Re: [zfs-discuss] zpool status -x strangeness

What does 'zpool status -xv' show? On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 8:01 AM, Ben Miller wrote: > I forgot the pool that's having problems was recreated recently so it's > already at zfs version 3. I just did a 'zfs upgrade -a' for another pool, > but some of those filesystems failed since they are busy

Re: [zfs-discuss] Replacing HDD in x4500

I'm not an authority, but on my 'vanilla' filer, using the same controller chipset as the thumper, I've been in really good shape since moving to zfs boot in 10/08 and doing 'zpool upgrade' and 'zfs upgrade' to all my mirrors (3 3-way). I'd been having similar troubles to yours in the past. My sy

Re: [zfs-discuss] Unable to destory a pool

Can you share the output of 'uname -a' and the disk controller you are using? On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 6:24 PM, Ramesh Mudradi wrote: > # zpool list > NAME SIZE USED AVAILCAP HEALTH ALTROOT > jira-app-zpool 272G 330K 272G 0% ONLINE - > > The following command hangs

Re: [zfs-discuss] Raidz1 faulted with single bad disk. Requesting assistance.

I guess you could try 'zpool import -f'. This is a pretty odd status, I think. I'm pretty sure raidz1 should survive a single disk failure. Perhaps a more knowledgeable list member can explain. On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 12:48 PM, Brad Hill wrote: >> I've seen reports of a recent Seagate firmware

Re: [zfs-discuss] zpool status -x strangeness

You can upgrade live. 'zfs upgrade' with no arguments shows you the zfs version status of filesystems present without upgrading. On Jan 24, 2009, at 10:19 AM, Ben Miller wrote: > We haven't done 'zfs upgrade ...' any. I'll give that a try the > next time the system can be taken down. > >

Re: [zfs-discuss] replace same sized disk fails with too small error

+1 On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 11:12 PM, Paul Schlie wrote: > It also wouldn't be a bad idea for ZFS to also verify drives designated as > hot spares in fact have sufficient capacity to be compatible replacements > for particular configurations, prior to actually being critically required > (as if dr

Re: [zfs-discuss] Changing from ZFS back to HFS+

This is primarily a list for OpenSolaris ZFS - OS X is a little different ;) However, I think you need to do a 'sudo zpool destroy [poolname]' from Terminal.app Be warned, you can't go back once you have done this! On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 4:42 PM, Jason Todd Slack-Moehrle wrote: > Hi All, > >

Re: [zfs-discuss] Raidz1 faulted with single bad disk. Requesting assistance.

I've seen reports of a recent Seagate firmware update bricking drives again. What's the output of 'zpool import' from the LiveCD? It sounds like more than 1 drive is dropping off. On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 10:52 PM, Brad Hill wrote: >> I would get a new 1.5 TB and make sure it has the new >> fi

Re: [zfs-discuss] zpool status -x strangeness

A little gotcha that I found in my 10u6 update process was that 'zpool upgrade [poolname]' is not the same as 'zfs upgrade [poolname]/[filesystem(s)]' What does 'zfs upgrade' say? I'm not saying this is the source of your problem, but it's a detail that seemed to affect stability for me. On Thu

Re: [zfs-discuss] zpool status -x strangeness

What's the output of 'zfs upgrade' and 'zpool upgrade'? (I'm just curious - I had a similar situation which seems to be resolved now that I've gone to Solaris 10u6 or OpenSolaris 2008.11). On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 2:11 PM, Ben Miller wrote: > Bug ID is 6793967. > > This problem just happened aga

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS vs ZFS + HW raid? Which is best?

I think maybe it means that if ZFS can't 'see' the block (the controller does that in HW RAID), it can't checksum said block. cheers, Blake On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 6:34 AM, Orvar Korvar wrote: > What does this mean? Does that mean that ZFS + HW raid with raid-5 is not &

Re: [zfs-discuss] Raidz1 p

I would in this case also immediately export the pool (to prevent any write attempts) and see about a firmware update for the failed drive (probably need windows for this). Sent from my iPhone On Jan 20, 2009, at 3:22 AM, zfs user wrote: > I would get a new 1.5 TB and make sure it has the n

Re: [zfs-discuss] replace same sized disk fails with too small error

s? cheers, Blake ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Raidz1 p

Can you share your hardware configuration? cheers, Blake On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 11:56 PM, Brad Hill wrote: > Greetings! > > I lost one out of five disks on a machine with a raidz1 and I'm not sure > exactly how to recover from it. The pool is marked as FAULTED which I &

Re: [zfs-discuss] Disks in each RAIDZ group

long time. So now, we have Linux even in places where it may not make the most sense. My last enterprise job had many terabytes of data sitting on LVM. I'm glad I wasn't the admin for that nightmare. cheers, Blake On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 2:00 PM, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > > It see

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS tale of woe and fail

t replies to my question. cheers, Blake On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 1:43 PM, Miles Nordin wrote: > > b> You can get a sort of redundancy by creating multiple > b> filesystems with 'copies' enabled on the ones that need some > b> sort of self-healing in case

Re: [zfs-discuss] Understanding ZFS replication

h. One other important caveat is that zfs properties only apply to newly-written data. So setting copies > 1 after an install won't make copies of the blocks you did the initial install to, just the block written going forward. cheers, Blake On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 1:04 AM, Carson Gaspar

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS tale of woe and fail

ng ZFS. cheers, Blake On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 4:09 AM, Tom Bird wrote: > Toby Thain wrote: >> On 18-Jan-09, at 6:12 PM, Nathan Kroenert wrote: >> >>> Hey, Tom - >>> >>> Correct me if I'm wrong here, but it seems you are not allowing ZFS any >>&

Re: [zfs-discuss] replace same sized disk fails with too small error

up the defaults that zfs uses. Can you also run format > partition > print on one of the existing disks and send the output so that we can see what the existing disk looks like? (Off-list directly to me if you prefer). cheers, Blake ___ zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] How to diagnose zfs - iscsi - nfs hang

Thanks Max and Chris. I don't really want the problem to occur again, of course, but I'll be prepared if it does. On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 6:46 PM, Chris Siebenmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You write: > | > If keyboard input is not getting in, your machine is probably wedged > | > at a high le

Re: [zfs-discuss] How to diagnose zfs - iscsi - nfs hang

llers in the box, for example...) > > If the deadman timer does not trigger, the clock is > almost certainly > running, and your machine is > almost certainly accepting keyboard input. That's good to know. I just enabled deadman after the last freeze, so it will be a bit be

Re: [zfs-discuss] How to diagnose zfs - iscsi - nfs hang

/sa** files that get overwritten after a hard reset. I'm just going to stay up late tonight and see what happens :) Blake > Hi Blake, > > Blake Irvin wrote: > > I'm having a very similar issue. Just updated to > 10 u6 and upgrade my zpools. They are fine (all &

Re: [zfs-discuss] How to diagnose zfs - iscsi - nfs hang

I think my problem is actually different - I'm not using iSCSI at all. I will update if I find otherwise. And yes, I do think there is support available for OpenSolaris now: <http://www.sun.com/service/opensolaris/faq.xml> Blake On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 9:32 AM, Tim <[EMAIL PRO

Re: [zfs-discuss] How to diagnose zfs - iscsi - nfs hang

I'm having a very similar issue. Just updated to 10 u6 and upgrade my zpools. They are fine (all 3-way mirors), but I've lost the machine around 12:30am two nights in a row. I'm booting ZFS root pools, if that makes any difference. I also don't see anything in dmesg, nothing on the console ei

Re: [zfs-discuss] Is SUNWhd for Thumper only?

ted sector count 0x10 200 2000 199 Ultra DMA CRC error count 0x3e 200 2000 200 Write/Multi-Zone Error Rate0x8200 2000 On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 8:57 PM, Blake Irvin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've used

Re: [zfs-discuss] zpool replace - choke point

and resilvering the new disk took about 6 min for almost 300GB, IIRC. Blake On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 11:04 PM, Alan Rubin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I had posted at the Sun forums, but it was recommended to me to try here as > well. For reference, please see > http://forums.sun.

Re: [zfs-discuss] Is SUNWhd for Thumper only?

I've used that tool only with the Marvell chipset that ships with the thumpers. (in a supermicro hba) Have you looked at cfgadm? Blake On Dec 1, 2008, at 7:49 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> (http://cuddletech.com/blog/pivot/entry.php?id=993). Will the SUNWhd > > can'

Re: [zfs-discuss] rsync using 100% of a cpu

Upstream when using DSL is much slower than downstream? Blake On Dec 1, 2008, at 7:42 PM, "Francois Dion" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Source is local to rsync, copying from a zfs file system, destination is remote over a dsl connection. Takes forever to just go throu

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS + OpenSolaris for home NAS?

IIRC, the 32-bit reference you see is only for the installer, which doesn't need to be 64-bit. The installer does detect 64-bit hardware during the install, and behaves accordingly. Blake On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 5:56 PM, Peter Bridge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just as a foll

Re: [zfs-discuss] Booting 0811 from USB Stick

did you follow the instructions for updating grub after the image-update: -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail

Re: [zfs-discuss] resilver being killed by 'zpool status' when root

As jritorto is noting, I think the issue here is whether the fix has been backported to Solaris 10 5/08 or 10/08. It's a nasty problem to run into on a production machine. In my case, I'm restoring from tape because my pool went corrupt waiting for resilvers to finish which were getting killed

Re: [zfs-discuss] resilver being killed by 'zpool status' when root

Looks like there is a closed bug for this: http://bugs.opensolaris.org/view_bug.do?bug_id=6655927 It's been closed as 'not reproducible', but I can reproduce consistently on Sol 10 5/08. How can I re-open this bug? I'm using a pair of Supermicro AOC-SAT2-MV8 on a fully patched install of Sola

Re: [zfs-discuss] resilver being killed by 'zpool status' when root

I've confirmed the problem with automatic resilvers as well. I will see about submitting a bug. -- 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] scrub restart patch status..

). On 10/13/08, Richard Elling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Blake Irvin wrote: >> I'm also very interested in this. I'm having a lot of pain with status >> requests killing my resilvers. In the example below I was trying to test >> to see if timf's aut

Re: [zfs-discuss] scrub restart patch status..

I'm also very interested in this. I'm having a lot of pain with status requests killing my resilvers. In the example below I was trying to test to see if timf's auto-snapshot service was killing my resilver, only to find that calling zpool status seems to be the issue: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# e

Re: [zfs-discuss] making sense of arcstat.pl output

, and the clients syncing more than a gig of data fairly often. I will return to studying the tuning guide, though, to make sure I've not missed some key bit. It's not unlikely that I'm missing something fundamental about how zfs should behave in this scenario. cheers, Blake --

[zfs-discuss] making sense of arcstat.pl output

es me think the system is hitting a bottleneck/wall of some kind. Any thoughts on further troubleshooting appreciated. Blake -- 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] resilver being killed by 'zpool status' when root

I was doing a manual resilver, not with spares. I suspect still the issue comes from your script running as root, which is common for reporting scripts. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org

[zfs-discuss] resilver being killed by 'zpool status' when root

is here, i feel this is a good forum to post this question to. (my system: SunOS filer1 5.10 Generic_137112-07 i86pc i386 i86pc) thanks, blake -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mai

Re: [zfs-discuss] 24-port SATA controller options?

This Areca card is Solaris Certified (so says the HCL) and not that expensive: http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/hcl/data/components/details/1179.html This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://

Re: [zfs-discuss] 24-port SATA controller options?

ugh RAM to avoid swapping. I think Sun needs to offer something in the 5k range as well :) Blake 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] 24-port SATA controller options?

We are currently using the 2-port Areca card SilMech offers for boot, and 2 of the Supermicro/Marvell cards for our array. Silicon Mechanics gave us great support and burn-in testing for Solaris 10. Talk to a sales rep there and I don't think you will be disappointed. cheers, Blake

Re: [zfs-discuss] 24-port SATA controller options?

Truly :) I was planning something like 3 pools concatenated. But we are only populating 12 bays at the moment. Blake This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org

[zfs-discuss] 24-port SATA controller options?

The only supported controller I've found is the Areca ARC-1280ML. I want to put it in one of the 24-disk Supermicro chassis that Silicon Mechanics builds. Has anyone had success with this card and this kind of chassis/number of drives? cheers, Blake This message posted from opensolari

Re: [zfs-discuss] [storage-discuss] server-reboot

Claus's experience leads me to ask if anyone is having success using Nevada in a semi production environment. I ask because NV has better hardware support, but I fear it's not as reliable on the storage side. (I'm considering building an iSCSI/Samba/ZFS filer a

[zfs-discuss] Upgrading ZFS Version on Solaris 08/07

I wanted to crossgrade from OpenSolaris b65 to Solaris 10 08/07 for my main fileserver, but I found that I could not import my zpool due to a version mismatch. Is there any way to upgrade only ZFS on 08/07 so that it matches or exceeds the version used by b68? Blake

[zfs-discuss] Need Help Choosing a Rackmount Chassis

tting in a board/proc/controller of my choice. Sadly, there is no lower-end offering similar to the Thumper, which is way too costly for my org at the moment. Any input or advice is greatly appreciated. Blake ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opens

Re: [zfs-discuss] Best option for my home file server?

d money on maxing the RAM out. Blake On 9/28/07, Christopher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm new to the list so this is probably a noob question: Are this forum > part of a mailinglist or something? I keep getting some answers to my posts > in this thread on email as well as s

Re: [zfs-discuss] Best option for my home file server?

A couple of Neptunes or a server with a Niagara T2 will fix that (10GigE) :^) On 9/27/07, David Dyer-Bennet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Well, as I said, I see no realistic risk of pushing the performance > limits of a home file server. I get *less* bandwidth through the > network than I do fr

Re: [zfs-discuss] Best option for my home file server?

I did that - it was nice. Took forever though on my PIII 700mhz :^) blake/ On 9/27/07, Solaris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I considered this as well, but that's the beauty of marrying ZFS with > a hotplug SATA backplane :) > > I chose the to use the 5-in-3 hot-swa

Re: [zfs-discuss] Best option for my home file server?

. Therefore, you may have to set the chipset bios on these to JBOD or vanilla controller mode. Blake On 9/27/07, Christopher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hmm.. Thanks for the input. I want to have the most space but still need a > raid in some way to have redundancy. > > I

Re: [zfs-discuss] pool is full and cant delete files

Do you have any snapshots present? If so, perhaps you can destroy one to free up space? Is the whole pool full, or are you talking about a filesystem that has reached it's quota limit? Blake On 9/9/07, Luke Vanderfluit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi. > > I have a

Re: [zfs-discuss] remove snapshots

ilesystems contained in the 'tarn' pool) Blake ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] remove snapshots

I think zfs destroy is correct. Check 'man zfs' for details - you probably have to supply the '-r' option for recursion. blake/ On 8/17/07, Luke Vanderfluit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi. I want to delete a whole series of snapshots. > > How do I go a

Re: [zfs-discuss] Will there be a GUI for ZFS ?

Boyd is correct. Webmin is a multi-*nix tool that currently doesn't 'talk' to ZFS out of the box. I think you want to enable the SMC web console. blake/ On 8/16/07, Boyd Adamson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > "Craig Cory" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writ

Re: [zfs-discuss] samba and acls

What samba are you running? Try (I think) /etc/sfw/bin/smbd -V to test version. I know there was a bug with ZFS/Samba interaction around v 3.24 - I believe 3.25a and upward fixed that. Blake On 8/13/07, Peter Baumgartner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I've got Samba config

Re: [zfs-discuss] do zfs filesystems isolate corruption?

or backups). Blake On 8/11/07, Richard L. Hamilton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > In the old days of UFS, on occasion one might create > > multiple file systems (using multiple partitions) of > > a large LUN if filesystem corruption was a concern. > > It didn't

Re: [zfs-discuss] SiI 3114 Chipset on Syba Card - Solaris Hangs

I will test for that - interesting. Blake On 8/7/07, Nathan Kroenert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Some time ago I encountered issues using the odd numbered ports on my > SIL3114 based card. > > I currently use ports 0 and 2 without issue. > > I never did get ports

Re: [zfs-discuss] SiI 3114 Chipset on Syba Card - Solaris Hangs

I have re-flashed the BIOS. Blake On 8/7/07, Ian Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Blake wrote: > > Hi. > > > > I'm running snv 65 and having an issue much like this: > > > > <http://osdir.com/ml/solaris.opensolaris.h

[zfs-discuss] SiI 3114 Chipset on Syba Card - Solaris Hangs

Hi. I'm running snv 65 and having an issue much like this: <http://osdir.com/ml/solaris.opensolaris.help/2006-11/msg00047.html> Has anyone found a workaround? Or is this the issue with the BIOS not liking EFI information that ZFS uses? Blake

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