Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Hard disk buffer at 100%

2010-05-09 Thread Ben Rockwood
The drive (c7t2d0)is bad and should be replaced. The second drive (c7t5d0) is either bad or going bad. This is exactly the kind of problem that can force a Thumper to it knees, ZFS performance is horrific, and as soon as you drop the bad disks things magicly return to normal. My first

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Hard disk buffer at 100%

2010-05-09 Thread Emily Grettel
Hi Ben, The drive (c7t2d0)is bad and should be replaced. The second drive (c7t5d0) is either bad or going bad. Dagnabbit. I'm glad you told me this, but I would have thought that running a scrub would have alerted me to some fault? and as soon as you drop the bad disks things

Re: [zfs-discuss] Is it safe to disable the swap partition?

2010-05-09 Thread Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk
- Bob Friesenhahn bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us skrev: On Sat, 8 May 2010, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: A vast majority of the time, the opposite is true. Most of the time, having swap available increases performance. Because the kernel is able to choose: Should I swap out this idle

Re: [zfs-discuss] Supermicro AOC-SAT2-MV8 -- cfgadm won't create attach point (dsk/xxxx)

2010-05-09 Thread Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk
- Giovanni giof...@gmail.com skrev: Hi, Were you ever able to solve this problem on your AOC-SAT2-MV8 card? I am in need of purchasing it to add more drives to my server. What problem was this? I have two servers with these cards and the work well Best regards roy -- Roy Sigurd

Re: [zfs-discuss] Is it safe to disable the swap partition?

2010-05-09 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
From: Bob Friesenhahn [mailto:bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us] On Sat, 8 May 2010, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: A vast majority of the time, the opposite is true. Most of the time, having swap available increases performance. Because the kernel is able to choose: Should I swap out this

Re: [zfs-discuss] Is it safe to disable the swap partition?

2010-05-09 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
From: Bob Friesenhahn [mailto:bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us] On Sat, 8 May 2010, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: A vast majority of the time, the opposite is true. Most of the time, having swap available increases performance. Because the kernel is able to choose: Should I swap out this

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS loses configuration

2010-05-09 Thread R.G. Keen
I'm answering my own question, having just decided to try it. Yes, anything you want to persist beyond reboot with EON that's not in the zfs pools has to have an image update done before shutdown. I had this Doh! moment after I did the trial. Of course all the system config has to be on the

Re: [zfs-discuss] zpool import hanging

2010-05-09 Thread Eduardo Bragatto
Additionally, I would like to mention that the only ZFS filesystem not mounting -- causing the entire zpool import backup command to hang, is the only filesystem configured to be exported via NFS: backup/insightiq sharenfs root=* local Is there any chance the NFS

Re: [zfs-discuss] Is it safe to disable the swap partition?

2010-05-09 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Sun, 9 May 2010, Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk wrote: Are you sure about this? It is always good to be sure ... This is the case with most OSes now. Swap out stuff early, perhaps keep it in RAM and swap at the same time, and the kernel can choose what to do later. In Linux you can set it in

Re: [zfs-discuss] Mirrored Servers

2010-05-09 Thread Richard Elling
On May 8, 2010, at 7:01 PM, Tony wrote: Ok, this is definitely the kind of feedback I was looking for. I'll have to check out the docs on these technologies it looks like. Appreciate it. I figured I would load balance the hosts with a Cisco device, since I can get around the IOS ok.

[zfs-discuss] How can I be sure the zfs send | zfs received is correct?

2010-05-09 Thread Jim Horng
Okay, so after some test with dedup on snv_134. I decided we can not to use dedup feature for the time being. While unable to destroy a dedupped file system. I decided to migrate the file system to another pool then destroy the pool. (see below)

Re: [zfs-discuss] Is it safe to disable the swap partition?

2010-05-09 Thread Richard Elling
On May 9, 2010, at 6:30 AM, Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk wrote: - Bob Friesenhahn bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us skrev: On Sat, 8 May 2010, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: A vast majority of the time, the opposite is true. Most of the time, having swap available increases performance. Because the

Re: [zfs-discuss] How can I be sure the zfs send | zfs received is correct?

2010-05-09 Thread Richard Elling
On May 9, 2010, at 11:16 AM, Jim Horng wrote: Okay, so after some test with dedup on snv_134. I decided we can not to use dedup feature for the time being. While unable to destroy a dedupped file system. I decided to migrate the file system to another pool then destroy the pool. (see

Re: [zfs-discuss] How can I be sure the zfs send | zfs received is correct?

2010-05-09 Thread Jim Horng
size of snapshot? r...@filearch1:/var/adm# zfs list mpool/export/projects/project1...@today NAMEUSED AVAIL REFER MOUNTPOINT mpool/export/projects/project1...@today 0 - 407G - r...@filearch1:/var/adm# zfs list

[zfs-discuss] ZFS Disk Drive Qualification

2010-05-09 Thread Lutz Schumann
Hello, I see strange behaviour when qualifying disk drives for ZFS. The tests I want to run should make sure that the drives honour the cache flush command. For this I do the following: 1) Create singe disk pools (only one disk in the pool) 2) Perorm I/O on the pools This is done via SQLIte

Re: [zfs-discuss] Is it safe to disable the swap partition?

2010-05-09 Thread Karl Dalen
I know that according to the documentation Solaris is supposed to be fully operational in the absences of swap devices. However, I've experienced cases which I have not been able to trace the root cause of yet where the disk access has increased drastically and caused the system to hang but it

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Hard disk buffer at 100%

2010-05-09 Thread Eric D. Mudama
On Sat, May 8 at 23:39, Ben Rockwood wrote: The drive (c7t2d0)is bad and should be replaced. The second drive (c7t5d0) is either bad or going bad. This is exactly the kind of problem that can force a Thumper to it knees, ZFS performance is horrific, and as soon as you drop the bad disks

Re: [zfs-discuss] Is it safe to disable the swap partition?

2010-05-09 Thread Mike Gerdts
On Sun, May 9, 2010 at 7:40 PM, Edward Ned Harvey solar...@nedharvey.com wrote: From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Richard Elling For a storage server, swap is not needed. If you notice swap being used then your storage

Re: [zfs-discuss] Is it safe to disable the swap partition?

2010-05-09 Thread Daniel Carosone
On Sun, May 09, 2010 at 09:24:38PM -0500, Mike Gerdts wrote: The best thing to do with processes that can be swapped out forever is to not run them. Agreed, however: #1 Shorter values of forever (like, say, daily) may still be useful. #2 This relies on knowing in advance what these processes

Re: [zfs-discuss] Is it safe to disable the swap partition?

2010-05-09 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Sun, 9 May 2010, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: So, Bob, rub it in if you wish. ;-) I was wrong. I knew the behavior in Linux, which Roy seconded as most OSes, and apparently we both assumed the same here, but that was wrong. I don't know if solaris and opensolaris both have the same swap

[zfs-discuss] ZFS and Comstar iSCSI BLK size

2010-05-09 Thread Geoff Nordli
I am using ZFS as the backing store for an iscsi target running a virtual machine. I am looking at using 8K block size on the zfs volume. I was looking at the comstar iscsi settings and there is also a blk size configuration, which defaults as 512 bytes. That would make me believe that