Re: [zfs-discuss] how do I fix this situation?

2008-02-19 Thread James C. McPherson
Max Bruning wrote: Hi everybody, while trying to figure out what on earth has been going on in my u20m2 due to 6636511 u20m2 bios version 1.45.1 still can't distinguish disks on sata channel #1, I engaged in a lot of cable swapping operations for the internal sata drive cables. ... Hi

Re: [zfs-discuss] 3ware support

2008-02-12 Thread James C. McPherson
case materials (spec and manpage) should be visible on www.opensolaris.org/os/community/arc cheers 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] List of supported multipath drivers

2008-02-08 Thread James C. McPherson
manage multipathing then the list is scsi_vhci While there are other multipathing solutions out there such as PowerPath and VxDMP, I don't think they work quite so well with ZFS. James C. McPherson -- Senior Kernel Software Engineer, Solaris Sun Microsystems http://blogs.sun.com/jmcp http

[zfs-discuss] seen on freebsd-stable: reproducible zfs panic

2008-01-30 Thread James C. McPherson
mdconfig -d -u 1 mdconfig -d -u 2 rm /usr/_disk1 rm /usr/_disk2 /Daniel Eriksson Anybody seen anything like this, on Solaris or freebsd? I've got my doubts about whether Daniel's got a valid test. thanks, James C. McPherson -- Senior Kernel Software Engineer, Solaris Sun

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Home NAS - Configuration Questions

2008-01-24 Thread James C. McPherson
At that point, I was all set to export the pool, but realised that I didn't need to because zfs had picked up that the disks were larger - an extra ~100Gb just showed up. I don't know whether using a raidZ or raidZ2 pool requires the export/import routine, but I hope it doesn't. cheers, James C

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS shared /home between zones

2008-01-05 Thread James C. McPherson
and /home conventions. This leaves open the possibility of some NFS mounts later. All of which is a workaround for the essential problem that we don't have a easy and obvious way of adding users to zones from the command line unless you use the webconsole thingy. James C. McPherson -- Senior Kernel

Re: [zfs-discuss] [zones-discuss] ZFS shared /home between zones

2008-01-02 Thread James C. McPherson
Bob Scheifler wrote: James C. McPherson wrote: You can definitely loopback mount the same fs into multiple zones, and as far as I can see you don't have the multiple-writer issues that otherwise require Qfs to solve - since you're operating within just one kernel instance. Is there any

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS shared /home between zones

2008-01-01 Thread James C. McPherson
have jmcplocalhost:/export/home/jmcp 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] [zones-discuss] ZFS shared /home between zones

2008-01-01 Thread James C. McPherson
a loopback fs mount that might fix things up. However that would require me to re-jiggle my filesystems a lot and I just can't be bothered since I do have a workaround. cheers, James C. McPherson -- Senior Kernel Software Engineer, Solaris Sun Microsystems http://blogs.sun.com/jmcp http

Re: [zfs-discuss] aoc-sat2-mv8

2007-12-18 Thread James C. McPherson
cables for the aoc-sat2-mv8 and will report which ones work when I get them That will be very good info to have - there's too little information and personal experience surrounding the SAS cabling world as yet. cheers, James C. McPherson -- Solaris kernel software engineer, system admin

Re: [zfs-discuss] SAS cabling was Re: aoc-sat2-mv8

2007-12-18 Thread James C. McPherson
Al Hopper wrote: On Tue, 18 Dec 2007, James C. McPherson wrote: ... snip . That will be very good info to have - there's too little information and personal experience surrounding the SAS cabling world as yet. Here's a couple of resources: SAS Integrators Guide: wget http

Re: [zfs-discuss] JBOD performance

2007-12-17 Thread James C. McPherson
he could try to limit # of queued request per disk in zfs to something smaller than default 35 (maybe even down to 1?) Hi Robert, yup, that's on my list of things for Frank to try. I've asked for a bit more config information though so we can get a bit of clarity on that front first. James C

Re: [zfs-discuss] LSI SAS3081E = unstable drive numbers?

2007-12-16 Thread James C. McPherson
are stuck - for the moment at least - with ad hoc measures. 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] JBOD performance

2007-12-16 Thread James C. McPherson
of your zpool, but if the devices are disks that are direct or san-attached, I would be wondering about their outstanding queue depths. I think it's time to break out some D to find out where in the stack the bottleneck(s) really are. James C. McPherson -- Senior Kernel Software Engineer, Solaris

Re: [zfs-discuss] LSI SAS3081E = unstable drive numbers?

2007-12-12 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-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] zpool kernel panics.

2007-12-11 Thread James C. McPherson
had a chance to analyze it so I've passed the details on to more knowledgeable ZFS ppl. James C. McPherson -- Senior Kernel Software Engineer, Solaris Sun Microsystems http://blogs.sun.com/jmcp http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog ___ zfs-discuss

[zfs-discuss] how do I fix this situation?

2007-12-10 Thread James C. McPherson
Thankyou in advance, 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] zpool kernel panics.

2007-12-09 Thread James C. McPherson
that your current patch levels can be identified. 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] Does ZFS handle a SATA II port multiplier ?

2007-12-09 Thread James C. McPherson
at the ST5650, myself. 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] why are these three ZFS caches using so much kmem?

2007-12-06 Thread James C. McPherson
XChat 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

Re: [zfs-discuss] why are these three ZFS caches using so much kmem?

2007-12-04 Thread James C. McPherson
James C. McPherson wrote: Got an issue which is rather annoying to me - three of my ZFS caches are regularly using nearly 1/2 of the 1.09Gb of allocated kmem in my system ...[snip] Following suggestions from Andre and Rich that this was probably the ARC, I've implemented a 256Mb limit for my

[zfs-discuss] why are these three ZFS caches using so much kmem?

2007-12-03 Thread James C. McPherson
to find out why this is happening, and prevent it recurring? (If Team ZFS would like access to the core please contact me directly for access). thanks in advance, James C. McPherson -- Senior Kernel Software Engineer, Solaris Sun Microsystems http://blogs.sun.com/jmcp http

Re: [zfs-discuss] why are these three ZFS caches using so much kmem?

2007-12-03 Thread James C. McPherson
Anton B. Rang wrote: Got an issue which is rather annoying to me - three of my ZFS caches are regularly using nearly 1/2 of the 1.09Gb of allocated kmem in my system. I think this is just the ARC; you can limit its size using:

Re: [zfs-discuss] Changing all the underlying device names...

2007-11-29 Thread James C. McPherson
hope so. 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://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman

Re: [zfs-discuss] Home Motherboard

2007-11-22 Thread James C. McPherson
it into OpenSolaris http://bugs.opensolaris.org/view_bug.do?bug_id=6614012 6614012 add Areca SAS/SATA RAID adapter driver 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 layout recommendations

2007-11-21 Thread James C. McPherson
://www.solarisinternals.com/wiki/index.php/ZFS_Best_Practices_Guide#ZFS_and_Zones 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 layout recommendations

2007-11-21 Thread James C. McPherson
, with the bringover utility stuck looping in the same functions as mentioned earlier in this CR's history. James C. McPherson -- Senior Kernel Software Engineer, Solaris Sun Microsystems http://blogs.sun.com/jmcp http

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS layout recommendations

2007-11-21 Thread James C. McPherson
Ian Collins wrote: James C. McPherson wrote: Ian Collins wrote: ... I don't know if anything else breaks when you do this, but if you are building software in a zone on a lofs filesystem, dmake hangs. Regular make works fine. The output from truss is: stat64(/export/home, 0x08045B60

Re: [zfs-discuss] Yager on ZFS

2007-11-09 Thread James C. McPherson
depending on the card itself to be reliable any more. 1Tb of photos shot on a 10MPx camera in the camera's native RAW format is around 100,000 photos. It's not difficult to imagine a consumer having that sort of storage requirement. James C. McPherson -- Senior Kernel Software Engineer, Solaris Sun

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs corruption w/ sil3114 sata controllers

2007-10-29 Thread James C. McPherson
week. James C. McPherson -- Senior Kernel Software Engineer, Solaris Sun Microsystems ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

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

2007-10-09 Thread James C. McPherson
cpu, add more ram(tm). James C. McPherson -- Senior Kernel Software Engineer, Solaris Sun Microsystems ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Bug 6354872 - integrated in snv_36, how about Solaris ?

2007-10-09 Thread James C. McPherson
that you're suffering from bug 6354872? I suggest that you log a call with Sun Support if you haven't already done so, so that you can get the assistance which you need to resolve the issue in a timely fashion. James C. McPherson -- Senior Kernel Software Engineer, Solaris Sun Microsystems

Re: [zfs-discuss] device alias

2007-09-25 Thread James C. McPherson
in a hotplug world? James C. McPherson -- Senior Kernel Software Engineer, Solaris Sun Microsystems ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] device alias

2007-09-25 Thread James C. McPherson
Tim Spriggs wrote: James C. McPherson wrote: Gregory Shaw wrote: ... The above would be very useful should a disk fail to identify what device is what. How would you gather that information? How would you ensure that it stayed accurate in a hotplug world? If it is stored on the device

Re: [zfs-discuss] device alias

2007-09-25 Thread James C. McPherson
Bill Sommerfeld wrote: On Wed, 2007-09-26 at 08:26 +1000, James C. McPherson wrote: How would you gather that information? the tools to use would be dependant on the actual storage device in use. luxadm for A5x00 and V8x0 internal storage, sccli for 3xxx, etc., etc., No consistent

Re: [zfs-discuss] device alias

2007-09-25 Thread James C. McPherson
Greg Shaw wrote: James C. McPherson wrote: Bill Sommerfeld wrote: On Wed, 2007-09-26 at 08:26 +1000, James C. McPherson wrote: How would you gather that information? the tools to use would be dependant on the actual storage device in use. luxadm for A5x00 and V8x0 internal

Re: [zfs-discuss] Would a device list output be a reasonable feature for zpool(1)?

2007-09-17 Thread James C. McPherson
Ellis, Mike wrote: With Leadville/MPXIO targets in the 32-digit range, identifying the new storage/LUNs is not a trivial operatrion. Have a look at my devid/guid presentation for some details on how we use them with ZFS/SVM: http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/~jmcp/WhatIsAGuide.pdf James C

Re: [zfs-discuss] Would a device list output be a reasonable feature for zpool(1)?

2007-09-17 Thread James C. McPherson
A Darren Dunham wrote: On Tue, Sep 18, 2007 at 10:11:11AM +1000, James C. McPherson wrote: Have a look at my devid/guid presentation for some details on how we use them with ZFS/SVM: http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/~jmcp/WhatIsAGuide.pdf Ah, a very silent 'e'... :-) http

Re: [zfs-discuss] SAS-controller recommodations

2007-09-13 Thread James C. McPherson
appear in S10u5. James C. McPherson -- Senior Kernel Software Engineer, Solaris Sun Microsystems ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] (politics) Sharks in the waters

2007-09-05 Thread James C. McPherson
, and that it's sufficiently different from existing ideas on how to write filesystems that there wasn't really any incentive to actually do it. $X ain't broke (sufficiently) so let's not rock the boat James C. McPherson -- Solaris kernel software engineer, system admin and troubleshooter

Re: [zfs-discuss] Is there _any_ suitable motherboard?

2007-08-14 Thread James C. McPherson
this support for NV - they told me that the current driver in NV is supposed to work with ICH6/7/8/9, but only for hard disks. Support for SATA dvd drives is in the works at the moment, and yes, this was tested with Solaris. James C. McPherson -- Solaris kernel software engineer Sun Microsystems

Re: [zfs-discuss] scrub halts

2007-08-05 Thread James C. McPherson
with zfs. Are you using the marvell88sx driver to attach your sata disks? If you are, then perhaps this putback from yesterday is what you are in need of: 6564677 oracle datafiles corrupted on thumper http://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6564677 James C. McPherson -- Solaris

Re: [zfs-discuss] Converting exisitng ZFS pool to MPxIO

2007-07-18 Thread James C. McPherson
where to go from there. Is ZFS smart enough to recognize MPxIO changes? Does anyone have any recommendations? Yes. You can check the devids of the vdevs that make up the pool, and you'll see that they don't change under mpxio. James C. McPherson -- Solaris kernel software engineer Sun

Re: [zfs-discuss] chgrp -R hangs all writes to pool

2007-07-16 Thread James C. McPherson
, or reboot -dq cheers, James C. McPherson -- Solaris kernel software engineer Sun Microsystems ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] how to remove sun volume mgr configuration?

2007-07-16 Thread James C. McPherson
Some might say that's a waste of space :) James C. McPherson -- Solaris kernel software engineer, system admin and troubleshooter http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog Find me on LinkedIn @ http://www.linkedin.com/in/jamescmcpherson ___ zfs

Re: [zfs-discuss] chgrp -R hangs all writes to pool

2007-07-16 Thread James C. McPherson
Stuart Anderson wrote: On Tue, Jul 17, 2007 at 02:49:08PM +1000, James C. McPherson wrote: Stuart Anderson wrote: Running Solaris 10 Update 3 on an X4500 I have found that it is possible to reproducibly block all writes to a ZFS pool by running chgrp -R on any large filesystem in that pool

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: ZFS - SAN and Raid

2007-06-20 Thread James C. McPherson
://www.solarisinternals.com/wiki/index.php/ZFS_Best_Practices_Guide and I know Ben Rockwood (now of Joyent) has blogged about how much storage they're using, all managed with ZFS... I just can't find the blog entry. Hope this helps, James C. McPherson -- Solaris kernel software engineer Sun Microsystems

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: ZFS - SAN and Raid

2007-06-20 Thread James C. McPherson
replication. Hi Roshan, that's a great shame because if they actually want to make use of the features of ZFS such as replication, then they need to be serious about configuring their storage to play in the ZFS world and that means replication that ZFS knows about. James C. McPherson -- Solaris

Re: [zfs-discuss] Is it possible to create a ZPool on SVM volumes ?

2007-06-13 Thread James C. McPherson
per system ? for all practical purposes, it's unlimited. James C. McPherson -- Solaris kernel software engineer, system admin and troubleshooter http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog Find me on LinkedIn @ http://www.linkedin.com/in/jamescmcpherson

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs and 2530 jbod

2007-06-13 Thread James C. McPherson
Robert Milkowski wrote: Hello Louwtjie, Monday, June 4, 2007, 9:14:26 AM, you wrote: LB On 5/30/07, James C. McPherson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Louwtjie Burger wrote: I know the above mentioned kit (2530) is new, but has anybody tried a direct attached SAS setup using zfs? (and the Sun SG

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs and 2530 jbod

2007-06-13 Thread James C. McPherson
to be supported. It's one of those contractual obligation things. As always, please confer with your Sun sales rep for the actual details. All I've done is work on the software for the product :-) James C. McPherson -- Solaris kernel software engineer Sun Microsystems

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs and 2530 jbod

2007-06-13 Thread James C. McPherson
that it would just work. James C. McPherson -- Solaris kernel software engineer Sun Microsystems ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs and 2530 jbod

2007-06-13 Thread James C. McPherson
Al Hopper wrote: On Wed, 13 Jun 2007, James C. McPherson wrote: Robert Milkowski wrote: ... JCM As far as I understand it, I do not think that a plain JCM jbod version of the ST2530 is supported. I believe that JCM a jbod attached to the ST2540 (fc-connected) is supported. If it works

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs and 2530 jbod

2007-05-30 Thread James C. McPherson
as part of our project to add support to mpt for MPxIO. The zfs test suite was one of the required tests in our suite. Yes, it worked correctly. What other questions do you have? cheers, James C. McPherson -- Solaris kernel software engineer Sun Microsystems

Re: [zfs-discuss] Experience with Promise Tech. arrays/jbod's?

2007-04-19 Thread James C. McPherson
. The backport has been assigned to me and we're hoping to get patches out real soon now. No committment on actual dates though. James C. McPherson -- Solaris kernel software engineer Sun Microsystems ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http

Re: [zfs-discuss] Experience with Promise Tech. arrays/jbod's?

2007-04-19 Thread James C. McPherson
James W. Abendschan wrote: On Fri, 20 Apr 2007, James C. McPherson wrote: Richard Elling wrote: ... Nice catch... timing is everything :-) I'll infer from this that the SAS HBA from Sun is based on the mpt driver which works with LSI controllers. yes. As of Solaris 10 update 2, this combo

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: ZFS for Linux (NO LISCENCE talk, please)

2007-04-17 Thread James C. McPherson
deserve what you get! That's 6 years away, surely even linux fs developers can come up with something better in that time. cheers, James C. McPherson -- Solaris kernel software engineer Sun Microsystems ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: ZFS boot: a new heads-up

2007-04-04 Thread James C. McPherson
Ivan Wang wrote: So any date on when install utility will support zfs root fresh install? almost can't wait for that. Hi Ivan, there's no firm date for this yet, though the install team are working *really* hard at getting this to happen as soon as humanly possible. James C. McPherson

Re: [zfs-discuss] nv59 + HA-ZFS

2007-03-13 Thread James C. McPherson
going to be released, sorry. James C. McPherson -- Solaris kernel software engineer Sun Microsystems ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] How to download the source code?

2007-02-23 Thread James C. McPherson
/src/lib/libzfs_jni usr/src/lib/libzpool usr/src/lib/libdiskmgmt usr/src/cmd/zpool usr/src/cmd/zfs usr/src/cmd/ztest There are possibly others as well. Read through the source code walkthrough link above and keep asking questions :) cheers, James C

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs crashing

2007-01-31 Thread James C. McPherson
zfs:zio_write_allocate_gang_members+33c (60017964140, ... Any help? I do zfs file system snaps and I am pretty low on disk space at this moment but I still have like 2 gig free this is bug 6452923 which is fixed in Solaris 10 update 3. James C. McPherson -- Solaris kernel software engineer Sun Microsystems

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: ZFS or UFS - what to do?

2007-01-27 Thread James C. McPherson
easily managed. James C. McPherson -- Solaris kernel software engineer, system admin and troubleshooter http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog Find me on LinkedIn @ http://www.linkedin.com/in/jamescmcpherson ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs

Re: [zfs-discuss] multihosted ZFS

2007-01-26 Thread James C. McPherson
Cluster 3.2 if I want to serve same zpools from many hosts? We may try Sun Cluster anyway, but I'd like to know if this can be solved without it. You can't do it *safely* without the protection of a high- availability framework such as SunCluster. best regards, James C. McPherson -- Solaris kernel

Re: [zfs-discuss] Synchronous Mount?

2007-01-22 Thread James C. McPherson
Prashanth Radhakrishnan wrote: Is there someway to synchronously mount a ZFS filesystem? '-o sync' does not appear to be honoured. No there isn't. Why do you think it is necessary? James C. McPherson -- Solaris kernel software engineer, system admin and troubleshooter http

Re: SAS support on Solaris, was Re: [zfs-discuss] External drive enclosures + Sun Server for mass storage

2007-01-22 Thread James C. McPherson
Frank Cusack wrote: On January 23, 2007 8:53:30 AM +1100 James C. McPherson ... Why would you start your numbering at 10? Because you don't have a choice. It is up to the HBA and getting it to do the right thing (ie, what you want) isn't always easy. IIRC, the LSI Logic HBA(s) I had would

Re: [zfs-discuss] External drive enclosures + Sun Server for mass storage

2007-01-21 Thread James C. McPherson
C. McPherson -- Solaris kernel software engineer Sun Microsystems ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] External drive enclosures + Sun Server for mass storage

2007-01-21 Thread James C. McPherson
Al Hopper wrote: On Sun, 21 Jan 2007, James C. McPherson wrote: ... snip Would you please expand upon this, because I'm really interested in what your thoughts are. since I work on Sun's SAS driver :) Hi James - just the man I have a couple of questions for... :) Will the LsiLogic

Re: [zfs-discuss] Implementation Question

2007-01-17 Thread James C. McPherson
it will be a stripe or raidz or raidz2 or whatever. From that pool you create as many filesystems as you need. If from those 8 disks you want two different underlying types of storage layout, you would create two pools. James C. McPherson -- Solaris kernel software engineer, system admin

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS in a SAN environment

2006-12-20 Thread James C. McPherson
? James C. McPherson -- Solaris kernel software engineer, system admin and troubleshooter http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog Find me on LinkedIn @ http://www.linkedin.com/in/jamescmcpherson ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS in a SAN environment

2006-12-20 Thread James C. McPherson
James C. McPherson wrote: Jason J. W. Williams wrote: I agree with others here that the kernel panic is undesired behavior. If ZFS would simply offline the zpool and not kernel panic, that would obviate my request for an informational message. It'd be pretty darn obvious what was going

Re: [zfs-discuss] Need Help on ZFS.

2006-12-10 Thread James C. McPherson
0 0 mirrorONLINE 0 0 0 c1d0s3 ONLINE 0 0 0 c2d0s3 ONLINE 0 0 0 errors: No known data errors $ libdiskmgmt protects you (mostly) from using slices or partitions which are already in use James C. McPherson

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: ZFS failover without multipathing

2006-12-06 Thread James C. McPherson
. James C. McPherson -- Solaris kernel software engineer Sun Microsystems ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS related kernel panic

2006-12-04 Thread James C. McPherson
, always on Fridays! This is the fourth panic, first time with a ZFS error. There are no errors in zpool status. Without data, it is difficult to suggest what might have caused your NFS panics. James C. McPherson -- Solaris kernel software engineer, system admin and troubleshooter http

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: ZFS related kernel panic

2006-12-04 Thread James C. McPherson
into an *Instant PANIC thanks to ZFS* Yes, as noted, this is by design in order to *protect your data* James C. McPherson -- Solaris kernel software engineer Sun Microsystems ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: ZFS related kernel panic

2006-12-04 Thread James C. McPherson
the maximum number of targets on a loop, which might also solve your second problem.) Your alternative option isn't going to happen. The ifp driver and the card it supports have both been long since EOLd. James C. McPherson -- Solaris kernel software engineer Sun Microsystems

Re: [zfs-discuss] Where is the ZFS configuration data stored?

2006-10-12 Thread James C. McPherson
this dependancy? What do you suggest in its place? James C. McPherson -- Solaris kernel software engineer, system admin and troubleshooter http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog Find me on LinkedIn @ http://www.linkedin.com/in/jamescmcpherson ___ zfs

Re: [zfs-discuss] Some questions about how to organize ZFS-based filestorage

2006-09-20 Thread James C. McPherson
to get the most from filesystem that has a huge number of small files? You're not quite thinking ZFS-style yet. With ZFS you do not have to worry about block sizes unless you want to - the filesystem handles that for you. cheers, James C. McPherson -- Solaris kernel software engineer, system admin

Re: [zfs-discuss] mounting during boot

2006-09-17 Thread James C. McPherson
/kshtest default You should also have a look at the legacy option in the zfs manpage, which provides more details on how to get zpools and zfs integrated into your system. James C. McPherson -- Solaris kernel software engineer, system admin and troubleshooter http

Re: [zfs-discuss] Access to ZFS checksums would be nice and very useful feature

2006-09-14 Thread James C. McPherson
by ZFS, and use it for those same purposes. Would you want a single checksum per file, or the list of every checksum for every block that the file referenced? The second option might get unwieldy. The first option - a meta-checksum if you like - would require some interesting design. James C

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: ZFS imported simultanously on 2 systems...

2006-09-13 Thread James C. McPherson
*. Didn't we have the PMC (poor man's cluster) talk last week as well? James C. McPherson ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: Re: ZFS imported simultanously on 2 systems...

2006-09-13 Thread James C. McPherson
valid tests do you think you are going to be able to run? Wait for the SunCluster 3.2 release (or the beta). Don't faff around with a data-killing test suite in an unsupported configuration. James C. McPherson ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Importing ZFS filesystems across architectures...

2006-09-13 Thread James C. McPherson
Erik Trimble wrote: OK, this may seem like a stupid question (and we all know that there are such things...) I'm considering sharing a disk array (something like a 3510FC) between two different systems, a SPARC and an Opteron. Will ZFS transparently work to import/export pools between the two

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: ZFS imported simultanously on 2 systems...

2006-09-13 Thread James C. McPherson
to get it working, how well it copes and how you are addressing any data corruption that might occur. I tend to refer to SunCluster more than VCS simply because I've got more in depth experience with Sun's offering. James C. McPherson ___ zfs-discuss

[zfs-discuss] any update on zfs root/boot ?

2006-09-13 Thread James C. McPherson
? thanks in advance, James C. McPherson -- Solaris kernel software engineer, system admin and troubleshooter http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog Find me on LinkedIn @ http://www.linkedin.com/pub/2/1ab/967 ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] marvel cards.. as recommended

2006-09-12 Thread James C. McPherson
Joe Little wrote: So, people here recommended the Marvell cards, and one even provided a link to acquire them for SATA jbod support. Well, this is what the latest bits (B47) say: Sep 12 13:51:54 vram marvell88sx: [ID 679681 kern.warning] WARNING: marvell88sx0: Could not attach, unsupported chip

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: How to destroy a pool wich you can't import because it is in faulted st

2006-09-07 Thread James C. McPherson
. Save yourself the hassle and do things right from the start. James C. McPherson ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: How to destroy a pool wich you can't import because it is in faulted st

2006-09-07 Thread James C. McPherson
Lieven De Geyndt wrote: I know this is not supported . But we try to build a safe configuration, till zfs is supported in Sun cluster. The customer did order SunCluster, but needs a workarround till the release date . And I think it must be possible to setup . So build them a configuration

Re: [zfs-discuss] How to destroy a pool wich you can't import because it is in faulted state

2006-09-06 Thread James C. McPherson
zpool create -R /alternate_root newpoolname vdevlist You might need to add a -f, but try it without -f first. cheers, James C. McPherson ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: How to destroy a pool wich you can't import because it is in faulted st

2006-09-06 Thread James C. McPherson
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Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS causes panic on import

2006-09-04 Thread James C. McPherson
. ... Any pointers muchly appreciated! :-| Did you try a zpool export on either or both machines? James C. McPherson ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: Re: ZFS causes panic on import

2006-09-04 Thread James C. McPherson
Stuart Low wrote: Nada. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ zpool export -f ax150s cannot open 'ax150s': no such pool [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ I wonder if it's possible to force the pool to be marked as inactive? Ideally all I want to do is get it back online then scrub it for errors. :-| At this point it

Re: [zfs-discuss] Storage Compatibilty list

2006-08-31 Thread James C. McPherson
reliable zfs is :) cheers, James C. McPherson (on a permanent search for more disk space ) ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] zpool core dumped

2006-08-22 Thread James C. McPherson
Robert Milkowski wrote: Hello zfs-discuss, S10U2 SPARC + patches Generic_118833-20 LUNs from 3510 array. bash-3.00# zpool import no pools available to import bash-3.00# zpool create f3-1 mirror c5t600C0FF0098FD535C3D2B900d0 c5t600C0FF0098FD54CB01E1100d0

Re: [zfs-discuss] Tunable parameter to zfs memory use

2006-08-16 Thread James C. McPherson
you want to observe if your system hit the upper limit in zfs_max_phys_mem? cheers, James C. McPherson ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: Query on ZFS

2006-08-16 Thread James C. McPherson
probably have to reboot :( cheers, James C. McPherson ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Design Details for 6343653

2006-08-15 Thread James C. McPherson
special-case handle the syscall in an elegant manner, too :) best regards, James C. McPherson ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: Flushing synchronous writes to mirrors

2006-07-30 Thread James C. McPherson
ditto blocks will be examined, and those which have incorrect checksums will be detected and fixed. James C. McPherson -- Solaris Datapath Engineering Storage Division Sun Microsystems ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs sucking down my memory!?

2006-07-20 Thread James C. McPherson
my memory back! This is essentially by design, due to the way that ZFS uses kernel memory for caching and other stuff. You can alleviate this somewhat by running a 64bit processor, which has a significantly larger address space to play with. best regards, James C. McPherson -- Solaris Datapath

[zfs-discuss] Re: where has all my space gone? (with zfs, mountroot + b38)

2006-07-04 Thread James C. McPherson
module in the miniroot! Thanks to Team ZFS for all the help in getting over this annoying issue. cheers, James C. McPherson -- Solaris Datapath Engineering Data Management Group Sun Microsystems ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: where has all my space gone? (with zfs mountroot + b38)

2006-06-23 Thread James C. McPherson
for your help with this, I reallyreally appreciate it. best regards, James C. McPherson -- Solaris Datapath Engineering Data Management Group Sun Microsystems ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman

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