[zfs-discuss] When I stab myself with this knife, it hurts... But - should it kill me?

2007-10-03 Thread Nathan Kroenert
this by accident and panic a big box for what I see as no good reason. (though I'm happy to be educated... ;) Oh - and also - Kudos to the ZFS team and the other involved in the whole iSCSI thing. So easy and funky. Great work guys... Cheers! Nathan. ___ zfs

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

2007-09-09 Thread Nathan Kroenert
And if there is a rubbish file somewhere, I *think* you should be able to cat /dev/null thatfile Which would free up it's blocks. Assuming you don't have snapshots... ;) Nathan. Anton B. Rang wrote: At least three alternatives -- 1. If you don't have the latest patches installed, apply

[zfs-discuss] NV_65 AMD64 - ZFS seems to write fast and slow to a single spindle

2007-08-26 Thread Nathan Kroenert
or just me being a bonehead and not understanding what I'm seeing, please respond to me directly, and I can provide access. (I'll make an effort not to reboot the box just in case it's only this boot that sees the problems.) Nathan. :) ___ zfs

Re: [zfs-discuss] Is there _any_ suitable motherboard?

2007-08-26 Thread Nathan Kroenert
) agpgart, instance #0 (driver name: agpgart) xsvc, instance #0 (driver name: xsvc) used-resources cpus cpu, instance #0 cpu, instance #1 Nathan. Ben Middleton wrote: I've just purchased an Asus P5K WS, which seems to work OK. I had to download the Marvell Yukon

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

2007-08-07 Thread Nathan Kroenert
anyways... My 2c... Nathan. Blake wrote: I have re-flashed the BIOS. Blake On 8/7/07, *Ian Collins* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Blake wrote: Hi. I'm running snv 65 and having an issue much like this: http://osdir.com/ml

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS, iSCSI + Mac OS X Tiger (globalSAN iSCSI)

2007-07-04 Thread Nathan Kroenert - Server ESG
only observed this with my super cheap adapters at home. I'm yet to see if (though also yet to try really hard) on the more expensive ones at work... Again - Likely nothing to do with your problem, but hey. It has made a difference for me before... Cheers. Nathan. George wrote: I have set up

[zfs-discuss] ZFS + ISCSI + LINUX QUESTIONS

2007-05-30 Thread Nathan Huisman
= PROBLEM To create a disk storage system that will act as an archive point for user data (Non-recoverable data), and also act as a back end storage unit for virtual machines at a block level. = BUDGET Currently I have about 25-30k to start the project, more could be allocated in the

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS not utilizing all disks

2007-05-10 Thread Nathan Kroenert
Simple test - mkfile 8gb now and see where the data goes... :) Victor Latushkin wrote: Robert Milkowski wrote: Hello Leon, Thursday, May 10, 2007, 10:43:27 AM, you wrote: LM Hello, LM I've got some weird problem: ZFS does not seem to be utilizing LM all disks in my pool properly. For some

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: [osol-help] How to recover from rm *?

2007-02-20 Thread Nathan Kroenert
that provided dumb dumb protection would be very cool. I was saved a number of times by the hackery above... cheers! Nathan. Robert Milkowski wrote: Hello Jeremy, Monday, February 19, 2007, 1:58:18 PM, you wrote: Something similar was proposed here before and IIRC someone even has a working

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: [osol-help] How to recover from rm *?

2007-02-20 Thread Nathan Kroenert
... A salvage / undelete would have been gold. Nathan. James Dickens wrote: Yes - Snapshots are great, but how often do you run a snapshot? Every 60 seconds? That's going to get real ugly if you have a filesystem per user... I'm sure every 15 minutes is suffient, if the worker doesn't have a slight

[zfs-discuss] ZFS checksums - block or file level

2007-02-01 Thread Nathan Essex
I am trying to understand if zfs checksums apply at a file or a block level. We know that zfs provides end to end checksum integrity, and I assumed that when I write a file to a zfs filesystem, the checksum was calculated at a file level, as opposed to say, a block level. However, I have

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: Cheap ZFS homeserver.

2007-01-31 Thread Nathan Kroenert
Urk! Where is this documented? And - is it something you can do nothing about, or are we ultimately trying to address it somewhere / somehow? Thanks!! Nathan. Bill Moore wrote: On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 05:01:19AM -0800, Tom Buskey wrote: As a followup, the system I'm trying to use

Re: [zfs-discuss] hot spares - in standby?

2007-01-29 Thread Nathan Kroenert
are rotated, we end up with a whole bunch of disks that are evenly worn out again, which is just what we are really trying to avoid! ;) Nathan. Wee Yeh Tan wrote: On 1/30/07, David Magda [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What about a rotating spare? When setting up a pool a lot of people would (say

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS on a damaged disk

2006-12-13 Thread Nathan Kroenert
these days. If the disk is not super old, you might be able to get it replaced under warranty if you send it directly to the manufacturer... Hope this helps at least provide some ideas. :) Oh - and get a new disk. ;) Nathan. Patrick P Korsnick wrote: i have a machine with a disk

Re: [zfs-discuss] weird thing with zfs

2006-12-05 Thread Nathan Kroenert
Hm. If the disk has no label, why would it have an s0? Or, did you mean p0? Nathan. On Wed, 2006-12-06 at 04:45, Krzys wrote: Does not work :( dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/rdsk/c3t6d0s0 bs=1024k count=1024 dd: opening `/dev/rdsk/c3t6d0s0': I/O error That is so strange... it seems like I

Re: [zfs-discuss] snv_51 hangs

2006-11-14 Thread Nathan Kroenert
-a to drop to the debugger... That's assuming it's not a hard hang. :) Cheers. Nathan. On Wed, 2006-11-15 at 14:16, Sean Ye wrote: Hi, Chris, You may force a panic by reboot -d. Thanks, Sean On Tue, Nov 14, 2006 at 09:11:58PM -0600, Chris Csanady wrote: I have experienced two hangs so

Re: [zfs-discuss] Best Practices recommendation on x4200

2006-11-08 Thread Nathan Kroenert
/onnv/onnv-gate/usr/src/uts/common/io/lvm/mirror/mirror_ioctl.c#887 Or, perhaps I need more coffee... Cheers! Nathan. ;) ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] OpenSolaris vs. Solaris 10 11/06 (S10u3) for NFS ZFS Server

2006-11-08 Thread Nathan Kroenert
feature that excites me. As far as whiz-bang things that would excite you, only you will know that for sure. :) Cheers! Nathan. On Thu, 2006-11-09 at 08:58, Wes Williams wrote: I'm in the process of building a Solaris NFS server with ZFS and was wondering if any gurus here have any comments

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: Where is the ZFS configuration data stored?

2006-10-12 Thread Nathan Kroenert
. It should just work, as ZFS will be able to just import the zpool. I hope I understood your question. (And I hope I'm telling no lies... ;) Nathan. Sergey wrote: + a little addition to the original quesion: Imagine that you have a RAID attached to Solaris server. There's ZFS on RAID

Re: [zfs-discuss] zpool list No known data errors

2006-10-09 Thread Nathan Kroenert
I might be wrong here, but I think it's telling you that there are no errors. Something like: errors: none or errors: None that we know of, but we'll let you know if there are any. At least that is how I'd read it. :) Do you have an actual problem other than the text? Nathan. On Tue

Re: [zfs-discuss] Significant pauses during zfs writes

2006-08-14 Thread Nathan Kroenert
... :) Nathan. On Tue, 2006-08-15 at 01:38, James C. McPherson wrote: Bob Evans wrote: Just getting my feet wet with zfs. I set up a test system (Sunblade 1000, dual channel scsi card, disk array with 14x18GB 15K RPM SCSI disks) and was trying to write a large file (10 GB) to the array to see

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs sucking down my memory!?

2006-07-20 Thread Nathan Kroenert
when it exits, you have lots of memory free, and nothing swapped out, it's all good. :) quick, dirty, possibly even smelly, with no error checking at all... :) Nathan. On Fri, 2006-07-21 at 09:28, Eric Schrock wrote: There two things to note here: 1. The vast majority of the memory

Re: [zfs-discuss] zpool unavailable after reboot

2006-07-17 Thread Nathan Kroenert
to a raidz or something like that (if it's even possible) and announce the reduction in reliability. Thoughts? :) Nathan. On Mon, 2006-07-17 at 18:35, Jeff Bonwick wrote: I have a 10 disk raidz pool running Solaris 10 U2, and after a reboot the whole pool became unavailable after apparently

[zfs-discuss] The ZFS Read / Write roundabout

2006-06-30 Thread Nathan Kroenert
this? Also - When dding the raw slice that zfs is using, I noticed that my IO rate also seesawed up and down between 31MB/s and 28MB/s, over a 5 second interval... I was not expecting that... Thoughts? Thanks! :) Nathan. Here is the iostat example - extended device

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: ZFS Wiki?

2006-06-25 Thread Nathan Kroenert
could look to address that... Personally, I'd prefer to read a manpage than scour the web for a tutorial that may or may not be current. hm... man zfs_tutorial? :) Nathan. On Mon, 2006-06-26 at 10:34, Nathanael Burton wrote: Currently the Genunix facility, including the wiki, is a resource

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS questions

2006-06-20 Thread Nathan Kroenert
there is actually data? :) Nathan. On Wed, 2006-06-21 at 06:25, Eric Schrock wrote: On Tue, Jun 20, 2006 at 02:18:34PM -0600, Gregory Shaw wrote: Wouldn't that be: 5 seconds per write = 86400/5 = 17280 writes per day 256 rotated locations for 17280/256 = 67 writes per location per day

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS root filesystem and sys-suspend(1M) ?

2006-05-30 Thread Nathan Kroenert
Not X86? :( (Yes - I know there are lots of other things that need to happen first, but :( nonetheless... ) Nathan. On Wed, 2006-05-31 at 01:51, Lori Alt wrote: Roland Mainz wrote: Hi! It is our intention to support system suspend on SPARC when booted off a zfs root file system

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: Re: zfs snapshot for backup, Quota

2006-05-18 Thread Nathan Kroenert
? Nathan. :) On Fri, 2006-05-19 at 05:12, Eric Schrock wrote: On Thu, May 18, 2006 at 11:42:58AM -0700, Charlie wrote: Sorry to revive such an old thread.. but I'm struggling here. I really want to use zfs. Fssnap, SVM, etc all have drawbacks. But I work for a University, where everyone has

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