Re: [zfs-discuss] Sun Storage 7320 system

2011-05-26 Thread Giovanni Tirloni
looking for maximum performance with availability so that narrows it down to a mirrored pool, unless your Postgresql workload is very specific that raidz would fit, but beware of the performance hit. Regards, -- Giovanni Tirloni ___ zfs-discuss mailing list

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS File / Folder Management

2011-05-17 Thread Giovanni Tirloni
/datasets from each one independently. http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E19963-01/html/821-1448/index.html http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E18752_01/html/819-5461/index.html -- Giovanni Tirloni ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http

Re: [zfs-discuss] Reboots when importing old rpool

2011-05-17 Thread Giovanni Tirloni
shouldn't panic just because it can't import a pool. Try booting with the kernel debugger on (add -kv to the grub kernel line). Take a look at dumpadm. -- Giovanni Tirloni ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org

Re: [zfs-discuss] 350TB+ storage solution

2011-05-16 Thread Giovanni Tirloni
that is not a problem comments. With the 7000s appliance I've heard that the 900hr estimated resilver time was normal and everything is working as expected. Can't help but think there is some walled garden syndrome floating around. -- Giovanni Tirloni ___ zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Quick zfs send -i performance questions

2011-05-05 Thread Giovanni Tirloni
On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 9:04 PM, Brandon High bh...@freaks.com wrote: On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 2:25 PM, Giovanni Tirloni gtirl...@sysdroid.com wrote: The problem we've started seeing is that a zfs send -i is taking hours to send a very small amount of data (eg. 20GB in 6 hours) while a zfs

Re: [zfs-discuss] Quick zfs send -i performance questions

2011-05-04 Thread Giovanni Tirloni
, -- Giovanni Tirloni ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] A resilver record?

2011-03-23 Thread Giovanni Tirloni
Anyone else with over 600 hours of resilver time? :-) Thank you, Giovanni Tirloni (gtirl...@sysdroid.com) ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Resilver misleading output

2010-12-14 Thread Giovanni Tirloni
for this type of situation? http://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6899970 -- Giovanni Tirloni gtirl...@sysdroid.com ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Supermicro AOC-USAS2-L8i

2010-10-16 Thread Giovanni Tirloni
the LSI 2004/2008 HBAs connected to the backplane (both 3Gb/s and 6Gb/s). The MegaRAID ELP, when connected to the same backplane, doesn't exhibit that behavior. -- Giovanni Tirloni gtirl...@sysdroid.com ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Supermicro AOC-USAS2-L8i

2010-10-13 Thread Giovanni Tirloni
Solaris and refuses to investigate it. -- Giovanni Tirloni gtirl...@sysdroid.com ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] non-ECC Systems and ZFS for home users

2010-09-25 Thread Giovanni Tirloni
basis. It's not if they'll happen but how often. -- Giovanni Tirloni gtirl...@sysdroid.com ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Replacing a disk never completes

2010-09-20 Thread Giovanni Tirloni
builds. -- Giovanni Tirloni gtirl...@sysdroid.com ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] what is zfs doing during a log resilver?

2010-09-04 Thread Giovanni Tirloni
in a mirror. I've always wondered what exactly it was doing since it was supposed to be 30 seconds worth of data. It also generates lots of checksum errors. -- Giovanni Tirloni gtirl...@sysdroid.com ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org

[zfs-discuss] autoreplace not kicking in

2010-08-11 Thread Giovanni Tirloni
. Was the autoreplace code supposed to replace the faulty disk and release the spare when resilver is done ? Thank you, -- Giovanni Tirloni gtirl...@sysdroid.com ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: [zfs-discuss] autoreplace not kicking in

2010-08-11 Thread Giovanni Tirloni
, then just detach it manually. Yes, that's working as expected (spare detaches after resilver). -- Giovanni Tirloni gtirl...@sysdroid.com ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Upgrading 2009.06 to something current

2010-08-01 Thread Giovanni Tirloni
have reported works OK. If you want to try something in between b111 and b134, see the following instructions: http://blogs.sun.com/observatory/entry/updating_to_a_specific_build -- Giovanni Tirloni gtirl...@sysdroid.com ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs

[zfs-discuss] Increase resilver priority

2010-07-23 Thread Giovanni Tirloni
a vdev is degraded). Thank you, -- Giovanni Tirloni gtirl...@sysdroid.com ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Increase resilver priority

2010-07-23 Thread Giovanni Tirloni
On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 11:59 AM, Richard Elling rich...@nexenta.com wrote: On Jul 23, 2010, at 2:31 AM, Giovanni Tirloni wrote: Hello, We've seen some resilvers on idle servers that are taking ages. Is it possible to speed up resilver operations somehow? Eg. iostat shows 5MB/s writes

Re: [zfs-discuss] Increase resilver priority

2010-07-23 Thread Giovanni Tirloni
On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 12:50 PM, Bill Sommerfeld bill.sommerf...@oracle.com wrote: On 07/23/10 02:31, Giovanni Tirloni wrote:  We've seen some resilvers on idle servers that are taking ages. Is it possible to speed up resilver operations somehow?  Eg. iostat shows5MB/s writes

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs send to remote any ideas for a faster way than ssh?

2010-07-20 Thread Giovanni Tirloni
these issues. -- Giovanni Tirloni gtirl...@sysdroid.com ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] carrying on

2010-07-19 Thread Giovanni Tirloni
On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 7:12 AM, Joerg Schilling joerg.schill...@fokus.fraunhofer.de wrote: Giovanni Tirloni gtirl...@sysdroid.com wrote: On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 10:19 PM, Miles Nordin car...@ivy.net wrote: IMHO it's important we don't get stuck running Nexenta in the same spot we're now

Re: [zfs-discuss] corrupt pool?

2010-07-19 Thread Giovanni Tirloni
version 134. Have you enabled compression or deduplication ? Check the disks with `iostat -XCn 1` (look for high asvc_t times) and `iostat -En` (hard and soft errors). -- Giovanni Tirloni gtirl...@sysdroid.com ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] fmadm warnings about media erros

2010-07-17 Thread Giovanni Tirloni
see/change these thresholds ? -- Giovanni Tirloni gtirl...@sysdroid.com ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Lost zpool after reboot

2010-07-17 Thread Giovanni Tirloni
I can't get zpool status to show my pool.    vdev_path = /dev/dsk/c9t0d0s0    vdev_devid = id1,s...@ahitachi_hds7225scsun250g_0719bn9e3k=vfa100r1dn9e3k/a    parent_guid = 0xb89f3c5a72a22939 Does format(1M) show the devices where they once where ? -- Giovanni Tirloni gtirl...@sysdroid.com

Re: [zfs-discuss] Lost zpool after reboot

2010-07-17 Thread Giovanni Tirloni
/messages Perhaps with the additional information someone here can help you better. I don't have any experience with Windows 7 to guarantee that it hasn't messes with the disk contents. -- Giovanni Tirloni gtirl...@sysdroid.com ___ zfs-discuss mailing

Re: [zfs-discuss] Legality and the future of zfs...

2010-07-14 Thread Giovanni Tirloni
the opposite. Some companies are successfully doing the opposite of you: They are using standard parts and a competent staff that knows how to create solutions out of them without having to pay for GUI-powered systems and a 4-hour on-site part swapping service. -- Giovanni Tirloni gtirl...@sysdroid.com

Re: [zfs-discuss] [osol-help] ZFS list snapshots incurs large delay

2010-07-13 Thread Giovanni Tirloni
and packages, so I can't envision that. Would anyone have any ideas what may cause this? It could be a disk failing and dragging I/O down with it. Try to check for high asvc_t with `iostat -XCn 1` and errors in `iostat -En` Any timeouts or retries in /var/adm/messages ? -- Giovanni Tirloni gtirl

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs send/recv hanging in 2009.06

2010-07-09 Thread Giovanni Tirloni
release. -- Giovanni Tirloni gtirl...@sysdroid.com ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] NexentaStor 3.0.3 vs OpenSolaris - Patches more up to date?

2010-07-06 Thread Giovanni Tirloni
://www.nexenta.com/corp/documentation/nexentastor-changelog Is there a bug tracker were one can objectively list all the bugs (with details) that went into a release ? Many bug fixes is a bit too general. -- Giovanni Tirloni gtirl...@sysdroid.com ___ zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] WD caviar/mpt issues

2010-06-23 Thread Giovanni Tirloni
. -- Giovanni Tirloni gtirl...@sysdroid.com ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] WD caviar/mpt issues

2010-06-23 Thread Giovanni Tirloni
driver by default uses scsi_vhci, and scsi_vhci by default does load-balance round-robin. Have you tried setting load-balance=none in scsi_vhci.conf? That didn't help. -- Giovanni Tirloni gtirl...@sysdroid.com ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] WD caviar/mpt issues

2010-06-22 Thread Giovanni Tirloni
anymore so I'm guessing it's something related to the mpt_sas driver. I submitted bug #6963321 a few minutes ago (not available yet). -- Giovanni Tirloni gtirl...@sysdroid.com ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http

Re: [zfs-discuss] zpool export / import discrepancy

2010-06-15 Thread Giovanni Tirloni
On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 1:56 PM, Scott Squires ssqui...@gmail.com wrote: Is ZFS dependent on the order of the drives?  Will this cause any issue down the road?  Thank you all; No. In your case the logical names changed but ZFS managed to order the disks correctly as they were before. --

Re: [zfs-discuss] Ideal SATA/SAS Controllers for ZFS

2010-05-27 Thread Giovanni Tirloni
On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 2:39 AM, Marc Bevand m.bev...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Brandon High bhigh at freaks.com writes: I only looked at the Megaraid that he mentioned, which has a PCIe 1.0 4x interface, or 1000MB/s. You mean x8 interface (theoretically plugged into that x4 slot below...)

Re: [zfs-discuss] Ideal SATA/SAS Controllers for ZFS

2010-05-26 Thread Giovanni Tirloni
On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 2:19 AM, Marc Bevand m.bev...@gmail.com wrote: Deon Cui deon.cui at gmail.com writes: So I had a bunch of them lying around. We've bought a 16x SAS hotswap case and I've put in an AMD X4 955 BE with an ASUS M4A89GTD Pro as the mobo. In the two 16x PCI-E slots I've

Re: [zfs-discuss] Ideal SATA/SAS Controllers for ZFS

2010-05-26 Thread Giovanni Tirloni
On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 9:22 PM, Brandon High bh...@freaks.com wrote: On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 4:27 PM, Giovanni Tirloni gtirl...@sysdroid.com wrote: SuperMicro X8DTi motherboard SuperMicro SC846E1 chassis (3Gb/s backplane) LSI 9211-4i (PCIex x4) connected to backplane with a SFF-8087 cable

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Hard disk buffer at 100%

2010-05-07 Thread Giovanni Tirloni
On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 8:07 AM, Emily Grettel emilygrettelis...@hotmail.com wrote: Hi, I've had my RAIDz volume working well on SNV_131 but it has come to my attention that there has been some read issues with the drives. Previously I thought this was a CIFS problem but I'm noticing that

Re: [zfs-discuss] Loss of L2ARC SSD Behaviour

2010-05-06 Thread Giovanni Tirloni
On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 1:18 AM, Edward Ned Harvey solar...@nedharvey.comwrote: From the information I've been reading about the loss of a ZIL device, What the heck? Didn't I just answer that question? I know I said this is answered in ZFS Best Practices Guide.

Re: [zfs-discuss] What about this status report

2010-03-27 Thread Giovanni Tirloni
On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 6:02 PM, Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote: Bob Friesenhahn bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us writes: On Sat, 27 Mar 2010, Harry Putnam wrote: What to do with a status report like the one included below? What does it mean to have an unrecoverable error but no

Re: [zfs-discuss] Moving drives around...

2010-03-23 Thread Giovanni Tirloni
On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 2:00 PM, Ray Van Dolson rvandol...@esri.com wrote: Kind of a newbie question here -- or I haven't been able to find great search terms for this... Does ZFS recognize zpool members based on drive serial number or some other unique, drive-associated ID? Or is it based

Re: [zfs-discuss] Proposition of a new zpool property.

2010-03-20 Thread Giovanni Tirloni
On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 4:07 PM, Svein Skogen sv...@stillbilde.net wrote: We all know that data corruption may happen, even on the most reliable of hardware. That's why zfs har pool scrubbing. Could we introduce a zpool option (as in zpool set optionname pool) for scrub period, in number of

Re: [zfs-discuss] lazy zfs destroy

2010-03-18 Thread Giovanni Tirloni
On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 1:19 AM, Chris Paul chris.p...@rexconsulting.netwrote: OK I have a very large zfs snapshot I want to destroy. When I do this, the system nearly freezes during the zfs destroy. This is a Sun Fire X4600 with 128GB of memory. Now this may be more of a function of the IO

Re: [zfs-discuss] Posible newbie question about space between zpool and zfs file systems

2010-03-17 Thread Giovanni Tirloni
On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 9:34 AM, David Dyer-Bennet d...@dd-b.net wrote: On 3/16/2010 23:21, Erik Trimble wrote: On 3/16/2010 8:29 PM, David Dyer-Bennet wrote: On 3/16/2010 17:45, Erik Trimble wrote: David Dyer-Bennet wrote: On Tue, March 16, 2010 14:59, Erik Trimble wrote: Has there

Re: [zfs-discuss] How to reserve space for a file on a zfs filesystem

2010-03-17 Thread Giovanni Tirloni
On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 6:43 AM, wensheng liu vincent.li...@gmail.comwrote: Hi all, How to reserve a space on a zfs filesystem? For mkfiel or dd will write data to the block, it is time consuming. whiel mkfile -n will not really hold the space. And zfs's set reservation only work on

Re: [zfs-discuss] Posible newbie question about space between zpool and zfs file systems

2010-03-17 Thread Giovanni Tirloni
On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 11:23 AM, casper@sun.com wrote: IMHO, what matters is that pretty much everything from the disk controller to the CPU and network interface is advertised in power-of-2 terms and disks sit alone using power-of-10. And students are taught that computers work with

Re: [zfs-discuss] Scrub not completing?

2010-03-17 Thread Giovanni Tirloni
On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 7:09 PM, Bill Sommerfeld sommerf...@sun.com wrote: On 03/17/10 14:03, Ian Collins wrote: I ran a scrub on a Solaris 10 update 8 system yesterday and it is 100% done, but not complete: scrub: scrub in progress for 23h57m, 100.00% done, 0h0m to go Don't panic. If

Re: [zfs-discuss] persistent L2ARC

2010-03-15 Thread Giovanni Tirloni
On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 5:39 PM, Abdullah Al-Dahlawi dahl...@ieee.orgwrote: Greeting ALL I understand that L2ARC is still under enhancement. Does any one know if ZFS can be upgrades to include Persistent L2ARC, ie. L2ARC will not loose its contents after system reboot ? There is a bug

Re: [zfs-discuss] Can you manually trigger spares?

2010-03-08 Thread Giovanni Tirloni
. You can try to import the pool again and see if `fmdump -e` lists any errors afterwards. You use the spare with `zpool replace`. -- Giovanni Tirloni sysdroid.com ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman

Re: [zfs-discuss] Hardware Failure Best Practices

2010-03-08 Thread Giovanni Tirloni
of encouragement or wisdom? What does `iostat -En` say ? My suggestion is to replace the cable that's connecting the c3t3d0 disk. IMHO, the cable is much more likely to be faulty than a single port on the disk controller. -- Giovanni Tirloni sysdroid.com ___ zfs

Re: [zfs-discuss] why L2ARC device is used to store files ?

2010-03-05 Thread Giovanni Tirloni
files being created on the SSD disk ? You can check device usage with `zpool iostat -v hdd`. Please also send the output of `zpool status hdd`. Thank you, -- Giovanni Tirloni sysdroid.com ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http

Re: [zfs-discuss] why L2ARC device is used to store files ?

2010-03-05 Thread Giovanni Tirloni
there is nothing to read back from later when a read() misses the ARC cache and checks L2ARC. I don't know what your OLTP benchmark does but my advice is to check if it's really writing files in the 'hdd' zpool mount point. -- Giovanni Tirloni sysdroid.com ___ zfs

Re: [zfs-discuss] Huge difference in reporting disk usage via du and zfs list. Fragmentation?

2010-03-04 Thread Giovanni Tirloni
of 3.7TByte. Please check the ZFS FAQ: http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/view/Community+Group+zfs/faq There is a question regarding the difference between du, df and zfs list. -- Giovanni Tirloni sysdroid.com ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Fishworks 2010Q1 and dedup bug?

2010-03-04 Thread Giovanni Tirloni
is incredible in terms of resilience and performance, no doubt. Which makes me think the pretty interface becomes an annoyance sometimes. Let's wait for 2010.Q1 :) -- Giovanni Tirloni sysdroid.com ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http

Re: [zfs-discuss] Snapshot recycle freezes system activity

2010-03-04 Thread Giovanni Tirloni
. For small datasets/snapshots that doesn't happen or is harder to notice. Does ZFS have to do something special when it's done releasing the data blocks at the end of the destroy operation ? -- Giovanni Tirloni sysdroid.com ___ zfs-discuss mailing list

Re: [zfs-discuss] Mirror Stripe

2010-03-01 Thread Giovanni Tirloni
together. AFAIK, RAID0+1 is not supported since a vdev can only be of type disk, mirror or raidz. And all vdevs are stripped together. Someone more experienced in ZFS can probably confirm/deny this. -- Giovanni Tirloni sysdroid.com ___ zfs-discuss mailing

[zfs-discuss] Slowing down zfs destroy

2010-02-26 Thread Giovanni Tirloni
0 0 0 c7t1d0 ONLINE 0 0 0 c7t2d0 ONLINE 0 0 0 cache c7t22d0ONLINE 0 0 0 spares c7t3d0 AVAIL Any ideas? Thank you, -- Giovanni Tirloni sysdroid.com

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS replace - many to one

2010-02-25 Thread Giovanni Tirloni
noted, it doesn't seem possible. You could create a new zpool with this larger LUN and use zfs send/receive to migrate your data. -- Giovanni Tirloni sysdroid.com ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman

Re: [zfs-discuss] Problems with sudden zfs capacity loss on snv_79a

2010-02-18 Thread Giovanni Tirloni
, and that makes us all very nervous. Any ideas? Is it possible that your users are now deleting everything before starting to write the backup data ? -- Giovanni Tirloni sysdroid.com ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http

Re: [zfs-discuss] verging OT: how to buy J4500 w/o overpriced drives

2010-02-10 Thread Giovanni Tirloni
On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 2:04 AM, Thomas Burgess wonsl...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Feb 08, 2010 at 09:33:12PM -0500, Thomas Burgess wrote: This is a far cry from an apples to apples comparison though. As much as I'm no fan of Apple, it's a pity they dropped ZFS because that would have

Re: [zfs-discuss] verging OT: how to buy J4500 w/o overpriced drives

2010-02-07 Thread Giovanni Tirloni
On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 1:58 PM, Tim Cook t...@cook.ms wrote: It's called spreading the costs around. Would you really rather pay 10x the price on everything else besides the drives? This is essentially Sun's way of tiered pricing. Rather than charge you a software fee based on how much

Re: [zfs-discuss] verging OT: how to buy J4500 w/o overpriced drives

2010-02-07 Thread Giovanni Tirloni
On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 9:07 PM, Marc Nicholas geekyth...@gmail.com wrote: I believe magical unicorn controllers and drives are both bug-free and 100% spec compliant. The leprichorns sell them if you're trying to find them ;) Well, perfect and bug free sure don't exist in our industry. The

Re: [zfs-discuss] hard drive choice, TLER/ERC/CCTL

2010-01-04 Thread Giovanni Tirloni
On Sat, Jan 2, 2010 at 4:07 PM, R.G. Keen k...@geofex.com wrote: OK. From the above suppositions, if we had a desktop (infinitely long retry on fail) disk and a soft-fail error in a sector, then the disk would effectively hang each time the sector was accessed. This would lead to (1) ZFS-SD-

Re: [zfs-discuss] hard drive choice, TLER/ERC/CCTL

2010-01-04 Thread Giovanni Tirloni
On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 3:51 PM, Joerg Schilling joerg.schill...@fokus.fraunhofer.de wrote: Giovanni Tirloni tirl...@gmail.com wrote: We use Seagate Barracuda ES.2 1TB disks and every time the OS starts to bang on a region of the disk with bad blocks (which essentially degrades the performance