Re: [zfs-discuss] Odd prioritisation issues.

2007-12-12 Thread Roch - PAE
Dickon Hood writes: On Fri, Dec 07, 2007 at 13:14:56 +, I wrote: : On Fri, Dec 07, 2007 at 12:58:17 +, Darren J Moffat wrote: : : Dickon Hood wrote: : : On Fri, Dec 07, 2007 at 12:38:11 +, Darren J Moffat wrote: : : : Dickon Hood wrote: : : : We're seeing the writes

[zfs-discuss] LSI SAS3081E = unstable drive numbers?

2007-12-12 Thread Kent Watsen
Based on recommendations from this list, I asked the company that built my box to use an LSI SAS3081E controller. The first problem I noticed was that the drive-numbers were ordered incorrectly. That is, given that my system has 24 bays (6 rows, 4 bays/row), the drive numbers from

Re: [zfs-discuss] LSI SAS3081E = unstable drive numbers?

2007-12-12 Thread James C. McPherson
Hi Kent, I'm one of the team that works on Solaris' mpt driver, which we recently enhanced to deliver mpxio support with SAS. I have a bit of knowledge about your issue :-) Kent Watsen wrote: Based on recommendations from this list, I asked the company that built my box to use an LSI SAS3081E

[zfs-discuss] Thumper with many NFS-export ZFS filesystems

2007-12-12 Thread Peter Eriksson
[0] andromeda:/2common/sge# wc /etc/dfs/sharetab 18537412 157646 /etc/dfs/sharetab This machine (Thumper) currently runs Solaris 10 Update 3 (with some patches) and things work just fine. Now, I'm a bit worried about reboot times due to the number of exported filesystems and I'm thinking

Re: [zfs-discuss] LSI SAS3081E = unstable drive numbers?

2007-12-12 Thread Kent Watsen
Wow, how fortunate for me that you are on this list! I guess I do have a follow-up question... If each new drive gets a new id when plugged into the system - and I learn to discover that drive's id using dmesg or iostat and use `zfs replace ` correctly - when a drive fails, what will it

Re: [zfs-discuss] Odd prioritisation issues.

2007-12-12 Thread Dickon Hood
On Wed, Dec 12, 2007 at 10:27:56 +0100, Roch - PAE wrote: : O_DSYNC was good idea. Then if you have recent Nevada you : can use the separate intent log (log keyword in zpool : create) to absord thosewrites without having splindle : competition with the reads. Your write

Re: [zfs-discuss] LSI SAS3081E = unstable drive numbers?

2007-12-12 Thread Kent Watsen
Hi Paul, Already in my LSI Configuration Utility I have an option to clear the persistent mapping for drives not present, but then the card resumes its normal persistent-mapping logic. What I really want is to disable to persistent mapping logic completely - is the `lsiutil` doing that for

Re: [zfs-discuss] LSI SAS3081E = unstable drive numbers?

2007-12-12 Thread Paul Jochum
Hi Kent: I have run into the same problem before, and have worked with LSI and SUN support to fix it. LSI calls this persistant drive mapping, and here is how to clear it 1) obtain the latest version of the program lsiutil from LSI. They don't seem to have the Solaris versions on their

Re: [zfs-discuss] LSI SAS3081E = unstable drive numbers?

2007-12-12 Thread Paul Jochum
Hi Kent: What the lsiutil does for me is clear the persistent mapping for all of the drives on a card. I don't know of a way to disable the mapping completely (but that does sound like a nice option). Since SUN is reselling this card now (that is how I got my cards), I wonder if they

Re: [zfs-discuss] Yager on ZFS

2007-12-12 Thread can you guess?
(apologies if this gets posted twice - it disappeared the first time, and it's not clear whether that was intentional) Hello can, Tuesday, December 11, 2007, 6:57:43 PM, you wrote: Monday, December 10, 2007, 3:35:27 AM, you wrote: cyg and it made them slower cyg That's the second

Re: [zfs-discuss] Yager on ZFS

2007-12-12 Thread can you guess?
Hello can, Tuesday, December 11, 2007, 6:57:43 PM, you wrote: Monday, December 10, 2007, 3:35:27 AM, you wrote: cyg and it made them slower cyg That's the second time you've claimed that, so you'll really at cyg least have to describe *how* you measured this even if the cyg detailed

Re: [zfs-discuss] LSI SAS3081E = unstable drive numbers?

2007-12-12 Thread Richard Elling
James C. McPherson wrote: Now here's where things get murky. At this point in time at least (it may change!) Solaris' mpt driver uses LSI's logical target id mapping method. This is *NOT* an enclosure/slot naming method - at least, not from the OS' point of view. Additionally, unless you're

Re: [zfs-discuss] LSI SAS3081E = unstable drive numbers?

2007-12-12 Thread Eric Schrock
On Wed, Dec 12, 2007 at 09:22:07AM -0800, Richard Elling wrote: For Sun systems, we have 3 LEDs on the drives: 1. Ready to remove (blue) 2. Service required (amber) 3. OK/Activity (green) So there must be a way to set the ready to remove LED from Solaris. In the old days, we could use

[zfs-discuss] reset a disk?

2007-12-12 Thread Doug Schwabauer
I can't find how to do this...I used a disk for a zfs pool and now I want to use it for normal UFS stuff. But my partition table now looks like: Part TagFlag First SectorSizeLast Sector 0usrwm34 33.91GB 71116541 1

Re: [zfs-discuss] reset a disk?

2007-12-12 Thread Cindy . Swearingen
Hi Doug, ZFS uses an EFI label so you need to use format -e to set it back to a VTOC label, like this: # format -e Specify disk (enter its number)[4]: 3 selecting c0t4d0 [disk formatted] format label [0] SMI Label [1] EFI Label Specify Label type[1]: 0 Warning: This disk has an EFI label.

Re: [zfs-discuss] Yager on ZFS

2007-12-12 Thread Robert Milkowski
Hello can, I haven't been wasting so much time as in this thread... but from time to time it won't hurt :) More below :) Wednesday, December 12, 2007, 4:46:42 PM, you wrote: Hello Bill, I know, everyone loves their baby... cyg No, you don't know: you just assume that everyone is as biased

[zfs-discuss] 6604198 - single thread for compression

2007-12-12 Thread Robert Milkowski
Hello zfs-discuss, http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-1-6604198-1 Is there a patch for S10? I thought it's been fixed. -- Best regards, Robert mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://milek.blogspot.com

Re: [zfs-discuss] 6604198 - single thread for compression

2007-12-12 Thread eric kustarz
On Dec 12, 2007, at 3:03 PM, Robert Milkowski wrote: Hello zfs-discuss, http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-1-6604198-1 Is there a patch for S10? I thought it's been fixed. It was fixed via 6460622 zio_nowait() doesn't live up to its name and that is in s10u4.

Re: [zfs-discuss] Yager on ZFS

2007-12-12 Thread can you guess?
... Bill - I don't think there's a point in continuing that discussion. I think you've finally found something upon which we can agree. I still haven't figured out exactly where on the stupid/intellectually dishonest spectrum you fall (lazy is probably out: you have put some effort in to

Re: [zfs-discuss] Yager on ZFS

2007-12-12 Thread Tim Spriggs
Look, it's obvious this guy talks about himself as if he is the person he is addressing. Please stop taking this personally and feeding the troll. can you guess? wrote: Bill - I don't think there's a point in continuing that discussion. I think you've finally found something upon

Re: [zfs-discuss] Nice chassis for ZFS server

2007-12-12 Thread Frank Cusack
On November 29, 2007 5:56:04 AM -0800 MP [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Intel show a configuration of this chassis in the Hardware Technical Specification: http://download.intel.com/support/motherboards/server/ssr212mc2/sb/ssr212 mc2_tps_12.pdf without the RAID controller. I assume that then the

[zfs-discuss] Finding external USB disks

2007-12-12 Thread David Dyer-Bennet
What are the approaches to finding what external USB disks are currently connected? I'm starting on backup scripts, and I need to check which volumes are present before I figure out what to back up to them. I suppose I could just try all the ones that I know about and see which are there

[zfs-discuss] How can I install the CIFS service to a Core Group Solaris 10 install?

2007-12-12 Thread John Klimek
I'm trying to build a simple Solaris 10 file server using ZFS + CIFS... That means I don't need X Windows or anything like that, etc. During the Solaris 10 installation I chose the Core Group for the installation so that it doesn't install all of the extra software associated with the other

Re: [zfs-discuss] How can I install the CIFS service to a Core Group Solaris 10 install?

2007-12-12 Thread Ian Collins
John Klimek wrote: I'm trying to build a simple Solaris 10 file server using ZFS + CIFS... That means I don't need X Windows or anything like that, etc. Answered elsewhere. ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org