Hi Luke, That's terrific!
You know you might be able to tell ZFS which disks to look at. I'm not sure. It would be interesting, if anyone with a Thumper could comment on whether or not they see the import time issue. What are your load times now with MPXIO? Best Regards, Jason On 12/7/06, Luke Schwab <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Jason, Sorry, I don't have IM. I did make some progress on testing. The solaris 10 OS allows you to kind of lun mask within the fp.conf file by creating a list of luns you don't want to see. This has improved my time greatly. I can now create/export within a second and import only takes about 10 seconds. What a differnce compared to the 5-8 minutes I've been seeing! but this not good if my machine needs to see LOTs of luns. It would be nice if there was a feature in zfs where you could specify which disk the the pool resides instead of zfs looking through every disk attached to the machine. Luke Schwab --- "Jason J. W. Williams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey Luke, > > Do you have IM? > > My Yahoo IM ID is [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -J > > On 12/6/06, Luke Schwab <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > Rats, I think I know where your going? We use LSIs > > exclusively. > > > > LSI performs lun masking as the driver level. You > can > > specifically tell the LSI HBA to only bind to > specific > > luns on the array. The array doesn't appear to > support > > lun masking by itself. > > > > I believe you can also mask at the SAN switch but > most > > of our connections are direct connect to the > array. > > > > I just thought you know a quick and easy way to > mask > > in Solaris 10. I tried the fp.conf file with a > > "blackout list" to prevent certain luns from being > > viewed but I couldn't get the OS to have a list of > > luns that it can only allow. > > > > Thanks, > > Luke > > > > > > --- "Jason J. W. Williams" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > > > > Hi Luke, > > > > > > Who makes your array? IBM, SGI or StorageTek? > > > > > > Best Regards, > > > Jason > > > > > > On 12/6/06, Luke Schwab <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > wrote: > > > > Jason, > > > > > > > > could you give me a tip on how to do lun > masking. > > > I > > > > used to do it via the /kernel/drv/ssd.conf > file > > > with > > > > an LSI HBA. Now I have Emulex HBAs with the > > > Leadville. > > > > > > > > > > > > I saw on sunsolve a way to mask using a "black > > > list" > > > > in the /kernel/drv/fp.conf file but that isn't > > > what I > > > > was looking for. > > > > > > > > Do you know any other ways? > > > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > > > > > Luke Scwhab > > > > --- "Jason J. W. Williams" > > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > Hi Luke, > > > > > > > > > > I think you'll really like it. We moved from > > > UFS/SVM > > > > > and its a night > > > > > and day management difference. Though I > > > understand > > > > > SVM itself is > > > > > easier to deal with than VxVM, so it may be > an > > > order > > > > > of magnitude > > > > > easier. > > > > > > > > > > Best Regards, > > > > > Jason > > > > > > > > > > On 12/6/06, Luke Schwab > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > wrote: > > > > > > The 4884 as well as the V280 server is > using 2 > > > > > ports > > > > > > each. I don't have any FS's at this point. > I'm > > > > > trying > > > > > > to keep it simple for now. > > > > > > > > > > > > We are beta testing to go away from VxVM > and > > > such. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > --- "Jason J. W. Williams" > > > > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > Hi Luke, > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Is the 4884 using two or four ports? > Also, > > > how > > > > > many > > > > > > > FSs are involved? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Best Regards, > > > > > > > Jason > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On 12/6/06, Luke Schwab > > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > I, too, experienced a long delay while > > > > > importing a > > > > > > > zpool on a second machine. I do not have > any > > > > > > > filesystems in the pool. Just the > Solaris 10 > > > > > > > Operating system, Emulex 10002DC HBA, > and a > > > 4884 > > > > > LSI > > > > > > > array (dual attached). > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > I don't have any file systems created > but > > > when > > > > > > > STMS(mpxio) is enabled I see > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > # time zpool import testpool > > > > > > > > real 6m41.01s > > > > > > > > user 0m.30s > > > > > > > > sys 0m0.14s > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > When I disable STMS(mpxio), the times > are > > > much > > > > > > > better but still not that great? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > # time zpool import testpool > > > > > > > > real 1m15.01s > > > > > > > > user 0m.15s > > > > > > > > sys 0m0.35s > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Are these normal symproms?? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Can anyone explain why I too see > delays > > > even > > > > > > > though I don't have any file systems in > the > > > > > zpool? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > This message posted from > opensolaris.org > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > > > > > zfs-discuss mailing list > > > > > > > > zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > __________________________________________________ > > > > > > Do You Yahoo!? > > > > > > Tired of spam? 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