[zfs-discuss] Upgrading a volume from iscsitgt to COMSTAR

2009-12-17 Thread Stephen Green
write it up for my blog, which can then be pointed to when this comes up again. Thanks in advance, Steve -- Stephen Green // stephen.gr...@sun.com Principal Investigator \\ http://blogs.sun.com/searchguy The AURA Project // Voice

Re: [zfs-discuss] Problem booting with zpool

2009-08-27 Thread Stephen Green
. I guess I should turn of the auto snapshots and clear out the old ones, but those snapshots saved my behind when the wife's mac went crazy... Thanks! Steve -- Stephen Green // stephen.gr...@sun.com Principal Investigator \\ http://blogs.sun.com/sea

[zfs-discuss] Problem booting with zpool

2009-08-27 Thread Stephen Green
I'm having trouble booting with one of my zpools. It looks like this: pool: tank state: ONLINE scrub: none requested config: NAMESTATE READ WRITE CKSUM tankONLINE 0 0 0 raidz1ONLINE 0 0 0 c4d0ONLIN

Re: [zfs-discuss] Ssd for zil on a dell 2950

2009-08-20 Thread Stephen Green
Greg Mason wrote: How about the bug "removing slog not possible"? What if this slog fails? Is there a plan for such situation (pool becomes inaccessible in this case)? You can "zpool replace" a bad slog device now. And I can testify that it works as described. St

[zfs-discuss] Copy a ZFS volume to external storage?

2009-08-12 Thread Stephen Green
r alternative is to clone one of the volume's snapshots from a time the backup was working and then see if that can be mounted. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Steve -- Stephen Green // stephen.gr...@sun.com Principal Investigator \\ http://blogs.su

Re: [zfs-discuss] Pool iscsi /zfs performance in opensolaris 0906

2009-08-12 Thread Stephen Green
Stephen Green wrote: I'll let you know how it works out. Suggestions as to pre/post installation IO tests welcome. The installation went off without a hitch (modulo a bad few seconds after reboot.) Story here: http://blogs.sun.com/searchguy/entry/homebrew_hybrid_storage_pool I&#

Re: [zfs-discuss] Pool iscsi /zfs performance in opensolaris 0906

2009-08-07 Thread Stephen Green
Stephen Green wrote: Also, I got my wife to agree to a new SSD, so I presume that I can simply do the re-silver with the new drive when it arrives. And the last thing for today, I ended up getting: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820609330 which is 16GB and should be

Re: [zfs-discuss] Pool iscsi /zfs performance in opensolaris 0906

2009-08-07 Thread Stephen Green
Stephen Green wrote: Oh, and for those following along at home, the re-silvering of the slog to a file is proceeding well. 72% done in 25 minutes. And, for the purposes of the archives, the re-silver finished in 34 minutes and I successfully removed the RAM disk. Thanks, Erik for the

Re: [zfs-discuss] Pool iscsi /zfs performance in opensolaris 0906

2009-08-07 Thread Stephen Green
Scott Meilicke wrote: Note - this has a mini PCIe interface, not PCIe. Well, that's an *excellent* point. I guess that lets that one out. It turns out I do have an open SATA port, so I might just go for a disk that has a SATA interface, since that should just work. I had the 64GB version

Re: [zfs-discuss] Pool iscsi /zfs performance in opensolaris 0906

2009-08-07 Thread Stephen Green
Stephen Green wrote: Thanks for the advice, I think it might be time to convince the wife that I need to buy an SSD. Anyone have recommendations for a reasonably priced SSD for a home box? For example, does anyone know if something like: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item

Re: [zfs-discuss] Pool iscsi /zfs performance in opensolaris 0906

2009-08-07 Thread Stephen Green
erik.ableson wrote: On 7 août 09, at 02:03, Stephen Green wrote: Man, that looks so nice I think I'll change my mail client to do dates in French :-) Now my only question is: what do I do when it's done? If I reboot and the ram disk disappears, will my tank be dead? Or wi

Re: [zfs-discuss] Pool iscsi /zfs performance in opensolaris 0906

2009-08-06 Thread Stephen Green
ally care about to another pool (the Mac's already been backed up to a USB drive.) Have I meddled in the affairs of wizards? Is ZFS subtle and quick to anger? Steve -- Stephen Green http://blogs.sun.com/searchguy ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS create hanging on door call?

2009-06-03 Thread Stephen Green
Darren J Moffat wrote: Stephen Green wrote: stgr...@blue:~$ pgrep -lf zfs 7471 zfs create tank/mysql stgr...@blue:~$ pfexec truss -p 7471 door_call(7, 0x080F7008)(sleeping...) I suspect this is probably a nameservice lookup call running 'pfiles 7471' should confirm. Looks

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS create hanging on door call?

2009-06-01 Thread Stephen Green
On Jun 1, 2009, at 4:57 AM, Darren J Moffat wrote: Stephen Green wrote: Hi, folks. I just built a new box and I'm running the latest OpenSolaris bits. uname says: SunOS blue 5.11 snv_111b i86pc i386 i86pc Solaris I just did an image-update last night, but I was seeing this probl

[zfs-discuss] ZFS create hanging on door call?

2009-05-31 Thread Stephen Green
Hi, folks. I just built a new box and I'm running the latest OpenSolaris bits. uname says: SunOS blue 5.11 snv_111b i86pc i386 i86pc Solaris I just did an image-update last night, but I was seeing this problem in 111a too. I built myself a pool out of four 1TB disks (WD Caviar Green, if tha

[zfs-discuss] ZFS Failure on 3511s

2007-10-29 Thread Stephen Green
We have a pair of 3511s that are host to a couple of ZFS filesystems. Over the weekend we had a power hit, and when we brought the server that the 3511s are attached to back up, the ZFS filesystem was hosed. Are we totally out of luck here? There's nothing here that we can't recover, given enou