Re: [zfs-discuss] strange pool disks usage pattern

2009-10-05 Thread Maurilio Longo
Richard, thanks for the explanation. So can we say that the problem is in the disks loosing a command now and then under stress? Best regards. Maurilio. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list

Re: [zfs-discuss] Best way to convert checksums

2009-10-05 Thread Brandon Mercer
On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 10:27 AM, David Dyer-Bennet d...@dd-b.net wrote: On Sat, October 3, 2009 17:18, Ray Clark wrote: Thank you all for your help, not to snub anyone, but Darren, Richard, and Cindy especially come to mind.  Thanks for sparring with me until we understood each other. I'd

Re: [zfs-discuss] Best way to convert checksums

2009-10-05 Thread Al Hopper
Question (for Richard E): Is there a write-up on the ZFS broken fletcher fix? Is the default checksum for new pool creation changed in U8? Is the default checksum for new pool creation change in OpenSolaris or SXCE (which versions)? Is there a case open to allow the user to select the checksum

[zfs-discuss] group and user quotas - a temporary hack?

2009-10-05 Thread Alastair Neil
I am one of the much blessed university users who wishes to provide home directories and web space to thousands of users and is being bitten by abysmal scaling behaviour of zfs, the overhead of creating thousands of zfs files sytems in a pool can takes days to complete. Sharing or unsharing them

Re: [zfs-discuss] strange pool disks usage pattern

2009-10-05 Thread Richard Elling
On Oct 4, 2009, at 11:52 PM, Maurilio Longo wrote: Richard, thanks for the explanation. So can we say that the problem is in the disks loosing a command now and then under stress? It may be the disks or the HBA. I'll bet a steak dinner it is the HBA. -- richard

Re: [zfs-discuss] strange pool disks usage pattern

2009-10-05 Thread Maurilio Longo
Richard, it is the same controller used inside Sun's thumpers; It could be a problem in my unit (which is a couple of years old now), though. Is there something I can do to find out if I owe you that steak? :) Thanks. Maurilio. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org

Re: [zfs-discuss] raidz failure, trying to recover

2009-10-05 Thread Victor Latushkin
Victor Latushkin wrote: Liam Slusser wrote: Long story short, my cat jumped on my server at my house crashing two drives at the same time. It was a 7 drive raidz (next time ill do raidz2). Long story short - we've been able to get access to data in the pool. This involved finding better

Re: [zfs-discuss] Best way to convert checksums

2009-10-05 Thread Miles Nordin
re == Richard Elling richard.ell...@gmail.com writes: re As I said before, if the checksum matches, then the data is re checked for sequence number = previous + 1, the blk_birth == re 0, and the size is correct. Since this data lives inside the re block, it is unlikely that a

Re: [zfs-discuss] Best way to convert checksums

2009-10-05 Thread Victor Latushkin
On 05.10.09 23:07, Miles Nordin wrote: re == Richard Elling richard.ell...@gmail.com writes: re As I said before, if the checksum matches, then the data is re checked for sequence number = previous + 1, the blk_birth == re 0, and the size is correct. Since this data lives inside

Re: [zfs-discuss] .zfs snapshots on subdirectories?

2009-10-05 Thread Brandon High
On Sun, Oct 4, 2009 at 3:23 PM, Trevor Pretty trevor_pre...@eagle.co.nz wrote: I think you've taken volume snapshots. I believe you need to make file system snapshots and each users/username a zfs file system. Lets play.. Automatic .snapshot directories are a feature of NetApp filers and

Re: [zfs-discuss] Best way to convert checksums

2009-10-05 Thread Miles Nordin
vl == Victor Latushkin victor.latush...@sun.com writes: vl It changes setting of checksum=on to mean fletcher4 oh, good. so it is only the ZIL that's unfixed? At least that fix could come from a simple upgrade, if it ever gets fixed. pgp0027QlEfr3.pgp Description: PGP signature

[zfs-discuss] Destroying zfs snapshot

2009-10-05 Thread Mark Horstman
I have a snapshot that I'd like to destroy: # zfs list rpool/ROOT/be200909160...@200909160720 NAME USED AVAIL REFER MOUNTPOINT rpool/ROOT/be200909160...@200909160720 1.88G - 4.18G - But when I try it warns me of dependent clones: # zfs destroy

Re: [zfs-discuss] Destroying zfs snapshot

2009-10-05 Thread Mark Horstman
Sorry. My environment: # uname -a SunOS xx 5.10 Generic_141414-10 sun4v sparc SUNW,SPARC-Enterprise-T5220 -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [zfs-discuss] Hot Space vs. hot spares

2009-10-05 Thread Brandon High
Replying to a few folks in a digest format, because I'm lazy and don't have that much to say. On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 5:53 PM, Tim Cook t...@cook.ms wrote: What are you hoping to accomplish?  You're still going to need a drives worth of free space, and if you're so performance strapped that one

Re: [zfs-discuss] Best way to convert checksums

2009-10-05 Thread Toby Thain
On 5-Oct-09, at 3:32 PM, Miles Nordin wrote: bm == Brandon Mercer yourcomputer...@gmail.com writes: I'm now starting to feel that I understand this issue, and I didn't for quite a while. And that I understand the risks better, and have a clearer idea of what the possible fixes are. And I

Re: [zfs-discuss] Unable to import pool: invalid vdev configuration

2009-10-05 Thread Cindy Swearingen
Hi Osvald, Can you comment on how the disks shrank or how the labeling on these disks changed? We would like to track the issues that causes the hardware underneath a live pool to change so that we can figure out how to prevent pool failures in the future. Thanks, Cindy On 10/03/09 09:46,

Re: [zfs-discuss] Destroying zfs snapshot

2009-10-05 Thread A Darren Dunham
On Mon, Oct 05, 2009 at 02:14:24PM -0700, Mark Horstman wrote: I have a snapshot that I'd like to destroy: If you have a filesystem and a clone of that filesystem, a snapshot always connects them. You can destroy the snapshot only if there are no clones. -- Darren

[zfs-discuss] You're Invited: OpenSolaris Security Summit Nov 3rd

2009-10-05 Thread Jennifer Bauer Scarpino
Just a reminder... Hope to see you there. -Jennifer - To: Developers and Students You are invited to participate in the first OpenSolaris Security Summit OpenSolaris Security Summit Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009 Baltimore Marriott Waterfront 700