[zfs-discuss] add/replace : strange zfs pool behaviour

2008-02-13 Thread Nicolas Szalay
Hi everybody; I'm experimenting something weird on one of my zpool. One of my hard drive failed (c3t3d0). The hot spare (c4t3d0) did its job, I (physically) replaced it, and rebooted. I have acknowledged the failure with fmadm too. I now have this zpool config : $ zpool status storage pool:

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Performance Issue

2008-02-13 Thread William Fretts-Saxton
After working with Sanjeev, and putting in a bunch of timing statement throughout the code, it turns out that file writes ARE NOT the bottleneck, as would be assumed. It is actually reading the file into a byte buffer that is the culprit. Specifically, this java command: byteBuffer =

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS versus VxFS as file system inside Netbackup 6.0 DSSU

2008-02-13 Thread Sri Sudarsan
Selim, Symantec does support ZFS as DSSU targets. I've also seen a SUN white paper outlining the use of Thumper (Sun X4500) as a NB 6.5 media server, where the best practice was to to configure multiple NB disk storage units to use a distinct ZFS file system. In this case, all the ZFS file

[zfs-discuss] Is gzip planned to be in S10U5?

2008-02-13 Thread Brad Diggs
Hello, Is the gzip compression algorithm planned to be in Solaris 10 Update 5? Thanks in advance, Brad -- The Zone Manager http://TheZoneManager.COM http://opensolaris.org/os/project/zonemgr ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [zfs-discuss] Avoiding performance decrease when pool usage is over 80%

2008-02-13 Thread Thomas Liesner
Ralf Ramge schrieb: Thomas Liesner wrote: Does this mean, that if i have a pool of 7TB with one filesystem for all users with a quota of 6TB i'd be alright? Yep. Although I *really* recommend creating individual file systems, e.g. if you have 1,000 users on your server, I'd create 1,000

Re: [zfs-discuss] 3ware support

2008-02-13 Thread Tim
On 2/13/08, Tom Buskey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are you using the Supermicro in Solaris or OpenSolaris? Which version? 64 bit or 32 bits? I'm asking because I recently went through a number of SCSI cards that are in the HCL as supported, but do not have 64 bit drivers. So they only work

Re: [zfs-discuss] 3ware support

2008-02-13 Thread Tom Buskey
Are you using the Supermicro in Solaris or OpenSolaris? Which version? 64 bit or 32 bits? I'm asking because I recently went through a number of SCSI cards that are in the HCL as supported, but do not have 64 bit drivers. So they only work in 32 bit mode. This message posted from

Re: [zfs-discuss] unexpected ZFS behavior

2008-02-13 Thread Jeremy Kister
On 2/5/2008 2:45 PM, Jeremy Kister wrote: 1. What do I have to do (short of replacing the seemingly good disk) to get c3t8d0 back online? I ended up applying patches 124205-05 and 118855-36. things are much better now, but there are still [at least] two issues remaining. with my zpool in

Re: [zfs-discuss] 3ware support

2008-02-13 Thread Rob Windsor
Tom Buskey wrote: Are you using the Supermicro in Solaris or OpenSolaris? Which version? 64 bit or 32 bits? I'm asking because I recently went through a number of SCSI cards that are in the HCL as supported, but do not have 64 bit drivers. So they only work in 32 bit mode.

[zfs-discuss] RAIDz2 reporting odd (smaller) size

2008-02-13 Thread Sam
I saw some other people have a similar problem but reports claimed this was 'fixed in release 42' which is many months old, I'm running the latest version. I made a RAIDz2 of 8x500GB which should give me a 3TB pool: zfs list: NAME USED AVAIL REFER MOUNTPOINT pile 269K 2.67T 40.4K

Re: [zfs-discuss] Which DTrace provider to use

2008-02-13 Thread Marion Hakanson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: difference my tweaks are making. Basically, the problem users experience, when the load shoots up are huge latencies. An ls on a non-cached directory, which usually is instantaneous, will take 20, 30, 40 seconds or more. Then when the storage array catches up,

Re: [zfs-discuss] RAIDz2 reporting odd (smaller) size

2008-02-13 Thread A Darren Dunham
On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 02:48:25PM -0800, Sam wrote: I saw some other people have a similar problem but reports claimed this was 'fixed in release 42' which is many months old, I'm running the latest version. I made a RAIDz2 of 8x500GB which should give me a 3TB pool: How many sectors on

Re: [zfs-discuss] RAIDz2 reporting odd (smaller) size

2008-02-13 Thread Mattias Pantzare
2008/2/13, Sam [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I saw some other people have a similar problem but reports claimed this was 'fixed in release 42' which is many months old, I'm running the latest version. I made a RAIDz2 of 8x500GB which should give me a 3TB pool: Disk manufacturers use ISO units, where

Re: [zfs-discuss] Which DTrace provider to use

2008-02-13 Thread Rob Logan
Way crude, but effective enough: kinda cool, but isn't thats what sar -f /var/adm/sa/sa`date +%d` -A | grep -v , is for? crontab -e sys to start.. for more fun acctadm -e extended -f /var/adm/exacct/proc process Rob ___ zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Which DTrace provider to use

2008-02-13 Thread Jonathan Loran
Marion Hakanson wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: ... I know, I know, I should have gone with a JBOD setup, but it's too late for that in this iteration of this server. We we set this up, I had the gear already, and it's not in my budget to get new stuff right now. What kind of

Re: [zfs-discuss] RAIDz2 reporting odd (smaller) size

2008-02-13 Thread Sam
zpool list reports 3.67T, df reports 2.71 which is pretty close to 2.73 so I imagine you guys are right in the difference being 465GB vs 500GB for the size of each disc, guess I'll go pick up another pair :) Thanks! Sam This message posted from opensolaris.org

Re: [zfs-discuss] Which DTrace provider to use

2008-02-13 Thread Marion Hakanson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: It's not that old. It's a Supermicro system with a 3ware 9650SE-8LP. Open-E iSCSI-R3 DOM module. The system is plenty fast. I can pretty handily pull 120MB/sec from it, and write at over 100MB/sec. It falls apart more on random I/O. The server/initiator side is a

[zfs-discuss] Spare Won't Remove

2008-02-13 Thread Christopher Gibbs
I have a hot spare that was part of my zpool but is no longer connected to the system. I can run the zpool remove command and it returns fine but doesn't seem to do anything. I have tried adding and removing spares that are connected to the system and works properly. Is zpool remove failing

[zfs-discuss] Solaris File Server ZFS and Cifs

2008-02-13 Thread Mertol Ozyoney
Hi ; One of my customers is considering a 10 TB NAS box for some windows boxes. Reliability and High performance is mandatory. So I plan to use 2x Clustered Servers + some storage and ZFS and Solaris. Here are my questions 1) Is any body using Clustered Solaris and ZFS