Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] 3TB disks for tank zpool? Can only use 2 TB.

2011-03-22 Thread John McEntee
I am currently using opensolaris snv_134 have just bought some 3 TB disks to upgrade a 8 disk mirror of 2 TB disks. I though this should just work as opensolaris can use EFI partiton tables, but giving zfs the whole unformatted disk results in the following partition table and pool size.

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] [illumos-Developer] Unable to boot OpenIndiana on my dell studio 1450

2011-03-22 Thread ken mays
Kunal, Both device drivers (ethernet/wifi) are available to you for your laptop. So, you should have a fully working setup... ~ Ken Mays --- On Mon, 3/21/11, kunal ghosh kunal...@gmail.com wrote: From: kunal ghosh kunal...@gmail.com Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] [illumos-Developer]

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] 3TB disks for tank zpool? Can only use 2 TB.

2011-03-22 Thread Toomas Soome
what does isainfo -k report? On 22.03.2011, at 14:24, John McEntee wrote: I am currently using opensolaris snv_134 have just bought some 3 TB disks to upgrade a 8 disk mirror of 2 TB disks. I though this should just work as opensolaris can use EFI partiton tables, but giving zfs the whole

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] 3TB disks for tank zpool? Can only use 2 TB.

2011-03-22 Thread John McEntee
amd64 -Original Message- From: Toomas Soome [mailto:toomas.so...@mls.ee] Sent: 22 March 2011 12:27 To: Discussion list for OpenIndiana Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] 3TB disks for tank zpool? Can only use 2 TB. what does isainfo -k report? On 22.03.2011, at 14:24, John McEntee

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] [illumos-Developer] Unable to boot OpenIndiana on my dell studio 1450

2011-03-22 Thread kunal ghosh
But when i connect the ethernet cable to my laptop, the nwam doesn't switch to automatic and fetch the IP from the router , so i do not get internet :( (I have notice nwam automatically switch to automatic and get an IP from my router in my desktop installation) Am i missing something ? On Tue,

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] [illumos-Developer] Unable to boot OpenIndiana on my dell studio 1450

2011-03-22 Thread Jonathan Adams
every so often I have to restart nwam, generally when I've been using a cable and want to switch to a misbehaving Wireless ... svcadm restart physical:nwam ... not pretty but it might fix it. On 22 March 2011 13:20, kunal ghosh kunal...@gmail.com wrote: But when i connect the ethernet cable to

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] 3TB disks for tank zpool? Can only use 2 TB.

2011-03-22 Thread Nikola M.
On 03/22/11 03:20 PM, John McEntee wrote: http://wiki.openindiana.org/oi/SATA+-+Advanced+Format+and+4K+Sector+drives This only provides a small performance workaround for drives using 4K sectors internally but presenting 512b sectors. It does nothing to enable a partition to be greater than

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] 3TB disks for tank zpool? Can only use 2 TB.

2011-03-22 Thread L'oiseau de mer
in 2009.06 version, rpool can't larger than 2TB, but other zpool can. 2011/3/23 Nikola M. minik...@gmail.com On 03/22/11 03:20 PM, John McEntee wrote: http://wiki.openindiana.org/oi/SATA+-+Advanced+Format+and+4K+Sector+drives This only provides a small performance workaround for drives

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] 3TB disks for tank zpool? Can only use 2 TB.

2011-03-22 Thread John McEntee
I have not heard that any Solaris* can use disk/partition in zpool, larger then 2TB. Maybe you can try partitioning disk with 2+1TB I can find various comments about 3TB boot disks are not going to work and hints that 3TB data disk should be fine. I could not find any posts saying 3TB don't

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] 3TB disks for tank zpool? Can only use 2 TB.

2011-03-22 Thread Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk
test being the single 3 TB disk pool. My google skills seem week on this problem, as I seem to be only able to find stuff about 4kb sectors and not being able to boot 2TB yet. Can I use 3TB disks, if so how? I just finished replacing 7x3+1(spare) 2TB drives with Hitachi 3TB ones, and it

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Good benchmarking software?

2011-03-22 Thread Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk
Hi all I've been doing some testing on a test box to try to generate good performance reports. I've been trying bonnie++ and iozone, and while both give me lots and lots of statistics and numbers, I can't find a good way to visualize them. I see there are some spreadsheets avaliable for

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] 3TB disks for tank zpool? Can only use 2 TB.

2011-03-22 Thread Eric D. Mudama
On Tue, Mar 22 at 18:34, Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk wrote: I just finished replacing 7x3+1(spare) 2TB drives with Hitachi 3TB ones, and it works like a dream. Also, Hitachi 3TB drives have 512 byte sector size, only a larger LBA (don't remember how many bits). What does this mean? Typically an LBA

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] 3TB disks for tank zpool? Can only use 2 TB.

2011-03-22 Thread Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk
- Original Message - On Tue, Mar 22 at 18:34, Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk wrote: I just finished replacing 7x3+1(spare) 2TB drives with Hitachi 3TB ones, and it works like a dream. Also, Hitachi 3TB drives have 512 byte sector size, only a larger LBA (don't remember how many bits). What

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] [zfs-discuss] Good benchmarking software?

2011-03-22 Thread Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk
depending on the data you have you could use gnuplot to visualize. Normally an X for time and Y for the data show enough. I did this once with CPU and Memory usage. RRD is also a nice Tool to visualize (most OpenSource Tools use it) but for me gnuplot was the easier way to do it. If you like

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Good benchmarking software?

2011-03-22 Thread Mehmet Erol Sanliturk
On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 3:14 PM, Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk r...@karlsbakk.netwrote: Hi all I've been doing some testing on a test box to try to generate good performance reports. I've been trying bonnie++ and iozone, and while both give me lots and lots of statistics and numbers, I can't find a

[OpenIndiana-discuss] OI boot problem

2011-03-22 Thread GUY WOOLLEY
Since last October I've had OI 147/148 running on a new home PC. A while ago I attempted to mirror it. All seemed good though I didn't fully check that the mirror booted (silly me etc. - this is a home PC). Then the worst happened and the new drive where OI was installed failed. So I'm left

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Windows ACL issue with CIFS

2011-03-22 Thread Gordon Ross
2011/3/22 Joe Porter jpor...@petroliance.com: Hello all, I've installed a testbed OpenIndiana (SunOS openindiana 5.11 oi_147 i86pc i386 i86pc) test box, and I'm trying to set up the CIFS so I can dump some backup files onto it using robocopy. I'm having the same issues as