[zfs-discuss] ZFS mirror to RAIDz?

2010-07-16 Thread Ben
nsfer all of my data to another machine and build the RAIDz from scratch, then transfer the data back? Thanks for any advice, Ben -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.o

[zfs-discuss] ZFS compression

2010-07-25 Thread Ben
it off then back on? Thanks for any advice, Ben -- 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] ZFS compression

2010-07-25 Thread Ben
hear that people are still working on it. I may have to pluck up the courage to put it on my Mac Pro if I do a rebuild anytime soon. Thanks again, Ben -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@

[zfs-discuss] Increase size of ZFS mirror

2009-06-24 Thread Ben
ttach that, wait for it to resilver, then detach c5d0s0 and add another 1TB drive and attach that to the zpool, will that up the storage of the pool? Thanks very much, Ben -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list z

Re: [zfs-discuss] Increase size of ZFS mirror

2009-06-24 Thread Ben
losing my configurations). Many thanks for both of your replies, Ben -- 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] Increase size of ZFS mirror

2009-06-24 Thread Ben
Many thanks Thomas, I have a test machine so I shall try it on that before I try it on my main system. Thanks very much once again, Ben -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http

Re: [zfs-discuss] Increase size of ZFS mirror

2009-06-25 Thread Ben
Thanks very much everyone. Victor, I did think about using VirtualBox, but I have a real machine and a supply of hard drives for a short time, for I'll test it out using that if I can. Scott, of course, at work we use three mirrors and it works very well, has saved us on occasion where we have

[zfs-discuss] ZFS mirror and sun STK 2540 FC array

2007-11-16 Thread Ben
Hi all, we have just bought a sun X2200M2 (4GB / 2 opteron 2214 / 2 disks 250GB SATA2, solaris 10 update 4) and a sun STK 2540 FC array (8 disks SAS 146 GB, 1 raid controller). The server is attached to the array with a single 4 Gb Fibre Channel link. I want to make a mirror using ZFS with this

[zfs-discuss] offlining a storage pool

2007-11-21 Thread Ben
Hi, I would like to offline an entire storage pool (not some devices), ( I want to stop all io activity to the pool) Maybe it could be implemented with a a command like : zpool offline -f tank which should implicity do a zfs unmount tank I use zfs with solaris 10 update 4. Thanks, Ben

[zfs-discuss] zfs 32bits

2008-03-05 Thread Ben
Hi, I know that is not recommended by Sun to use ZFS on 32 bits machines but, what are really the consequences of doing this ? I have an old Bipro Xeon server (6 GB ram , 6 disks), and I would like to do a raidz with 4 disks with Solaris 10 update 4. Thanks, Ben

[zfs-discuss] Benchmarking Methodologies

2010-04-20 Thread Ben Rockwood
I'm doing a little research study on ZFS benchmarking and performance profiling. Like most, I've had my favorite methods, but I'm re-evaluating my choices and trying to be a bit more scientific than I have in the past. To that end, I'm curious if folks wouldn't mind sharing their work on the sub

Re: [zfs-discuss] Benchmarking Methodologies

2010-04-21 Thread Ben Rockwood
On 4/21/10 2:15 AM, Robert Milkowski wrote: > I haven't heard from you in a while! Good to see you here again :) > > Sorry for stating obvious but at the end of a day it depends on what > your goals are. > Are you interested in micro-benchmarks and comparison to other file > systems? > > I think th

Re: [zfs-discuss] Plugging in a hard drive after Solaris has booted up?

2010-05-07 Thread Ben Rockwood
On 5/7/10 9:38 PM, Giovanni wrote: > Hi guys, > > I have a quick question, I am playing around with ZFS and here's what I did. > > I created a storage pool with several drives. I unplugged 3 out of 5 drives > from the array, currently: > > NAMESTATE READ WRITE CKSUM > gpool

Re: [zfs-discuss] Mirrored Servers

2010-05-08 Thread Ben Rockwood
On 5/8/10 3:07 PM, Tony wrote: > Lets say I have two servers, both running opensolaris with ZFS. I basically > want to be able to create a filesystem where the two servers have a common > volume, that is mirrored between the two. Meaning, each server keeps an > identical, real time backup of the

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Hard disk buffer at 100%

2010-05-08 Thread Ben Rockwood
The drive (c7t2d0)is bad and should be replaced. The second drive (c7t5d0) is either bad or going bad. This is exactly the kind of problem that can force a Thumper to it knees, ZFS performance is horrific, and as soon as you drop the bad disks things magicly return to normal. My first recommend

[zfs-discuss] Pool is wrong size in b134

2010-06-17 Thread Ben Miller
lse to try? I don't want to upgrade the pool version yet and then not be able to revert back... thanks, Ben ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Pool is wrong size in b134

2010-06-17 Thread Ben Miller
Cindy, The other two pools are 2 disk mirrors (rpool and another). Ben Cindy Swearingen wrote: Hi Ben, Any other details about this pool, like how it might be different from the other two pools on this system, might be helpful... I'm going to try to reproduce this problem.

[zfs-discuss] ZFS on Ubuntu

2010-06-25 Thread Ben Miles
How much of a difference is there in supporting applications in between Ubuntu and OpenSolaris? I was not considering Ubuntu until OpenSOlaris would not load onto my machine... Any info would be great. I have not been able to find any sort of comparison of ZFS on Ubuntu and OS. Thanks. (My cur

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS on Ubuntu

2010-06-26 Thread Ben Miles
What supporting applications are there on Ubuntu for RAIDZ? -- 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] ZFS on Ubuntu

2010-06-26 Thread Ben Miles
I tried to post this question on the Ubuntu forum. Within 30 minutes my post was on the second page of new posts... Yah. Im really not down with using Ubuntu on my server here. But I may be forced to. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ z

Re: [zfs-discuss] Using a zvol from your rpool as zil for another zpool

2010-07-02 Thread Ben Taylor
0GB disks. AFAIK, it's only non-rpool disks that use the "whole disk", and I doubt there's some sort of specific feature with an SSD, but I could be wrong. I like your idea of a reasonably sized root rpool and the rest used for the ZIL. But if you're going to do LU, you s

Re: [zfs-discuss] Opensolaris is apparently dead

2010-08-13 Thread Ben Rockwood
On 8/13/10 9:02 PM, "C. Bergström" wrote: > Erast wrote: >> >> >> On 08/13/2010 01:39 PM, Tim Cook wrote: >>> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/08/13/opensolaris_is_dead/ >>> >>> I'm a bit surprised at this development... Oracle really just doesn't >>> get it. The part that's most disturbing to m

Re: [zfs-discuss] Opensolaris is apparently dead

2010-08-14 Thread Ben Rockwood
On 8/14/10 1:12 PM, Frank Cusack wrote: > > Wow, what leads you guys to even imagine that S11 wouldn't contain > comstar, etc.? *Of course* it will contain most of the bits that > are current today in OpenSolaris. That's a very good question actually. I would think that COMSTAR would stay becau

Re: [zfs-discuss] Liveupgrade'd to U8 and now can't boot previous U6 BE :(

2009-10-28 Thread Ben Middleton
in there. I'm just looking for a clean way to remove the old BE, and then remove the old snapshot without interfering with Live Upgrade from working in the future. Many thanks, Ben -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Liveupgrade'd to U8 and now can't boot previous U6 BE :(

2009-10-28 Thread Ben Middleton
> + dev=`echo $dev | sed 's/mirror.*/mirror/'` Thanks for the suggestion Kurt. However, I'm not running a mirror on that pool - so am guessing this won't help in my case. I'll try and pick my way through the lulib script if I get any time. Ben -- This message

[zfs-discuss] abusing zfs boot disk for fun and DR

2010-01-07 Thread Ben Taylor
he problems). This also happened with hot-spares, which caused support to spend some time with back-line to figure out a procedure to clear those fauled disks which had the same ctd# as a working hot-spare... Ben -- This message posted from opensolaris.org

Re: [zfs-discuss] abusing zfs boot disk for fun and DR

2010-01-11 Thread Ben Taylor
> Ben, > I have found that booting from cdrom and importing > the pool on the new host, then boot the hard disk > will prevent these issues. > That will reconfigure the zfs to use the new disk > device. > When running, zpool detach the missing mirror device > and attach

[zfs-discuss] Replacing a disk never completes

2010-09-16 Thread Ben Miller
E ALLOC FREECAP DEDUP HEALTH ALTROOT pool2 31.8T 13.8T 17.9T43% 1.65x DEGRADED - The slog is a mirror of two SLC SSDs and the L2ARC is an MLC SSD. thanks, Ben ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Replacing a disk never completes

2010-09-21 Thread Ben Miller
On 09/20/10 10:45 AM, Giovanni Tirloni wrote: On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 9:36 AM, Ben Miller mailto:bmil...@mail.eecis.udel.edu>> wrote: I have an X4540 running b134 where I'm replacing 500GB disks with 2TB disks (Seagate Constellation) and the pool seems sick now. The pool

Re: [zfs-discuss] Replacing a disk never completes

2010-09-22 Thread Ben Miller
On 09/21/10 09:16 AM, Ben Miller wrote: On 09/20/10 10:45 AM, Giovanni Tirloni wrote: On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 9:36 AM, Ben Miller mailto:bmil...@mail.eecis.udel.edu>> wrote: I have an X4540 running b134 where I'm replacing 500GB disks with 2TB disks (Seagate Constellation) and the

[zfs-discuss] Disk keeps resilvering, was: Replacing a disk never completes

2010-09-30 Thread Ben Miller
On 09/22/10 04:27 PM, Ben Miller wrote: On 09/21/10 09:16 AM, Ben Miller wrote: I had tried a clear a few times with no luck. I just did a detach and that did remove the old disk and has now triggered another resilver which hopefully works. I had tried a remove rather than a detach before

Re: [zfs-discuss] Running on Dell hardware?

2011-01-12 Thread Ben Rockwood
If you're still having issues go into the BIOS and disable C-States, if you haven't already. It is responsible for most of the problems with 11th Gen PowerEdge. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@o

Re: [zfs-discuss] How to delete hundreds of emtpy snapshots

2008-07-17 Thread Ben Rockwood
zfs list is mighty slow on systems with a large number of objects, but there is no foreseeable plan that I'm aware of to solve that "problem". Never the less, you need to do a zfs list, therefore, do it once and work from that. zfs list > /tmp/zfs.out for i in `grep mydataset@ /tmp/zfs.out`;

[zfs-discuss] ARCSTAT Kstat Definitions

2008-08-20 Thread Ben Rockwood
Would someone "in the know" be willing to write up (preferably blog) definitive definitions/explanations of all the arcstats provided via kstat? I'm struggling with proper interpretation of certain values, namely "p", "memory_throttle_count", and the mru/mfu+ghost hit vs demand/prefetch hit co

Re: [zfs-discuss] ARCSTAT Kstat Definitions

2008-08-21 Thread Ben Rockwood
Thanks, not as much as I was hoping for but still extremely helpful. Can you, or others have a look at this: http://cuddletech.com/arc_summary.html This is a PERL script that uses kstats to drum up a report such as the following: System Memory: Physical RAM: 32759 MB Free Me

Re: [zfs-discuss] ARCSTAT Kstat Definitions

2008-08-21 Thread Ben Rockwood
Its a starting point anyway. The key is to try and draw useful conclusions from the info to answer the torrent of "why is my ARC 30GB???" There are several things I'm unclear on whether or not I'm properly interpreting such as: * As you state, the anon pages. Even the comment in code is, to

Re: [zfs-discuss] ARCSTAT Kstat Definitions

2008-08-21 Thread Ben Rockwood
New version is available (v0.2) : * Fixes divide by zero, * includes tuning from /etc/system in output * if prefetch is disabled I explicitly say so. * Accounts for jacked anon count. Still need improvement here. * Added friendly explanations for MRU/MFU & Ghost lists counts. Page and examp

[zfs-discuss] Couple of ZFS panics...

2008-08-22 Thread Ben Taylor
I've got a Intel DP35DP Motherboard, Q6600 proc (Intel 2.4G, 4 core), 4GB of ram and a copule of Sata disks, running ICH9. S10U5, patched about a week ago or so... I have a zpool on a single slice (haven't added a mirror yet, was getting to that) and have started to suffer regular hard resets a

[zfs-discuss] Lost Disk Space

2008-10-16 Thread Ben Rockwood
I've been struggling to fully understand why disk space seems to vanish. I've dug through bits of code and reviewed all the mails on the subject that I can find, but I still don't have a proper understanding of whats going on. I did a test with a local zpool on snv_97... zfs list, zpool list,

Re: [zfs-discuss] Lost Disk Space

2008-10-20 Thread Ben Rockwood
No takers? :) benr. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

[zfs-discuss] zdb to dump data

2008-10-30 Thread Ben Rockwood
Is there some hidden way to coax zdb into not just displaying data based on a given DVA but rather to dump it in raw usable form? I've got a pool with large amounts of corruption. Several directories are toast and I get "I/O Error" when trying to enter or read the directory... however I can re

Re: [zfs-discuss] zpool status -x strangeness

2009-01-07 Thread Ben Miller
pool online' on the disk it resilvered in fine. Any ideas why 'zpool status -x' reports all healthy while 'zpool status' shows a pool in degraded mode? thanks, Ben > We run a cron job that does a 'zpool status -x' to > check for any degraded pools. We

Re: [zfs-discuss] zpool status -x strangeness

2009-01-12 Thread Ben Miller
I just put in a (low priority) bug report on this. Ben > This post from close to a year ago never received a > response. We just had this same thing happen to > another server that is running Solaris 10 U6. One of > the disks was marked as removed and the pool > degraded, but &

Re: [zfs-discuss] zpool status -x strangeness

2009-01-21 Thread Ben Miller
errors: No known data errors % Ben > I just put in a (low priority) bug report on this. > > Ben > > > This post from close to a year ago never received > a > > response. We just had this same thing happen to > > another server that is running Solaris 10 U6. One

Re: [zfs-discuss] zpool status -x strangeness

2009-01-22 Thread Ben Miller
The pools are upgraded to version 10. Also, this is on Solaris 10u6. # zpool upgrade This system is currently running ZFS pool version 10. All pools are formatted using this version. Ben > What's the output of 'zfs upgrade' and 'zpool > upgrade'? (I

Re: [zfs-discuss] zpool status -x strangeness

2009-01-24 Thread Ben Miller
We haven't done 'zfs upgrade ...' any. I'll give that a try the next time the system can be taken down. Ben > A little gotcha that I found in my 10u6 update > process was that 'zpool > upgrade [poolname]' is not the same as 'zfs upgrade > [poolnam

Re: [zfs-discuss] zpool status -x strangeness

2009-01-27 Thread Ben Miller
var/mysql': Device busy cannot unmount '/var/postfix': Device busy 6 filesystems upgraded 821 filesystems already at this version Ben > You can upgrade live. 'zfs upgrade' with no > arguments shows you the > zfs version status of filesystems present w

Re: [zfs-discuss] zpool status -x strangeness

2009-01-28 Thread Ben Miller
# zpool status -xv all pools are healthy Ben > What does 'zpool status -xv' show? > > On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 8:01 AM, Ben Miller > wrote: > > I forgot the pool that's having problems was > recreated recently so it's already at zfs version 3. > I

Re: [zfs-discuss] [Fwd: Re: [perf-discuss] ZFS performance issue - READ is slow as hell...]

2009-03-31 Thread Ben Rockwood
Ya, I agree that we need some additional data and testing. The iostat data in itself doesn't suggest to me that the process (dd) is slow but rather that most of the data is being retrieved elsewhere (ARC). An fsstat would be useful to correlate with the iostat data. One thing that also comes to

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: Thumper Origins Q

2007-01-24 Thread Ben Gollmer
On Jan 24, 2007, at 12:37 PM, Shannon Roddy wrote: I went with a third party FC/SATA unit which has been flawless as a direct attach for my ZFS JBOD system. Paid about $0.70/GB. What did you use, if you don't mind my asking? -- Ben PGP.sig Description: This is a digitally signed me

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs / nfs issue (not performance :-) with courier-imap

2007-01-25 Thread Ben Rockwood
Robert Milkowski wrote: CLSNL> but if I click, say E, it has F's contents, F has Gs contents, and no CLSNL> mail has D's contents that I can see. But the list in the mail CLSNL> client list view is correct. I don't belive it's a problem with nfs/zfs server. Please try with simple dtrace script

[zfs-discuss] Read Only Zpool: ZFS and Replication

2007-02-05 Thread Ben Rockwood
I've been playing with replication of a ZFS Zpool using the recently released AVS. I'm pleased with things, but just replicating the data is only part of the problem. The big question is: can I have a zpool open in 2 places? What I really want is a Zpool on node1 open and writable (productio

[zfs-discuss] snapdir visable recursively throughout a dataset

2007-02-05 Thread Ben Rockwood
Is there an existing RFE for, what I'll wrongly call, "recursively visable snapshots"? That is, .zfs in directories other than the dataset root. Frankly, I don't need it available in all directories, although it'd be nice, but I do have a need for making it visiable 1 dir down from the dataset

Re: [zfs-discuss] Read Only Zpool: ZFS and Replication

2007-02-05 Thread Ben Rockwood
Jim Dunham wrote: Robert, Hello Ben, Monday, February 5, 2007, 9:17:01 AM, you wrote: BR> I've been playing with replication of a ZFS Zpool using the BR> recently released AVS. I'm pleased with things, but just BR> replicating the data is only part of the problem. The

Re: [zfs-discuss] snapdir visable recursively throughout a dataset

2007-02-05 Thread Ben Rockwood
Robert Milkowski wrote: I haven't tried it but what if you mounted ro via loopback into a zone /zones/myzone01/root/.zfs is loop mounted in RO to /zones/myzone01/.zfs That is so wrong. ;) Besides just being evil, I doubt it'd work. And if it does, it probly shouldn't.

Re: [zfs-discuss] snapdir visable recursively throughout a dataset

2007-02-06 Thread Ben Rockwood
Darren J Moffat wrote: Ben Rockwood wrote: Robert Milkowski wrote: I haven't tried it but what if you mounted ro via loopback into a zone /zones/myzone01/root/.zfs is loop mounted in RO to /zones/myzone01/.zfs That is so wrong. ;) Besides just being evil, I doubt

[zfs-discuss] [OT] Multipathing on Mac OS X

2007-03-01 Thread Ben Gollmer
s. http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn2007/tn2173.html -- Ben PGP.sig Description: This is a digitally signed message part ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

[zfs-discuss] ZFS disables nfs/server on a host

2007-04-19 Thread Ben Miller
libzfs_mount.c, line 380, function zfs_share If I re-enable nfs/server after the system is up it's fine. The system was recently upgraded to use zfs and this has happened on the last two reboots. We have lots of other systems that share nfs through zfs fine and I didn't see a similar p

[zfs-discuss] Re: ZFS disables nfs/server on a host

2007-04-19 Thread Ben Miller
It does seem like an ordering problem, but nfs/server should be starting up late enough with SMF dependencies. I need to see if I can duplicate the problem on a test system... This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zf

Re: [zfs-discuss] XServe Raid & Complex Storage Considerations

2007-04-25 Thread Ben Gollmer
S, it would be best to uncheck that box. Yes, that's the setting you're looking for. The Xserve RAID works great with ZFS IME. -- Ben PGP.sig Description: This is a digitally signed message part ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@ope

[zfs-discuss] Re: ZFS disables nfs/server on a host

2007-04-26 Thread Ben Miller
I just rebooted this host this morning and the same thing happened again. I have the core file from zfs. [ Apr 26 07:47:01 Executing start method ("/lib/svc/method/nfs-server start") ] Assertion failed: pclose(fp) == 0, file ../common/libzfs_mount.c, line 380, func tion zfs_share Abort - core du

[zfs-discuss] Re: ZFS disables nfs/server on a host

2007-04-26 Thread Ben Miller
I was able to duplicate this problem on a test Ultra 10. I put in a workaround by adding a service that depends on /milestone/multi-user-server which does a 'zfs share -a'. It's strange this hasn't happened on other systems, but maybe it's related to slower systems

[zfs-discuss] Re: Re: ZFS disables nfs/server on a host

2007-04-27 Thread Ben Miller
I just threw in a truss in the SMF script and rebooted the test system and it failed again. The truss output is at http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~bmiller/zfs.truss-Apr27-2007 thanks, Ben This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing

[zfs-discuss] Remove files when at quota limit

2007-05-10 Thread Ben Miller
doing is this situation? We have also set up alternate filesystems for users with transient data that we do not take snapshots on, but we still have this problem on home directories. thanks, Ben This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs

[zfs-discuss] Re: Remove files when at quota limit

2007-05-15 Thread Ben Miller
Has anyone else run into this situation? Does anyone have any solutions other than removing snapshots or increasing the quota? I'd like to put in an RFE to reserve some space so files can be removed when users are at their quota. Any thoughts from the ZFS team? Ben > We have aro

Re: [zfs-discuss] Making 'zfs destroy' safer

2007-05-18 Thread Ben Rockwood
Peter Schuller wrote: Hello, with the advent of clones and snapshots, one will of course start creating them. Which also means destroying them. Am I the only one who is *extremely* nervous about doing "zfs destroy some/[EMAIL PROTECTED]"? This goes bot manually and automatically in a script. I

Re: [zfs-discuss] New zfs pr0n server :)))

2007-05-19 Thread Ben Rockwood
Diego Righi wrote: Hi all, I just built a new zfs server for home and, being a long time and avid reader of this forum, I'm going to post my config specs and my benchmarks hoping this could be of some help for others :) http://www.sickness.it/zfspr0nserver.jpg http://www.sickness.it/zfspr0nser

[zfs-discuss] ZVol Panic on 62

2007-05-25 Thread Ben Rockwood
May 25 23:32:59 summer unix: [ID 836849 kern.notice] May 25 23:32:59 summer ^Mpanic[cpu1]/thread=1bf2e740: May 25 23:32:59 summer genunix: [ID 335743 kern.notice] BAD TRAP: type=e (#pf Page fault) rp=ff00232c3a80 addr=490 occurred in module "unix" due to a NULL pointer dereference May

[zfs-discuss] ZFS Send/RECV

2007-06-01 Thread Ben Bressler
I'm trying to test an install of ZFS to see if I can backup data from one machine to another. I'm using Solaris 5.10 on two VMware installs. When I do the zfs send | ssh zfs recv part, the file system (folder) is getting created, but none of the data that I have in my snapshot is sent. I can

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS, iSCSI + Mac OS X Tiger (globalSAN iSCSI)

2007-07-05 Thread Ben Rockwood
George wrote: > I have set up an iSCSI ZFS target that seems to connect properly from > the Microsoft Windows initiator in that I can see the volume in MMC > Disk Management. > > > When I shift over to Mac OS X Tiger with globalSAN iSCSI, I am able to > set up the Targets with the target name

Re: [zfs-discuss] Is there _any_ suitable motherboard?

2007-08-26 Thread Ben Middleton
Other specs are one of those Intel E6750 1333MHz FSB CPUs and 2Gb of matched memory. Ben. 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] System hang caused by a "bad" snapshot

2007-09-18 Thread Ben Miller
> > > Hello Matthew, > > > Tuesday, September 12, 2006, 7:57:45 PM, you > > wrote: > > > MA> Ben Miller wrote: > > > >> I had a strange ZFS problem this morning. > The > > entire system would > > >> hang when mounting the Z

Re: [zfs-discuss] When I stab myself with this knife, it hurts... But - should it kill me?

2007-10-04 Thread Ben Rockwood
Dick Davies wrote: > On 04/10/2007, Nathan Kroenert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> Client A >> - import pool make couple-o-changes >> >> Client B >> - import pool -f (heh) >> > > >> Oct 4 15:03:12 fozzie ^Mpanic[cpu0]/thread=ff0002b51c80: >> Oct 4 15:03:12 fozzie genunix: [

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS for OSX - it'll be in there.

2007-10-04 Thread Ben Rockwood
Dale Ghent wrote: > ...and eventually in a read-write capacity: > > http://www.macrumors.com/2007/10/04/apple-seeds-zfs-read-write- > developer-preview-1-1-for-leopard/ > > Apple has seeded version 1.1 of ZFS (Zettabyte File System) for Mac > OS X to Developers this week. The preview updates a p

[zfs-discuss] ZFS Quota Oddness

2007-10-31 Thread Ben Rockwood
I've run across an odd issue with ZFS Quota's. This is an snv_43 system with several zones/zfs datasets, but only one effected. The dataset shows 10GB used, 12GB refered but when counting the files only has 6.7GB of data: zones/ABC10.8G 26.2G 12.0G /zones/ABC zones/[EMAIL PROTECTED]

[zfs-discuss] Panic on Zpool Import (Urgent)

2008-01-12 Thread Ben Rockwood
Today, suddenly, without any apparent reason that I can find, I'm getting panic's during zpool import. The system paniced earlier today and has been suffering since. This is snv_43 on a thumper. Here's the stack: panic[cpu0]/thread=99adbac0: assertion failed: ss != NULL, file: ../..

[zfs-discuss] Removing An Errant Drive From Zpool

2008-01-15 Thread Ben Rockwood
I made a really stupid mistake... having trouble removing a hot spare marked as failed I was trying several ways to put it back in a good state. One means I tried was to 'zpool add pool c5t3d0'... but I forgot to use the proper syntax "zpool add pool spare c5t3d0". Now I'm in a bind. I've got

Re: [zfs-discuss] Removing An Errant Drive From Zpool

2008-01-15 Thread Ben Rockwood
Eric Schrock wrote: > There's really no way to recover from this, since we don't have device > removal. However, I'm suprised that no warning was given. There are at > least two things that should have happened: > > 1. zpool(1M) should have warned you that the redundancy level you were >atte

Re: [zfs-discuss] Removing An Errant Drive From Zpool

2008-01-16 Thread Ben Rockwood
Robert Milkowski wrote: > If you can't re-create a pool (+backup&restore your data) I would > recommend to wait for device removal in zfs and in a mean time I would > attach another drive to it so you've got mirrored configuration and > remove them once there's a device removal. Since you're alread

Re: [zfs-discuss] Panic on Zpool Import (Urgent)

2008-01-17 Thread Ben Rockwood
the following to /etc/system: set sata:sata_max_queue_depth = 0x1 If you don't life will be highly unpleasant and you'll believe that disks are failing everywhere when in fact they are not. benr. Ben Rockwood wrote: > Today, suddenly, without any apparent reason that I can find, I'

[zfs-discuss] zpool status -x strangeness on b78

2008-02-06 Thread Ben Miller
is look like a bug with 'zpool status -x'? Ben This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

[zfs-discuss] List of ZFS patches to be released with Solaris 10 U5

2008-03-04 Thread Ben Grele
Experts, Do you know where I could find the list of all the ZFS patches that will be released with Solaris 10 U5? My customer told me that they've seen such list for prior update releases. I've not been able to find anything like it in the usual places

[zfs-discuss] Clearing corrupted file errors

2008-03-12 Thread Ben Middleton
the following files: rpool/duke:<0x8237> I tried running "zpool clear rpool" to clear the error, but it persists in the status output. Should a "zpool scrub rpool" get rid of this error? Thanks, Ben This messag

[zfs-discuss] Cannot delete errored file

2008-06-03 Thread Ben Middleton
Hi, I can't seem to delete a file in my zpool that has permanent errors: zpool status -vx pool: rpool state: ONLINE status: One or more devices has experienced an error resulting in data corruption. Applications may be affected. action: Restore the file in question if possible. Other

Re: [zfs-discuss] Cannot delete errored file

2008-06-05 Thread Ben Middleton
Hello again, I'm not making progress on this. Every time I run a zpool scrub rpool I see: $ zpool status -vx pool: rpool state: DEGRADED status: One or more devices has experienced an error resulting in data corruption. Applications may be affected. action: Restore the file in questi

Re: [zfs-discuss] Cannot delete errored file

2008-06-05 Thread Ben Middleton
Hi Marc, $ : > 09 - Check.mp3 bash: 09 - Check.mp3: I/O error $ cd .. $ rm -rf BAD $ rm: cannot remove `BAD/09 - Check.mp3': I/O error I'll try shuffling the cables - but as you see above it occasionally reports on a different disk - so imagine the cables are OK. Also, the new disk I added has

[zfs-discuss] ZFS and ACL's over NFSv3

2008-06-05 Thread Ben Rockwood
Can someone please clarify the ability to utilize ACL's over NFSv3 from a ZFS share? I can "getfacl" but I can't "setfacl". I can't find any documentation in this regard. My suspicion is that that ZFS Shares must be NFSv4 in order to utilize ACLs but I'm hoping this isn't the case. Can anyon

Re: [zfs-discuss] Cannot delete errored file

2008-06-07 Thread Ben Middleton
Thanks Marc - I'll run memtest on Monday, and re-seat memory/cpu//cards etc. If that fails, I'll try moving the devices onto a different SATA controller. Failing that I'll rebuild from scratch. Failing that, I'll get a new motherboard! Ben This message posted

Re: [zfs-discuss] Cannot delete errored file

2008-06-09 Thread Ben Middleton
tes. Still getting I/O errors trying to delete that file. Ben 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] Cannot delete errored file

2008-06-10 Thread Ben Middleton
ng I don't find any obvious hardware issues - wouldn't this be a regarded as flaw in ZFS (i.e. no way of clearing such an error without a rebuild)? Would I be safer rebuilding to a pair of mirrors rather than a 3 disk zraid + hotspare? Ben This message posted

Re: [zfs-discuss] Cannot delete errored file

2008-06-10 Thread Ben Middleton
Sent response by private message. Today's findings are that the cksum errors appear on the new disk on the other controller too - so I've ruled out controllers & cables. It's probably as Jeff says - just got to figure out now how to prove the memory is duff. Ben This

Re: [zfs-discuss] Cannot delete errored file

2008-06-10 Thread Ben Middleton
run, followed by a rebuild of the errored pool. I'll have a read around to see if there's anyway of making the memory more stable on this mobo. Ben This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@ope

Re: [zfs-discuss] Cannot delete errored file

2008-06-13 Thread Ben Middleton
switched it back to Auto speed&timing for now. I'll just hope that it was a one-off glitch that corrupted the pool. I'm going to rebuild the pool this weekend. Thanks for all the suggestions. Ben This message posted from opensolaris.org

[zfs-discuss] J4200/J4400 Array

2008-07-02 Thread Ben B.
products ? Best Regards, Ben This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

[zfs-discuss] 40min ls in empty directory

2008-07-16 Thread Ben Rockwood
I've run into an odd problem which I lovingly refer to as a "black hole directory". On a Thumper used for mail stores we've found find's take an exceptionally long time to run. There are directories that have as many as 400,000 files, which I immediately considered the culprit. However, und

[zfs-discuss] zvol Performance

2006-07-17 Thread Ben Rockwood
Hello, I'm curious if anyone would mind sharing their experiences with zvol's. I recently started using zvol as an iSCSI backend and was supprised by the performance I was getting. Further testing revealed that it wasn't an iSCSI performance issue but a zvol issue. Testing on a SATA disk l

[zfs-discuss] Home Server with ZFS

2006-08-18 Thread Ben Short
plug another one in and run some zfs commands to make it part of the mirror? Ben This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

[zfs-discuss] System hang caused by a "bad" snapshot

2006-09-12 Thread Ben Miller
0 0 raidz ONLINE 0 0 0 c1t8d0 ONLINE 0 0 0 c1t9d0 ONLINE 0 0 0 c1t10d0 ONLINE 0 0 0 c1t11d0 ONLINE 0 0 0 errors: No known data errors Ben This message po

[zfs-discuss] Re: Re[2]: System hang caused by a "bad" snapshot

2006-09-13 Thread Ben Miller
> Hello Matthew, > Tuesday, September 12, 2006, 7:57:45 PM, you wrote: > MA> Ben Miller wrote: > >> I had a strange ZFS problem this morning. The > entire system would > >> hang when mounting the ZFS filesystems. After > trial and error I > >> de

[zfs-discuss] Re: Re[2]: System hang caused by a "bad" snapshot

2006-09-27 Thread Ben Miller
> > Hello Matthew, > > Tuesday, September 12, 2006, 7:57:45 PM, you > wrote: > > MA> Ben Miller wrote: > > >> I had a strange ZFS problem this morning. The > > entire system would > > >> hang when mounting the ZFS filesystems. After > &

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