Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Success Stories

2008-10-21 Thread Marc Bevand
About 2 years ago I used to run snv_55b with a raidz on top of 5 500GB SATA drives. After 10 months I ran out of space and added a mirror of 2 250GB drives to my pool with "zpool add". No pb. I scrubbed it weekly. I only saw 1 CKSUM error one day (ZFS self-healed itself automatically of course).

Re: [zfs-discuss] HELP! SNV_97, 98, 99 zfs with iscsitadm and VMWare!

2008-10-21 Thread Nigel Smith
Well, my colleague & myself have recently had a basic Vmare ESX cluster working, with the Solaris iscsi target, in the Lab at work, so I know it does work. We used ESX 3.5i on two Dell Precision 390 workstations, booted from USB memory sticks. We used snv_97 and no special tweaks required. We used

[zfs-discuss] Solution: Recover after disk labels "failure"

2008-10-21 Thread Oleg Muravskiy
I recovered the pool by doing export, import and scrub. Apparently you could export pool with a FAILED device, and import will restore labels from backup copies. Data errors are still there after import, so you need to scrub pool. After all that the filesystem is back with no errors/problems.

Re: [zfs-discuss] Tool to figure out optimum ZFS recordsize for a Mail server Maildir tree?

2008-10-21 Thread Marcelo Leal
Hello Roch! > > Leave the default recordsize. With 128K recordsize, > files smaller than > 128K are stored as single record > tightly fitted to the smallest possible # of disk > sectors. Reads and > writes are then managed with fewer ops. In the write ZFS is dynamic, but in the read? If i

Re: [zfs-discuss] Booting 0811 from USB Stick

2008-10-21 Thread Marcelo Leal
Hello all, Did you make a install on the USB stick, or did you use the Distribution Constructor (DC)? Leal. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listi

[zfs-discuss] Tuning ZFS for Sun Java Messaging Server

2008-10-21 Thread Adam N. Copeland
We're using a rather large (3.8TB) ZFS volume for our mailstores on a JMS setup. Does anybody have any tips for tuning ZFS for JMS? I'm looking for even the most obvious tips, as I am a bit of a novice. Thanks, Adam ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discu

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS scalability in terms of file system count (or lack thereof) in S10U6

2008-10-21 Thread Pramod Batni
On 10/21/08 04:52, Paul B. Henson wrote: On Mon, 20 Oct 2008, Pramod Batni wrote: Yes, the implementation of the above ioctl walks the list of mounted filesystems 'vfslist' [in this case it walks 5000 nodes of a linked list before the ioctl returns] This in-kernel traversal of the filesyst

[zfs-discuss] Building a 2nd pool, can I do it in stages?

2008-10-21 Thread Håvard Krüger
Hi, my present RaidZ pool is now almost full so I've recently bought a Adaptec 3805 to start building a 2nd one, but since these are so expensive I don't have enough money left over to buy 8x1TB disks, but I can still buy 3, and I have 5x 0.5TB disks lying around. Is it possible to build a Raid

Re: [zfs-discuss] Building a 2nd pool, can I do it in stages?

2008-10-21 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Tue, 21 Oct 2008, Håvard Krüger wrote: Is it possible to build a RaidZ with 3x 1TB disks and 5x 0.5TB disks, and then swap out the 0.5 TB disks as time goes by? Is there a documentation/wiki on doing this? Yes, you can build a raidz vdev with all of these drives but only 0.5TB will be use

Re: [zfs-discuss] Setting per-file record size / querying fs/file record size?

2008-10-21 Thread Nicolas Williams
On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 04:57:22PM -0500, Nicolas Williams wrote: > I've a report that the mismatch between SQLite3's default block size and > ZFS' causes some performance problems for Thunderbird users. > > It'd be great if there was an API by which SQLite3 could set its block > size to match the

Re: [zfs-discuss] resilver being killed by 'zpool status' when root

2008-10-21 Thread Blake Irvin
I've confirmed the problem with automatic resilvers as well. I will see about submitting a bug. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] resilver being killed by 'zpool status' when root

2008-10-21 Thread Blake Irvin
Looks like there is a closed bug for this: http://bugs.opensolaris.org/view_bug.do?bug_id=6655927 It's been closed as 'not reproducible', but I can reproduce consistently on Sol 10 5/08. How can I re-open this bug? I'm using a pair of Supermicro AOC-SAT2-MV8 on a fully patched install of Sola

Re: [zfs-discuss] HELP! SNV_97, 98, 99 zfs with iscsitadm and VMWare!

2008-10-21 Thread Eugene Chupriyanov
I have a very similar problem with SNV_(( and Virtual Iron (http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=79831&tstart=0) I am using IBM x3650 Server with 6 SAS drives. And what we have in common is Broadcomm network cards (BNX driver). From previous experiance I know this cards had a dr

Re: [zfs-discuss] resilver being killed by 'zpool status' when root

2008-10-21 Thread Victor Latushkin
Blake Irvin wrote: > Looks like there is a closed bug for this: > > http://bugs.opensolaris.org/view_bug.do?bug_id=6655927 > > It's been closed as 'not reproducible', but I can reproduce consistently on > Sol 10 5/08. How can I re-open this bug? Have you tried to reproduce it with Nevada build

Re: [zfs-discuss] resilver being killed by 'zpool status' when root

2008-10-21 Thread Jacob Ritorto
Pls pardon the off-topic question, but is there a Solaris backport of the fix? On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 2:15 PM, Victor Latushkin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Blake Irvin wrote: >> Looks like there is a closed bug for this: >> >> http://bugs.opensolaris.org/view_bug.do?bug_id=6655927 >> >> It's be

Re: [zfs-discuss] Setting per-file record size / querying fs/file record size?

2008-10-21 Thread Bill Sommerfeld
On Mon, 2008-10-20 at 16:57 -0500, Nicolas Williams wrote: > I've a report that the mismatch between SQLite3's default block size and > ZFS' causes some performance problems for Thunderbird users. I was seeing a severe performance problem with sqlite3 databases as used by evolution (not thunderbir

Re: [zfs-discuss] Setting per-file record size / querying fs/file record size?

2008-10-21 Thread Nicolas Williams
On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 03:43:08PM -0400, Bill Sommerfeld wrote: > On Mon, 2008-10-20 at 16:57 -0500, Nicolas Williams wrote: > > I've a report that the mismatch between SQLite3's default block size and > > ZFS' causes some performance problems for Thunderbird users. > > I was seeing a severe perf

Re: [zfs-discuss] HELP! SNV_97, 98, 99 zfs with iscsitadm and VMWare!

2008-10-21 Thread Tano
The poweredge 1850 has an intel etherexpress pro 1000 internal cards in it. However, some new updates, even the microsoft initiator hung writing a 1.5 gigabyte file to the iscsitarget on the opensolaris box. I've installed linux iscsitarget on the same box and will reattempt the iscsi targets

Re: [zfs-discuss] HELP! SNV_97, 98, 99 zfs with iscsitadm and VMWare!

2008-10-21 Thread Tano
one more update: common hardware between all my machines soo far has been the PERC (Poweredge Raid Controllers) or also known as the LSI MEGA RAID controller. The 1850 has a PERC 4d/i the 1900 has a PERC 5/i I'll be testing the iscsitarget with a SATA controller to test my hypothesis. -- This

Re: [zfs-discuss] HELP! SNV_97, 98, 99 zfs with iscsitadm and VMWare!

2008-10-21 Thread Nigel Smith
Hi tano I hope you can try with the 'iscsisnoop.d' script, so we can see if your problem is the same as what Eugene is seeing. Please can you also check the contents of the file: /var/svc/log/system-iscsitgt\:default.log .. just to make sure that the iscsi target is not core dumping & restarting.

Re: [zfs-discuss] Tuning ZFS for Sun Java Messaging Server

2008-10-21 Thread Robert Milkowski
Hello Adam, Tuesday, October 21, 2008, 2:00:46 PM, you wrote: ANC> We're using a rather large (3.8TB) ZFS volume for our mailstores on a ANC> JMS setup. Does anybody have any tips for tuning ZFS for JMS? I'm ANC> looking for even the most obvious tips, as I am a bit of a novice. Thanks, Well, it

Re: [zfs-discuss] Setting per-file record size / querying fs/file record size?

2008-10-21 Thread Robert Milkowski
Hello Nicolas, Monday, October 20, 2008, 10:57:22 PM, you wrote: NW> I've a report that the mismatch between SQLite3's default block size and NW> ZFS' causes some performance problems for Thunderbird users. NW> It'd be great if there was an API by which SQLite3 could set its block NW> size to ma

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Success Stories

2008-10-21 Thread Robert Milkowski
Hello Marc, Tuesday, October 21, 2008, 8:14:17 AM, you wrote: MB> About 2 years ago I used to run snv_55b with a raidz on top of 5 500GB SATA MB> drives. After 10 months I ran out of space and added a mirror of 2 250GB MB> drives to my pool with "zpool add". No pb. I scrubbed it weekly. I only sa

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS with Fusion-IO?

2008-10-21 Thread MC
> Yes, we've been pleasantly surprised by the demand. > But, that doesn't mean we're not anxious to expand > our ability to address such an important market as > OpenSolaris and ZFS. > > We're actively working on OpenSolaris drivers. We > don't expect it to take long - I'll keep you posted. > >

[zfs-discuss] zfs migration question

2008-10-21 Thread Dave Bevans
Hi, I have a customer with the following question... She's trying to combine 2 ZFS 460gb disks into one 900gb ZFS disk. If this is possible how is this done? Is there any documentation on this that I can provide to them? -- Regards, Dave -- My normal working hours are Sunday through Wednesday

Re: [zfs-discuss] L2ARC is Solaris 10?

2008-10-21 Thread Lance
> When will L2ARC be available in Solaris 10? My Sun SE said L2ARC should be in S10U7. It was scheduled for S10U6 (shipping in a few weeks), but didn't make it in time. At least S10U6 will have ZIL offload and ZFS boot. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org __

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS with Fusion-IO?

2008-10-21 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Tue, 21 Oct 2008, MC wrote: > > There is a fusion-io user here claiming that the performance drops > 90% after the device has written to capacity once. Does fusion-io Isn't this what is expected from FLASH-based SSD devices? They have to erase before they can write. The vendor is kind enou

[zfs-discuss] Oracle on ZFS best practice? docs? blogs?

2008-10-21 Thread david lacerte
Oracle on ZFS best practice? docs? blogs? Any recent/new info related to Running Oracle 10g and/or 11g on ZFS Solaris 10? dave ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss