Re: [zfs-discuss] can you recover a pool if you lose the zil (b134+)

2010-05-17 Thread Richard Skelton
Hi Geoff, I also tested a ram disk as a zil and found I could recover the pool:- ramdiskadm -a zil 1g zpool create -f tank c1t3d0 c1t4d0 log /dev/ramdisk/zil zpool status tank reboot zpool status tank ramdiskadm -a zil 1g zpool replace -f tank /dev/ramdisk/zil zpool status tank Cheers Richard.

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Performance on SATA Deive

2010-04-19 Thread Richard Skelton
> On 18/03/10 08:36 PM, Kashif Mumtaz wrote: > > Hi, > > I did another test on both machine. And write > performance on ZFS extraordinary slow. > > Which build are you running? > > On snv_134, 2x dual-core cpus @ 3GHz and 8Gb ram (my > desktop), I > see these results: > > > $ time dd if=/dev/ze

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZIL errors but device seems OK

2010-04-15 Thread Richard Skelton
Hi, After a little bit more digging I found in /var/adm/messages:- Mar 25 13:13:08 brszfs02 scsi: [ID 107833 kern.warning] WARNING: /p...@0,0/pci-...@1f,2/i...@1 (ata1): Mar 25 13:13:08 brszfs02timeout: early timeout, target=1 lun=0 Mar 25 13:13:08 brszfs02 gda: [ID 107833 kern.warning] WA

[zfs-discuss] ZIL errors but device seems OK

2010-04-14 Thread Richard Skelton
Hi, I have installed OpenSolaris snv_134 from the iso at genunix.org. Mon Mar 8 2010 New OpenSolaris preview, based on build 134 I created a zpool:- NAMESTATE READ WRITE CKSUM tankONLINE 0 0 0 c7t4d0ONLINE 0 0 0