Re: [zfs-discuss] suggestions for e-SATA HBA card on x86/x64

2012-10-25 Thread Patrick Hahn
/B000JQ51CM or something. Cheers, -- Saso ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss -- Patrick Hahn ___ zfs-discuss mailing

Re: [zfs-discuss] encfs on top of zfs

2012-07-31 Thread Patrick Heinson
HI I use GELI with ZFS all the time. Works fine for me so far. Am 31.07.12 21:54, schrieb Robert Milkowski: Once something is written deduped you will always use the memory when you want to read any files that were written when dedup was enabled, so you do not save any memory unless you do

Re: [zfs-discuss] [OpenIndiana-discuss] Good SLOG devices?

2011-03-01 Thread Patrick O'Sullivan
Next gen spec sheets suggest the X25-E will get a Power Safe Write Cache, something it does not have today. See: http://www.anandtech.com/Show/Index/3965?cPage=5all=Falsesort=0page=1slug=intels-3rd-generation-x25m-ssd-specs-revealed (Article is about X25-M, scroll down for X25-E info.) On

[zfs-discuss] ZFS on Caviar Blue (Hard Drive Recommendations)

2010-06-30 Thread Patrick Donnelly
Blue WD10EALS 1TB drives [1]. Does anyone have any experience with these drives? If this is the wrong way to go, does anyone have a recommendation for 1TB drives I can get for = 90$? [1] http://www.wdc.com/en/products/products.asp?driveid=793 Thanks for any help, -- - Patrick Donnelly

Re: [zfs-discuss] is this pool recoverable?

2010-04-02 Thread Patrick Tiquet
I tried booting with b134 to attempt to recover the pool. I attempted with one disk of the mirror. Zpool tells me to use -F for import, fails, but then tells me to use -f, which also fails and tells me to use -F again. Any thoughts? j...@opensolaris:~# zpool import pool: atomfs id:

Re: [zfs-discuss] is this pool recoverable?

2010-04-02 Thread Patrick Tiquet
Thanks, that worked!! It needed -Ff The pool has been recovered with minimal loss in data. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

[zfs-discuss] is this pool recoverable?

2010-03-20 Thread Patrick Tiquet
This system is running stock 111b runinng on an Intel Atom D945GCLF2 motherboard. The pool is of two mirrored 1TB sata disks. I noticed the system was locked up, rebooted and the pool status shows as follows: pool: atomfs state: FAULTED status: An intent log record could not be read.

Re: [zfs-discuss] is this pool recoverable?

2010-03-20 Thread Patrick Tiquet
Also, I tried to run zpool clear, but the system crashes and reboots. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] is this pool recoverable?

2010-03-20 Thread Patrick Tiquet
Thanks for the info. I'll try the live CD method when I have access to the system next week. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS - how to determine which physical drive to replace

2009-12-12 Thread Patrick O'Sullivan
I've found that when I build a system, it's worth the initial effort to install drives one by one to see how they get mapped to names. Then I put labels on the drives and SATA cables. If there were room to label the actual SATA ports on the motherboard and cards, I would. While this isn't

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS - SWAP and lucreate..

2009-07-02 Thread Patrick Bittner
Thank you very much! This is exactly what i searched for! -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

[zfs-discuss] ZFS - SWAP and lucreate..

2009-06-29 Thread Patrick Bittner
Good morning everybody I was migrating my ufs – rootfilesystem to a zfs – one, but was a little upset finding out that it became bigger (what was clear because of the swap and dump size). Now I am questioning myself if it is possible to set the swap and dump size by using the lucreate –

Re: [zfs-discuss] Best controller card for 2 to 4 SATA drives ?

2009-06-29 Thread Patrick O'Sullivan
I've had success with the SIIG SC-SAE012-S2. PCIe and no problems booting off of it in 2008.11. On Jun 27, 2009, at 3:02 PM, Simon Breden no-re...@opensolaris.org wrote: Hi, Does anyone know of a reliable 2 or 4 port SATA card with a solid driver, that plugs into a PCIe slot, so that I

[zfs-discuss] Question about ZFS Incremental Send/Receive

2009-04-28 Thread Patrick Pinchera
I'm using ZFS snapshots and send and receive for a proof of concept, and I'd like to better understand how the incremental feature works. Consider this example: 1. create a tar file using tar -cvf of 10 image files 2. ZFS snapshot the filesystem that contains this tar file 3. Use ZFS

Re: [zfs-discuss] What causes slow performance under load?

2009-04-21 Thread Patrick Skerrett
I'm fighting with an identical problem here am very interested in this thread. Solaris 10 127112-11 boxes running ZFS on a fiberchannel raid5 device (hardware raid). Randomly one lun on a machine will stop writing for about 10-15 minutes (during a busy time of day), and then all of a

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZIL SSD performance testing... -IOzone works great, others not so great

2009-04-10 Thread Patrick Skerrett
. Neil Perrin wrote: Patrick, The ZIL is only used for synchronous requests like O_DSYNC/O_SYNC and fsync(). Your iozone command must be doing some synchronous writes. All the other tests (dd, cat, cp, ...) do everything asynchronously. That is they do not require the data to be on stable storage

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZIL SSD performance testing... -IOzone works great, others not so great

2009-04-10 Thread Patrick Skerrett
that happen once or twice a day. The rest of the time everything runs very smooth. Thanks. Eric D. Mudama wrote: On Fri, Apr 10 at 8:07, Patrick Skerrett wrote: Thanks for the explanation folks. So if I cannot get Apache/Webdav to write synchronously, (and it does not look like I can

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZIL SSD performance testing... -IOzone works great, others not so great

2009-04-10 Thread Patrick Skerrett
Yes, we are currently running ZFS, just without L2 ARC, or offloaded ZIL. Mark J Musante wrote: On Fri, 10 Apr 2009, Patrick Skerrett wrote: degradation) when these write bursts come in, and if I could buffer them even for 60 seconds, it would make everything much smoother. ZFS already

[zfs-discuss] ZIL SSD performance testing... -IOzone works great, others not so great

2009-04-09 Thread Patrick Skerrett
Hi folks, I would appreciate it if someone can help me understand some weird results I'm seeing with trying to do performance testing with an SSD offloaded ZIL. I'm attempting to improve my infrastructure's burstable write capacity (ZFS based WebDav servers), and naturally I'm looking at

[zfs-discuss] ZFS and Caching - write() syscall with O_SYNC

2008-07-07 Thread Patrick Pinchera
IHAC using ZFS in production, and he's opening up some files with the O_SYNC flag. This affects subsequent write()'s by providing synchronized I/O file integrity completion. That is, each write(2) will wait for both the file data and file status to be physically updated. Because of this,

Re: [zfs-discuss] Mirroring to a smaller disk

2008-03-04 Thread Patrick Bachmann
, eh? Feel the magic at http://www.cuddletech.com/blog/pivot/entry.php?id=729 Greetings, Patrick ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Does ZFS handle a SATA II port multiplier ?

2008-01-17 Thread Patrick O'Sullivan
At the risk of groveling, I'd like to add one more to the set of people wishing for this to be completed. Any hint on a timeframe? I see reference to this bug back in 2006 (http://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6409327), so I was wondering if there was any progress.

Re: [zfs-discuss] Does ZFS handle a SATA II port multiplier ?

2008-01-17 Thread Patrick O'Sullivan
Thanks. I'll give that a shot. I neglected to notice what forum it was in since the question morphed into when will Solaris support port multipliers? Thanks again. This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list

[zfs-discuss] ZFS versus VxFS as file system inside Netbackup 6.0 DSSU

2008-01-10 Thread Patrick Herman
staging in order to get the best performance possible. Could you provide some information regarding this topic? Thanks in advance for your help Regards Patrick ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org

Re: [zfs-discuss] Convert Raid-Z to Mirror

2007-09-14 Thread Patrick Bachmann
around and attached an external USB-drive with a disk considerably larger than my zpool. So I created a zpool on the disk and used a zvol as the buffer-vdev. HTH, Patrick ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org

[zfs-discuss] Re: optimal zpool layout?

2007-01-14 Thread Patrick P Korsnick
thanks all for the feedback! i definitely learned a lot-- storage isn't anywhere near my field of expertise, so it's great to get some real examples to go with all the buzzwords you hear around the watercooler. ;) i'll probably give one of the raid-z or mirroring setups suggested a try when i

[zfs-discuss] optimal zpool layout?

2007-01-12 Thread Patrick P Korsnick
hi, i just set up snv_54 on an old p4 celeron system and even tho the processor is crap, it's got 3 7200RPM HDs: 1 80GB and 2 40GBs. so i'm wondering if there is an optimal way to lay out the ZFS pool(s) to make this old girl as fast as possible as it stands now i've got the following

[zfs-discuss] ZFS on a damaged disk

2006-12-12 Thread Patrick P Korsnick
i have a machine with a disk that has some sort of defect and i've found that if i partition only half of the disk that the machine will still work. i tried to use 'format' to scan the disk and find the bad blocks, but it didn't work. so as i don't know where the bad blocks are but i'd still

Re: [zfs-discuss] 'legacy' vs 'none'

2006-11-28 Thread Terence Patrick Donoghue
Is there a difference - Yep, 'legacy' tells ZFS to refer to the /etc/vfstab file for FS mounts and options whereas 'none' tells ZFS not to mount the ZFS filesystem at all. Then you would need to manually mount the ZFS using 'zfs set mountpoint=/mountpoint poolname/fsname' to get it mounted.

[zfs-discuss] best dual HD install-- RAID vs ZFS?

2006-10-11 Thread Patrick
i'm replacing the stock HD in my vaio notebook with 2 100GB 7200 RPM hitachi-- yes it can hold 2 HDs. ;) i was thinking about doing some sort of striping setup to get even more performance, but i am hardly a storage expert, so i'm not sure if it is better to set them up to do sofware RAID or

[zfs-discuss] Fastest way to send 100gb ( with ZFS send )

2006-09-29 Thread Patrick
somthing. ( it's a gbe cross over from one v20z, to another ) I'm getting the figures from the zfs list i'm doing on the destination... so, is there a faster way ? am i missing somthing ? Patrick -- Patrick patrick at eefy dot net

[zfs-discuss] Snapshotting a pool ?

2006-09-29 Thread Patrick
Hi, Is it possible to create a snapshot, for ZFS send purposes, of an entire pool ? Patrick -- Patrick patrick at eefy dot net ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http

Re: [zfs-discuss] Snapshotting a pool ?

2006-09-29 Thread Patrick
Hey, Would 'zfs snapshot -r poolname' achieve what you want? I suppose, the idea, would... but alas : [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/# zfs snapshot -r [EMAIL PROTECTED] invalid option 'r' usage: snapshot [EMAIL PROTECTED]|[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/# ( solaris 06/06, with all patchen

Re: [zfs-discuss] Snapshotting a pool ?

2006-09-29 Thread Patrick
Hey, You'll need to use one of the OpenSolaris/ZFS community releases to use the snapshot -r option, starting at build 43. Bugger, Anyone have an idea if it'll be patched into 06/06, or would it be a future release plan/plot/idea/etc... P ___

[zfs-discuss] Automounting ? (idea ?)

2006-09-27 Thread Patrick
, becomes a pain. So ... how about an automounter? Is this even possible? Does it exist ? Helll!! Patrick -- Patrick patrick at eefy dot net ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http

Re: [zfs-discuss] Automounting ? (idea ?)

2006-09-27 Thread Patrick
Hi, *sigh*, one of the issues we recognized, when we introduced the new cheap/fast file system creation, was that this new model would stress the scalability (or lack thereof) of other parts of the operating system. This is a prime example. I think the notion of an automount option for zfs

Re: [zfs-discuss] Automounting ? (idea ?)

2006-09-27 Thread Patrick
as i remember, ZFS snapshot/send/etc... access the device, not the filesystem. P -- Patrick patrick at eefy dot net ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman

[zfs-discuss] ZFS and very large directories

2006-08-24 Thread Patrick Narkinsky
. Are there any issues I should be aware of with this sort of installation? Thanks for any advice or input! Patrick Narkinsky Sr. System Engineer EDS This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http

[zfs-discuss] Re: [xen-discuss] dom0 hangs when using an emulated ZFS volume

2006-08-09 Thread Patrick Petit
John Danielson wrote: . Patrick Petit wrote: David Edmondson wrote: On 4 Aug 2006, at 1:22pm, Patrick Petit wrote: When you're talking to Xen (using three control-A's) you should hit 'q', which

[zfs-discuss] Re: [xen-discuss] dom0 hangs when using an emulated ZFS volume

2006-08-04 Thread Patrick Petit
Darren J Moffat wrote: Richard Lowe wrote: Patrick Petit wrote: Hi, Some additional elements. Irrespective of the SCSI error reported earlier, I have established that Solaris dom0 hangs anyway when a domU is booted from a disk image located on an emulated ZFS volume. Has this been also

Re: [zfs-discuss] System hangs on SCSI error

2006-08-03 Thread Patrick Petit
Darren Reed wrote: Patrick Petit wrote: Hi, Using a ZFS emulated volume, I wasn't expecting to see a system [1] hang caused by a SCSI error. What do you think? The error is not systematic. When it happens, the Solaris/Xen dom0 console keeps displaying the following message and the system

[zfs-discuss] dom0 hangs when using an emulated ZFS volume

2006-08-03 Thread Patrick Petit
explanation to this problem? What would be the troubleshooting steps? Thanks Patrick ___ xen-discuss mailing list xen-discuss@opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http

[zfs-discuss] can't import zpool now that drive is in an external USB enclosure

2006-07-30 Thread Patrick
hi all, i recently replaced the drive in my ferrari 4000 with a 7200rpm drive and i put the original drive in a silvestone USB enclosure. when i plug it vold puts the icon on the desktop and i can see the root UFS filesystem, but i can't import the zpool that held all my user data. ;( i

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: Poor performance on NFS-exported ZFS volumes

2006-07-28 Thread Patrick Bachmann
Hey Frank, Frank Cusack wrote: Patrick Bachmann: IMHO it is sufficient to just document this best-practice. I disagree. The documentation has to AT LEAST state that more than 9 disks gives poor performance. I did read that raidz should use 3-9 disks in the docs but it doesn't say WHY, so

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS needs a viable backup mechanism

2006-07-07 Thread Patrick
Hi, Note though that neither of them will backup the ZFS properties, but even zfs send/recv doesn't do that either. From a previous post, i remember someone saying that was being added, or at least being suggested. Patrick ___ zfs-discuss mailing

[zfs-discuss] ZFS + NFS perfromance ?

2006-06-27 Thread Patrick
Hi, I've just started using ZFS + NFS, and i was wondering if there is anything i can do to optimise it for being used as a mailstore ? ( small files, lots of them, with lots of directory's and high concurrent access ) So any ideas guys? P ___

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS + NFS perfromance ?

2006-06-27 Thread Patrick
Hi, sounds like your workload is very similar to mine. is all public access via NFS? Well it's not 'public directly', courier-imap/pop3/postfix/etc... but the maildirs are accessed directly by some programs for certain things. for small file workloads, setting recordsize to a value lower

[zfs-discuss] ZFS + NFS, confused...

2006-06-15 Thread Patrick
install with generic_limited_net.xml run, and dtlogin -d Ideas ? Patrick ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss