Re: [zfs-discuss] solaris 10u8 hangs with message Disconnected command timeout for Target 0

2011-08-15 Thread Andrew Gabriel
Ding Honghui wrote: Hi, My solaris storage hangs. I login to the console and there is messages[1] display on the console. I can't login into the console and seems the IO is totally blocked. The system is solaris 10u8 on Dell R710 with disk array Dell MD3000. 2 HBA cable connect the server an

[zfs-discuss] solaris 10u8 hangs with message Disconnected command timeout for Target 0

2011-08-15 Thread Ding Honghui
Hi, My solaris storage hangs. I login to the console and there is messages[1] display on the console. I can't login into the console and seems the IO is totally blocked. The system is solaris 10u8 on Dell R710 with disk array Dell MD3000. 2 HBA cable connect the server and MD3000. The symptom is

[zfs-discuss] ZFS not creating devices

2011-08-15 Thread zfs-dev
I am creating a custom Solaris 11 Express CD used for disaster recovery. I have included the necessary files on the system to run zfs commands without error (no apparent missing libraries or drivers). However, when I create a zvol, the device in /devices and the link to /dev/zvol/dsk/rpool do n

Re: [zfs-discuss] Intel 320 as ZIL?

2011-08-15 Thread Brandon High
On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 2:07 PM, Ray Van Dolson wrote: > Looks interesting... specs around the same as the old X-25E.  We have > heard however, that Intel will be announcing a true successor to their > X-25E line shortly. I think it's the 710 and 720 that you're referring to. The 710 is MLC-HET

Re: [zfs-discuss] Intel 320 as ZIL?

2011-08-15 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
> From: Ray Van Dolson [mailto:rvandol...@esri.com] > Sent: Monday, August 15, 2011 12:26 PM > > On the Intel SSD 320 Series, the spare capacity reserved at the > factory is 7% to 11% (depending on the SKU) of the full NAND > capacity. For better random write performance and endurance, the >

Re: [zfs-discuss] Intel 320 as ZIL?

2011-08-15 Thread Ray Van Dolson
On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 01:38:36PM -0700, Brandon High wrote: > On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 1:00 PM, Ray Van Dolson wrote: > > Are any of you using the Intel 320 as ZIL?  It's MLC based, but I > > understand its wear and performance characteristics can be bumped up > > significantly by increasing the

Re: [zfs-discuss] Intel 320 as ZIL?

2011-08-15 Thread Brandon High
On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 1:00 PM, Ray Van Dolson wrote: > Are any of you using the Intel 320 as ZIL?  It's MLC based, but I > understand its wear and performance characteristics can be bumped up > significantly by increasing the overprovisioning to 20% (dropping > usable capacity to 80%). Intel re

Re: [zfs-discuss] Kernel panic on zpool import. 200G of data inaccessible!

2011-08-15 Thread Alexander Lesle
Hello Stu Whitefish and List, On August, 15 2011, 21:17 wrote in [1]: >> 7. cannot import old rpool (c0t2d0s0 c0t3d0s0), any attempt causes a >> kernel panic, even when booted from different OS versions > Right. I have tried OpenIndiana 151 and Solaris 11 Express (latest > from Oracle) several

Re: [zfs-discuss] Kernel panic on zpool import. 200G of data inaccessible!

2011-08-15 Thread Stu Whitefish
Given I can boot to single user mode and elect not to import or mount any pools, and that later I can issue an import against only the pool I need, I don't understand how this can help. Still, given that nothing else seems to help I will try this and get back to you tomorrow. Thanks, Jim -

Re: [zfs-discuss] Kernel panic on zpool import. 200G of data inaccessible!

2011-08-15 Thread Stu Whitefish
Hi Paul, > 1. Install system to pair of mirrored disks (c0t2d0s0 c0t3d0s0), > system works fine I don't remember at this point which disks were which, but I believe it was 0 and 1 because during the first install there were only 2 drives in the box because I had only 2 drives. > 2. add two mo

Re: [zfs-discuss] Kernel panic on zpool import. 200G of data inaccessible!

2011-08-15 Thread John D Groenveld
In message <1313431448.5331.yahoomail...@web121911.mail.ne1.yahoo.com>, Stu Whi tefish writes: >I'm sorry, I don't understand this suggestion. > >The pool that won't import is a mirror on two drives. Disconnect all but the two mirrored drives that you must import and try to import from a S11X Live

Re: [zfs-discuss] Kernel panic on zpool import. 200G of data inaccessible!

2011-08-15 Thread Stu Whitefish
I'm sorry, I don't understand this suggestion. The pool that won't import is a mirror on two drives. - Original Message - > From: LaoTsao > To: Stu Whitefish > Cc: "zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org" > Sent: Monday, August 15, 2011 5:50:08 PM > Subject: Re: [zfs-discuss] Kernel panic on zp

Re: [zfs-discuss] Kernel panic on zpool import. 200G of data inaccessible!

2011-08-15 Thread Paul Kraus
I am catching up here and wanted to see if I correctly understand the chain of events... 1. Install system to pair of mirrored disks (c0t2d0s0 c0t3d0s0), system works fine 2. add two more disks (c0t0d0s0 c0t1d0s0), create zpool tank, test and determine these disks are fine 3. copy data to save to

Re: [zfs-discuss] Intel 320 as ZIL?

2011-08-15 Thread David Magda
On Mon, August 15, 2011 12:25, Ray Van Dolson wrote: > Perhaps this is it. Pulled the recommendation from Intel's Solid-State > Drive 320 Series in Server Storage Applications whitepaper. > > Section 4.1: [...] > On the Intel SSD 320 Series, the spare capacity reserved at the > factory is 7%

Re: [zfs-discuss] Kernel panic on zpool import. 200G of data inaccessible!

2011-08-15 Thread LaoTsao
iirc if you use two hdd, you can import the zpool can you try to import -R with only two hdd at time Sent from my iPad Hung-Sheng Tsao ( LaoTsao) Ph.D On Aug 15, 2011, at 13:42, Stu Whitefish wrote: > Unfortunately this panics the same exact way. Thanks for the suggestion > though. > > > >

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS raidz on top of hardware raid0

2011-08-15 Thread LaoTsao
imho, not a good idea, any two hdd in your raid0 fail zpool is dead if possible just do one hdd raid0 then use zfs to do mirror raidz or raidz2 will be the last choice Sent from my iPad Hung-Sheng Tsao ( LaoTsao) Ph.D On Aug 12, 2011, at 21:34, Tom Tang wrote: > Suppose I want to build a 100-dr

Re: [zfs-discuss] Kernel panic on zpool import. 200G of data inaccessible!

2011-08-15 Thread Stu Whitefish
Unfortunately this panics the same exact way. Thanks for the suggestion though. - Original Message - > From: ""Hung-Sheng Tsao (Lao Tsao 老曹) Ph.D."" > To: zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org > Cc: > Sent: Monday, August 15, 2011 3:06:20 PM > Subject: Re: [zfs-discuss] Kernel panic on zpool imp

Re: [zfs-discuss] Intel 320 as ZIL?

2011-08-15 Thread Richard Elling
On Aug 11, 2011, at 1:16 PM, Ray Van Dolson wrote: > On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 01:10:07PM -0700, Ian Collins wrote: >> On 08/12/11 08:00 AM, Ray Van Dolson wrote: >>> Are any of you using the Intel 320 as ZIL? It's MLC based, but I >>> understand its wear and performance characteristics can be bum

Re: [zfs-discuss] Kernel panic on zpool import. 200G of data inaccessible!

2011-08-15 Thread Hung-Sheng Tsao (Lao Tsao 老曹) Ph.D.
On 8/15/2011 11:25 AM, Stu Whitefish wrote: Hi. Thanks I have tried this on update 8 and Sol 11 Express. The import always results in a kernel panic as shown in the picture. I did not try an alternate mountpoint though. Would it make that much difference? try it - Original Message -

Re: [zfs-discuss] Intel 320 as ZIL?

2011-08-15 Thread Ray Van Dolson
On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 06:53:22PM -0700, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: > > From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- > > boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Ray Van Dolson > > > > For ZIL, I > > suppose we could get the 300GB drive and overcommit to 95%! > > What kind of benefi

Re: [zfs-discuss] zpool replace

2011-08-15 Thread Mark J Musante
Hi Doug, The "vms" pool was created in a non-redundant way, so there is no way to get the data off of it unless you can put back the original c0t3d0 disk. If you can still plug in the disk, you can always do a zpool replace on it afterwards. If not, you'll need to restore from backup, pref

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS raidz on top of hardware raid0

2011-08-15 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Fri, 12 Aug 2011, Tom Tang wrote: Suppose I want to build a 100-drive storage system, wondering if there is any disadvantages for me to setup 20 arrays of HW RAID0 (5 drives each), then setup ZFS file system on these 20 virtual drives and configure them as RAIDZ? The main concern would be

Re: [zfs-discuss] Kernel panic on zpool import. 200G of data inaccessible!

2011-08-15 Thread Stu Whitefish
Hi. Thanks I have tried this on update 8 and Sol 11 Express. The import always results in a kernel panic as shown in the picture. I did not try an alternate mountpoint though. Would it make that much difference? - Original Message - > From: ""Hung-Sheng Tsao (Lao Tsao 老曹) Ph.D."" >

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS raidz on top of hardware raid0

2011-08-15 Thread Cindy Swearingen
D'oh. I shouldn't answer questions first thing Monday morning. I think you test this configuration with and without the underlying hardware RAID. If RAIDZ is the right redundancy level for your workload, you might be pleasantly surprised with a RAIDZ configuration built on the h/w raid array in

[zfs-discuss] zpool replace

2011-08-15 Thread Doug Schwabauer
Help - I've got a bad disk in a zpool and need to replace it.  I've got an extra drive that's not being used, although it's still marked like it's in a pool.  So I need to get the "xvm" pool destroyed, c0t5d0 marked as available, and replace c0t3d0 with c0t5d0.

Re: [zfs-discuss] Kernel panic on zpool import. 200G of data inaccessible!

2011-08-15 Thread Hung-Sheng Tsao (Lao Tsao 老曹) Ph.D.
may be try the following 1)boot s10u8 cd into single user mode (when boot cdrom, choose Solaris then choose single user mode(6)) 2)when ask to mount rpool just say no 3)mkdir /tmp/mnt1 /tmp/mnt2 4)zpool import -f -R /tmp/mnt1 tank 5)zpool import -f -R /tmp/mnt2 rpool On 8/15/2011 9:12 AM, Stu

Re: [zfs-discuss] Sudden drop in disk performance - WD20EURS & 4k sectors to blame?

2011-08-15 Thread Andrew Gabriel
David Wragg wrote: I've not done anything different this time from when I created the original (512b) pool. How would I check ashift? For a zpool called "export"... # zdb export | grep ashift ashift: 12 ^C # As far as I know (although I don't have any WD's), all the current 4k sectorsiz

Re: [zfs-discuss] Sudden drop in disk performance - WD20EURS & 4k sectors to blame?

2011-08-15 Thread David Wragg
I've not done anything different this time from when I created the original (512b) pool. How would I check ashift? -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/

Re: [zfs-discuss] Sudden drop in disk performance - WD20EURS & 4k sectors to blame?

2011-08-15 Thread chris scott
Did you 4k align your partition table and is ashift=12? -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

[zfs-discuss] Sudden drop in disk performance - WD20EURS & 4k sectors to blame?

2011-08-15 Thread David Wragg
Hi all, first post to this mailing list so please forgive me if I miss something obvious. Earlier this year I went over 80% disk utilisation on my home server and saw performance start to degrade. I migrated from the old pool of 4 x 1TB WD RE2-GPs (raidz1) to a new pool made of 6 x 2TB WD EURS (

Re: [zfs-discuss] Intel 320 as ZIL?

2011-08-15 Thread Cooper Hubbell
Over provisioning does not directly increase flash performance, but allows for greater reliability as the drive ages by improving garbage collection efforts and reducing write amplification. This article doesn't provide any sources, but it explains the concept at a very basic level - http://thessd

[zfs-discuss] ZFS raidz on top of hardware raid0

2011-08-15 Thread Tom Tang
Suppose I want to build a 100-drive storage system, wondering if there is any disadvantages for me to setup 20 arrays of HW RAID0 (5 drives each), then setup ZFS file system on these 20 virtual drives and configure them as RAIDZ? I understand people always say ZFS doesn't prefer HW RAID. Under

Re: [zfs-discuss] Kernel panic on zpool import. 200G of data inaccessible!

2011-08-15 Thread Stu Whitefish
> On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 2:47 PM, Stuart James Whitefish > wrote: >> # zpool import -f tank >> >> http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/13/zfsimportfail.jpg/ > > I encourage you to open a support case and ask for an escalation on CR > 7056738. > > -- > Mike Gerdts Hi Mike, Unfortunately I

Re: [zfs-discuss] Wrong rpool used after reinstall!

2011-08-15 Thread Stu Whitefish
Hi Ian, > I would use a newer (express maybe) system. I did and it panics. Posted screenshot last week. > Recent OpenSolaris based builds have a handy utility usbcopy. Thanks, I used that to create a bootable Solaris 11 Express. Hiroshi did a great job! >> This is really frustrating. I have

Re: [zfs-discuss] Wrong rpool used after reinstall!

2011-08-15 Thread Stu Whitefish
- Original Message - > From: Brian Wilson > To: zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org > Cc: > Sent: Thursday, August 4, 2011 2:57:26 PM > Subject: Re: [zfs-discuss] Wrong rpool used after reinstall! > > I'm curious - would it work to boot from a live CD, go to shell, and > deport/import/rename t

Re: [zfs-discuss] [OpenIndiana-discuss] Question about ZFS/CIFS

2011-08-15 Thread Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk
> > We've migrated from an old samba installation to a new box with > > openindiana, and it works well, but... It seems Windows now honours > > the executable bit, so that .exe files for installing packages, are > > no longer directly executable. While it is positive that windows > > honours this b