[zfs-discuss] dedup and handling corruptions - impossible?

2010-08-21 Thread devsk
If dedup is ON and the pool develops a corruption in a file, I can never fix it because when I try to copy the correct file on top of the corrupt file, the block hash will match with the existing blocks and only reference count will be updated. The only way to fix it is to delete all snapshots (t

Re: [zfs-discuss] Root pool on boot drive lost on another machine because of devids

2010-08-21 Thread devsk
Actually, I figured it has nothing to do with /etc/zfs/zpool.cache. As part of removing that file within a LiveCD, I was basically importing and exporting the rpool. So, the only thing required is an equivalent of 'zpool import -f rpool && zpool export rpool'. I wonder why this can't be automate

Re: [zfs-discuss] Root pool on boot drive lost on another machine because of devids

2010-08-21 Thread devsk
> > I have a USB flash drive which boots up my > > opensolaris install. What happens is that whenever > I > > move to a different machine, > > the root pool is lost because the devids don't > match > > with what's in /etc/zfs/zpool.cache and the system > > just can't find the rpool. > > See defect

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS with Equallogic storage

2010-08-21 Thread Toby Thain
On 21-Aug-10, at 3:06 PM, Ross Walker wrote: On Aug 21, 2010, at 2:14 PM, Bill Sommerfeld > wrote: On 08/21/10 10:14, Ross Walker wrote: ... Would I be better off forgoing resiliency for simplicity, putting all my faith into the Equallogic to handle data resiliency? IMHO, no; the resultin

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS with Equallogic storage

2010-08-21 Thread Richard Elling
On Aug 21, 2010, at 2:21 PM, Ross Walker wrote: > On Aug 21, 2010, at 4:40 PM, Richard Elling wrote: > >> On Aug 21, 2010, at 10:14 AM, Ross Walker wrote: >>> I'm planning on setting up an NFS server for our ESXi hosts and plan on >>> using a virtualized Solaris or Nexenta host to serve ZFS ove

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS with Equallogic storage

2010-08-21 Thread Ross Walker
On Aug 21, 2010, at 4:40 PM, Richard Elling wrote: > On Aug 21, 2010, at 10:14 AM, Ross Walker wrote: >> I'm planning on setting up an NFS server for our ESXi hosts and plan on >> using a virtualized Solaris or Nexenta host to serve ZFS over NFS. > > Please follow the joint EMC+NetApp best prac

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS with Equallogic storage

2010-08-21 Thread Richard Elling
On Aug 21, 2010, at 10:14 AM, Ross Walker wrote: > I'm planning on setting up an NFS server for our ESXi hosts and plan on using > a virtualized Solaris or Nexenta host to serve ZFS over NFS. Please follow the joint EMC+NetApp best practices for VMware ESX servers. The recommendations apply to an

[zfs-discuss] OpenStorage Summit

2010-08-21 Thread Brad Stone
Just wanted to make a quick announcement that there will be an OpenStorage Summit in Palo Alto, CA in late October. The conference should have a lot of good OpenSolaris talks, with ZFS experts such as Bill Moore, Adam Levanthal, and Ben Rockwood already planning to give presentations. The confere

Re: [zfs-discuss] Root pool on boot drive lost on another machine because of devids

2010-08-21 Thread Jürgen Keil
> I have a USB flash drive which boots up my > opensolaris install. What happens is that whenever I > move to a different machine, > the root pool is lost because the devids don't match > with what's in /etc/zfs/zpool.cache and the system > just can't find the rpool. See defect 4755 or defect 5484

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS with Equallogic storage

2010-08-21 Thread Ross Walker
On Aug 21, 2010, at 2:14 PM, Bill Sommerfeld wrote: > On 08/21/10 10:14, Ross Walker wrote: >> I am trying to figure out the best way to provide both performance and >> resiliency given the Equallogic provides the redundancy. > > (I have no specific experience with Equallogic; the following is

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS with Equallogic storage

2010-08-21 Thread Bill Sommerfeld
On 08/21/10 10:14, Ross Walker wrote: I am trying to figure out the best way to provide both performance and resiliency given the Equallogic provides the redundancy. (I have no specific experience with Equallogic; the following is just generic advice) Every bit stored in zfs is checksummed

[zfs-discuss] ZFS with Equallogic storage

2010-08-21 Thread Ross Walker
I'm planning on setting up an NFS server for our ESXi hosts and plan on using a virtualized Solaris or Nexenta host to serve ZFS over NFS. The storage I have available is provided by Equallogic boxes over 10Gbe iSCSI. I am trying to figure out the best way to provide both performance and resil

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS development moving behind closed doors

2010-08-21 Thread Orvar Korvar
"And by the way: Wasn't there a comment of Linus Torvals recently that people shound move their low-quality code into the codebase ??? ;)" Anyone knows the link? Good against the Linux fanboys. :o) -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zf

Re: [zfs-discuss] Cant't detach spare device from pool

2010-08-21 Thread Ian Collins
On 08/21/10 08:50 PM, Simone Caldana wrote: Il giorno 21/ago/2010, alle ore 10.10, Ian Collins ha scritto: On 08/21/10 07:03 PM, Martin Mundschenk wrote: After about 62 hours and 90%, the resilvering process got stuck. Since 12 hours nothing happens anymore. Thus, I can not detach th

Re: [zfs-discuss] Cant't detach spare device from pool

2010-08-21 Thread Simone Caldana
Il giorno 21/ago/2010, alle ore 10.10, Ian Collins ha scritto: > On 08/21/10 07:03 PM, Martin Mundschenk wrote: >> After about 62 hours and 90%, the resilvering process got stuck. Since 12 >> hours nothing happens anymore. Thus, I can not detach the spare device. Is >> there a way to get the resi

Re: [zfs-discuss] Cant't detach spare device from pool

2010-08-21 Thread Ian Collins
On 08/21/10 07:03 PM, Martin Mundschenk wrote: After about 62 hours and 90%, the resilvering process got stuck. Since 12 hours nothing happens anymore. Thus, I can not detach the spare device. Is there a way to get the resilvering process back running? Are you sure it's stuck? They can take a

Re: [zfs-discuss] Cant't detach spare device from pool

2010-08-21 Thread Martin Mundschenk
After about 62 hours and 90%, the resilvering process got stuck. Since 12 hours nothing happens anymore. Thus, I can not detach the spare device. Is there a way to get the resilvering process back running? Martin Am 18.08.2010 um 20:11 schrieb Mark Musante: > You need to let the resilver com