Re: [zfs-discuss] cannot destroy, volume is busy

2013-02-21 Thread John D Groenveld
ank. >If you suspect STMF, then try > stmfadm list-lu -v Bingo! Deleted the LU and destroyed the volume. John groenv...@acm.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

[zfs-discuss] cannot destroy, volume is busy

2013-02-21 Thread John D Groenveld
mp or swap device and that iSCSI is disabled. On Solaris 11.1, how would I determine what's busying it? John groenv...@acm.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] HELP! RPool problem

2013-02-16 Thread John D Groenveld
rive. If it imports, you will be able to installgrub(1M). >By the way, whatever the error message is when booting, it disapears so >quickly I can't read it, so I am only guessing that this is the reason. Boot with kernel debugger so you ca

Re: [zfs-discuss] pool metadata has duplicate children

2013-01-08 Thread John Giannandrea
Gregg Wonderly wrote: > Have you tried importing the pool with that drive completely unplugged? Thanks for your reply. I just tried that. zpool import now says: pool: d id: 13178956075737687211 state: FAULTED status: The pool metadata is corrupted. action: The pool cannot be im

[zfs-discuss] pool metadata has duplicate children

2013-01-08 Thread John Giannandrea
I seem to have managed to end up with a pool that is confused abut its children disks. The pool is faulted with corrupt metadata: pool: d state: FAULTED status: The pool metadata is corrupted and the pool cannot be opened. action: Destroy and re-create the pool from a backup source.

Re: [zfs-discuss] The format command crashes on 3TB disk but zpool create ok

2012-12-13 Thread John D Groenveld
# pstack core John groenv...@acm.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] dm-crypt + ZFS on Linux

2012-11-23 Thread John Baxter
Replacing the SANs is cost prohibitive. On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 10:24 AM, Tim Cook wrote: > > > On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 9:49 AM, John Baxter wrote: > >> >> We have the need to encypt our data, approximately 30TB on three ZFS >> volumes under Solaris 10. The vol

[zfs-discuss] dm-crypt + ZFS on Linux

2012-11-23 Thread John Baxter
After searching for dm-crypt and ZFS on Linux and finding too little information, I shall ask here. Please keep in mind this in the context of running this in a production environment. We have the need to encypt our data, approximately 30TB on three ZFS volumes under Solaris 10. The volumes curren

[zfs-discuss] horrible slow pool

2012-10-11 Thread Carsten John
Hello everybody, I just wanted to share my experience with a (partially) broken SSD that was in use in a ZIL mirror. We experienced a dramatic performance problem with one of our zpools, serving home directories. Mainly NFS clients were affected. Our SunRay infrastructure came to a complete ha

Re: [zfs-discuss] Sol11 time-slider / snapshot not starting [SOLVED]

2012-09-11 Thread Carsten John
-Original message- To: zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org; From: Carsten John Sent: Tue 11-09-2012 13:08 Subject:[zfs-discuss] Sol11 time-slider / snapshot not starting [again] > Hello everybody, > > my time-slider service on a Sol11 machine died. I already >

[zfs-discuss] Sol11 time-slider / snapshot not starting [again]

2012-09-11 Thread Carsten John
Hello everybody, my time-slider service on a Sol11 machine died. I already deinstalled/installed the time-slider packeage, restarted manifest-import service etc., but no success. /var/svc/log/application-time-slider:default.log: --snip-- [ Sep 11 12:40:04 Enabled. ] [ Sep 11 12:40:04 Execu

Re: [zfs-discuss] Can the ZFS "copies" attribute substitute HW disk redundancy?

2012-07-30 Thread John Martin
On 07/29/12 14:52, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: My opinion is that complete hard drive failure and block-level media failure are two totally different things. That would depend on the recovery behavior of the drive for block-level media failure. A drive whose firmware does excessive (reports of up

Re: [zfs-discuss] Very poor small-block random write performance

2012-07-19 Thread John Martin
On 07/19/12 19:27, Jim Klimov wrote: However, if the test file was written in 128K blocks and then is rewritten with 64K blocks, then Bob's answer is probably valid - the block would have to be re-read once for the first rewrite of its half; it might be taken from cache for the second half's rew

Re: [zfs-discuss] New fast hash algorithm - is it needed?

2012-07-10 Thread John Martin
On 07/10/12 19:56, Sašo Kiselkov wrote: Hi guys, I'm contemplating implementing a new fast hash algorithm in Illumos' ZFS implementation to supplant the currently utilized sha256. On modern 64-bit CPUs SHA-256 is actually much slower than SHA-512 and indeed much slower than many of the SHA-3 can

[zfs-discuss] S11 zfs snapshot crash

2012-07-10 Thread John D Groenveld
_post_swapgs+0x149() # pkg info entire| grep Summary Summary: entire incorporation including Support Repository Update (Oracle Solaris 11 11/11 SRU 8.5). John groenv...@acm.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://ma

Re: [zfs-discuss] Sol11 missing snapshot facility [solved]

2012-07-06 Thread Carsten John
-Original message- To: Carsten John ; CC: zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org; From: Ian Collins Sent: Thu 05-07-2012 21:40 Subject:Re: [zfs-discuss] Sol11 missing snapshot facility > On 07/ 5/12 11:32 PM, Carsten John wrote: > > -Original message- > &

Re: [zfs-discuss] Sol11 missing snapshot facility

2012-07-05 Thread Carsten John
-Original message- To: Carsten John ; CC: zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org; From: Ian Collins Sent: Thu 05-07-2012 11:35 Subject:Re: [zfs-discuss] Sol11 missing snapshot facility > On 07/ 5/12 09:25 PM, Carsten John wrote: > > > Hi Ian, > > > >

Re: [zfs-discuss] Sol11 missing snapshot facility

2012-07-05 Thread Carsten John
-Original message- To: Carsten John ; CC: zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org; From: Ian Collins Sent: Thu 05-07-2012 09:59 Subject:Re: [zfs-discuss] Sol11 missing snapshot facility > On 07/ 5/12 06:52 PM, Carsten John wrote: > > Hello everybody, > > > >

[zfs-discuss] Sol11 missing snapshot facility

2012-07-04 Thread Carsten John
Hello everybody, for some reason I can not find the zfs-autosnapshot service facility any more. I already reinstalles time-slider, but it refuses to start: RuntimeError: Error reading SMF schedule instances Details: ['/usr/bin/svcs', '-H', '-o', 'state', 'svc:/system/filesystem/zfs/auto-snaps

Re: [zfs-discuss] Interaction between ZFS intent log and mmap'd files

2012-07-04 Thread John Martin
On 07/04/12 16:47, Nico Williams wrote: I don't see that the munmap definition assures that anything is written to "disk". The system is free to buffer the data in RAM as long as it likes without writing anything at all. Oddly enough the manpages at the Open Group don't make this clear. So I

Re: [zfs-discuss] snapshots slow on sol11? SOLVED

2012-06-29 Thread Carsten John
-Original message- To: Jim Klimov ; CC: ZFS Discussions ; From: Carsten John Sent: Wed 27-06-2012 08:48 Subject:Re: [zfs-discuss] snapshots slow on sol11? > -Original message- > CC: ZFS Discussions ; > From: Jim Klimov > Sent: Tue 26-0

Re: [zfs-discuss] snapshots slow on sol11?

2012-06-26 Thread Carsten John
-Original message- CC: ZFS Discussions ; From: Jim Klimov Sent: Tue 26-06-2012 22:34 Subject:Re: [zfs-discuss] snapshots slow on sol11? > 2012-06-26 23:57, Carsten John wrote: > > Hello everybody, > > > > I recently migrated a file server (NFS &

[zfs-discuss] snapshots slow on sol11?

2012-06-26 Thread Carsten John
Hello everybody, I recently migrated a file server (NFS & Samba) from OpenSolaris (Build 111) to Sol11. This the move we are facing random (or random looking) outages of our Samba. As we have moved several folders (like Desktop and ApplicationData) out of the usual profile to a folder inside th

Re: [zfs-discuss] Migrating 512 byte block zfs root pool to 4k disks

2012-06-16 Thread John Martin
On 06/16/12 12:23, Richard Elling wrote: On Jun 15, 2012, at 7:37 AM, Hung-Sheng Tsao Ph.D. wrote: by the way when you format start with cylinder 1 donot use 0 There is no requirement for skipping cylinder 0 for root on Solaris, and there never has been. Maybe not for core Solaris, but it i

Re: [zfs-discuss] Migrating 512 byte block zfs root pool to 4k disks

2012-06-15 Thread John Martin
On 06/15/12 15:52, Cindy Swearingen wrote: Its important to identify your OS release to determine if booting from a 4k disk is supported. In addition, whether the drive is really 4096p or 512e/4096p. ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolar

Re: [zfs-discuss] (fwd) Re: ZFS NFS service hanging on Sunday morning

2012-06-14 Thread John D Groenveld
In message <201206141413.q5eedvzq017...@mklab.ph.rhul.ac.uk>, tpc...@mklab.ph.r hul.ac.uk writes: >Memory: 2048M phys mem, 32M free mem, 16G total swap, 16G free swap My WAG is that your "zpool history" is hanging due to lack of RAM. Joh

Re: [zfs-discuss] Is there an actual newsgroup for zfs-discuss?

2012-06-11 Thread John D Groenveld
In message <008c01cd4812$7399c180$5acd4480$@net>, David Combs writes: >Actual newsgroup for zfs-discuss? Did you try Gmane's interface? http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=jo43q0%24no50%241%40tr22n12.aset.psu.edu> John groenv...@acm.org __

Re: [zfs-discuss] Spare drive inherited cksum errors?

2012-05-29 Thread John D Groenveld
>different updates. $ pkg info entire John groenv...@acm.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Advanced Format HDD's - are we there yet? (or - how to buy a drive that won't be teh sux0rs on zfs)

2012-05-29 Thread John Martin
On 05/29/12 07:26, bofh wrote: ashift:9 is that standard? Depends on what the drive reports as physical sector size. ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Advanced Format HDD's - are we there yet? (or - how to buy a drive that won't be teh sux0rs on zfs)

2012-05-29 Thread John Martin
On 05/29/12 08:35, Nathan Kroenert wrote: Hi John, Actually, last time I tried the whole AF (4k) thing, it's performance was worse than woeful. But admittedly, that was a little while ago. The drives were the seagate green barracuda IIRC, and performance for just about everything was 2

Re: [zfs-discuss] Advanced Format HDD's - are we there yet? (or - how to buy a drive that won't be teh sux0rs on zfs)

2012-05-29 Thread John Martin
On 05/28/12 08:48, Nathan Kroenert wrote: Looking to get some larger drives for one of my boxes. It runs exclusively ZFS and has been using Seagate 2TB units up until now (which are 512 byte sector). Anyone offer up suggestions of either 3 or preferably 4TB drives that actually work well with Z

Re: [zfs-discuss] kernel panic during zfs import [UPDATE]

2012-04-17 Thread Carsten John
Hello everybody, just to let you know what happened in the meantime: I was able to open a Service Request at Oracle. The issue is a known bug (Bug 6742788 : assertion panic at: zfs:zap_deref_leaf) The bug has bin fixed (according to Oracle support) since build 164, but there is no fix for Sola

Re: [zfs-discuss] kernel panic during zfs import [ORACLE should notice this]

2012-03-30 Thread Carsten John
-Original message- To: zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org; From: John D Groenveld Sent: Fri 30-03-2012 21:47 Subject:Re: [zfs-discuss] kernel panic during zfs import [ORACLE should notice this] > In message <4f735451.2020...@oracle.com>, Deepak Honnalli writes: >

Re: [zfs-discuss] kernel panic during zfs import [ORACLE should notice this]

2012-03-30 Thread John D Groenveld
about the modalities of transferring the core > file though. I will ask around and see if I can help you here. How to Upload Data to Oracle Such as Explorer and Core Files [ID 1020199.1] John groenv...@acm.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs

Re: [zfs-discuss] Good tower server for around 1,250 USD?

2012-03-30 Thread John D Groenveld
:2091882785479247::NO:RP,6:P6_LPI:27242443094470222098916> John groenv...@acm.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

[zfs-discuss] Puzzling problem with zfs receive exit status

2012-03-29 Thread Carsten John
-Original message- To: zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org; From: Borja Marcos Sent: Thu 29-03-2012 11:49 Subject:[zfs-discuss] Puzzling problem with zfs receive exit status > > Hello, > > I hope someone has an idea. > > I have a replication program that copies a dataset from

Re: [zfs-discuss] kernel panic during zfs import [ORACLE should notice this]

2012-03-28 Thread John D Groenveld
eping systems running and not clicking through f >lash overloaded support portals searching for CSIs, I'm giving the relevant in >formation to the list now. If the Flash interface is broken, try the non-Flash MOS site: http://SupportHTML.Oracle.COM/> John groenv...@acm.org ___

[zfs-discuss] kernel panic during zfs import [ORACLE should notice this]

2012-03-28 Thread Carsten John
-Original message- To: zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org; From: Deepak Honnalli Sent: Wed 28-03-2012 09:12 Subject:Re: [zfs-discuss] kernel panic during zfs import > Hi Carsten, > > This was supposed to be fixed in build 164 of Nevada (6742788). If > you are still seeing

Re: [zfs-discuss] kernel panic during zfs import

2012-03-28 Thread Carsten John
-Original message- To: ZFS Discussions ; From: Paul Kraus Sent: Tue 27-03-2012 15:05 Subject:Re: [zfs-discuss] kernel panic during zfs import > On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 3:14 AM, Carsten John wrote: > > Hallo everybody, > > > > I have a Solaris 11 box

[zfs-discuss] kernel panic during zfs import

2012-03-27 Thread Carsten John
Hallo everybody, I have a Solaris 11 box here (Sun X4270) that crashes with a kernel panic during the import of a zpool (some 30TB) containing ~500 zfs filesystems after reboot. This causes a reboot loop, until booted single user and removed /etc/zfs/zpool.cache. >From /var/adm/messages: sav

Re: [zfs-discuss] Good tower server for around 1,250 USD?

2012-03-26 Thread John D Groenveld
upport Solaris running on third-party hardware. http://www.oracle.com/webfolder/technetwork/hcl/hcts/index.html> John groenv...@acm.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Good tower server for around 1,250 USD?

2012-03-24 Thread The Honorable Senator and Mrs . John Blutarsky
laotsu said: > well check this link > > https://shop.oracle.com/pls/ostore/product?p1=3DSunFireX4270M2server&p2=3D&p= > 3=3D&p4=3D&sc=3Docom_x86_SunFireX4270M2server&tz=3D-4:00 > > you may not like the price Hahahah! Thanks for the laugh. The dual 10Gbe PCI card breaks my budget. I'm not going t

Re: [zfs-discuss] Good tower server for around 1,250 USD?

2012-03-23 Thread The Honorable Senator and Mrs . John Blutarsky
On Fri Mar 23 at 10:06:12 2012 laot...@gmail.com wrote: > well > use component of x4170m2 as example you will be ok > intel cpu > lsi sas controller non raid > sas 72rpm hdd > my 2c That sounds too vague to be useful unless I could afford an X4170M2. I can't build a custom box and I don't have th

Re: [zfs-discuss] Good tower server for around 1,250 USD?

2012-03-23 Thread The Honorable Senator and Mrs . John Blutarsky
Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > On Thu, 22 Mar 2012, The Honorable Senator and Mrs. John Blutarsky wrote: > > > > This will be a do-everything machine. I will use it for development, hosting > > various apps in zones (web, file server, mail server etc.) and running other > >

[zfs-discuss] Good tower server for around 1,250 USD?

2012-03-22 Thread The Honorable Senator and Mrs . John Blutarsky
Ladies and Gentlemen, I'm thinking about spending around 1,250 USD for a tower format (desk side) server with RAM but without disks. I'd like to have 16G ECC RAM as a minimum and ideally 2 or 3 times that amount and I'd like for the case to have room for at least 6 drives, more would be better but

Re: [zfs-discuss] Any recommendations on Perc H700 controller on Dell Rx10 ?

2012-03-10 Thread John D Groenveld
MegaCli -PDMakeJBOD -PhysDrv[E0:S0,E1:S1,...] -aALL John groenv...@acm.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

[zfs-discuss] zfs send/receive script

2012-03-06 Thread Carsten John
Hello everybody, I set up a script to replicate all zfs filesystems (some 300 user home directories in this case) within a given pool to a "mirror" machine. The basic idea is to send the snapshots incremental if the corresponding snapshot exists on the remote side or send a complete snapshot if

[zfs-discuss] zfs import from i86 to sparc

2012-03-06 Thread Carsten John
Hi everybody, are there any problems to expect if we try to export/import a zfs pool from opensolaris (intel) (zpool version 14) to solaris 10 (sparc) (zpool version 19)? thanks Carsten ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http:/

Re: [zfs-discuss] 4k sector support in Solaris 11?

2012-02-21 Thread John D Groenveld
In message <4f435ca9.8010...@tuneunix.com>, nathank writes: >Is there actually a fix to allow manual setting of ashift now that I No. http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E23824_01/html/821-1462/zpool-1m.html> John groenv...@acm.org ___ zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] 4k sector support in Solaris 11?

2012-02-16 Thread John D Groenveld
2 out of the box or will Yes. John groenv...@acm.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] What is your data error rate?

2012-01-25 Thread John Martin
On 01/25/12 09:08, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: Assuming the failure rate of drives is not linear, but skewed toward higher failure rate after some period of time (say, 3 yrs) ... See section 3.1 of the Google study: http://research.google.com/archive/disk_failures.pdf although section 4.2 o

Re: [zfs-discuss] What is your data error rate?

2012-01-24 Thread John Martin
On 01/24/12 17:06, Gregg Wonderly wrote: What I've noticed, is that when I have my drives in a situation of small airflow, and hence hotter operating temperatures, my disks will drop quite quickly. While I *believe* the same thing and thus have over provisioned airflow in my cases (for both dri

Re: [zfs-discuss] Data loss by memory corruption?

2012-01-16 Thread John Martin
On 01/16/12 11:08, David Magda wrote: The conclusions are hardly unreasonable: While the reliability mechanisms in ZFS are able to provide reasonable robustness against disk corruptions, memory corruptions still remain a serious problem to data integrity. I've heard the same thing said ("use

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs read-ahead and L2ARC

2012-01-09 Thread John Martin
On 01/08/12 10:15, John Martin wrote: I believe Joerg Moellenkamp published a discussion several years ago on how L1ARC attempt to deal with the pollution of the cache by large streaming reads, but I don't have a bookmark handy (nor the knowledge of whether the behavior is still acc

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs read-ahead and L2ARC

2012-01-09 Thread John Martin
On 01/08/12 20:10, Jim Klimov wrote: Is it true or false that: ZFS might skip the cache and go to disks for "streaming" reads? I don't believe this was ever suggested. Instead, if data is not already in the file system cache and a large read is made from disk should the file system put this d

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs read-ahead and L2ARC

2012-01-08 Thread John Martin
On 01/08/12 11:30, Jim Klimov wrote: However for smaller servers, such as home NASes which have about one user overall, pre-reading and caching files even for a single use might be an objective per se - just to let the hard-disks spin down. Say, if I sit down to watch a movie from my NAS, it is

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs read-ahead and L2ARC

2012-01-08 Thread John Martin
On 01/08/12 09:30, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: In the case of your MP3 collection... Probably the only thing you can do is to write a script which will simply go read all the files you predict will be read soon. The key here is the prediction - There's no way ZFS or solaris, or any other OS in th

Re: [zfs-discuss] Can I create a mirror for a root rpool?

2011-12-15 Thread John D Groenveld
http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E23823_01/html/819-5461/ggset.html#gkdep> | How to Create a Mirrored ZFS Root Pool (Postinstallation) John groenv...@acm.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] weird bug with Seagate 3TB USB3 drive

2011-12-05 Thread John D Groenveld
xpress SRU 12 to S11 FCS. Solaris 11 11/11 still spews the "I/O request is not aligned with 4096 disk sector size" warnings but zpool(1M) create's label persists and I can export and import between systems. John groenv...@acm.org ___ zfs-discuss m

Re: [zfs-discuss] weird bug with Seagate 3TB USB3 drive

2011-11-10 Thread John D Groenveld
S11, I'll reproduce on a more recent kernel build. Thanks, John groenv...@acm.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] weird bug with Seagate 3TB USB3 drive

2011-10-18 Thread John D Groenveld
In message <4e9db04b.80...@oracle.com>, Cindy Swearingen writes: >This is CR 7102272. Anyone out there have Western Digital's competing 3TB Passport drive handy to duplicate this bug? John groenv...@acm.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing li

Re: [zfs-discuss] weird bug with Seagate 3TB USB3 drive

2011-10-18 Thread John D Groenveld
; >SunOS 5.11 151.0.1.12 i386 > >You might retry this on more recent bits, like the EA release, >which I think is b 171. Doubtful I'll find time to install EA before S11 FCS's November launch. >I'll still file the CR. Thank you. John groenv...@acm.org __

Re: [zfs-discuss] weird bug with Seagate 3TB USB3 drive

2011-10-18 Thread John D Groenveld
# uname -srvp SunOS 5.11 151.0.1.12 i386 # zpool destroy foobar # newfs /dev/rdsk/c1t0d0s0 newfs: construct a new file system /dev/rdsk/c1t0d0s0: (y/n)? y The device sector size 4096 is not supported by ufs! John groenv...@acm.org ___ zfs-discus

Re: [zfs-discuss] weird bug with Seagate 3TB USB3 drive

2011-10-18 Thread John D Groenveld
In message <201110150202.p9f22w2n000...@elvis.arl.psu.edu>, John D Groenveld writes: >I'm baffled why zpool import is unable to find the pool on the >drive, but the drive is definitely functional. Per Richard Elling, it looks like ZFS is unable to find the requisite labels for

Re: [zfs-discuss] weird bug with Seagate 3TB USB3 drive

2011-10-14 Thread John D Groenveld
x27;m baffled why zpool import is unable to find the pool on the drive, but the drive is definitely functional. John groenv...@acm.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] weird bug with Seagate 3TB USB3 drive

2011-10-13 Thread John D Groenveld
In message <4e970387.3040...@oracle.com>, Cindy Swearingen writes: >Any USB-related messages in /var/adm/messages for this device? Negative. cfgadm(1M) shows the drive and format->fdisk->analyze->read runs merrily. John groenv...@acm.org _

Re: [zfs-discuss] weird bug with Seagate 3TB USB3 drive

2011-10-13 Thread John D Groenveld
ot import it. John groenv...@acm.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] weird bug with Seagate 3TB USB3 drive

2011-10-12 Thread John D Groenveld
nd c1t0d0 fdisk partitions and Solaris slices presumably hunting for pools. John groenv...@acm.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] weird bug with Seagate 3TB USB3 drive

2011-10-12 Thread John D Groenveld
In message <4e95cb2a.30...@oracle.com>, Cindy Swearingen writes: >What is the error when you attempt to import this pool? "cannot import 'foo': no such pool available" John groenv...@acm.org # format -e Searching for disks...done AVAILABLE DISK SELECTIONS:

[zfs-discuss] weird bug with Seagate 3TB USB3 drive

2011-10-11 Thread John D Groenveld
can't import it. I thought weird USB connectivity issue, but I can run "format -> analyze -> read" merrily. Anyone seen this bug? John groenv...@acm.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.openso

Re: [zfs-discuss] bad seagate drive?

2011-09-12 Thread John Martin
On 09/12/11 10:33, Jens Elkner wrote: Hmmm, at least if S11x, ZFS mirror, ICH10 and cmdk (IDE) driver is involved, I'm 99.9% confident, that "a while" turns out to be some days or weeks, only - no matter what Platinium-Enterprise-HDDs you use ;-) On Solaris 11 Express with a dual drive mirror,

Re: [zfs-discuss] BAD WD drives - defective by design?

2011-09-06 Thread John Martin
http://wdc.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/1397/~/difference-between-desktop-edition-and-raid-%28enterprise%29-edition-drives ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

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

2011-08-19 Thread John D Groenveld
ce when run from within VirtualBox? John groenv...@acm.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

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

2011-08-15 Thread John D Groenveld
and try to import from a S11X LiveUSB. John groenv...@acm.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

[zfs-discuss] matching zpool versions to development builds

2011-08-08 Thread John Martin
Is there a list of zpool versions for development builds? I found: http://blogs.oracle.com/stw/entry/zfs_zpool_and_file_system where it says Solaris 11 Express is zpool version 31, but my system has BEs back to build 139 and I have not done a zpool upgrade since installing this system but it

[zfs-discuss] snapshots in solaris11 express

2011-07-26 Thread Carsten John
Hello everybody, is there any known way to configure the point-in-time *when* the time-slider will snapshot/rotate? With hundreds of zfs filesystems, the daily snapshot rotation slows down a big file server significantly, so it would be better to have the snapshots rotated outside the usual w

[zfs-discuss] The open sourced ZFS test suite

2011-07-19 Thread John Kennedy
derivative version for testing? -- John Wren Kennedy Delphix 275 Middlefield Road, Suite 50 Menlo Park, CA 94025 http://www.delphix.com/ ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] replace zil drive [SOLVED}

2011-06-28 Thread Carsten John
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/28/11 02:55, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: >> From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- >> boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Carsten John >> >> Now I'm wondering about the best option to

Re: [zfs-discuss] replace zil drive

2011-06-28 Thread Carsten John
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/28/11 02:55, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: >> From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- >> boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Carsten John >> >> Now I'm wondering about the best option to replace t

Re: [zfs-discuss] replace zil drive

2011-06-27 Thread Carsten John
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[zfs-discuss] replace zil drive

2011-06-27 Thread Carsten John
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello everybody, some time ago a SSD within a ZIL mirror died. As I had no SSD available to replace it, I dropped in a normal SAS harddisk to rebuild the mirror. In the meantime I got the warranty replacement SSD. Now I'm wondering about the best op

Re: [zfs-discuss] Resizing ZFS partition, shrinking NTFS?

2011-06-16 Thread John D Groenveld
ystem, recreate the rpool on slice 0 of that fdisk partition, use beadm(1M) to copy your BE back to your new rpool, and then restore any other ZFS from those snapshots. John groenv...@acm.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org h

Re: [zfs-discuss] Compatibility between Sun-Oracle Fishworks appliance zfs and other zfs implementations

2011-05-26 Thread John D Groenveld
ward is >still unknown. Ask Keith Block and company's sales critter about "Hardware from Oracle - Pricing for Education (HOPE)": http://www.oracle.com/ocom/groups/public/@ocom/documents/webcontent/364419.pdf> John groenv...@acm.org ___

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

2011-05-16 Thread John Doe
following are some thoughts if it's not too late: > 1 SuperMicro 847E1-R1400LPB I guess you meant the 847E1[b]6[/b]-R1400LPB, the SAS1 version makes no sense > 1 SuperMicro H8DG6-F not the best choice, see below why > 171 Hitachi 7K3000 3TB I'd go for the more environmentally

Re: [zfs-discuss] Changed ACL behavior in snv_151 ?

2011-01-26 Thread Ryan John
> -Original Message- > From: Frank Lahm [mailto:frankl...@googlemail.com] > Sent: 25 January 2011 14:50 > To: Ryan John > Cc: zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org > Subject: Re: [zfs-discuss] Changed ACL behavior in snv_151 ? > John, > welcome onboard! > 2011/1/25

Re: [zfs-discuss] Changed ACL behavior in snv_151 ?

2011-01-25 Thread Ryan John
I’m using /usr/bin/chmod From: phil.har...@gmail.com [mailto:phil.har...@gmail.com] Sent: 25 January 2011 14:50 To: Ryan John; zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org Subject: Re: [zfs-discuss] Changed ACL behavior in snv_151 ? Which chmod are you using? (check your PATH) - Reply message - From

[zfs-discuss] Changed ACL behavior in snv_151 ?

2011-01-25 Thread Ryan John
through Anyone any ideas? On a snv_134 system, the ACLs are retained. Regards John ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

[zfs-discuss] zfs roolback

2010-11-09 Thread John Goolsby
I'm trying to rollback from a bad patch install on Solaris 10. From the failsafe BE I tried to rollback, but zfs is asking me to provide allow rollback permissions. It's hard for me to tell exactly because the messages are scrolling off the screen before I can read them. Any help would be appr

Re: [zfs-discuss] How do you use >1 partition on x86?

2010-10-25 Thread John D Groenveld
ther half for another ZFS pool, but I can't figure out >how to access it. Use beadm(1M) to duplicate your BE to a USB disk, then boot it, then format/fdisk your workstation disk, then use beadm(1M) to duplicate your BE back to your workstat

Re: [zfs-discuss] BugID 6961707

2010-10-07 Thread John D Groenveld
In message <201008112022.o7bkmc2j028...@elvis.arl.psu.edu>, John D Groenveld wr ites: >I'm stumbling over BugID 6961707 on build 134. I see the bug has been stomped in build 150. Awesome! http://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6961707> In which build di

Re: [zfs-discuss] pool died during scrub

2010-09-01 Thread Carsten John
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jeff Bacon wrote: > I have a bunch of sol10U8 boxes with ZFS pools, most all raidz2 8-disk > stripe. They're all supermicro-based with retail LSI cards. > > I've noticed a tendency for things to go a little bonkers during the > weekly scrub (they all

Re: [zfs-discuss] VM's on ZFS - 7210

2010-08-27 Thread John
Wouldn't it be possible to saturate the SSD ZIL with enough backlogged sync writes? What I mean is, doesn't the ZIL eventually need to make it to the pool, and if the pool as a whole (spinning disks) can't keep up with 30+ vm's of write requests, couldn't you fill up the ZIL that way? -- This

Re: [zfs-discuss] Opensolaris is apparently dead

2010-08-18 Thread John D Groenveld
was sending my service order requests to /dev/null, but someone manually entered after I submitted web feedback. John groenv...@acm.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

[zfs-discuss] BugID 6961707

2010-08-11 Thread John D Groenveld
has anyone here hit this and gotten it resolved? Is the pool corrupted on disk? John groenv...@acm.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

[zfs-discuss] Optimal Disk configuration

2010-07-21 Thread John Andrunas
. JBOD, RAID zvols on both controllers. -- John ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

[zfs-discuss] Need ZFS master!

2010-07-12 Thread john
Hello all. I am new...very new to opensolaris and I am having an issue and have no idea what is going wrong. So I have 5 drives in my machine. all 500gb. I installed open solaris on the first drive and rebooted. . Now what I want to do is ad a second drive so they are mirrored. How does one do t

Re: [zfs-discuss] mount zfs boot disk on another server?

2010-06-17 Thread Seaman, John
Could you import it back on the original server with Zpool import -f newpool rpool? Jay -Original Message- From: Brandon High [mailto:bh...@freaks.com] Sent: Wednesday, June 16, 2010 2:19 PM To: Seaman, John Cc: zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org Subject: Re: [zfs-discuss] mount zfs boot disk

Re: [zfs-discuss] Dedup performance hit

2010-06-13 Thread John J Balestrini
d back onto the filesystem, is there another way to de-dedup the pool? Thanks, John On Jun 13, 2010, at 10:17 PM, Erik Trimble wrote: > Hernan F wrote: >> Hello, I tried enabling dedup on a filesystem, and moved files into it to >> take advantage of it. I had about 700GB of fi

[zfs-discuss] don't mount a zpool on boot

2010-05-20 Thread John Andrunas
Can I make a pool not mount on boot? I seem to recall reading somewhere how to do it, but can't seem to find it now. -- John ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs mount -a kernel panic

2010-05-19 Thread John Andrunas
OK, I got a core dump, what do I do with it now? It is 1.2G in size. On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 10:54 AM, John Andrunas wrote: > Hmmm... no coredump even though I configured it. > > Here is the trace though  I will see what I can do about the coredump > > r...@cluster:/export/

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