Re: [zfs-discuss] Resilvering onto a spare - degraded because of read and cksum errors

2010-06-28 Thread Donald Murray, P.Eng.
error in the zpool status output, depending on what Solaris release is. Thanks, Cindy On 06/27/10 15:13, Donald Murray, P.Eng. wrote: Hi, I awoke this morning to a panic'd opensolaris zfs box. I rebooted it and confirmed it would panic each time it tried to import the 'tank' pool. Once I

[zfs-discuss] Resilvering onto a spare - degraded because of read and cksum errors

2010-06-27 Thread Donald Murray, P.Eng.
Hi, I awoke this morning to a panic'd opensolaris zfs box. I rebooted it and confirmed it would panic each time it tried to import the 'tank' pool. Once I disconnected half of one of the mirrored disks, the box booted cleanly and the pool imported without a panic. Because this box has a hot

Re: [zfs-discuss] Going from 6 to 8 disks on ASUS M2N-SLI Deluxe motherboard

2010-01-27 Thread Donald Murray, P.Eng.
Hi David, On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 11:16 AM, David Dyer-Bennet d...@dd-b.net wrote: My current home fileserver (running Open Solaris 111b and ZFS) has an ASUS M2N-SLI DELUXE motherboard.  This has 6 SATA connections, which are currently all in use (mirrored pair of 80GB for system zfs pool, two

Re: [zfs-discuss] Kernel panic on zfs import (hardware failure)

2009-11-02 Thread Donald Murray, P.Eng.
Hey, On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 5:03 PM, Victor Latushkin victor.latush...@sun.com wrote: Donald Murray, P.Eng. wrote: Hi, I've got an OpenSolaris 2009.06 box that will reliably panic whenever I try to import one of my pools. What's the best practice for recovering (before I resort to nuking

Re: [zfs-discuss] How do I protect my zfs pools?

2009-11-02 Thread Donald Murray, P.Eng.
Hey, On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 8:48 PM, Donald Murray, P.Eng. donaldm...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I may have lost my first zpool, due to ... well, we're not yet sure. The 'zpool import tank' causes a panic -- one which I'm not even able to capture via savecore. Looks like I've found the root

[zfs-discuss] How do I protect my zfs pools?

2009-11-01 Thread Donald Murray, P.Eng.
Hi, I may have lost my first zpool, due to ... well, we're not yet sure. The 'zpool import tank' causes a panic -- one which I'm not even able to capture via savecore. I'm glad this happened when it did. At home I am in the process of moving all my data from a Linux NFS server to OpenSolaris.

[zfs-discuss] Kernel panic on zfs import

2009-10-31 Thread Donald Murray, P.Eng.
Hi, I've got an OpenSolaris 2009.06 box that will reliably panic whenever I try to import one of my pools. What's the best practice for recovering (before I resort to nuking the pool and restoring from backup)? There are two pools on the system: rpool and tank. The rpool seems to be fine, since

Re: [zfs-discuss] [osol-help] Help! Bricked my 2009.06 OpenSolaris snv_111b NFS host (long)

2009-10-30 Thread Donald Murray, P.Eng.
Hi, On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 8:41 AM, Gopi Desaboyina gopidesaboy...@yahoo.com wrote: I think your system might be over heating. I observed this kind of behaviour in laptops when they get overheated. check if FAN is working or not. How frequent it gets rebooted. you could boot from

Re: [zfs-discuss] The best motherboard for a home ZFS fileserver

2008-07-23 Thread Donald Murray, P.Eng.
On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 7:21 PM, Miles Nordin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: *SNIP* Anyway, you can find more anecdotes in the archives of this list. IIRC someone else corroborated that he found, among non-DoA drives, failures are more likely in the first month than in the second month, but I