Re: [zfs-discuss] doubt on solaris 10

2006-12-11 Thread Darren J Moffat
dudekula mastan wrote: Hi ALL, Is it possible to install solaris 10 on HP-VISUALIZE XL - CLASS server ? The ZFS discussion alias is probably not the best place to ask this. In general they way to find out about Solaris support on a particular hardware platform is to look at the

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: ZFS Usage in Warehousing (lengthy intro)

2006-12-11 Thread Roch - PAE
Anton B. Rang writes: If your database performance is dominated by sequential reads, ZFS may not be the best solution from a performance perspective. Because ZFS uses a write-anywhere layout, any database table which is being updated will quickly become scattered on the disk, so that

[zfs-discuss] Re: disappearing mount - expected behavior?

2006-12-11 Thread Wes Williams
What happens is that /home/thomas/zfs gets mounted and then the automounter starts. (Or /home/thomas is found missing and then the zfs mount is not completed) Probably requires legacy mount point. Casper ___ I'm experiencing this same

[zfs-discuss] Can't destroy corrupted pool

2006-12-11 Thread Jim Hranicky
Ok, so I'm planning on wiping my test pool that seems to have problems with non-spare disks being marked as spares, but I can't destroy it: # zpool destroy -f zmir cannot iterate filesystems: I/O error Anyone know how I can nuke this for good? Jim This message posted from opensolaris.org

[zfs-discuss] weird problem

2006-12-11 Thread James Dickens
on a blade 1500... bash-3.00# zfs set sharenfs=rw pool cannot set sharenfs for 'pool': out of space bash-3.00# zpool iostat pool capacity operationsbandwidth pool used avail read write read write -- - - - - - - pool

Re: [zfs-discuss] hardware planning for storage server

2006-12-11 Thread Bart Smaalders
Jakob Praher wrote: hi all, I'd like to build a solid storage server using zfs and opensolaris. The server more or less should have a NAS role, thus using nfsv4 to export the data to other nodes. ... what would be your reasonable advice? First of all, figure out what you need in terms of

[zfs-discuss] Re: Can't destroy corrupted pool

2006-12-11 Thread Jim Hranicky
BTW, I'm also unable to export the pool -- same error. Jim This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re[2]: [zfs-discuss] ZFS problems

2006-12-11 Thread Robert Milkowski
Hello James, Saturday, November 18, 2006, 11:34:52 AM, you wrote: JM as far as I can see, your setup does not mee the minimum JM redundancy requirements for a Raid-Z, which is 3 devices. JM Since you only have 2 devices you are out on a limb. Actually only two disks for raid-z is fine and you

[zfs-discuss] Re: Can't destroy corrupted pool

2006-12-11 Thread Jim Hranicky
Nevermind: # zfs destroy [EMAIL PROTECTED]:28 cannot open '[EMAIL PROTECTED]:28': I/O error Jim This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [zfs-discuss] Can't destroy corrupted pool

2006-12-11 Thread Eric Schrock
You are likely hitting: 6397052 unmounting datasets should process /etc/mnttab instead of traverse DSL Which was fixed in build 46 of Nevada. In the meantime, you can remove /etc/zfs/zpool.cache manually and reboot, which will remove all your pools (which you can then re-import on an individual

[zfs-discuss] Re: Can't destroy corrupted pool

2006-12-11 Thread Jim Hranicky
You are likely hitting: 6397052 unmounting datasets should process /etc/mnttab instead of traverse DSL Which was fixed in build 46 of Nevada. In the meantime, you can remove /etc/zfs/zpool.cache manually and reboot, which will remove all your pools (which you can then re-import on an

Re: [nfs-discuss] Re: [zfs-discuss] A Plea for Help: Thumper/ZFS/NFS/B43

2006-12-11 Thread Ben Rockwood
Robert Milkowski wrote: Hello eric, Saturday, December 9, 2006, 7:07:49 PM, you wrote: ek Jim Mauro wrote: Could be NFS synchronous semantics on file create (followed by repeated flushing of the write cache). What kind of storage are you using (feel free to send privately if you need to)

[zfs-discuss] Re: Can't destroy corrupted pool

2006-12-11 Thread Jim Hranicky
This worked. I've restarted my testing but I've been fdisking each drive before I add it to the pool, and so far the system is behaving as expected when I spin a drive down, i.e., the hot spare gets automatically used. This makes me wonder if it's possible to ensure that the forced addition of

[zfs-discuss] zfs exported a live filesystem

2006-12-11 Thread Jim Hranicky
By mistake, I just exported my test filesystem while it was up and being served via NFS, causing my tar over NFS to start throwing stale file handle errors. Should I file this as a bug, or should I just not do that :- Ko, This message posted from opensolaris.org

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs exported a live filesystem

2006-12-11 Thread Eric Kustarz
Jim Hranicky wrote: By mistake, I just exported my test filesystem while it was up and being served via NFS, causing my tar over NFS to start throwing stale file handle errors. So you had a pool and were sharing filesystems over NFS, NFS clients had active mounts, you removed

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs exported a live filesystem

2006-12-11 Thread Richard Elling
Jim Hranicky wrote: By mistake, I just exported my test filesystem while it was up and being served via NFS, causing my tar over NFS to start throwing stale file handle errors. Should I file this as a bug, or should I just not do that :- Don't do that. The same should happen if you umount

Re: [zfs-discuss] zpool mirror

2006-12-11 Thread Matthew Ahrens
Gino Ruopolo wrote: Hi All, we have some ZFS pools on production with more than 100s fs and more than 1000s snapshots on them. Now we do backups with zfs send/receive with some scripting but I'm searching for a way to mirror each zpool to an other one for backup purposes (so including all

[zfs-discuss] Uber block corruption?

2006-12-11 Thread Ross Hosman
A while back we had a Sun engineer come to our office and talk about the benefits of ZFS. I asked him the question Can the uber block become corrupt and what happeneds if it does?, to which he did not have the answer but swore to me that he would get it to me. I still haven't gotten that answer

Re: [zfs-discuss] Uber block corruption?

2006-12-11 Thread Jeff Victor
IANA ZFS guru, but I have read explanations like this: When ZFS reads in the uberblock, it computes the uberblock's checksum and compares it against the stored checksum for that block. If they don't match, it uses another copy of the uberblock. Ross Hosman wrote: A while back we had a Sun

Re: [zfs-discuss] Uber block corruption?

2006-12-11 Thread Darren Dunham
A while back we had a Sun engineer come to our office and talk about the benefits of ZFS. I asked him the question Can the uber block become corrupt and what happeneds if it does?, to which he did not have the answer but swore to me that he would get it to me. I still haven't gotten that

Re[2]: [zfs-discuss] ZFS related kernel panic

2006-12-11 Thread Robert Milkowski
Hello Richard, Tuesday, December 5, 2006, 7:01:17 AM, you wrote: RE Dale Ghent wrote: Similar to UFS's onerror mount option, I take it? RE Actually, it would be interesting to see how many customers change the RE onerror setting. We have some data, just need more days in the hour. Sometimes

Re[2]: [nfs-discuss] Re: [zfs-discuss] A Plea for Help: Thumper/ZFS/NFS/B43

2006-12-11 Thread Robert Milkowski
Hello Ben, Monday, December 11, 2006, 9:34:18 PM, you wrote: BR Robert Milkowski wrote: Hello eric, Saturday, December 9, 2006, 7:07:49 PM, you wrote: ek Jim Mauro wrote: Could be NFS synchronous semantics on file create (followed by repeated flushing of the write cache). What kind

Re[2]: [zfs-discuss] Uber block corruption?

2006-12-11 Thread Robert Milkowski
Hello Darren, Tuesday, December 12, 2006, 2:10:30 AM, you wrote: A while back we had a Sun engineer come to our office and talk about the benefits of ZFS. I asked him the question Can the uber block become corrupt and what happeneds if it does?, to which he did not have the answer but swore

Re: Re[2]: [zfs-discuss] Uber block corruption?

2006-12-11 Thread Darren Dunham
DD To reduce the chance of it affecting the integrety of the filesystem, DD there are multiple copies of the UB written, each with a checksum and a DD generation number. When starting up a pool, the oldest generation copy DD that checks properly will be used. If the import can't find any

Re: [nfs-discuss] Re: [zfs-discuss] A Plea for Help: Thumper/ZFS/NFS/B43

2006-12-11 Thread Richard Elling
BR Yes, absolutely. Set var in /etc/system, reboot, system come up. That BR happened almost 2 months ago, long before this lock insanity problem BR popped up. For the archives, a high level of lock activity can always be a problem. The worst cases I've experienced were with record locking over

[zfs-discuss] Doubt on solaris 10 installation ..

2006-12-11 Thread dudekula mastan
Hi Everybody, I have some problems in solaris 10 installation. After installing the first CD , I removed the CD from CDrom , after that the machine is getting rebooting again and again. It is not asking second CD to install. If you have any idea. Please tell me. Thanks

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS related kernel panic

2006-12-11 Thread Richard Elling
Robert Milkowski wrote: Hello Richard, Tuesday, December 5, 2006, 7:01:17 AM, you wrote: RE Dale Ghent wrote: Similar to UFS's onerror mount option, I take it? RE Actually, it would be interesting to see how many customers change the RE onerror setting. We have some data, just need more

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs exported a live filesystem

2006-12-11 Thread Boyd Adamson
On 12/12/2006, at 8:48 AM, Richard Elling wrote: Jim Hranicky wrote: By mistake, I just exported my test filesystem while it was up and being served via NFS, causing my tar over NFS to start throwing stale file handle errors. Should I file this as a bug, or should I just not do that :-