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

2009-12-03 Thread steven
It will work in a standard 8x or 16x slot. The bracket is backward. Not one for subtlety, I took the bracket off, grabbed some pliers, and reversed all the bends. Not exactly ideal... but I was then able to get it in the case and get some screw tension on it to hold it snugly to the case. I had

[zfs-discuss] ZFS read errors

2011-08-10 Thread steven
Hello I am having problems with my ZFS, I have put in a LSI 3041E-S controller and have 2 disks on it, and a further 4 on the motherboard. I am getting read errors on the pool but not on any disk? Any idea where I should look to find the problem? Thanks Steven \> uname -a SunOS X..

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS read errors

2011-08-10 Thread steven
Also should be getting Illegal Request errors? (no hard or soft errors) Some more info: (I am doing a Scrub hence the high blocking levels) var/log$ iostat -Ex extended device statistics devicer/sw/s kr/s kw/s wait actv svc_t %w %b sd0 1.1 16.9 30.6 463.

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS read errors

2011-08-10 Thread steven
believe this is normal on Intel Mboards. I am not after the RAID capabilities. Thanks for the help, let me know if there are any ideas how to get this card working (SUN Part number SG-XPCIE4SAS3-Z.) Regards Steven -- This message posted from opensolaris.org

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS read errors

2011-08-12 Thread steven
ighlight a problematic drive but they all gave errors (using both controllers). Solution: Turn encryption off (pity as I wanted to give it a go) Regards Steven -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opens

[zfs-discuss] Can a iSCS-targetI and CIFIS-share co-exist?

2008-08-27 Thread Steven
On openSolaris I have a ZFS zpool vol that is a CIFS share on my network. Can I make this same shared-data an iSCSI target also? The reason I want to do this is that my VirtualBox VM's are about 10x slower in accessing the network-share than any other machine on the network. This prevents me fr

[zfs-discuss] ZIL behavior on import

2010-05-05 Thread Steven Stallion
All, I had a question regarding how the ZIL interacts with zpool import: Given that the intent log is replayed in the event of a system failure, does the replay behavior differ if -f is passed to zpool import? For example, if I have a system which fails prior to completing a series of writes and

[zfs-discuss] ZFS Deduplication Replication

2009-11-16 Thread Steven Sim
Hello; Dedup on ZFS is an absolutely wonderful feature! Is there a way to conduct dedup replication across boxes from one dedup ZFS data set to another? Warmest Regards Steven Sim ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http

[zfs-discuss] ZFS CIFS, smb.conf (smb/server) and LDAP

2009-11-27 Thread Steven Sim
with LDAP. (not this list i know..) For any interested and willing to advice I am using Sun DSEE 7.0 and I'm facing a heck of a lot of problems with the LDAP DIT structure. Warmest Regards Steven Sim ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zf

[zfs-discuss] dedup existing data

2009-12-16 Thread Steven Sim
Hello; How do we dedup existing data? Will a ZFS send to an output file in a temporary staging area in the same pool and a subsequent reconstruct (zfs receive) from the file be sufficient? Or do I have to completely move the data out of the pool and back in again? Warmest Regards Steven

Re: [zfs-discuss] dedup existing data

2009-12-16 Thread Steven Sim
y all related snapshots first? Warmest Regards Steven Sim Darren J Moffat wrote: Steven Sim wrote: Hello; How do we dedup existing data? Currently by running a zfs send | zfs recv. Will a ZFS send to an output file in a temporary staging area in the same pool and a subsequent reconstruct (zfs

[zfs-discuss] Single Instancing across the entire pool or only per filesystem

2009-12-16 Thread Steven Sim
Hello; Is the ZFS dedup single instancing across the entire pool or is it only single instance inside each filesystem and not across the entire pool? Warmest Regards Steven Sim ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http

[zfs-discuss] zfs receive bug? Extra "e" directory?

2009-12-16 Thread Steven Sim
et but unable to remount filesystem Ok... I then went to remove the e/Docs directory under /export/home/admin/Docs and it is now only /export/home/admin/Docs... Then.. r...@sunlight:/root# zfs set mountpoint=/export/home/admin/Docs myplace/Docs And all is well

[zfs-discuss] ZFS receive -dFv creates an extra "e" subdirectory..

2009-12-19 Thread Steven Sim
n/Docs myplace/Docs And all is well again.. Where did the "e/Docs" come from? Did I do something wrong? Warmest Regards Steven Sim ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

[zfs-discuss] ZFS Automatic Growth after replacing original disk with a larger sized disk

2009-02-09 Thread Steven Sim
Available! For ALL my File systems within the ZFS Pool!! Awesome! Simply awesome! No other file system or volume manager I know has this absolutely wonderful ability. Certainly Enterprise system will not use this method to increase their storage space b

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

2009-02-11 Thread Steven Sim
in traditional methodologies. Could you describe in detail the kind of IO access you were generating prior to pulling out the USB? Warmest Regards Steven Sim Tim wrote: On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 11:44 PM, Fredrich Maney <fredrichma...@gmail.com> wrote: Ah... an illiterate AND id

[zfs-discuss] At Wits End for ZFS Permission Settings

2009-02-28 Thread Steven Sim
/execute/write_attributes /write_acl/write_owner:deny 7:everyone@:read_xattr/read_attributes/read_acl/synchronize:allow User admin STILL cannot go in! What gives? Warmest Regards Steven Sim ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

[zfs-discuss] ZFS snapshot successfully but zfs list -r does not list the snapshot

2009-03-06 Thread Steven Sim
st Regards Steven Sim ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

[zfs-discuss] Trying to understand zfs RAID-Z

2007-05-16 Thread Steven Sim
eone please elaborate more on the statement "Every block is it's own RAID-Z stripe"??? The block being referred to is a single block across multiple disks or a single disk? My sincere apologies if the above questions seem trivial. But I am really struggling to reconcile the statement

Re: [zfs-discuss] Trying to understand zfs RAID-Z

2007-05-17 Thread Steven Sim
D-5 layout on 4 disks. How is RAID-Z any different from RAID-5? (except for the ability to stripe different sizes which gives allows RAID-Z to never have to do a read-modify-write. This increases performance very significantly but I am unable to relate this to the write-hole vulnerability issue)

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS problems in dCache

2007-08-08 Thread Steven Gelsie
I think I am having the same problem using a different application (Windchill). zfs is consuming hugh amounts of memory and system (T2000) is performing poorly. Occasionally it will take a long time (several hours) to do a snapshot. Normally a snapshot will take a second or two. The application

[zfs-discuss] ZFS Questions. (RAID-Z questions actually)

2006-07-03 Thread Steven Sim
ing data replication model to handle variable-width RAID stripes." I could use a little help here... I apologies if these questions are elementary ones Warmest Regards Steven Sim Fujitsu Asia Pte. Ltd. _ This e-mail is confident

Re: [zfs-discuss] x86 CPU Choice for ZFS

2006-07-06 Thread Steven Sim
Casper; Does this mean it would be a good practice to say increase the amount of memory and/or swap space we usually recommend if the customer intends to use ZFS very heavily? Sorry if this is a dumb question! Warmest Regards Steven Sim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, What kind of

Re: [zfs-discuss] x86 CPU Choice for ZFS

2006-07-06 Thread Steven Sim
sult in things like OOM described clearly in http://lwn.net/Articles/104179/ Am I right? Or completely off course? Warmest Regards Steven Sim Pramod Batni wrote: Darren J Moffat wrote: Steven Sim wrote: Casper; Does this mean it would be a good practice to say increase the amount of me

Re: [zfs-discuss] Where is the ZFS configuration data stored?

2006-10-12 Thread Steven Goldberg
tc) is stored in the pool itself. --matt -- Steven Goldberg Engagement Architect Sun Microsystems, Inc. 15395 SE 30th PL, Suite 120 Bellevue, WA 98011 USA Phone +1 425 467 4349 Email [EMAIL PRO

[zfs-discuss] ZFS non-zero checksum and permanent error with deleted file

2009-11-03 Thread Steven Samuel Cole
Hello, I am actually using ZFS under FreeBSD, but maybe someone over here can help me anyway. I'd like some advice if I still can rely on one of my ZFS pools: [u...@host ~]$ sudo zpool clear zpool01 ... [u...@host ~]$ sudo zpool scrub zpool01 ... [u...@host ~]$ sudo zpool status -v zpool0

[zfs-discuss] Moving zfs pool to new machine?

2008-05-07 Thread Steven M. Christensen
Can someone tell me or point me to links that describe how to do the following. I had a machine that crashed and I want to move to a newer machine anyway. The boot disk on the old machine is fried. The two disks I was using for a zfs pool on that machine need to be moved to a newer machine no

Re: [zfs-discuss] Moving zfs pool to new machine?

2008-05-07 Thread Steven M. Christensen
Thanks Jim and Richard - zpool import -f mypool worked. This is a mystery to me since I had done a zpool import before and it did not see mypool, but does now. Anyway I'm in good shape now. Steve C. Jim Dunham wrote: > Steve, > >> Can someone tell me or point me to links that describe how