Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs corruption w/ sil3114 sata controllers

2007-11-04 Thread grant beattie
Ed Saipetch wrote: > To answer a number of questions: > > Regarding different controllers, I've tried 2 Syba Sil 3114 controllers > purchased about 4 months apart. I've tried 5.4.3 firmware with one and > 5.4.13 with another. Maybe Syba makes crappy Sil 3114 cards but it's the > same one that

Re: [zfs-discuss] Setting up a file server (NAS)

2007-10-08 Thread grant beattie
Ima wrote: > > 3. Can anyone recommend a PCI-Express SATA controller that will work with > 64-bit x86 Solaris 10? > I believe these cards support SAS and SATA devices just fine: http://www.sun.com/storagetek/storage_networking/hba/sas/ ___ zfs-di

Re: [zfs-discuss] "zoneadm clone" doesn't support ZFS snapshots in

2007-09-20 Thread grant beattie
Matthew Flanagan wrote: > Mike, > > I followed your procedure for cloning zones and it worked well up until > yesterday when I tried applying the S10U4 kernel patch 12001-14 and it > wouldn't apply because I had my zones on zfs :( > > I'm still figuring out how to fix this other than moving all o

[zfs-discuss] "zoneadm clone" doesn't support ZFS snapshots in s10u4?

2007-09-19 Thread grant beattie
according to the zoneadm(1m) man page on s10u4: clone [-m copy] [-s zfs_snapshot] source_zone Install a zone by copying an existing installed zone. This subcommand is an alternative way to install the zone. -m copy Force the clone to

[zfs-discuss] ZFS panic on 32bit x86

2007-07-03 Thread grant beattie
hi all, I was extracting a 8GB tar and encountered this panic. the system was just installed last week with Solaris 10 update 3 and the latest recommended patches as of June 26. I can provide more output from mdb, or the crashdump itself if it would be of any use. any ideas what's going on her

Re: [zfs-discuss] Solaris 10 ZFS Update

2006-07-31 Thread grant beattie
On Mon, Jul 31, 2006 at 11:51:09AM -0400, George Wilson wrote: > We have putback a significant number of fixes and features from > OpenSolaris into what will become Solaris 10 11/06. For reference here's > the list: George, this is great! any idea when these will be available as patches for s1

Re: [zfs-discuss] sharing a storage array

2006-07-27 Thread grant beattie
On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 10:41:10PM -0700, Frank Cusack wrote: > On July 28, 2006 11:59:50 AM +1000 grant beattie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >ZFS won't automatically import a pool unless it is explicitly exported > >first via "zfs export", so it shou

Re: [zfs-discuss] sharing a storage array

2006-07-27 Thread grant beattie
On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 06:35:06PM -0700, Frank Cusack wrote: > Hi > > I have a SAS array with a zfs pool on it. zfs automatically searches for > and mounts the zfs pool I've created there. I want to attach another > host to this array, but it doesn't have any provision for zones or the > like.

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: Expanding raidz2

2006-07-13 Thread grant beattie
On Thu, Jul 13, 2006 at 11:42:21AM -0700, Richard Elling wrote: > >Yes, and while it's not an immediate showstopper for me, I'll want to > >know that expansion is coming imminently before I adopt RAID-Z. > > [in brainstorming mode, sans coffee so far this morning] > > Better yet, buy two disks,

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS + NFS perfromance ?

2006-06-27 Thread grant beattie
On Tue, Jun 27, 2006 at 12:07:47PM +0200, Roch wrote: > > > for small file workloads, setting recordsize to a value lower than the > > > default (128k) may prove useful. > > > > When changing things like recordsize, can i do it on the fly on a > > volume ? ( and then if i can what happens to

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS + NFS perfromance ?

2006-06-27 Thread grant beattie
On Tue, Jun 27, 2006 at 11:16:40AM +0200, Patrick wrote: > >sounds like your workload is very similar to mine. is all public > >access via NFS? > > Well it's not 'public directly', courier-imap/pop3/postfix/etc... but > the maildirs are accessed directly by some programs for certain > things. ye

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS + NFS perfromance ?

2006-06-27 Thread grant beattie
On Tue, Jun 27, 2006 at 10:14:06AM +0200, Patrick wrote: > Hi, > > I've just started using ZFS + NFS, and i was wondering if there is > anything i can do to optimise it for being used as a mailstore ? ( > small files, lots of them, with lots of directory's and high > concurrent access ) > > So a

Re: [zfs-discuss] ufsdump/ufsrestore to migrate ?

2006-06-19 Thread grant beattie
On Mon, Jun 19, 2006 at 04:48:13PM -0600, Mark Shellenbaum wrote: > grant beattie wrote: > >On Mon, Jun 19, 2006 at 01:37:55PM +0200, Detlef Drewanz wrote: > > > >>Hi, > >>moving from ufs to zfs ufsdump-on-ufs --> ufsrestore within > >>zfs is possible

Re: [zfs-discuss] ufsdump/ufsrestore to migrate ?

2006-06-19 Thread grant beattie
On Mon, Jun 19, 2006 at 01:37:55PM +0200, Detlef Drewanz wrote: > Hi, > moving from ufs to zfs ufsdump-on-ufs --> ufsrestore within > zfs is possible to run. I also tried it and it worked for my > 2.6 GB Home directory very well. Does anyone see any issues ? ufsdump can't write ACLs to ZFS yet.

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: 3510 configuration for ZFS

2006-06-01 Thread grant beattie
On Thu, Jun 01, 2006 at 06:40:15PM -0500, Tao Chen wrote: > >ABR> What about small random writes? Won't those also require reading > >ABR> from all disks in RAID-Z to read the blocks for update, where in > >ABR> mirroring only one disk need be accessed? Or am I missing something? > > > >If I under

Re: [zfs-discuss] 3510 configuration for ZFS

2006-05-31 Thread grant beattie
On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 03:28:12PM +0200, Roch Bourbonnais - Performance Engineering wrote: > Hi Grant, this may provide some guidance for your setup; > > it's somewhat theoretical (take it for what it's worth) but > it spells out some of the tradeoffs in the RAID-Z vs Mirror > battle: > > >

[zfs-discuss] 3510 configuration for ZFS

2006-05-30 Thread grant beattie
hi all, I am hoping to move roughly 1TB of maildir format email to ZFS, but I am unsure of what the most appropriate disk configuration on a 3510 would be. based on the desired level of redundancy and usable space, my thought was to create a pool consisting of 2x RAID-Z vdevs (either double parit

Re: [zfs-discuss] How's zfs RAIDZ fualt-tolerant ???

2006-05-26 Thread grant beattie
On Fri, May 26, 2006 at 10:33:34AM -0700, Eric Schrock wrote: > RAID-Z is single-fault tolerant. If if you take out two disks, then you > no longer have the required redundancy to maintain your data. Build 42 > should contain double-parity RAID-Z, which will allow you to sustain two > simulatane

[zfs-discuss] iostat numbers for ZFS disks, build 39

2006-05-22 Thread grant beattie
I updated an i386 system to b39 yesterday, and noticed this when running iostat: r/sw/s kr/s kw/s wait actv wsvc_t asvc_t %w %b device 0.00.50.0 10.0 0.0 0.00.00.5 0 0 c0t0d0 0.00.50.0 10.0 0.0 0.00.00.6 0 0 c0t1d0 0.0 65.

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS recovery from a disk losing power

2006-05-18 Thread grant beattie
On Thu, May 18, 2006 at 11:40:53PM -0600, Sanjay Nadkarni wrote: > Since it's not exactly clear what you did with SVM I am assuming the > following: > > You had a file system on top of the mirror and there was some I/O > occurring to the mirror. The *only* time, SVM puts a device into > maint

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS recovery from a disk losing power

2006-05-16 Thread grant beattie
On Tue, May 16, 2006 at 10:13:46AM -0700, Eric Schrock wrote: > What has happened is that your device has started reporting errors, but > is still available on the system. i.e. ZFS is still able to ldi_open() > the underlying device. This seems like a strange failure mode for the > device (you m

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS recovery from a disk losing power

2006-05-16 Thread grant beattie
On Tue, May 16, 2006 at 07:02:37PM +1000, grant beattie wrote: > running b37 on amd64. after removing power from a disk configured as > a mirror, 10 minutes has passed and ZFS has still not offlined it. I should have mentioned, the disks are connected to an Adaptec 2120S card (aac). not

[zfs-discuss] ZFS recovery from a disk losing power

2006-05-16 Thread grant beattie
running b37 on amd64. after removing power from a disk configured as a mirror, 10 minutes has passed and ZFS has still not offlined it. # zpool status tank pool: tank state: ONLINE status: One or more devices has experienced an unrecoverable error. An attempt was made to correct the er

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS ACL support

2006-05-12 Thread grant beattie
On Fri, May 12, 2006 at 01:49:38PM -0700, Marion Hakanson wrote: > Greetings, > > I've seen discussion that tar & cpio are "ZFS ACL aware"; And that > Veritas NetBackup is not. GNU tar is not (at this time); Joerg's "star" > probably will be Real Soon Now. Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong

Re: [zfs-discuss] ant tool for migrate from ufs/svm to ZFS and pools

2006-05-03 Thread grant beattie
On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 04:03:18PM +1000, James C. McPherson wrote: > >Exists (or It will exists) any metoth or tool for migrate a UFS/SVM > >filesystems with soft partitions to ZFS filesystems with pools? > >Any ideas for migrate a instaled base: Solaris 10 UFS/Solaris Volme > >Manager to Solar