Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Antwort: Transferring everything in, > one zpool to be a, subtree in another larger zpool (Hans J. Albertsson)

2015-05-05 Thread Sebastian Gabler
You could try to build it from source on your FreeNAS machine. If it builds, I guess it will work. Here is the project page: http://www.maier-komor.de/mbuffer.html BR Sebastian Am 05.05.2015 um 19:38 schrieb openindiana-discuss-requ...@openindiana.org: Message: 3 Date: Tue, 05 May 2015 15:30

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Antwort: Transferring everything in one zpool to be a, subtree in another larger zpool (Hans J. Albertsson)

2015-05-05 Thread Sebastian Gabler
Am 05.05.2015 um 14:00 schrieb openindiana-discuss-requ...@openindiana.org: As a side note; just piping to ssh is excruciatingly slow, using netcat, "nc", speeds things up at least 4fold. The method that worked fine for me was using mbuffer. (I couldn't make netcat work, shame on me, but I also

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] rsyncd configuration

2015-03-27 Thread Sebastian Gabler
ieb openindiana-discuss-requ...@openindiana.org: Message: 2 Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2015 08:34:01 -0500 (CDT) From: Bob Friesenhahn To: Discussion list for OpenIndiana Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] rsyncd configuration Message-ID: Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flow

[OpenIndiana-discuss] rsyncd configuration

2015-03-26 Thread Sebastian Gabler
Hi, I am trying to solve a problem that i have ignored for quite a long time. The issue is that "messages" are flooded with rsync permission errors, and that some files are not backed up properly. What I have found so far is the following: - rsyncd is running as "root" -the issue is the same

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Arc and L2arc hit rate

2015-03-17 Thread Sebastian Gabler
Hi Geoff and Jason (and anybody else interested), thanks for your comments. I have been using arc_summary.pl. From what I understand the stats are since boot time, which is around 700 days in my case, so the impact of any tuning measures will not reflect there. Still thee are some findings:

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Arc and L2arc hit rate

2015-03-12 Thread Sebastian Gabler
Hi, I have 12 GB RAM, 20 GB total pool size machine. L2ARC for one pool is 107G SSD. I am wondering a bit about: - why not more of the RAM is used by ARC (I have run the ARC optimisation script from the evil tuning guide, there machine is file server exclusively, so no other apps steal RAM)

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Hot spare not kicking in on drive fault

2013-12-13 Thread Sebastian Gabler
Hi, today I had a faulted disk in one of my pools. For some reason, the hot spare did not kick in, meaning the status was "available". The last thing I did about that hot spare was a zpool clear poolname, upon which it became available again automatically. Now, strange enough that pool had

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Vibration issue - successful recovery

2013-11-05 Thread Sebastian Gabler
Hi, I just wanted to share experience I made with an issue that seems similar to what Clement BRIZARD reported recently. Monday morning I found our ZFS Backup server hanging with a message that a disk was gone. The machine was hanging in zpool status infinitely. Shutdown failed, too. So, ent

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana-discuss Digest, Vol 39, Issue 26

2013-10-23 Thread Sebastian Gabler
server Once the resilvering is done, should I do a scrub job ? Le 23/10/2013 10:16, Sebastian Gabler a ?crit : From 'zpool status' this looks very much like an issue I had myself 2.5 years ago with a pool containing WD20EARS and some other 2 TB disks. It started exactly when I moved the

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] [zfs] problem on my zpool

2013-10-23 Thread Sebastian Gabler
From 'zpool status' this looks very much like an issue I had myself 2.5 years ago with a pool containing WD20EARS and some other 2 TB disks. It started exactly when I moved them from the Intel ICH to an LSI SAS 1068 controller, and added more disks to the enclosure. I decided then to destroy th

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana-discuss Digest, Vol 38, Issue 31

2013-09-26 Thread Sebastian Gabler
Basically, there are two mechanisms supported: 1. anonymous access using the guestok=true parameter in zfs 2. mapping user ids using idmap. The former is simple, the latter not so much. You need to decide which path you want to follow. It could be that narrowing down the use case also helps th

[OpenIndiana-discuss] NFS4/sharemgr problem with root allow

2013-06-27 Thread Sebastian Gabler
Hi, I am trying to mount a ZFS fileset as oradata on a OL6.4 client. Using client defaults (=nfs4) I can't chown the mountpoint to oracle:oinstall. The error I am getting is "invalid argument". So far my research, this has to do with name resolution/idmap issues. I found some how-tos to debug

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] HBA failover

2013-06-18 Thread Sebastian Gabler
-ascii On Jun 17, 2013, at 1:36 PM, Sebastian Gabler wrote: >Dear Bill, Peter, Richard, and Saso. > >Thanks for the great comments. > >Now, changing to reverse gear, isn't it more likely to loose data by having a pool that spans across mutiple HBAs than if you connect all dr

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] HBA failover

2013-06-17 Thread Sebastian Gabler
Dear Bill, Peter, Richard, and Saso. Thanks for the great comments. Now, changing to reverse gear, isn't it more likely to loose data by having a pool that spans across mutiple HBAs than if you connect all drives to a single HBA? I mean, unless you make sure that there are never any more driv

[OpenIndiana-discuss] HBA failover

2013-06-17 Thread Sebastian Gabler
Hi, it occured to me that obviously some ZFS Storage systems only feature a single SAS HBA, including the ZFSSA 7320. At least, as far as I understand. From what I saw in the 7320 documentation, each of the two HBA ports is connected to each of the two ports of a shelf, which should protect fro

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] vdev reliability was: Recommendations for fast storage

2013-04-22 Thread Sebastian Gabler
: Recommendations for fast storage Message-ID:<0b43e9ea-10fd-41af-81ef-31644ff49...@richardelling.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Terminology warning below? On Apr 18, 2013, at 3:46 AM, Sebastian Gabler wrote: >Am 18.04.2013 03:09, schriebopenindiana-discuss-requ...@openin

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] vdev reliability was: Recommendations for fast storage

2013-04-19 Thread Sebastian Gabler
Am 19.04.2013 11:22, schrieb openindiana-discuss-requ...@openindiana.org: Message: 1 Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2013 16:03:32 -0500 From: Timothy Coalson To: Discussion list for OpenIndiana Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] vdev reliability was: Recommendations for fast storage Message-I

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] vdev reliability was: Recommendations for fast storage

2013-04-18 Thread Sebastian Gabler
Am 18.04.2013 16:28, schrieb openindiana-discuss-requ...@openindiana.org: Message: 1 Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2013 12:17:47 + From: "Edward Ned Harvey (openindiana)" To: Discussion list for OpenIndiana Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Recommendations for fast storage Message-ID:

[OpenIndiana-discuss] vdev reliability was: Recommendations for fast storage

2013-04-18 Thread Sebastian Gabler
Am 18.04.2013 03:09, schrieb openindiana-discuss-requ...@openindiana.org: Message: 1 Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2013 13:21:08 -0600 From: Jan Owoc To: Discussion list for OpenIndiana Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Recommendations for fast storage Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain;

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana-discuss Digest, Vol 33, Issue 27

2013-04-17 Thread Sebastian Gabler
Am 17.04.2013 11:16, schrieb "Edward Ned Harvey (openindiana)" It's a fact that NAND has a finite number of write cycles, and it gets slower to write, the more times it's been re-written. AFAIC, these are two facts, and the latter is much more relevant in production. Someone mentioned it ear

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] ZfS migration scenario including zvols

2013-04-15 Thread Sebastian Gabler
ent-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" >> From: Sebastian Gabler [mailto:sequoiamo...@gmx.net] >> Sent: Saturday, April 13, 2013 11:38 AM >> >> - zfs send mainbranch@1 -R > /pool2/mainbranch.dmp for each nfs, iscsi, >> smb >It is advisable, if possible, t

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Re2: ZfS migration scenario including zvols

2013-04-13 Thread Sebastian Gabler
Am 13.04.2013 17:37, schrieb Sebastian Gabler: Hi Jim and Edward, thanks for your comments. Taking them into account, I decided to apply the following method: - clean up, that is all the file sets that should remain on the other pool in the future have been migrated using zfs send | receive

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] ZfS migration scenario including zvols

2013-04-13 Thread Sebastian Gabler
Hi Jim and Edward, thanks for your comments. Taking them into account, I decided to apply the following method: - clean up, that is all the file sets that should remain on the other pool in the future have been migrated using zfs send | receive. That worked well. Mount points were moved (the

[OpenIndiana-discuss] ZfS migration scenario including zvols

2013-04-10 Thread Sebastian Gabler
I am planning to restructure one of the zpools on my file server, re-organizing the vdevs. The process will draw upon zfs send | zfs recv forth and back to another local zpool. The zpool in question contains (nested) file sets and zvols. Some of the file sets will remain on the other pool to max

[OpenIndiana-discuss] CIFS session collision

2013-04-10 Thread Sebastian Gabler
Hello, there is a reproducible issue I am seeing copying files over Solaris CIFS (OI 151a) to Windows clients. On the same client, I copy different large files from the same share simultaneously in 2 sessions Session 1 is established as \\myhostname\mysharename\file1 Session 2 is establish

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] DNS Alias issue for CIFS - network, , path not found on Win7

2013-03-08 Thread Sebastian Gabler
Hi Robbie, thanks for your elaborate thoughts. I am trying to follow, so another round of comments from my side inserted Am 07.03.2013 20:37, schrieb openindiana-discuss-requ...@openindiana.org: -- Message: 3 Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2013 11:36:04 -0500 From: Robbie Crash

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] DNS Alias issue for CIFS - network, path not found on Win7

2013-03-07 Thread Sebastian Gabler
Hi Robbie, I have inserted some comments: Am 06.03.2013 01:38, schrieb openindiana-discuss-requ...@openindiana.org: -- Message: 6 Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2013 11:55:40 -0500 From: Robbie Crash To: Discussion list for OpenIndiana Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss]

[OpenIndiana-discuss] DNS Alias issue for CIFS - network path not found on Win7

2013-03-05 Thread Sebastian Gabler
around the bug noted by Oracle in the CIFS server, and/or backport the fix to the current Illumos code base/ my OI installation to profit from the fix w/o migrating to a different distro. Best, Sebastian From: Sebastian Gabler [mailto:sequoiamobil at gmx.net] Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2013 6:03

[OpenIndiana-discuss] DNS Alias issue for CIFS - network path not found on Win7

2013-02-28 Thread Sebastian Gabler
Hi, we are suffering for quite some time now from the notorious 0x8007003 error on Windows 7 desktops in our network when accessing shares on our OI based file server over SMB. I am using the Solaris CIFS server. It's an on-and-off issue, and I always had the impression that it had something t

[OpenIndiana-discuss] using fwflash for SATA SSDs

2013-02-12 Thread Sebastian Gabler
Hi, I am considering to update firmware on two SSDs in my file server. The models are Intel X25-M and OCZ Vertex 2. Obviously, the manufacturers are providing proprietary tools on DOS or Windows to flash the drives. I am looking for what would be the least intrusive method, and for the Intel

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] vcenter server sharenfs issue

2013-01-24 Thread Sebastian Gabler
>On 01/24/2013 03:57 PM, Sebastian Gabler wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I am using a share via nfs as esxi datastore for more than a year. 3 >> hosts have root access. I have added a vcenter server appliance to >> manage the esxi hosts, and added the vcenter server'

[OpenIndiana-discuss] vcenter server sharenfs issue

2013-01-24 Thread Sebastian Gabler
Hello, I am using a share via nfs as esxi datastore for more than a year. 3 hosts have root access. I have added a vcenter server appliance to manage the esxi hosts, and added the vcenter server's IP address to the allowed hosts using "zfs set sharenfs=root=host1:host2:host3:vcsa dataset/shar

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] slicing a disk for ZIL

2012-11-29 Thread Sebastian Gabler
Am 29.11.2012 16:48, schrieb openindiana-discuss-requ...@openindiana.org: Beware, the intel 313 ssd seems to have no power loss protection: http://ark.intel.com/products/66290/Intel-SSD-313-Series-24GB-mSATA-3Gbs-25nm-SLC zil is relying on this feature. (from Michael) and Anyhow, if at all p

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] slicing a disk for ZIL

2012-11-29 Thread Sebastian Gabler
isk for ZIL Message-ID: <50b75948.5060...@cos.ru> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed On 2012-11-29 12:43, Sebastian Gabler wrote: >I have bought and installed an Intel SSD 313 20 GB to use as ZIL for one >or many pools. I am running openindiana on a x86 platfor

[OpenIndiana-discuss] slicing a disk for ZIL

2012-11-29 Thread Sebastian Gabler
Hi, I have bought and installed an Intel SSD 313 20 GB to use as ZIL for one or many pools. I am running openindiana on a x86 platform, no SPARC. As 4 GB should suffice, I am considering to partition the drive in order to assign each partition to one pool (ATM pools are 2 on the Server, but I

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] ZFS remote receive

2012-10-31 Thread Sebastian Gabler
Message: 7 Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2012 22:03:13 +0400 From: Jim Klimov To: Discussion list for OpenIndiana Subject: Message-ID:<50901661.9050...@cos.ru> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed 2012-10-30 19:21, Sebastian Gabler wrote: >Whereas that&#

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] ZFS remote receive

2012-10-30 Thread Sebastian Gabler
Am 23.10.2012 13:52, schrieb Sebastian Gabler: Hi, I am facing a problem with zfs receive through ssh. As usually, root can't log on ssh; the log on users can't receive a zfs stream (rights problem), and pfexec is disabled on the target host (as I understand it is nowadays d

[OpenIndiana-discuss] ZFS remote receive

2012-10-23 Thread Sebastian Gabler
Hi, I am facing a problem with zfs receive through ssh. As usually, root can't log on ssh; the log on users can't receive a zfs stream (rights problem), and pfexec is disabled on the target host (as I understand it is nowadays default for OI151_a...) What are the suggestions to solve this? I

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Raid type selection for large # of ssds

2012-10-09 Thread Sebastian Gabler
I should have pointed out better that my intention is to use a ZIL SSD in context with "spinning rust", not with MLC SSDs behind them. In general, SLCs are more suitable as a ZIL because they can sustain write rates more continuously, for a wider variety of workloads, and sustain to writes more

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Raid type selection for large # of ssds

2012-10-08 Thread Sebastian Gabler
Hi, from what I understood from negative experience with a 12-drive SSD RAID set build with MDRaid on linux, and from answers to a related question I raised recently in this list, it is not so easy to engineer a configuration using a large count of SSDs anyhow. The budget option, using SATA SS

[OpenIndiana-discuss] sharesmb=off refresh problem

2012-09-25 Thread Sebastian Gabler
Hi, I detected lately that if I set a zfs filesystem to sharesmb=off, the share will only be disabled on a subsequent re-start of the CIFS server. In the meantime they remain accessible, but it is removed from the sharemgr list. Has anybody else come across that already? BR Sebastian _

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Solaris cp problems

2012-09-24 Thread Sebastian Gabler
Hi, I am facing problems with the solaris cp command: $ usr/bin/cp -pr . is raising the following errors: "cp: cannot create ./ too many open files" "cp: cannot open too many open files" "cp: Failed to preserve extended system attributes of directory" Any idea how to fix that on 5.11 oi_151a

[OpenIndiana-discuss] SSDs for ZFS Pool?

2012-08-20 Thread Sebastian Gabler
Hi, I was asked to set up a pool for storing oracle datafiles. The databases are for test purpose, so that there is no ultra-high resiliency required. There is however the requirement to have really good read I/Os, and there is a comparably low budget available. I thought of using NFS4, or A