Re: [OmniOS-discuss] How bad are these controller / io errors??

2013-08-15 Thread Narayan Desai
We're seeing something similar on the same gear (LSI/supermicro expanders, lsi controllers, sata drives). We've tried standard hardware debugging (cable reseat/replacement, etc) and the problem in our case seems to follow the sas expander backplane. We did a disk by disk migration into a differen

[OmniOS-discuss] multithreaded gzip (or equivalent) and moving some files while preserving file trees

2013-08-15 Thread Valrhona
Thanks to OmniTI for making a fantastic product for the community! I am doing a bunch of backups, and trying to organize data, and have two questions: 1. Is there a better alternative, perhaps in the new package repositories, for gzip-style compression that is multithreaded? I am doing the usualy

[OmniOS-discuss] Updated release: r151006p

2013-08-15 Thread Dale Ghent
This week brings a new release: r151006p This release includes a security fix for for the kernel in the zfs driver, as well as other bug fixes and minor improvements. Full release notes are available here: http://omnios.omniti.com/wiki.php/ReleaseNotes#r151006p As this is an update which addr

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] performance penalty of a slow mirror

2013-08-15 Thread Tobias Oetiker
Hi Michael, Today Michael Mounteney wrote: > Hello, as my current OmniOS server doesn't have removable disks, I've > added an external USB2 HDD as a mirror, so that in the event of fire or > holiday, the external disk can be taken away as a backup. > > How does OmniOS deal with a very slow mirror

[OmniOS-discuss] performance penalty of a slow mirror

2013-08-15 Thread Michael Mounteney
Hello, as my current OmniOS server doesn't have removable disks, I've added an external USB2 HDD as a mirror, so that in the event of fire or holiday, the external disk can be taken away as a backup. How does OmniOS deal with a very slow mirror ? Does it perform any measurements to work out that

[OmniOS-discuss] filesystems received from send -R

2013-08-15 Thread Michael Mounteney
I recently moved to a new machine: # ssh root@oldmachine 'zfs send -R rpool@M' | zfs recv rpool/bring the idea being: 1. zfs rename my own filesystems such as rpool/bring/home to rpool/home. 2. Copy settings from rpool/bring/omnios and below whilst setting up the new machine. 3. Refer to