[zfs-discuss] atomic_set and what assumptions are proper

2008-11-10 Thread Joe Blount
I notice the sys/atomic.h atomic_xxx interfaces are limited to things that do read/modify/write (inc/dec/swap/etc). There is no atomic_set to do a simple assignment. In a couple headers defining wrappers around the atomic_xxx interfaces, some define an atomic_set that does a simple assignment,

Re: [zfs-discuss] atomic_set and what assumptions are proper

2008-11-10 Thread Casper . Dik
I notice the sys/atomic.h atomic_xxx interfaces are limited to things that do read/modify/write (inc/dec/swap/etc). There is no atomic_set to do a simple assignment. My question is: what protocol is used to update a specific variable to a specific value WHILE AT THE SAME TIME another part can

Re: [zfs-discuss] 3rd party SAS-disks in J4000

2008-11-10 Thread Will Murnane
On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 12:32, Philipp Tobler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, the Barracuda ES.2 disks from Seagate are available in a SAS-version and would seem to be a perfect fit for J4000 arrays. Does anyone have any experience with these disks? Is it possible to install disks in the

[zfs-discuss] raidz problem

2008-11-10 Thread arun tomar
hi! Im creating a storage based on ZFS file system. I have 3 hard disk of 500 GB capacity, totaling to almost 1.4 TB. now when i create a raidz pool with these 3 disks zpool create mypool raidz c0d0 c0d1 c1d1 my understanding what i've read from zfs best practices says, that i should get

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS on Fit-PC Slim?

2008-11-10 Thread Mike Futerko
Hi Not merely a little pokey it was unacceptably slow and the casing got very warm. I am guessing it was pushing CPU right to 100% all the time. Took hours to load and when booting took minutes. Also didn't see an easy way to disable graphical login so on boot every time it would go to

Re: [zfs-discuss] VERY URGENT Compliance for ZFS

2008-11-10 Thread Sean Sprague
We require urgent help on the compliance sheet attached for filesystem ZFS for a USD 20 million storage tender in India. And from where I come from, companies at this stage of the tendering process generally do not wish their details/requirements to be widely publicised. Thus the reference

Re: [zfs-discuss] raidz problem

2008-11-10 Thread Tomas Ă–gren
On 10 November, 2008 - arun tomar sent me these 0,9K bytes: hi! Im creating a storage based on ZFS file system. I have 3 hard disk of 500 GB capacity, totaling to almost 1.4 TB. now when i create a raidz pool with these 3 disks zpool create mypool raidz c0d0 c0d1 c1d1 my

Re: [zfs-discuss] 'zfs recv' is very slow

2008-11-10 Thread Scott Williamson
I have an open ticket to have these putback into Solaris 10. On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 3:24 PM, Ian Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Brent Jones wrote: Theres been a couple threads about this now, tracked some bug ID's/ticket: 6333409 6418042 I see these are fixed in build 102. Are

Re: [zfs-discuss] atomic_set and what assumptions are proper

2008-11-10 Thread Joe Blount
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I notice the sys/atomic.h atomic_xxx interfaces are limited to things that do read/modify/write (inc/dec/swap/etc). There is no atomic_set to do a simple assignment. My question is: what protocol is used to update a specific variable to a specific

Re: [zfs-discuss] VERY URGENT Compliance for ZFS

2008-11-10 Thread Vikash Gupta
Hi Parmesh, Looks like this tender specification meant for Veritas. How do you handle this particular clause ? Shall provide Centralized, Cross platform, Single console management GUI Rgds Vikash -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Sean

[zfs-discuss] 3rd party SAS-disks in J4000

2008-11-10 Thread Philipp Tobler
Hello, the Barracuda ES.2 disks from Seagate are available in a SAS-version and would seem to be a perfect fit for J4000 arrays. Does anyone have any experience with these disks? Is it possible to install disks in the Disk Drive Filler Panels which are delivered with the J4000? Cheers,

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS on Fit-PC Slim?

2008-11-10 Thread Vincent Fox
Fit-PC Slim uses Geode LX800 which is 500 MHz CPU with 512 megs RAM. Well... it's easy to disable graphical login: svcadm disable cde-login The problem is there's no option during install to say no graphics so during firstboot it's going to try anyhow. At which point my console is hosed

Re: [zfs-discuss] 'zfs recv' is very slow

2008-11-10 Thread Ian Collins
River Tarnell wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Andrew Gabriel: This is quite easily worked around by putting a buffering program between the network and the zfs receive. i tested inserting mbuffer with a 250MB buffer between the zfs send and zfs recv.

Re: [zfs-discuss] 'zfs recv' is very slow

2008-11-10 Thread Scott Williamson
If anyone out there has a support contract with sun that covers Solaris 10 support. Feel free to email me and/or sun and have them add you to my support case. The Sun Case is 66104157 and I am seeking to have 6333409 and 6418042 putback into Solaris 10. CR 6712788 was closed as a duplicate of CR

Re: [zfs-discuss] VERY URGENT Compliance for ZFS

2008-11-10 Thread Parmesh Sharma
Title: Parmesh Sharma | Sales Manager Data Management Group Hi Dick, We had already responded to the RFP two months back and now they have come with clarifications. We want to respond at the earliest as to close the loop (FUD) created by veritas. Thank You, Regards, Parmesh

[zfs-discuss] Sun Storage 7000

2008-11-10 Thread Tim
Just got an email about this today. Fishworks finally unveiled? http://www.sun.com/launch/2008-1110/index.jsp ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] How to diagnose zfs - iscsi - nfs hang

2008-11-10 Thread Jacob Ritorto
Thanks for the reply and corroboration, Brent. I just liveupgraded the machine from Solaris 10 u5 to Solaris 10 u6, which purports to have fixed all known issues with the Marvell device, and am still experiencing the hang. So I guess this set of facts would imply one of: 1) they missed one,

Re: [zfs-discuss] Sun Storage 7000

2008-11-10 Thread David Magda
On Nov 10, 2008, at 13:55, Tim wrote: Just got an email about this today. Fishworks finally unveiled? http://www.sun.com/launch/2008-1110/index.jsp Looks like it: http://blogs.sun.com/fishworks/entry/launch_blogs http://blogs.sun.com/main/tags/sunstorage7000

Re: [zfs-discuss] Sun Storage 7000

2008-11-10 Thread Eric Schrock
On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 12:55:52PM -0600, Tim wrote: Just got an email about this today. Fishworks finally unveiled? http://www.sun.com/launch/2008-1110/index.jsp Yes. The official homepage: http://www.sun.com/unifiedstorage And from the technical side:

Re: [zfs-discuss] Sun Storage 7000

2008-11-10 Thread David Magda
On Nov 10, 2008, at 14:05, Eric Schrock wrote: If you want to give it a spin, be sure to check out the freely available VM images. Took a bit of digging, but the VMware image is at: http://www.sun.com/storage/disk_systems/unified_storage/resources.jsp

[zfs-discuss] grub prompt after aborted ufs to zfs live upgrade

2008-11-10 Thread Robert Buick
I attempted a live upgrade of snv_100 ufs laptop over the weekend to zfs. It failed a couple of times complaining about not having enough space. I decided to put the zfs upgrade on the back burner and deleted the failed BE - naturally no luactivate was done at any time. I didn't delete the the

Re: [zfs-discuss] How to diagnose zfs - iscsi - nfs hang

2008-11-10 Thread Thomas Garner
Are these machines 32-bit by chance? I ran into similar seemingly unexplainable hangs, which Marc correctly diagnosed and have since not reappeared: http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/zfs-discuss/2008-August/049994.html Thomas ___ zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS on Fit-PC Slim?

2008-11-10 Thread Francois Dion
Solaris 10 U6 and Solaris Express Community Edition can both be installed in text mode. Nexenta and Belenix will also run on this machine with 512MB. Nexenta will probably be what you want if you are saying you are running ubuntu on this box. -Original Message- Fit-PC Slim uses

Re: [zfs-discuss] VERY URGENT Compliance for ZFS

2008-11-10 Thread Keith Bierman
On Nov 10, 2008, at 4:47 AM, Vikash Gupta wrote: Hi Parmesh, Looks like this tender specification meant for Veritas. How do you handle this particular clause ? Shall provide Centralized, Cross platform, Single console management GUI Does it really make sense to have a discussion like

Re: [zfs-discuss] How to diagnose zfs - iscsi - nfs hang

2008-11-10 Thread Jacob Ritorto
It's a 64 bit dual processor 4 core Xeon kit. 16GB RAM. Supermicro-Marvell SATA boards featuring the same S-ATA chips as the Sun x4500. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [zfs-discuss] Sun Storage 7000

2008-11-10 Thread Andy Lubel
LOL, I guess Sun forgot that they had xvm! I wonder if you could use a converter (vmware converter) to make it work on vbox etc? I would also like to see this available as an upgrade to our 4500's.. Webconsole/zfs just stinks because it only paints a tiny fraction of the overall need for a web

Re: [zfs-discuss] How to diagnose zfs - iscsi - nfs hang

2008-11-10 Thread Jacob Ritorto
FWIW: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:01#kstat vmem::heap module: vmeminstance: 1 name: heapclass:vmem alloc 25055 contains0 contains_search 0

[zfs-discuss] panic on boot

2008-11-10 Thread Gopal Patel
We have a server (opensolaris 2008.05 upgraded to snv_90) that recently stopped responding. Trying to SSH in would fail with a fork, no space left error. Maybe a runaway mem leak, not sure, so we hard rebooted... Now the kernel panics on boot with the following message:

Re: [zfs-discuss] Poor read/write performance when using ZFS iSCSI target

2008-11-10 Thread Maurice Volaski
I was wondering if you ever figured this out or if you've reported it. I'm testing a configuration using snv_99 and am seeing similar behavior. I want to take advantage of the iSCSI target support in the latest release (svn_91) of OpenSolaris, and I'm running into some performance problems

Re: [zfs-discuss] Lost space in empty pool (no snapshots)

2008-11-10 Thread Victor Latushkin
Henrik Johansson wrote: Hello, I have a snv101 machine with a three disk raidz pool which allocation of about 1TB with for no obvious reason, no snapshot, no files, nothing. I tried to run zdb on the pool to see if I got any useful info, but it has been working for over two hours

[zfs-discuss] Strange zfs receive error

2008-11-10 Thread Ian Collins
I've been replicating a number of filesystems from a Solaris 10 update 6 system to an update 5 one. All of the filesystems receive fine except for one, which fails with cannot receive: invalid backup stream I can receive this stream on another update 6 system. Are there any zfs options

Re: [zfs-discuss] Lost space in empty pool (no snapshots)

2008-11-10 Thread Henrik Johansson
On Nov 11, 2008, at 1:56 AM, Victor Latushkin wrote: Henrik Johansson wrote: Hello, I have a snv101 machine with a three disk raidz pool which allocation of about 1TB with for no obvious reason, no snapshot, no files, nothing. I tried to run zdb on the pool to see if I got any

Re: [zfs-discuss] Kernel Panic

2008-11-10 Thread Chris Gerhard
My home server running snv_94 is tipping with the same assertion when someone list a particular file: ::status Loading modules: [ unix genunix specfs dtrace cpu.generic cpu_ms.AuthenticAMD.15 uppc pcplusmp scsi_vhci ufs md ip hook neti sctp arp usba qlc fctl nca lofs zfs audiosup sd cpc random

Re: [zfs-discuss] VERY URGENT Compliance for ZFS

2008-11-10 Thread Brent Jones
On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 12:42 PM, Keith Bierman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Nov 10, 2008, at 4:47 AM, Vikash Gupta wrote: Hi Parmesh, Looks like this tender specification meant for Veritas. How do you handle this particular clause ? Shall provide Centralized, Cross platform, Single