Re: [zfs-discuss] x4500 dead HDD, hung server, unable to boot.

2008-08-10 Thread Frank Leers
On Aug 10, 2008, at 7:26 PM, Jorgen Lundman wrote: the 'hd' utility on the tools and drivers cd produces the attached output on thumper. Clearly I need to find and install this utility, but even then, that seems to just add yet another way to number the drives. The message I get from

Re: [zfs-discuss] x4500 dead HDD, hung server, unable to boot.

2008-08-10 Thread Frank Leers
On Aug 10, 2008, at 8:14 PM, Jorgen Lundman wrote: Does the SATA controller show any information in its log (if you go into the controller BIOS, if there is one)? Seeing more reports of full systems hangs from an unresponsive drive makes me very concerned about bring a 4500 into our

Re: [zfs-discuss] Norco's new storage appliance

2007-10-09 Thread Frank Leers
On Tue, 2007-10-09 at 23:36 +0100, Adam Lindsay wrote: Gary Gendel wrote: Norco usually uses Silicon Image based SATA controllers. Ah, yes, I remember hearing SI SATA multiplexer horror stories when I was researching storage possibilities. However, I just heard back from Norco:

Re: [zfs-discuss] Please help! ZFS crash burn in SXCE b70!

2007-08-31 Thread Frank Leers
MC wrote: Richard, thanks for the pointer to the tests in '/usr/sunvts', as this is the first I have heard of them. They look quite comprehensive. I will give them a trial when I have some free time. Thanks Nigel Smith pmemtest- Physical Memory Test ramtest - Memory DIMMs

Re: [zfs-discuss] OT: QFS question WAS:Single SAN Lun presented to 4 Hosts

2007-08-30 Thread Frank Leers
On Thu, 2007-08-30 at 14:03 -0400, Paul Kraus wrote: On 8/30/07, Peter L. Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That said, is there a HOWTO anywhere on installing QFS on Solaris 9 (Sparc64) machines? Is that even possible? I don't know of a How To, but I assume the manual has instructions.

[zfs-discuss] large numbers of zfs filesystems

2007-03-06 Thread Frank Leers
I am curious as to what people are using in both test and production environments WRT large numbers of ZFS filesystems. Tens of thousands, hundreds? Does anyone have numbers around boot times, shutdown times system performance with LARGE numbers of fs's. How about sharing many filesystems via

Re: [zfs-discuss] Thumper and ZFS

2006-10-16 Thread Frank Leers
On Fri, 2006-10-13 at 01:05 +0200, Robert Milkowski wrote: Hello zfs-discuss, While waiting for Thumpers to come I'm thinking how to configure them. I would like to use raid-z. As thumper has 6 SATA controllers each 8-port then maybe it would make sense to create raid-z groups from

[zfs-discuss] panic string assistance

2006-10-03 Thread Frank Leers
Could someone offer insight into this panic, please? panic string: ZFS: I/O failure (write on unknown off 0: zio 6000c5fbc0 0 [L0 ZIL intent log] 1000L/1000P DVA[0]=1:249b68000:1000 zilog uncompre ssed BE contiguous birth=318892 fill=0 cksum=3b8f19730caa4327:9e102 panic kernel thread: