Re: [zfs-discuss] Unable to import exported zpool on a new server

2012-03-13 Thread Hung-sheng Tsao
IMHO Zfs is smart but not smart when you deal with two different controller Sent from my iPhone On Mar 13, 2012, at 3:32 PM, P-O Yliniemi wrote: > Jim Klimov skrev 2012-03-13 15:24: >> 2012-03-13 16:52, Hung-Sheng Tsao (LaoTsao) Ph.D wrote: >>> hi >>> are the disk

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS and zpool for NetApp FC LUNs

2012-05-16 Thread Hung-sheng Tsao
IMHO Just use whole stack of Vcs Vxfm vxfs Sent from my iPhone On May 16, 2012, at 5:20 AM, Bruce McGill wrote: > Hi All, > > I have FC LUNs from NetApp FAS 3240 mapped to two SPARC T4-2 clustered > nodes running Veritas Cluster Server software. For now, the > configuration on NetApp is as

Re: [zfs-discuss] unable to import the zpool

2012-08-01 Thread Hung-sheng Tsao
Hi Try zpool import -nF tXstpool To see If it can roll back to some. Good state If you can afford some lost data zpool import -F tXstpool Sent from my iPhone On Aug 1, 2012, at 3:21 AM, Suresh Kumar wrote: > Dear ZFS-Users, > > I am using Solarisx86 10u10, All the devices which are belon

Re: [zfs-discuss] Adding mirrors to an existing zfs-pool

2011-07-26 Thread hung-sheng tsao
s mailing list > zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss > -- Sent from my mobile device Hung-Sheng Tsao, Ph.D. laot...@gmail.com http://laotsao.wordpress.com cell:9734950840 gvoice:8623970640 ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] SATA hardware advice

2011-12-16 Thread Hung-Sheng Tsao (laoTsao)
imho, if possible pick sas 7200 hdd no hw-raid for ZFS mirror and with ZIL and good size memory Sent from my iPad On Dec 16, 2011, at 17:36, t...@ownmail.net wrote: > I could use some help with choosing hardware for a storage server. For > budgetary and density reasons, we had settled on LFF SA

Re: [zfs-discuss] Very poor pool performance - no zfs/controller errors?!

2011-12-19 Thread Hung-Sheng Tsao (laoTsao)
what is the ram size? are there many snap? create then delete? did you run a scrub? Sent from my iPad On Dec 18, 2011, at 10:46, Jan-Aage Frydenbø-Bruvoll wrote: > Hi, > > On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 15:13, "Hung-Sheng Tsao (Lao Tsao 老曹) Ph.D." > wrote: >> what ar

Re: [zfs-discuss] Very poor pool performance - no zfs/controller errors?!

2011-12-19 Thread Hung-Sheng Tsao (laoTsao)
not sure oi support shadow migration or you may be to send zpool to another server then send back to do defrag regards Sent from my iPad On Dec 19, 2011, at 8:15, Gary Mills wrote: > On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 11:58:57AM +, Jan-Aage Frydenbø-Bruvoll wrote: >> >> 2011/12/19

Re: [zfs-discuss] Resolving performance issue w/ deduplication (NexentaStor)

2011-12-30 Thread Hung-Sheng Tsao (laoTsao)
now s11 support shadow migration, just for this purpose, AFAIK not sure nexentaStor support shadow migration Sent from my iPad On Dec 30, 2011, at 2:03, Ray Van Dolson wrote: > On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 10:59:04PM -0800, Fajar A. Nugraha wrote: >> On Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 1:31 PM, Ray Van Dolso

Re: [zfs-discuss] Stress test zfs

2012-01-04 Thread Hung-Sheng Tsao (laoTsao)
what is your storage? internal sas or external array what is your zfs setup? Sent from my iPad On Jan 4, 2012, at 17:59, grant lowe wrote: > Hi all, > > I've got a solaris 10 running 9/10 on a T3. It's an oracle box with 128GB > memory RIght now oracle . I've been trying to load test the bo

Re: [zfs-discuss] Stress test zfs

2012-01-05 Thread Hung-Sheng Tsao (laoTsao)
what is zpool status are you using the default 128k stripsize for is your server x86 ? or sparc t3 , how many socket? IMHO, t3 for oracle need careful tuning since many oracle ops need fast single thread cpu Sent from my iPad On Jan 5, 2012, at 11:40, grant lowe wrote: > Ok. I blew it. I di

Re: [zfs-discuss] Stress test zfs

2012-01-05 Thread Hung-Sheng Tsao (laoTsao)
one still does not understand your setup 1 what is hba in T3-2 2 did u setup raid6 (how) in ramsan array? or present the ssd as jbod to zpool 3 which model of RAMSAN 4 are there any other storage behind RAMSAN 5 do you set up zpool with zil and or ARC? 6 IMHO, the hybre approach to ZFS is the most

Re: [zfs-discuss] Stress test zfs

2012-01-05 Thread Hung-Sheng Tsao (laoTsao)
i just take look the ramsan web site there are many whitepaper on oracle, none on ZFS Sent from my iPad On Jan 5, 2012, at 12:58, "Hung-Sheng Tsao (laoTsao)" wrote: > one still does not understand your setup > 1 what is hba in T3-2 > 2 did u setup raid6 (how) in ramsan ar

Re: [zfs-discuss] Unable to allocate dma memory for extra SGL

2012-01-10 Thread Hung-Sheng Tsao (laoTsao)
how is the ram size what is the zpool setup and what is your hba and hdd size and type Sent from my iPad On Jan 10, 2012, at 21:07, Ray Van Dolson wrote: > Hi all; > > We have a Solaris 10 U9 x86 instance running on Silicon Mechanics / > SuperMicro hardware. > > Occasionally under high load

Re: [zfs-discuss] Do the disks in a zpool have a private region that I can read to get a zpool name or id?

2012-01-12 Thread Hung-Sheng Tsao (laoTsao)
if the disks are assigned by two hosts may be just do zpool import should see the zpool in other hosts? not sure as for AIX, control hdd, zpool will need partition that solaris could understand i do not know what AIX used for partition should not be the same for solaris Sent from my iPad On Ja

Re: [zfs-discuss] patching a solaris server with zones on zfs file systems

2012-01-21 Thread Hung-Sheng Tsao (laoTsao)
which version of solaris? s10u? live upgrade, zfs snap, halt zone, backup zone, zoneadm detach zone, zoneadm attach -U zone after os upgrade by zfs snap and liveupgrade of just upgrade from dvd or s11? beadm for new root, upgrade os, treat zone as above regards Sent from my iPad On Jan 21, 2

Re: [zfs-discuss] unable to access the zpool after issue a reboot

2012-01-24 Thread Hung-Sheng Tsao (laoTsao)
how did you issue " reboot", try shutdown -i6 -y -g0 Sent from my iPad On Jan 24, 2012, at 7:03, sureshkumar wrote: > Hi all, > > > I am new to Solaris & I am facing an issue with the dynapath [multipath s/w] > for Solaris10u10 x86 . > > I am facing an issue with the zpool. > > Whats my

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs and iscsi performance help

2012-01-27 Thread Hung-Sheng Tsao (laoTsao)
hi IMHO, upgrade to s11 if possible use the COMSTAR based iscsi Sent from my iPad On Jan 26, 2012, at 23:25, Ivan Rodriguez wrote: > Dear fellows, > > We have a backup server with a zpool size of 20 TB, we transfer > information using zfs snapshots every day (we have around 300 fs on > that p

Re: [zfs-discuss] unable to access the zpool after issue a reboot

2012-01-27 Thread Hung-Sheng Tsao (laoTsao)
it seems that you will need to work with oracle support:-( Sent from my iPad On Jan 27, 2012, at 3:49, sureshkumar wrote: > Hi Christian , > > I was disabled the MPXIO & zpool clear is working for some times & its > failed in few iterations. > > I am using one Sparc machine [with the same

Re: [zfs-discuss] HP JBOD D2700 - ok?

2012-01-31 Thread Hung-Sheng Tsao (laoTsao)
what is the server you attach to D2700? the hp spec for d2700 did not include solaris, so not sure how you get support from hp:-( Sent from my iPad On Jan 31, 2012, at 20:25, Ragnar Sundblad wrote: > > Just to follow up on this, in case there are others interested: > > The D2700s seems to wo

Re: [zfs-discuss] need hint on pool setup

2012-02-01 Thread Hung-Sheng Tsao (laoTsao)
my 2c 1 just do mirror of 2 dev with 20 hdd with 1 spare 2 raidz2 with 5 dev for 20 hdd, with one spare Sent from my iPad On Feb 1, 2012, at 3:49, Thomas Nau wrote: > Hi > > On 01/31/2012 10:05 PM, "Hung-Sheng Tsao (Lao Tsao 老曹) Ph.D." wrote: >> what is your

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS performance on LSI 9240-8i?

2012-05-04 Thread Hung-Sheng Tsao Ph.D.
hi s11 come with its own driver for some lsi sas HCA but on the HCL I only see LSI SAS 9200-8e LSI MegaRAID SAS 9260-8i

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs_arc_max values

2012-05-17 Thread Hung-Sheng Tsao Ph.D.
hi it will depend on how zfs is used in the system 1)root zpool only? 2)Db files also? 3)Is this RAC configuration? regards On 5/17/2012 3:19 PM, Paynter, Richard wrote: I have a customer who wants to set zfs_arc_max to 1G for a 16G system, and 2G for a 32G system. Both of these are SAP and

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs_arc_max values

2012-05-17 Thread Hung-Sheng Tsao Ph.D.
sorry what is data storage? ASS U ME the root is local hdd regards On 5/17/2012 3:31 PM, Hung-Sheng Tsao Ph.D. wrote: hi it will depend on how zfs is used in the system 1)root zpool only? 2)Db files also? 3)Is this RAC configuration? regards On 5/17/2012 3:19 PM, Paynter, Richard wrote: I

Re: [zfs-discuss] Disk failure chokes all the disks attached to thefailingdisk HBA

2012-05-31 Thread Hung-Sheng Tsao Ph.D.
just FYI this is from intel http://www.intel.com/support/motherboards/server/sb/CS-031831.htm Another observation: Oracle/Sun has move away from SATA to SAS in ZFS storage/Appliance If you want to go deeper take look these presentations http://www.scsita.org/sas_library/tutorials/ and other pr

Re: [zfs-discuss] Migrating 512 byte block zfs root pool to 4k disks

2012-06-15 Thread Hung-Sheng Tsao Ph.D.
one possible way: 1)break the mirror 2)install new hdd, format the HDD 3)create new zpool on new hdd with 4k block 4)create new BE on the new pool with the old root pool as source (not sure which version of "solaris" or "openSolaris" ypu are using the procedure may be different depend on vers

Re: [zfs-discuss] Migrating 512 byte block zfs root pool to 4k disks

2012-06-15 Thread Hung-Sheng Tsao Ph.D.
suppose I must start by labelling the new disk properly, and give the s0 partition to zpool, so the new zpool can be booted? Skickat från min Android Mobil "Hung-Sheng Tsao Ph.D." skrev: one possible way: 1)break the mirror 2)install new hdd, format the HDD 3)create new zpool

Re: [zfs-discuss] Migrating 512 byte block zfs root pool to 4k disks

2012-06-15 Thread Hung-Sheng Tsao Ph.D.
by the way when you format start with cylinder 1 donot use 0 depend on the version of Solaris you may not be able to use 2TB as root regards On 6/15/2012 9:53 AM, Hung-Sheng Tsao Ph.D. wrote: yes which version of solaris or bsd you are using? for bsd I donot know the steps for create new BE

Re: [zfs-discuss] Migrating 512 byte block zfs root pool to 4k disks

2012-06-15 Thread Hung-Sheng Tsao Ph.D.
hi what is the version of Solaris? uname -a output? regards On 6/15/2012 10:37 AM, Hung-Sheng Tsao Ph.D. wrote: by the way when you format start with cylinder 1 donot use 0 depend on the version of Solaris you may not be able to use 2TB as root regards On 6/15/2012 9:53 AM, Hung-Sheng Tsao

Re: [zfs-discuss] Migrating 512 byte block zfs root pool to 4k disks

2012-06-16 Thread Hung-Sheng Tsao Ph.D.
then sorry regards On 6/16/2012 12:23 PM, Richard Elling wrote: On Jun 15, 2012, at 7:37 AM, Hung-Sheng Tsao Ph.D. wrote: by the way when you format start with cylinder 1 donot use 0 There is no requirement for skipping cylinder 0 for root on Solaris, and there never has been. -- richard

Re: [zfs-discuss] Solaris derivate with the best long-term future

2012-07-11 Thread Hung-Sheng Tsao Ph.D.
hi if U have not check this page please do http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZFS interesting info about the status of ZFS in various OS regards my 2c 1)if you have the money buy ZFS appliance 2)if you want to build your self napp-it get solaris 11 support, it only charge the SW/socket and not change

Re: [zfs-discuss] New fast hash algorithm - is it needed?

2012-07-11 Thread Hung-Sheng Tsao Ph.D.
On 7/11/2012 3:16 PM, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: On Wed, 11 Jul 2012, Hung-Sheng Tsao (LaoTsao) Ph.D wrote: Not correct as far as I can tell. You should re-read the page you referenced. Oracle recinded (or lost) the special Studio releases needed to build the OpenSolaris kernel. you can

Re: [zfs-discuss] Any company willing to support a 7410 ?

2012-07-19 Thread Hung-Sheng Tsao Ph.D.
hi you have two issues here 1)one is the HW support 2)one is the SW support no one but oracle can provide SW support even if you find someone for HW support regards For Other you mentioned are all opensolaris fock, some does provide Gui but pricing model are very different AFAIK Nexenta is ch

Re: [zfs-discuss] unable to import the zpool

2012-08-02 Thread Hung-Sheng Tsao Ph.D.
http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19963-01/html/821-1448/gbbwl.html what is the output of *zpool import -nF tXstpool* On 8/2/2012 2:21 AM, Suresh Kumar wrote: Hi Hung-sheng, Thanks for your response. I tried to import the zpool using *zpool import -nF tXstpool* please consider the below output. *bash-

Re: [zfs-discuss] Advice for migrating ZFS configuration

2012-03-07 Thread Hung-Sheng Tsao (LaoTsao) Ph.D
read the link please it seems that afmter you create the radiz1 zpool you need to destroy the fakedisk so it will have contains data when you to the copy copy the data by following the steps in the link replace the fakedisk withnthe real disk this is a good approach that i did not know before

Re: [zfs-discuss] Unable to import exported zpool on a new server

2012-03-13 Thread Hung-Sheng Tsao (LaoTsao) Ph.D
hi are the disk/sas controller the same on both server? -LT Sent from my iPad On Mar 13, 2012, at 6:10, P-O Yliniemi wrote: > Hello, > > I'm currently replacing a temporary storage server (server1) with the one > that should be the final one (server2). To keep the data storage from the old >

Re: [zfs-discuss] Good tower server for around 1,250 USD?

2012-03-22 Thread Hung-Sheng Tsao (LaoTsao) Ph.D
well use component of x4170m2 as example you will be ok intel cpu lsi sas controller non raid sas 72rpm hdd my 2c Sent from my iPad On Mar 22, 2012, at 14:41, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > On Thu, 22 Mar 2012, The Honorable Senator and Mrs. John Blutarsky wrote: >> >> This will be a do-everything m

Re: [zfs-discuss] Good tower server for around 1,250 USD?

2012-03-23 Thread Hung-Sheng Tsao (LaoTsao) Ph.D
well check this link https://shop.oracle.com/pls/ostore/product?p1=SunFireX4270M2server&p2=&p3=&p4=&sc=ocom_x86_SunFireX4270M2server&tz=-4:00 you may not like the price Sent from my iPad On Mar 23, 2012, at 17:16, The Honorable Senator and Mrs. John Blutarsky wrote: > On Fri Mar 23 at 10:0

Re: [zfs-discuss] (fwd) Re: ZFS NFS service hanging on Sunday

2012-06-25 Thread Hung-Sheng Tsao (LaoTsao) Ph.D
in solaris zfs cache many things, you should have more ram if you setup 18gb swap , imho, ram should be high than 4gb regards Sent from my iPad On Jun 25, 2012, at 5:58, tpc...@mklab.ph.rhul.ac.uk wrote: >> >> 2012-06-14 19:11, tpc...@mklab.ph.rhul.ac.uk wrote: In message <2012061414

Re: [zfs-discuss] snapshots slow on sol11?

2012-06-27 Thread Hung-Sheng Tsao (LaoTsao) Ph.D
hi just wondering can you change from samba to SMB? regards Sent from my iPad On Jun 27, 2012, at 2:46, Carsten John wrote: > -Original message- > CC:ZFS Discussions ; > From:Jim Klimov > Sent:Tue 26-06-2012 22:34 > Subject:Re: [zfs-discuss] snapshots slow on sol11? >>

Re: [zfs-discuss] New fast hash algorithm - is it needed?

2012-07-11 Thread Hung-Sheng Tsao (LaoTsao) Ph.D
Sent from my iPad On Jul 11, 2012, at 13:11, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > On Wed, 11 Jul 2012, Richard Elling wrote: >> The last studio release suitable for building OpenSolaris is available in >> the repo. >> See the instructions at >> http://wiki.illumos.org/display/illumos/How+To+Build+illumo

Re: [zfs-discuss] online increase of zfs after LUN increase ?

2012-07-26 Thread Hung-Sheng Tsao (LaoTsao) Ph.D
imho, the 147440-21 does not list the bugs that solved by 148098- even through it obsoletes the 148098 Sent from my iPad On Jul 25, 2012, at 18:14, "Habony, Zsolt" wrote: > Thank you for your replies. > > First, sorry for misleading info. Patch 148098-03 indeed not included in > recommend

Re: [zfs-discuss] unable to import the zpool

2012-08-02 Thread Hung-Sheng Tsao (LaoTsao) Ph.D
so zpool import -F .. zpool import -f ... all not working? regards Sent from my iPad On Aug 2, 2012, at 7:47, Suresh Kumar wrote: > Hi Hung-sheng, > > It is not displaying any output, like the following. > > bash-3.2# zpool import -nF tXstpool > bash-3.2# > > > Thanks & Regards, > Sur

Re: [zfs-discuss] unable to import the zpool

2012-08-02 Thread Hung-Sheng Tsao (LaoTsao) Ph.D
hi can you post zpool history regards Sent from my iPad On Aug 2, 2012, at 7:47, Suresh Kumar wrote: > Hi Hung-sheng, > > It is not displaying any output, like the following. > > bash-3.2# zpool import -nF tXstpool > bash-3.2# > > > Thanks & Regards, > Suresh. > > _

Re: [zfs-discuss] what have you been buying for slog and l2arc?

2012-08-03 Thread Hung-Sheng Tsao (LaoTsao) Ph.D
Intel 311 Series Larsen Creek 20GB 2.5" SATA II SLC Enterprise Solid State Disk SSDSA2VP020G201 Average Rating (12 reviews) Write a Review Sent from my iPad On Aug 3, 2012, at 21:39, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > On Fri, 3 Aug 2012, Karl Rossing wrote: > >> I'm looking at >> http://www.intel.com

Re: [zfs-discuss] what have you been buying for slog and l2arc?

2012-08-04 Thread Hung-Sheng Tsao (LaoTsao) Ph.D
hi may be check out stec ssd or checkout the service manual of sun zfs appliance service manual to see the read and write ssd in the system regards Sent from my iPad On Aug 3, 2012, at 22:05, "Hung-Sheng Tsao (LaoTsao) Ph.D" wrote: > Intel 311 Series Larsen Creek 20GB 2.5

Re: [zfs-discuss] GPU acceleration of ZFS

2011-05-10 Thread Hung-Sheng Tsao (LaoTsao) Ph. D.
IMHO, zfs need to run in all kind of HW T-series CMT server that can help sha calculation since T1 day, did not see any work in ZFS to take advantage it On 5/10/2011 11:29 AM, Anatoly wrote: Good day, I think ZFS can take advantage of using GPU for sha256 calculation, encryption and maybe

Re: [zfs-discuss] sd_max_throttle

2011-11-03 Thread Hung-Sheng Tsao (Lao Tsao 老曹) Ph.D.
uilt...? -Gary ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss -- Hung-Sheng Tsao Ph D. Founder& Principal HopBit GridComputing LLC cell: 9734950840 http://laotsao.wordpress.com/ http://l

Re: [zfs-discuss] Oracle releases Solaris 11 for Sparc and x86 servers

2011-11-10 Thread Hung-Sheng Tsao (Lao Tsao 老曹) Ph.D.
Fred ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss -- Hung-Sheng Tsao Ph D. Founder& Principal HopBit GridComputing LLC cell: 9734950840 http://laotsao.wordpress.com/ http://laotsao.blo

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS forensics

2011-11-23 Thread Hung-Sheng Tsao (Lao Tsao 老曹) Ph.D.
s but wonder if there are any tools that make this easier...? -Gary ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss -- Hung-Sheng Tsao Ph D. Founder& Principal HopBit GridComputing

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS not starting

2011-12-01 Thread Hung-Sheng Tsao (Lao Tsao 老曹) Ph.D.
ss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss -- Hung-Sheng Tsao Ph D. Founder& Principal HopBit GridComputing LLC cell: 9734950840 http://laotsao.wordpress.com/ http://laotsao.blogspot.com/ <>___ z

Re: [zfs-discuss] CPU sizing for ZFS/iSCSI/NFS server

2011-12-12 Thread Hung-Sheng Tsao (Lao Tsao 老曹) Ph.D.
d than CPU bound. We are doing compression in ZFS but that shouldn't be too CPU intensive. Seems we should be caring more about more cores than high Ghz. Recommendations? -- Hung-Sheng Tsao Ph D. Founder& Principal HopBit GridComputing LLC cell: 9734950840 http://laotsao.

Re: [zfs-discuss] CPU sizing for ZFS/iSCSI/NFS server

2011-12-12 Thread Hung-Sheng Tsao (Lao Tsao 老曹) Ph.D.
4c@2.4ghz On 12/12/2011 2:44 PM, Albert Chin wrote: On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 02:40:52PM -0500, "Hung-Sheng Tsao (Lao Tsao 老曹) Ph.D." wrote: please check out the ZFS appliance 7120 spec 2.4Ghz /24GB memory and ZIL(SSD) may be try the ZFS simulator SW Good point. Thanks. regards

Re: [zfs-discuss] CPU sizing for ZFS/iSCSI/NFS server

2011-12-12 Thread Hung-Sheng Tsao (Lao Tsao 老曹) Ph.D.
On 12/12/2011 3:02 PM, Gary Driggs wrote: On Dec 12, 2011, at 11:42 AM, "\"Hung-Sheng Tsao (Lao Tsao 老曹) Ph.D.\"" wrote: please check out the ZFS appliance 7120 spec 2.4Ghz /24GB memory and ZIL(SSD) Do those appliances also use the F20 PCIe flash cards? no, these contr

Re: [zfs-discuss] Very poor pool performance - no zfs/controller errors?!

2011-12-18 Thread Hung-Sheng Tsao (Lao Tsao 老曹) Ph.D.
s how to dig up more detailed information about the pool's/hardware's performance? Thank you in advance for your kind assistance. Best regards Jan ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listin

Re: [zfs-discuss] SATA hardware advice

2011-12-19 Thread Hung-Sheng Tsao (Lao Tsao 老曹) Ph.D.
cuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss -- Hung-Sheng Tsao Ph D. Founder& Principal HopBit GridComputing LLC cell: 9734950840 http://laotsao.wordpress.com/ http://laotsao.blogspot.com/ <>

Re: [zfs-discuss] Thinking about spliting a zpool in "system" and "data"

2012-01-06 Thread Hung-Sheng Tsao (Lao Tsao 老曹) Ph.D.
qzrTHWbNzT2TPUGYc7ZYjS pZYX1EXkJNxVOmmXrWApmoVFGtYbwWeaSQODqE9XY5rUZurEbYrXOmejF2olvBPL zyGFMnZTcmWLTrlwH5vaXeEJOSBZBqzwMWPR/uv2Z/a9JWO2nbidcV1OAzVdT2zU kfboJpbxONQ= =6i+A -----END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@op

Re: [zfs-discuss] Thinking about spliting a zpool in "system" and "data"

2012-01-06 Thread Hung-Sheng Tsao (Lao Tsao 老曹) Ph.D.
correction On 1/6/2012 3:34 PM, "Hung-Sheng Tsao (Lao Tsao 老曹) Ph.D." wrote: may be one can do the following (assume c0t0d0 and c0t1d0) 1)split rpool mirror: zpool split rpool newpool c0t1d0s0 1b)zpool destroy newpool 2)partition 2nd hdd c0t1d0s0 into two slice (s0 and s1) 3)zp

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs defragmentation via resilvering?

2012-01-07 Thread Hung-Sheng Tsao (Lao Tsao 老曹) Ph.D.
/mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss -- Hung-Sheng Tsao Ph D. Founder& Principal HopBit GridComputing LLC cell: 9734950840 http://laotsao.blogspot.com/ http://laotsao.wordpress.com/ http://blogs.oracle.com/hstsao/ <>_

Re: [zfs-discuss] need hint on pool setup

2012-01-31 Thread Hung-Sheng Tsao (Lao Tsao 老曹) Ph.D.
ces should take care of that Thanks for any hint Thomas ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss -- Hung-Sheng Tsao Ph D. Founder& Principal HopBit GridComputing LLC cell: 97

Re: [zfs-discuss] Advice for migrating ZFS configuration

2012-03-07 Thread Hung-Sheng Tsao (Lao Tsao 老曹) Ph.D.
opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss -- Hung-Sheng Tsao Ph D. Founder& Principal HopBit GridComputing LLC cell: 9734950840 http://laotsao.blogspot.com/ http://laotsao.wordpress.com/ http://blogs.oracle.com/hstsao/ <>_

Re: [zfs-discuss] Advice for migrating ZFS configuration

2012-03-08 Thread Hung-Sheng Tsao (Lao Tsao 老曹) Ph.D.
be an easy way to do this. -- Hung-Sheng Tsao Ph D. Founder& Principal HopBit GridComputing LLC cell: 9734950840 http://laotsao.blogspot.com/ http://laotsao.wordpress.com/ http://blogs.oracle.com/hstsao/ <>___ zfs-discuss mailing li

Re: [zfs-discuss] webserver zfs root lock contention under heavy load

2012-03-27 Thread Hung-Sheng Tsao (Lao Tsao 老曹) Ph.D.
%b device 141.30.0 2158.50.0 0.0 0.70.04.6 0 48 c11t0d0 == Thanks, -Aubrey ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss -- Hung-Sheng Tsao Ph D. Founder&am

Re: [zfs-discuss] Replacing root pool disk

2012-04-12 Thread Hung-Sheng Tsao (Lao Tsao 老曹) Ph.D.
hi by default the disk partition s2 cover the whole disk this is fine for ufs for LONG time. Now zfs does not like this overlap so you just need to run format then delete s2 or use s2 and delete all other partitions (by default when you run format/fdisk it create s2 whole disk and s7 for boo

Re: [zfs-discuss] Have my RMA... Now what??

2011-05-28 Thread Hung-Sheng Tsao (Lao Tsao 老曹) Ph.D.
yes good idea, another things to keep in mind technology change so fast, by the time you want a replacement, may be HDD does exist any more or the supplier changed, so the drives are not exactly like your original drive On 5/28/2011 6:05 PM, Michael DeMan wrote: Always pre-purchase one

[zfs-discuss] zpool import -R /tpools zpool hangs

2011-06-29 Thread Hung-Sheng Tsao (Lao Tsao 老曹) Ph.D.
hi try to import zpool at different mnt root it hangs forever how to recover can one kill the import job 1 S root 5 0 0 0 SD? 0? Jun 27 ? 8:58 zpool-rootpool 1 S root 16786 0 0 0 SD? 0? 16:11:15 ? 0:00

Re: [zfs-discuss] Scripting

2011-08-10 Thread Hung-Sheng Tsao (Lao Tsao 老曹) Ph.D.
hi most mordern server has separate ILOM that support IPMLtool that can talk to HDD what is your server? does it has separate remote management port? On 8/10/2011 8:36 AM, Lanky Doodle wrote: Hiya, Now I have figured out how to read disks using dd to make LEDs blink, I want to write a litt

Re: [zfs-discuss] Kernel panic on zpool import. 200G of data inaccessible!

2011-08-15 Thread Hung-Sheng Tsao (Lao Tsao 老曹) Ph.D.
may be try the following 1)boot s10u8 cd into single user mode (when boot cdrom, choose Solaris then choose single user mode(6)) 2)when ask to mount rpool just say no 3)mkdir /tmp/mnt1 /tmp/mnt2 4)zpool import -f -R /tmp/mnt1 tank 5)zpool import -f -R /tmp/mnt2 rpool On 8/15/2011 9:12 AM, Stu

Re: [zfs-discuss] Kernel panic on zpool import. 200G of data inaccessible!

2011-08-15 Thread Hung-Sheng Tsao (Lao Tsao 老曹) Ph.D.
- From: ""Hung-Sheng Tsao (Lao Tsao 老曹) Ph.D."" To: zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org Cc: Sent: Monday, August 15, 2011 3:06:20 PM Subject: Re: [zfs-discuss] Kernel panic on zpool import. 200G of data inaccessible! may be try the following 1)boot s10u8 cd into single user m

Re: [zfs-discuss] Does the zpool cache file affect import?

2011-08-30 Thread Hung-Sheng Tsao (Lao Tsao 老曹) Ph.D.
IMHO, you need to know how to recover the Zpool if the data/metadata get corrupt due to import by two hosts may be things are improved for zfs recently. you design cluster by certain rules, hope that all SA(not just you) will follow your rules, otherwise some SA may just import zpool that crea

Re: [zfs-discuss] aclmode gone in S10u10?

2011-09-13 Thread Hung-Sheng Tsao (Lao Tsao 老曹) Ph.D.
hi I do not have s10u10 but in s10u9 zfs get does have aclmode but in s11x(express) zfs get does not have aclmode any more, there was big discussion and seems that illumos has resurrect aclmode regards On 9/13/2011 8:21 AM, Peter Tribble wrote: On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 1:50 AM, Paul B. Henson

Re: [zfs-discuss] Is there any implementation of VSS for a ZFS iSCSI snapshot on Solaris?

2011-09-15 Thread Hung-Sheng Tsao (Lao Tsao 老曹) Ph.D.
ed, 14 Sep 2011 18:01:37 -0400 To: bit05...@hotmail.com iirc zfs appliance haa vss support Sent from my iPad Hung-Sheng Tsao ( LaoTsao) Ph.D On Sep 14, 2011, at 17:02, S Joshi <mailto:bit05...@hotmail.com>> wrote: I am using a Solaris + ZFS environment to export a iSCSI block l

Re: [zfs-discuss] Unable to allocate dma memory for extra SGL

2012-01-11 Thread Hung-Sheng Tsao (Lao Tsao 老曹) Ph. D.
On 1/10/2012 9:44 PM, Ray Van Dolson wrote: On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 06:23:50PM -0800, Hung-Sheng Tsao (laoTsao) wrote: how is the ram size what is the zpool setup and what is your hba and hdd size and type Hmm, actually this system has only 6GB of memory. For some reason I though it had