[zfs-discuss] ZFS RAID-Z1 Degraded Array won't import

2010-04-12 Thread Peter Tripp
Hi folks, At home I run OpenSolaris x86 with a 4 drive Raid-Z (4x1TB) zpool and it's not in great shape. A fan stopped spinning and soon after the top disk failed (cause you know, heat rises). Naturally, OpenSolaris and ZFS didn't skip a beat; I didn't even notice it was dead until I saw the

Re: [zfs-discuss] snapshots taking too much space

2010-04-12 Thread Peter Tripp
Though the rsync switch is probably the answer to your problem... You might want to consider upgrading to Nexenta 3.0, switching checksums from fletcher to sha1 and then enabling block level deduplication. You'd probably use less GB per snapshot even with rsync running inefficiently. -- This me

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS RAID-Z1 Degraded Array won't import

2010-04-13 Thread Peter Tripp
> Did you try with -f? I doubt it will help. Yep, no luck with -f, -F or -fF. > > * If replace 1TB dead disk with a blank disk, might > the import work? > > Only if the import is failing because the dead disk > is nonresponsive in a way that makes the import hang. > Otherwise, you'd import the

Re: [zfs-discuss] snapshots taking too much space

2010-04-13 Thread Peter Tripp
Oops, I meant SHA256. My mind just maps SHA->SHA1, totally forgetting that ZFS actually uses SHA256 (a SHA-2 variant). More on ZFS dedup, checksums and collisions: http://blogs.sun.com/bonwick/entry/zfs_dedup http://www.c0t0d0s0.org/archives/6349-Perceived-Risk.html -- This message posted from

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS RAID-Z1 Degraded Array won't import

2010-04-13 Thread Peter Tripp
>> * Should I be able to import a degraded pool? > In general, yes. But it is complaining about corrupted data, which can > be due to another failure. Any suggestions on how to discover what that failure might be? >> * If not, shouldn't there be a warning when exporting a degraded pool? > What sh

[zfs-discuss] ZFS RAID-Z Degraded Array won't import

2010-04-13 Thread Peter Tripp
Hi folks, At home I run OpenSolaris x86 with a 4 drive Raid-Z (4x1TB) zpool and it's not in great shape. A fan stopped spinning and soon after the top disk failed (cause you know, heat rises). Naturally, OpenSolaris and ZFS didn't skip a beat; I didn't even notice it was dead until I saw the

[zfs-discuss] ZFS RAID-Z2 degraded vs RAID-Z1

2010-04-24 Thread Peter Tripp
Had an idea, could someone please tell me why it's wrong? (I feel like it has to be). A RaidZ-2 pool with one missing disk offers the same failure resilience as a healthy RaidZ1 pool (no data loss when one disk fails). I had initially wanted to do single parity raidz pool (5disk), but after a

[zfs-discuss] Hardware Recommendations: SAS2 JBODs

2012-11-13 Thread Peter Tripp
Hi folks, I'm in the market for a couple of JBODs. Up until now I've been relatively lucky with finding hardware that plays very nicely with ZFS. All my gear currently in production uses LSI SAS controllers (3801e, 9200-16e, 9211-8i) with backplanes powered by LSI SAS expanders (Sun x4250, Su

Re: [zfs-discuss] Hardware Recommendations: SAS2 JBODs

2012-11-20 Thread Peter Tripp
isks in 4U enclosure on top of those mentioned > in this message or the data-on? We are trying to build > super-high-density-storage racks. > > Cedric Tineo > > > On 13 nov. 2012, at 21:08, Peter Tripp wrote: > >> Hi folks, >> >> I'm in the market

Re: [zfs-discuss] zvol wrapped in a vmdk by Virtual Box and double writes?

2012-11-20 Thread Peter Tripp
Hi Nathan, You've misunderstood how the Zil works and why it reduces write latency for synchronous writes. Since you've partitioned a single SSD into two silces, one as pool storage and one as Zil for that pool, all sync writes will be 2X amplified. There's no way around it. ZFS will write to

Re: [zfs-discuss] suggestions for e-SATA HBA card on x86/x64

2012-11-20 Thread Peter Tripp
Hi Jerry, Couple of things that might help you troubleshoot your Intel SASUC8I HBA: 1. Are you seeing all the 8 devices in the BIOS for the card? 2. If yes, do other operating systems (say a Linux LiveCD) see all the disks too? 3. Is there any difference between the disks (e.g. four 2TB Seagate

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

2012-12-03 Thread Peter Tripp
HI Eugen, Whether it's compatible entirely depends on the chipset of the SATA controller. Basically that card is just a dual port 6gbps PCIe SATA controller with the space to mount one ($149) or two ($299) 2.5inch disks. Sonnet, a mac focused company, offers it as a way to better utilize exist

[zfs-discuss] 40MB repaired on a disk during scrub but no errors

2011-02-07 Thread Peter Tripp
Hey folks, While scrubbing, zpool status shows nearly 40MB "repaired" but 0 in each of the read/write/checksum columns for each disk. One disk has "(repairing)" to the right but once the scrub completes there's no mention that anything ever needed fixing. Any idea what would need to be repair