Re: [osol-discuss] disconnecting hdd from zfs mirror hangs whole system

2009-04-06 Thread roland
thanks - i can "see" it now and finding it by the search phrase, where i got no hit before. seems i was a little bit too impatient. i should better read what`s on screen. sorry for have taken your time ! -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___

Re: [osol-discuss] disconnecting hdd from zfs mirror hangs whole system

2009-04-06 Thread James Carlson
[corrected top-post] Alexander Vlasov writes: > roland wrote: > > i added a bugreport to bugster for this yesterday. unfortunately, i dumped > > the response mail with the bug-id and now i cannot find my own bugreport > > anymore. > > (did somebody delete that?) > > > > as this thread is linke

Re: [osol-discuss] disconnecting hdd from zfs mirror hangs whole system

2009-04-06 Thread Alexander Vlasov
Knowing your SunID it would take 5 minutes. Bugster supports reported email as search criterion. roland wrote: i added a bugreport to bugster for this yesterday. unfortunately, i dumped the response mail with the bug-id and now i cannot find my own bugreport anymore. (did somebody delete that?

Re: [osol-discuss] disconnecting hdd from zfs mirror hangs whole system

2009-04-04 Thread roland
i added a bugreport to bugster for this yesterday. unfortunately, i dumped the response mail with the bug-id and now i cannot find my own bugreport anymore. (did somebody delete that?) as this thread is linked from the bugster bugreport, whoever is reading this thread please post the bug id her

Re: [osol-discuss] disconnecting hdd from zfs mirror hangs whole system

2009-04-02 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
> >Unless you have a chassis that's made for hot plugging, and have a > sliding > >caddy with physical latch on the front, and a red blinking light to > identify > >which is the failed disk, and unless you bought a name brand product > like > >Sun or Dell or HP ... I think you can count on *not* su

Re: [osol-discuss] disconnecting hdd from zfs mirror hangs whole system

2009-04-02 Thread roland
>Unless you have a chassis that's made for hot plugging, and have a sliding >caddy with physical latch on the front, and a red blinking light to identify >which is the failed disk, and unless you bought a name brand product like >Sun or Dell or HP ... I think you can count on *not* supporting hot p

Re: [osol-discuss] disconnecting hdd from zfs mirror hangs whole system

2009-03-31 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
> thanks for the hint - i thought sata would be always hot-pluggable. > i checked the specs for 3114 and they tell it supports hot-plug: > http://www.siliconimage.com/products/product.aspx?pid=28 Regardless of what the manual says - because I've seen so many times that the manual says some hardwar

Re: [osol-discuss] disconnecting hdd from zfs mirror hangs whole system

2009-03-30 Thread Harry Putnam
Hans van der Made writes: > Harry Putnam wrote: >>> Like you, I'm thinking if I'm going to have that much trouble when >>> pulling a disk, its looking like a large blemish on the usability of >>> zfs for my NAS server. > > I've just checked the archives and it seems like you've had quite a ride >

Re: [osol-discuss] disconnecting hdd from zfs mirror hangs whole system

2009-03-30 Thread Harry Putnam
Hans van der Made writes: [...] > I don't know which components you've used, and if these parts work > fine in other people's systems, but your description does not breed > confidence in this particular card. Of course, there's also BIOS > settings, firmware, bus mastering problems, ... Can you

Re: [osol-discuss] disconnecting hdd from zfs mirror hangs whole system

2009-03-30 Thread Hans van der Made
Harry Putnam wrote: Like you, I'm thinking if I'm going to have that much trouble when pulling a disk, its looking like a large blemish on the usability of zfs for my NAS server. I've just checked the archives and it seems like you've had quite a ride already, sorry to hear that! Let's hope for

Re: [osol-discuss] disconnecting hdd from zfs mirror hangs whole system

2009-03-30 Thread Hans van der Made
Like you, I'm thinking if I'm going to have that much trouble when pulling a disk, its looking like a large blemish on the usability of zfs for my NAS server. At the moment, the OpenSolaris ZFS experience seems to be rather hardware dependent. With Sun hardware, I haven't had any problems, but

Re: [osol-discuss] disconnecting hdd from zfs mirror hangs whole system

2009-03-30 Thread Harry Putnam
roland writes: >>Original Poster: can you please take a look at cfgadm? Seems like >>sil believes disk is still there or gone mad, maybe it cam be solved >>by switching it off or marking unconfigured. > > i can take a look at the end of the week and will report. anyway - > how can this be solved

Re: [osol-discuss] disconnecting hdd from zfs mirror hangs whole system

2009-03-30 Thread roland
>Original Poster: can you please take a look at cfgadm? Seems like sil >believes disk is still there or gone mad, maybe it cam be solved by >switching it off or marking unconfigured. i can take a look at the end of the week and will report. anyway - how can this be solved by switching it of or mar

Re: [osol-discuss] disconnecting hdd from zfs mirror hangs whole system

2009-03-30 Thread Alexander Vlasov
sil3114 is, politely speaking, not the best piece of hardware I've ever seen, however it supports hotplug. Original Poster: can you please take a look at cfgadm? Seems like sil believes disk is still there or gone mad, maybe it cam be solved by switching it off or marking unconfigured. Hans v

Re: [osol-discuss] disconnecting hdd from zfs mirror hangs whole system

2009-03-28 Thread devzero
> -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- > Von: "Hans van der Made" > Gesendet: 28.03.09 00:15:53 > An: opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org > Betreff: Re: [osol-discuss] disconnecting hdd from zfs mirror hangs whole > system > roland wrote: > > i`m using a sil3114

Re: [osol-discuss] disconnecting hdd from zfs mirror hangs whole system

2009-03-28 Thread roland
thanks for the hint - i thought sata would be always hot-pluggable. i checked the specs for 3114 and they tell it supports hot-plug: http://www.siliconimage.com/products/product.aspx?pid=28 i think i will try how a raid mirror behaves with linux, just to see if there is a difference. roland --

Re: [osol-discuss] disconnecting hdd from zfs mirror hangs whole system

2009-03-27 Thread Hans van der Made
roland wrote: i`m using a sil3114 sata controller with a zfs configured as mirror. if i disconnect one of the drives, the whole system stalls until i reconnect the drive. i cannot even login via network anymore. Not all hardware is suitable for "hot" removal of devices, whether the OS supports

[osol-discuss] disconnecting hdd from zfs mirror hangs whole system

2009-03-27 Thread roland
hello, i`m using a sil3114 sata controller with a zfs configured as mirror. if i disconnect one of the drives, the whole system stalls until i reconnect the drive. i cannot even login via network anymore. this lasts at least for some minutes (don`t know if it cures itself after a while), but