[zfs-discuss] Re: Permanently removing vdevs from a pool

2007-05-09 Thread Anon
1. evacuating a vdev resulting in a smaller pool for all raid configs - ? 2. adding new vdev and rewriting all existing data to new larger stripe - ? 3. expanding stripe width for raid-z1 and raid-z2 - ? 4. live conversion between different raid kinds on the same disk set

[zfs-discuss] Re: Need guidance on RAID 5, ZFS, and RAIDZ on home file server

2007-05-09 Thread John Smith
Thanks for the continuing flow of information. I already have all of the equipment. I'm actually upgrading my main computer to a new Core 2 Duo setup which is why this hardware is going to the file server. I think I'm going to try a 64bit install using the four 500GB drives in a RAID-Z

[zfs-discuss] ZFS Storage Pools Recommendations for Productive Environments

2007-05-09 Thread Andreas Koppenhoefer
Hello, solaris Internals wiki contains many interesting things about zfs. But i have no glue about the reasons for this entry: In Section ZFS Storage Pools Recommendations - Storage Pools you can read: [i]For all production environments, set up a redundant ZFS storage pool, such as a raidz,

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: Re: gzip compression throttles system?

2007-05-09 Thread Adam Leventhal
On Thu, May 03, 2007 at 11:43:49AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think this may be a premature leap -- It is still undetermined if we are running up against a yet unknown bug in the kernel implementation of gzip used for this compression type. From my understanding the gzip code has been

[zfs-discuss] zpool status faulted, but raid1z status is online?

2007-05-09 Thread Alex
Drive in my solaris box that had the OS on it decided to kick the bucket this evening, a joyous occasion for all, but luckly all my data is stored on a zpool and the OS is nothing but a shell to serve it up on. One quick install later and im back trying to import my pool, and things are not

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Storage Pools Recommendations for Productive Environments

2007-05-09 Thread Toby Thain
On 9-May-07, at 4:45 AM, Andreas Koppenhoefer wrote: Hello, solaris Internals wiki contains many interesting things about zfs. But i have no glue about the reasons for this entry: In Section ZFS Storage Pools Recommendations - Storage Pools you can read: [i]For all production environments,

[zfs-discuss] Extremely long ZFS destroy operations

2007-05-09 Thread Anantha N. Srirama
We've Solaris 10 Update 3 (aka 11/06) running on an E2900 (24 x 96). On this server we've been running a large SAS environment totalling well over 2TB. We also take daily snapshots of the filesystems and clone them for use by a local zone. This setup has been in use for well over 6 months.

Re: [zfs-discuss] Filesystem Benchmark

2007-05-09 Thread Rayson Ho
Tried filebench before?? http://www.solarisinternals.com/wiki/index.php/FileBench Rayson On 5/9/07, cesare VoltZ [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I used in the past iozone (http://www.iozone.org/) but I'm wondering if there are other tools. Thanks. Cesare

[zfs-discuss] Re: ZFS Support for remote mirroring

2007-05-09 Thread Anantha N. Srirama
For whatever reason EMC notes (on PowerLink) suggest that ZFS is not supported on their arrays. If one is going to use a ZFS filesystem on top of a EMC array be warned about support issues. This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss

[zfs-discuss] Resilvering speed?

2007-05-09 Thread Mario Goebbels
I've read that it's supposed to go at full speed, i.e. as fast as possible. I'm doing a disk replace and what zpool reports kind of surprises me. The resilver goes on at 1.6MB/s. Did resilvering get throttled at some point between the builds, or is my ATA controller having bigger issues?

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Storage Pools Recommendations for Productive Environments

2007-05-09 Thread Richard Elling
comment below... Toby Thain wrote: On 9-May-07, at 4:45 AM, Andreas Koppenhoefer wrote: Hello, solaris Internals wiki contains many interesting things about zfs. But i have no glue about the reasons for this entry: In Section ZFS Storage Pools Recommendations - Storage Pools you can read:

Re: [zfs-discuss] Filesystem Benchmark

2007-05-09 Thread Richard Elling
cesare VoltZ wrote: Hy, I'm planning to test on pre-production data center a ZFS solution for our application and I'm searching a good filesystem benchmark for see which configuration is the best solution. Pedantically, your application is always best. -- richard

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: Re: gzip compression throttles system?

2007-05-09 Thread Bart Smaalders
Adam Leventhal wrote: On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 11:52:06AM +0100, Darren J Moffat wrote: Can you give some more info on what these problems are. I was thinking of this bug: 6460622 zio_nowait() doesn't live up to its name Which was surprised to find was fixed by Eric in build 59. Adam

Re: [zfs-discuss] Filesystem Benchmark

2007-05-09 Thread Ming Zhang
On Wed, 2007-05-09 at 16:27 +0200, cesare VoltZ wrote: Hy, I'm planning to test on pre-production data center a ZFS solution for our application and I'm searching a good filesystem benchmark for see which configuration is the best solution. Server are Solaris 10 connected to a EMC

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: ZFS Support for remote mirroring

2007-05-09 Thread Robert Milkowski
Hello Anantha, Wednesday, May 9, 2007, 4:45:10 PM, you wrote: ANS For whatever reason EMC notes (on PowerLink) suggest that ZFS is ANS not supported on their arrays. If one is going to use a ZFS ANS filesystem on top of a EMC array be warned about support issues. Nope. For a couple of months

Re[2]: [zfs-discuss] Resilvering speed?

2007-05-09 Thread Robert Milkowski
Hello Richard, Wednesday, May 9, 2007, 9:10:22 PM, you wrote: RE Robert Milkowski wrote: Hello Mario, Wednesday, May 9, 2007, 5:56:18 PM, you wrote: MG I've read that it's supposed to go at full speed, i.e. as fast as MG possible. I'm doing a disk replace and what zpool reports kind of

Re: [zfs-discuss] Resilvering speed?

2007-05-09 Thread Bakul Shah
Robert Milkowski wrote: Hello Mario, Wednesday, May 9, 2007, 5:56:18 PM, you wrote: MG I've read that it's supposed to go at full speed, i.e. as fast as MG possible. I'm doing a disk replace and what zpool reports kind of MG surprises me. The resilver goes on at 1.6MB/s. Did

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: Need guidance on RAID 5, ZFS, and RAIDZ on home file server

2007-05-09 Thread Robert Milkowski
Hello Michael, Tuesday, May 8, 2007, 9:20:56 PM, you wrote: Probably RAID-Z as you don't have enough disks to be interesting for doing 1+0. Paul MC How do you configure ZFS RAID 1+0 ? MC Will next lines do that right? : MC [b]zpool create -f zfs_raid1 mirror c0t1d0 c1t1d0 MC zpool add

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: ZFS Support for remote mirroring

2007-05-09 Thread Torrey McMahon
Anantha N. Srirama wrote: For whatever reason EMC notes (on PowerLink) suggest that ZFS is not supported on their arrays. If one is going to use a ZFS filesystem on top of a EMC array be warned about support issues. They should have fixed that in their matrices. It should say something

[zfs-discuss] Re: Extremely long ZFS destroy operations

2007-05-09 Thread Anantha N. Srirama
I've since stopped making the second clone when I realized the .zfs/snapshot/snapname still exists after the clone operation is completed. So my need for the local clone is met by the direct access to the snapshot. However, the poor performance of the destroy is still valid. It is quite

[zfs-discuss] zfs lost function

2007-05-09 Thread Simon
Gurus, My fresh installed Solaris 10 U3 can't bootup normally on T2000 server(System Firmware 6.4.4 ),the OS can only enter into the single-user mode,as one critical service fails to start: # uname -a SunOS t2000 5.10 Generic_118833-33 sun4v sparc SUNW,Sun-Fire-T200 (it's not patched,just