Re: [zfs-discuss] RFE 4852783

2008-06-16 Thread Tim
Why would you have to buy smaller disks? You can replace the 320's with 1tb drives and after the last 320 is out of the raidgroup, it will grow automatically. On 6/16/08, Miles Nordin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is RFE 4852783 (need for an equivalent to LVM2's pvmove) likely to > happen with

Re: [zfs-discuss] memory hog

2008-06-16 Thread Tim
I guess I find it ridiculous you're complaining about ram when I can purchase 4gb for under 50 dollars on a desktop. Its not like were talking about a 500 dollar purchase. On 6/16/08, Peter Tribble <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 5:20 PM, dick hoogendijk <[EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: [zfs-discuss] memory hog

2008-06-16 Thread Tim
Remind me again what a veritas license is. If you can't find ram for less than that you need to find a new var/disti On 6/16/08, Chris Siebenmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > | I guess I find it ridiculous you're complaining about ram when I can > | purchase 4gb for under 50 dollars on a desk

Re: [zfs-discuss] memory hog

2008-06-17 Thread Tim
On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 5:33 AM, Darren J Moffat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Tim wrote: > >> I guess I find it ridiculous you're complaining about ram when I can >> purchase 4gb for under 50 dollars on a desktop. >> > > For many people around the wo

Re: [zfs-discuss] memory hog

2008-06-17 Thread Tim
On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 8:42 AM, Volker A. Brandt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I have a quite old machine with an AMD Athlon 900MHz with 640Mb of RAM > > > serving up NFS, WebDAV locally to my house and running my webserver > (Apache) > > > in a Zone. For me performance is perfectly acceptabl

Re: [zfs-discuss] CIFS HA service with solaris 10 and SC 3.2

2008-06-22 Thread Tim
Samba cifs has been in opensolaris from day1. No, it cannot be used to meet sun's end goal which is cifs INTEGRATION with the core kernel. Sun cifs supports windows acl's from the kernel up. Samba does not. On 6/22/08, Marcelo Leal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello all, > i would like to c

Re: [zfs-discuss] raid card vs zfs

2008-06-22 Thread Tim
It is indeed true and yoi can. On 6/22/08, kevin williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > digg linked to an article related to the apple port of ZFS > (http://www.dell.com/content/products/productdetails.aspx/print_1125?c=us&cs=19&l=en&s=dhss). > I dont have a mac but was interested in ZFS. > > Th

Re: [zfs-discuss] memory hog

2008-06-23 Thread Tim
On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 11:18 AM, Edward <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yes you are all correct. Ram cost nothing today, even though it might be > bouncing back to their normal margin. DDR2 Ram are relatively cheap. Not to > mention DDR3 will bring us double or more memory capacity. > Not likely.

Re: [zfs-discuss] memory hog

2008-06-23 Thread Tim
On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 1:26 PM, Charles Soto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On 6/23/08 11:59 AM, "Tim" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 11:18 AM, Edward <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> Bu

Re: [zfs-discuss] raid card vs zfs

2008-06-25 Thread Tim
On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 10:44 AM, Bob Friesenhahn < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I see that the configuration tested in this X4500 writeup only uses > the four built-in gigabit ethernet interfaces. This places a natural > limit on the amount of data which can stream from the system. For > local h

Re: [zfs-discuss] raid card vs zfs

2008-06-25 Thread Tim
On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 1:19 PM, Bob Friesenhahn < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 25 Jun 2008, Tim wrote: > >> >> Uhhh... 64bit/133mhz is 17Gbit/sec. I *HIGHLY* doubt that bus will be a >> limit. Without some serious offloading, you aren't pushing that

Re: [zfs-discuss] raid card vs zfs

2008-06-25 Thread Tim
On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 3:13 PM, Lida Horn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Tim wrote: > >> >> >> On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 10:44 AM, Bob Friesenhahn < >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> >> wrote: >> >>I see that the c

Re: [zfs-discuss] Problem with AOC-SAT2-MV8

2008-06-27 Thread Tim
On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 2:47 PM, Christophe Dupre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > based on comments on this list, I bought a new server with 8 SATA bays > and an AOC-SAT2-MV8 SATA controller. I them fired up a jumpstart of > Solaris 10 5/08 of the server. Install runs through perfectly, wit

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS configuration for VMware

2008-06-27 Thread Tim
On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 11:50 AM, Albert Chin < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 08:13:14AM -0700, Ross wrote: > > Bleh, just found out the i-RAM is 5v PCI only. Won't work on PCI-X > > slots which puts that out of the question for the motherboad I'm > > using. Vmetro have a 2

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS configuration for VMware

2008-06-28 Thread Tim
On Sat, Jun 28, 2008 at 1:42 AM, Erik Trimble <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Brian Hechinger wrote: > > On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 03:02:43PM -0700, Erik Trimble wrote: > > > >> Unfortunately, we need to be careful here with our terminology. > >> > > > > You are completely and 100% correct, Erik. I've

Re: [zfs-discuss] Problem with AOC-SAT2-MV8

2008-06-29 Thread Tim
BIOS revs? Any other pci cards in the system? On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 5:16 PM, Christophe Dupre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Tim, > the system is a Silicon Mechanics A266; the motherboard is a SuperMicro > H8DM8E-2 > > I tried pluging the Marvell card in both 133MHz PCI-

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs mount failed at boot stops network services.

2008-06-29 Thread Tim
On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 8:30 PM, Matthew Gardiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think Kyle might be onto something here. With ZFS it is so easy >> to create file systems, one could expect many people to do so. >> In the past, it was so difficult and required planning, so people >> tended to be m

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs mount failed at boot stops network services.

2008-06-29 Thread Tim
On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 8:34 PM, Matthew Gardiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > 2008/6/30 Tim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > >> >> On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 8:30 PM, Matthew Gardiner < >> [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> I think Kyle mi

Re: [zfs-discuss] Problem with AOC-SAT2-MV8

2008-07-01 Thread Tim
So what version is on you new card? Seems itd be far easier to request from supermicro if we knew what to ask for. On 7/1/08, Marc Bevand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I remember a similar pb with an AOC-SAT2-MV8 controller in a system of mine: > Solaris rebooted each time the marvell88sx driver

Re: [zfs-discuss] J4200/J4400 Array

2008-07-02 Thread Tim
So when are they going to release msrp? On 7/2/08, Mertol Ozyoney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Availibilty may depend on where you are located but J4200 and J4400 are > available for most regions. > Those equipment is engineered to go well with Sun open storage components > like ZFS. > Besides p

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS problem mirror

2008-07-08 Thread Tim
hanks in advance !! > > best regards, > > Y > > > This message posted from opensolaris.org > ___ > zfs-discuss mailing list > zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss Might

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs-discuss Digest, Vol 33, Issue 19

2008-07-09 Thread Tim
uss mailing list > zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss > Do we have drivers available for ANY OS for these cards currently? It'd be nice to at least be able to test if they function properly. --Tim __

[zfs-discuss] X4540

2008-07-09 Thread Tim
he system IO-to-network bandwidth." http://www.sun.com/servers/x64/x4540/ --Tim ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] previously mentioned J4000 released

2008-07-09 Thread Tim
with real drive trays instead of useless blanks? --Tim ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] X4540

2008-07-09 Thread Tim
On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 3:09 PM, Eric Schrock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The X4540 uses on-board LSI SAS controllers (C1068E). > > - Eric > > On Wed, Jul 09, 2008 at 02:59:26PM -0500, Tim wrote: > > So, I see Sun finally updated the Thumper, and it appears they

Re: [zfs-discuss] previously mentioned J4000 released

2008-07-09 Thread Tim
Sun? Does it ship with real drive trays in the *empty* slots, or those worthless blanks that won't hold a drive? --Tim ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] X4540

2008-07-09 Thread Tim
/blogs.sun.com/eschrock > ___ > zfs-discuss mailing list > zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss > Is the 4540 still running a rageXL? I find that somewhat humorous if it's an Nvidia chipset with

Re: [zfs-discuss] X4540

2008-07-09 Thread Tim
XEON's now, someone was misquoted, or someone was confused :) http://www.byteandswitch.com/document.asp?doc_id=158533&WT.svl=news1_1 --Tim On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 3:44 PM, Richard Elling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yes, thanks for catching this. I'm sure it is just a copy

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

2008-07-09 Thread Tim
Dunno how old it is, but James is right, no Raid which is why it's cheaper. Also why I like it ;) On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 7:34 PM, Brandon High <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 1:12 PM, Tim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Perfect. Which means good

Re: [zfs-discuss] X4540

2008-07-10 Thread Tim
ris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss > I believe NetApp has several (valid) patents in this area that may be preventing Sun from doing this. Perhaps that's on the table for cross-licensing negotiation talks? --Tim ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] X4540

2008-07-10 Thread Tim
for a high end STK SAN anyways. It's the same reason you don't see HDS or EMC rushing to adjust the price of the SYM or USP-V based on Sun releasing the thumpers. --Tim ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] X4540

2008-07-11 Thread Tim
g I'd build a business case > around, but they're a reality. > > --Joe > > Why not? There's several in the market today whom I suspect have done just that :D I won't name names, but for anyone in the industry I doubt I have to. --Tim _

Re: [zfs-discuss] previously mentioned J4000 released

2008-07-11 Thread Tim
20k list gets you into a decked out storevault with FCP/iSCSI/NFS... For being "just a jbod" this thing is ridiculously overpriced, sorry. I'm normally the first one to defend Sun when it come to decisions made due to an enterprise customer base, but this will not be one of those situations. On

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

2008-07-12 Thread Tim
Bryan, Where did you find the sas to sata cables? I've been looking but haven't found anything at the usual watering holes. I assume you grabbed mini-sas to 4 sata? Thanks! --tim On 7/12/08, Bryan Wagoner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Here's to hoping it works, I

Re: [zfs-discuss] Hardware for high-end ZFS NAS file server - 2010 March edition

2010-03-05 Thread Tim Cook
4 dBA - almost > silent. > > I think you'd be better off with a NORCO for a cheap storage server case. --Tim ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

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

2010-03-07 Thread Tim Cook
nstead. > > > hth, > James C. McPherson > -- > Senior Software Engineer, Solaris > Sun Microsystems > http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog > > Or manually load the driver onto the older version of OSOL :) --Tim ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] getting drive serial number

2010-03-07 Thread Tim Cook
will do what you're looking for. I'm not sure if it's included by default or not with the latest builds. Here's the package if you need to build from source: http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/ --Tim ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] getting drive serial number

2010-03-07 Thread Tim Cook
t; smartctl will do what you're looking for. I'm not sure if it's included > > by > > default or not with the latest builds. Here's the package if you need to > > build from source: > > http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net

Re: [zfs-discuss] getting drive serial number

2010-03-07 Thread Tim Cook
On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 3:12 PM, Ethan wrote: > On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 15:30, Tim Cook wrote: > >> >> >> On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 2:10 PM, Ethan wrote: >> >>> On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 14:55, Tim Cook wrote: >>> >>>> &

Re: [zfs-discuss] Using zfs-auto-snapshot for automatic backups

2010-03-08 Thread Tim Foster
mental snapshots using zfs-auto-snapshot. cheers, tim Forwarded Message From: Brandon High To: ZFS discuss , zfs-auto-snapshot Subject: Using zfs-auto-snapshot for automatic backups Date: Mon, 08 Mar 2010 13:16:02 + The recent discussion of backin

[zfs-discuss] Can you manually trigger spares?

2010-03-08 Thread Tim Cook
spares c3t6d0 AVAIL --Tim ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Fishworks 2010Q1 and dedup bug?

2010-03-08 Thread Tim Cook
ing to this list announcing new features or code releases for the fishworks project. If they have on a regular basis and I've just been missing it, feel free to link to the threads. I'm fairly certain his response is that if you want to discuss fishworks, you should go about the proper channe

Re: [zfs-discuss] Fishworks 2010Q1 and dedup bug?

2010-03-08 Thread Tim Cook
On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 5:47 PM, Miles Nordin wrote: > >>>>> "tc" == Tim Cook writes: > >tc> I'm betting its more the fact that zfs-discuss is not > > Firstly, there's no need for you to respond on anyone's behalf, > especially

Re: [zfs-discuss] Recover rpool

2010-03-09 Thread Tim Haley
ask anyway. -tim ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Using zfs-auto-snapshot for automatic backups

2010-03-09 Thread Tim Foster
is by doing: # svccfg -s auto-snapshot setprop zfs/value_authorization = astring: solaris.smf.manage.zfs-auto-snapshot Sorry about that! cheers, tim ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.open

Re: [zfs-discuss] Intel SASUC8I - worth every penny

2010-03-14 Thread Tim Cook
and sold for less money. Same drivers, same firmware, IIRC, it's even the same PCI device ID. When I ordered the card, I thought there was a mistake, as the previous poster already mentioned, it comes in a box with an LSI sticker, and the card says LSI all over it. The only place

Re: [zfs-discuss] corruption of ZFS on iScsi storage

2010-03-15 Thread Tim Cook
tion. If that doesn't work, your only remaining option is to restore from backup: http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/817-2271/gbctt?l=ja&a=view --Tim ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] corruption of ZFS on iScsi storage

2010-03-15 Thread Tim Cook
ndancy can't be provided below ZFS just if you > want auto recovery you need redundancy within ZFS itself as well. > > You can have 2 separate raid arrays served up via iSCSI to ZFS which then > makes a mirror out of the storage. > > -Ross > >

Re: [zfs-discuss] Proposition of a new zpool property.

2010-03-20 Thread Tim Cook
running around since day one claiming the basic concept of ZFS fly's in the face of that very concept. Rather than do one thing well, it's unifying two things (file system and raid/disk management) into one. :) --Tim ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Proposition of a new zpool property.

2010-03-20 Thread Tim Cook
I see he mentioned hour being the granularity of the frequency, but that hardly means you'd HAVE to run scrubs every hour. Nobody is stopping you from setting it to 3600 hours if you so choose. --Tim ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@openso

Re: [zfs-discuss] Proposition of a new zpool property.

2010-03-20 Thread Tim Cook
On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 5:36 PM, Bob Friesenhahn < bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us> wrote: > On Sat, 20 Mar 2010, Tim Cook wrote: > >> >> Funny (ironic?) you'd quote the UNIX philosophy when the Linux folks have >> been running around since day >> one claim

Re: [zfs-discuss] [indiana-discuss] future of OpenSolaris

2010-03-23 Thread Tim Cook
tion level support Both Standard and Premium support offerings are available for deployment of Open HA Cluster 2009.06 with OpenSolaris 2009.06 with following configurations: * etc. etc. etc. So do you get paid directly by IBM then, or is it more of a "consultant" type role? --Tim _

[zfs-discuss] Question: zfs set userquota not working on existing datasets

2010-03-23 Thread Tim Bingham
PERTY VALUE SOURCE data/test userqu...@user1 50Glocal Anyone have an idea of a fix, please? Or is this a known limitation? Many thanks, Tim ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolari

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS on a 11TB HW RAID-5 controller

2010-03-24 Thread Tim Cook
. That limit should go away if you're using it as a separate storage pool. --Tim ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] RAID10

2010-03-26 Thread Tim Cook
irror drive5 drive6 mirror drive7 drive8 See here: http://www.stringliterals.com/?p=132 <http://www.stringliterals.com/?p=132> --Tim ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] RAID10

2010-03-26 Thread Tim Cook
mirroring? > > So do you not mirror drives with RAIDZ2 or RAIDZ3 because you would have > nothing for space left > > -Jason > > Triple parity did not get added until version 17. FreeBSD cannot do raidz3. --Tim ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS where to go!

2010-03-26 Thread Tim Cook
ntly from all of the major players using BSD, if you're talking kernel code, I would say every single one of them has pulled code from the 7-branch, and likely the 8-branch as well. --Tim ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] b134 - Mirrored rpool won't boot unless both mirrors are present

2010-03-27 Thread Tim Cook
> > What build? How long have you waited for the boot? It almost sounds to me like it's waiting for the drive and hasn't timed out before you give up and power it off. --Tim ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] b134 - Mirrored rpool won't boot unless both mirrors are present

2010-03-27 Thread Tim Cook
sent, and everything's fine. > > How long should I expect to wait if a drive is missing? It shouldn't take > more than 30 seconds, IMHO. > > Depends on a lot of things. I'd let it sit for at least half an hour to see if you get any mess

Re: [zfs-discuss] b134 - Mirrored rpool won't boot unless both mirrors are present

2010-03-27 Thread Tim Cook
> Have you tried booting from a livecd and importing the pool from there? It might help narrow down exactly where the problem lies. --Tim ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] b134 - Mirrored rpool won't boot unless both mirrors are present

2010-03-27 Thread Tim Cook
ave to check and see if I can dig up one of those old threads. I vaguely recall someone here had a single drive fail on an import and it took forever to import the pool, running out of memory every time. I think he eventually added significantly more memory and was a

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs diff

2010-03-29 Thread Tim Haley
stion of implementation if it can affect the output, especially if it can make it internally inconsistent. -- Dan. Yes, a snapshot is taken and removed once the compare is performed. -tim ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [zfs-discuss] pool won't import

2010-03-29 Thread Tim Haley
xentaStor, and NAS performance Las Vegas, April 29-30, 2010 http://nexenta-vegas.eventbrite.com Newer bits (>=129) will try to determine if your un-importable pool can be helped with a "rewind". This reverts the pool back in time a short while, so some data i

Re: [zfs-discuss] Sun Flash Accelerator F20 numbers

2010-03-31 Thread Tim Cook
and Premium support offerings are available for deployment of Open HA Cluster 2009.06 with OpenSolaris 2009.06 with following configurations: --Tim <http://www.opensolaris.com/learn/features/availability/> ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Sun Flash Accelerator F20 numbers

2010-03-31 Thread Tim Cook
On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 9:47 AM, Bob Friesenhahn < bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us> wrote: > On Wed, 31 Mar 2010, Tim Cook wrote: > >> >> http://www.opensolaris.com/learn/features/availability/ >> >> Full production level support >> >> Both Standard

Re: [zfs-discuss] Sun Flash Accelerator F20 numbers

2010-03-31 Thread Tim Cook
On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 11:23 AM, Bob Friesenhahn < bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us> wrote: > On Wed, 31 Mar 2010, Tim Cook wrote: > >> >> If there is ever another OpenSolaris formal release, then the situation >> will be different. >> >> Cmon now, have a

Re: [zfs-discuss] Sun Flash Accelerator F20 numbers

2010-03-31 Thread Tim Cook
can find the documentation for the release:* - *Sun Studio 12 Update 1:** The Sun Studio 12 Update 1 release is the latest full production release of Sun Studio software. It has recently been added to the OpenSolaris IPS repository. To install this release in you

Re: [zfs-discuss] how can I remove files when the fiile system is full?

2010-04-02 Thread Tim Haley
rg/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss On opensolaris? Did you try deleting any old BEs? -tim ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Sun Flash Accelerator F20 numbers

2010-04-02 Thread Tim Cook
also for the same > reasons. > I'm a little surprised that the engineers would suddenly stop doing it > only on SSD's. But who knows. > > -Kyle > > If I were forced to ignorantly cast a stone, it would be into Intel's lap (if the SSD&#x

Re: [zfs-discuss] To slice, or not to slice

2010-04-03 Thread Tim Cook
and chop it off the end of every disk. I'm betting it's no more than 1GB, and probably less than that. When we're talking about a 2TB drive, I'm willing to give up a gig to be guaranteed I won't have any issues when it comes time to swap it out. --Tim --Tim ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] To slice, or not to slice

2010-04-03 Thread Tim Cook
On Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 6:53 PM, Robert Milkowski wrote: > On 03/04/2010 19:24, Tim Cook wrote: > > > > On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 4:05 PM, Edward Ned Harvey > wrote: > >> Momentarily, I will begin scouring the omniscient interweb for >> information, but I’d

Re: [zfs-discuss] To slice, or not to slice

2010-04-03 Thread Tim Cook
On Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 7:50 PM, Tim Cook wrote: > > > On Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 6:53 PM, Robert Milkowski wrote: > >> On 03/04/2010 19:24, Tim Cook wrote: >> >> >> >> On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 4:05 PM, Edward Ned Harvey < >> guacam...@nedharvey.com&

Re: [zfs-discuss] To slice, or not to slice

2010-04-03 Thread Tim Cook
On Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 9:52 PM, Richard Elling wrote: > On Apr 3, 2010, at 5:56 PM, Tim Cook wrote: > > > > On Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 7:50 PM, Tim Cook wrote: > >> Your experience is exactly why I suggested ZFS start doing some "right > sizing" if you will. Ch

Re: [zfs-discuss] mpxio load-balancing...it doesn't work??

2010-04-04 Thread Tim Cook
ating like he's talking about. Writes aren't "duplicated on each port". The path a read OR write goes down depends on the host-side mpio stack, and how you have it configured to load-balance. It could be simple round-robin, it could be based on queue depth, it could be most recent

Re: [zfs-discuss] To slice, or not to slice

2010-04-04 Thread Tim Cook
is, I'd be a happy > man. ;-) > > Have you tried pointing that bug out to the support engineers who have your case at Oracle? If the fixed code is already out there, it's just a matter of porting the code, right? :) --Tim ___ zfs-discu

Re: [zfs-discuss] mpxio load-balancing...it doesn't work??

2010-04-05 Thread Tim Cook
issued > on the passive controller to keep the cache mirrored? > > He's talking about multipathing, he just has no clue what he's talking about. He specifically calls out applications that are specifically used for multipathing. --Tim _

Re: [zfs-discuss] Diagnosing Permanent Errors

2010-04-05 Thread Tim Cook
be dying. Load wouldn't really matter in that scenario (although a high load will generally help it out the door a bit quicker due to higher heat/etc.). --Tim ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Diagnosing Permanent Errors

2010-04-05 Thread Tim Cook
t; is? > > It's hidden in iostat -E, of all places. > > -- > Dan. > > I think he wants to know how to identify which physical drive maps to the dev ID in solaris. The only way I can think of is to run something like DD against the d

Re: [zfs-discuss] Diagnosing Permanent Errors

2010-04-06 Thread Tim Cook
On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 12:47 AM, Daniel Carosone wrote: > On Tue, Apr 06, 2010 at 12:29:35AM -0500, Tim Cook wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 12:24 AM, Daniel Carosone > wrote: > > > > > On Mon, Apr 05, 2010 at 09:35:21PM -0700, Willard Korfhage wrote: > > >

Re: [zfs-discuss] Are there (non-Sun/Oracle) vendors selling OpenSolaris/ZFS based NAS Hardware?

2010-04-07 Thread Tim Cook
modified, and non-open-source version of ZFS. --Tim ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS RaidZ recommendation

2010-04-07 Thread Tim Cook
ters with this NAS software? > -- > This message posted from opensolaris.org > _ I wouldn't waste your time. My last go round lacp was completely broken for no apparent reason. The community is basically non-existent. --Tim ___ zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS RaidZ recommendation

2010-04-07 Thread Tim Cook
On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 5:59 PM, Richard Elling wrote: > On Apr 7, 2010, at 3:24 PM, Tim Cook wrote: > > On Wednesday, April 7, 2010, Jason S wrote: > >> Since i already have Open Solaris installed on the box, i probably wont > jump over to FreeBSD. However someone has su

Re: [zfs-discuss] What happens when unmirrored ZIL log device is removed ungracefully

2010-04-10 Thread Tim Cook
; c8t3d0UNAVAIL 0 0 0 cannot open > > > > # zpool remove junkpool c8t3d0 > > # zpool status junkpool > > > > pool: junkpool > > state: ONLINE > > scrub: none requested > > config: > > > >

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS RaidZ recommendation

2010-04-10 Thread Tim Cook
rs are a bit "light" perhaps, but it works just fine for my > needs and holds drives securely. The small fans are a bit noisy, but > since the box lives in the basement I don't really care. > > --eric > > > -- > Eric D. Mudama > edmud...@mail.bounceswoosh.org

Re: [zfs-discuss] How to Catch ZFS error with syslog ?

2010-04-12 Thread Tim Haley
messages? Try explicitly enabling fmd to send to syslog in /usr/lib/fm/fmd/plugins/syslog-msgs.conf -tim ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] [shell-discuss] getconf test for case insensitive ZFS?

2010-04-15 Thread Tim Haley
-insensitive behavior ARC case http://arc.opensolaris.org/caselog/PSARC/2007/244/spec.txt Not sure why it's not in the man page... -tim ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] recomend sata controller 4 Home server with zfs raidz2 and 8x1tb hd

2010-04-15 Thread Tim Cook
> Depends on what sort of interface you're looking for. The supermicro AOC-SAT2-MV8's work great. They're pci-x based. 8-ports, come with SATA cables, and are relatively cheap (<$150 most places). --Tim ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] recomend sata controller 4 Home server with zfs raidz2 and 8x1tb hd

2010-04-16 Thread Tim Cook
s of what the card came with. Why would you buy the UIO card when you can get the intel SASUC8i for the same price/cheaper and it comes in a standard form factor? The (potential) problem with the 1068 cards is that they don't support AHCI with SATA. --Tim __

Re: [zfs-discuss] recomend sata controller 4 Home server with zfs raidz2 and 8x1tb hd

2010-04-16 Thread Tim Cook
GB > transfer rates. > > It's older base hardware... athlon64 3400+ 2.2 ghz 3GB Ram > With A-open AK86-L Motherboard. > > So what do any of you know about a PCI card that fills the bill? > > > If you're talking about standard PCI, and not P

Re: [zfs-discuss] recomend sata controller 4 Home server with zfs raidz2 and 8x1tb hd

2010-04-17 Thread Tim Cook
On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 2:12 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: > Tim Cook writes: > > > On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 7:35 PM, Harry Putnam > wrote: > > > >> "Eric D. Mudama" writes: > >> > >> > On Thu, Apr 15 at 23:57, Günther wrote: > >

Re: [zfs-discuss] recomend sata controller 4 Home server with zfs raidz2 and 8x1tb hd

2010-04-19 Thread Tim Cook
3 volt signal > voltage (peak transfer rate of 533 MB/s), but at 33 MHz both 5 volt and 3.3 > volt signal voltages are still allowed. It also added transaction latency > limits to the specification.[7]). > > roy > ___ > zfs-d

Re: [zfs-discuss] Making ZFS better: zfshistory

2010-04-21 Thread Tim Haley
2009 and I believe you can retrieve it with fgetattr() from the read/write view. -tim The snapshot dir is just another directory and over NFS you are looking at it with NFS so it shows the ctime,mtime,atime of the top level directory of the ZFS dataset at the time the snapshot was created.

[zfs-discuss] ZFS deduplication ratio on Server 2008 backup VHD files

2010-04-23 Thread tim Kries
to 4k (to be like NTFS), it jumped up to 1.29x after that. But it should be a lot better right? Is there something i missed? Regards Tim -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS deduplication ratio on Server 2008 backup VHD files

2010-04-23 Thread tim Kries
It was active all the time. Made a new zfs with -o dedup=on, copied with default record size, got no dedup, deleted files, set recordsize 4k, dedup ratio 1.29x -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensol

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS deduplication ratio on Server 2008 backup VHD files

2010-04-23 Thread tim Kries
Dedup is a key element for my purpose, because i am planning a central repository for like 150 Windows Server 2008 (R2) servers which would take a lot less storage if they dedup right. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS deduplication ratio on Server 2008 backup VHD files

2010-04-26 Thread tim Kries
Hi, The setting was this: Fresh installation of 2008 R2 -> server backup with the backup feature -> move vhd to zfs -> install active directory role -> backup again -> move vhd to same share I am kinda confused over the change of dedup ratio from changing the record size, since it should ded

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS deduplication ratio on Server 2008 backup VHD files

2010-04-26 Thread tim Kries
I found the VHD specification here: http://download.microsoft.com/download/f/f/e/ffef50a5-07dd-4cf8-aaa3-442c0673a029/Virtual%20Hard%20Disk%20Format%20Spec_10_18_06.doc I am not sure if i understand it right, but it seems like data on disk gets "compressed" into the vhd (no empty space), so even

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

2010-05-12 Thread Tim Cook
The problem is the Solaris team and lsi have put a lot of work into the new 2008 cards. Claiming there are issues without listing specific bugs they can address is, I'm sure, frustrating to say the least. On May 12, 2010 8:22 AM, "Thomas Burgess" wrote: >> > > Now wait just a minute. You're cast

Re: [zfs-discuss] iSCSI confusion

2010-05-23 Thread Tim Cook
Yes, it requires a clustered filesystem to share out a single LUN to multiple hosts. Vmfs3, however bad of an implementation, is in fact a clustered filesystem. I highly doubt nfs is your problem though. I'd take nfs over iscsi and vmfs any day. On May 23, 2010 8:06 PM, "Chris Dunbar - Earthside

Re: [zfs-discuss] ssd pool + ssd cache ?

2010-06-07 Thread Tim Cook
er wise protected against power loss. > > The STEC units is what Oracle/Sun use in their 7000 series appliances, and > I believe EMC and many others use them as well. > > When did that start? Every 7000 I've seen uses Intel drives. --Tim _

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