Re: [zfs-discuss] New ZFS Intent Log (ZIL) device available - Beta program now open!

2010-01-15 Thread Al Hopper
On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 5:07 PM, Christopher George cgeo...@ddrdrive.com wrote: Why not enlighten EMC/NTAP on this then? On the basic chemistry and possible failure characteristics of Li-Ion batteries? I will agree, if I had system level control as in either example, one could definitely

Re: [zfs-discuss] New ZFS Intent Log (ZIL) device available - Beta program now open!

2010-01-15 Thread zfsml
On 1/13/10 9:51 AM, Christopher George wrote: The DDRdrive X1 OpenSolaris device driver is now complete, please join us in our first-ever ZFS Intent Log (ZIL) beta test program. A select number of X1s are available for loan, preferred candidates would have a validation background and/or a true

Re: [zfs-discuss] New ZFS Intent Log (ZIL) device available - Beta program now open!

2010-01-15 Thread Andrey Kuzmin
On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 2:07 AM, Christopher George cgeo...@ddrdrive.com wrote: Why not enlighten EMC/NTAP on this then? On the basic chemistry and possible failure characteristics of Li-Ion batteries? I will agree, if I had system level control as in either example, one could definitely

Re: [zfs-discuss] Recovering a broken mirror

2010-01-15 Thread Jim Sloey
Never mind. It looks like the controller is flakey. Neither disk in the mirror is clean. Attempts to backup and recover the remaining disk produced I/O errors that were traced to the controller. Thanks for your help Victor. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org

[zfs-discuss] zfs send/receive as backup - reliability?

2010-01-15 Thread Lassi Tuura
Hi, I am considering building a modest sized storage system with zfs. Some of the data on this is quite valuable, some small subset to be backed up forever, and I am evaluating back-up options with that in mind. My understanding is that zfs send approximately captures the copy-on-write file

Re: [zfs-discuss] zpool fragmentation issues? (dovecot) [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

2010-01-15 Thread Michael Keller
Got a link to this magic dbox format ? http://wiki.dovecot.org/MailboxFormat http://wiki.dovecot.org/MailboxFormat/dbox -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs fast mirror resync?

2010-01-15 Thread Charles Menser
Perhaps an ISCSI mirror for a laptop? Online it when you are back home to keep your backup current. Charles On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 7:04 PM, A Darren Dunham ddun...@taos.com wrote: On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 06:11:10PM -0500, Miles Nordin wrote: zpool offline / zpool online of a mirror component

[zfs-discuss] Is the disk a member of a zpool?

2010-01-15 Thread Morten-Christian Bernson
I was curious as to if it's possible to know if a disk device (from the SAN) is a member of any zpool. The disks are shared to several servers, and the zpool is exported/imported between servers. I am writing a script to list all the disks available from the SAN with some misc. information,

Re: [zfs-discuss] adpu320 scsi timeouts only with ZFS

2010-01-15 Thread Marty Scholes
To fix it, I swapped out the Adaptec controller and put in LSI Logic and all the problems went away. I'm using Sun's built-in LSI controller with (I presume) the original internal cable shipped by Sun. Still, no joy for me at U320 speeds. To be precise, when the controller is set at

Re: [zfs-discuss] Is the disk a member of a zpool?

2010-01-15 Thread Lutz Schumann
The on Disk Layout is shown here: http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/download/Community+Group+zfs/docs/ondiskformat0822.pdf You can use the name value pairs in the vdev label. ( I guess). Unfortunately I do not know any scripts. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org

Re: [zfs-discuss] Is the disk a member of a zpool?

2010-01-15 Thread Victor Latushkin
Lutz Schumann wrote: The on Disk Layout is shown here: http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/download/Community+Group+zfs/docs/ondiskformat0822.pdf You can use the name value pairs in the vdev label. ( I guess). Unfortunately I do not know any scripts. you can try zdb -l /dev/rdsk/cXtYdZs0

[zfs-discuss] Backing up a ZFS pool

2010-01-15 Thread Kenny
What is the best way to back up a zfs pool for recovery? Recover entire pool or files from a pool... Would you use snapshots and clones? I would like to move the backup to a different disk and not use tapes. suggestions?? TIA --Kenny -- This message posted from opensolaris.org

[zfs-discuss] Add disk to raidz pool

2010-01-15 Thread Kenny
Can you add a disk (volume) to an existing raidz pool?? Or do you still need to create a new pool, copy data, destroy old pool in order to expand the pool size? TIA --Kenny -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZIL to disk

2010-01-15 Thread Jeffry Molanus
Sometimes people get confused about the ZIL and separate logs. For sizing purposes, the ZIL is a write-only workload. Data which is written to the ZIL is later asynchronously written to the pool when the txg is committed. Right; the tgx needs time to transfer the ZIL. The ZFS write

Re: [zfs-discuss] Backing up a ZFS pool

2010-01-15 Thread David Dyer-Bennet
On Fri, January 15, 2010 13:47, Kenny wrote: What is the best way to back up a zfs pool for recovery? Recover entire pool or files from a pool... Would you use snapshots and clones? I would like to move the backup to a different disk and not use tapes. suggestions?? What I'm trying to do

Re: [zfs-discuss] Backing up a ZFS pool

2010-01-15 Thread Bryan Allen
Have a simple rolling ZFS replication script: http://dpaste.com/145790/ -- bda cyberpunk is dead. long live cyberpunk. ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Can I use a clone to split a filesystem?

2010-01-15 Thread A Darren Dunham
On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 02:07:40PM -0600, Gary Mills wrote: I have a ZFS filesystem that I wish to split into two ZFS filesystems at one of the subdirectories. I understand that I first need to make a snapshot of the filesystem and then make a clone of the snapshot, with a different name.

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZIL to disk

2010-01-15 Thread Neil Perrin
On 01/15/10 12:59, Jeffry Molanus wrote: Sometimes people get confused about the ZIL and separate logs. For sizing purposes, the ZIL is a write-only workload. Data which is written to the ZIL is later asynchronously written to the pool when the txg is committed. Right; the tgx needs time

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZIL to disk

2010-01-15 Thread Scott Meilicke
I think Y is such a variable and complex number it would be difficult to give a rule of thumb, other than to 'test with your workload'. My server, having three, five disk raidzs (striped) and an intel x25-e as a zil can fill my two G ethernet pipes over NFS (~200MBps) during mostly sequential

Re: [zfs-discuss] Add disk to raidz pool

2010-01-15 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Fri, 15 Jan 2010, Kenny wrote: Can you add a disk (volume) to an existing raidz pool?? Or do you still need to create a new pool, copy data, destroy old pool in order to expand the pool size? There is not really such a thing as a 'raidz pool'. You are not able to add another disk to a

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs fast mirror resync?

2010-01-15 Thread Daniel Carosone
On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 10:37:15AM -0500, Charles Menser wrote: Perhaps an ISCSI mirror for a laptop? Online it when you are back home to keep your backup current. I do exactly this, but: - It's not the only thing I do for backup. - The iscsi initiator is currently being a major PITA for me.

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZIL to disk

2010-01-15 Thread Al Hopper
On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 1:59 PM, Jeffry Molanus jeffry.mola...@proact.nl wrote: Sometimes people get confused about the ZIL and separate logs. For sizing purposes, the ZIL is a write-only workload.  Data which is written to the ZIL is later asynchronously written to the pool when the txg is

[zfs-discuss] Finito: Glassfish V3 Pet Catalog sample DEMO in VM Template - Internal Download

2010-01-15 Thread emuls
Hi All, As I promise I finish before SUN leave: http://blogs.sun.com/VirtualGuru/entry/virtual_applinaces_ovf_workshop Feedback is welcome Nice day Rudolf ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZIL to disk

2010-01-15 Thread Jeffry Molanus
-Original Message- From: neil.per...@sun.com [mailto:neil.per...@sun.com] I think you misunderstand the function of the ZIL. It's not a journal, and doesn't get transferred to the pool as of a txg. It's only ever written except after a crash it's read to do replay. See:

Re: [zfs-discuss] (snv_129, snv_130) can't import zfs pool

2010-01-15 Thread Victor Latushkin
LevT wrote: switched to another system, RAM 4Gb - 16Gb the importing process lasts about 18hrs now the system is responsive if developers want it I may provide ssh access I have no critical data there, it is an acceptance test only If it is still relevant, feel free to contact me offline to

[zfs-discuss] Zfs over iscsi bad status

2010-01-15 Thread Arnaud Brand
I was testing zfs over iscsi (with commstar over a zvol) and got some errors. Target and initiator are on the same host. I've copy-pasted an excerpt on zpool status hereafter. The pool (tank) containing the iscsi-shared zvol (tank/tsmvol) is healthy and show no errors. But the zpool (tsmvol) on

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZIL to disk

2010-01-15 Thread Robert Milkowski
On 16/01/2010 00:09, Jeffry Molanus wrote: -Original Message- From: neil.per...@sun.com [mailto:neil.per...@sun.com] I think you misunderstand the function of the ZIL. It's not a journal, and doesn't get transferred to the pool as of a txg. It's only ever written except

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS + OpenSolaris for home NAS?

2010-01-15 Thread Charles Edge
To have Mac OS X connect via iSCSI: http://krypted.com/mac-os-x/how-to-use-iscsi-on-mac-os-x/ -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss