[zfs-discuss] hard drive choice, TLER/ERC/CCTL

2009-12-10 Thread Nathan
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time-Limited_Error_Recovery Is there a way except for buying enterprise (RAID specific) drives for a array to use normal drives? Does anyone have any success stories regarding a particular model? The TLER cannot be edited on newer drives from Western Digital unfortu

Re: [zfs-discuss] hard drive choice, TLER/ERC/CCTL

2009-12-10 Thread Nathan
Sorry I probably didn't make myself exactly clear. Basically drives without particular TLER settings drop out of RAID randomly. * Error Recovery - This is called various things by various manufacturers (TLER, ERC, CCTL). In a Desktop drive, the goal is to do everything possible to recover the d

Re: [zfs-discuss] hard drive choice, TLER/ERC/CCTL

2009-12-10 Thread Nathan
http://www.stringliterals.com/?p=77 This guy talks about it too under "Hard Drives". -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Advanced Format HDD's - are we there yet? (or - how to buy a drive that won't be teh sux0rs on zfs)

2012-05-28 Thread nathan
On 29/05/2012 6:39 AM, Richard Elling wrote: On May 28, 2012, at 5:48 AM, Nathan Kroenert wrote: Hi folks, Looking to get some larger drives for one of my boxes. It runs exclusively ZFS and has been using Seagate 2TB units up until now (which are 512 byte sector). Anyone offer up

Re: [zfs-discuss] Advanced Format HDD's - are we there yet? (or - how to buy a drive that won't be teh sux0rs on zfs)

2012-05-29 Thread nathan
On 29/05/2012 11:10 PM, Jim Klimov wrote: 2012-05-29 16:35, Nathan Kroenert wrote: Hi John, Actually, last time I tried the whole AF (4k) thing, it's performance was worse than woeful. But admittedly, that was a little while ago. The drives were the seagate green barracuda IIRC

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

2012-11-20 Thread nathan
requirements seems like a big downer for *my* configuration, as I have just the one SSD, but I'll persist and see what I can get out of it. Thanks for the thoughts thus far! Cheers, Nathan. On 21/11/2012 8:33 AM, Fajar A. Nugraha wrote: On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 12:07 AM, Edward Ned Harvey (open

Re: [zfs-discuss] Replacement disks for Sun X4500

2011-07-07 Thread nathan
o be able to claim more available space for the same device, and to be lazy in the CRC generation/checking arena. And to profoundly impact the time it takes to read or update anything less than 4K. But - then again, maybe I'm missing something.

[zfs-discuss] White box server for OpenSolaris

2009-09-25 Thread Nathan
While I am about to embark on building a home NAS box using OpenSolaris with ZFS. Currently I have a chassis that will hold 16 hard drives, although not in caddies - down time doesn't bother me if I need to switch a drive, probably could do it running anyways just a bit of a pain. :) I am afte

Re: [zfs-discuss] Improving L1ARC cache efficiency with dedup

2011-12-11 Thread Nathan Kroenert
tely 100MB/s (which is about an average PC HDD reading sequentially), I'd have thought it should be a lot faster than 12x. Can we really only pull stuff from cache at only a little over one gigabyte per second if it's dedup data? Cheers! Nathan. ___

Re: [zfs-discuss] Can I create a mirror for a root rpool?

2011-12-18 Thread Nathan Kroenert
Do note, that though Frank is correct, you have to be a little careful around what might happen should you drop your original disk, and only the large mirror half is left... ;) On 12/16/11 07:09 PM, Frank Cusack wrote: You can just do fdisk to create a single large partition. The attached mi

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

2011-12-18 Thread Nathan Kroenert
worth considering something different ;) Cheers! Nathan. On 12/19/11 09:05 AM, Jan-Aage Frydenbø-Bruvoll wrote: Hi, On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 22:00, Fajar A. Nugraha wrote: From http://www.solarisinternals.com/wiki/index.php/ZFS_Best_Practices_Guide (or at least Google's cache of it, since it s

Re: [zfs-discuss] Bad performance (Seagate drive related?)

2012-02-04 Thread Nathan Kroenert
be looking at layers below ZFS. If you *can*, then you start looking further up the stack. Hope this helps somewhat. Let us know how you go. Cheers! Nathan. On 02/ 1/12 04:52 AM, Mohammed Naser wrote: Hi list! I have seen less-than-stellar ZFS performance on a setup of one main head connecte

Re: [zfs-discuss] Convert pool from ashift=12 to ashift=9

2012-03-20 Thread Nathan Kroenert
Jim Klimov wrote: >> It is is hard enough already to justify to an average wife that... That made my night. Thanks, Jim. :) On 03/20/12 10:29 PM, Jim Klimov wrote: 2012-03-18 23:47, Richard Elling wrote: ... Yes, it is wrong to think that. Ok, thanks, we won't try that :) copy out, co

[zfs-discuss] Advanced Format HDD's - are we there yet? (or - how to buy a drive that won't be teh sux0rs on zfs)

2012-05-28 Thread Nathan Kroenert
se so called 'advanced format' drives (which as far as I can tell are in no way actually advanced, and only benefit HDD makers and not the end user). Cheers! Nathan. ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensola

Re: [zfs-discuss] Advanced Format HDD's - are we there yet? (or - how to buy a drive that won't be teh sux0rs on zfs)

2012-05-29 Thread Nathan Kroenert
ust replace the current ones...) I might just have to bite the bullet and try something with current SW. :). Nathan. On 05/29/12 08:54 PM, John Martin wrote: On 05/28/12 08:48, Nathan Kroenert wrote: Looking to get some larger drives for one of my boxes. It runs exclusively ZFS and has been us

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

2012-11-20 Thread Nathan Kroenert
gs and a few other things but it doesn't seem to change the behavious Again - I'm looking for thoughts here - as I have only really just started looking into this. Should I happen across anything interesting, I'll followup this post. Cheers, Nathan. :) __

[zfs-discuss] ZFS read/write fairness algorithm for single pool

2011-02-13 Thread Nathan Kroenert
I get the chance, I'll give the rpool thing a crack again, but overall, it seems to me that the behavior I'm observing is not great... I'm also happy to supply lockstats / dtrace output etc if it'll help. Thoughts? Cheers! Nathan. ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS read/write fairness algorithm for single pool

2011-02-13 Thread Nathan Kroenert
ue is identical. (Though I have since determined that my HP raid controller is actually *slowing* my reads and writes to disk! ;) Cheers! Nathan. On 14/02/2011 4:08 AM, gon...@comcast.net wrote: Hi Nathan, Maybe it is buried somewhere in your email, but I did not see what zfs version

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS read/write fairness algorithm for single pool

2011-02-13 Thread Nathan Kroenert
On 14/02/2011 4:31 AM, Richard Elling wrote: On Feb 13, 2011, at 12:56 AM, Nathan Kroenert wrote: Hi all, Exec summary: I have a situation where I'm seeing lots of large reads starving writes from being able to get through to disk. What is the average service time of each disk? Mul

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS read/write fairness algorithm for single pool

2011-02-14 Thread Nathan Kroenert
ng to tune zfs_vdev_max_pending... Nonetheless, I'm now at a far more balanced point than when I started, so that's a good thing. :) Cheers, Nathan. On 15/02/2011 6:44 AM, Richard Elling wrote: Hi Nathan, comments below... On Feb 13, 2011, at 8:28 PM, Nathan Kroenert wrote: On 14/02/2

Re: [zfs-discuss] SIL3114 and sparc solaris 10

2011-02-25 Thread Nathan Kroenert
pushing 4 disks pretty much flat out on a PCI-X 133 3124 based card. (note that there was a pci and a pci-x version of the 3124, so watch out.) Cheers! Nathan. On 02/24/11 02:10 AM, Andrew Gabriel wrote: Krunal Desai wrote: On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 8:38 AM, Mauricio Tavares wrote: I se

Re: [zfs-discuss] External SATA drive enclosures + ZFS?

2011-02-25 Thread Nathan Kroenert
rticularly when they are sequential - using eSATA. Note: All of this is with the 'cheap' view... You can most certainly buy much better hardware... But bang for buck - I have been happy with the above. Cheers! Nathan. On 02/26/11 01:58 PM, Brandon High wrote: On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 4:3

Re: [zfs-discuss] sorry everyone was: Re: External SATA drive enclosures + ZFS?

2011-02-26 Thread Nathan Kroenert
Actually, I find that tremendously encouraging. Lots of internal Oracle folks still subscribed to the list! Much better than none... ;) Nathan. On 02/26/11 03:29 PM, Yaverot wrote: Sorry all, didn't realize that half of Oracle would auto-reply to a public mailing list since they'

Re: [zfs-discuss] How long should an empty destroy take? snv_134

2011-03-06 Thread Nathan Kroenert
have dome something administratively silly... ;) Nathan. On 7/03/2011 12:14 PM, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Yaverot We're heading into the 3rd hour of the zpool destroy on "others". T

Re: [zfs-discuss] Slices and reservations Was: Re: How long should an empty destroy take? snv_134

2011-03-08 Thread Nathan Kroenert
te you get when you disable the disk cache. Nathan. On 8/03/2011 11:53 PM, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: From: Jim Dunham [mailto:james.dun...@oracle.com] ZFS only uses system RAM for read caching, If your email address didn't say oracle, I'd just simply come out and say you're craz

Re: [zfs-discuss] zpool scrub on b123

2011-04-15 Thread Nathan Kroenert
Hi Karl, Is there any chance at all that some other system is writing to the drives in this pool? You say other things are writing to the same JBOD... Given that the amount flagged as corrupt is so small, I'd imagine not, but thought I'd ask the question anyways. Cheers! Nath

Re: [zfs-discuss] zpool import hangs - pls help

2011-06-14 Thread Nathan Kroenert
mply catastrophically slow.) Hope this helps at least a little. Cheers, Nathan. On 06/14/11 03:20 PM, Maximilian Sarte wrote: Hi, I am posting here in a tad of desperation. FYI, I am running FreeNAS 8.0. Anyhow, I created a raidz1 (tank1) with 4 x 2Tb WD EARS hdds. All was doing ok until I dec

Re: [zfs-discuss] How to delete hundreds of emtpy snapshots

2008-07-17 Thread Nathan Kroenert
eadful xen experiment :) so I'll be watching this thread with renewed interest to see who else is doing what... Nathan. Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > On Thu, 17 Jul 2008, Ben Rockwood wrote: > >> zfs list is mighty slow on systems with a large number of objects, >> but ther

Re: [zfs-discuss] help me....

2008-08-03 Thread Nathan Kroenert
It starts with Z, which makes it the one of the last to be considered if it's listed alphabetically? Nathan. Rahul wrote: > hi > can you give some disadvantages of the ZFS file system?? > > plzz its urgent... > > help me. > > > This mes

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

2008-08-04 Thread Nathan Kroenert
AHCI ports. It might seem like it'll be a lot of hassle getting it working, but in the ZFS space, it works great pretty much out of the box (plus ethernet address change if the nvidia driver is still busted... ;) Cheers! Nathan. *Going like stink means going like a hairy goat - like lig

Re: [zfs-discuss] CF to SATA adapters for boot device

2008-08-20 Thread Nathan Kroenert
I second that question, and also ask what brand folks like for performance and compatibility? Ebay is killing me with vast choice and no detail... ;) Nathan. Al Hopper wrote: > On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 12:57 PM, Neal Pollack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Ian Collins wrote: >

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZSF Solaris

2008-09-30 Thread Nathan Kroenert
ication... I generally look to keep directories to a size that allows the utilities that work on and in it to perform at a reasonable rate... which for the most part is around the 100K files or less... Perhaps you are using larger hardware than I am for some of this stuff? :) Nathan. On 1/10

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZSF Solaris

2008-09-30 Thread Nathan Kroenert
Interesting. heh - I was piping to tail -10, so output rate was not an issue. That being said, there is a large delta in your results and mine... If I get a chance, I'll look into it... I suspect it's a cached versus I/O issue... Nathan. On 1/10/08 10:02 AM, Bob Friesenhahn wrote

Re: [zfs-discuss] add autocomplete feature for zpool, zfs command

2008-10-09 Thread Nathan Kroenert
ptions are available in that current zfs / zpool version... That way, you would never need to do anything to bash/zfs once it was done the first time... do it once, and as ZFS changes, the prompts change automatically... Or - is this old hat, and how we do it already? :) Nathan. On 10/10/08 05:0

Re: [zfs-discuss] FYI - proposing storage pm project

2008-11-04 Thread Nathan Kroenert
Not wanting to hijack this thread, but... I'm a simple man with simple needs. I'd like to be able to manually spin down my disks whenever I want to... Anyone come up with a way to do this? ;) Nathan. Jens Elkner wrote: > On Mon, Nov 03, 2008 at 02:54:10PM -0800, Yuan Ch

Re: [zfs-discuss] boot -L

2008-11-06 Thread Nathan Kroenert
A quick google shows that it's not so much about the mirror, but the BE... http://opensolaris.org/os/community/zfs/boot/zfsbootFAQ/ Might help? Nathan. On 7/11/08 02:39 PM, Krzys wrote: > What am I doing wrong? I have sparc V210 and I am having difficulty with boot > -L, I wa

Re: [zfs-discuss] Is a manual zfs scrub neccessary?

2008-11-09 Thread Nathan Kroenert
ach 'surprise!'. :) I scrub once every month or so, depending on the system. So, in direct answer to your question, No - You don't *need* to scrub. But - It's better if you do. ;) My 2c. Nathan. On 10/11/08 11:38 AM, Douglas Walker wrote: > Hi, > > I'm

[zfs-discuss] Need Help Invalidating Uberblock

2008-12-14 Thread Nathan Hand
I have a ZFS pool that has been corrupted. The pool contains a single device which was actually a file on UFS. The machine was accidentally halted and now the pool is corrupt. There are (of course) no backups and I've been asked to recover the pool. The system panics when trying to do anything w

Re: [zfs-discuss] Need Help Recovering Zpool

2008-12-15 Thread Nathan Hand
I have moved the zpool image file to an OpenSolaris machine running 101b. r...@opensolaris:~# uname -a SunOS opensolaris 5.11 snv_101b i86pc i386 i86pc Solaris Here I am able to attempt an import of the pool and at least the OS does not panic. r...@opensolaris:~# zpool import -d /mnt pool: zo

Re: [zfs-discuss] Need Help Invalidating Uberblock

2008-12-15 Thread Nathan Hand
I don't know if this is relevant or merely a coincidence but the zdb command fails an assertion in the same txg_wait_synced function. r...@opensolaris:~# zdb -p /mnt -e zones Assertion failed: tx->tx_threads == 2, file ../../../uts/common/fs/zfs/txg.c, line 423, function txg_wait_synced Abort (

Re: [zfs-discuss] Need Help Recovering Zpool

2008-12-15 Thread Nathan Hand
Thanks for the reply. I tried the following: $ zpool import -o failmode=continue -d /mnt -f zones But the situation did not improve. It still hangs on the import. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@open

Re: [zfs-discuss] Need Help Invalidating Uberblock

2008-12-15 Thread Nathan Hand
I've had some success. I started with the ZFS on-disk format PDF. http://opensolaris.org/os/community/zfs/docs/ondiskformat0822.pdf The uberblocks all have magic value 0x00bab10c. Used od -x to find that value in the vdev. r...@opensolaris:~# od -A x -x /mnt/zpool.zones | grep "b10c 00ba" 0200

Re: [zfs-discuss] Hybrid Pools - Since when?

2008-12-15 Thread Nathan Kroenert
So - will it be arriving in a patch? :) Nathan. Richard Elling wrote: > Marion Hakanson wrote: >> richard.ell...@sun.com said: >> >>> L2ARC arrived in NV at the same time as ZFS boot, b79, November 2007. It was >>> not back-ported to Solaris 10u6. >>

Re: [zfs-discuss] Can the new consumer NAS devices run OpenSolaris?

2009-01-12 Thread Nathan Kroenert
enable stuff like gzip-9 compression, which might, on the slower Atom style chips, get in the way. Looking forward to any reports. Nathan. On 13/01/09 01:47 PM, JZ wrote: > ok, was I too harsh on the list? > sorry folks, as I said, I have the biggest ego. > > no one can hurt that by trying

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

2009-01-13 Thread Nathan Kroenert
quick explanation... It would be interesting to see if you see the same issues using a Solaris or other OS client. Hope this helps somewhat. Let us know how it goes. Nathan. fredrick phol wrote: > I'm currently experiencing exactly the same problem and it's been driving me >

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

2009-01-18 Thread Nathan Kroenert
Hey, Tom - Correct me if I'm wrong here, but it seems you are not allowing ZFS any sort of redundancy to manage. I'm not sure how you can class it a ZFS fail when the Disk subsystem has failed... Or - did I miss something? :) Nathan. Tom Bird wrote: > Morning, > > F

Re: [zfs-discuss] hot spare not so hot ??

2009-01-20 Thread Nathan Kroenert
An interesting interpretation of using hot spares. Could it be that the hot-spare code only fires if the disk goes down whilst the pool is active? hm. Nathan. Scot Ballard wrote: > I have configured a test system with a mirrored rpool and one hot spare. > I powered the systems off,

Re: [zfs-discuss] cifs perfomance

2009-01-22 Thread Nathan Kroenert
Are you able to qualify that a little? I'm using a realtek interface with OpenSolaris and am yet to experience any issues. Nathan. Brandon High wrote: > On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 5:40 PM, Bob Friesenhahn > wrote: >> Several people reported this same problem. They changed

Re: [zfs-discuss] cifs perfomance

2009-01-22 Thread Nathan Kroenert
Interesting. I'll have a poke... Thanks! Nathan. Brandon High wrote: > On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 1:29 PM, Nathan Kroenert > wrote: >> Are you able to qualify that a little? >> >> I'm using a realtek interface with OpenSolaris and am yet to experience an

Re: [zfs-discuss] destroy means destroy, right?

2009-01-28 Thread Nathan Kroenert
command to work, but it would have it's merits... Cheers! Nathan. Jacob Ritorto wrote: > Hi, > I just said zfs destroy pool/fs, but meant to say zfs destroy > pool/junk. Is 'fs' really gone? > > thx > jake > _

Re: [zfs-discuss] Is Disabling ARC on SolarisU4 possible?

2009-01-28 Thread Nathan Kroenert
re keen to test the *actual* disk performance, you should just use the underlying disk device like /dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s0 Beware, however, that any writes to these devices will indeed result in the loss of the data on those devices, zpools or other. Cheers. Nathan. Richard Elling wrote: > Ro

Re: [zfs-discuss] destroy means destroy, right?

2009-01-28 Thread Nathan Kroenert
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Re: [zfs-discuss] destroy means destroy, right?

2009-01-29 Thread Nathan Kroenert
akes? > ___ > zfs-discuss mailing list > zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss -- // // Nathan Kroenert nathan.kroen...@sun.com // // Senior Systems Engineer Phone: +61 3

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

2009-01-29 Thread Nathan Kroenert
device... Seems a little pricey for what it is though. It's going onto my list of what I'd buy if I had the money... ;) Nathan. On 01/30/09 12:10, Janåke Rönnblom wrote: > ACARD have launched a new RAM disk which can take up to 64 GB of ECC RAM > while still looking like a standar

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

2009-01-29 Thread Nathan Kroenert
You could be the first... Man up! ;) Nathan. Will Murnane wrote: > On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 21:11, Nathan Kroenert > wrote: >> Seems a little pricey for what it is though. > For what it's worth, there's also a 9010B model that has only one sata > port and room for s

Re: [zfs-discuss] schedulers [was: zfs related google summer of code ideas - your vote]

2009-03-04 Thread Nathan Kroenert
and sorting out it's own ZIL and L2ARC would be interesting, though, given the propensity for SSD's to be either fast read or fast write at the moment, you may well require some whacky knobs to get it to do what you actually want it to... hm. Nathan. Bill Sommerfeld wrote: On Wed,

Re: [zfs-discuss] reboot when copying large amounts of data

2009-03-11 Thread Nathan Kroenert
g up all your memory, and your physical backing storage is taking a while to catch up? Nathan. Blake wrote: My dump device is already on a different controller - the motherboards built-in nVidia SATA controller. The raidz2 vdev is the one I'm having trouble with (copying the same

Re: [zfs-discuss] reboot when copying large amounts of data

2009-03-11 Thread Nathan Kroenert
definitely time to bust out some mdb -k and see what it's moaning about. I did not see the screenshot earlier... sorry about that. Nathan. Blake wrote: I start the cp, and then, with prstat -a, watch the cpu load for the cp process climb to 25% on a 4-core machine. Load, measured for ex

Re: [zfs-discuss] reboot when copying large amounts of data

2009-03-11 Thread Nathan Kroenert
definitely time to bust out some mdb -K or boot -k and see what it's moaning about. I did not see the screenshot earlier... sorry about that. Nathan. Blake wrote: I start the cp, and then, with prstat -a, watch the cpu load for the cp process climb to 25% on a 4-core machine. Load, mea

Re: [zfs-discuss] reboot when copying large amounts of data

2009-03-12 Thread Nathan Kroenert
LI-DS4 Cheers! Nathan. On 13/03/09 09:21 AM, Dave wrote: Tim wrote: On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 2:22 PM, Blake <mailto:blake.ir...@gmail.com>> wrote: I've managed to get the data transfer to work by rearranging my disks so that all of them sit on the integrated SATA contr

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Honesty after a power failure

2009-03-24 Thread Nathan Kroenert
:04:31.2783 ereport.fs.zfs.checksum Score one more for ZFS! This box has a measly 300GB mirrored, and I have already seen dud data. (heh... It's also got non-ecc memory... ;) Cheers! Nathan. Dennis Clarke wrote: On Tue, 24 Mar 2009, Dennis Clarke wrote: You would think so eh? But a tr

Re: [zfs-discuss] Motherboard for home zfs/solaris file server

2009-07-21 Thread Nathan Fiedler
Regarding the SATA card and the mainboard slots, make sure that whatever you get is compatible with the OS. In my case I chose OpenSolaris which lacks support for Promise SATA cards. As a result, my choices were very limited since I had chosen a Chenbro ES34069 case and Intel Little Falls 2 mainboa

Re: [zfs-discuss] No ZFS snapshot since upgrade to 2009.06

2009-07-23 Thread Nathan Fiedler
This is probably bug #6462803. The work-around goes something like this: $ pfexec bash # beadm mount opensolaris /mnt # beadm unmount opensolaris # svcadm clear svc:/system/filesystem/zfs/auto-snapshot:frequent # svcadm clear svc:/system/filesystem/zfs/auto-snapshot:hourly # svcadm clear svc:/syst

Re: [zfs-discuss] Lundman home NAS

2009-07-31 Thread Nathan Fiedler
Yes, please write more about this. The photos are terrific and I appreciate the many useful observations you've made. For my home NAS I chose the Chenbro ES34069 and the biggest problem was finding a SATA/PCI card that would work with OpenSolaris and fit in the case (technically impossible without

Re: [zfs-discuss] Finding SATA cards for ZFS; was Lundman home NAS

2009-08-03 Thread Nathan Fiedler
I have not carried out any research into this area, but when I was building my home server I wanted to use a Promise SATA-PCI card, but alas (Open)Solaris has no support at all for the Promise chipsets. Instead I used a rather old card based on the sil3124 chipset. n On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 9:35

Re: [zfs-discuss] hot spares - in standby?

2007-01-29 Thread Nathan Kroenert
h, if all disks are rotated, we end up with a whole bunch of disks that are evenly worn out again, which is just what we are really trying to avoid! ;) Nathan. Wee Yeh Tan wrote: On 1/30/07, David Magda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: What about a rotating spare? When setting up a pool a lot

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: Cheap ZFS homeserver.

2007-01-31 Thread Nathan Kroenert
Urk! Where is this documented? And - is it something you can do nothing about, or are we ultimately trying to address it somewhere / somehow? Thanks!! Nathan. Bill Moore wrote: On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 05:01:19AM -0800, Tom Buskey wrote: As a followup, the system I'm trying to use th

[zfs-discuss] ZFS checksums - block or file level

2007-02-01 Thread Nathan Essex
I am trying to understand if zfs checksums apply at a file or a block level. We know that zfs provides end to end checksum integrity, and I assumed that when I write a file to a zfs filesystem, the checksum was calculated at a file level, as opposed to say, a block level. However, I have notic

[zfs-discuss] Re: ZFS checksums - block or file level

2007-02-01 Thread Nathan Essex
Thank You, so that means that even if I use something that writes raw i/o to a zfs emulated volume, I still get the checksum protection, and hence data corruption protection. This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: [osol-help] How to recover from "rm *"?

2007-02-20 Thread Nathan Kroenert
that provided dumb dumb protection would be very cool. I was saved a number of times by the hackery above... cheers! Nathan. Robert Milkowski wrote: Hello Jeremy, Monday, February 19, 2007, 1:58:18 PM, you wrote: Something similar was proposed here before and IIRC someone even has a worki

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: [osol-help] How to recover from "rm *"?

2007-02-20 Thread Nathan Kroenert
. A salvage / undelete would have been gold. Nathan. James Dickens wrote: Yes - Snapshots are great, but how often do you run a snapshot? Every 60 seconds? That's going to get real ugly if you have a filesystem per user... I'm sure every 15 minutes is suffient, if the worker doesn&#

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS not utilizing all disks

2007-05-10 Thread Nathan Kroenert
Simple test - mkfile 8gb now and see where the data goes... :) Victor Latushkin wrote: Robert Milkowski wrote: Hello Leon, Thursday, May 10, 2007, 10:43:27 AM, you wrote: LM> Hello, LM> I've got some weird problem: ZFS does not seem to be utilizing LM> all disks in my pool properly. For some

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: ZFS - Use h/w raid or not? Thoughts. Considerations.

2007-05-24 Thread Nathan Kroenert
Which has little benefit if it's the HBA or the Array internals change the meaning of the message... That's the whole point of ZFS's checksumming - It's end to end... Nathan. Torrey McMahon wrote: Toby Thain wrote: On 22-May-07, at 11:01 AM, Louwtjie Burger wrot

[zfs-discuss] ZFS + ISCSI + LINUX QUESTIONS

2007-05-30 Thread Nathan Huisman
= PROBLEM To create a disk storage system that will act as an archive point for user data (Non-recoverable data), and also act as a back end storage unit for virtual machines at a block level. = BUDGET Currently I have about 25-30k to start the project, more could be allocated in the ne

Re: [zfs-discuss] SiI 3114 Chipset on Syba Card - Solaris Hangs

2007-08-07 Thread Nathan Kroenert
s working anyways... My 2c... Nathan. Blake wrote: > I have re-flashed the BIOS. > > Blake > > On 8/7/07, *Ian Collins* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: > > Blake wrote: > > Hi. > > > > I'm running snv 65

[zfs-discuss] NV_65 AMD64 - ZFS seems to write fast and slow to a single spindle

2007-08-26 Thread Nathan Kroenert
take a look at this box and see if it's a new bug or just me being a bonehead and not understanding what I'm seeing, please respond to me directly, and I can provide access. (I'll make an effort not to reboot the box just in case it's only this boot that sees the problems.

Re: [zfs-discuss] Is there _any_ suitable motherboard?

2007-08-26 Thread Nathan Kroenert
options, instance #0 (driver name: options) agpgart, instance #0 (driver name: agpgart) xsvc, instance #0 (driver name: xsvc) used-resources cpus cpu, instance #0 cpu, instance #1 Nathan. Ben Middleton wrote: > I've just purchased an Asus P5K WS, which

Re: [zfs-discuss] pool is full and cant delete files

2007-09-09 Thread Nathan Kroenert
And if there is a rubbish file somewhere, I *think* you should be able to cat /dev/null > thatfile Which would free up it's blocks. Assuming you don't have snapshots... ;) Nathan. Anton B. Rang wrote: > At least three alternatives -- > > 1. If you don't have t

Re: [zfs-discuss] Multi-level ZFS in a SAN

2007-10-02 Thread Nathan Essex
I think I can offer a straightforward explanation to the following: I like the error-correction quality of ZFS; however, the ZFS > Administration Guide states: "A non-redundant pool configuration is > not recommended for production environments even if the single storage > object is presented from

[zfs-discuss] When I stab myself with this knife, it hurts... But - should it kill me?

2007-10-03 Thread Nathan Kroenert
this by accident and panic a big box for what I see as no good reason. (though I'm happy to be educated... ;) Oh - and also - Kudos to the ZFS team and the other involved in the whole iSCSI thing. So easy and funky. Great work guys... Cheers! Nathan. __

Re: [zfs-discuss] When I stab myself with this knife, it hurts... But - should it kill me?

2007-10-04 Thread Nathan Kroenert
ecause I tried to import a dud pool... I'm ok(ish) with the panic on a failed write to a non-redundant storage. I expect it by now... Cheers! Nathan. Victor Engle wrote: > Wouldn't this be the known feature where a write error to zfs forces a panic? > > Vic > >

Re: [zfs-discuss] When I stab myself with this knife, it hurts... But - should it kill me?

2007-10-04 Thread Nathan Kroenert
Erik - Thanks for that, but I know the pool is corrupted - That was kind if the point of the exercise. The bug (at least to me) is ZFS panicing Solaris just trying to import the dud pool. But, maybe I'm missing your point? Nathan. eric kustarz wrote: >> >> Client A &

Re: [zfs-discuss] When I stab myself with this knife, it hurts... But - should it kill me?

2007-10-04 Thread Nathan Kroenert
step. :) Cheers. Nathan. Eric Schrock wrote: > On Fri, Oct 05, 2007 at 08:20:13AM +1000, Nathan Kroenert wrote: >> Erik - >> >> Thanks for that, but I know the pool is corrupted - That was kind if the >> point of the exercise. >> >> The bug (at least to me)

[zfs-discuss] characterizing I/O on a per zvol basis.

2007-10-17 Thread Nathan Kroenert
Hey all - Time for my silly question of the day, and before I bust out vi and dtrace... If there a simple, existing way I can observe the read / write / IOPS on a per-zvol basis? If not, is there interest in having one? Cheers! Nathan. ___ zfs

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs corruption w/ sil3114 sata controllers

2007-10-29 Thread Nathan Kroenert
You have not mentioned if you have swapped the 3114 based HBA itself...? Have you tried a different HBA? :) Nathan. Ed Saipetch wrote: > Hello, > > I'm experiencing major checksum errors when using a syba silicon image 3114 > based pci sata controller w/ nonraid firmware

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS very slow under xVM

2007-11-01 Thread Nathan Kroenert
occasion... Maybe it's not just me... Unfortunately, I'm still running old nv and xen bits, so I can't speak to the 'current' situation... Cheers. Nathan. Martin wrote: > Hello > > I've got Solaris Express Community Edition build 75 (75a) installed on an

[zfs-discuss] ZFS and Veritas Cluster Server

2007-11-03 Thread Nathan Dietsch
and failover testing with ZFS and VCS. Furthermore, if anyone has implemented ZFS on SRDF, I would also be interesting in hearing about those implementation experiences. Any and all input would be most appreciated. Kind Regards, Nathan Dietsch

[zfs-discuss] mdb ::memstat including zfs buffer details?

2007-11-08 Thread Nathan Kroenert
se guys and the way they treat the ufs buffers versus the zfs buffers? Cheers! Nathan. ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS + DB + "fragments"

2007-11-13 Thread Nathan Kroenert
ourse, both of these would require non-sparse file creation for the DB etc, but would it be plausible? For very read intensive and position sensitive applications, I guess this sort of capability might make a difference? Just some stabs in the dark... Cheers! Nathan. Louwtjie Burger wrote: >

Re: [zfs-discuss] Home Motherboard

2007-11-22 Thread Nathan Kroenert
I was interested in that one till I read: One 240-pin DDR2 SDRAM Dual Inline Memory Module (DIMM) sockets Support for DDR2 667 MHz, DDR2 533 MHz and DDR2 400 MHz DIMMs (DDR 667 MHz validated to run at 533 MHz only) Support for up to 1 GB of system memory Boo!!! :) Nathan. Vincent Fox wrote

Re: [zfs-discuss] Clearing partition/label info

2007-12-17 Thread Nathan Kroenert
format -e then from there, re-label using SMI label, versus EFI. Cheers Al Slater wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi, > > What is the quickest way of clearing the label information on a disk > that has been previously used in a zpool? > > regards > > - -- > Al Sl

Re: [zfs-discuss] hardware for zfs home storage

2008-01-14 Thread Nathan Kroenert
I see a business opportunity for someone... Backups for the masses... of Unix / VMS and other OS/s out there. any takers? :) Nathan. Jonathan Loran wrote: > > > eric kustarz wrote: >> On Jan 14, 2008, at 11:08 AM, Tim Cook wrote: >> >> >>> www.mozy.c

Re: [zfs-discuss] 30 seond hang, ls command....

2008-01-30 Thread Nathan Kroenert
Any chance the disks are being powered down, and you are waiting for them to power back up? Nathan. :) Neal Pollack wrote: > I'm running Nevada build 81 on x86 on an Ultra 40. > # uname -a > SunOS zbit 5.11 snv_81 i86pc i386 i86pc > Memory size: 8191 Megabytes > > I sta

Re: [zfs-discuss] Sun 5220 as a ZFS Server?

2008-02-05 Thread Nathan Kroenert
rites. (A single thread of an N2 is only so fast... Just think of what you could do with 64 of them ;) I'll be interested to see what the others have to say. :) Hope this helps. Nathan. Michael Stalnaker wrote: > We’re looking at building out sever ZFS servers, and are considering

[zfs-discuss] ZFS taking up to 80 seconds to flush a single 8KB O_SYNC block.

2008-02-06 Thread Nathan Kroenert
so looking for any other ideas on what might be hurting me. I also have set zfs:zfs_nocacheflush = 1 in /etc/system The Oracle Logs are on a separate Zpool and I'm not seeing the issue on those filesystems. The lockstats I have run are not yet all that interesting. If anyo

Re: [zfs-discuss] 100% random writes coming out as 50/50 reads/writes

2008-02-14 Thread Nathan Kroenert
uming I understand correctly. Hopefully someone else on the list will be able to confirm. Cheers! Nathan. Richard Elling wrote: > Anton B. Rang wrote: >>> Create a pool [ ... ] >>> Write a 100GB file to the filesystem [ ... ] >>> Run I/O against that file, doing

Re: [zfs-discuss] 100% random writes coming out as 50/50 reads/writes

2008-02-15 Thread Nathan Kroenert
What about new blocks written to an existing file? Perhaps we could make that clearer in the manpage too... hm. Mattias Pantzare wrote: >> > >> > If you created them after, then no worries, but if I understand >> > correctly, if the *file* was created with 128K recordsize, then it'll >> > k

Re: [zfs-discuss] 100% random writes coming out as 50/50 reads/writes

2008-02-15 Thread Nathan Kroenert
w existing files are updated as well... hm. Cheers! Nathan. Richard Elling wrote: > Nathan Kroenert wrote: >> And something I was told only recently - It makes a difference if you >> created the file *before* you set the recordsize property. > > Actually, it has always been

Re: [zfs-discuss] Cause for data corruption?

2008-02-25 Thread Nathan Kroenert
are no newer patches for it, just in case it's one for which there was a known problem. (which was worked around in the driver) I *think* there was an issue with at least one or two... Cheers! Nathan. Sandro wrote: > hi folks > > I've been running my fileserver at home with

Re: [zfs-discuss] Can ZFS be event-driven or not?

2008-02-25 Thread Nathan Kroenert
And would drive storage requirements through the roof!! I like it! ;) Nathan. Jonathan Loran wrote: > > David Magda wrote: >> On Feb 24, 2008, at 01:49, Jonathan Loran wrote: >> >>> In some circles, CDP is big business. It would be a great ZFS offering. >>

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