Re: [zfs-discuss] swap across multiple pools

2010-03-03 Thread James C. McPherson
used or as extra swap ? Yes. This is what I do at home, and what we do on the onnv gate machines - we've got swap in rpool and a separate, dedicated, swap pool. Would this have any performance implications ? Negative performance implications? none that I know of. James C. McPherson -- S

Re: [zfs-discuss] Does OpenSolaris mpt driver support LSI 2008 controller

2010-03-07 Thread James C. McPherson
ntroduced until build snv_118. So you could either wait until 2010.$spring comes out, or start using the /dev repo instead. hth, James C. McPherson -- Senior Software Engineer, Solaris Sun Microsystems http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog ___ zfs-discuss m

Re: [zfs-discuss] Does OpenSolaris mpt driver support LSI 2008 controller

2010-03-07 Thread James C. McPherson
On 8/03/10 01:42 AM, Tim Cook wrote: On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 3:12 AM, James C. McPherson mailto:j...@opensolaris.org>> wrote: On 7/03/10 12:28 PM, norm.tallant wrote: I'm about to try it! My LSI SAS 9211-8i should arrive Monday or Tuesday. I bought the

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Performance on SATA Deive

2010-03-18 Thread James C. McPherson
user0m0.458s sys 0m5.260s James C. McPherson -- Senior Software Engineer, Solaris Sun Microsystems http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Performance on SATA Deive

2010-03-18 Thread James C. McPherson
sata Memory 16 GB Processor Processor 1GH 6 core Solaris 10 8/07 s10s_u4wos_12b SPARC Since you are seeing this on a Solaris 10 update release, you should log a call with your support provider to get this investigated. James C. McPherson -- Senior Software Engineer, Solaris Sun Microsystems

Re: [zfs-discuss] LSISAS2004 support

2010-03-22 Thread James C. McPherson
,010700)(pciclass,0107) driver name:mr_sas This should be using the mpt_sas driver, not the mr_sas driver. James C. McPherson -- Senior Software Engineer, Solaris Sun Microsystems http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog ___ zfs-discuss

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

2010-04-26 Thread James C. McPherson
NTERPRISEY" over and over again :-) I don't know of any other specific difference between "Enterprise SATA" and "SAS" drives. James C. McPherson -- Senior Software Engineer, Solaris Oracle http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog _

Re: [zfs-discuss] Solaris 10 default caching segmap/vpm size

2010-04-28 Thread James C. McPherson
. Note that not all of those will be applicable for ZFS. You should read the ZFS Best Practices Guide http://www.solarisinternals.com/wiki/index.php/ZFS_Best_Practices_Guide and the ZFS Config Guide too http://www.solarisinternals.com/wiki/index.php/ZFS_Configuration_Guide James C. McPherson

Re: [zfs-discuss] Another MPT issue - kernel crash

2010-05-05 Thread James C. McPherson
n't worry, I've re-opened it. James C. McPherson -- Senior Software Engineer, Solaris Oracle http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Another MPT issue - kernel crash

2010-05-06 Thread James C. McPherson
n't worry, I've re-opened it. James C. McPherson -- Senior Software Engineer, Solaris Oracle http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Opteron 6100? Does it work with opensolaris?

2010-05-11 Thread James C. McPherson
what of a work in progress in > regards to being 'production ready'. What metric are you using for "production ready" ? Are there features missing which you expect to see in the driver, or is it just "oh noes, I haven't seen enough big customers with it" ?

Re: [zfs-discuss] Opteron 6100? Does it work with opensolaris?

2010-05-12 Thread James C. McPherson
ld on this? I believe you are talking through your hat. James C. McPherson -- Senior Software Engineer, Solaris Oracle http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Opteron 6100? Does it work with opensolaris?

2010-05-12 Thread James C. McPherson
bunch of FUD cast on a driver that I worked on (mpt_sas), and I'm still trying to find out from you and others what you think is a problem with it. James C. McPherson -- Senior Software Engineer, Solaris Oracle http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog ___

Re: [zfs-discuss] HDD Serial numbers for ZFS

2010-05-22 Thread James C. McPherson
#x27; + 'scsiclass,00.vATA.pST3320620AS' + 'scsa,00.bmpt' + 'scsiclass,00' + 'scsiclass' name='lun' type=int items=1 value= name='target' type=int items=1 value=0003 [extra output elided

Re: [zfs-discuss] Is it possible to disable MPxIO during OpenSolaris installation?

2010-06-01 Thread James C. McPherson
On 2/06/10 11:39 AM, Fred Liu wrote: Thanks. No. If you must disable MPxIO, then you do so after installation, using the stmsboot command. James C. McPherson -- Senior Software Engineer, Solaris Oracle http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog ___ zfs

Re: [zfs-discuss] Is it possible to disable MPxIO during OpenSolaris installation?

2010-06-01 Thread James C. McPherson
see any plain old targets, or that no disk devices of any sort show up in your host when you are installing? What is your actual problem, and why do you think that turning off MPxIO will solve it? James C. McPherson -- Senior Software Engineer, Solaris Oracle http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/b

Re: [zfs-discuss] Is it possible to disable MPxIO during OpenSolaris installation?

2010-06-02 Thread James C. McPherson
connectedconfigured unknownClient Device: /dev/dsk/c5t50014EE1007EE473d0s0(sd39) unavailable disk-pathn /devices/p...@ff,0/pci10de,3...@f/pci1000,3...@0:scsi::6,0 No need to use luxadm. James C. McPherson -- Senior Software

Re: [zfs-discuss] Is it possible to disable MPxIO during OpenSolaris installation?

2010-06-02 Thread James C. McPherson
connectedconfigured unknownClient Device: /dev/dsk/c5t50014EE1007EE473d0s0(sd39) unavailable disk-pathn /devices/p...@ff,0/pci10de,3...@f/pci1000,3...@0:scsi::6,0 No need to use luxadm. James C. McPherson -- Senior Software

Re: [zfs-discuss] Zfs disk device name

2010-06-17 Thread James C. McPherson
as the old device. It really shouldn't be a problem for you. James C. McPherson -- Senior Software Engineer, Solaris Oracle http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailm

Re: [zfs-discuss] Please trim posts

2010-06-20 Thread James C. McPherson
myself. Could we all please STOP RESPONDING to this thread? It's not about ZFS at all. James C. McPherson -- Senior Software Engineer, Solaris Oracle http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http

Re: [zfs-discuss] One dataset per user?

2010-06-20 Thread James C. McPherson
ripts are considerably faster running when I don't have to traverse whole directory trees (ala ufs). James C. McPherson -- Senior Software Engineer, Solaris Oracle http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@op

Re: [zfs-discuss] One dataset per user?

2010-06-21 Thread James C. McPherson
On 21/06/10 10:38 PM, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: From: James C. McPherson [mailto:j...@opensolaris.org] On the build systems that I maintain inside the firewall, we mandate one filesystem per user, which is a very great boon for system administration. What's the reasoning behi

Re: [zfs-discuss] One dataset per user?

2010-06-21 Thread James C. McPherson
On 22/06/10 01:05 AM, Fredrich Maney wrote: On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 8:59 AM, James C. McPherson wrote: [...] So when I'm trying to figure out who I need to yell at because they're using more than our acceptable limit (30Gb), I have to run "du -s /builds/[zyx]". And that

Re: [zfs-discuss] NexentaStor 3.0.3 vs OpenSolaris - Patches more up to date?

2010-07-02 Thread James C. McPherson
On 3/07/10 12:25 PM, Richard Elling wrote: On Jul 2, 2010, at 6:48 PM, Tim Cook wrote: Given that the most basic of functionality was broken in Nexenta, and not Opensolaris, and I couldn't get a single response, I have a hard time recommending ANYONE go to Nexenta. It's great they're employi

Re: [zfs-discuss] zpool throughput: snv 134 vs 138 vs 143

2010-07-19 Thread James C. McPherson
closedbins are you using, why crypto bits are you using, and what changeset is your own workspace synced with? James C. McPherson -- Oracle http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris

Re: [zfs-discuss] [install-discuss] Installing on alternate hardware

2010-08-03 Thread James C. McPherson
have configured for them within the pool should stick around over an export/import operation. If they don't, I would be very, very surprised. [note: everybody was a noob at some point] James C. McPherson -- Oracle http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog ___

Re: [zfs-discuss] How to obtain vdev information for a zpool?

2010-08-11 Thread James C. McPherson
NLINE 0 0 0 c5t50024E90037AF38Cd0s0 ONLINE 0 0 0 errors: No known data errors James C. McPherson -- Senior Software Engineer, Solaris Oracle http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-di

Re: [zfs-discuss] KCA ZFS keynote available

2009-09-29 Thread James C. McPherson
Trevor Pretty wrote: It think James said there was audio problems and that's why it took so long to get published. Well, one of the reasons. The other, more major, reason is that there's been a heckuvalot of video generated lately that we want to get up on slx.sun.com etc, and we don't have a

Re: [zfs-discuss] MPT questions

2009-10-08 Thread James C. McPherson
of these adapters? Though I'd ask before forking out for a SATA DVD drive - just hate to put perfectly good drives out for recycling. It might work. It certainly wouldn't hurt to try. James C. McPherson -- Senior Kernel Software Engineer, Solaris Sun Microsystems h

Re: [zfs-discuss] SNV_125 MPT warning in logfile

2009-10-22 Thread James C. McPherson
Adam Cheal wrote: Cindy: How can I view the bug report you referenced? Standard methods show my the bug number is valid (6694909) but no content or notes. We are having similar messages appear with snv_118 with a busy LSI controller, especially during scrubbing, and I'd be interested to see what

Re: [zfs-discuss] SNV_125 MPT warning in logfile

2009-10-22 Thread James C. McPherson
Adam Cheal wrote: James: We are running Phase 16 on our LSISAS3801E's, and have also tried the recently released Phase 17 but it didn't help. All firmware NVRAM settings are default. Basically, when we put the disks behind this controller under load (e.g. scrubbing, recursive ls on large ZFS file

Re: [zfs-discuss] SNV_125 MPT warning in logfile

2009-10-23 Thread James C. McPherson
the incoming queues all day yesterday for the bug, but missed seeing it, not sure why. I've now moved the bug to the appropriate category so it will get attention from the right people. Thanks, James C. McPherson -- Senior Kernel Software Engineer, Solaris Sun Microsystems http://blo

Re: [zfs-discuss] SunOS neptune 5.11 snv_127 sun4u sparc SUNW, Sun-Fire-880

2009-11-03 Thread James C. McPherson
Dennis Clarke wrote: I just went through a BFU update to snv_127 on a V880 : neptune console login: root Password: Nov 3 08:19:12 neptune login: ROOT LOGIN /dev/console Last login: Mon Nov 2 16:40:36 on console Sun Microsystems Inc. SunOS 5.11 snv_127 Nov. 02, 2009 SunOS Internal Develo

Re: [zfs-discuss] Quick dedup question

2009-11-07 Thread James C. McPherson
sun.com or pkg.opensolaris.org by early December. cheers, James C. McPherson -- Senior Kernel Software Engineer, Solaris Sun Microsystems http://blogs.sun.com/jmcp http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolari

Re: [zfs-discuss] ..and now ZFS send dedupe

2009-11-09 Thread James C. McPherson
Roman Naumenko wrote: Interesting stuff. By the way, is there a place to watch lated news like this on zfs/opensolaris? rss maybe? You could subscribe to onnv-not...@opensolaris.org... James C. McPherson -- Senior Kernel Software Engineer, Solaris Sun Microsystems http://blogs.sun.com

Re: [zfs-discuss] ..and now ZFS send dedupe

2009-11-09 Thread James C. McPherson
/view/Community+Group+on/flag-days The flag days page has not been updated since the switch to XWiki, it's on my todo list but I don't have an ETA for when it'll be done. James C. McPherson -- Senior Kernel Software Engineer, Solaris Sun Microsystems http://blogs.sun.com/

Re: [zfs-discuss] ..and now ZFS send dedupe

2009-11-09 Thread James C. McPherson
Roman Naumenko wrote: James C. McPherson wrote, On 09-11-09 04:40 PM: Roman Naumenko wrote: Interesting stuff. By the way, is there a place to watch lated news like this on zfs/opensolaris? rss maybe? You could subscribe to onnv-not...@opensolaris.org... James C. McPherson

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS + fsck

2009-11-09 Thread James C. McPherson
l/zfs-discuss/2009-November/033672.html On Mon Nov 9 14:26:54 PST 2009, James C. McPherson wrote: The flag days page has not been updated since the switch to XWiki, it's on my todo list but I don't have an ETA for when it'll be done. Perhaps anyone interested in seeing the flags d

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS on JBOD storage, mpt driver issue - server not responding

2009-11-11 Thread James C. McPherson
solaris.org. If you don't, we don't know that there might be a problem outside of the ones that we identify. James C. McPherson -- Senior Kernel Software Engineer, Solaris Sun Microsystems http://blogs.sun.com/jmcp http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog _

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS on JBOD storage, mpt driver issue - server not responding

2009-11-11 Thread James C. McPherson
Travis Tabbal wrote: On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 10:25 PM, James C. McPherson mailto:j...@opensolaris.org>> wrote: The first step towards "acknowledging" that there is a problem is you logging a bug in bugs.opensolaris.org <http://bugs.opensolaris.org>. If y

Re: [zfs-discuss] SNV_125 MPT warning in logfile

2009-11-12 Thread James C. McPherson
and run the VMs on another box? Hi Travis, your bug showed up - it's 6900767. Since bugs.opensolaris.org isn't a "live" system, you won't be able to see it at http://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6900767 until tomorrow. cheers, James C. Mc

Re: [zfs-discuss] Workaround for mpt timeouts in snv_127

2009-11-21 Thread James C. McPherson
ch zpool) that would help us sort through and find any commonalities and hopefully a fix. James C. McPherson -- Senior Kernel Software Engineer, Solaris Sun Microsystems http://blogs.sun.com/jmcp http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog ___ zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Workaround for mpt timeouts in snv_127

2009-11-23 Thread James C. McPherson
ch tells you that this is direct-access device (device type 0), has a non-standard revision id field (2SS00_01) of which we take the last 4 bytes as the actual revision field, and the vendor and product ids. The devid information helps here too. James C. McPherson -- Senior Kernel Software

Re: [zfs-discuss] Workaround for mpt timeouts in snv_127

2009-11-24 Thread James C. McPherson
Thankyou for all who've procvided data about this. I've updated the bugs mentioned earlier and I believe we can now make progress on diagnosis. The new synopsis (should show up on b.o.o tomorrow) is as follows: 6894775 mpt's msi support is suboptimal with xVM James C. McPh

Re: [zfs-discuss] Opensolaris with J4400 - Experiences

2009-11-29 Thread James C. McPherson
numerate as many disks as it is able to. James C. McPherson -- Senior Kernel Software Engineer, Solaris Sun Microsystems http://blogs.sun.com/jmcp http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://m

Re: [zfs-discuss] Workaround for mpt timeouts in snv_127

2009-11-29 Thread James C. McPherson
added this to the public comments field of the CR, and removed the reference to xVM from the synopsis - hopefully the mail gateway will send your copy reasonably soon :-) Best regards, James C. McPherson -- Senior Kernel Software Engineer, Solaris Sun Microsystems http://blogs.sun.com/jmcp

Re: [zfs-discuss] Workaround for mpt timeouts in snv_127

2009-11-29 Thread James C. McPherson
ut. I think that's sufficient to go on for the moment, thankyou. cheers, James C. McPherson -- Senior Kernel Software Engineer, Solaris Sun Microsystems http://blogs.sun.com/jmcp http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog ___ zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Workaround for mpt timeouts in snv_127

2009-11-29 Thread James C. McPherson
uite long right now. The reboot command should have automatically run bootadm update-archive for you, I have this habit of running it by hand whenever I change a driver or /etc/system to make sure that I have an up to date boot archive from that point in time onwards. James C. McPherson -- Senior

Re: [zfs-discuss] Workaround for mpt timeouts in snv_127

2009-11-30 Thread James C. McPherson
Tru Huynh wrote: On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 07:08:20PM +1000, James C. McPherson wrote: If you and everybody else who is seeing this problem could provide details about your configuration (output from cfgadm -lva, raidctl -l, prtconf -v, what your zpool configs are, and the firmware rev of each

Re: [zfs-discuss] Workaround for mpt timeouts in snv_127

2009-11-30 Thread James C. McPherson
root cause here, we're just trying to nail down specifics of what seems to be a likely cause. thankyou in advance, James C. McPherson -- Senior Kernel Software Engineer, Solaris Sun Microsystems http://blogs.sun.com/jmcp http://www.jmcp.ho

Re: [zfs-discuss] mpt errors on snv 127

2009-11-30 Thread James C. McPherson
h two LSI SAS3081E-R PCI-E 8 port SAS controllers, with 8 drives each. Are these disks internal to your server's chassis, or external in a jbod? If in a jbod, which one? Also, which cables are you using? thankyou, James C. McPherson -- Senior Kernel Software Engineer, Solaris Sun Microsy

Re: [zfs-discuss] mpt errors on snv 127

2009-11-30 Thread James C. McPherson
Chad Cantwell wrote: Hi, Replied to your previous general query already, but in summary, they are in the server chassis. It's a Chenbro 16 hotswap bay case. It has 4 mini backplanes that each connect via an SFF-8087 cable (1m) to my LSI cards (2 cables / 8 drives per card). Hi Chad, thanks

Re: [zfs-discuss] mpt errors on snv 127

2009-11-30 Thread James C. McPherson
init the config space (that's the pci bus config space), then you've got about 1/2 the nails in the coffin hammered in. Then the failure to restart the IOC (io controller unit) == the rest of the lid hammered down. best regards, James C. McPherson -- Senior Kernel Software Engine

Re: [zfs-discuss] possible mega_sas issue sol10u8 (Re: Workaround for mpt timeouts in snv_127)

2009-12-03 Thread James C. McPherson
Tru Huynh wrote: follow up, another crash today. On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 11:35:07AM +0100, Tru Huynh wrote: 1) OS SunOS xargos.bis.pasteur.fr 5.10 Generic_141445-09 i86pc i386 i86pc You should be logging a support call for this issue. James C. McPherson -- Senior Kernel Software Engineer

Re: [zfs-discuss] b128a available w/deduplication

2009-12-03 Thread James C. McPherson
Dennis Clarke wrote: FYI, OpenSolaris b128a is available for download or image-update from the dev repository. Enjoy. I thought that dedupe has been out for weeks now ? The source has, yes. But what Richard was referring to was the respun build now available via IPS. cheers, James C

Re: [zfs-discuss] mpt errors on snv 127

2009-12-06 Thread James C. McPherson
om Murayama-san) drivers. As another comment in this thread has mentioned, a full scrub can be a serious test of your hardware depending on how much data you've got to walk over. If you can keep the hardware variables to a minimum then clarity will be more achievable. thankyou, James C. McPher

Re: [zfs-discuss] Update - mpt errors on snv 101b

2009-12-08 Thread James C. McPherson
proving so is, however, another thing entirely. Could you send the output from prtconf -v for your host please, so that we can have a look at the vital information for the enclosure services and SMP nodes that the SAS Expander presents/ thankyou, James C. McPherson -- Senior Kernel Software

Re: [zfs-discuss] Changing ZFS drive pathing

2009-12-31 Thread James C. McPherson
.com/~jmcp/WhatIsAGuid.pdf James C. McPherson -- Senior Kernel Software Engineer, Solaris Sun Microsystems http://blogs.sun.com/jmcp http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailma

Re: [zfs-discuss] Is LSI SAS3081E-R suitable for a ZFS NAS ?

2010-01-11 Thread James C. McPherson
supported ? Anything else I should know before buying one of these cards ? These cards work very well with OpenSolaris, and attach using the mpt(7d) driver - supports hotplugging and MPxIO too. James C. McPherson -- Senior Kernel Software Engineer, Solaris Sun Microsystems http://blogs.sun.com/jmcp

Re: [zfs-discuss] Does OpenSolaris mpt driver support LSI 2008 controller ?

2010-01-21 Thread James C. McPherson
-USAS2-L8i 2. LSI SAS 9211-8i No, the 2nd generation non-RAID LSI SAS controllers make use of the mpt_sas(7d). Second generation RAID LSI SAS controllers use mr_sas(7d). Code for both of these drivers is Open and you can find it on src.opensolaris.org. James C. McPherson -- Senior Kernel Software

Re: [zfs-discuss] Does OpenSolaris mpt driver support LSI 2008 controller

2010-01-21 Thread James C. McPherson
find these drivers and chips to be up to the task. If you do come across problems, please bring it up in storage-discuss or zfs-discuss, and if necessary file a bug on bugs.opensolaris.org solaris/driver/mpt-sas, and solaris/driver/mr_sas are the two subcats that you'll need in that case

Re: [zfs-discuss] Is LSI SAS3081E-R suitable for a ZFS NAS ?

2010-01-28 Thread James C. McPherson
ntial part of the whole picture that is the SS7000 appliance series, as well as the J4x00 series. Personally, I'm quite happy with the LSISAS3081E that I have installed in my system, with the attached 320Gb consumer-grade SATA2 disks. James C. McPherson -- Senior Kernel Software Eng

Re: [zfs-discuss] Can ZFS update disk drive firmware

2010-01-29 Thread James C. McPherson
n/view/Community+Group+on/2009052003 and the update to the pluggable fwflash spec is http://arc.opensolaris.org/caselog/PSARC/2009/163/ original pluggable fwflash case http://arc.opensolaris.org/caselog/PSARC/2008/151 James C. McPherson -- Senior Kernel Software Engineer, Solaris Sun Microsystem

Re: [zfs-discuss] verging OT: how to buy J4500 w/o overpriced drives

2010-02-01 Thread James C. McPherson
stop assuming that all this only costs a few pennies. It doesn't. James C. McPherson -- Senior Kernel Software Engineer, Solaris Sun Microsystems http://blogs.sun.com/jmcp http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-dis

Re: [zfs-discuss] zpool status output confusing

2010-02-02 Thread James C. McPherson
sical path. If the devid does not wander, then there is no need to look at the physical path to open the device, hence there is no problem for ZFS. Assuming that Areca's fix does in fact resolve this wandering problem, then there is no problem elsewhere. ====

Re: [zfs-discuss] zpool status output confusing

2010-02-02 Thread James C. McPherson
On 3/02/10 01:31 AM, Tonmaus wrote: Hi James, am I right to understand that in a nutshell the problem is that if page 80/83 information is present but corrupt/inaccurate/forged (name > it as you want), zfs will not get to down to the GUID? Hi Tonmaus, If page83 information is present, ZFS wi

Re: [zfs-discuss] CR 6811542: that's interesting

2010-02-02 Thread James C. McPherson
ash which was fixed in snv_122. James C. McPherson -- Senior Kernel Software Engineer, Solaris Sun Microsystems http://blogs.sun.com/jmcp http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.

Re: [zfs-discuss] Workaround for mpt timeouts in snv_127

2010-02-18 Thread James C. McPherson
_status=0x804b, scsi_state=0xc Feb 17 04:47:57 thecratewall scsi: [ID 365881 kern.info] /p...@0,0/pci15ad,7...@15/pci1000,3...@0 (mpt_sas0): Feb 17 04:47:57 thecratewall Log info 0x31110630 received for target 33. Feb 17 04:47:57 thecratewall scsi_status=0x0, ioc_status=0x804b, scsi_state=0x

Re: [zfs-discuss] future of OpenSolaris

2010-02-22 Thread James C. McPherson
nt or utter anything authoritative. You will just have to wait for the official word to be announced - as will we all. James C. McPherson -- Senior Kernel Software Engineer, Solaris Sun Microsystems http://blogs.sun.com/jmcp http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog __

Re: [zfs-discuss] LSI 3GB HBA SAS Errors (and other misc)

2011-12-04 Thread James C. McPherson
The true root cause was traced to a chip that was supplied to the manufacturer by a third party. Personally, I'd start looking at the cables first - in my experience they seem to incur more physical stress through the connect/disconnect operations than HBAs. James C. McP

Re: [zfs-discuss] Any rhyme or reason to disk dev names?

2011-12-21 Thread James C. McPherson
, you can match that up with info from iostat -En and/or prtconf -v. hth, James C. McPherson -- Oracle http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

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

2012-01-31 Thread James C. McPherson
conf, you need to utter # /usr/sbin/stmsboot -u in order for those changes to be correctly propagated. You can (and should) read about this in the stmsboot(1m) manpage, and there's more information available in my blog post http://blogs.oracle.com/jmcp/entry/on_stmsboot_1m James C. McP

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

2012-01-31 Thread James C. McPherson
On 1/02/12 12:40 PM, Ragnar Sundblad wrote: ... I still don't really get what stmsboot -u actually does (and if - and if so how much - this differs between x86 and sparc). Would it be impolite to ask you to elaborate on this a little? Not at all. Here goes. /usr/sbin/stmsboot -u arms the mpxi

Re: [zfs-discuss] SAS world-wide name

2012-03-01 Thread James C. McPherson
e to see location information in format, and using the diskinfo too. Otherwise, if you're running S11, you could try using /usr/lib/fm/fmd/fmti - a tool which blinks LEDs at you and prompts for label confirmation. James C. McPherson -- Oracle http://www.jmcp.home

Re: [zfs-discuss] Is there an actual newsgroup for zfs-discuss?

2012-06-11 Thread James C. McPherson
On 12/06/12 06:40 AM, David Combs wrote: Actual newsgroup for zfs-discuss? Actually, no. Where's the value in having a newsgroup as well as a mailing list? James C. McPherson -- Oracle http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog ___ zfs-discuss mailing

Re: [zfs-discuss] Changing rpool device paths/drivers

2012-10-19 Thread James C. McPherson
d info... and we use devid's in preference to physical paths. James C. McPherson -- Oracle Systems / Solaris / Core http://www.jmcpdotcom.com/blog ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Changing rpool device paths/drivers

2012-10-19 Thread James C. McPherson
On 19/10/12 09:27 PM, Edward Ned Harvey (opensolarisisdeadlongliveopensolaris) wrote: From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of James C. McPherson As far as I'm aware, having an rpool on multipathed devices is fine. Even a yea

Re: [zfs-discuss] mpt_sas multipath problem?

2013-01-07 Thread James C. McPherson
at to determine that MPxIO isn't working. James C. McPherson -- Oracle Systems / Solaris / Core http://www.jmcpdotcom.com/blog ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] HELP! RPool problem

2013-02-16 Thread James C. McPherson
oting should be enough for him to make significant progress. James C. McPherson -- Oracle Systems / Solaris / Core http://www.jmcpdotcom.com/blog ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] HELP! RPool problem

2013-02-16 Thread James C. McPherson
On 17/02/13 08:48 AM, Sašo Kiselkov wrote: On 02/16/2013 10:47 PM, James C. McPherson wrote: ... Whether that message winds up being something you need to talk with a Oracle about is entirely different. He got a kernel panic on a completely legitimate operation (booting with one half of the

Re: [zfs-discuss] Intermittent ZFS hang

2010-09-28 Thread James C. McPherson
1g_zfs-raidz performance regression x86 which was fixed in snv_135. James C. McPherson -- Oracle http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZPool creation brings down the host

2010-10-06 Thread James C. McPherson
rather messy inside the kernel. Do you have the panic stack trace we can look at, and/or a crash dump? James C. McPherson -- Oracle http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZPool creation brings down the host

2010-10-07 Thread James C. McPherson
On 8/10/10 03:28 PM, Anand Bhakthavatsala wrote: ... -- *From:* James C. McPherson *To:* Ramesh Babu On 7/10/10 03:46 PM, Ramesh Babu wrote: > I am trying to create ZPool using single veritas volume. The host is go

Re: [zfs-discuss] Supermicro AOC-USAS2-L8i

2010-10-12 Thread James C. McPherson
runs under OSOL build134 or solaris10? I can. This card should attach using the mpt_sas(7d) driver. This is *different* to the mpt(7d) driver. PSARC 2008/443 Driver for LSI MPT2.0 compliant SAS controller went into build 118. James C. McPherson -- Oracle http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog

Re: [zfs-discuss] WarpDrive SLP-300

2010-11-17 Thread James C. McPherson
C. McPherson -- Oracle http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] WarpDrive SLP-300

2010-11-17 Thread James C. McPherson
On 18/11/10 03:05 PM, Fred Liu wrote: Yeah, no driver issue. BTW, any new storage-controller-related drivers introduced in snv151a? LSI seems the only one who works very closely with Oracle/Sun. You would have to have a look at what's in the repo, I'm not allowed to tell you :|

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

2011-02-27 Thread James C. McPherson
when you run it as root: # /usr/lib/fm/fmd/fmtopo -V If this doesn't work for you, then you'll have to resort to the tried and tested use of dd to /dev/null for each disk, and see which lights blink. James C. McPherson -- Oracle http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog

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

2011-02-27 Thread James C. McPherson
also supports parallel SCSI and has different firmware to what you have in your 9211 card. The 9211 card is also 2nd generation SAS, not 1st generation like the 3081. Personally, having worked on the mpt_sas(7d) project, I'm disappointed that you believe the card and its driver are &

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

2011-02-27 Thread James C. McPherson
le that since Linux and Windows are fairly closely tied to the PC architecture, that perhaps they do some bios calls to try to figure out "correct order" mappings. James C. McPherson -- Oracle http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog ___ zfs-discuss

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

2011-02-27 Thread James C. McPherson
On 28/02/11 02:08 AM, Dave Pooser wrote: 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 mult

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

2011-02-27 Thread James C. McPherson
On 28/02/11 12:46 PM, Dave Pooser wrote: On 2/27/11 4:07 PM, "James C. McPherson" wrote: ... PHY iport@ 01 12 24 38 410 520 640 780 OK, bear with me for a moment because I'm feeling extra dense this evening. The PHY tells me which port

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

2011-02-27 Thread James C. McPherson
On 28/02/11 02:51 PM, Dave Pooser wrote: On 2/27/11 10:06 PM, "James C. McPherson" wrote: ... 2nd controller c16t5000CCA222DDD7BAd0 /pci@0,0/pci8086,340c@5/pci1000,3020@0/iport@2/disk@w5000cca222ddd7ba,0 3rd controller c14t5000CCA222DF8FBEd0 /pci@0,0/pci8086,340e@7/pci1000,3020

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

2011-02-28 Thread James C. McPherson
On 1/03/11 03:00 AM, Dave Pooser wrote: On 2/27/11 11:13 PM, "James C. McPherson" wrote: /pci@0,0/pci8086,340c@5/pci1000,3020@0 and /pci@0,0/pci8086,340e@7/pci1000,3020@0 which are in different slots on your motherboard and connected to different PCI Express Root Ports - which s

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

2011-02-28 Thread James C. McPherson
icensed driver and create problems for myself or my employer. James C. McPherson -- Oracle http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] dual protocal on one file system?

2011-03-14 Thread James C. McPherson
which tracks the inclusion in a Solaris 10 Update. I'd also like to know where you're getting your information from on this topic. James C. McPherson -- Oracle http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opens

Re: [zfs-discuss] dual protocal on one file system?

2011-03-14 Thread James C. McPherson
On 14/03/11 11:26 PM, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: From: James C. McPherson [mailto:j...@opensolaris.org] Sent: Monday, March 14, 2011 9:20 AM Just for clarity: The in-kernel CIFS service is indeed available in solaris 10. Are you really, really sure about that? Please point the RFE number which

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS with STMS/MPXIO

2008-07-16 Thread James C. McPherson
Hi Bob, thanks for the quick response. Comments inline below Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > On Thu, 17 Jul 2008, James C. McPherson wrote: >> ... >>> MPXIO is quite ugly and rough around the edges (at least compared >>> with ZFS) but it works. >> >> Just curio

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS with STMS/MPXIO

2008-07-16 Thread James C. McPherson
Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > On Thu, 17 Jul 2008, James C. McPherson wrote: >> I'm fairly sure that the long device names aspect won't change. >> >> I don't understand what you mean by "Odd requirement to update /etc/vfstab" >> - when we turn on

Re: [zfs-discuss] RFE: -t flag for 'zfs destroy'

2008-07-17 Thread James C. McPherson
on't see it yet; is > there a better way than "text search for things I put in the bug" that > I can check on the status of this bug? when it does show up on bugs.opensolaris.org (in perhaps 24 hours time), it'll be 6727026 -t flag for 'zfs destroy' James C.

Re: [zfs-discuss] i/o error on new disks?

2008-07-17 Thread James C. McPherson
gt; # zpool create data mirror c4t1d0s0 c5t1d0s0 > cannot open '/dev/dsk/c4t1d0s0': I/O error > # zpool create data mirror c5t1d0s0 c4t1d0s0 > cannot open '/dev/dsk/c5t1d0s0': I/O error Do you have fdisk partitions and/or vtocs on those disks? If you want to give the who

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