500 (thumper) with 16Gb of memory running Solaris 10 U6 with patches current to the end of Feb 2009. Current ARC size is ~6Gb. ZFS filesystem created in a ~3.2 Tb pool consisting of 7 sets of mirrored 500Gb SATA drives. I used 4000 8Mb files for a total of 32Gb. run 1: ~140M/s average a

Re: [zfs-discuss] sharing UFS root and ZFS pool

2008-05-12 Thread sean walmsley
Some additional information: I should have noted that the client could not see the thumper1 shares via the automounter. I've played around with this setup a bit more and it appears that I can manually mount both filesystems (e.g. on /tmp/troot and /tmp/tpool), so the ZFS and UFS volumes are bei

[zfs-discuss] sharing UFS root and ZFS pool

2008-05-11 Thread sean walmsley
I have a server "thumper1" which exports its root (UFS) filesystem to one specific server "hoss" via /etc/dfs/dfstab so that we can backup various system files. When I added a ZFS pool mypool to this system, I shared it to hoss and several other machines using the ZFS sharenfs property. Prior t

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Administration

2008-04-09 Thread sean walmsley
I haven't used it myself, but the following blog describes an automatic snapshot facility: http://blogs.sun.com/timf/entry/zfs_automatic_snapshots_0_10 I agree that it would be nice to have this type of functionality built into the base product, however. This message posted from opensolaris

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS needs a viable backup mechanism

2007-08-28 Thread sean walmsley
We mostly rely on AMANDA, but for a simple, compressed, encrypted, tape-spanning alternative backup (intended for disaster recovery) we use: tar cf - | lzf (quick compression utility) | ssl (to encrypt) | mbuffer (which writes to tape and looks after tape changes) Recovery is exactly the oppos