Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs on a raid box

2007-11-26 Thread Mads Toftum
On Mon, Nov 26, 2007 at 01:57:59PM +0100, Paul Boven wrote: > config: > > NAME STATE READ WRITE CKSUM > data DEGRADED 0 0 0 > raidz2 DEGRADED 0 0 0 > c4t0d0 ONLINE 0 0 0 > c4t1

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs on a raid box

2007-11-26 Thread Paul Boven
Hi everyone, I've had some time to upgrade the machine in question to nv-b77 and run the same tests. And I'm happy to report that now, hotspares work a lot better. The only question remaining for us: how long for these changes to be integrated into a supported Solaris release? See below for some

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs on a raid box

2007-11-21 Thread Paul Boven
Hi Dan, Dan Pritts wrote: > On Mon, Nov 19, 2007 at 11:10:32AM +0100, Paul Boven wrote: >> Any suggestions on how to further investigate / fix this would be very >> much welcomed. I'm trying to determine whether this is a zfs bug or one >> with the Transtec raidbox, and whether to file a bug with

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs on a raid box

2007-11-20 Thread Paul Boven
Hi MP, MP wrote: >> but my issue is that >> not only the 'time left', but also the progress >> indicator itself varies >> wildly, and keeps resetting itself to 0%, not giving >> any indication that > > Are you sure you are not being hit by this bug: > > http://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatabase/vi

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs on a raid box

2007-11-20 Thread MP
> but my issue is that > not only the 'time left', but also the progress > indicator itself varies > wildly, and keeps resetting itself to 0%, not giving > any indication that Are you sure you are not being hit by this bug: http://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6343667 i.e.

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs on a raid box

2007-11-19 Thread Dan Pritts
On Mon, Nov 19, 2007 at 11:10:32AM +0100, Paul Boven wrote: > Any suggestions on how to further investigate / fix this would be very > much welcomed. I'm trying to determine whether this is a zfs bug or one > with the Transtec raidbox, and whether to file a bug with either > Transtec (Promise) or z

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs on a raid box

2007-11-19 Thread Paul Boven
Hi Tom, everyone, Tom Mooney wrote: > A little extra info: > ZFS brings in a ZFS spare device the next time the pool is accessed, not > a raidbox hot spare. Resilvering starts automatically and increases disk > access times by about 30%. The first hour of estimated time left ( for > 5-6 TB pools )

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs on a raid box

2007-11-16 Thread Tom Mooney
A little extra info: ZFS brings in a ZFS spare device the next time the pool is accessed, not a raidbox hot spare. Resilvering starts automatically and increases disk access times by about 30%. The first hour of estimated time left ( for 5-6 TB pools ) is wildly inaccurate, but it starts to set

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs on a raid box

2007-11-16 Thread Dan Pritts
On Fri, Nov 16, 2007 at 11:31:00AM +0100, Paul Boven wrote: > Thanks for your reply. The SCSI-card in the X4200 is a Sun Single > Channel U320 card that came with the system, but the PCB artwork does > sport a nice 'LSI LOGIC' imprint. That is probably the same card i'm using; it's actually a "Sun

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs on a raid box

2007-11-16 Thread Paul Boven
Hi Dan, Dan Pritts wrote: > On Tue, Nov 13, 2007 at 12:25:24PM +0100, Paul Boven wrote: >> We've building a storage system that should have about 2TB of storage >> and good sequential write speed. The server side is a Sun X4200 running >> Solaris 10u4 (plus yesterday's recommended patch cluster),

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs on a raid box

2007-11-15 Thread Dan Pritts
On Tue, Nov 13, 2007 at 12:25:24PM +0100, Paul Boven wrote: > Hi everyone, > > We've building a storage system that should have about 2TB of storage > and good sequential write speed. The server side is a Sun X4200 running > Solaris 10u4 (plus yesterday's recommended patch cluster), the array we >

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs on a raid box

2007-11-13 Thread Richard Elling
Paul Boven wrote: > Hi everyone, > > We've building a storage system that should have about 2TB of storage > and good sequential write speed. The server side is a Sun X4200 running > Solaris 10u4 (plus yesterday's recommended patch cluster), the array we > bought is a Transtec Provigo 510 12-disk

[zfs-discuss] zfs on a raid box

2007-11-13 Thread Paul Boven
Hi everyone, We've building a storage system that should have about 2TB of storage and good sequential write speed. The server side is a Sun X4200 running Solaris 10u4 (plus yesterday's recommended patch cluster), the array we bought is a Transtec Provigo 510 12-disk array. The disks are SATA, and