Re: [zfs-discuss] Understanding SAS/SATA Backplanes and Connectivity

2009-07-22 Thread James C. McPherson
a concept of ``wide ports'' like infiniband or PCIe, so I would speculate the 4 pairs are treated as lanes rather than ports. mpt(7d) bundles the phys and only shows one controller for internal and one controller for external connections - on a physical hba basis. cheers, James C. McPherson

Re: [zfs-discuss] The zfs performance decrease when enable the MPxIO round-robin

2009-07-19 Thread James C. McPherson
file. You should run /usr/sbin/stmsboot -e to make this happen. If you *must* edit that file by hand, always run /usr/sbin/stmsboot -u afterwards to ensure that your system's MPxIO config is correctly updated. James C. McPherson -- Senior Kernel Software Engineer, Solaris Sun Microsystems http

Re: [zfs-discuss] The zfs performance decrease when enable the MPxIO round-robin

2009-07-19 Thread James C. McPherson
for those bugids if they ever existed In a pre-FCS build of S10, MPxIO was enabled by default, but there were some problems with jumpstart as a result, so the default was changed back. On X86 with fc, MPxIO is the default, but that is the only case where that is true at this point in time. James C

Re: [zfs-discuss] Understanding SAS/SATA Backplanes and Connectivity

2009-07-16 Thread James C. McPherson
, James C. McPherson -- Senior Kernel Software Engineer, Solaris Sun Microsystems http://blogs.sun.com/jmcp http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog Kernel Conference Australia - http://au.sun.com/sunnews/events/2009/kernel ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs

Re: [zfs-discuss] deduplication

2009-07-12 Thread James C. McPherson
them directly? James C. McPherson -- Senior Kernel Software Engineer, Solaris Sun Microsystems http://blogs.sun.com/jmcp http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog Kernel Conference Australia - http://au.sun.com/sunnews/events/2009/kernel ___ zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] deduplication

2009-07-11 Thread James C. McPherson
deliver their keynote speech at Kernel Conference Australia, which kicks off on Wednesday. James C. McPherson -- Solaris kernel software engineer, system admin and troubleshooter http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog http://blogs.sun.com/jmcp Find me on LinkedIn @ http

Re: [zfs-discuss] SPARC SATA, please.

2009-06-25 Thread James C. McPherson
selectable? I guess you just avoid the Use RAID mode option in the controller's BIOS or something? It's even simpler than that with the 1068 - just don't use raidctl or the bios to create raid volumes and you'll have a bunch of plain disks. No forcing required. James C. McPherson -- Senior Kernel

Re: [zfs-discuss] SPARC SATA, please.

2009-06-25 Thread James C. McPherson
required for using a 1068-based SAS/SATA device? no James C. McPherson -- Senior Kernel Software Engineer, Solaris Sun Microsystems http://blogs.sun.com/jmcp http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog Kernel Conference Australia - http://au.sun.com/sunnews/events/2009/kernel

Re: [zfs-discuss] Best controller card for 8 SATA drives ?

2009-06-23 Thread James C. McPherson
On Mon, 22 Jun 2009 15:28:08 -0700 Carson Gaspar car...@taltos.org wrote: James C. McPherson wrote: Use raidctl(1m). For fwflash(1m), this is on the future project list purely because we've got much higher priority projects on the boil - if we couldn't use raidctl(1m) this would

Re: [zfs-discuss] Best controller card for 8 SATA drives ?

2009-06-22 Thread James C. McPherson
On Mon, 22 Jun 2009 01:25:54 -0700 Carson Gaspar car...@taltos.org wrote: James C. McPherson wrote: On Sun, 21 Jun 2009 19:01:31 -0700 As a member of the team which works on mpt(7d), I'm disappointed that\ you believe you need to use lsiutil to fully access all the functionality

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs find list of properties per dataset

2009-06-21 Thread James C. McPherson
org.opensolaris.caiman:install ready local James C. McPherson -- Senior Kernel Software Engineer, Solaris Sun Microsystems http://blogs.sun.com/jmcp http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog Kernel Conference Australia - http://au.sun.com/sunnews/events/2009/kernel

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs find list of properties per dataset

2009-06-21 Thread James C. McPherson
On Sun, 21 Jun 2009 18:47:30 -0500 Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote: James C. McPherson james.mcpher...@sun.com writes: [...] Is zfs get all datasetname not helping? [...] Gack... quite the reverse your original question was somewhat vague - could you clarify what it is you

Re: [zfs-discuss] Best controller card for 8 SATA drives ?

2009-06-21 Thread James C. McPherson
7 0 Disk /dev/rdsk/c6t7d0s2 You can get that information from use of cfgadm(1m). James C. McPherson -- Senior Kernel Software Engineer, Solaris Sun Microsystems http://blogs.sun.com/jmcp http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog Kernel Conference Australia - http://au.sun.com/sunnews

Re: [zfs-discuss] ata - sata quustion

2009-06-10 Thread James C. McPherson
resilvering, remove the ata drive and replace it with another (second) SATA one? yes. zpool attach rpool newdisk1 [twiddle thumbs] zpool replace rpool olddisk newdisk2 Also, remember to installgrub on each of the new disks James C. McPherson -- Senior Kernel Software Engineer, Solaris Sun

Re: [zfs-discuss] cannot mount '/tank/home': directory is not empty

2009-06-09 Thread James C. McPherson
try setting the mountpoint property to a different value after logging in as root: # zfs set mountpoint=/var/tmp/newmountpoint rpool/export/home/x James C. McPherson -- Senior Kernel Software Engineer, Solaris Sun Microsystems http://blogs.sun.com/jmcp http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog

Re: [zfs-discuss] nonunique devids with Solaris 10 zfs

2009-05-26 Thread James C. McPherson
1: SN: 3LM62RDB Model:ST3300655LC Firmware: 0003 LOT No: A-01-0925-3 I would have hoped that new Seagate disks would be providing a correct response to the Page83 inquiry. James C. McPherson -- Senior Kernel Software Engineer, Solaris Sun Microsystems http

Re: [zfs-discuss] Zfs and b114 version

2009-05-18 Thread James C. McPherson
%2FSUNWqlc%2Fpostinstall%409446%3A0ba751ada271 James C. McPherson -- Senior Kernel Software Engineer, Solaris Sun Microsystems http://blogs.sun.com/jmcp http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog Kernel Conference Australia - http://au.sun.com/sunnews/events/2009/kernel

Re: [zfs-discuss] Zfs and b114 version

2009-05-17 Thread James C. McPherson
. James C. McPherson -- Senior Kernel Software Engineer, Solaris Sun Microsystems http://blogs.sun.com/jmcp http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog Kernel Conference Australia - http://au.sun.com/sunnews/events/2009/kernel ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs

Re: [zfs-discuss] With RAID-Z2 under load, machine stops responding to local or remote login

2009-05-12 Thread James C. McPherson
want to try running the attached D script, dumping the output to a file. James C. McPherson -- Senior Kernel Software Engineer, Solaris Sun Microsystems http://blogs.sun.com/jmcp http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog Kernel Conference Australia - http://au.sun.com/sunnews/events/2009/kernel

Re: [zfs-discuss] reboot when copying large amounts of data

2009-03-14 Thread James C. McPherson
On Fri, 13 Mar 2009 22:46:19 -0400 Miles Nordin car...@ivy.net wrote: jcm == James C McPherson james.mcpher...@sun.com writes: jcm We haven't got mega_sas on SPARC at this point either. The card Blake found: http://www.provantage.com/lsi-logic-lsi00117~7LSIG03X.htm http

Re: [zfs-discuss] reboot when copying large amounts of data

2009-03-13 Thread James C. McPherson
on SPARC? t http://pci-ids.ucw.cz/read/PC/1000/0060 or else the whole list at pciids.sourceforge.net in the mail i quoted We haven't got mega_sas on SPARC at this point either. James C. McPherson -- Senior Kernel Software Engineer, Solaris Sun Microsystems http://blogs.sun.com/jmcp

Re: [zfs-discuss] reboot when copying large amounts of data

2009-03-12 Thread James C. McPherson
) manpage. I don't think you can switch between IT and IR firmware, but not having needed to know this before, I haven't tried it. James C. McPherson -- Senior Kernel Software Engineer, Solaris Sun Microsystems http://blogs.sun.com/jmcp http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog

Re: [zfs-discuss] Trying to determine if this box will be compatible with Opensolaris or Solaris

2009-03-11 Thread James C. McPherson
, only the Solaris one. I would think something this old (dated 2007) would be forward compatible... Just because it hasn't been specifically mentioned in the OpenSolaris or SX hcl, doesn't mean that it isn't supported. Neither does it necessarily mean that support was dropped. James C. McPherson

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs with PERC 6/i card?

2009-03-03 Thread James C. McPherson
. James C. McPherson -- Senior Kernel Software Engineer, Solaris Sun Microsystems http://blogs.sun.com/jmcp http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs

Re: [zfs-discuss] Where do I file a ZFS bug?

2009-02-22 Thread James C. McPherson
On Sun, 22 Feb 2009 22:05:57 -0600 (CST) David Dyer-Bennet d...@dd-b.net wrote: I even vaguely think I've done it before, but maybe it was against some other component. Anyway, the obvious place I find is http://www.opensolaris.org/bug/report.jspa, but the categories don't include either

Re: [zfs-discuss] Confused about prerequisites for ZFS to work

2009-02-19 Thread James C. McPherson
On Thu, 19 Feb 2009 07:14:07 -0600 Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote: Blake blake.ir...@gmail.com writes: [...] I found this entry helpful: http://blogs.sun.com/timthomas/entry/solaris_cifs_in_workgroup_mode There is a comment in those directions about installing a SMB PAM

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs destroy hanging

2009-02-14 Thread James C. McPherson
(forced, 64bit mode) # echo 0rip|mdb -kw (forced, 32bit mode) # echo 0eip|mdb -kw Try the command line options first, only use the mdb kick in the guts if the other two fail. Once you've got the core, you could post the output of ::status $C when run over the core with mdb -k. James C. McPherson

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS: unreliable for professional usage?

2009-02-13 Thread James C. McPherson
Hi Bob, On Fri, 13 Feb 2009 19:58:51 -0600 (CST) Bob Friesenhahn bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us wrote: On Fri, 13 Feb 2009, Tim wrote: I don't think it hurts in the least to throw out some ideas. If they aren't valid, it's not hard to ignore them and move on. It surely isn't a waste

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS: unreliable for professional usage?

2009-02-09 Thread James C. McPherson
, health, but I can not mount it to the system: bash-3.00# zfs mount usbhdd1 cannot mount 'usbhdd1': E/A-Fehler bash-3.00# You have checksum errors on a non-replicated pool. This is not something that can be ignored. James C. McPherson -- Senior Kernel Software Engineer, Solaris Sun Microsystems

Re: [zfs-discuss] j4200 drive carriers

2009-02-01 Thread James C. McPherson
On Sun, 01 Feb 2009 14:45:28 -0600 Tim t...@tcsac.net wrote: On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 2:24 PM, Richard Elling richard.ell...@gmail.comwrote: John-Paul Drawneek wrote: the J series is far to new to be hitting ebay yet. Any alot of people will not be buying the J series for obvious

Re: [zfs-discuss] firewire card?

2009-01-27 Thread James C. McPherson
card. James C. McPherson -- Senior Kernel Software Engineer, Solaris Sun Microsystems http://blogs.sun.com/jmcp http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: [zfs-discuss] (no subject)

2009-01-18 Thread James C. McPherson
. All that your contributions do is raise the noise level, and are an impediment to actually helping people with *ZFS* related discussions. Please desist. James C. McPherson -- Senior Kernel Software Engineer, Solaris Sun Microsystems http://blogs.sun.com/jmcp http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com

Re: [zfs-discuss] OpenSolaris better Than Solaris10u6 with requards to ARECA Raid Card

2009-01-14 Thread James C. McPherson
-install-stuff# echo sd_max_throttle/D |mdb -k sd_max_throttle: sd_max_throttle:16 James C. McPherson -- Senior Kernel Software Engineer, Solaris Sun Microsystems http://blogs.sun.com/jmcp http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog ___ zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Desperate question about MPXIO with ZFS-iSCSI

2009-01-08 Thread James C. McPherson
/stmsboot -e If you manually edit /kernel/drv/fp.conf or /kernel/drv/fp.conf to change the mpxio-disable property, you *must* also run # /usr/sbin/stmsboot -u Please see stmsboot(1m) for more details. James C. McPherson -- Senior Kernel Software Engineer, Solaris Sun Microsystems http

Re: [zfs-discuss] Hybrid Pools - Since when?

2008-12-15 Thread James C. McPherson
On Tue, 16 Dec 2008 16:42:02 +1100 Nathan Kroenert nathan.kroen...@sun.com wrote: asking the question I know will be the next one on the list... So - will it be arriving in a patch? :) no - we need a hook to get customers to use whatever we package NV up as. Or buy fishworks kit :-) James

Re: [zfs-discuss] Hybrid Pools - Since when?

2008-12-15 Thread James C. McPherson
On Tue, 16 Dec 2008 16:19:05 +1000 James C. McPherson james.mcpher...@sun.com wrote: On Tue, 16 Dec 2008 16:42:02 +1100 Nathan Kroenert nathan.kroen...@sun.com wrote: asking the question I know will be the next one on the list... So - will it be arriving in a patch? :) no - we need

Re: [zfs-discuss] OpenSolaris vs Linux

2008-12-07 Thread James C. McPherson
is that there is a distinct preference for hard, referencable data, and the intestinal fortitude to analyse it objectively. James C. McPherson -- Senior Kernel Software Engineer, Solaris Sun Microsystems http://blogs.sun.com/jmcp http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog

Re: [zfs-discuss] Availability: ZFS needs to handle disk removal / driver failure better

2008-11-27 Thread James C. McPherson
, James C. McPherson -- Senior Kernel Software Engineer, Solaris Sun Microsystems http://blogs.sun.com/jmcp http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs

Re: [zfs-discuss] Supermicro AOC-USAS-L8i

2008-11-24 Thread James C. McPherson
to the following: # update_drv -a -i ' pci1000,3150 ' mpt (which is valid for my system, and note the quotes). hth, James C. McPherson -- Senior Kernel Software Engineer, Solaris Sun Microsystems http://blogs.sun.com/jmcp http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog

Re: [zfs-discuss] Supermicro AOC-USAS-L8i

2008-11-23 Thread James C. McPherson
On Sun, 23 Nov 2008 06:13:51 -0800 (PST) Ross [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd also like to know how easy it is to identify drives when you use this card? Is it easy to know which is which after you've had a few failure swapped drives around? Hi Ross, in general, it's just as easy to identify

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS-over-iSCSI performance testing (with low random access results)...

2008-10-14 Thread James C. McPherson
clan have included them in what they are releasing as 1.0.8. Erast - could you chime in here please? Unfortunately I've got no idea about Nexenta. James C. McPherson -- Senior Kernel Software Engineer, Solaris Sun Microsystems http://blogs.sun.com/jmcp http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS-over-iSCSI performance testing (with low random access results)...

2008-10-14 Thread James C. McPherson
thought I'd share them with you and see if you have any comments, suggestions, etc. [snip] Which build are you running? Have you done any system or ZFS tuning? James C. McPherson -- Senior Kernel Software Engineer, Solaris Sun Microsystems http://blogs.sun.com/jmcp http

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS-over-iSCSI performance testing (with low random access results)...

2008-10-14 Thread James C. McPherson
Gray Carper wrote: Hello again! (And hellos to Erast, who has been a huge help to me many, many times! :) As I understand it, Nexenta 1.1 should be released in a matter of weeks and it'll be based on build 101. We are waiting for that with baited breath, since it includes some very

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS-over-iSCSI performance testing (with low random access results)...

2008-10-14 Thread James C. McPherson
Erast Benson wrote: James, all serious ZFS bug fixes back-ported to b85 as well as marvell and other sata drivers. Not everything is possible to back-port of course, but I would say all critical things are there. This includes ZFS ARC optimization patches, for example. Excellent! James --

Re: [zfs-discuss] am I screwed?

2008-10-13 Thread James C. McPherson
rpool report? Can this system be made bootable again (repaired)? We don't know, there's still not quite enough information. If not, how can I get access to the data again? What could have happened? Lots of things. We can't channel James C. McPherson -- Senior Kernel Software Engineer

Re: [zfs-discuss] volname

2008-10-11 Thread James C. McPherson
the cXtYdZ name, then the labels will have been over-written with GPT (aka EFI) labels instead. James C. McPherson -- Senior Kernel Software Engineer, Solaris Sun Microsystems http://blogs.sun.com/jmcp http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog ___ zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] volname

2008-10-11 Thread James C. McPherson
Marcus Sundman wrote: James C. McPherson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Marcus Sundman wrote: I couldn't figure out which controller got which numbers so I had to disconnect drives one by one I'm interested in what you did to figure out your drive locations - did you use cfgadm, fmtopo or sestopo

Re: [zfs-discuss] restore from snapshot

2008-10-11 Thread James C. McPherson
Dick Hoogendijk wrote: I overlooked something in the manual, I'm sure.. But I have a question: when I create a snapshot of a zfs filesystem and want to -return- to the state before that snapshot was taken, how do I do that? Gday Dick, sounds like you're looking for zfs rollback

Re: [zfs-discuss] working closed blob driver

2008-09-29 Thread James C. McPherson
Miles Nordin wrote: jcm == James C McPherson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: jcm Can I assume that my 2008-07-26 post was in fact two jcm messages that were sent to you and cc'd to zfs-discuss: jcm http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/zfs-discuss/2008-July/049605.html jcm

Re: [zfs-discuss] working closed blob driver

2008-09-26 Thread James C. McPherson
a bit. If you just want to connect devices internally, then I would expect the cables to be somewhat cheaper. Either way, with more and more volume of cards and devices on the market, the pricing for cables should decrease too. [snip] James C. McPherson -- Senior Kernel Software Engineer, Solaris

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS poor performance on Areca 1231ML

2008-09-26 Thread James C. McPherson
/intel/io/scsi/adapters/arcmsr ... and I'm keen to talk with you in detail about the issues you're seeing with arcmsr too. James C. McPherson -- Senior Kernel Software Engineer, Solaris Sun Microsystems http://blogs.sun.com/jmcp http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog

Re: [zfs-discuss] working closed blob driver

2008-09-25 Thread James C. McPherson
definitely been available in Solaris 10. We've backported (to Solaris 10 Update releases) a massive number of new features for it. Is there a specific thing you're not seeing in the Solaris 10 version? (and which patch rev are you running?) James C. McPherson -- Senior Kernel Software Engineer

Re: [zfs-discuss] working closed blob driver

2008-09-25 Thread James C. McPherson
Miles Nordin wrote: jcm == James C McPherson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: jcm I assume you're referring to mpt(7d) here? jcm Since we started shipping it at all, with Solaris _8_, it's jcm definitely been available in Solaris 10. no, I was mistaken then. My perhaps mistaken

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Panicing System Cluster Crash effect

2008-09-11 Thread James C. McPherson
http://www.solarisinternals.com/wiki/index.php/ZFS_Best_Practices_Guide James C. McPherson -- Senior Kernel Software Engineer, Solaris Sun Microsystems http://blogs.sun.com/jmcp http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs

Re: [zfs-discuss] Proposed 2540 and ZFS configuration

2008-09-01 Thread James C. McPherson
!) Still, if you're using MPxIO that failover shouldn't be a problem. James C. McPherson -- Senior Kernel Software Engineer, Solaris Sun Microsystems http://blogs.sun.com/jmcp http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS hangs/freezes after disk failure,

2008-08-28 Thread James C. McPherson
to drink from a fire hose :) Best regards, James C. McPherson -- Senior Kernel Software Engineer, Solaris Sun Microsystems http://blogs.sun.com/jmcp http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS hangs/freezes after disk failure,

2008-08-24 Thread James C. McPherson
admin guide http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/819-2723 devices + filesystems guide James C. McPherson -- Senior Kernel Software Engineer, Solaris Sun Microsystems http://blogs.sun.com/jmcp http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog ___ zfs-discuss mailing

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS hangs/freezes after disk failure,

2008-08-24 Thread James C. McPherson
Tim wrote: I'm pretty sure pci-ide doesn't support hot-swap. I believe you need ahci. You're correct, it doesn't. Furthermore, to the best of my knowledge, it won't ever support hotswap. James C. McPherson -- Senior Kernel Software Engineer, Solaris Sun Microsystems http://blogs.sun.com/jmcp

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS hangs/freezes after disk failure,

2008-08-24 Thread James C. McPherson
when we tell you that what you've been doing is not a good idea, and find other ways to simulate drive failures. James C. McPherson -- Senior Kernel Software Engineer, Solaris Sun Microsystems http://blogs.sun.com/jmcp http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog

Re: [zfs-discuss] FW: Supermicro AOC-SAT2-MV8 hang when drive removed

2008-08-20 Thread James C. McPherson
this is a driver issue for this controller. Have you logged a bug on it yet? James C. McPherson -- Senior Kernel Software Engineer, Solaris Sun Microsystems http://blogs.sun.com/jmcp http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs

Re: [zfs-discuss] FW: Supermicro AOC-SAT2-MV8 hang when drive removed

2008-08-20 Thread James C. McPherson
Ross Smith wrote: Without fail, cfgadm changes the status from disk to sata-port when I unplug a device attached to port 6 or 7, but most of the time unplugging disks 0-5 results in no change in cfgadm, until I also attach disk 6 or 7. That does seem inconsistent, or at

Re: [zfs-discuss] Zfs and mpxio - device name changed

2008-08-18 Thread James C. McPherson
. If you'd like more information on devids, please have a look at my presentation on the concept: http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/~jmcp/WhatIsAGuid.pdf James C. McPherson -- Senior Kernel Software Engineer, Solaris Sun Microsystems http://blogs.sun.com/jmcp http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog

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

2008-08-10 Thread James C. McPherson
, but the whole sequence. Can you force a crash dump when the system hangs? If you can, then you could provide that to the support engineer who has accepted the call you've already logged with Sun's support organisation. You _did_ log a call, didn't you? James C. McPherson -- Senior Kernel Software Engineer

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS on 32bit.

2008-08-06 Thread James C. McPherson
1-Dispatched (Default State) Category:Subcategory kernel:other I believe you misfiled that bug. I've redirected it to solaris / kernel / arch-x86 which appears to me to be more appropriate. James C. McPherson -- Senior Kernel Software Engineer, Solaris Sun Microsystems http

Re: [zfs-discuss] Ideal Setup: RAID-5, Areca, etc!

2008-07-26 Thread James C. McPherson
James C. McPherson wrote: Miles Nordin wrote: bh == Brandon High [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: bh a system built around the Marvell or LSI chipsets according to The Blogosphere, source of all reliable information, there's some issue with LSI, too. The driver is not available in stable

Re: [zfs-discuss] copying a ZFS

2008-07-20 Thread James C. McPherson
:-) This may or may not be a copy to the same zpool, and I'd also be interested in knowing of that makes a difference (I do not think it does)? It does not. James C. McPherson -- Senior Kernel Software Engineer, Solaris Sun Microsystems http://blogs.sun.com/jmcp http

Re: [zfs-discuss] RFE: -t flag for 'zfs destroy'

2008-07-17 Thread James C. McPherson
search for things I put in the bug that I can check on the status of this bug? when it does show up on bugs.opensolaris.org (in perhaps 24 hours time), it'll be 6727026 -t flag for 'zfs destroy' James C. McPherson -- Senior Kernel Software Engineer, Solaris Sun Microsystems http://blogs.sun.com

Re: [zfs-discuss] i/o error on new disks?

2008-07-17 Thread James C. McPherson
/c5t1d0s0': I/O error Do you have fdisk partitions and/or vtocs on those disks? If you want to give the whole disk to ZFS, then remove the s0 from the end of the vdev specification: # zpool create data mirror c4t1d0 c5t1d0 James C. McPherson -- Senior Kernel Software Engineer, Solaris Sun

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS with STMS/MPXIO

2008-07-16 Thread James C. McPherson
recall the sparc version, sorry) (4) when you system comes back up to single-user and tells you that it can't mount root, run svcadm disable mpxio-upgrade (5) either hit ^D (ctrl D) or reboot James C. McPherson -- Senior Kernel Software Engineer, Solaris Sun Microsystems http

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS with STMS/MPXIO

2008-07-16 Thread James C. McPherson
Bob Friesenhahn wrote: On Wed, 16 Jul 2008, Arif Khan wrote: Hi Guys, Can I use MPXIO/STMS with ZFS to do multipathing amount pools/devices ? Any issues, any specific version of STMS to avoid/use ? By STMS I assume that you are talking about MPXIO. Solaris 10 comes with a quite usable

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS with STMS/MPXIO

2008-07-16 Thread James C. McPherson
Hi Bob, thanks for the quick response. Comments inline below Bob Friesenhahn wrote: On Thu, 17 Jul 2008, James C. McPherson wrote: ... MPXIO is quite ugly and rough around the edges (at least compared with ZFS) but it works. Just curious - what do you see as the ugliness in MPxIO? I don't

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS with STMS/MPXIO

2008-07-16 Thread James C. McPherson
Bob Friesenhahn wrote: On Thu, 17 Jul 2008, James C. McPherson wrote: I'm fairly sure that the long device names aspect won't change. I don't understand what you mean by Odd requirement to update /etc/vfstab - when we turn on mpxio the device paths change, so any fs that's not ZFS

Re: [zfs-discuss] Supermicro AOC-USAS-L8i

2008-07-12 Thread James C. McPherson
with quite a few hits immediately. Some that might be worth a look include http://www.specialty-cables.com/sata-sas-cables.html http://www.eaglebit.com/Multi_lane_Cable_Forward_Breakout_Cable_Infiniband_SATA_s/192.htm http://www.acmemicro.com/estore/merchant.ihtml?pid=3886step=4 cheers, James C

Re: [zfs-discuss] Case study/recommended ZFS setup for home file

2008-07-10 Thread James C. McPherson
/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6665032 6665032 ahci driver doesn't work for ATI SB600 AHCI chipset (ASUS M2A-VM) which is fixed in snv_93 James C. McPherson -- Senior Kernel Software Engineer, Solaris Sun Microsystems http://blogs.sun.com/jmcp http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog

Re: [zfs-discuss] Using zfs boot with MPxIO on T2000

2008-07-09 Thread James C. McPherson
. James C. McPherson -- Senior Kernel Software Engineer, Solaris Sun Microsystems http://blogs.sun.com/jmcp http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs

Re: [zfs-discuss] Using zfs boot with MPxIO on T2000

2008-07-09 Thread James C. McPherson
not boot using ZFS. I must be overlooking a step. Sorry, you're out of luck - at least for the moment. Can you create the rpool to be smaller? James C. McPherson -- Senior Kernel Software Engineer, Solaris Sun Microsystems http://blogs.sun.com/jmcp http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog

Re: [zfs-discuss] confusion and frustration with zpool

2008-07-07 Thread James C. McPherson
as the disk inside the enclosure was 3.5 - those laptop hard disks still aren't quite there, imnsho. cheers, James C. McPherson -- Senior Kernel Software Engineer, Solaris Sun Microsystems http://blogs.sun.com/jmcp http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog

Re: [zfs-discuss] x4500 panic report.

2008-07-06 Thread James C. McPherson
ufs:ufs_idle_free+16d () ff001e737c10 ufs:ufs_idle_some+152 () ff001e737c60 ufs:ufs_thread_idle+1a1 () ff001e737c70 unix:thread_start+8 () Although given the entry in the msgbuf, perhaps you might want to fix up your quota settings on that particular filesystem. James C. McPherson -- Senior

Re: [zfs-discuss] x4500 panic report.

2008-07-06 Thread James C. McPherson
? James C. McPherson -- Senior Kernel Software Engineer, Solaris Sun Microsystems http://blogs.sun.com/jmcp http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs

Re: [zfs-discuss] J4200/J4400 Array

2008-07-03 Thread James C. McPherson
thing to fail That's why high-end arrays like those from HDS tend to have enough battery storage to keep disks spinning for nearly 72 hours. Redundancy costs! -) Servers already have too much ram Not when the users are looking at flash-heavy websites ;-) James C. McPherson -- Senior Kernel

Re: [zfs-discuss] Some basic questions about getting the best performance for database usage

2008-06-30 Thread James C. McPherson
- as far as I'm concerned they're the experts when it comes to ZFS tuning and database performance. James C. McPherson -- Senior Kernel Software Engineer, Solaris Sun Microsystems http://blogs.sun.com/jmcp http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog ___ zfs

Re: [zfs-discuss] planning for upgrades

2008-06-28 Thread James C. McPherson
the resilvering has finished on the final disk replacement. I used exactly this process to increase my poolsize from 2x200G to 2x320G disks last year. It was easy - so easy that I wondered what I had forgotten to do ... but nope, nothing - It Just Works(tm). James C. McPherson -- Senior Kernel Software

Re: [zfs-discuss] Solaris 10 does not boat

2008-06-27 Thread James C. McPherson
your bios has got setup. James C. McPherson -- Senior Kernel Software Engineer, Solaris Sun Microsystems http://blogs.sun.com/jmcp http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org

Re: [zfs-discuss] memory hog

2008-06-23 Thread James C. McPherson
find this wiki page useful http://www.solarisinternals.com/wiki/index.php/ZFS_Configuration_Guide, along with the others that it points to. James C. McPherson -- Senior Kernel Software Engineer, Solaris Sun Microsystems http://blogs.sun.com/jmcp http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog

Re: [zfs-discuss] raid card vs zfs

2008-06-22 Thread James C. McPherson
/wiki/index.php/ZFS_Best_Practices_Guide http://www.solarisinternals.com/wiki/index.php/ZFS_Configuration_Guide cheers, James C. McPherson -- Senior Kernel Software Engineer, Solaris Sun Microsystems http://blogs.sun.com/jmcp http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog

Re: [zfs-discuss] LSAI SAS SATA card and MB comptability questions?

2008-06-16 Thread James C. McPherson
encourage you to stuff as much ram as possible onto the board ;) James C. McPherson -- Senior Kernel Software Engineer, Solaris Sun Microsystems http://blogs.sun.com/jmcp http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] SATA controller suggestion

2008-06-10 Thread James C. McPherson
of the box with the mpt(7D) driver. James C. McPherson -- Senior Kernel Software Engineer, Solaris Sun Microsystems http://blogs.sun.com/jmcp http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http

Re: [zfs-discuss] disk names?

2008-06-03 Thread James C. McPherson
. James C. McPherson -- Senior Kernel Software Engineer, Solaris Sun Microsystems http://blogs.sun.com/jmcp http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs

Re: [zfs-discuss] disk names?

2008-06-03 Thread James C. McPherson
Richard Elling wrote: James C. McPherson wrote: Will Murnane wrote: On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 4:35 PM, Benjamin Ellison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My question: Where/how in the heck does one get a list of which devices are valid targets? Run format and it'll list the devices

Re: [zfs-discuss] 1TB ZFS thin provisioned partition prevents Opensolaris from booting.

2008-05-29 Thread James C. McPherson
Running Opensolaris 2008.05 Anyideas, or is ZFS partition greater than 1 tb on a 32bit kernel not possible. Do I have to move to 64 bit Solaris? You'll have to move to 64bit Solaris. There's only so much that you can do when you're running in 32bit mode. James C. McPherson -- Senior Kernel

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS and Sun Disk arrays - Opinions?

2008-05-16 Thread James C. McPherson
questions. You will, I just know it! :-) cheers, James C. McPherson -- Senior Kernel Software Engineer, Solaris Sun Microsystems http://blogs.sun.com/jmcp http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS and Sun Disk arrays - Opinions?

2008-05-16 Thread James C. McPherson
seconds of it coming loose that might just give MPxIO a bit of a headache. James C. McPherson -- Senior Kernel Software Engineer, Solaris Sun Microsystems http://blogs.sun.com/jmcp http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS and Sun Disk arrays - Opinions?

2008-05-16 Thread James C. McPherson
Bob Friesenhahn wrote: On Fri, 16 May 2008, James C. McPherson wrote: 3) I've read that it's best practice to create the RAID set utilizing Hardware RAID utilities vice using ZFS raidz. Any wisdom on this? You've got a whacking great cache in the ST2540, so you might as well make use

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS and Sun Disk arrays - Opinions?

2008-05-16 Thread James C. McPherson
Bob Friesenhahn wrote: On Sat, 17 May 2008, James C. McPherson wrote: Bob Friesenhahn wrote: On Fri, 16 May 2008, James C. McPherson wrote: 3) I've read that it's best practice to create the RAID set utilizing Hardware RAID utilities vice using ZFS raidz. Any wisdom on this? You've got

Re: [zfs-discuss] [storage-discuss] ZFS and fibre channel issues

2008-05-15 Thread James C. McPherson
please include the output from prtconf -v and zdb -l /dev/dsk/. for each of the luns attached to your targets on this controller. James C. McPherson -- Senior Kernel Software Engineer, Solaris Sun Microsystems http://blogs.sun.com/jmcp http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs and jbod

2008-05-13 Thread James C. McPherson
driver. You can download a version from their website. James C. McPherson -- Senior Kernel Software Engineer, Solaris Sun Microsystems http://blogs.sun.com/jmcp http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [zfs-discuss] Image with DD from ZFS partition

2008-05-07 Thread James C. McPherson
to create a ext2 partition and use a linux rescue cd to backup the zfs partition with dd ? Have a look at the 2008.05 release for some ideas on how to do this sort of thing. James C. McPherson -- Senior Kernel Software Engineer, Solaris Sun Microsystems http://blogs.sun.com/jmcp http

Re: [zfs-discuss] First trouble, dying HDD.

2008-04-15 Thread James C. McPherson
be able to use to map to a cXtYdZ number. Finally, you can see that you've got a Hitachi HDS7250S with serial number KRVN67ZBHDPX3H - this will definitely be reported in your iostat -En output. cheers, James C. McPherson -- Solaris kernel software engineer, system admin and troubleshooter

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS ACLs/Samba integration

2008-03-13 Thread James C. McPherson
C. McPherson -- Solaris kernel software engineer, system admin and troubleshooter http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog http://blogs.sun.com/jmcp Find me on LinkedIn @ http://www.linkedin.com/in/jamescmcpherson ___ zfs

Re: [zfs-discuss] raidz2 resilience on 3 disks

2008-02-21 Thread James C. McPherson
and www.genunix.org). James C. McPherson -- Senior Kernel Software Engineer, Solaris Sun Microsystems http://blogs.sun.com/jmcp http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman

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