Re: [zfs-discuss] cluster features

2011-05-10 Thread Joe Little
ome level without inducing corruption. I have a feeling that its somehow being overly conservative in this stance. On 5/30/06, Robert Milkowski wrote: > Hello Joe, > > Wednesday, May 31, 2006, 12:44:22 AM, you wrote: > > JL> Well, I would caution at this point against the is

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS send/receive to Solaris/FBSD/OpenIndiana/Nexenta VM guest?

2011-04-07 Thread Joe Auty
-- Brandon High : bh...@freaks.com Joe Auty April 5, 2011 3:38 PM Hello, I'm debating an OS change and also thinking a

Re: [zfs-discuss] Assessing health/performance of individual drives in ZFS pool

2011-04-07 Thread Joe Auty
fault Completed - 293 - [- - -] ... /Tomas Joe Auty April 5, 2011 3:53 PM Hello, A while I was expl

[zfs-discuss] ZFS send/receive to Solaris/FBSD/OpenIndiana/Nexenta VM guest?

2011-04-06 Thread Joe Auty
a little less taxing than rsync cronjobs? -- Joe Auty, NetMusician NetMusician helps musicians, bands and artists create beautiful, professional, custom designed, career-essential websites that are easy to maintain and to int

[zfs-discuss] Assessing health/performance of individual drives in ZFS pool

2011-04-05 Thread Joe Auty
health of an individual SATA drive in my pool short of what ZFS itself reports?  -- Joe Auty, NetMusician NetMusician helps musicians, bands and artists create beautiful, professional, custom designed, career-essential websites that are easy

[zfs-discuss] ZFS send/receive to Solaris/FBSD/OpenIndiana/Nexenta VM guest?

2011-04-05 Thread Joe Auty
a little less taxing than rsync cronjobs? -- Joe Auty, NetMusician NetMusician helps musicians, bands and artists create beautiful, professional, custom designed, career-essential websites that are easy to maintain and to int

[zfs-discuss] Transfer/Performance Issue(s)

2010-10-01 Thread joe
help is greatly appreciated. I new to this so please try to dumb your answers down a little to help me learn. Thanks Joe C:\>iperf.exe --client 192.168.0.47 Client connecting to 192.168.0.47, TCP port 5001 TCP window size: 8

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS on Ubuntu

2010-06-28 Thread Joe Little
All true, I just saw too many "need ubuntu and zfs" and thought to state the obvious in case the patch set for nexenta happen to differ enough to provide a working set. I've had nexenta succeed where opensolaris quarter releases failed and vice versa On Jun 27, 2010, at 9:54 PM, Erik Trimble w

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS on Ubuntu

2010-06-27 Thread Joe Little
Of course, nexenta os is a build of ubuntu on an opensolaris kernel. On Jun 26, 2010, at 12:27 AM, Freddie Cash wrote: > On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 12:20 AM, Ben Miles wrote: >> What supporting applications are there on Ubuntu for RAIDZ? > > None. Ubuntu doesn't officially support ZFS. > > Yo

Re: [zfs-discuss] Reconfiguring a RAID-Z dataset

2010-06-13 Thread Joe Auty
, if there is corruption your mirror (i.e. machine you are using with zfs recv) will be corrupted too? At any rate, thanks for answering this question! At some point if I go this route I'll test send and recv functionality to give all of this a dry run. -- Joe Auty, NetMusician Ne

Re: [zfs-discuss] Reconfiguring a RAID-Z dataset

2010-06-11 Thread Joe Auty
tilfeller eksisterer adekvate og relevante synonymer på norsk. -- Joe Auty, NetMusician NetMusician helps musicians, bands and artists create beautiful, professional, custom designed, career-essential websites that are easy to maintain and to integrate with popular social networks. w

[zfs-discuss] Reconfiguring a RAID-Z dataset

2010-06-10 Thread Joe Auty
What other strategies might exist if I wanted to do this? What sort of pain would be in store for me if I were to go this route? Thanks in advance for your help, I've learned a lot from you guys! -- Joe Auty, NetMusician NetMusician helps musicians, bands and artists create beautiful, pr

Re: [zfs-discuss] Drive showing as "removed"

2010-06-10 Thread Joe Auty
Cindy Swearingen wrote: Hi Joe, I have no clue why this drive was removed, particularly for a one time failure. I would reconnect/reseat this disk and see if the system recognizes it. If it resilvers, then you're back in business, but I would use zpool status and fmdu

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

2010-06-10 Thread Joe Auty
o you think? -- Garrett Joe Auty wrote: I'm also noticing that I'm a little short on RAM. I have 6 320 gig drives and 4 gig of RAM. If the formula is POOL_SIZE/250, this would mean that I need at least 6.4 gig of RAM. What role does RAM play with queuing and caching a

Re: [zfs-discuss] Drive showing as "removed"

2010-06-09 Thread Joe Auty
ool's performance. Any idea what happened here? Some weird one time fluky thing? Something I ought to be concerned with? Thanks, Cindy On 06/08/10 11:39, Joe Auty wrote: Cindy Swearingen wrote: Joe, Yes, the device should resilver when its b

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

2010-06-09 Thread Joe Auty
I'm also noticing that I'm a little short on RAM. I have 6 320 gig drives and 4 gig of RAM. If the formula is POOL_SIZE/250, this would mean that I need at least 6.4 gig of RAM. What role does RAM play with queuing and caching and other things which might impact overall disk performance? How much

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

2010-06-08 Thread Joe Auty
Brandon High wrote: On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 11:27 AM, Joe Auty <j...@netmusician.org> wrote: things. I've also read this on a VMWare forum, although I don't know if this correct? This is in context to me questioning why I don't seem to have these same

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

2010-06-08 Thread Joe Auty
the VMDKs. All user data on my VM guests that is subject to change is hosted on a ZFS share, only the OS and basic OS applications are saved to my VMDKs. -- Joe Auty, NetMusician NetMusician helps musicians, bands and artists create beautiful, professional, custom designed, career-essentia

Re: [zfs-discuss] Drive showing as "removed"

2010-06-08 Thread Joe Auty
Cindy Swearingen wrote: Hi Joe, The REMOVED status generally means that a device was physically removed from the system. If necessary, physically reconnect c0t7d0 or if connected, check cabling, power, and so on. If the device is physically connected, see what cfgadm

Re: [zfs-discuss] Drive showing as "removed"

2010-06-08 Thread Joe Auty
Cindy Swearingen wrote: Joe, Yes, the device should resilver when its back online. You can use the fmdump -eV command to discover when this device was removed and other hardware-related events to help determine when this device was removed. I would recommend exporting

Re: [zfs-discuss] Drive showing as "removed"

2010-06-08 Thread Joe Auty
e. How would I do so? Attach? Replace? Some other command? I'm not sure how to add a disk to an already established Raid-Z pool safely. In fact, I didn't think it could be done... -- richard -- Joe Auty, NetMusician NetMusician helps musicians, bands and artists cre

Re: [zfs-discuss] Hard drives for ZFS NAS

2010-05-12 Thread Joe S
On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 4:05 AM, Emily Grettel wrote: > > I'm wondering what other people are using, even though the Green series has > let me down, I'm still a Western Digital gal. > > What do people already use on their enterprise level NAS's? Any good Seagates? > FWIW, I looked at the WDs, bu

[zfs-discuss] Is it safe/possible to idle HD's in a ZFS Vdev to save wear/power?

2010-04-16 Thread Joe
Hi all, I'm still an OpenSolaris noob, so please be gentle... I was just wondering if it is possible to spindown/idle/sleep hard disks that are part of a Vdev & pool SAFELY? My objective is to sleep the drives after X time when they're not being used and spin them back up if required. This is

Re: [zfs-discuss] Clearing a directory with more than 60 million files

2010-01-05 Thread Joe Blount
On 01/ 5/10 10:01 AM, Richard Elling wrote: How are the files named? If you know something about the filename pattern, then you could create subdirs and mv large numbers of files to reduce the overall size of a single directory. Something like: mkdir .A mv A* .A mkdir .B mv B*

Re: [zfs-discuss] Extremely bad performance - hw failure?

2009-12-27 Thread Joe Little
I've had this happen to me too. I found some dtrace scripts at the time that showed that the file system was spending too much time finding available 128k blocks or the like as I was near full per each disk, even though combined I still had 140GB left of my 3TB pool. The SPA code I believe it was w

[zfs-discuss] part of active zfs pool error message reports incorrect decive

2009-12-18 Thread Joe Crain
I am seeing this issue posted a lot in the forums: A zpool add/replace command is run, for example: zpool add archive spare c2t0d2 invalid vdev specification use '-f' to override the following errors: /dev/dsk/c2t1d7s0 is part of active ZFS pool archive. Please see zpool(1M). (-f just says: the

[zfs-discuss] ZFS and NFS

2009-11-20 Thread Joe Cicardo
ports to as Sun 25k using VCS to cluster a ZFS RAIDZ that is then NFS exported. For performance I am looking at disabling ZIL, since these files have almost identical names. What are Sun's thoughts on this? Thanks for any insight. -- Joe Cicardo System

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

2009-11-17 Thread Joe Auty
n.com/bonwick/entry/raid_z > > Hey Tim, I have seen and read that page several times before and after writing this. I've see several comparisons to existing RAID solutions, but I'm not finding whether the more disks you add, the more I/O you can get, unless I'm missing

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

2009-11-10 Thread Joe Auty
Toby Thain wrote: > On 8-Nov-09, at 12:20 PM, Joe Auty wrote: > >> Tim Cook wrote: >>> On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 2:03 AM, besson3c >> <mailto:j...@netmusician.org>> wrote: >>> >>> ... >>> >>> >>> Why not just c

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

2009-11-09 Thread Joe Auty
was that you need these other pieces to make such an infrastructure useful? > > Cordialement, > > Erik Ableson > > On 8 nov. 2009, at 19:12, Tim Cook mailto:t...@cook.ms>> > wrote: > >> >> >> On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 11:48 AM, Joe Auty > &l

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

2009-11-09 Thread Joe Auty
Tim Cook wrote: > On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 11:20 AM, Joe Auty <mailto:j...@netmusician.org>> wrote: > > Tim Cook wrote: >> On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 2:03 AM, besson3c > <mailto:j...@netmusician.org>> wrote: >> >> I'm ente

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

2009-11-09 Thread Joe Auty
uld Virtualbox stack up against VMWare Server? Last I checked it doesn't have a remote console of any sort, which would be a deal breaker. Can I disable allocating virtual memory to Virtualbox VMs? Can I get my VMs to auto boot in a specific order at runlevel 3? Can I control my VMs via the comm

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

2009-11-09 Thread Joe Auty
ding Unbreakable Linux (Oracle's version of RHEL). > I remember now why Xen was a no-go from when I last tested it. I rely on the 64 bit version of FreeBSD for most of my VM guest machines, and FreeBSD only supports running as domU on i386 systems. This is a monkey wrench! Sorry, just think

[zfs-discuss] Adding new disks and ditto block behaviour

2009-09-17 Thread Joe Toppi
I have machine that had 2x 1TB drives in it. They were in the same zpool and that entire zpool is set to "copies=2". From what I understand this will store all my data twice, and if the SPA is doing its job right it will store the copies on different disks and store the checksum for any given bl

Re: [zfs-discuss] Single disk parity

2009-07-08 Thread Moore, Joe
out the writes across the platter(s), you run the risk of the common-case disk failure mode where many consecutive sectors are damaged. It would not hurt when it's disabled, but it would cripple a system when it is enabled. --Joe ___ zfs-discu

[zfs-discuss] ZFS / NFS with User and Group

2009-07-03 Thread Joe Locker
e several Linux client to be able to access this share depending on their username, as I'm connecting to the share via NFS, which commands should I be looking into in order to set up the correct user/group permissions? If anyone has links to documentation or advice I would really appre

Re: [zfs-discuss] x4500 resilvering spare taking forever?

2009-06-25 Thread Joe Kearney
off my automatic snapshots and 3 days later my resilver is done. Joe -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] x4500 resilvering spare taking forever?

2009-06-21 Thread Joe Kearney
> Also, b57 is about 2 years old and misses the > improvements in performance, > especially in scrub performance. Yep, I know. I'll upgrade them at some point down the road, but they've been serving our needs nicely so far. Thanks! -- This message posted from opensolaris.org __

Re: [zfs-discuss] x4500 resilvering spare taking forever?

2009-06-21 Thread Joe Kearney
> Are you taking snapshots periodically? If so, you're > using a build old > enough to restart resilver/scrub whenever a snapshot > is taken. Actually yes, I take snapshots once an hour of various things. I'll try disabling them for the time being and see how far along it gets. Thanks! -- This

Re: [zfs-discuss] x4500 resilvering spare taking forever?

2009-06-21 Thread Joe Kearney
UPDATE: It's now back down to 0.9% complete. Does anyone have a clue as to whats happening here or where I can look for problems? -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolar

[zfs-discuss] x4500 resilvering spare taking forever?

2009-06-19 Thread Joe Kearney
I've got a Thumper running snv_57 and a large ZFS pool. I recently noticed a drive throwing some read errors, so I did the right thing and zfs replaced it with a spare. Everything went well, but the resilvering process seems to be taking an eternity: # zpool status pool: bigpool state: ONL

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS, ESX ,and NFS. oh my!

2009-06-19 Thread Moore, Joe
ce that a block is no longer used. --Joe ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

[zfs-discuss] eon or nexentacore or opensolaris

2009-05-22 Thread Joe S
I don't want to run SXCE anymore. I'm trying to decide between: EON ZFS NAS http://eonstorage.blogspot.com/ --or-- NexentaCore Platform (v2.0 RC3) http://www.nexenta.org/os/NexentaCore --or-- OpenSolaris 2009.06 (when it's released) My needs are: * Easy package management * Easy upgrades *

Re: [zfs-discuss] Monitoring ZFS host memory use

2009-05-07 Thread Moore, Joe
s provides a memory control, for example) which steals pages of virtual-chip memory to avoid the hypervisor swapping. --Joe ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Error ZFS-8000-9P

2009-04-03 Thread Joe S
On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 10:41 AM, Joe S wrote: > Today, I noticed this: > > [...@coruscant$] zpool status >  pool: tank >  state: ONLINE > status: One or more devices has experienced an unrecoverable error.  An >        attempt was made to correct the error.  Applications are

[zfs-discuss] Error ZFS-8000-9P

2009-04-03 Thread Joe S
Today, I noticed this: [...@coruscant$] zpool status pool: tank state: ONLINE status: One or more devices has experienced an unrecoverable error. An attempt was made to correct the error. Applications are unaffected. action: Determine if the device needs to be replaced, and clear the

Re: [zfs-discuss] rename(2), atomicity, crashes and fsync()

2009-03-18 Thread Moore, Joe
have the new contents. If the TXG containing the rename() isn't complete and on the ZIL device at crash time, foo would have the old contents. Posix doesn't require the OS to sync() the file contents on close for local files like it does for NFS access? How odd. --Joe ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Nexsan SATABeast and ZFS

2009-03-11 Thread Moore, Joe
SURE it's hooked up to a UPS that can support it for the 30 second cache flush timeout on the array. And make sure you don't power it down hard. I think you want to uncheck the "ignore FUA" setting, so that FUA requests are respected. My guess is that this

Re: [zfs-discuss] Nexsan SATABeast and ZFS

2009-03-10 Thread Moore, Joe
#x27;t resilver the whole disk, just the data blocks. So it doesn't have to read the full array to rebuild a failed disk, so it's less likely to cause a subsequent failure during parity rebuild. My $.02. --Joe ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] invalid vdev configuration after power failure

2009-03-06 Thread Joe S
On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 1:09 PM, Kyle Kakligian wrote: > On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 7:59 PM, Richard Elling > wrote: >> additional comment below... >> >> Kyle Kakligian wrote: >>> >>> On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 8:30 AM, Blake wrote: >>> that link suggests that this is a problem with a dirty ex

Re: [zfs-discuss] GSoC 09 zfs ideas?

2009-02-28 Thread Joe Esposito
On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 8:31 AM, wrote: > > >I'm using opensolaris and zfs at my house for my photography storage > >as well as for an offsite backup location for my employer and several > >side web projects. > > > >I have an 80g drive as my root drive. I recently took posesion of 2 > >74g 10k d

Re: [zfs-discuss] GSoC 09 zfs ideas?

2009-02-28 Thread Joe Esposito
e the 80 g drive. >From what I gather it is only possible if I zfs export my storage array and reinstall solaris on the new disks. So I guess I'm hoping zfs shrink and grow commands show up sooner or later. Just a data point. Joe Esposito www.j-espo.com On 2/28/09, "C. Bergström

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs streams & data corruption

2009-02-25 Thread Moore, Joe
on an EXT2 filesystem (or unlogged UFS for that matter) the recovery will require an fsck of that filesystem to ensure that the filesystem structure is consistant. Perforing a "lockfs" on the filesystem while the snapshot is taken could mitigate that, but that's still out of the

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS: unreliable for professional usage?

2009-02-23 Thread Moore, Joe
ercome this in your bugfix, would you care to share? --Joe ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Backing up ZFS snapshots

2009-02-18 Thread Joe S
I appreciate the feedback. I've decided to: * create daily ZFS snapshots and zfs send these to separate external disks (via esata). * create monthly full backups via rsync, tar, or amanda on separate external disks. I'm not going to store everything on S3, it is too expensive. However, I will ke

Re: [zfs-discuss] Backing up ZFS snapshots

2009-02-17 Thread Joe S
On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 3:35 PM, David Magda wrote: > On Feb 17, 2009, at 17:56, Joe S wrote: > >> Does that sound like a viable backup solution? > > It has been explicitly stated numerous times that the output of 'zfs send' > has no guarantees and it is undoc

[zfs-discuss] Backing up ZFS snapshots

2009-02-17 Thread Joe S
I have an OpenSolaris snv_105 server at home that holds my photos, docs, music, etc, in a zfs pool. I backup my laptops with rsync to the OpenSolaris server. All of my important data is in one place, on the OpenSolaris server. I want to backup this data. I want to protect against losing my data, an

Re: [zfs-discuss] replace same sized disk fails with too small error

2009-01-20 Thread Moore, Joe
Miles Nordin wrote: > >>>>> "mj" == Moore, Joe writes: > > mj> For a ZFS pool, (until block pointer rewrite capability) this > mj> would have to be a pool-create-time parameter. > > naw. You can just make ZFS do it all the time, li

Re: [zfs-discuss] replace same sized disk fails with too small error

2009-01-20 Thread Moore, Joe
is would have to be a pool-create-time parameter. Perhaps a --usable-size=N[%] option which would either cut down the size of the EFI slices or fake the disk geometry so the EFI label ends early. Or it would be a small matter of programming to build a perl wrapper for zpool create that would acc

Re: [zfs-discuss] Can the new consumer NAS devices run OpenSolaris?

2009-01-12 Thread Joe S
On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 1:21 PM, JZ wrote: > try that first, and then please ask again - "will run OpenSolaris"? > > You don't run things on NAS boxes, you attach things to them. > These NAS devices need an OS. They come preinstalled with Windows Home Server. I would like to install OpenSolaris o

[zfs-discuss] Can the new consumer NAS devices run OpenSolaris?

2009-01-12 Thread Joe S
In the last few weeks, I've seen a number of new NAS devices released from companies like HP, QNAP, VIA, Lacie, Buffalo, Iomega, Cisco/Linksys, etc. Most of these are powered by Intel Celeron, Intel Atom, AMD Sempron, Marvell Orion, or Via C7 chips. I've also noticed that most allow a maximum of 1

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs subdirectories to data set conversion

2009-01-12 Thread Moore, Joe
o a new zfs filesystem, you'd have to atomically change the devid inside all the processes that have open files under that directory. Finding those open files is practically impossible. --Joe ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org h

Re: [zfs-discuss] Upgrading my ZFS server

2008-12-08 Thread Joe S
I did not use the Marvell nic. I use an Intel gigabit pci nic (e1000g0). On Sun, Dec 7, 2008 at 2:03 PM, SV <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > js.lists , or anyone else who is using a XFX MDA72P7509 Motherboard --- > > that onboard NIC is a Marvell? - Do you choose not to use it in favor of the > I

Re: [zfs-discuss] SMART data

2008-12-08 Thread Joe S
:57 AM, Carsten Aulbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Joe, > > Joe S wrote: >> >> How do I get SMART data from my drives? >> >> I'm running snv_101 on AMD64. >> >> I have 6x SATA disks. > > I guess that highly depends how these are c

[zfs-discuss] SMART data

2008-12-06 Thread Joe S
How do I get SMART data from my drives? I'm running snv_101 on AMD64. I have 6x SATA disks. ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

[zfs-discuss] Is SUNWhd for Thumper only?

2008-12-01 Thread Joe S
I read Ben Rockwood's blog post about Thumpers and SMART (http://cuddletech.com/blog/pivot/entry.php?id=993). Will the SUNWhd package only work on a Thumper? Can I use this on my snv_101 system with AMD 64 bit processor and nVidia SATA? ___ zfs-discuss ma

Re: [zfs-discuss] "ZFS, Smashing Baby" a fake???

2008-11-25 Thread Moore, Joe
to take a long time to be given a deadline (now + (vdev-device-timeout ?: (zpool-device-timeout?: forever)))* and consider the I/O complete with whatever data has returned after that deadline: if that's a bunch of 0's in a read, which would have a bad checksum; or a partially-completed

Re: [zfs-discuss] "ZFS, Smashing Baby" a fake???

2008-11-24 Thread Moore, Joe
atermelon, nor on any other type of epigynous berry. If you try, you will certainly rind up with a mess, if not a core dump. And let me tell you, that's the pits. --Joe ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs, raidz, spare and jbod

2008-11-12 Thread Joe Crain
I had the same problem described by kometen with our Areca ARC-1680 controller on opensolaris 2008.05. We were using the controller in JBOD mode and allowing zpool to to use entire disks. Setting the drives in pass-through mode on the Areca controller manager solved the issue. Also worthy to

Re: [zfs-discuss] atomic_set and what assumptions are proper

2008-11-10 Thread Joe Blount
h as setting an error in a shared piece of memory (where it might be sufficient to attempt to keep the first error, but in race conditions perhaps get the second error). (After the update, the variable can have any of N values Right - this only applies to situations where any of the N values are ac

[zfs-discuss] atomic_set and what assumptions are proper

2008-11-10 Thread Joe Blount
is correct, question is: is it considered clean and proper to rely on this? Just wondering if putback code reviews would consider this relying on assumptions we shouldn't, or having unnecessary locking... (I originally posed this question on the opensolaris discuss, but never got an answe

Re: [zfs-discuss] OpenSolaris, thumper and hd

2008-10-15 Thread Moore, Joe
jsp > > Get it, install it, be happy :-) > Or if you haven't tweaked the discovery order, there's a map at http://docs.sun.com/source/819-4359-14/figures/CH2-power-bios-9.gif --Joe ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Reboot during live upgrade from snv_97 to snv_99

2008-10-11 Thread Joe S
Thanks Gary. This solved the problem. I wish I knew where to find these reminders in advance of doing an upgrade. I hate reboots. ;-) On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 4:18 PM, Gary Mills <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 04:09:08PM -0700, Joe S wrote: >> Sorry if this is

[zfs-discuss] Reboot during live upgrade from snv_97 to snv_99

2008-10-10 Thread Joe S
Sorry if this is the wrong list, but I would like to know if this is a known problem, or if its just me. I'm in the middle of a live upgrade on an x86 box. I type this command: # luupgrade -u -n snv_99 -s /mnt ~~~output~~~ System has findroot enabled GRUB No entry for BE in GRUB menu Copying fa

Re: [zfs-discuss] Looking for some hardware answers, maybe someone on this list could help

2008-10-09 Thread Joe S
You may need an add-on SATA card. I haven't come across any 8 port motherboards. As far as chipsets are concerned, take a look at something with the Intel X38 chipset. It's the only one of the desktop chipsets that supports ECC ram. Coincidentally, it's also the chipset used in the Sun Ultra 24 wo

Re: [zfs-discuss] An slog experiment (my NAS can beat up your NAS)

2008-10-08 Thread Moore, Joe
Brian Hechinger > On Mon, Oct 06, 2008 at 10:47:04AM -0400, Moore, Joe wrote: > > > > I wonder if an AVS-replicated storage device on the > backends would be appropriate? > > > > write -> ZFS-mirrored slog -> ramdisk -AVS-> physical disk > >

Re: [zfs-discuss] An slog experiment (my NAS can beat up your NAS)

2008-10-06 Thread Moore, Joe
a time when it was better to place workstations' swap files on the far side of a 100Mbps ethernet link rather than using the local spinning rust. Ah, the good old days... --Joe ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Quantifying ZFS reliability

2008-10-01 Thread Moore, Joe
Darren J Moffat wrote: > Moore, Joe wrote: > > Given the fact that NFS, as implemented in his client > systems, provides no end-to-end reliability, the only data > protection that ZFS has any control over is after the write() > is issued by the NFS server process. > > NFS

Re: [zfs-discuss] Quantifying ZFS reliability

2008-10-01 Thread Moore, Joe
e organization is, but the reality is that the thumper series is good for some things in a large enterprise, and not good for some things. --Joe ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Quantifying ZFS reliability

2008-10-01 Thread Moore, Joe
ction that ZFS has any control over is after the write() is issued by the NFS server process. --Joe ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

[zfs-discuss] Can't remove zpool spare, status says faulted

2008-09-24 Thread Joe Crain
When I issue the zpool remove command on the spare I receive no response, good or bad. Afterwards the drive is still listed as a spare in the zpool. Zpool shows the spare is listed as FAULTED. Any ideas? $ zpool status pool: datapool1 state: ONLINE scrub: none requested config: NAME STATE READ

Re: [zfs-discuss] [storage-discuss] iscsi target problems on snv_97

2008-09-17 Thread Moore, Joe
o the latest nightly build? Or would just taking the iscsitgtd from that build suffice? --Joe ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

[zfs-discuss] iscsi target problems on snv_97

2008-09-16 Thread Moore, Joe
I have a kernel dump from the zonehost and a snoop capture of the wire for the Windows host (but it's big). I'll be opening a bug too. Thanks, --Joe ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS hangs/freezes after disk failure,

2008-09-03 Thread Joe S
On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 10:32 PM, Todd H. Poole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I can't agree with you more. I'm beginning to understand what the phrase > "Sun's software is great - as long as you're running it on Sun's hardware" > means... > > Whether it's deserved or not, I feel like this OS isn't

Re: [zfs-discuss] Upgrading my ZFS server

2008-08-29 Thread Joe S
2t3d0disk connectedconfigured ok sata0/4::dsk/c2t4d0disk connectedconfigured ok sata0/5::dsk/c2t5d0disk connectedconfigured ok On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 12:11 PM, Joe S <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > While I wanted the In

[zfs-discuss] ZFS Memory Usage - System out of Memory

2008-08-26 Thread Poulos, Joe
Hello, ZFS is working great for us, but we have seen it use all or most of the memory on our systems.Is there a recommended setting to put in /etc/system to limit the amount of RAM to cache? Or is it recommended to just leave it alone, and let it release the memory as needed. Most of our

Re: [zfs-discuss] Upgrading my ZFS server

2008-08-23 Thread Joe S
While I wanted the Intel Core 2 Duo confuration, it was too much money. Even when I substituted the processor for a low power wolfdale, the E7200. The Intel option cost $126 more than the AMD/GeForce option. I was up to $457.88 with shipping and tax. Also, in some power benchmarks, the AMD 4850e d

[zfs-discuss] Upgrading my ZFS server

2008-08-22 Thread Joe S
I'm want to upgrade the hardware of my Open Solaris b95 server at home. It's currently running on 32 bit intel hardware. I'm going 64 bit with the new hardware. I don't need server grade hardware since this is a home server. This means I'm not buying the an Opteron or Xeon, or any quad core process

Re: [zfs-discuss] C code for reading ZFS ACL

2008-08-19 Thread Joe Blount
Mark Shellenbaum wrote: > Joe Blount wrote: >> >>>> Is the acl_t intentionally designed to be opaque? >>>> >>> >>> Yes, its meant to be opaque. >>> >>> The layout of the acl_t will likely change in the not too distant >

Re: [zfs-discuss] C code for reading ZFS ACL

2008-08-15 Thread Joe Blount
upgrade (layout change), could we write the old ACL to the new ZFS code? thanks, Joe ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] x4500 performance tuning.

2008-07-25 Thread Moore, Joe
ted" operating system, even on supported hardware. I've had too many experiences with first-level support (and second-level support -- not necessarily Sun's) whose first suggestion is to install (the latest) supported OS, before even investigating the hardware aspe

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs sparc boot "Bad magic number in disk label"

2008-07-22 Thread Joe Stone
Hello Cindy, That did the trick. Thank you for your quick assessment and solution. Joe 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 sparc boot "Bad magic number in disk label"

2008-07-17 Thread Joe Stone
Hello, I recently installed SunOS 5.11 snv_91 onto a Ultra 60 UPA/PCI with OpenBoot 3.31 and two 300GB SCSI disks. The root file system is UFS on c0t0d0s0. Following the steps in ZFS Admin I have attempted to convert root to ZFS utilizing c0t1d0s0. However, upon "init 6" I am always presented w

[zfs-discuss] How to delete hundreds of emtpy snapshots

2008-07-16 Thread Joe S
I got overzealous with snapshot creation. Every 5 mins is a bad idea. Way too many. What's the easiest way to delete the empty ones? zfs list takes FOREVER ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/list

Re: [zfs-discuss] X4540

2008-07-11 Thread Moore, Joe
h a > star performer? Features. RAS. Simplicity. Corporate Inertia (having storage admins who don't know OpenSolaris). Executive outings with StorageTek-logo'd golfballs. The last 2 aren't something I'd build a business case around, but they're a reality. --Joe __

Re: [zfs-discuss] proposal partial/relative paths for zfs(1)

2008-07-10 Thread Moore, Joe
is different. If you have a zpool tank mounted on /tank and /tank/homedirs with mountpoint=/export/home, do you create the next dataset /tank/homedirs/carson, or /export/home/carson ? And does the mountpoint get inherited in the obvious (vs. the simple vs. not at all) way? I don't know.

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS deduplication

2008-07-08 Thread Moore, Joe
rby, but when dealing with snapshotted sequential files being rewritten, there is no way to keep everything in order. But if you read through the thread referenced above, you'll see that there's no clear data about just how that impacts performance (I still owe Mr

Re: [zfs-discuss] SATA controller suggestion

2008-06-06 Thread Joe Little
On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 9:26 PM, Tim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 11:12 PM, Joe Little <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 8:16 PM, Tim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > >> > >> &g

Re: [zfs-discuss] SATA controller suggestion

2008-06-05 Thread Joe Little
On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 8:16 PM, Tim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 9:17 PM, Peeyush Singh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: >> >> Hey guys, please excuse me in advance if I say or ask anything stupid :) >> >> Anyway, Solaris newbie here. I've built for myself a new file server

Re: [zfs-discuss] [osol-help] >1TB ZFS thin provisioned partition prevents Opensolaris from booting.

2008-05-30 Thread Joe Little
On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 7:07 AM, Hugh Saunders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 10:37 AM, Akhilesh Mritunjai > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I think it's right. You'd have to move to a 64 bit kernel. Any reasons to >> stick to a 32 bit >> kernel ? > > My reason would be lack of

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