[zfs-discuss] Zombie damaged zpool won't die

2012-05-29 Thread Dave Pooser
In the beginning, I created a mirror named DumpFiles on FreeBSD. Later, I decided to move those drives to a new Solaris 11 server-- but rather than import the old pool I'd create a new pool. And I liked the DumpFiles name, so I stuck with it. Oops. Now whenever I run zpool import, it shows a faul

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, and performan

Re: [zfs-discuss] Spare drive inherited cksum errors?

2012-05-29 Thread John D Groenveld
In message <4fc509e8.8080...@jvm.de>, Stephan Budach writes: >If now I'd only knew how to get the actual S11 release level of my box. >Neither uname -a nor cat /etc/release does give me a clue, since they >display all the same data when run on different hosts that are on >different updates. $ p

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 Richard Elling
On May 29, 2012, at 6:10 AM, Jim Klimov wrote: > Also note that ZFS IO often is random even for reads, since you > have to read metadata and file data often from different dispersed > locations. This is true for almost all other file systems, too. For example, in UFS, metadata is stored in fixed

Re: [zfs-discuss] Spare drive inherited cksum errors?

2012-05-29 Thread Peter Jeremy
On 2012-May-29 22:04:39 +1000, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: >If you have a drive (or two drives) with bad sectors, they will only be >detected as long as the bad sectors get used. Given that your pool is less >than 100% full, it means you might still have bad hardware going undetected, >if you pass

Re: [zfs-discuss] Remedies for suboptimal mmap performance on zfs

2012-05-29 Thread Iwan Aucamp
On 05/29/2012 03:29 AM, Daniel Carosone wrote: For the mmap case: does the ARC keep a separate copy, or does the vm system map the same page into the process's address space? If a separate copy is made, that seems like a potential source of many kinds of problems - if it's the same page then th

Re: [zfs-discuss] Spare drive inherited cksum errors?

2012-05-29 Thread Stephan Budach
Am 29.05.12 18:59, schrieb Richard Elling: On May 29, 2012, at 8:12 AM, Cindy Swearingen wrote: Hi-- You don't see what release this is but I think that seeing the checkum error accumulation on the spare was a zpool status formatting bug that I have seen myself. This is fixed in a later Solari

Re: [zfs-discuss] Spare drive inherited cksum errors?

2012-05-29 Thread Richard Elling
On May 29, 2012, at 8:12 AM, Cindy Swearingen wrote: > Hi-- > > You don't see what release this is but I think that seeing the checkum > error accumulation on the spare was a zpool status formatting bug that > I have seen myself. This is fixed in a later Solaris release. > Once again, Cindy bea

Re: [zfs-discuss] Spare drive inherited cksum errors?

2012-05-29 Thread Cindy Swearingen
Hi-- You don't see what release this is but I think that seeing the checkum error accumulation on the spare was a zpool status formatting bug that I have seen myself. This is fixed in a later Solaris release. Thanks, Cindy On 05/28/12 22:21, Stephan Budach wrote: Hi all, just to wrap this is

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 Jim Klimov
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, and performance for just about everything was 20MB/s per

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 Casper . Dik
>The drives were the seagate green barracuda IIRC, and performance for >just about everything was 20MB/s per spindle or worse, when it should >have been closer to 100MB/s when streaming. Things were worse still when >doing random... It is possible that your partitions weren't aligned at 4K an

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 John Martin
On 05/29/12 07:26, bofh wrote: ashift:9 is that standard? Depends on what the drive reports as physical sector size. ___ 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)

2012-05-29 Thread John Martin
On 05/29/12 08:35, 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, and performance for just about everything was 20MB/s pe

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
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, and performance for just about everything was 20MB/s per spindle or worse, when it should hav

Re: [zfs-discuss] Spare drive inherited cksum errors?

2012-05-29 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
> From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- > boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Stephan Budach > > Now, I will run a scrub once more to veryfy the zpool. If you have a drive (or two drives) with bad sectors, they will only be detected as long as the bad sectors get used.

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 bofh
On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 6:54 AM, John Martin wrote: >  $ zdb -C | grep ashift >              ashift: 12 >              ashift: 12 >              ashift: 12 > That's interesting. I just created a raidz3 pool out of 7x3TB drives. My drives were ST3000DM001-9YN1 Hitachi HDS72303 Hitachi HDS72303 S

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 John Martin
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 using Seagate 2TB units up until now (which are 512 byte sector). Anyone offer up suggestions of either 3 or preferably 4TB drives that actually work well with Z

Re: [zfs-discuss] Spare drive inherited cksum errors?

2012-05-29 Thread Stephan Budach
Hi Richard, Am 29.05.12 06:54, schrieb Richard Elling: On May 28, 2012, at 9:21 PM, Stephan Budach wrote: Hi all, just to wrap this issue up: as FMA didn't report any other error than the one which led to the degradation of the one mirror, I detached the original drive from the zpool which