[zfs-discuss] Interesting Pool Import Failure

2008-09-16 Thread Solaris
Hello... Since there has been much discussion about zpool import failures resulting in loss of an entire pool, I thought I would illustrate a scenario I just went through to recover a faulted pool that wouldn't import under Solaris 10 U5. While this is a simple scenario, and the data was not

Re: [zfs-discuss] Do you grok it?

2008-09-16 Thread Wade . Stuart
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 09/15/2008 11:32:15 PM: Brandon High wrote: On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 11:49 AM, Dale Ghent [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Did I detect a (well-done) metaphor for shared ZFS? Probably not. It looks like a deduplication / MAID solution. Yeah, I think they blew

Re: [zfs-discuss] Interesting Pool Import Failure

2008-09-16 Thread Miles Nordin
s == Solaris [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: s Point being that even if you can't run OpenSolaris due to s support issues, you may still be able to use OpenSolaris to s help resolve ZFS issues that you might run into in Solaris 10. glad ZFS is improving, but this sentence is a

Re: [zfs-discuss] [storage-discuss] A few questions

2008-09-16 Thread gm_sjo
2008/9/15 gm_sjo: 2008/9/15 Ben Rockwood: On Thumpers I've created single pools of 44 disks, in 11 disk RAIDZ2's. I've come to regret this. I recommend keeping pools reasonably sized and to keep stripes thinner than this. Could you clarify why you came to regret it? I was intending to

[zfs-discuss] iscsi target problems on snv_97

2008-09-16 Thread Moore, Joe
I've recently upgraded my x4500 to Nevada build 97, and am having problems with the iscsi target. Background: this box is used to serve NFS underlying a VMware ESX environment (zfs filesystem-type datasets) and presents iSCSI targets (zfs zvol datasets) for a Windows host and to act as

Re: [zfs-discuss] [storage-discuss] A few questions

2008-09-16 Thread Peter Tribble
On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 10:03 PM, Ben Rockwood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: gm_sjo wrote: 2008/9/15 gm_sjo: 2008/9/15 Ben Rockwood: On Thumpers I've created single pools of 44 disks, in 11 disk RAIDZ2's. I've come to regret this. I recommend keeping pools reasonably sized and to keep stripes

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZPOOL Import Problem

2008-09-16 Thread Miles Nordin
jd == Jim Dunham [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: jd If at the time the SNDR replica is deleted the set was jd actively replicating, along with ZFS actively writing to the jd ZFS storage pool, I/O consistency will be lost, leaving ZFS jd storage pool in an indeterministic state on the

Re: [zfs-discuss] [storage-discuss] iscsi target problems on snv_97

2008-09-16 Thread tim szeto
Moore, Joe wrote: I've recently upgraded my x4500 to Nevada build 97, and am having problems with the iscsi target. Background: this box is used to serve NFS underlying a VMware ESX environment (zfs filesystem-type datasets) and presents iSCSI targets (zfs zvol datasets) for a Windows

Re: [zfs-discuss] [storage-discuss] A few questions

2008-09-16 Thread mike
On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 2:28 PM, Peter Tribble [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For what it's worth, we put all the disks on our thumpers into a single pool - mostly it's 5x 8+1 raidz1 vdevs with a hot spare and 2 drives for the OS and would happily go much bigger. so you have 9 drive raidz1 (8 disks

Re: [zfs-discuss] x4500 vs AVS ?

2008-09-16 Thread Jorgen Lundman
Sorry, I popped up to Hokkdaido for a holiday. I want to thank you all for the replies. I mentioned AVS as I thought it to do be the only product close to enabling us to do a (makeshift) fail-over setup. We have 5-6 ZFS filesystem, and 5-6 zvol with UFS (for quotas). To do zfs send snapshots

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS system requirements

2008-09-16 Thread Erik Trimble
Just one more things on this: Run with a 64-bit processor. Don't even think of using a 32-bit one - there are known issues with ZFS not quite properly using 32-bit only structures. That is, ZFS is really 64-bit clean, but not 32-bit clean. grin -- Erik Trimble Java System Support Mailstop:

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS system requirements

2008-09-16 Thread Cyril Plisko
On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 6:06 AM, Erik Trimble [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just one more things on this: Run with a 64-bit processor. Don't even think of using a 32-bit one - there are known issues with ZFS not quite properly using 32-bit only structures. That is, ZFS is really 64-bit clean, but