> From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- > boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Charles J. Knipe > > Some more information about our configuration: We're running OpenSolaris > svn-134. ZFS is at version 22. Our disks are 15kRPM 300gb Seagate Cheetahs, > mounted in Promise J610S Dual enclosures, hanging off a Dell SAS 5/e > controller. We'd tried out most of this configuration previously on
Sorry I didn't read or mention this before, but, I am consistently finding that solaris doesn't work quite right on dell hardware (or non-sun hardware in general), and THAT is when it's a supported configuration. You're running opensolaris. Unsupported, and non-sun hardware. I'm not saying there's no solution. For various weird problems that people have had on this list, people often find weird solutions. Like disabling c-states, or upgrading or downgrading firmware levels... For me personally, on my only dell which runs solaris, which is a certified and "supported" configuration, I had to disable the on-board NIC and buy an add-on Intel nic. End result, we eliminated the once-per-week crash, but I would still say the system is rather unstable. Uptime of 1 month is the next goal... Other people on this list have precisely the same setup, repeated on dozens of systems... Some of them act normal, and some of them don't. It's weird and unexplained. I'm basically concluding that if you need it to work right, you need the sun hardware, or you need good luck on non-sun hardware, because the developers don't bother testing much on non-sun hardware. Yes, they try to avoid nonstandard and specific system calls or whatever... Yes, it's likely to work on a lot of non-sun hardware. But the odds are highly stacked. _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
