[zfs-discuss] Areca ARC-1680 on OpenSolaris 2009.06?

2010-04-09 Thread Dave Pooser
ear to offer greater drive densities, but a quick Google search shows that they've overpromised and underdelivered on Solaris support in the past. Is anybody currently using those cards on OpenSolaris? -- Dave Pooser, ACSA Manager of Information Services Alford Media h

Re: [zfs-discuss] Areca ARC-1680 on OpenSolaris 2009.06?

2010-04-12 Thread Dave Pooser
d if they fudge compatibility information on one product....) -- Dave Pooser, ACSA Manager of Information Services Alford Media http://www.alfordmedia.com ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/lis

Re: [zfs-discuss] Mac OS X clients with ZFS server

2010-04-25 Thread Dave Pooser
Ethereal); works great for me. It does require X11 on your machine. -- Dave Pooser, ACSA Manager of Information Services Alford Media http://www.alfordmedia.com ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Mac OS X clients with ZFS server

2010-04-25 Thread Dave Pooser
On 4/25/10 6:11 PM, "Rich Teer" wrote: > I tried going to that URL, but got a 404 error... :-( What's the correct > one, please? <http://code.google.com/p/maczfs/> -- Dave Pooser, ACSA Manager of Information Services Alford Media

[zfs-discuss] SAS vs SATA: Same size, same speed, why SAS?

2010-04-25 Thread Dave Pooser
ories (lots of small writes/reads), how much benefit will I see from the SAS interface? -- Dave Pooser, ACSA Manager of Information Services Alford Media http://www.alfordmedia.com ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://

[zfs-discuss] Identifying drives

2010-04-25 Thread Dave Pooser
being enough to make the hardware ID it as bad. -- Dave Pooser, ACSA Manager of Information Services Alford Media http://www.alfordmedia.com ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs

Re: [zfs-discuss] SAS vs SATA: Same size, same speed, why SAS?

2010-04-26 Thread Dave Pooser
Is there a good resource on doing something like that with an OpenSolaris storage server? I could see that as a project I might want to attempt. -- Dave Pooser, ACSA Manager of Information Services Alford Media http://www.alfordmedia.com ___ zfs-disc

Re: [zfs-discuss] Performance drop during scrub?

2010-05-02 Thread Dave Pooser
Data loss may be unavoidable, but that's why we keep backups. It's the invisible data loss that makes life suboptimal. -- Dave Pooser, ACSA Manager of Information Services Alford Media http://www.alfordmedia.com ___ zfs-discuss mailing lis

Re: [zfs-discuss] Legality and the future of zfs...

2010-07-13 Thread Dave Pooser
ithout my having to send multiple emails to multiple addresses-- may yet push me back to my default CentOS platform, but to the extent that Oracle is even in the running it's because of ZFS.) -- Dave Pooser, ACSA Manager of Information Services Alford Media http://www.alfordmedia.com ___

Re: [zfs-discuss] preparing for future drive additions

2010-07-14 Thread Dave Pooser
AID 10. *You can't really compare ZFS to conventional RAID implementations, but if you look at it from 50,000 feet and squint you get the similarities. -- Dave Pooser, ACSA Manager of Information Services Alford Media http://www.alfordmedia.com ___ z

Re: [zfs-discuss] Legality and the future of zfs...

2010-07-15 Thread Dave Pooser
> Ok guys, can we please kill this thread about commodity versus enterprise > hardware? +1 -- Dave Pooser, ACSA Manager of Information Services Alford Media http://www.alfordmedia.com ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.or

[zfs-discuss] ZFS bug - CVE-2010-2392

2010-07-15 Thread Dave Pooser
Looks like the bug affects through snv_137. Patches are available from the usual location-- <https://pkg.sun.com/opensolaris/support> for OpenSolaris. -- Dave Pooser, ACSA Manager of Information Services Alford Media http://www.alfordmed

Re: [zfs-discuss] Opensolaris is apparently dead

2010-08-14 Thread Dave Pooser
ill be a lot more interest in the BTRFS project, much of it from the same folks who have experience producing enterprise-grade ZFS. Speaking for myself, if Solaris 11 doesn't include COMSTAR I'm going to have to take a serious look at another alternative for our show storage towers --

[zfs-discuss] Painfully slow RAIDZ2 as fibre channel COMSTAR export

2010-02-14 Thread Dave Pooser
0 1816.2 0.0 0.10.00.5 0 6 c9t0d0 0.0 191.00.0 1816.2 0.0 0.10.00.5 0 6 c9t1d0 -- Dave Pooser, ACSA Manager of Information Services Alford Media http://www.alfordmedia.com ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opens

Re: [zfs-discuss] Painfully slow RAIDZ2 as fibre channel COMSTAR export

2010-02-14 Thread Dave Pooser
nd possibly grab some dinner while I'm about it. I'll report back to the list with any progress or lack thereof. -- Dave Pooser, ACSA Manager of Information Services Alford Media http://www.alfordmedia.com ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-di

Re: [zfs-discuss] Painfully slow RAIDZ2 as fibre channel COMSTAR export

2010-02-14 Thread Dave Pooser
> on my motherboard, i can make the onboard sata ports show up as IDE or SATA, > you may look into that.  It would probably be something like AHCI mode. Yeah, I changed the motherboard setting from "enhanced" to AHCI and now those ports show up as SATA. -- Dave Pooser,

Re: [zfs-discuss] Painfully slow RAIDZ2 as fibre channel COMSTAR export

2010-02-14 Thread Dave Pooser
.06 where iSCSI (and apparently FC) forced all writes to be synchronous -- thanks to Richard for that pointer. Five hours from tearing my hair out to toasting a success-- this list is a great resource! -- Dave Pooser, ACSA Manager of Information Service

[zfs-discuss] Speed question: 8-disk RAIDZ2 vs 10-disk RAIDZ3

2010-02-16 Thread Dave Pooser
LSI 3018 PCIe SATA controllers (latest IT firmware) 8x 2TB Hitachi 7200RPM SATA drives (2 connected to each LSI and 2 to motherboard SATA ports) 2x 60GB Imation M-class SSD (boot mirror) Qlogic 2440 PCIe Fibre Channel HBA -- Dave Pooser, ACSA Manager of Information Services Alford Me

Re: [zfs-discuss] Speed question: 8-disk RAIDZ2 vs 10-disk RAIDZ3

2010-02-16 Thread Dave Pooser
at's most important is sequential write speed. -- Dave Pooser, ACSA Manager of Information Services Alford Media http://www.alfordmedia.com ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS on Dell with FreeBSD

2011-10-19 Thread Dave Pooser
dual disks and ZFS can handle redundancy and recovery. -- Dave Pooser Manager of Information Services Alford Media http://www.alfordmedia.com ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

[zfs-discuss] 4k sector support in Solaris 11?

2012-02-16 Thread Dave Pooser
If I want to use a batch of new Seagate 3TB Barracudas with Solaris 11, will zpool let me create a new pool with ashift=12 out of the box or will I need to play around with a patched zpool binary (or the iSCSI loopback)? -- Dave Pooser Manager of Information Services Alford Media http

[zfs-discuss] Zombie damaged zpool won't die

2012-05-29 Thread Dave Pooser
t, but I'd like to get rid of that error. -- Dave Pooser Manager of Information Services Alford Media http://www.alfordmedia.com ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

[zfs-discuss] Zvol vs zfs send/zfs receive

2012-09-14 Thread Dave Pooser
paring zfs list -t snapshot and looking at the 5.34 ref for the snapshot vs zfs list on the new system and looking at space used.) Is this a problem? Should I be panicking yet? -- Dave Pooser Manager of Information Services Alford Media http://www.alfordmedia.com _

Re: [zfs-discuss] Zvol vs zfs send/zfs receive

2012-09-15 Thread Dave Pooser
export another volume on a second zpool and then let the Mac copy from one zvol to the other-- this is starting to feel like voodoo here.) -- Dave Pooser Manager of Information Services Alford Media http://www.alfordmedia.com ___ zfs-discuss mailing

Re: [zfs-discuss] Zvol vs zfs send/zfs receive

2012-09-16 Thread Dave Pooser
les from one zvol to the other. (Leaning toward option 3 because the files are mostly largish graphics files and the like.) Thanks for the help! -- Dave Pooser Manager of Information Services Alford Media http://www.alfordmedia.com ___ z

Re: [zfs-discuss] Sonnet Tempo SSD supported?

2012-12-03 Thread Dave Pooser
play with in the Jan-Feb timeframe, but as of now I have no knowledge of that subject. -- Dave Pooser Manager of Information Services Alford Media http://www.alfordmedia.com ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] pool layout vs resilver times

2013-01-05 Thread Dave Pooser
y understanding is that the combination of SATA drives and SAS expanders is a large economy-sized bucket of pain. -- Dave Pooser Manager of Information Services Alford Media http://www.alfordmedia.com ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.

[zfs-discuss] Apparent SAS HBA failure-- now what?

2010-11-06 Thread Dave Pooser
0 c11t6d0 ONLINE 0 0 0 c11t7d0 ONLINE 0 0 0 c11t8d0 ONLINE 0 0 0 errors: 1 data errors, use '-v' for a list -- Dave Pooser, ACSA Manager of Information Services Alford Media http://www.alfordmedia.com

Re: [zfs-discuss] Apparent SAS HBA failure-- now what?

2010-11-06 Thread Dave Pooser
: Read and write I/Os cannot be serviced. Action : Make sure the affected devices are connected, then run 'zpool clear'. -- Dave Pooser, ACSA Manager of Information Services Alford Media http://www.alfordmedia.com _

Re: [zfs-discuss] Apparent SAS HBA failure-- now what?

2010-11-06 Thread Dave Pooser
rors: 9 Vendor: ATA Product: Hitachi HDS72202 Revision: A20N Serial No: Size: 2000.40GB <2000398934016 bytes> Media Error: 0 Device Not Ready: 0 No Device: 0 Recoverable: 0 Illegal Request: 0 Predictive Failure Analysis: 0 -- Dave Pooser, ACSA Manager of Information Services Alford Medi

Re: [zfs-discuss] Apparent SAS HBA failure-- now what?

2010-11-06 Thread Dave Pooser
27;t catch any errors last scrub), all on the same controller-- well, that seems much less likely than the idea that I just have a bad controller that needs replacing. -- Dave Pooser, ACSA Manager of Information Services Alford Media http://www.alfordmedia.com ___

Re: [zfs-discuss] vidoe files residing on zfs used from cifs fail to work

2010-11-21 Thread Dave Pooser
files are on a zfs server the same files fail to > play. > > Is it a local phenomena or a common problem? We don't have that problem, and we have roughly 25TB of QuickTime files on an OpenSolaris box shared over CIFS to mostly Mac clients. -- Dave Pooser, ACSA Manager of

[zfs-discuss] Format returning bogus controller info

2011-02-26 Thread Dave Pooser
): ^C Any suggestions? -- Dave Pooser, ACSA Manager of Information Services Alford Media http://www.alfordmedia.com ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Format returning bogus controller info

2011-02-26 Thread Dave Pooser
86,340e@7/pci1000,3020@0/iport@8/disk@w5000cca222e046b7,0 9. c21t5000CCA222E0533Fd0 /pci@0,0/pci8086,340a@3/pci1000,72@0/iport@20/disk@w5000cca222e0533f,0 So now I'm more baffled than I started. Any other suggestions will be gratefully accepted... -- Dave Pooser, ACSA Manager

Re: [zfs-discuss] Format returning bogus controller info

2011-02-27 Thread Dave Pooser
On 2/27/11 5:15 AM, "James C. McPherson" wrote: >On 27/02/11 05:24 PM, Dave Pooser wrote: >>On 2/26/11 7:43 PM, "Bill Sommerfeld" wrote: >> >>>On your system, c12 is the mpxio virtual controller; any disk which is >>>potentially multipath-a

Re: [zfs-discuss] Format returning bogus controller info

2011-02-27 Thread Dave Pooser
. IMHO this looks more >like a design flaw in the driver code Especially since the SAS3081 cards work as expected. I guess I'll start looking for some more of the 3Gb SAS controllers and chalk the 9211s up as a failed bit. -- Dave Pooser, ACSA Manager of Information Services

Re: [zfs-discuss] Format returning bogus controller info

2011-02-27 Thread Dave Pooser
quot;a failed bit". I'd like to revise and extend my remarks and replace that with "a suboptimal choice for this project." In fact, if I can't make this work my backup plan is to take some of my storage towers that have only one HBA, put the 9211s in them and gra

Re: [zfs-discuss] Format returning bogus controller info

2011-02-27 Thread Dave Pooser
here's a 340b@4 and a 340d@6 if I add more drives and try 'format' again?) >>I'd like to revise and extend my remarks and replace that with "a >>suboptimal choice for this project." >Not knowing your other requirements for the project, I'll settle &

Re: [zfs-discuss] Format returning bogus controller info

2011-02-28 Thread Dave Pooser
or all your help-- not only can I fully, unequivocally retract my "failed bit" crack, but I just ordered two more of these cards for my next project! :^) -- Dave Pooser, ACSA Manager of Information Services Alford Media http://www.alfordmedia.com <http://www.alfordmedia.com/> _

Re: [zfs-discuss] Format returning bogus controller info

2011-02-28 Thread Dave Pooser
,340c@5 even if other controllers are active? -- Dave Pooser, ACSA Manager of Information Services Alford Media http://www.alfordmedia.com ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Good SLOG devices?

2011-03-02 Thread Dave Pooser
7;m building Probably not a great product for the home hobbyist, though. :^) -- Dave Pooser, ACSA Manager of Information Services Alford Media http://www.alfordmedia.com ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

[zfs-discuss] ZIL, L2ARC, rpool -- partitions and mirrors oh my!

2011-07-07 Thread Dave Pooser
smarter way to do it, suggestions gratefully accepted. My current ZFS storage servers are all built around sustained reads/sustained writes, so tuning the ZIL and L2ARC are still outside my experience. -- Dave Pooser Manager of Information Services Alford