Re: [zfs-discuss] Still more questions WRT selecting a mobo for small ZFS RAID

2008-11-16 Thread dick hoogendijk
On Sat, 15 Nov 2008 13:38:53 -0600 Al Hopper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So I guess I've been lucky also - but IMHO the failure rate for RAM these days is pretty small[1]. I've also been around hundreds of SPARC boxes and, again, very, few RAM failures (one is all that I can remember). Risk

Re: [zfs-discuss] Best SXCE version for ZFS Home Server

2008-11-16 Thread Vincent Boisard
Hi, If Zone Cloning via ZFS snapshots is the only feature you miss in S10u6, then you should reconsider. Writing a script to implement this yourself will require only a little experimentation. It is the only feature I miss now, because it is the only one I know of, because I don't know

Re: [zfs-discuss] Best SXCE version for ZFS Home Server

2008-11-16 Thread Vincent Boisard
I just found this: http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/whats_new.jsp I lists Solaris 10 features and is a first hint at what features are in. Another question: My MoBo has a JMB (363 I think) SATA controller. I know support is included now in sxce, but I don't know for s10U6. Is there a

Re: [zfs-discuss] Mirror and RaidZ on only 3 disks

2008-11-16 Thread Ross
I don't know much about working with slices in Solaris I'm afraid, but to me that sounds like a pretty good setup for a home server, and I can't see why the layout would cause you any problems. In theory you'll be able to swap controllers without any problems too. That's one of the real

Re: [zfs-discuss] Best SXCE version for ZFS Home Server

2008-11-16 Thread Vincent Boisard
Silly me, I didn't scroll down far enough to see the bug description on the patch readme page. Vincent On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 12:24 PM, Vincent Boisard [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: Hi, Have a look at the bugids in the patches for S10U6, like the kernel patch 137137-09. There are lists of all

Re: [zfs-discuss] Mirror and RaidZ on only 3 disks

2008-11-16 Thread dick hoogendijk
On Sun, 16 Nov 2008 03:13:59 PST Ross [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't know much about working with slices in Solaris I'm afraid, but to me that sounds like a pretty good setup for a home server, and I can't see why the layout would cause you any problems. In theory you'll be able to swap

Re: [zfs-discuss] Best SXCE version for ZFS Home Server

2008-11-16 Thread Henrik Johansson
On Nov 16, 2008, at 11:23 AM, Vincent Boisard wrote: I just found this: http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/whats_new.jsp I lists Solaris 10 features and is a first hint at what features are in. Another question: My MoBo has a JMB (363 I think) SATA controller. I know support is

Re: [zfs-discuss] [ldoms-discuss] Solaris 10 patch 137137-09 broke LDOM

2008-11-16 Thread Casper . Dik
I've tried using S10 U6 to reinstall the boot file (instead of U5) over jumpstart as its a ldom, n oticed a another error. Boot device: /[EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL PROTECTED] File and args: -s Requesting Internet Address for 0:14:4f:f9:84:f3 boot: cannot open

Re: [zfs-discuss] Best SXCE version for ZFS Home Server

2008-11-16 Thread Vincent Boisard
Hi, Have a look at the bugids in the patches for S10U6, like the kernel patch 137137-09. There are lists of all the new patches in the documentation for the release at docs.sun.com. Thank you for the hint, but I can only see the patches and not the bugid description as I don't have any

Re: [zfs-discuss] Mirror and RaidZ on only 3 disks

2008-11-16 Thread Ross
Well yes, but he doesn't sound too worried about performance, and I'm not aware of any other issues with splitting drives? And if you did want performance later, it would probably be possible to add a flash drive for cache once the prices drop. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org

Re: [zfs-discuss] Mirror and RaidZ on only 3 disks

2008-11-16 Thread Martin Blom
Miles Nordin wrote: mb 5) Given that this is all cheap PC hardware ... can I move a mb disk from a broken controller to another zpool export, zpool import. I was testing with the rpool, but zpool import -f when booting for the CD did the trick. Thanks for the hint. If the pool is

Re: [zfs-discuss] Mirror and RaidZ on only 3 disks

2008-11-16 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Sun, 16 Nov 2008, Ross wrote: Well yes, but he doesn't sound too worried about performance, and I'm not aware of any other issues with splitting drives? Besides some possible loss of performance, splitting drives tends to blow natural redundancy models where you want as little coupling as

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs boot - U6 kernel patch breaks sparc boot

2008-11-16 Thread Ed Clark
Hi, 1. a copy of the 137137-09 patchadd log if you have one available cp it to http://iws.cs.uni-magdeburg.de/~elkner/137137-09/ Can't spot anything unusual. thanks for info - what you provided here is the patch pkg installation log, what i was actually after was patchadd log

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS hangs on laptop

2008-11-16 Thread Galen
I am NOT on a notebook and I am having this problem. It the hang/pause is less intense when I don't use compression with ZFS. This issue happens on my large zpool as well as my boot zfs volume (single disk) Here's my scanpci output: pci bus 0x cardnum 0x00 function 0x00: vendor 0x10de

[zfs-discuss] Status of the ADM

2008-11-16 Thread Mertol Özyöney
Hi All ; Is there any update on the status of ADM? Best regards Mertol http://www.sun.com/ http://www.sun.com/emrkt/sigs/6g_top.gif Mertol Ozyoney Storage Practice - Sales Manager Sun Microsystems, TR Istanbul TR Phone +902123352200 Mobile +905339310752 Fax +90212335

Re: [zfs-discuss] continuous replication

2008-11-16 Thread Mertol Özyöney
Hi All; Accessing the same data(Raid Group) from different controllers does slow down the system considerebly. All modern controllers will demand the administrator to choose the primary controler for Raid Groups. Two controller accesing the same data will require drive interface switching

Re: [zfs-discuss] Still more questions WRT selecting a mobo for small ZFS RAID

2008-11-16 Thread Richard Elling
Ian Collins wrote: Al Hopper wrote: On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 9:26 AM, Richard Elling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: dick hoogendijk wrote: On Sat, 15 Nov 2008 18:49:17 +1300 Ian Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: [zfs-discuss] Still more questions WRT selecting a mobo for small ZFS RAID

2008-11-16 Thread Richard Elling
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: RTL8211C IP checksum offload is broken. You can disable it, but you have to edit /etc/system. See CR 6686415 for details. http://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6686415 -- richard I think the proper way to state this is the driver doesn't

Re: [zfs-discuss] Still more questions WRT selecting a mobo for

2008-11-16 Thread gnomad
Al Hopper writes: I'm going to be somewhat rude and bypass your list of detailed questions - but give you my thoughts on a motherboard recommendation (and other hardware). No worries, you've pretty much confirmed things I already knew. ;-) a) related to the 1Tb disks, I'd highly

Re: [zfs-discuss] Mirror and RaidZ on only 3 disks

2008-11-16 Thread Miles Nordin
mb == Martin Blom [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: mb if I'm risking it more than usual when the procedure is done? yeah, that is my opinion: when the procedure is done, using ZFS without a backup is risking the data more than using UFS or ext3 without a backup. Is that a clear statement? I can

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS + OpenSolaris for home NAS?

2008-11-16 Thread Bill Werner
If you want a small system that is pre-built, look at every possible permutation/combination of the Dell Vostro 200 box. I agree, the Vostro 200 systems are an excellent deal. Update to the latest BIOS and they will recognize 8GB of RAM. The ONE problem with them, is that Dell does not

Re: [zfs-discuss] Fwd: [osol-announce] IMPT: Do not use SXCE Build 102

2008-11-16 Thread Johan Hartzenberg
On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 11:44 PM, Jeff Bonwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: These are the conditions: (1) The bug is specific to the root pool. Other pools are unaffected. (2) It is triggered by doing a 'zpool online' while I/O is in flight. (3) Item (2) can be triggered by syseventd. (4) The

Re: [zfs-discuss] [ldoms-discuss] Solaris 10 patch 137137-09 broke LDOM

2008-11-16 Thread James Black
When installing the 137137-09 patch it run out of / space, just like http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=82413tstart=0 However tried the 6 steps to recover that didn't work. I just rebuild the ldom and attached the LDOM image files from the old system and did a zpool import to