Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS, power failures, and UPSes

2009-07-01 Thread Keith Bierman
On Jul 1, 2009, at 11:45 AM, Neal Pollack wrote: many more. Do the math. That's many many tons of lead and acid in the dump every 24 months. Why do you believe they aren't recycled? Lead acid batteries are usually recycled very effectively khb...@gmail.com | keith.bier...@quantu

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS, power failures, and UPSes

2009-07-01 Thread Andre van Eyssen
On Thu, 2 Jul 2009, Ian Collins wrote: 5+ is typical for telco use. Aah, but we start getting into rooms full of giant 2V wet lead acid cells and giant busbars the size of railway tracks. -- Andre van Eyssen. mail: an...@purplecow.org jabber: an...@interact.purplecow.org purplecow.

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS, power failures, and UPSes

2009-07-01 Thread Ian Collins
On Thu 02/07/09 10:50 , Haudy Kazemi kaze0...@umn.edu sent: [getting way OT!] > With a good quality lead acid battery and appropriate charge management > system, the battery can last the business life of the server without > replacement (e.g. 4 years). 5+ is typical for telco use. > The exper

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS, power failures, and UPSes

2009-07-01 Thread Haudy Kazemi
Erik Trimble wrote: Neal Pollack wrote: On 07/ 1/09 05:11 AM, Haudy Kazemi wrote: Ian Collins wrote: Or run your systems of DC and get as much backup as you have room (and budget!) for batteries. I once visited a central exchange with 48 hours of battery capacity... The way Google handles

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS, power failures, and UPSes

2009-07-01 Thread Erik Trimble
Neal Pollack wrote: On 07/ 1/09 05:11 AM, Haudy Kazemi wrote: Ian Collins wrote: Or run your systems of DC and get as much backup as you have room (and budget!) for batteries. I once visited a central exchange with 48 hours of battery capacity... The way Google handles UPSes is to have a sm

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS, power failures, and UPSes

2009-07-01 Thread Neal Pollack
On 07/ 1/09 05:11 AM, Haudy Kazemi wrote: Ian Collins wrote: Or run your systems of DC and get as much backup as you have room (and budget!) for batteries. I once visited a central exchange with 48 hours of battery capacity... The way Google handles UPSes is to have a small 12v battery integ

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS, power failures, and UPSes (and ZFS recovery guide links)

2009-07-01 Thread Haudy Kazemi
Ian Collins wrote: David Magda wrote: On Jun 30, 2009, at 14:08, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: I have seen UPSs help quite a lot for short glitches lasting seconds, or a minute. Otherwise the outage is usually longer than the UPSs can stay up since the problem required human attention. A standby

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS, power failures, and UPSes

2009-06-30 Thread Ian Collins
David Magda wrote: On Jun 30, 2009, at 14:08, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: I have seen UPSs help quite a lot for short glitches lasting seconds, or a minute. Otherwise the outage is usually longer than the UPSs can stay up since the problem required human attention. A standby generator is needed

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS, power failures, and UPSes

2009-06-30 Thread Scott Lawson
David Magda wrote: On Jun 30, 2009, at 14:08, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: I have seen UPSs help quite a lot for short glitches lasting seconds, or a minute. Otherwise the outage is usually longer than the UPSs can stay up since the problem required human attention. A standby generator is neede

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS, power failures, and UPSes

2009-06-30 Thread David Magda
On Jun 30, 2009, at 14:08, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: I have seen UPSs help quite a lot for short glitches lasting seconds, or a minute. Otherwise the outage is usually longer than the UPSs can stay up since the problem required human attention. A standby generator is needed for any long outag

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS, power failures, and UPSes

2009-06-30 Thread Miles Nordin
> "ms" == Monish Shah writes: > "sl" == Scott Lawson writes: > "np" == Neal Pollack writes: ms> If you are on a UPS, is it OK to disable ZIL? sl> I have seen numerous UPS' failures over the years, yeah at my place in NYC we've had more problems with the UPS than with the s

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS, power failures, and UPSes

2009-06-30 Thread Jason King
On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 1:36 PM, Erik Trimble wrote: > Bob Friesenhahn wrote: >> >> On Tue, 30 Jun 2009, Neal Pollack wrote: >> >>> Actually, they do quite a bit more than that. They create jobs, generate >>> revenue for battery manufacturers, and tech's that change batteries and do >>> PM maintena

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS, power failures, and UPSes

2009-06-30 Thread Erik Trimble
Bob Friesenhahn wrote: On Tue, 30 Jun 2009, Neal Pollack wrote: Actually, they do quite a bit more than that. They create jobs, generate revenue for battery manufacturers, and tech's that change batteries and do PM maintenance on the large units. Let's not It sounds like this is a responsib

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS, power failures, and UPSes

2009-06-30 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Tue, 30 Jun 2009, Neal Pollack wrote: Actually, they do quite a bit more than that. They create jobs, generate revenue for battery manufacturers, and tech's that change batteries and do PM maintenance on the large units. Let's not It sounds like this is a responsibility which should be mo

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS, power failures, and UPSes

2009-06-30 Thread Neal Pollack
On 06/30/09 03:00 AM, Andre van Eyssen wrote: On Tue, 30 Jun 2009, Monish Shah wrote: The evil tuning guide says "The ZIL is an essential part of ZFS and should never be disabled." However, if you have a UPS, what can go wrong that really requires ZIL? Without addressing a single ZFS-specif

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS, power failures, and UPSes

2009-06-30 Thread Doug Baker - Sun UK - Support Engineer
s? Monish - Original Message - From: "Ross" To: Sent: Tuesday, June 30, 2009 3:04 PM Subject: Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS, power failures, and UPSes I've seen enough people suffer from corrupted pools that a UPS is definitely good advice. However, I'm running a (very low usage

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS, power failures, and UPSes

2009-06-30 Thread Scott Lawson
ent: Tuesday, June 30, 2009 3:04 PM Subject: Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS, power failures, and UPSes I've seen enough people suffer from corrupted pools that a UPS is definitely good advice. However, I'm running a (very low usage) ZFS server at home and it's suffered through at least h

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS, power failures, and UPSes

2009-06-30 Thread Andre van Eyssen
On Tue, 30 Jun 2009, Monish Shah wrote: The evil tuning guide says "The ZIL is an essential part of ZFS and should never be disabled." However, if you have a UPS, what can go wrong that really requires ZIL? Without addressing a single ZFS-specific issue: * panics * crashes * hardware failur

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS, power failures, and UPSes

2009-06-30 Thread Scott Lawson
Haudy Kazemi wrote: Hello, I've looked around Google and the zfs-discuss archives but have not been able to find a good answer to this question (and the related questions that follow it): How well does ZFS handle unexpected power failures? (e.g. environmental power failures, power supply

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS, power failures, and UPSes

2009-06-30 Thread Monish Shah
From: "Ross" To: Sent: Tuesday, June 30, 2009 3:04 PM Subject: Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS, power failures, and UPSes I've seen enough people suffer from corrupted pools that a UPS is definitely good advice. However, I'm running a (very low usage) ZFS server at home and it&#x

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS, power failures, and UPSes

2009-06-30 Thread Ross
I've seen enough people suffer from corrupted pools that a UPS is definitely good advice. However, I'm running a (very low usage) ZFS server at home and it's suffered through at least half a dozen power outages without any problems at all. I do plan to buy a UPS as soon as I can, but it seems

[zfs-discuss] ZFS, power failures, and UPSes

2009-06-29 Thread Haudy Kazemi
Hello, I've looked around Google and the zfs-discuss archives but have not been able to find a good answer to this question (and the related questions that follow it): How well does ZFS handle unexpected power failures? (e.g. environmental power failures, power supply dying, etc.) Does it c