Re: [zfs-discuss] Performance with Sun StorageTek 2540

2008-02-18 Thread Joel Miller
It is the same for the 2530, and I am fairly certain it is also valid for the 6130,6140, & 6540. -Joel On Feb 18, 2008, at 3:51 PM, Robert Milkowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello Joel, > > Saturday, February 16, 2008, 4:09:11 PM, you wrote: > > JM> Bob, > > JM> Here is how you can tell th

Re: [zfs-discuss] Kernel panic on arc_buf_remove_ref() assertion

2008-02-18 Thread Prabahar Jeyaram
Any IDRXX (Released immediately) is the interim relief (Will also contains the fix) provided to the customers till the official patch (Usually takes longer to be released) is available. Patch is supposed to be consider as the permanent solution. -- Prabahar. Stuart Anderson wrote: > Thanks

Re: [zfs-discuss] Kernel panic on arc_buf_remove_ref() assertion

2008-02-18 Thread Stuart Anderson
Thanks for the information. How does the temporary patch 127729-07 relate to the IDR127787 (x86) which I believe also claims to fix this panic? Thanks. On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 08:32:03PM -0800, Prabahar Jeyaram wrote: > The patches (127728-06 : sparc, 127729-07 : x86) which has the fix for > t

[zfs-discuss] zpool shared between OSX and Solaris on a MacBook Pro

2008-02-18 Thread Peter Karlsson
Hi, I got my MacBook pro set up to dual boot between Solaris and OSX and I have created a zpool to use as a shred storage for documents etc.. However got this strange thing when trying to access the zpool from Solaris, only root can see it?? I created the zpool on OSX as they are using an

Re: [zfs-discuss] Kernel panic on arc_buf_remove_ref() assertion

2008-02-18 Thread Prabahar Jeyaram
The patches (127728-06 : sparc, 127729-07 : x86) which has the fix for this panic is in temporary state and will be released via SunSolve soon. Please contact your support channel to get these patches. -- Prabahar. Stuart Anderson wrote: > On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 06:28:31PM -0800, Stuart Anders

Re: [zfs-discuss] Kernel panic on arc_buf_remove_ref() assertion

2008-02-18 Thread Stuart Anderson
On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 06:28:31PM -0800, Stuart Anderson wrote: > Is this kernel panic a known ZFS bug, or should I open a new ticket? > > Feb 18 17:55:18 thumper1 genunix: [ID 403854 kern.notice] assertion failed: > arc_buf_remove_ref(db->db_buf, db) == 0, file: ../../common/fs/zfs/dbuf.c, > l

[zfs-discuss] Kernel panic on arc_buf_remove_ref() assertion

2008-02-18 Thread Stuart Anderson
Is this kernel panic a known ZFS bug, or should I open a new ticket? Note, this happened on an X4500 running S10U4 (127112-06) with NCQ disabled. Thanks. Feb 18 17:55:18 thumper1 ^Mpanic[cpu1]/thread=fe8000809c80: Feb 18 17:55:18 thumper1 genunix: [ID 403854 kern.notice] assertion failed:

Re: [zfs-discuss] Performance with Sun StorageTek 2540

2008-02-18 Thread Robert Milkowski
Hello Joel, Saturday, February 16, 2008, 4:09:11 PM, you wrote: JM> Bob, JM> Here is how you can tell the array to ignore cache sync commands JM> and the force unit access bits...(Sorry if it wraps..) JM> On a Solaris CAM install, the 'service' command is in "/opt/SUNWsefms/bin" JM> To read th

Re: [zfs-discuss] vxfs vs ufs vs zfs

2008-02-18 Thread Todd Stansell
> The free basic edition sounds cool, though - downloading now. > I could use a bit of practice with VxVM/VxFS; it's always struck > me as very good when it was good (online reorgs of storage and > such), and an utter terror to untangle when it got messed up, > not to mention rather more complicate

Re: [zfs-discuss] 'du' is not accurate on zfs

2008-02-18 Thread Richard L. Hamilton
> On Sat, 16 Feb 2008, Richard Elling wrote: > > > "ls -l" shows the length. "ls -s" shows the size, > which may be > > different than the length. You probably want size > rather than du. > > That is true. Unfortunately 'ls -s' displays in > units of disk blocks > and does not also consider t

Re: [zfs-discuss] vxfs vs ufs vs zfs

2008-02-18 Thread Richard L. Hamilton
> Hello, > > I have just done comparison of all the above > filesystems > using the latest filebench. If you are interested: > http://przemol.blogspot.com/2008/02/zfs-vs-vxfs-vs-ufs > -on-x4500-thumper.html > > Regards > przemol I would think there'd be a lot more variation based on workload, s

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS error handling - suggestion

2008-02-18 Thread Eric Schrock
On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 11:15:34AM -0800, Eric Schrock wrote: > > The 'failmode' property only applies when writes fail, or > read-during-write dependies, such as the spacemaps. It does not affect ^ That should read 'dependencies', obviously ;-) - Eric -- Eric Schro

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS error handling - suggestion

2008-02-18 Thread Eric Schrock
On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 11:52:48AM -0700, Joe Peterson wrote: > > Is "wait" the default behavior now? When I had CKSUM errors, reading > the file would return EIO and stop reading at that point (returning only > the good data so far). Do you mean it blocks access on the errored > file, or on the

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS error handling - suggestion

2008-02-18 Thread Joe Peterson
Richard Elling wrote: > Adrian Saul wrote: >> Howdy, I have at several times had issues with consumer grade PC >> hardware and ZFS not getting along. The problem is not the disks >> but the fact I dont have ECC and end to end checking on the >> datapath. What is happening is that random memory er

Re: [zfs-discuss] Performance with Sun StorageTek 2540

2008-02-18 Thread Roch - PAE
Bob Friesenhahn writes: > On Fri, 15 Feb 2008, Roch Bourbonnais wrote: > >>> What was the interlace on the LUN ? > > > > The question was about LUN interlace not interface. > > 128K to 1M works better. > > The "segment size" is set to 128K. The max the 2540 allows is 512K. > Unfortuna

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS error handling - suggestion

2008-02-18 Thread Richard Elling
comment below... Adrian Saul wrote: > Howdy, > I have at several times had issues with consumer grade PC hardware and ZFS > not getting along. The problem is not the disks but the fact I dont have ECC > and end to end checking on the datapath. What is happening is that random > memory errors

Re: [zfs-discuss] Performance with Sun StorageTek 2540

2008-02-18 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Mon, 18 Feb 2008, Ralf Ramge wrote: > I'm a bit disturbed because I think about switching to 2530/2540 > shelves, but a maximum 250 MB/sec would disqualify them instantly, even Note that this is single-file/single-thread I/O performance. I suggest that you read the formal benchmark report for

Re: [zfs-discuss] Performance with Sun StorageTek 2540

2008-02-18 Thread Ralf Ramge
Mertol Ozyoney wrote: > > 2540 controler can achieve maximum 250 MB/sec on writes on the first > 12 drives. So you are pretty close to maximum throughput already. > > Raid 5 can be a little bit slower. > I'm a bit irritated now. I have ZFS running for some Sybase ASE 12.5 databases using X4600 s

[zfs-discuss] ZFS error handling - suggestion

2008-02-18 Thread Adrian Saul
Howdy, I have at several times had issues with consumer grade PC hardware and ZFS not getting along. The problem is not the disks but the fact I dont have ECC and end to end checking on the datapath. What is happening is that random memory errors and bit flips are written out to disk and when