Re: [zfs-discuss] device mixed-up while tying to import.

2010-02-28 Thread Giovanni Tirloni
On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 6:21 PM, Yariv Graf wrote: > > Hi, > It seems I can't import a single external HDD. > > pool: HD > id: 8012429942861870778 > state: UNAVAIL > status: One or more devices are missing from the system. > action: The pool cannot be imported. Attach the missing > d

Re: [zfs-discuss] Pool vdev imbalance

2010-02-28 Thread Andrew Gabriel
Ian Collins wrote: I was running zpool iostat on a pool comprising a stripe of raidz2 vdevs that appears to be writing slowly and I notice a considerable imbalance of both free space and write operations. The pool is currently feeding a tape backup while receiving a large filesystem. Is this

Re: [zfs-discuss] device mixed-up while tying to import.

2010-02-28 Thread Yariv Graf
Hi, Thanks for the reply. I can arrange the lost SSD buy I already formatted it. Second, even the external HDD is for instance /dev/rdsk/c16t0d0, when I try to debug using zdb It shows me another “path”: path='/dev/dsk/c11t0d0s0' devid='id1,s...@tst31500341as2ge

[zfs-discuss] Clear vdev information from disk

2010-02-28 Thread Lutz Schumann
Hello list, it is damn difficult to destroy ZFS labels :) I try to remove the vedev labels of disks used in a pool before. According to http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/download/Community+Group+zfs/docs/ondiskformat0822.pdf I created a script that removes the first 512 KB and the last 512 KB, h

[zfs-discuss] slow zfs scrub?

2010-02-28 Thread Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk
hi all I have a server running svn_131 and the scrub is very slow. I have a cron job for starting it every week and now it's been running for a while, and it's very, very slow scrub: scrub in progress for 40h41m, 12.56% done, 283h14m to go The configuration is listed below, consisting of thre

Re: [zfs-discuss] Who is using ZFS ACL's in production?

2010-02-28 Thread Kjetil Torgrim Homme
"Paul B. Henson" writes: > On Fri, 26 Feb 2010, David Dyer-Bennet wrote: >> I think of using ACLs to extend extra access beyond what the >> permission bits grant. Are you talking about using them to prevent >> things that the permission bits appear to grant? Because so long as >> they're only gr

Re: [zfs-discuss] Large scale ZFS deployments out there (>200 disks)

2010-02-28 Thread Orvar Korvar
Speaking of long boot times, Ive heard that IBM power servers boot in 90 minutes or more. -- 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] Clear vdev information from disk

2010-02-28 Thread Richard Elling
On Feb 28, 2010, at 5:05 AM, Lutz Schumann wrote: > Hello list, > > it is damn difficult to destroy ZFS labels :) Some people seem to have a knack of doing it accidentally :-) > I try to remove the vedev labels of disks used in a pool before. According to > http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/down

Re: [zfs-discuss] Pool vdev imbalance

2010-02-28 Thread Ian Collins
Andrew Gabriel wrote: Ian Collins wrote: I was running zpool iostat on a pool comprising a stripe of raidz2 vdevs that appears to be writing slowly and I notice a considerable imbalance of both free space and write operations. The pool is currently feeding a tape backup while receiving a larg

Re: [zfs-discuss] Clear vdev information from disk

2010-02-28 Thread Tim Cook
On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 1:12 PM, Richard Elling wrote: > On Feb 28, 2010, at 5:05 AM, Lutz Schumann wrote: > > Hello list, > > > > it is damn difficult to destroy ZFS labels :) > > Some people seem to have a knack of doing it accidentally :-) > > > I try to remove the vedev labels of disks used in

Re: [zfs-discuss] device mixed-up while tying to import.

2010-02-28 Thread Cyril Plisko
On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 2:06 PM, Yariv Graf wrote: > Hi, > Thanks for the reply. > I can arrange the lost SSD buy I already formatted it. > Second, even the external HDD is for instance /dev/rdsk/c16t0d0, when I try > to debug using zdb > It shows me another “path”: > path='/dev/dsk/c11t0d0s0' >

[zfs-discuss] ZFS compression and deduplication on root pool on SSD

2010-02-28 Thread valrh...@gmail.com
I am running my root pool on a 60 GB SLC SSD (OCZ Agility EX). At present, my rpool/ROOT has no compression, and no deduplication. I was wondering about whether it would be a good idea, from a performance and data integrity standpoint, to use one, the other, or both, on the root pool. My current

Re: [zfs-discuss] slow zfs scrub?

2010-02-28 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Sat, 27 Feb 2010, Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk wrote: hi all I have a server running svn_131 and the scrub is very slow. I have a cron job for starting it every week and now it's been running for a while, and it's very, very slow Have you checked the output of 'iostat -xe' to see if there are u

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS compression and deduplication on root pool on SSD

2010-02-28 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Sun, 28 Feb 2010, valrh...@gmail.com wrote: backup server, I should be able to compress by about a factor of 1.5x. If I enable both on the rpool filesystem, then clone the boot environment, that should enable it on the new BE (which would be a child of rpool/ROOT), right? If by 'clone' yo

[zfs-discuss] sizing for L2ARC and dedup...

2010-02-28 Thread Erik Trimble
I'm finally at the point of adding an SSD to my system, so I can get reasonable dedup performance. The question here goes to sizing of the SSD for use as an L2ARC device. Noodling around, I found Richard's old posing on ARC->L2ARC memory requirements, which is mighty helpful in making sure I d

[zfs-discuss] What's the advantage of using multiple filesystems in a pool

2010-02-28 Thread tomwaters
Hi guys, on my home server I have a variety of directories under a single pool/filesystem, Cloud. Things like cloud/movies -> 4TB cloud/music -> 100Gig cloud/winbackups -> 1TB cloud/data -> 1TB etc. After doing some reading, I see recomendations to have separate filesystem to improve p

[zfs-discuss] zpool import as unavailable when mpxio disabled

2010-02-28 Thread mingli
I have 1 host with Solaris 10 update 8 and it linked with stk6540 array(the host type set to traffic manager), and host have 4 paths and 2 linked to the controller A and the rest 2 linked to controller B, when I disabled the MPxIO and the host reboot, then I checked the zpool status, the testpoo

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS compression and deduplication on root pool on SSD

2010-02-28 Thread Bill Sommerfeld
On 02/28/10 15:58, valrh...@gmail.com wrote: Also, I don't have the numbers to prove this, but it seems to me > that the actual size of rpool/ROOT has grown substantially since I > did a clean install of build 129a (I'm now at build133). WIthout > compression, either, that was around 24 GB, but

Re: [zfs-discuss] What's the advantage of using multiple filesystems in a pool

2010-02-28 Thread Erik Trimble
tomwaters wrote: Hi guys, on my home server I have a variety of directories under a single pool/filesystem, Cloud. Things like cloud/movies -> 4TB cloud/music -> 100Gig cloud/winbackups -> 1TB cloud/data -> 1TB etc. After doing some reading, I see recomendations to have separate files

[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] 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

Re: [zfs-discuss] suggested ssd for zil

2010-02-28 Thread Daniel Carosone
> 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) -- Dan. pgpeFYm43bUlS.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS compression and deduplication on root pool on SSD

2010-02-28 Thread Daniel Carosone
On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 07:36:30PM -0800, Bill Sommerfeld wrote: > To avoid this in the future, set PKG_CACHEDIR in your environment to > point at a filesystem which isn't cloned by beadm -- something outside > rpool/ROOT, for instance. +1 - I've just used a dataset mounted at /var/pkg/downloa

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 Erik Trimble
rwali...@washdcmail.com wrote: 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. Sorr

Re: [zfs-discuss] device mixed-up while tying to import.

2010-02-28 Thread Yariv Graf
Hi Cyril, Thanks for the response. In simple words this is what been done. 1- zpool import HD (external HDD[single drive]) 2- zpool add HD log c0t4d0 (SSD drive) 3- play with it a bit. 4 zpool export HD 5- reinstall opensolaris on SSD drive (ex slog above). Is there any chance to recover the HD zp

Re: [zfs-discuss] sizing for L2ARC and dedup...

2010-02-28 Thread Richard Elling
On Feb 28, 2010, at 7:11 PM, Erik Trimble wrote: > I'm finally at the point of adding an SSD to my system, so I can get > reasonable dedup performance. > > The question here goes to sizing of the SSD for use as an L2ARC device. > > Noodling around, I found Richard's old posing on ARC->L2ARC memo

Re: [zfs-discuss] sizing for L2ARC and dedup...

2010-02-28 Thread Erik Trimble
Richard Elling wrote: On Feb 28, 2010, at 7:11 PM, Erik Trimble wrote: I'm finally at the point of adding an SSD to my system, so I can get reasonable dedup performance. The question here goes to sizing of the SSD for use as an L2ARC device. Noodling around, I found Richard's old posing on