Re: [zfs-discuss] pool layout vs resilver times

2013-01-05 Thread Dave Pooser
is that the combination of SATA drives and SAS expanders is a large economy-sized bucket of pain. -- Dave Pooser Manager of Information Services Alford Media http://www.alfordmedia.com ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http

Re: [zfs-discuss] Sonnet Tempo SSD supported?

2012-12-03 Thread Dave Pooser
I have no knowledge of that subject. -- Dave Pooser Manager of Information Services Alford Media http://www.alfordmedia.com ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Zvol vs zfs send/zfs receive

2012-09-16 Thread Dave Pooser
option 3 because the files are mostly largish graphics files and the like.) Thanks for the help! -- Dave Pooser Manager of Information Services Alford Media http://www.alfordmedia.com ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http

Re: [zfs-discuss] Zvol vs zfs send/zfs receive

2012-09-15 Thread Dave Pooser
and then let the Mac copy from one zvol to the other-- this is starting to feel like voodoo here.) -- Dave Pooser Manager of Information Services Alford Media http://www.alfordmedia.com ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http

[zfs-discuss] Zvol vs zfs send/zfs receive

2012-09-14 Thread Dave Pooser
for the snapshot vs zfs list on the new system and looking at space used.) Is this a problem? Should I be panicking yet? -- Dave Pooser Manager of Information Services Alford Media http://www.alfordmedia.com ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss

[zfs-discuss] Zombie damaged zpool won't die

2012-05-29 Thread Dave Pooser
. -- Dave Pooser Manager of Information Services Alford Media http://www.alfordmedia.com ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

[zfs-discuss] 4k sector support in Solaris 11?

2012-02-16 Thread Dave Pooser
If I want to use a batch of new Seagate 3TB Barracudas with Solaris 11, will zpool let me create a new pool with ashift=12 out of the box or will I need to play around with a patched zpool binary (or the iSCSI loopback)? -- Dave Pooser Manager of Information Services Alford Media http

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS on Dell with FreeBSD

2011-10-19 Thread Dave Pooser
the individual disks and ZFS can handle redundancy and recovery. -- Dave Pooser Manager of Information Services Alford Media http://www.alfordmedia.com ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

[zfs-discuss] ZIL, L2ARC, rpool -- partitions and mirrors oh my!

2011-07-07 Thread Dave Pooser
it, suggestions gratefully accepted. My current ZFS storage servers are all built around sustained reads/sustained writes, so tuning the ZIL and L2ARC are still outside my experience. -- Dave Pooser Manager of Information Services Alford Media Services, Inc

Re: [zfs-discuss] Good SLOG devices?

2011-03-02 Thread Dave Pooser
product for the home hobbyist, though. :^) -- Dave Pooser, ACSA Manager of Information Services Alford Media http://www.alfordmedia.com ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Format returning bogus controller info

2011-02-28 Thread Dave Pooser
, unequivocally retract my failed bit crack, but I just ordered two more of these cards for my next project! :^) -- Dave Pooser, ACSA Manager of Information Services Alford Media http://www.alfordmedia.com http://www.alfordmedia.com/ ___ zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Format returning bogus controller info

2011-02-28 Thread Dave Pooser
if other controllers are active? -- Dave Pooser, ACSA Manager of Information Services Alford Media http://www.alfordmedia.com ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Format returning bogus controller info

2011-02-27 Thread Dave Pooser
On 2/27/11 5:15 AM, James C. McPherson j...@opensolaris.org wrote: On 27/02/11 05:24 PM, Dave Pooser wrote: On 2/26/11 7:43 PM, Bill Sommerfeldsommerf...@hamachi.org wrote: On your system, c12 is the mpxio virtual controller; any disk which is potentially multipath-able (and that includes

Re: [zfs-discuss] Format returning bogus controller info

2011-02-27 Thread Dave Pooser
Especially since the SAS3081 cards work as expected. I guess I'll start looking for some more of the 3Gb SAS controllers and chalk the 9211s up as a failed bit. -- Dave Pooser, ACSA Manager of Information Services Alford Media http://www.alfordmedia.com http://www.alfordmedia.com

Re: [zfs-discuss] Format returning bogus controller info

2011-02-27 Thread Dave Pooser
towers that have only one HBA, put the 9211s in them and grab the LSISAS3081 cards out of those towers for this beast. So those cards will still get productive use -- not a failed bit, at worst just not serving the purpose I had in mind. -- Dave Pooser, ACSA Manager of Information Services Alford Media

Re: [zfs-discuss] Format returning bogus controller info

2011-02-27 Thread Dave Pooser
that with a suboptimal choice for this project. Not knowing your other requirements for the project, I'll settle for this version :) Actually at this point I think I have to re-revise it to just fine for this project had I brains enough to comprehend the output of 'format'. :^) -- Dave Pooser, ACSA Manager

[zfs-discuss] Format returning bogus controller info

2011-02-26 Thread Dave Pooser
/scsi_vhci/disk@g5000cca222e0533f Specify disk (enter its number): ^C Any suggestions? -- Dave Pooser, ACSA Manager of Information Services Alford Media http://www.alfordmedia.com ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http

Re: [zfs-discuss] Format returning bogus controller info

2011-02-26 Thread Dave Pooser
will be gratefully accepted... -- Dave Pooser, ACSA Manager of Information Services Alford Media http://www.alfordmedia.com ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] vidoe files residing on zfs used from cifs fail to work

2010-11-21 Thread Dave Pooser
are on a zfs server the same files fail to play. Is it a local phenomena or a common problem? We don't have that problem, and we have roughly 25TB of QuickTime files on an OpenSolaris box shared over CIFS to mostly Mac clients. -- Dave Pooser, ACSA Manager of Information Services Alford Media http

[zfs-discuss] Apparent SAS HBA failure-- now what?

2010-11-06 Thread Dave Pooser
c11t7d0 ONLINE 0 0 0 c11t8d0 ONLINE 0 0 0 errors: 1 data errors, use '-v' for a list -- Dave Pooser, ACSA Manager of Information Services Alford Media http://www.alfordmedia.com ___ zfs-discuss mailing

Re: [zfs-discuss] Apparent SAS HBA failure-- now what?

2010-11-06 Thread Dave Pooser
: Make sure the affected devices are connected, then run 'zpool clear'. -- Dave Pooser, ACSA Manager of Information Services Alford Media http://www.alfordmedia.com ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http

Re: [zfs-discuss] Apparent SAS HBA failure-- now what?

2010-11-06 Thread Dave Pooser
Predictive Failure Analysis: 0 -- Dave Pooser, ACSA Manager of Information Services Alford Media http://www.alfordmedia.com ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Apparent SAS HBA failure-- now what?

2010-11-06 Thread Dave Pooser
-- well, that seems much less likely than the idea that I just have a bad controller that needs replacing. -- Dave Pooser, ACSA Manager of Information Services Alford Media http://www.alfordmedia.com ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [zfs-discuss] Opensolaris is apparently dead

2010-08-14 Thread Dave Pooser
project, much of it from the same folks who have experience producing enterprise-grade ZFS. Speaking for myself, if Solaris 11 doesn't include COMSTAR I'm going to have to take a serious look at another alternative for our show storage towers -- Dave Pooser, ACSA Manager of Information Services

Re: [zfs-discuss] Legality and the future of zfs...

2010-07-15 Thread Dave Pooser
Ok guys, can we please kill this thread about commodity versus enterprise hardware? +1 -- Dave Pooser, ACSA Manager of Information Services Alford Media http://www.alfordmedia.com ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http

[zfs-discuss] ZFS bug - CVE-2010-2392

2010-07-15 Thread Dave Pooser
Looks like the bug affects through snv_137. Patches are available from the usual location-- https://pkg.sun.com/opensolaris/support for OpenSolaris. -- Dave Pooser, ACSA Manager of Information Services Alford Media http://www.alfordmedia.com ___ zfs

Re: [zfs-discuss] preparing for future drive additions

2010-07-14 Thread Dave Pooser
10. *You can't really compare ZFS to conventional RAID implementations, but if you look at it from 50,000 feet and squint you get the similarities. -- Dave Pooser, ACSA Manager of Information Services Alford Media http://www.alfordmedia.com ___ zfs

Re: [zfs-discuss] Legality and the future of zfs...

2010-07-13 Thread Dave Pooser
emails to multiple addresses-- may yet push me back to my default CentOS platform, but to the extent that Oracle is even in the running it's because of ZFS.) -- Dave Pooser, ACSA Manager of Information Services Alford Media http://www.alfordmedia.com

Re: [zfs-discuss] Performance drop during scrub?

2010-05-02 Thread Dave Pooser
keep backups. It's the invisible data loss that makes life suboptimal. -- Dave Pooser, ACSA Manager of Information Services Alford Media http://www.alfordmedia.com ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org

Re: [zfs-discuss] SAS vs SATA: Same size, same speed, why SAS?

2010-04-26 Thread Dave Pooser
boxes. Is there a good resource on doing something like that with an OpenSolaris storage server? I could see that as a project I might want to attempt. -- Dave Pooser, ACSA Manager of Information Services Alford Media http://www.alfordmedia.com ___ zfs

Re: [zfs-discuss] Mac OS X clients with ZFS server

2010-04-25 Thread Dave Pooser
for me. It does require X11 on your machine. -- Dave Pooser, ACSA Manager of Information Services Alford Media http://www.alfordmedia.com ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Mac OS X clients with ZFS server

2010-04-25 Thread Dave Pooser
On 4/25/10 6:11 PM, Rich Teer rich.t...@rite-group.com wrote: I tried going to that URL, but got a 404 error... :-( What's the correct one, please? http://code.google.com/p/maczfs/ -- Dave Pooser, ACSA Manager of Information Services Alford Media http://www.alfordmedia.com

[zfs-discuss] SAS vs SATA: Same size, same speed, why SAS?

2010-04-25 Thread Dave Pooser
writes/reads), how much benefit will I see from the SAS interface? -- Dave Pooser, ACSA Manager of Information Services Alford Media http://www.alfordmedia.com ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org

[zfs-discuss] Identifying drives

2010-04-25 Thread Dave Pooser
being enough to make the hardware ID it as bad. -- Dave Pooser, ACSA Manager of Information Services Alford Media http://www.alfordmedia.com ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs

[zfs-discuss] Areca ARC-1680 on OpenSolaris 2009.06?

2010-04-09 Thread Dave Pooser
drive densities, but a quick Google search shows that they've overpromised and underdelivered on Solaris support in the past. Is anybody currently using those cards on OpenSolaris? -- Dave Pooser, ACSA Manager of Information Services Alford Media http://www.alfordmedia.com

[zfs-discuss] Speed question: 8-disk RAIDZ2 vs 10-disk RAIDZ3

2010-02-16 Thread Dave Pooser
IT firmware) 8x 2TB Hitachi 7200RPM SATA drives (2 connected to each LSI and 2 to motherboard SATA ports) 2x 60GB Imation M-class SSD (boot mirror) Qlogic 2440 PCIe Fibre Channel HBA -- Dave Pooser, ACSA Manager of Information Services Alford Media http://www.alfordmedia.com

Re: [zfs-discuss] Speed question: 8-disk RAIDZ2 vs 10-disk RAIDZ3

2010-02-16 Thread Dave Pooser
is sequential write speed. -- Dave Pooser, ACSA Manager of Information Services Alford Media http://www.alfordmedia.com ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

[zfs-discuss] Painfully slow RAIDZ2 as fibre channel COMSTAR export

2010-02-14 Thread Dave Pooser
0.0 1816.2 0.0 0.10.00.5 0 6 c9t1d0 -- Dave Pooser, ACSA Manager of Information Services Alford Media http://www.alfordmedia.com ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs

Re: [zfs-discuss] Painfully slow RAIDZ2 as fibre channel COMSTAR export

2010-02-14 Thread Dave Pooser
dinner while I'm about it. I'll report back to the list with any progress or lack thereof. -- Dave Pooser, ACSA Manager of Information Services Alford Media http://www.alfordmedia.com ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http

Re: [zfs-discuss] Painfully slow RAIDZ2 as fibre channel COMSTAR export

2010-02-14 Thread Dave Pooser
on my motherboard, i can make the onboard sata ports show up as IDE or SATA, you may look into that.  It would probably be something like AHCI mode. Yeah, I changed the motherboard setting from enhanced to AHCI and now those ports show up as SATA. -- Dave Pooser, ACSA Manager of Information

Re: [zfs-discuss] Painfully slow RAIDZ2 as fibre channel COMSTAR export

2010-02-14 Thread Dave Pooser
writes to be synchronous -- thanks to Richard for that pointer. Five hours from tearing my hair out to toasting a success-- this list is a great resource! -- Dave Pooser, ACSA Manager of Information Services Alford Media http://www.alfordmedia.com ___ zfs