Re: [zfs-discuss] Another user looses his pool (10TB) in this case and 40

2009-08-01 Thread Scott Lawson
Dave Stubbs wrote: I don't mean to be offensive Russel, but if you do ever return to ZFS, please promise me that you will never, ever, EVER run it virtualized on top of NTFS (a.k.a. worst file system ever) in a production environment. Microsoft Windows is a horribly unreliable operating system

Re: [zfs-discuss] I Still Have My Data

2009-08-01 Thread Ross
Same here, I've got a test server at work running 15x 500GB SATA disks on a pair of AOC-SAT2-MV8 cards, it suffered some 20 minutes of slow response when a disk started to fail, but although that caused a few problems with the clients, the data is still there. However, my home system has been

Re: [zfs-discuss] I Still Have My Data

2009-08-01 Thread Thomas Burgess
I've been running ZFS on FreeBSD and i've had no problems. ZFS is still considered experimental in FreeBSD but it's working wonderfully. I have 3 raidz1 vdevs with 4 1tb drives each and i've had several power outages and i've yanked out disks just to see what would happenit's been fine. I

Re: [zfs-discuss] Another user looses his pool (10TB) in this case and 40

2009-08-01 Thread Brian
On Fri, 31 Jul 2009, Brian wrote: I must say this thread has also damaged the view I have of ZFS. Ive been considering just getting a Raid 5 controller and going the linux route I had planned on. Thankfully, the zfs users who have never lost a pool do not spend much time posting

Re: [zfs-discuss] The importance of ECC RAM for ZFS

2009-08-01 Thread Victor Latushkin
On 25.07.09 00:30, Rob Logan wrote: The post I read said OpenSolaris guest crashed, and the guy clicked the ``power off guest'' button on the virtual machine. I seem to recall guest hung. 99% of solaris hangs (without a crash dump) are hardware in nature. (my experience backed by an uptime

Re: [zfs-discuss] Install and boot from USB stick?

2009-08-01 Thread tore
Nah, that didnt seem to do the trick. Also tried this http://blogs.sun.com/thaniwa/entry/en_opensolaris_installation_into_usb But that either didnt seem to work. After unmounting and rebooting, i get the same error msg from my previous post. Dont know if there is much more to do...

Re: [zfs-discuss] crossmnt ?

2009-08-01 Thread Cyril Plisko
On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 12:46 AM, rolandno-re...@opensolaris.org wrote: Hello ! How can i export a filesystem /export1 so that sub-filesystems within that filesystems will be available and usable on the client side without additional mount/share effort ? this is possible with linux nfsd

Re: [zfs-discuss] Install and boot from USB stick?

2009-08-01 Thread Jürgen Keil
Nah, that didnt seem to do the trick. After unmounting and rebooting, i get the same error msg from my previous post. Did you get these scsi error messages during installation to the usb stick, too? Another thing that confuses me: the unit attention / medium may have changed message is

Re: [zfs-discuss] Lundman home NAS

2009-08-01 Thread Jorgen Lundman
Some preliminary speed tests, not too bad for a pci32 card. http://lundman.net/wiki/index.php/Lraid5_iozone Jorgen Lundman wrote: Finding a SATA card that would work with Solaris, and be hot-swap, and more than 4 ports, sure took a while. Oh and be reasonably priced ;) Double the price of

[zfs-discuss] zfs: how is size of Volume computed?

2009-08-01 Thread Andrew . Rutz
hi, i'm using a zvol someone else created (and then used as an iSCSI Target, via: iscsitadm ... -b /dev/zvol ...). I see that AVAIL has a size of 33GB, yet the VOLSIZE is 24GB ; # zfs list -t volume -o name,avail,used,volsize iscsi-pool/log_1_1 NAMEAVAIL USED VOLSIZE

[zfs-discuss] zpool causing boot to hang

2009-08-01 Thread Mark Johnson
I was wondering if this is a known problem.. I am running stock b118 bits. System has a UFS root and a single zpool (with multiple nfs, smb, and iscsi exports) Powered off my machine last night.. Powered it on this morning and it hung during boot. It hung when reading the zpool disks.. It

Re: [zfs-discuss] Lundman home NAS

2009-08-01 Thread Louis-Frédéric Feuillette
On Sat, 2009-08-01 at 22:31 +0900, Jorgen Lundman wrote: Some preliminary speed tests, not too bad for a pci32 card. http://lundman.net/wiki/index.php/Lraid5_iozone I don't know anything about iozone, so the following may be NULL void. I find the results suspect. 1.2GB/s read, and 500MB/s

Re: [zfs-discuss] Lundman home NAS

2009-08-01 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Sat, 1 Aug 2009, Louis-Frédéric Feuillette wrote: I find the results suspect. 1.2GB/s read, and 500MB/s write ! These are impressive numbers indeed. I then looked at the file sizes that iozone used... How much memory do you have? I seems like the files would be able to comfortably fit in

Re: [zfs-discuss] zpool causing boot to hang

2009-08-01 Thread dick hoogendijk
On Fri, 31 Jul 2009 15:43:11 -0400 Mark Johnson mark.john...@sun.com wrote: One thing that could be related is that I was running a scrub when I had powered off the system. The scrub started up again after I had imported the pool. Anyone know if this is a known problem? I knwo people

Re: [zfs-discuss] [n/zfs-discuss] Strange speeds with x4500, Solaris 10 10/08

2009-08-01 Thread Joerg Moellenkamp
Hi Jorgen, warning ... weird idea inside ... Ah it just occurred to me that perhaps for our specific problem, we will buy two X25-Es and replace the root mirror. The OS and ZIL logs can live together and put /var in the data pool. That way we would not need to rebuild the data-pool and all

Re: [zfs-discuss] article on btrfs, comparison with zfs

2009-08-01 Thread Henk Langeveld
Mario Goebbels wrote: An introduction to btrfs, from somebody who used to work on ZFS: http://www.osnews.com/story/21920/A_Short_History_of_btrfs *very* interesting article.. Not sure why James didn't directly link to it, but courteous of Valerie Aurora (formerly Henson)

Re: [zfs-discuss] Install and boot from USB stick?

2009-08-01 Thread Jürgen Keil
Are there any message with Error level: fatal ? Not that I know of, however, i can check. But im unable to find out what to change in grub to get verbose output rather than just the splashimage. Edit the grub commands, delete all splashimage, foreground and background lines, and delete

Re: [zfs-discuss] Lundman home NAS

2009-08-01 Thread Jorgen Lundman
Ok I have redone the initial tests as 4G instead. Graphs are on the same place. http://lundman.net/wiki/index.php/Lraid5_iozone I also mounted it with nfsv3 and mounted it for more iozone. Alas, I started with 100mbit, so it has taken quite a while. It is constantly at 11MB/s though. ;)