[zfs-discuss] zdb zpool show as 'Value too large for defined data type

2010-04-15 Thread mingli
zdb zpool output as below: bash-3.00# zdb ttt version=15 name='ttt' state=0 txg=4 pool_guid=4724975198934143337 hostid=69113181 hostname='cdc-x4100s8' vdev_tree type='root' id=0 guid=4724975198934143337 children[0]

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Perfomance

2010-04-15 Thread Daniel Carosone
On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 09:58:50AM -0700, Richard Elling wrote: On Apr 14, 2010, at 8:57 AM, Yariv Graf wrote: From my experience dealing with 4TB you stop writing after 80% of zpool utilization YMMV. I have routinely completely filled zpools. There have been some improvements in

Re: [zfs-discuss] Which build is the most stable, mainly for NAS (zfs)?

2010-04-15 Thread Tonmaus
8 hot swap bays is not too much. The rest looks like a cake walk for OSol. But with this HW you can't go for 2009.06 anyhow, as ICH-10 won't be recognized. (I tried this on x58) I have a 2U enclosure as well (12-bay), but I'd opt for at least 3U next time, as there are too many restrictions

Re: [zfs-discuss] Which build is the most stable, mainly for NAS (zfs)?

2010-04-15 Thread Günther
hello if you want to compair it against openfiler, i would suggest not to use opensolaris itself (too much desktop stuff) but a more server like opensolaris distribution like eon (minimal opensolaris + napp-it) or nexentastor community edition (free version of their commercial storage server

Re: [zfs-discuss] Which build is the most stable, mainly for NAS (zfs)?

2010-04-15 Thread Tonmaus
I would be really interested how you got past this http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=11371 which I was so badly bitten by that I considered giving up on OpenSolaris. I don't get random hangs in normal use; so I haven't done anything to get past this. I DO get hangs

[zfs-discuss] raidz2 drive failure zpool will not import

2010-04-15 Thread Kevin Denton
After attempting unsuccessfully to replace a failed drive in a 10 drive raidz2 array and reading as many forum entries as I could find I followed a suggestion to export and import the pool. In another attempt to import the pool I reinstalled the OS, but I have so far been unable to import the

Re: [zfs-discuss] zdb zpool show as 'Value too large for defined data type

2010-04-15 Thread mingli
And for the same zpool, the same issue observed when I tried to import this zpool, and I encountered core dump also: bash-3.00# zpool import ttt internal error: Value too large for defined data type Abort (core dumped)

Re: [zfs-discuss] casesensitivity mixed and CIFS

2010-04-15 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of John Just to add more details, the issue only occurred for the first direct access to the file. From a windows client that has never access the file, you can issue: dir

[zfs-discuss] zpool created over existing one, recovery

2010-04-15 Thread Paolo Biondi
I had a zpool of 3 X 1TB disks in raidz1 configuration. After installing a new version of freenas (the OS is not important) I accidentally created a new zpool over the existing one (it took just few seconds). Now I can see the empty raidz1 (only few KB occupied). I didn't write any file to disk

Re: [zfs-discuss] dedup screwing up snapshot deletion

2010-04-15 Thread Richard Jahnel
Thank you for the corrections. Also I forgot about using an SSD to assist. My bad. =) -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZIL errors but device seems OK

2010-04-15 Thread Richard Skelton
Hi, After a little bit more digging I found in /var/adm/messages:- Mar 25 13:13:08 brszfs02 scsi: [ID 107833 kern.warning] WARNING: /p...@0,0/pci-...@1f,2/i...@1 (ata1): Mar 25 13:13:08 brszfs02timeout: early timeout, target=1 lun=0 Mar 25 13:13:08 brszfs02 gda: [ID 107833 kern.warning]

Re: [zfs-discuss] Why would zfs have too many errors when underlying raid array is fine?

2010-04-15 Thread Tonmaus
My understanding of passthrough disk from the Areca documentation is that single drives are exempted from the RAID controller regime and that the port will behave just like a plain HBA port. Now, on my Areca controller (r.i.p.) that mode always created the biggest havoc with ZFS/Opensolaris,

Re: [zfs-discuss] casesensitivity mixed and CIFS

2010-04-15 Thread John
Just to clarify, there is only one file on the opensolaris cifs server called myfile.txt. myfile.TXT does not exist really, but the cifs server should be case insensitive and return myfile.txt. I did sniff the traffic and opensolaris return 'file not found' when accessing myfile.TXT. To

Re: [zfs-discuss] dedup causing problems with NFS?(was Re: snapshots taking too much space)

2010-04-15 Thread Paul Archer
3:08pm, Daniel Carosone wrote: On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 08:48:42AM -0500, Paul Archer wrote: So I turned deduplication on on my staging FS (the one that gets mounted on the database servers) yesterday, and since then I've been seeing the mount hang for short periods of time off and on. (It

Re: [zfs-discuss] dedup causing problems with NFS?(was Re: snapshots taking too much space)

2010-04-15 Thread Paul Archer
Yesterday, Erik Trimble wrote: Daniel Carosone wrote: On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 08:48:42AM -0500, Paul Archer wrote: So I turned deduplication on on my staging FS (the one that gets mounted on the database servers) yesterday, and since then I've been seeing the mount hang for short periods of

Re: [zfs-discuss] dedup screwing up snapshot deletion

2010-04-15 Thread Paul Archer
3:26pm, Daniel Carosone wrote: On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 09:04:50PM -0500, Paul Archer wrote: I realize that I did things in the wrong order. I should have removed the oldest snapshot first, on to the newest, and then removed the data in the FS itself. For the problem in question, this is

Re: [zfs-discuss] RAID10

2010-04-15 Thread Freddie Cash
On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 4:29 PM, Slack-Moehrle mailingli...@mailnewsrss.com wrote: OK, so I made progress today. FreeBSD see's all of my drives, ZFS is acting correct. Now for me confusion. RAIDz3 # zpool create datastore raidz3 da0 da1 da2 da3 da4 da5 da6 da7 Gives: 'raidz3' no such

Re: [zfs-discuss] [shell-discuss] getconf test for case insensitive ZFS?

2010-04-15 Thread Glenn Fowler
On Wed, 14 Apr 2010 17:54:02 +0200 =?KOI8-R?B?z8zYx8Egy9LZ1sHOz9fTy8HR?= wrote: Can I use getconf to test if a ZFS file system is mounted in case insensitive mode? we would have to put in the zfs query (hopefull more generic that just for zfs) the only current working case-insensitive checks

Re: [zfs-discuss] Which build is the most stable, mainly for NAS (zfs)?

2010-04-15 Thread James C.McPherson
On 15/04/10 06:29 PM, Günther wrote: hello if you want to compair it against openfiler, i would suggest not to use opensolaris itself (too much desktop stuff) but a more server like opensolaris distribution like eon (minimal opensolaris + napp-it) or nexentastor community edition (free

Re: [zfs-discuss] Which build is the most stable, mainly for NAS (zfs)?

2010-04-15 Thread Günther Alka
gea wrote: if you want to compair it against openfiler, i would suggest not to use opensolaris itself (too much desktop stuff) but a more server like opensolaris distribution like eon (minimal opensolaris + napp-it) or nexentastor community edition (free version of their commercial

Re: [zfs-discuss] Which build is the most stable, mainly for NAS (zfs)?

2010-04-15 Thread Dmitry
Thanks for the tips, I tried EON, but it is too minimalistic, I plan to use this server for other (monitoring server and etc.) Nexenta is a strange hybrid, and use the not commercial version, without its ability, i don't know... A napp-it i'll try for sure -- This message posted from

Re: [zfs-discuss] Which build is the most stable, mainly for NAS (zfs)?

2010-04-15 Thread Günther
hello dr245 free nexentastor community edition = commercial edition without support, without additions like high availability or vmware/ xen management and limited to 12 tb nexenta (core) is just the same system (opensolaris b134+ kernel with unix tools and handling, software will be the same

Re: [zfs-discuss] Which build is the most stable, mainly for NAS (zfs)?

2010-04-15 Thread Miles Nordin
jcm == James C McPherson james.mcpher...@oracle.com writes: ga == Günther Alka a...@hfg-gmuend.de writes: jcm I am amazed that you believe OpenSolaris binary distro has too jcm much desktop stuff. Most people I have come across are firmly jcm of the belief that it does not have enough.

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS forensics/revert/restore shellscript and how-to.

2010-04-15 Thread fred pam
Hi Richard, Hm, I guess I misunderstand the function of uberblocks. I thought uberblocks contained pointers (to...?) which the system then uses to retrieve the files. If I'm incorrect in thinking that I could use an older uberblock to retrieve the data, what am I missing? I've tried to find

Re: [zfs-discuss] [shell-discuss] getconf test for case insensitive ZFS?

2010-04-15 Thread Tim Haley
On 04/14/10 11:48 AM, Glenn Fowler wrote: On Wed, 14 Apr 2010 17:54:02 +0200 =?KOI8-R?B?z8zYx8Egy9LZ1sHOz9fTy8HR?= wrote: Can I use getconf to test if a ZFS file system is mounted in case insensitive mode? we would have to put in the zfs query (hopefull more generic that just for zfs) the

Re: [zfs-discuss] [shell-discuss] getconf test for case insensitive ZFS?

2010-04-15 Thread ольга крыжановская
/usr/bin/getconf _PC_CASE_BEHAVIOR /tmp getconf: Invalid argument (_PC_CASE_BEHAVIOR) I'm sure this is a bug, right? Olga On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 9:52 PM, Tim Haley tim.ha...@oracle.com wrote: On 04/14/10 11:48 AM, Glenn Fowler wrote: On Wed, 14 Apr 2010 17:54:02 +0200

Re: [zfs-discuss] Which build is the most stable, mainly for NAS (zfs)?

2010-04-15 Thread Dmitry
free nexentastor community edition = commercial edition without support, You are opened my eyes :) start to download, tomorrow will look -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [zfs-discuss] Which build is the most stable, mainly for NAS (zfs)?

2010-04-15 Thread Anil Gulecha
Is it?  I don't really understand the nexenta license, which is why I don't bother with it. In the simplest terms, NCP (nexenta.org) = Free as in speech/beer NexentaStor Community Edition (nexentastor.org) = Free as in beer - NCP underneath + closed WebGUI + FOSS plugins NexentaStor

[zfs-discuss] ZFS for ISCSI ntfs backing store.

2010-04-15 Thread JOrdan
I'm looking to move our file storage from Windows to Opensolaris/zfs. The windows box will be connected through 10g for iscsi to the storage. The windows box will continue to serve the windows clients and will be hosting approximately 4TB of data. The physical box is a sunfire x4240, single

Re: [zfs-discuss] Why would zfs have too many errors when underlying raid array is fine?

2010-04-15 Thread Willard Korfhage
I've got a Supermicro AOC-USAS-L8I on the way because I gather from these forums that it works well. I'll just wait for that, then try 8 disks on that an 4 on the motherboard SATA ports. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] [shell-discuss] getconf test for case insensitive ZFS?

2010-04-15 Thread ольга крыжановская
Tim, did ZFS or CIFS add other pathconf() values which need to be implemented in getconf or ksh93? Olga 2010/4/15 ольга крыжановская olga.kryzhanov...@gmail.com: /usr/bin/getconf _PC_CASE_BEHAVIOR /tmp getconf: Invalid argument (_PC_CASE_BEHAVIOR) I'm sure this is a bug, right? Olga On

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS forensics/revert/restore shellscript and how-to.

2010-04-15 Thread Richard Elling
On Apr 15, 2010, at 12:39 PM, fred pam wrote: Hi Richard, Hm, I guess I misunderstand the function of uberblocks. I thought uberblocks contained pointers (to...?) which the system then uses to retrieve the files. uberblocks are the trunk of the tree. If I'm incorrect in thinking that I

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS for ISCSI ntfs backing store.

2010-04-15 Thread Günther
hello do you want to use it as a file smb-fileserver or do you want to have other windows services? if you want to use it as a file server only, i would suggest to use build in cifs server. iscsi will be always slower than native cifs server and you have snapshots via windows property

Re: [zfs-discuss] raidz2 drive failure zpool will not import

2010-04-15 Thread Richard Elling
zpool import can be a little pessimistic about corrupted labels. First, try physically removing the problem disk and try to import again. If that doesn't work, then verify the labels on each disk using: zdb -l /dev/rdsk/c5d1s0 each disk should have 4 readable labels. -- richard On Apr

Re: [zfs-discuss] Secure delete?

2010-04-15 Thread Eric D. Mudama
On Tue, Apr 13 at 9:52, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: On Mon, 12 Apr 2010, Eric D. Mudama wrote: The advantage of TRIM, even in high end SSDs, is that it allows you to effectively have additional considerable extra space available to the device for garbage collection and wear management when not all

[zfs-discuss] recomend sata controller 4 Home server with zfs raidz2 and 8x1tb hd

2010-04-15 Thread george
hi all im brand new to opensolaris ... feel free to call me noob :) i need to build a home server for media and general storage zfs sound like the perfect solution but i need to buy a 8 (or more) SATA controller any suggestions for compatible 2 opensolaris products will be really