Re: [zfs-discuss] New 2 ZFS: How 2nd computer recognizes ZFS storage pool on USB drive?

2008-11-26 Thread Tim
my desktop to recognize this drive? > > > > > "zpool import" will tell you which pools are available. > > "zpool import wd149" will import your pool. > > -- > Ian. > And to further that point, ideally you'd do a "zpool export wd149&

Re: [zfs-discuss] Micron - 1GB/s PCIe SSD's

2008-11-27 Thread Tim
Here's hoping they can come in with a realistic price for home enthusiasts... I highly doubt that will ever happen though. --Tim ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Slow death-spiral with zfs gzip-9 compression

2008-11-29 Thread Tim
ture of COW. Enabling realtime compression with an 800mhz p3? Kiss any performance, however poor it was, goodbye. --Tim ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Slow death-spiral with zfs gzip-9 compression

2008-11-29 Thread Tim
On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 12:02 PM, Ray Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > tcook, > > You bring up a good point. exponentially slow is very different from > crashed, though they may have the same net effect. Also that other factors > like timeouts would come into play. > > Regarding services, I am

Re: [zfs-discuss] Slow death-spiral with zfs gzip-9 compression

2008-11-29 Thread Tim
both drives hanging off a single IDE bus, that can further hurt performance. --Tim ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Slow death-spiral with zfs gzip-9 compression

2008-11-29 Thread Tim
he very least dedicate a channel to each disk and just disconnect the cdrom drive if you have one in the system, or spend 2$ on ebay for a pci add-on controller. --Tim ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Slow death-spiral with zfs gzip-9 compression

2008-11-29 Thread Tim
this, I guess my question is: Can you shut down the linux box and throw the ram from it into this box and see what kind of performance you are getting? I believe you'll see far, far better results with 1.5G in the system. --Tim ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

[zfs-discuss] Slow death-spiral with zfs gzip-9 compression

2008-11-29 Thread Tim
t; before finding it! You seem to say it is easy to buy a PCI add-in and have > it work under Solaris - what card are you thinking of, and where did you > find it? > Every one of the promise IDE (non-raid) cards work just fine. Worst case scenario yo

Re: [zfs-discuss] Slow death-spiral with zfs gzip-9 compression

2008-11-29 Thread Tim
workload. Claiming it's "only 3MB/sec" and downplaying all the bad design decisions you've made so far isn't helping the situation at all. --Tim ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Slow death-spiral with zfs gzip-9 compression

2008-11-29 Thread Tim
On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 6:31 PM, Ray Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > Tim, > > I don't think we would really disagree if we were in the same room. I > think in the process of the threaded communication that a few things got > overlooked, or the wrong thing attribut

Re: [zfs-discuss] Slow death-spiral with zfs gzip-9 compression

2008-11-29 Thread Tim
. > --Ray > -- > I don't believe either are bundled. Search google for arcstat.pl and nicstat.pl --Tim ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] A failed disk can bring down a machine?

2008-12-02 Thread Tim
job in the performance > arena, stability is > definitely higher on the list of what's really important to me. > > Thanks, > > -brian > I believe the issue you're running into is the failmode you currently have set. Take a look at this: http://prefetch.net/blog/index.php/2008/03/01/configuring-zfs-to-gracefully-deal-with-failures/ --Tim ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] How to diagnose zfs - iscsi - nfs hang

2008-12-03 Thread Tim
Nevada > builds (b91 uptime=132 days now with no problems), I'd not be sleeping > much at night.. Imagine my embarrassment had I taken the high road and > spent the $$$ for a Thumper for this purpose.. > Can't you just run opensolaris? They've got support contracts fo

Re: [zfs-discuss] OpenSolaris vs Linux

2008-12-03 Thread Tim
o have different performance based on what exactly it is you're testing. Similar is probably accurate for a lot of things, but not everything. --Tim ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] OpenSolaris vs Linux

2008-12-03 Thread Tim
On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 3:11 PM, Joseph Zhou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > Thanks Tim, > At this moment, I am looking into OpenStorage as NAS (file serving) vs. > Linux NAS (Samba) vs. Win2008 NAS vs. NetApp (ONTAP, not GX) performance. > > I am also interested in block-based

Re: [zfs-discuss] OpenSolaris vs Linux

2008-12-03 Thread Tim
On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 3:36 PM, Joseph Zhou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > Thanks Ian, Tim, > Ok, let me really hit one topic instead of trying to see in general what > data are out there... > > Let's say OpenSolaris doing Samba vs. Linux doing Samba, in CIFS > perform

Re: [zfs-discuss] OpenSolaris vs Linux

2008-12-03 Thread Tim
On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 3:51 PM, Joseph Zhou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > Ok, thanks Tim, which SPC are you talking about? > > SPC-1 and SPC-2 don't test NAS, those are block perf. > SPECsfs97 v2/v3 and sfs2008 have no OpenStorage results. > > If there are standard st

Re: [zfs-discuss] OpenSolaris vs Linux

2008-12-03 Thread Tim
On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 4:15 PM, Joseph Zhou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > haha, Tim, yes, I see the Open spirit in this reply! ;-) > > As I said, I am just exploring data. > > The Sun J4000 SPC1 and SPC2 benchmark results were nice, just lacking other > published resul

Re: [zfs-discuss] help diagnosing system hang

2008-12-04 Thread Tim
n, but allocate a large dataset > physical memory, and > I've seen very similar stalls. There is 0 IO, but the application is > blocked on something. I guess I should try to insert to some debug > code, or use dtruss to see if the application is waiting on a syscall. > Are you leav

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS fragments 32 bits RAM? Problem?

2008-12-06 Thread Tim
or address space). Maybe it would run well under 32-but Linux? I can't > speak to that as I refuse to run Linux. > > -brian > "Solaris + ZFS and this is a concern" Sounds to me like they want to try out solaris + zfs, not "zfs on fuse". --Tim ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Changing casesensitivity for existing filesystems?

2008-12-10 Thread Tim
. > -- > Why can't you just upgrade zfs and change the pool setting? Why would you need to copy the data? --Tim ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Easiest way to replace a boot disk with a larger one?

2008-12-11 Thread Tim
gt; be available until all the disks have been swapped." > > Is this correct? > As far as I know it should be as simple as (where newdisk and olddisk are the actual cXtXdX of your drives): zpool attach rpool olddisk-s0 newdisk-s0 let it completely resilve

Re: [zfs-discuss] Split responsibility for data with ZFS

2008-12-12 Thread Tim
ess of the merits of their patents and prior art, etc., this is not something revolutionarily new. It may be "revolution" in the sense that it's the first time it's come to open source software and been given away, but it's hardly "revolutionary" in file systems as a

Re: [zfs-discuss] Split responsibility for data with ZFS

2008-12-12 Thread Tim
e shops that are moving to a model of "all internal disk with applications running on them". The sun box will just be "a box at the end of the wire", a-la storage 7000 when it's an nfs/cifs/iscsi target. Centralized storage is a *good thing*. --Tim __

Re: [zfs-discuss] Split responsibility for data with ZFS

2008-12-13 Thread Tim
of performance... so you're trading one high priced storage for another. Your snapshot creation and deletion is identical. Your incremental generations is identical. End-to-end checksums? Yup. Let's see... they don't have block-level compression, they chose dedup instead which n

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Boot on SAN

2008-12-16 Thread Tim
d properly, although if you managed to get Solaris installed on it already from this systems, that's probably a moot point. --Tim ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Drive Checksum error

2008-12-16 Thread Tim
et go. There shouldn't ever be an instance where zfs would report a checksum error when the drive really didn't return one. If there were, I'd consider that a serious flaw. --Tim ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Using zfs mirror as a simple backup mechanism for time-slider.

2008-12-16 Thread Tim
systems... so that is an interesting question. As for the hanging, and forgive me if he said this as I've not read the OP's post, but couldn't you simply do a detach before removing the disk, and do a re-attach everytime you wanted to re-mirror? Then there'd be no hanging involv

Re: [zfs-discuss] zpool detach on non-mirrored drive

2008-12-16 Thread Tim
; > I hope my explanation is clear in that obviously the data would have to be > copied, possibly to the new drive I've added, as I want to remove the old > one. > vdev evacuation has been talked about, but there's still no plans for anyone fro

Re: [zfs-discuss] Easiest way to replace a boot disk with a larger one?

2008-12-17 Thread Tim
may apply to sparc based systems as well since they're also running OBP (like apple). Thoughts? --Tim ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS and aging

2008-12-17 Thread Tim
ted" file system!!! > > -- > Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. >Arthur C. Clarke > > My blog: http://initialprogramload.blogspot.com > I would expect there to be some sort of clean-up process that either runs automatically or that c

Re: [zfs-discuss] How to create a basic new filesystem?

2008-12-20 Thread Tim
fmthard -s - /dev/rdsk/c1t3d0s2 Where the cXtXdXs2 relate to your disk ID's. You only do it for s2. After that you should have no issues. In your case I believe it would be: prtvtoc /dev/dsk/c1d0s2 | fmthard -s - /dev/rdsk/c2d0s2 --Tim ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Possible to switch SATA ports?

2008-12-24 Thread Tim
yte drive? > Will ZFS try to repair ZFSraid1 with the terabyte drive because it was > inserted into slot 3? Will I be able to create ZFSraid2 with slots 3-7? > Not unless you told zfs that one of the TB drives was a hot spare for raid1. Just a thought/question, but don't you have any

Re: [zfs-discuss] Using zfs mirror as a simple backup mechanism for time-slider.

2008-12-28 Thread Tim
On Sat, Dec 27, 2008 at 3:24 PM, Miles Nordin wrote: > >>>>> "t" == Tim writes: > > t> couldn't you simply do a detach before removing the disk, and > t> do a re-attach everytime you wanted to re-mirror? > > no, for two reasons. Fi

Re: [zfs-discuss] Zero page reclaim with ZFS

2008-12-29 Thread Tim
like to > bother the storage guys" or, "We thin provision everything no matter the > app/fs/os" or . > > Assign your database admin who swears he needs 2TB day one a 2TB lun. And 6 months from now when he's really only using 200G

Re: [zfs-discuss] disk resizing with zfs

2008-12-29 Thread Tim
oot, or a zpool export/import, but that's been fixed in the latest versions of opensolaris. --Tim ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Zero page reclaim with ZFS

2008-12-29 Thread Tim
On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 8:52 PM, Torrey McMahon wrote: > On 12/29/2008 8:20 PM, Tim wrote: > > I run into the same thing but once I say, "I can add more space without > downtime" they tend to smarten up. Also, ZFS will not reuse blocks in a, for > lack of better words, e

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS vs HardWare raid - data integrity?

2008-12-31 Thread Tim
7;s part of the iSCSI standard. It was more of a corner case for iSCSI to try to say "look, I'm as good as Fibre Channel" than anything else (IMO). Although that opinion may very well be inaccurate :) --Tim ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS vs HardWare raid - data integrity?

2009-01-02 Thread Tim
unlikely, when data is written in > a redundant way to two different disks, that both disks lose or > misdirect the same writes. > > Maybe ZFS could have an option to enable instant readback of written > blocks, if one wants to be absolutely sure, data is written correctly to > disk. >

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS vs HardWare raid - data integrity?

2009-01-04 Thread Tim
it raidz2? > -- > Google is your friend ;) http://www.pcguide.com/ref/hdd/perf/raid/levels/singleLevel2-c.html --Tim ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Practical Application of ZFS

2009-01-06 Thread Tim
sk will look identical to a SCSI disk plugged directly into the motherboard. That's not entirely accurate, but close enough for you to get an idea. --Tim ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Problems at 90% zpool capacity 2008.05

2009-01-06 Thread Tim
On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 6:19 PM, Sam wrote: > I was hoping that this was the problem (because just buying more discs is > the cheapest solution given time=$$) but running it by somebody at work they > said going over 90% can cause decreased performance but is unlikely to cause > the strange errors

Re: [zfs-discuss] Problems at 90% zpool capacity 2008.05

2009-01-06 Thread Tim
#x27;s NEVER a good idea to put a default limitation in place to protect a *regular user*. If they can't RTFM from front cover to back they don't deserve to use a computer. --Tim ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS + OpenSolaris for home NAS?

2009-01-07 Thread Tim
On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 11:45 AM, Tim wrote: > > > >> >> Decision #2: 1.5TB Seagate vs. 1TB WD (or someone else) >> The 1.5TB drives have a sketchy reputation as compared to any other >> Seagate drives. The rumor is that reliability was not high enough for >

Re: [zfs-discuss] Problems at 90% zpool capacity 2008.05

2009-01-07 Thread Tim
ave the problem. Things like change rate, how the data was laid down in the first place, etc play a pretty big role. Fragmentation anyone? 90% full completely fragmented is a world of difference from 90% full optimally laid out. --Tim _

Re: [zfs-discuss] [storage-discuss] ZFS iscsi snapshot - VSS compatible?

2009-01-07 Thread Tim
arty apps that work universally with any storage system. --Tim ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS + OpenSolaris for home NAS?

2009-01-08 Thread Tim
m a geek, my vmware farm needs it's nfs mounts on some solid, high performing gear. --Tim ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Odd network performance with ZFS/CIFS

2009-01-08 Thread Tim
IFS and Networking lists to prevent anyone > else from waiting time writing a reply, as the appropriate place for this > thread is now confirmed to be zfs-discuss. > > -g. > -- > That seems really, relaly low. What are your sustained read speeds? --Tim

Re: [zfs-discuss] Adding Supermicro aoc-sat2-mv8 to existing system

2009-01-13 Thread Tim
hanks. > -- > Since you're going to have to power down to install the card anyways, I'd just do a 'touch /reconfigure" when you shutdown. On reboot it should do a reconfigure boot and pick up the card. --Tim ___ zfs-discus

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS on partitions

2009-01-14 Thread Tim
s that zfs will not use the drive cache if it doesn't own the whole disk since it won't know whether or not it should be flushing cache at any given point in time. It could cause corruption if you had UFS and zfs on the same disk. --Tim ___ zfs

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS on partitions

2009-01-14 Thread Tim
ou've dedicated a disk to ZFS, you have to turn the > write cache off yourself somehow using 'format -e' if you are no > longer using a disk for ZFS only. Or am I remembering wrong? > ZFS does turn it off if it doesn't have the whole disk. Th

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS on partitions

2009-01-14 Thread Tim
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 2:40 PM, Mattias Pantzare wrote: > On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 20:03, Tim wrote: > > > > > > On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 6:26 AM, Brian Wilson > > wrote: > >> > >> Does creating ZFS pools on multiple partitions on the same physical &g

Re: [zfs-discuss] 4 disk raidz1 with 3 disks...

2009-01-16 Thread Tim
e irrelevant > > ramblings, need I go on? > > The ZFS discussion list has produced its first candidate for the > rubber room that I mentioned here previously. A reduction in crystal > meth intake could have a profound effect though. > > Bob Just the product of Engli

Re: [zfs-discuss] 4 disk raidz1 with 3 disks...

2009-01-16 Thread Tim
bry > > >From what I understand: zpool list shows total capacity of all the drives in the pool. df shows usable capacity after parity. I wouldn't really call that retarded, it allows you to see what kind of space you're chewing up with parity fairly easily. --Tim __

Re: [zfs-discuss] 4 disk raidz1 with 3 disks...

2009-01-16 Thread Tim
I guess most documentation I've seen officially address them as "raidz" or "raidz2", there is no "raidz1". --Tim ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] replace same sized disk fails with too small error

2009-01-17 Thread Tim
7;re saying zfs does absolutely no right-sizing? That sounds like a bad idea all around... --Tim ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS tale of woe and fail

2009-01-18 Thread Tim
ks > -- > Tom > > // www.portfast.co.uk -- internet services and consultancy > // hosting from 1.65 per domain > Those are supposedly the two inodes that are corrupt. The 0x0 is a bit scary... you should be able to find out what file(s) they're ti

Re: [zfs-discuss] replace same sized disk fails with too small error

2009-01-18 Thread Tim
seagate. I can't replace the drive anymore? *GREAT*. --Tim ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] replace same sized disk fails with too small error

2009-01-18 Thread Tim
t; > What exactly does "right size" drives mean? They don't use all of the > disk? > > Casper > "right-sizing" is when the volume manager short strokes the drive intentionally because not all vendors 500GB is the same size. Hence the OP's problem. Ho

Re: [zfs-discuss] replace same sized disk fails with too small error

2009-01-18 Thread Tim
x27;s done in software by HDS, NetApp, and EMC, that's complete bullshit. Forcing people to spend 3x the money for a "Sun" drive that's identical to the seagate OEM version is also bullshit and a piss-poor answer. --Tim ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] replace same sized disk fails with too small error

2009-01-18 Thread Tim
t; GraphicsMagick Maintainer,http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/ > > Take a look at drives on the market, figure out a percentage, and call it a day. If there's a significant issue with "20TB" drives of the future, issue a bug report and a fix, just like every other issue that comes up. --Tim ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] replace same sized disk fails with too small error

2009-01-18 Thread Tim
cket science and impossible, but the fact remains the rest of the industry has managed to make it work. I have a REAL tough time believing that Sun and/or zfs is so deficient it's an insurmountable obstacle for them. --Tim ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] replace same sized disk fails with too small error

2009-01-18 Thread Tim
On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 1:56 PM, Eric D. Mudama wrote: > On Sun, Jan 18 at 13:43, Tim wrote: > >> You look at the size of the drive and you take a set percentage off... >> If >> it's a "LUN" and it's so far off it still can't be added with t

Re: [zfs-discuss] CIFS and zfs

2009-01-18 Thread Tim
On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 1:57 PM, Louis Hoefler wrote: > But what is the recommended way to share a directory? > -- > I don't know that there currently is a good way to just share a directory with the built-in cifs server. I'd imagine your best bet would be to

Re: [zfs-discuss] replace same sized disk fails with too small error

2009-01-18 Thread Tim
ause the 1TB drive I can buy from Sun today is in no way, shape, or form able to store 1TB of data. You use the same *fuzzy math* the rest of the industry does. --Tim ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] CIFS and zfs

2009-01-18 Thread Tim
ave to disable smb/server. According to Mark below, you should be able to share just a folder leveraging sharemgr though, so maybe look into that first. Here's a start: http://blogs.sun.com/dougm/entry/sharemgr_and_zfs --Tim ___ zfs-discuss mail

Re: [zfs-discuss] replace same sized disk fails with too small error

2009-01-18 Thread Tim
On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 3:39 PM, Richard Elling wrote: > Tim wrote: > It is naive to think that different storage array vendors > would care about people trying to use another array vendors > disks in their arrays. In fact, you should get a flat, impersonal, "not supported&quo

Re: [zfs-discuss] Understanding ZFS replication

2009-01-18 Thread Tim
On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 4:36 PM, Timothy Renner wrote: > A few questions on data replication: > Assuming I've created a pool named zfspool containing two unmirrored > disks and I create: > > zfs create zfspool/test2 > zfs set copies=2 zfspool/test2 > > Will data copied in there be guaranteed to be

Re: [zfs-discuss] Understanding ZFS replication

2009-01-18 Thread Tim
nd_data_protection Honestly, I believe this list... when other people have asked if they can use the copies= to avoid mirroring everything. I can't say I've saved any of the threads because they didn't seem of any particular importance to me at the time. Perhaps if I get motivat

Re: [zfs-discuss] replace same sized disk fails with too small error

2009-01-19 Thread Tim
gt; Thanks. > > Adam > So because an enterprise vendor requires you to use their drives in their array, suddenly zfs can't right-size? Vendor requirements have absolutely nothing to do with their right-sizing, and everything to do with them wanting your money. Are you telling me zfs i

Re: [zfs-discuss] Disks in each RAIDZ group

2009-01-19 Thread Tim
we'll do that." Remember that one time when I talked about limiting snapshots to protect a user from themselves, and you joined into the fray of people calling me a troll? Can you feel the irony oozing out between your lips, or are you completely oblivious to it? --Tim ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] replace same sized disk fails with too small error

2009-01-19 Thread Tim
't screwed. It's a design choice to be both sane, and to make the end-users life easier. You know, sort of like you not letting people choose their raid layout... --Tim ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] replace same sized disk fails with too small error

2009-01-19 Thread Tim
why Sun currently sells arrays that do JUST THAT. I'd wager fishworks does just that as well. Why don't you open source that code and prove me wrong ;) I'm wondering why they don't come right out with it and say "we want to intentionally make this painful to our end us

Re: [zfs-discuss] replace same sized disk fails with too small error

2009-01-19 Thread Tim
r is "right-size by default, give admins the option to skip it if they really want". Sort of like I'd argue the right answer on the 7000 is to give users the raid options you do today by default, and allow them to lay it out themselves from some sort of advanced *at your own risk*

Re: [zfs-discuss] replace same sized disk fails with too small error

2009-01-20 Thread Tim
On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 5:39 PM, Adam Leventhal wrote: > > And again, I say take a look at the market today, figure out a > percentage, > > and call it done. I don't think you'll find a lot of users crying foul > over > > losing 1% of their drive space when they don't already cry foul over the >

Re: [zfs-discuss] replace same sized disk fails with too small error

2009-01-20 Thread Tim
On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 2:26 PM, Moore, Joe wrote: > > Other storage vendors have specific compatibility requirements for the > disks you are "allowed" to install in their chassis. > And again, the reason for those requirements is 99% about making money, not a technical one. If you go back far

Re: [zfs-discuss] moving zfs root rpool between systems

2009-01-23 Thread Tim
oing to hurt anything doing so. If you're really paranoid, issue a snapshot before you pull the drives and power down the system. --Tim ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Replacing HDD in x4500

2009-01-27 Thread Tim
On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 9:28 PM, Jorgen Lundman wrote: > > Thanks for your reply, > > While the savecore is working its way up the chain to (hopefully) Sun, > the vendor asked us not to use it, so we moved x4500-02 to use x4500-04 > and x4500-05. But perhaps moving to Sol 10 10/08 on x4500-02 whe

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS extended ACL

2009-01-30 Thread Tim
the various projects full of people who don't subscribe or really care about the advocacy list but are directly affected by their decisions. It's far easier for someone to say "here, look at this discussion" than to say "I promise, there's a bunch of pe

Re: [zfs-discuss] write cache and cache flush

2009-01-30 Thread Tim
ers. > What type of spindles were in the FC attached disk? --Tim ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] j4200 drive carriers

2009-02-01 Thread Tim
On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 10:30 AM, Frank Cusack wrote: > >> nevermind, i will just get a Promise array. > > > > Don't. I don't normally like to badmouth vendors, but my experience > > with Promise was one of the worst in my career, for reasons that should > > be relevant other ZFS-oriented custome

Re: [zfs-discuss] j4200 drive carriers

2009-02-01 Thread Tim
elling drive trays is crap. You already claimed in the other thread that Sun has contracts for custom disks so they don't have to worry about short stroking/right-sizing so it should be pretty frigging obvious to support if the disks in the JBOD are Sun or "some random crap purchased f

Re: [zfs-discuss] New RAM disk from ACARD might be interesting

2009-02-08 Thread Tim
4652 I wouldn't think grabbing 8GB memory would be a big deal after dropping that much on the controller?? http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820134652 --Tim ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS: unreliable for professional usage?

2009-02-10 Thread Tim
is a *WORSE THING*. I don't think zfs should brag about anything if my pool can be down for hours or days because I'm not given the option to roll back to a consistent state when I *KNOW* it's what I want to do. Of course, making that easy wouldn't sell support contracts, wou

Re: [zfs-discuss] Does your device honor write barriers?

2009-02-10 Thread Tim
ly mentioning ZFS in the context of Snow > Leopard *Server*, so that's probably enterprise-type disks again. > > Cheers, > > Chris > You apparently have not used apple's disk. It's nothing remotely resembling "enterprise-type" disk. --Tim ___

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS: unreliable for professional usage?

2009-02-11 Thread Tim
d go, and I've never once lost data, or had it become unrecoverable or even corrupted. And yes, I do keep checksums of all the data sitting on them and periodically check it. So, for all of your ranting and raving, the fact remains even a *crappy* filesystem like fat32 manages to handle a hot unplug

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS: unreliable for professional usage?

2009-02-11 Thread Tim
On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 10:33 AM, Steven Sim wrote: > Tim; > > The proper procedure for ejecting a USB drive in Windows is to right click > the device icon and eject the appropriate listed device. > I'm well aware of what the proper procedure is. My point is, I've

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS: unreliable for professional usage?

2009-02-11 Thread Tim
thing to write to. I don't know what exactly it is you put on your USB drives, but I'm certainly aware of whether or not things on mine are in use before pulling the drive out. If a picture is open and in an editor, I'm obviously not going to save it then pull the drive mid-sa

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS: unreliable for professional usage?

2009-02-11 Thread Tim
, if it means I have to restore hundreds of terabytes if not petabytes from tape instead of just restoring the files that were corrupted or running an fsck, we've got issues. --Tim ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

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

2009-02-11 Thread Tim
R (if you don't mind that it only has 4 > internal ports). It's available on eBay for $80 right now. > > Will There's several people on this list who have already stated it does just that. As have Supermicro support. I'd write off the hardocp post (which you apparen

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

2009-02-11 Thread Tim
if he'll enlighten us as to what sort of slot he stuck it in. Brandon? Did you stick the card into a "supermicro approved UIO slot" or just a standard PCI-E slot? --Tim ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://ma

Re: [zfs-discuss] FW: Supermicro AOC-SAT2-MV8 hang when drive removed

2009-02-12 Thread Tim
on, > and increases the risk of finding faults like this. While they will be > rare, they should be expected, and ZFS should be designed to handle them. > I'd imagine for the exact same reason short-stroking/right-sizing isn't a concern. "We don't have this pro

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS: unreliable for professional usage?

2009-02-12 Thread Tim
g correctly by issuing a commit and immediately reading back to see if it was indeed committed or not. Like a "zfs test cXtX". Of course, then you can't just blame the hardware everytime something in zfs breaks ;) --Tim ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

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

2009-02-12 Thread Tim
On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 1:22 PM, Will Murnane wrote: > On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 19:02, Brandon High wrote: > > There's a post there from a guy using two of the AOC-USAS-L8i in his > > system here: > > http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?p=1033321345 > Read again---he's using the AOC-SAT2-MV8, whic

Re: [zfs-discuss] FW: Supermicro AOC-SAT2-MV8 hang when drive removed

2009-02-12 Thread Tim
olid. The newer x64 has been leaving a bad taste in my mouth TBQH. The engineering behind the systems when I open them up is absolutely phenomenal. The failure rate, however, is downright scary. --Tim ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS: unreliable for professional usage?

2009-02-13 Thread Tim
e weighed down didn't think of. I don't think it hurts in the least to throw out some ideas. If they aren't valid, it's not hard to ignore them and move on. It surely isn't a waste of anyone's time to spend 5 minutes reading a response and weighing if the idea is vali

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS on SAN?

2009-02-16 Thread Tim
redundancy at ZFS level > and the answer is yes. > > Thanks and regards, > Sanjeev > > Uhhh, S10 box that provide zfs backed iSCSI is NOT fine. Cite the plethora of examples on this list of how the fault management stack takes so long to respond it's basically unusable as it stands today. --Tim ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Firewire (was Re: Backing up ZFS snapshots)

2009-02-18 Thread Tim
be noticeably faster than USB. > > So I've stopped buying firewire. > > -- > Odd, my firewire enclosure transfers are north of 50MB/sec, while the same drive in a USB enclosure is lucky to break 25MB/sec. You sure your local disk isn't just dog slow? --Tim _

Re: [zfs-discuss] Backing up ZFS snapshots

2009-02-21 Thread Tim
redict the future. Don't be a dick. He's asking if they can share some of their intentions based on their current internal roadmap. If you're telling me Sun doesn't have a 1yr/2yr/3yr roadmap for ZFS I'd say we're all in

Re: [zfs-discuss] Backing up ZFS snapshots

2009-02-21 Thread Tim
ight call bullshit. I was trying to be nice about it. If you're making stuff up as you go along that's likely why you're struggling. Modifying plans is one thing. Not having any is another thing entirely. --Tim ___ zfs-discuss mailing l

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