[zfs-discuss] Drive randomly being removed from pool

2010-11-08 Thread besson3c
This has happened to me several times now, I'm confused as to why... This one particular drive, and its always the same drive, randomly shows up as being removed from the pool. I have to export and import the pool in order to have this disk seen again and for re-silvering to reoccur. When this l

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS and RAM

2010-10-24 Thread besson3c
So, to paraphase this, if with these various I/O tests and tools it is determined that disks are suffering from latency issues, adding RAM or an L2ARC will help, and there is really no drawback of doing one or the other as both will be used as available. So, it's just a question of to what exten

[zfs-discuss] ZFS and RAM

2010-10-24 Thread besson3c
Can somebody kindly clarify as to how Solaris and ZFS makes use of RAM? I have 4 gig of RAM installed on my Solaris/ZFS box serving a pool of 6 disks. I can see that it is using all of this memory, although the machine has never had to dip into swap space. What would be the net effect of adding

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS online device management

2010-09-11 Thread besson3c
Ahhh, I figured you could always do that, I guess I was wrong... -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

[zfs-discuss] ZFS online device management

2010-09-11 Thread besson3c
Hello, I found in the release notes for Solaris 10 9/10: "Oracle Solaris ZFS online device management, which allows customers to make changes to filesystem configurations, without taking data offline." Can somebody kindly clarify what sort of filesystem configuration changes can me made this

Re: [zfs-discuss] General help with understanding ZFS performance bottlenecks

2010-06-08 Thread besson3c
It would be helpful if you posted more information about your configuration. Numbers *are* useful too, but minimally, describing your setup, use case, the hardware and other such facts would provide people a place to start. There are much brighter stars on this list than myself, but if you are

[zfs-discuss] General help with understanding ZFS performance bottlenecks

2010-06-07 Thread besson3c
Hello, I'm wondering if somebody can kindly direct me to a sort of newbie way of assessing whether my ZFS pool performance is a bottleneck that can be improved upon, and/or whether I ought to invest in a SSD ZIL mirrored pair? I'm a little confused by what the output of iostat, fsstat, the zils

[zfs-discuss] Drive showing as "removed"

2010-06-07 Thread besson3c
Hello, I have a drive that was a part of the pool showing up as "removed". I made no changes to the machine, and there are no errors being displayed, which is rather weird: # zpool status nm pool: nm state: DEGRADED scrub: none requested config: NAMESTATE READ WRITE CKS

Re: [zfs-discuss] Disk I/O in RAID-Z as new disks are added/removed

2009-11-15 Thread besson3c
Anybody? I would truly appreciate some general, if not definite insight as to what one can expect in terms of I/O performance after adding new disks to ZFS pools. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@open

Re: [zfs-discuss] RAID-Z and virtualization

2009-11-08 Thread besson3c
My impression was that the ZFS Fuse project was no longer being maintained? -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

[zfs-discuss] Disk I/O in RAID-Z as new disks are added/removed

2009-11-08 Thread besson3c
Hello, As I understand it, in a traditional RAID 5 setup adding new disks to the pool provides more overall I/O as the load is spread out across multiple disks. What exactly is this relationship in a RAID-Z setup? What should one expect in terms of overall I/O performance as disks are added and

[zfs-discuss] RAID-Z and virtualization

2009-11-08 Thread besson3c
I'm entertaining something which might be a little wacky, I'm wondering what your general reaction to this scheme might be :) I would like to invest in some sort of storage appliance, and I like the idea of something I can grow over time, something that isn't tethered to my servers (i.e. not d