Re: [zfs-discuss] part of active zfs pool error message reports incorrect decive

2010-01-23 Thread Steve Radich, BitShop, Inc.
I'd agree with export/import *IF* the drive should be good, however I have a drive that was pulled from the pool a long time ago (to flash drive the drive) - The data on it is useless. exporting/importing would cause either a) errors, b) scrub to need to be run which should overwrite it

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Defragmentation - will it happen?

2010-01-23 Thread Thomas Burgess
The way i understand it, this requires bprewrite and it's being worked on. On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 5:40 AM, Colin Raven co...@clearcutnetworks.comwrote: Can anyone comment on the likelihood of zfs defrag becoming a reality some day? If so, any approximation as to when? I realize this isn't

Re: [zfs-discuss] hard drive choice, TLER/ERC/CCTL

2010-01-23 Thread Simon Breden
Thanks a lot. I'd looked at SO many different RAID boxes and never had a good feeling about them from the point of data safety, that when I read the 'A Conversation with Jeff Bonwick and Bill Moore – The future of file systems' article (http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=1317400), I was

Re: [zfs-discuss] Best 1.5TB drives for consumer RAID?

2010-01-23 Thread R.G. Keen
Interesting question. The answer I came to, perhaps through lack of information and experience, is that there isn't a best 1.5tb drive. I decided that 1.5tb is too big, and that it's better to use more and smaller devices so I could get to raidz3. The reasoning came after reading the case for

Re: [zfs-discuss] Best 1.5TB drives for consumer RAID?

2010-01-23 Thread Simon Breden
pI just took a look at customer feedback on this drive here. 36% rate with one star, which I would consider alarming. Take a look here, ordered from lowest rating to highest rating. Note the recency of the comments and the descriptions:/p a

Re: [zfs-discuss] Best 1.5TB drives for consumer RAID?

2010-01-23 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Sat, 23 Jan 2010, R.G. Keen wrote: The reasoning came after reading the case for triple-parity raid. The curves showing time to failure versus time to resilver a single lost drive. Time to failure will remain constant-ish, while time to resilver will increase as the number of bits inside a

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS filesystem lock after running auto-re plicate.ksh - how to clear?

2010-01-23 Thread Fletcher Cocquyt
Fletcher Cocquyt fcocquyt at stanford.edu writes: I found this script for replicating zfs data: http://www.infrageeks.com/groups/infrageeks/wiki/8fb35/zfs_autoreplicate_script.html - I am testing it out in the lab with b129. It error-ed out the first run with some syntax error about the

Re: [zfs-discuss] Best 1.5TB drives for consumer RAID?

2010-01-23 Thread Simon Breden
In general I agree completely with what you are saying. Making reliable large capacity drives does appear to have become very difficult for the drive manufacturers, judging by the many sad comments from drive buyers listed on popular, highly-trafficked sales outlets' websites, like newegg. And

Re: [zfs-discuss] Best 1.5TB drives for consumer RAID?

2010-01-23 Thread David Magda
On Jan 23, 2010, at 12:04, Simon Breden wrote: And I think your 750GB choice should be a good one. I'm currently using 750GB drives (WD7500AAKS) and they have worked flawlessly over the last 2 years. But knowing that drives don't last forever, it's time I looked for some new ones, assuming

Re: [zfs-discuss] zero out block / sectors

2010-01-23 Thread Al Hopper
On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 2:42 PM, Cindy Swearingen cindy.swearin...@sun.com wrote: Hi John, You might check with the virtualguru, Rudolf Kutina. Unfortunately, Rudolfs last day at Sun was Jan 15th: http://blogs.sun.com/VirtualGuru/entry/kiss_of_dead_my_last you can still catch up with him at

Re: [zfs-discuss] Best 1.5TB drives for consumer RAID?

2010-01-23 Thread Frank Cusack
On January 23, 2010 8:04:50 AM -0800 R.G. Keen k...@geofex.com wrote: The answer I came to, perhaps through lack of information and experience, is that there isn't a best 1.5tb drive. I decided that 1.5tb is too big, and that it's better to use more and smaller devices so I could get to raidz3.

[zfs-discuss] nfs mounts don't follow child filesystems?

2010-01-23 Thread Frank Cusack
I thought with NFS4 *on solaris* that clients would follow the zfs filesystem hierarchy and mount sub-filesystems. That doesn't seem to be happening and I can't find any documentation on it (either way). Did I only dream up this feature or does it actually exist? I am using s10_u8. thanks

Re: [zfs-discuss] L2ARC in Cluster is picked up althought not part of the pool

2010-01-23 Thread Lutz Schumann
Hi, i found some time and was able to test again. - verify with unique uid of the device - verify with autoreplace = off Indeed autoreplace was set to yes for the pools. So I disabled the autoreplace. VOL PROPERTY VALUE SOURCE nxvol2 autoreplaceoff default

Re: [zfs-discuss] zero out block / sectors

2010-01-23 Thread John Hoogerdijk
Mike Gerdts wrote: On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 1:00 PM, John Hoogerdijk john.hoogerd...@sun.com wrote: Is there a way to zero out unused blocks in a pool? I'm looking for ways to shrink the size of an opensolaris virtualbox VM and using the compact subcommand will remove zero'd sectors.

Re: [zfs-discuss] Best 1.5TB drives for consumer RAID?

2010-01-23 Thread Simon Breden
Reading through your post brought back many memories of how I used to manage my data. I also found SuperDuper and Carbon Copy Cloner great for making a duplicate of my Mac's boot drive, which also contained my data. After juggling around with cloning boot/data drives and using non-redundant

Re: [zfs-discuss] Best 1.5TB drives for consumer RAID?

2010-01-23 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Sat, 23 Jan 2010, Simon Breden wrote: pI just took a look at customer feedback on this drive here. 36% rate with one star, which I would consider alarming. Take a look here, ordered from lowest rating to highest rating. Note the recency of the comments and the descriptions:/p a

Re: [zfs-discuss] zero out block / sectors

2010-01-23 Thread Mike Gerdts
On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 11:55 AM, John Hoogerdijk john.hoogerd...@sun.com wrote: Mike Gerdts wrote: On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 1:00 PM, John Hoogerdijk john.hoogerd...@sun.com wrote: Is there a way to zero out unused blocks in a pool?  I'm looking for ways to shrink the size of an

Re: [zfs-discuss] zero out block / sectors

2010-01-23 Thread John Hoogerdijk
Mike Gerdts wrote: On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 11:55 AM, John Hoogerdijk john.hoogerd...@sun.com wrote: Mike Gerdts wrote: On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 1:00 PM, John Hoogerdijk john.hoogerd...@sun.com wrote: Is there a way to zero out unused blocks in a pool? I'm looking for ways to

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS filesystem lock after running auto-replicate.ksh - how to clear?

2010-01-23 Thread Brent Jones
On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 8:44 AM, Fletcher Cocquyt fcocq...@stanford.edu wrote: Fletcher Cocquyt fcocquyt at stanford.edu writes: I found this script for replicating zfs data: http://www.infrageeks.com/groups/infrageeks/wiki/8fb35/zfs_autoreplicate_script.html  - I am testing it out in the

Re: [zfs-discuss] nfs mounts don't follow child filesystems?

2010-01-23 Thread Robert Thurlow
Frank Cusack wrote: I thought with NFS4 *on solaris* that clients would follow the zfs filesystem hierarchy and mount sub-filesystems. That doesn't seem to be happening and I can't find any documentation on it (either way). Did I only dream up this feature or does it actually exist? I am

Re: [zfs-discuss] Best 1.5TB drives for consumer RAID?

2010-01-23 Thread A. Krijgsman
Just to jump in. Did you guys ever consider to shortstroke a larger sata disk? I'm not familiar with this, but read a lot about it; Since the drive cache gets larger on the bigger drives. Bringing back a disk to roughly 25% of its capicity would give better cache ratio and less seektime. So

Re: [zfs-discuss] Best 1.5TB drives for consumer RAID?

2010-01-23 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Sat, 23 Jan 2010, Simon Breden wrote: Why do you consider that model a good drive? This is a good model of drive to test zfs's redundancy/resiliency support. It is surely recommended for anyone who does not have the resources to simulate drive failure. Why do you like to use mirrors

Re: [zfs-discuss] Best 1.5TB drives for consumer RAID?

2010-01-23 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Sat, 23 Jan 2010, A. Krijgsman wrote: Just to jump in. Did you guys ever consider to shortstroke a larger sata disk? I'm not familiar with this, but read a lot about it; Since the drive cache gets larger on the bigger drives. Bringing back a disk to roughly 25% of its capicity would give

Re: [zfs-discuss] nfs mounts don't follow child filesystems?

2010-01-23 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Sat, 23 Jan 2010, Frank Cusack wrote: I thought with NFS4 *on solaris* that clients would follow the zfs filesystem hierarchy and mount sub-filesystems. That doesn't seem to be happening and I can't find any documentation on it (either way). Did I only dream up this feature or does it

Re: [zfs-discuss] Best 1.5TB drives for consumer RAID?

2010-01-23 Thread Richard Elling
On Jan 23, 2010, at 12:12 PM, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: On Sat, 23 Jan 2010, A. Krijgsman wrote: Just to jump in. Did you guys ever consider to shortstroke a larger sata disk? I'm not familiar with this, but read a lot about it; Since the drive cache gets larger on the bigger drives.

Re: [zfs-discuss] Best 1.5TB drives for consumer RAID?

2010-01-23 Thread Richard Elling
On Jan 23, 2010, at 8:04 AM, R.G. Keen wrote: Interesting question. The answer I came to, perhaps through lack of information and experience, is that there isn't a best 1.5tb drive. I decided that 1.5tb is too big, and that it's better to use more and smaller devices so I could get to

Re: [zfs-discuss] Best 1.5TB drives for consumer RAID?

2010-01-23 Thread Simon Breden
How does a previously highly rated drive that costed $100 suddenly become substandard when it costs $100 ? I can think of possible reasons, but they might not be printable here ;-) Cheers, Simon http://breden.org.uk/2008/03/02/a-home-fileserver-using-zfs/ -- This message posted from

[zfs-discuss] Trends in pool configuration

2010-01-23 Thread Ian Collins
My main server doubles as a both a development system and web server for my work and a media server for home. When I built it in the early days of ZFS, drive prices were about four times current (500GB were the beading edge) and affordable SSDs were a way off so I opted for a stripe of 4 2way

Re: [zfs-discuss] Best 1.5TB drives for consumer RAID?

2010-01-23 Thread Daniel Carosone
On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 12:30:01PM -0800, Simon Breden wrote: And regarding mirror vdevs etc, I can see the usefulness of being able to build a mirror vdev of multiple drives for cases where you have really critical data -- e.g. a single 4-drive mirror vdev. I suppose regular backups can help

Re: [zfs-discuss] Best 1.5TB drives for consumer RAID?

2010-01-23 Thread Daniel Carosone
On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 09:04:31AM -0800, Simon Breden wrote: For resilvering to be required, I presume this will occur mostly in the event of a mechanical failure. Soft failures like bad sectors will presumably not require resilvering of the whole drive to occur, as these types of error are

Re: [zfs-discuss] Best 1.5TB drives for consumer RAID?

2010-01-23 Thread Tim Cook
On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 11:41 AM, Frank Cusack fcus...@fcusack.com wrote: On January 23, 2010 8:04:50 AM -0800 R.G. Keen k...@geofex.com wrote: The answer I came to, perhaps through lack of information and experience, is that there isn't a best 1.5tb drive. I decided that 1.5tb is too big,

Re: [zfs-discuss] Best 1.5TB drives for consumer RAID?

2010-01-23 Thread Frank Cusack
On January 23, 2010 5:17:16 PM -0600 Tim Cook t...@cook.ms wrote: Smaller devices get you to raid-z3 because they cost less money. Therefore, you can afford to buy more of them. I sure hope you aren't ever buying for my company! :) :) Smaller devices cost more $/GB; ie they are more

Re: [zfs-discuss] Best 1.5TB drives for consumer RAID?

2010-01-23 Thread Frank Cusack
On January 23, 2010 1:20:13 PM -0800 Richard Elling My theory is that drives cost $100. Obviously you're not talking about Sun drives. :) -frank ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [zfs-discuss] Best 1.5TB drives for consumer RAID?

2010-01-23 Thread Simon Breden
Hey Dan, Thanks for the reply. Yes, I'd forgotten that it's often the heads that degrade -- something like lubricant buildup, IIRC. As well as SMART data, which I must admit to never looking at, presumably scrub errors are also a good indication of looming trouble due to head problems etc? As

Re: [zfs-discuss] Best 1.5TB drives for consumer RAID?

2010-01-23 Thread Tim Cook
On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 5:39 PM, Frank Cusack fcus...@fcusack.com wrote: On January 23, 2010 5:17:16 PM -0600 Tim Cook t...@cook.ms wrote: Smaller devices get you to raid-z3 because they cost less money. Therefore, you can afford to buy more of them. I sure hope you aren't ever buying for

Re: [zfs-discuss] Best 1.5TB drives for consumer RAID?

2010-01-23 Thread Richard Elling
On Jan 23, 2010, at 3:47 PM, Frank Cusack wrote: On January 23, 2010 1:20:13 PM -0800 Richard Elling My theory is that drives cost $100. Obviously you're not talking about Sun drives. :) Don't confuse cost with price :-) -- richard ___

[zfs-discuss] customizing zfs list with less typing

2010-01-23 Thread Richard L. Hamilton
It might be nice if zfs list would check an environment variable for a default list of properties to show (same as the comma-separated list used with the -o option). If not set, it would use the current default list; if set, it would use the value of that environment variable as the list. I find

Re: [zfs-discuss] Best 1.5TB drives for consumer RAID?

2010-01-23 Thread Daniel Carosone
On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 06:39:25PM -0500, Frank Cusack wrote: On January 23, 2010 5:17:16 PM -0600 Tim Cook t...@cook.ms wrote: Smaller devices get you to raid-z3 because they cost less money. Therefore, you can afford to buy more of them. I sure hope you aren't ever buying for my company! :)

Re: [zfs-discuss] nfs mounts don't follow child filesystems?

2010-01-23 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Sat, 23 Jan 2010, Frank Cusack wrote: Notice that the referenced path is subordinate to the exported zfs filesystem. Well, assuming there is a single home zfs filesystem and not a filesystem-per-user. For filesystem-per-user your example simply mounts the correct shared filesystem. Even

Re: [zfs-discuss] Best 1.5TB drives for consumer RAID?

2010-01-23 Thread Mirko
pI just took a look at customer feedback on this drive here. 36% rate with one star, which I would consider alarming. Take a look here, ordered from lowest rating to highest rating. Note the recency of the comments and the descriptions:/p Every people vote in different way for the same

Re: [zfs-discuss] Best 1.5TB drives for consumer RAID?

2010-01-23 Thread Mirko
I just took a look at customer feedback on this drive here. 36% rate with one star, which I would consider alarming. Take a look here, ordered from lowest rating to highest rating. Note the recency of the comments and the descriptions: Every people vote in different way for the same things.

[zfs-discuss] experience with sata p-m's?

2010-01-23 Thread Daniel Carosone
As I said in another post, it's coming time to build a new storage platform at home. I'm revisiting all the hardware options and permutations again, for current kit. Build 125 added something I was very eager for earlier, sata port-multiplier support.Since then, I've seen very little, if

Re: [zfs-discuss] L2ARC in Cluster is picked up althought not part of the pool

2010-01-23 Thread Richard Elling
AIUI, this works as designed. I think the best practice will be to add the L2ARC to syspool (nee rpool). However, for current NexentaStor releases, you cannot add cache devices to syspool. Earlier I mentioned that this made me nervous. I no longer hold any reservation against it. It should

Re: [zfs-discuss] Best 1.5TB drives for consumer RAID?

2010-01-23 Thread Frank Cusack
On January 23, 2010 6:09:49 PM -0600 Tim Cook t...@cook.ms wrote: When you've got a home system and X amount of dollars to spend, $/GB means absolutely nothing when you need a certain number of drives to have the redundancy you require. Don't you generally need a certain amount of GB? I know

Re: [zfs-discuss] nfs mounts don't follow child filesystems?

2010-01-23 Thread Frank Cusack
On January 23, 2010 6:53:26 PM -0600 Bob Friesenhahn bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us wrote: On Sat, 23 Jan 2010, Frank Cusack wrote: Notice that the referenced path is subordinate to the exported zfs filesystem. Well, assuming there is a single home zfs filesystem and not a filesystem-per-user.

Re: [zfs-discuss] customizing zfs list with less typing

2010-01-23 Thread Frank Cusack
On January 23, 2010 4:33:59 PM -0800 Richard L. Hamilton rlha...@smart.net wrote: It might be nice if zfs list would check an environment variable for a default list of properties to show (same as the comma-separated list used with the -o option). If not set, it would use the current default

Re: [zfs-discuss] Best 1.5TB drives for consumer RAID?

2010-01-23 Thread Tim Cook
On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 7:57 PM, Frank Cusack fcus...@fcusack.com wrote: On January 23, 2010 6:09:49 PM -0600 Tim Cook t...@cook.ms wrote: When you've got a home system and X amount of dollars to spend, $/GB means absolutely nothing when you need a certain number of drives to have the

Re: [zfs-discuss] hard drive choice, TLER/ERC/CCTL

2010-01-23 Thread Daniel Carosone
On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 04:12:48PM -0500, Miles Nordin wrote: w http://www.csc.liv.ac.uk/~greg/projects/erc/ dead link? Works for me - this is someone who's written patches for smartctl to set this feature; these are standardised/documented commands, no reverse engineering of DOS tools

Re: [zfs-discuss] Best 1.5TB drives for consumer RAID?

2010-01-23 Thread Dedhi Sujatmiko
Mirko wrote: Well, I've purchased 5 Barracuda LP 1.5TB. They ran very queit, cool, 5 in a cage and the vibration are nearly zero. reliability ? Well every HDD is unreliable, every major brand at this time have problems, so go for the best bang for the bucks. In my country Seagate have the

Re: [zfs-discuss] customizing zfs list with less typing

2010-01-23 Thread Richard L. Hamilton
Just make 'zfs' an alias to your version of it. A one-time edit of .profile can update that alias. Sure; write a shell function, and add an alias to it. And use a quoted command name (or full path) within the function to get to the real command. Been there, done that. But to do a good job

[zfs-discuss] What is the normal operating temperature for consumer SATA drive?

2010-01-23 Thread Dedhi Sujatmiko
I am curious to know what is the normal operating temperature of consumer SATA drive, and what is the considered maximum limit I need to watch out? These are my disks SMART output under FreeNAS 0.7RC2, where my ambient temperature is 28 C without air conditioning. ad4 476941MB

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

2010-01-23 Thread Jack Kielsmeier
I'd like to thank Tim and Cindy at Sun for providing me with a new zfs binary file that fixed my issue. I was able to get my zpool back! Hurray! Thank You. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list

[zfs-discuss] sharesmb name not working

2010-01-23 Thread Thomas Burgess
I can't get sharesmb=name= to workit worked in b130i'm not sure if it's broken in 131 or if my machine is being a pain. anyways, when i try to do this: zfs set sharesmb=name=wonslung tank/nas/Wonslung i get this: cannot set property for 'tank/nas/Wonslung': 'sharesmb' cannot be set

Re: [zfs-discuss] hard drive choice, TLER/ERC/CCTL

2010-01-23 Thread Richard Elling
On Jan 23, 2010, at 5:06 AM, Simon Breden wrote: Thanks a lot. I'd looked at SO many different RAID boxes and never had a good feeling about them from the point of data safety, that when I read the 'A Conversation with Jeff Bonwick and Bill Moore – The future of file systems' article

Re: [zfs-discuss] What is the normal operating temperature for consumer SATA drive?

2010-01-23 Thread Eric D. Mudama
On Sun, Jan 24 at 11:44, Dedhi Sujatmiko wrote: I am curious to know what is the normal operating temperature of consumer SATA drive, and what is the considered maximum limit I need to watch out? These are my disks SMART output under FreeNAS 0.7RC2, where my ambient temperature is 28 C

Re: [zfs-discuss] Best 1.5TB drives for consumer RAID?

2010-01-23 Thread Erik Trimble
These days, I've switched to 2.5 SATA laptop drives for large-storage requirements. They're going to cost more $/GB than 3.5 drives, but they're still not horrible ($100 for a 500GB/7200rpm Seagate Momentus). They're also easier to cram large numbers of them in smaller spaces, so it's easier