[zfs-discuss] nfs issues

2010-10-08 Thread Thomas Burgess
I'm having some very strange nfs issues that are driving me somewhat mad. I'm running b134 and have been for months now, without issue. Recently i enabled 2 services to get bonjoir notificatons working in osx /network/dns/multicast:default /system/avahi-bridge-dsd:default and i added a few

Re: [zfs-discuss] dedup and handling corruptions - impossible?

2010-08-22 Thread Thomas Burgess
You are saying ZFS will detect and rectify this kind of corruption in a deduped pool automatically if enough redundancy is present? Can that fail sometimes? Under what conditions? I would hate to restore a 1.5TB pool from backup just because one 5MB file is gone bust. And I have a known good

Re: [zfs-discuss] Upgrade Nevada Kernel

2010-08-21 Thread Thomas Burgess
you can upgrade by changing to the dev repositoryor if you don't mind re-installing you can download the b134 image at genunix http://www.genunix.org/ On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 1:25 AM, Long Tran opensolaris.stor...@gmail.comwrote: Hi, I hit ZFS bug that it would be resolve in latter snv

Re: [zfs-discuss] Halcyon ZFS and system monitoring software for OpenSolaris (beta)

2010-08-20 Thread Thomas Burgess
On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 4:33 PM, Mike Kirk mike.k...@halcyoninc.com wrote: Hi all, Halcyon recently started to add ZFS pool stats to our Solaris Agent, and because many people were interested in the previous OpenSolaris beta* we've rolled it into our OpenSolaris build as well. I've already

Re: [zfs-discuss] make df have accurate out upon zfs?

2010-08-20 Thread Thomas Burgess
df serves a purpose though. There are other commands which output that information.. On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 3:01 PM, Fred Liu fred_...@issi.com wrote: Not sure if there was similar threads in this list before. Three scenarios: 1): df cannot count snapshot space in a file system with quota

Re: [zfs-discuss] make df have accurate out upon zfs?

2010-08-20 Thread Thomas Burgess
can't the zfs command provide that information? 2010/8/20 Fred Liu fred_...@issi.com Can you shed more lights on **other commands** which output that information? Appreciations. Fred *From:* Thomas Burgess [mailto:wonsl...@gmail.com] *Sent:* 星期五, 八月 20, 2010 17:34 *To:* Fred Liu

Re: [zfs-discuss] make df have accurate out upon zfs?

2010-08-20 Thread Thomas Burgess
as for the difference between the two df's, one is the gnu df (liek you'd have on linux) and the other is the solaris df. 2010/8/20 Thomas Burgess wonsl...@gmail.com can't the zfs command provide that information? 2010/8/20 Fred Liu fred_...@issi.com Can you shed more lights on **other

Re: [zfs-discuss] make df have accurate out upon zfs?

2010-08-20 Thread Thomas Burgess
default cn03/3 mlslabel none default cn03/3 com.sun:auto-snapshot true inherited from cn03 Thanks. Fred *From:* Thomas Burgess [mailto:wonsl...@gmail.com] *Sent:* 星期五, 八月 20, 2010 18:44 *To:* Fred Liu *Cc:* ZFS Discuss *Subject

[zfs-discuss] lots of errors in logs?

2010-08-20 Thread Thomas Burgess
I've been running opensolaris for months, and today while poking around, i noticed a ton of errors in my logs...I'm wondering what they mean and if it's anything to worry about I've found a few things on google but not a whole lotanyways, heres a pastie of the log http://pastie.org/1104916

Re: [zfs-discuss] Opensolaris is apparently dead

2010-08-16 Thread Thomas Burgess
On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 11:17 PM, Frank Cusack frank+lists/z...@linetwo.netwrote: On 8/16/10 9:57 AM -0400 Ross Walker wrote: No, the only real issue is the license and I highly doubt Oracle will re-release ZFS under GPL to dilute it's competitive advantage. You're saying Oracle wants to

Re: [zfs-discuss] Raidz - what is stored in parity?

2010-08-11 Thread Thomas Burgess
On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 12:57 AM, Peter Taps ptr...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi Eric, Thank you for your help. At least one part is clear now. I still am confused about how the system is still functional after one disk fails. Consider my earlier example of 3 disks zpool configured for raidz-1. To

Re: [zfs-discuss] Best usage of SSD-disk in ZFS system

2010-08-06 Thread Thomas Burgess
On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 6:44 AM, P-O Yliniemi p...@bsd-guide.net wrote: Hello! I have built a OpenSolaris / ZFS based storage system for one of our customers. The configuration is about this: Motherboard/CPU: SuperMicro X7SBE / Xeon (something, sorry - can't remember and do not have my

Re: [zfs-discuss] Confused about consumer drives and zfs can someone help?

2010-07-23 Thread Thomas Burgess
I've found the Seagate 7200.12 1tb drives and Hitachi 7k2000 2TB drives to be by far the best. I've read lots of horror stories about any WD drive with 4k sectorsit'sbest to stay away from them. I've also read plenty of people say that the green drives are terrible.

Re: [zfs-discuss] L2ARC and ZIL on same SSD?

2010-07-23 Thread Thomas Burgess
On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 12:42 PM, Orvar Korvar knatte_fnatte_tja...@yahoo.com wrote: Are there any drawbacks to partition a SSD in two parts and use L2ARC on one partition, and ZIL on the other? Any thoughts? -- This message posted from opensolaris.org

Re: [zfs-discuss] NFS performance?

2010-07-23 Thread Thomas Burgess
On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 3:11 AM, Sigbjorn Lie sigbj...@nixtra.com wrote: Hi, I've been searching around on the Internet to fine some help with this, but have been unsuccessfull so far. I have some performance issues with my file server. I have an OpenSolaris server with a Pentium D 3GHz

Re: [zfs-discuss] NFS performance?

2010-07-23 Thread Thomas Burgess
On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 5:00 AM, Sigbjorn Lie sigbj...@nixtra.com wrote: I see I have already received several replies, thanks to all! I would not like to risk losing any data, so I believe a ZIL device would be the way for me. I see these exists in different prices. Any reason why I would

Re: [zfs-discuss] OCZ Vertex 2 Pro performance numbers

2010-06-25 Thread Thomas Burgess
Conclusion: This device will make an excellent slog device. I'll order them today ;) I have one and i love it...I sliced it though, used 9 gb for ZIL and the rest for L2ARC (my server is on a smallish network with about 10 clients) It made a huge difference in NFS performance and other

Re: [zfs-discuss] Erratic behavior on 24T zpool

2010-06-18 Thread Thomas Burgess
On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 4:42 AM, Pasi Kärkkäinen pa...@iki.fi wrote: On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 01:26:11AM -0700, artiepen wrote: Well, I've searched my brains out and I can't seem to find a reason for this. I'm getting bad to medium performance with my new test storage device. I've got 24

Re: [zfs-discuss] Erratic behavior on 24T zpool

2010-06-18 Thread Thomas Burgess
On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 6:34 AM, Curtis E. Combs Jr. ceco...@uga.eduwrote: Oh! Yes. dedup. not compression, but dedup, yes. dedup may be your problem...it requires some heavy ram and/or decent L2ARC from what i've been reading. ___ zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Pool is wrong size in b134

2010-06-17 Thread Thomas Burgess
Also, the disks were replaced one at a time last year from 73GB to 300GB to increase the size of the pool. Any idea why the pool is showing up as the wrong size in b134 and have anything else to try? I don't want to upgrade the pool version yet and then not be able to revert back...

Re: [zfs-discuss] size of slog device

2010-06-14 Thread Thomas Burgess
On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 4:41 AM, Arne Jansen sensi...@gmx.net wrote: Hi, I known it's been discussed here more than once, and I read the Evil tuning guide, but I didn't find a definitive statement: There is absolutely no sense in having slog devices larger than then main memory, because it

Re: [zfs-discuss] Reconfiguring a RAID-Z dataset

2010-06-12 Thread Thomas Burgess
Yeah, this is what I was thinking too... Is there anyway to retain snapshot data this way? I've read about the ZFS replay/mirror features, but my impression was that this was more so for a development mirror for testing rather than a reliable backup? This is the only way I know of that

Re: [zfs-discuss] Reconfiguring a RAID-Z dataset

2010-06-12 Thread Thomas Burgess
On Sun, Jun 13, 2010 at 12:18 AM, Joe Auty j...@netmusician.org wrote: Thomas Burgess wrote: Yeah, this is what I was thinking too... Is there anyway to retain snapshot data this way? I've read about the ZFS replay/mirror features, but my impression was that this was more so

Re: [zfs-discuss] Ideal SATA/SAS Controllers for ZFS

2010-05-26 Thread Thomas Burgess
On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 5:47 PM, Brandon High bh...@freaks.com wrote: On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 4:01 AM, Marc Bevand m.bev...@gmail.com wrote: I have done quite some research over the past few years on the best (ie. simple, robust, inexpensive, and performant) SATA/SAS controllers for ZFS.

Re: [zfs-discuss] Ideal SATA/SAS Controllers for ZFS

2010-05-26 Thread Thomas Burgess
I thought it didI couldn't imagine sun using that chip in the original thumper if it didn't suppoer NCQalso, i've read where people have had to DISABLE ncq on this driver to fix one bug or another (as a work around) On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 8:40 PM, Marty Faltesek

[zfs-discuss] question about zpool iostat output

2010-05-25 Thread Thomas Burgess
I was just wondering: I added a SLOG/ZIL to my new system today...i noticed that the L2ARC shows up under it's own headingbut the SLOG/ZIL doesn'tis this correct? see: capacity operationsbandwidth poolalloc free read write read write --

Re: [zfs-discuss] USB Flashdrive as SLOG?

2010-05-25 Thread Thomas Burgess
The last couple times i've read this questions, people normally responded with: It depends you might not even NEED a slog, there is a script floating around which can help determine that... If you could benefit from one, it's going to be IOPS which help youso if the usb drive has more

Re: [zfs-discuss] question about zpool iostat output

2010-05-25 Thread Thomas Burgess
which Solaris release you are running and I will file a bug. Thanks, Cindy On 05/25/10 01:42, Thomas Burgess wrote: I was just wondering: I added a SLOG/ZIL to my new system today...i noticed that the L2ARC shows up under it's own headingbut the SLOG/ZIL doesn'tis this correct

Re: [zfs-discuss] questions about zil

2010-05-25 Thread Thomas Burgess
On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 11:27 AM, Edward Ned Harvey solar...@nedharvey.comwrote: From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Nicolas Williams I recently got a new SSD (ocz vertex LE 50gb) It seems to work really well as a ZIL

Re: [zfs-discuss] questions about zil

2010-05-25 Thread Thomas Burgess
At least to me, this was not clearly not asking about losing zil and was not clearly asking about power loss. Sorry for answering the question you thought you didn't ask. I was only responding to your response of WRONG!!! The guy wasn't wrong in regards to my questions. I'm sorry for

Re: [zfs-discuss] questions about zil

2010-05-25 Thread Thomas Burgess
On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 12:38 PM, Bob Friesenhahn bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us wrote: On Mon, 24 May 2010, Thomas Burgess wrote: It's a sandforce sf-1500 model but without a supercapheres some info on it: Maximum Performance * Max Read: up to 270MB/s * Max Write: up to 250MB/s

Re: [zfs-discuss] questions about zil

2010-05-25 Thread Thomas Burgess
Also, let me note, it came with a 3 year warranty so I expect it to last at least 3 years...but if it doesn't, i'll just return it under the warranty. On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 1:26 PM, Thomas Burgess wonsl...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 12:38 PM, Bob Friesenhahn bfrie

[zfs-discuss] questions about zil

2010-05-24 Thread Thomas Burgess
I recently got a new SSD (ocz vertex LE 50gb) It seems to work really well as a ZIL performance wise. My question is, how safe is it? I know it doesn't have a supercap so lets' say dataloss occursis it just dataloss or is it pool loss? also, does the fact that i have a UPS matter? the

Re: [zfs-discuss] questions about zil

2010-05-24 Thread Thomas Burgess
ZFS is always consistent on-disk, by design. Loss of the ZIL will result in loss of the data in the ZIL which hasn't been flushed out to the hard drives, but otherwise, the data on the hard drives is consistent and uncorrupted. This is what i thought. I have read this list on and off

Re: [zfs-discuss] questions about zil

2010-05-24 Thread Thomas Burgess
Not familiar with that model It's a sandforce sf-1500 model but without a supercapheres some info on it: Maximum Performance - Max Read: up to 270MB/s - Max Write: up to 250MB/s - Sustained Write: up to 235MB/s - Random Write 4k: 15,000 IOPS - Max 4k IOPS: 50,000

Re: [zfs-discuss] New SSD options

2010-05-24 Thread Thomas Burgess
From earlier in the thread, it sounds like none of the SF-1500 based drives even have a supercap, so it doesn't seem that they'd necessarily be a better choice than the SLC-based X-25E at this point unless you need more write IOPS... Ray I think the upcoming OCZ Vertex 2 Pro will have a

[zfs-discuss] confused

2010-05-23 Thread Thomas Burgess
did this come out? http://cr.opensolaris.org/~gman/opensolaris-whats-new-2010-05/ i was googling trying to find info about the next release and ran across this Does this mean it's actually about to come out before the end of the month or is this something else?

Re: [zfs-discuss] confused

2010-05-23 Thread Thomas Burgess
never mindjust found more info on this...shoudl have held back from asking On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 1:26 AM, Thomas Burgess wonsl...@gmail.com wrote: did this come out? http://cr.opensolaris.org/~gman/opensolaris-whats-new-2010-05/ i was googling trying to find info about the next

Re: [zfs-discuss] Opteron 6100? Does it work with opensolaris?

2010-05-22 Thread Thomas Burgess
. If you don't, there's nothing you can do. It probably taking a while to restart because the sends that were interrupted need to be rolled back. Sent from my Nexus One. On May 21, 2010 9:44 PM, Thomas Burgess wonsl...@gmail.com wrote: I can't tell you for sure For some reason the server

Re: [zfs-discuss] HDD Serial numbers for ZFS

2010-05-22 Thread Thomas Burgess
install smartmontools There is no package for it but it's EASY to install once you do, you can get ouput like this: pfexec /usr/local/sbin/smartctl -d sat,12 -a /dev/rdsk/c5t0d0 smartctl 5.39.1 2010-01-28 r3054 [i386-pc-solaris2.11] (local build) Copyright (C) 2002-10 by Bruce Allen,

Re: [zfs-discuss] HDD Serial numbers for ZFS

2010-05-22 Thread Thomas Burgess
i don't think there is but it's dirt simple to install. I followed the instructions here: http://cafenate.wordpress.com/2009/02/22/setting-up-smartmontools-on-opensolaris/ On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 3:19 AM, Andreas Iannou andreas_wants_the_w...@hotmail.com wrote: Thanks Thomas, I thought

Re: [zfs-discuss] Opteron 6100? Does it work with opensolaris?

2010-05-22 Thread Thomas Burgess
:22 PM, Thomas Burgess wonsl...@gmail.com wrote: yah, it seems that rsync is faster for what i need anywaysat least right now... If you don't have snapshots you want to keep in the new copy, then probably... -B -- Brandon High : bh...@freaks.com

Re: [zfs-discuss] Understanding ZFS performance.

2010-05-22 Thread Thomas Burgess
If you install Opensolaris with the AHCI settings off, then switch them on, it will fail to boot I had to reinstall with the settings correct. the best way to tell if ahci is working is to use cfgadm if you see your drives there, ahci is on if not, then you may need to reinstall with it on

Re: [zfs-discuss] Understanding ZFS performance.

2010-05-22 Thread Thomas Burgess
just to make sure i understand what is going on here, you have a rpool which is having performance issues, and you discovered ahci was disabled? you enabled it, and now it won't boot. correct? This happened to me and the solution was to export my storage pool and reinstall my rpool with the

Re: [zfs-discuss] Understanding ZFS performance.

2010-05-22 Thread Thomas Burgess
it was basically an ide emulation mode for sata, long story short i ended up with opensolaris installed in IDE mode. I had to reinstall. I tried the livecd/import method and it still failed to boot. On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 5:30 PM, Ian Collins i...@ianshome.com wrote: On 05/23/10 08:52 AM, Thomas

Re: [zfs-discuss] Understanding ZFS performance.

2010-05-22 Thread Thomas Burgess
this old thread has info on how to switch from ide-sata mode http://opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?messageID=448758#448758 On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 5:32 PM, Ian Collins i...@ianshome.com wrote: On 05/23/10 08:43 AM, Brian wrote: Is there a way within opensolaris to detect if AHCI is

Re: [zfs-discuss] Understanding ZFS performance.

2010-05-22 Thread Thomas Burgess
GREAT, glad it worked for you! On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 7:39 PM, Brian broco...@vt.edu wrote: Ok. What worked for me was booting with the live CD and doing: pfexec zpool import -f rpool reboot After that I was able to boot with AHCI enabled. The performance issues I was seeing are now

[zfs-discuss] snapshots send/recv

2010-05-22 Thread Thomas Burgess
I'm confusedI have a filesystem on server 1 called tank/nas/dump I made a snapshot called first zfs snapshot tank/nas/d...@first then i did a zfs send/recv like: zfs send tank/nas/d...@first | ssh wonsl...@192.168.1.xx /bin/pfexec /usr/sbin/zfs recv tank/nas/dump this worked fine, next

Re: [zfs-discuss] snapshots send/recv

2010-05-22 Thread Thomas Burgess
On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 9:26 PM, Ian Collins i...@ianshome.com wrote: On 05/23/10 01:18 PM, Thomas Burgess wrote: this worked fine, next today, i wanted to send what has changed i did zfs snapshot tank/nas/d...@second now, heres where i'm confusedfrom reading the man page i

Re: [zfs-discuss] snapshots send/recv

2010-05-22 Thread Thomas Burgess
ok, so forcing just basically makes it drop whatever changes were made Thats what i was wondering...this is what i expected On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 12:05 AM, Ian Collins i...@ianshome.com wrote: On 05/23/10 03:56 PM, Thomas Burgess wrote: let me ask a question though. Lets say i have

Re: [zfs-discuss] send/recv over ssh

2010-05-21 Thread Thomas Burgess
I seem to be getting decent speed with arcfour (this was what i was using to begin with) Thanks for all the helpthis honestly was just me being stupid...looking back on yesterday, i can't even remember what i was doing wrong nowi was REALLY tired when i asked this question. On Fri, May

Re: [zfs-discuss] Opteron 6100? Does it work with opensolaris?

2010-05-21 Thread Thomas Burgess
supported_frequencies_Hz 8:10:12:15:20 supported_max_cstates 0 vendor_id AuthenticAMD On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 5:55 PM, Dennis Clarke dcla...@blastwave.orgwrote: On 05-17-10, Thomas Burgess wonsl

Re: [zfs-discuss] Opteron 6100? Does it work with opensolaris?

2010-05-21 Thread Thomas Burgess
Something i've been meaning to ask I'm transfering some data from my older server to my newer one. the older server has a socket 775 intel Q9550 8 gb ddr2 800 20 1TB drives in raidz2 (3 vdevs, 2 with 7 drives one with 6) connected to 3 AOC-SAT2-MV8 cards spread as evenly across them as i

Re: [zfs-discuss] Opteron 6100? Does it work with opensolaris?

2010-05-21 Thread Thomas Burgess
is 3 zfs recv's random? On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 10:03 PM, Brandon High bh...@freaks.com wrote: On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 5:54 PM, Thomas Burgess wonsl...@gmail.com wrote: shouldn't the newer server have LESS load? Please forgive my ubernoobness. Depends on what it's doing! Load average

Re: [zfs-discuss] Opteron 6100? Does it work with opensolaris?

2010-05-21 Thread Thomas Burgess
wider stripes instead of 3 i'd gain another TB or twofor my use i don't think that would be a horrible thing. On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 10:03 PM, Brandon High bh...@freaks.com wrote: On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 5:54 PM, Thomas Burgess wonsl...@gmail.com wrote: shouldn't the newer server have

Re: [zfs-discuss] Opteron 6100? Does it work with opensolaris?

2010-05-21 Thread Thomas Burgess
up? it's stuck on Reading ZFS config and there is a FLURRY of hard drive lights blinking (all 10 in sync ) On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 12:26 AM, Brandon High bh...@freaks.com wrote: On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 7:57 PM, Thomas Burgess wonsl...@gmail.com wrote: is 3 zfs recv's random? It might

Re: [zfs-discuss] Opteron 6100? Does it work with opensolaris?

2010-05-21 Thread Thomas Burgess
yah, it seems that rsync is faster for what i need anywaysat least right now... On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 1:07 AM, Ian Collins i...@ianshome.com wrote: On 05/22/10 04:44 PM, Thomas Burgess wrote: I can't tell you for sure For some reason the server lost power and it's taking forever

Re: [zfs-discuss] Opteron 6100? Does it work with opensolaris?

2010-05-21 Thread Thomas Burgess
3.14.2 6 13 c6t6d0 0.9 201.9 34.2 25338.0 3.8 0.5 18.92.6 51 52 c8t5d0 0.00.00.00.0 0.0 0.00.00.0 0 0 c4t7d0 On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 12:26 AM, Brandon High bh...@freaks.com wrote: On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 7:57 PM, Thomas Burgess wonsl

Re: [zfs-discuss] Opteron 6100? Does it work with opensolaris?

2010-05-21 Thread Thomas Burgess
well it wasn't. it was running pretty slow. i had one really big filesystemwith rsync i'm able to do multiple streams and it's moving much faster On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 1:45 AM, Ian Collins i...@ianshome.com wrote: On 05/22/10 05:22 PM, Thomas Burgess wrote: yah, it seems that rsync

[zfs-discuss] send/recv over ssh

2010-05-20 Thread Thomas Burgess
I know i'm probably doing something REALLY stupid.but for some reason i can't get send/recv to work over ssh. I just built a new media server and i'd like to move a few filesystem from my old server to my new server but for some reason i keep getting strange errors... At first i'd see

Re: [zfs-discuss] send/recv over ssh

2010-05-20 Thread Thomas Burgess
also, i forgot to say: one server is b133, the new one is b134 On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 4:23 PM, Thomas Burgess wonsl...@gmail.com wrote: I know i'm probably doing something REALLY stupid.but for some reason i can't get send/recv to work over ssh. I just built a new media server

Re: [zfs-discuss] Pool revcovery from replaced disks.

2010-05-18 Thread Thomas Burgess
wow, that's a truly excelent question. If you COULD do it, it might work with a simple import but i have no idea...i'd love to know myself. On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 7:06 AM, Demian Phillips demianphill...@gmail.comwrote: Is it possible to recover a pool (as it was) from a set of disks that

Re: [zfs-discuss] Ideal SATA/SAS Controllers for ZFS

2010-05-18 Thread Thomas Burgess
A really great alternative to the UIO cards for those who don't want the headache of modifying the brackets or cases is the Intel SASUC8I * * * * *This is a rebranded LSI SAS3081E-R* * * *It can be flashed with the LSI IT firmware from the LSI website and is physically identical to the LSI card.

Re: [zfs-discuss] Opteron 6100? Does it work with opensolaris?

2010-05-17 Thread Thomas Burgess
it should show at the bottom) I'll capture all that later and post it. On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 8:35 PM, Dennis Clarke dcla...@blastwave.orgwrote: - Original Message - From: Thomas Burgess wonsl...@gmail.com Date: Saturday, May 15, 2010 8:09 pm Subject: Re: [zfs-discuss] Opteron 6100

Re: [zfs-discuss] Opteron 6100? Does it work with opensolaris?

2010-05-17 Thread Thomas Burgess
: - Original Message - From: Thomas Burgess wonsl...@gmail.com Date: Saturday, May 15, 2010 8:09 pm Subject: Re: [zfs-discuss] Opteron 6100? Does it work with opensolaris? To: Orvar Korvar knatte_fnatte_tja...@yahoo.com Cc: zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org Well i just wanted to let everyone know

Re: [zfs-discuss] Opteron 6100? Does it work with opensolaris?

2010-05-17 Thread Thomas Burgess
needed it in order to use both sata and idei think now it's something else. I'm going to try to boot without it on, if it doesn't work, i'll try to reinstall with it disabled. On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 8:18 PM, Ian Collins i...@ianshome.com wrote: On 05/17/10 12:08 PM, Thomas Burgess wrote

Re: [zfs-discuss] Opteron 6100? Does it work with opensolaris?

2010-05-17 Thread Thomas Burgess
...@freaks.com wrote: On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 12:51 PM, Thomas Burgess wonsl...@gmail.com wrote: In the bios i can select from: Native IDE AMD_AHCI This is probably what you want. AHCI is supposed to be chipset agnostic. I also have an option called Sate IDE combined mode See

Re: [zfs-discuss] Strategies for expanding storage area of home storage-server

2010-05-17 Thread Thomas Burgess
I'd have to agree. Option 2 is probably the best. I recently found myself in need of more space...i had to build an entirely new server...my first one was close to full (it has 20 1TB drives in 3 raidz2 groups 7/7/6 and i was down to 3 TB) I ended up going with a whole new serverwith 2TB

Re: [zfs-discuss] Opteron 6100? Does it work with opensolaris?

2010-05-16 Thread Thomas Burgess
well, i haven't had a lot of time to work with this...but i'm having trouble getting the onboard sata to work in anything but NATIVE IDE mode. I'm not sure exactly what the problem isi'm wondering if i bought the wrong cable (i have a norco 4220 case so the drives connect via a sas sff-8087

Re: [zfs-discuss] Opteron 6100? Does it work with opensolaris?

2010-05-15 Thread Thomas Burgess
, this happened on other machines as well. On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 9:56 AM, Thomas Burgess wonsl...@gmail.com wrote: I ordered it. It should be here monday or tuesday. When i get everything built and installed, i'll report back. I'm very excited. I am not expecting problems now that i've talked

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS home server (Brandon High)

2010-05-15 Thread Thomas Burgess
The Intel SASUC8I Is a pretty good deal. around 150 dollars for 8 sas/sata channels. This card is identical to the LSI SAS3081E-R for a lot less money. It doesn't come with cables, but this leaves you free to buy the type you need (in my case, i needed SFF-8087 - SFF-8087 cables, some people

Re: [zfs-discuss] Opteron 6100? Does it work with opensolaris?

2010-05-13 Thread Thomas Burgess
I ordered it. It should be here monday or tuesday. When i get everything built and installed, i'll report back. I'm very excited. I am not expecting problems now that i've talked to supermicro about it. Solaris 10 runs for them so i would imagine opensolaris should be fine too. On Thu, May

Re: [zfs-discuss] Opteron 6100? Does it work with opensolaris?

2010-05-12 Thread Thomas Burgess
This is how i understand it. I know the network cards are well supported and i know my storage cards are supportedthe onboard sata may work and it may not. If it does, great, i'll use it for booting, if not, this board has 2 onboard bootable USB sticksluckily usb seems to work regardless

Re: [zfs-discuss] Opteron 6100? Does it work with opensolaris?

2010-05-12 Thread Thomas Burgess
Now wait just a minute. You're casting aspersions on stuff here without saying what you're talking about, still less where you're getting your info from. Be specific - put up, or shut up. I think he was just trying to tell me that my cpu should be fine, that the only thing which i might

Re: [zfs-discuss] Opteron 6100? Does it work with opensolaris?

2010-05-11 Thread Thomas Burgess
the onboard sata is a secondary issue. If i need to, i'll boot from the oboard usb slots. I have 2 LSI 1068e based sas controllers which i will be using. On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 8:40 PM, James C. McPherson j...@opensolaris.orgwrote: On 12/05/10 10:32 AM, Michael DeMan wrote: I agree on the

Re: [zfs-discuss] Opteron 6100? Does it work with opensolaris?

2010-05-11 Thread Thomas Burgess
Well i went ahead and ordered the board. I will report back soon with the results..i'm pretty excited. These CPU's seem great on paper. On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 9:02 PM, Thomas Burgess wonsl...@gmail.com wrote: the onboard sata is a secondary issue. If i need to, i'll boot from the oboard

[zfs-discuss] asus pike slot

2010-05-08 Thread Thomas Burgess
I was wondering if anyone had any first hand knowledge of compatibility with any asus pike slot expansion cards and OpenSolaris. I would guess this should work: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816110042 because it's based on lsi 1068e but i'm currious if anyone knows for

Re: [zfs-discuss] When to Scrub..... ZFS That Is

2010-03-13 Thread Thomas Burgess
I scrub once a week. I think the general rule is: once a week for consumer grade drives once a month for enterprise grade drives. On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 3:29 PM, Tony MacDoodle tpsdoo...@gmail.com wrote: When would it be necessary to scrub a ZFS filesystem? We have many rpool, datapool,

Re: [zfs-discuss] Hardware for high-end ZFS NAS file server - 2010 March edition

2010-03-04 Thread Thomas Burgess
On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 4:46 AM, Dan Dascalescu bigbang7+opensola...@gmail.com bigbang7%2bopensola...@gmail.com wrote: Please recommend your up-to-date high-end hardware components for building a highly fault-tolerant ZFS NAS file server. I've seen various hardware lists online (and I've

Re: [zfs-discuss] Non-redundant zpool behavior?

2010-03-04 Thread Thomas Burgess
no, if you don't use redundancy, each disk you add makes the pool that much more likely to fair. This is the entire point of raidz . ZFS stripes data across all vdevs. On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 12:32 PM, Travis Tabbal tra...@tabbal.net wrote: I have a small stack of disks that I was considering

Re: [zfs-discuss] Hardware for high-end ZFS NAS file server - 2010 March edition

2010-03-04 Thread Thomas Burgess
gigabit ethernet cables. It's very nice. On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 3:03 PM, Michael Shadle mike...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 4:12 AM, Thomas Burgess wonsl...@gmail.com wrote: I got a norco 4020 (the 4220 is good too) Both of those cost around 300-350 dolars. That is a 4u case

Re: [zfs-discuss] Hardware for high-end ZFS NAS file server - 2010 March edition

2010-03-04 Thread Thomas Burgess
. On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 3:27 PM, Michael Shadle mike...@gmail.com wrote: If I had a decently ventilated closet or space to do it in I wouldn't mind noise, but I don't, that's why I had to build my storage machines the way I did. On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 12:23 PM, Thomas Burgess wonsl

Re: [zfs-discuss] What's the advantage of using multiple filesystems in a pool

2010-03-01 Thread Thomas Burgess
Also consider that you might not want to snapshot the entire pool. For instance, if you have a media server, you may have a dump dir and a torrent dir, you probably wouldn 't want to snapshot this because it changes a lot and the snapshots could grow very large (or you may wish to snapshot it but

Re: [zfs-discuss] [indiana-discuss] future of OpenSolaris

2010-03-01 Thread Thomas Burgess
There may be some things we choose not to open source going forward, similar to how MySQL manages certain value-add[s] at the top of the stack, Roberts said. It's important to understand the plan now is to deliver value again out of our IP investment, while at the same time measuring that with

Re: [zfs-discuss] What's the advantage of using multiple filesystems in a pool

2010-03-01 Thread Thomas Burgess
On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 12:44 PM, Richard Elling richard.ell...@gmail.comwrote: On Mar 1, 2010, at 7:42 AM, Thomas Burgess wrote: Also consider that you might not want to snapshot the entire pool. Snapshots work on the dataset, not the pool (there is no zpool snapshot command

Re: [zfs-discuss] Consolidating a huge stack of DVDs using ZFS dedup: automation?

2010-03-01 Thread Thomas Burgess
On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 11:48 PM, valrh...@gmail.com valrh...@gmail.comwrote: One of the most useful things I've found with ZFS dedup (way to go Jeff Bonwick and Co.!) is the ability to consolidate backups. I had six different complete backups of all of my files spread out over various hard

Re: [zfs-discuss] upgrading ZFS tools in opensolaris.com

2010-02-26 Thread Thomas Burgess
you can use one of the livecd's from genunix. On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 3:36 AM, Laurence laure...@mangafish.net wrote: I'm probably getting this all wrong, but basically OpenSolaris 2009.6 (which is the latest ISO available iirc) ships with snv 111b. My problem is I have a borked zpool and

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Storage system with 72 GB memory constantly has 11 GB free memory

2010-02-26 Thread Thomas Burgess
i thouhgt it was designed to use 2/3's of the available memory On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 8:46 AM, Ronny Egner ronnyeg...@gmx.de wrote: Dear All, our storage system running opensolaris b133 + ZFS has a lot of memory for caching. 72 GB total. While testing we observed free memory never falls

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Storage system with 72 GB memory constantly has 11 GB free memory

2010-02-26 Thread Thomas Burgess
errr, i mean 3/4...i know it's some fraction anyways On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 8:49 AM, Thomas Burgess wonsl...@gmail.com wrote: i thouhgt it was designed to use 2/3's of the available memory On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 8:46 AM, Ronny Egner ronnyeg...@gmx.de wrote: Dear All, our storage

Re: [zfs-discuss] Who is using ZFS ACL's in production?

2010-02-26 Thread Thomas Burgess
I think most people are just confused by ACL's, i know i was when i first started using them. Having said that, once i got them set correctly, they work very well for my CIFS shares. On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 11:23 AM, Paul B. Henson hen...@acm.org wrote: On Fri, 26 Feb 2010, Darren J Moffat

Re: [zfs-discuss] Import zpool from FreeBSD in OpenSolaris

2010-02-23 Thread Thomas Burgess
When i needed to do this, the only way i could get it to work was to do this: Take some disks, use a Opensolaris Live CD and label them EFI Create a ZPOOL in FreeBSD with these disks copy my data from freebsd to the new zpool export the pool import the pool On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 9:11 PM,

Re: [zfs-discuss] File created with CIFS is not immediately deletable on local file system

2010-02-21 Thread Thomas Burgess
i may be wrong but i think it would depend on how you have your ACL's set up and whether or not ACL inhereat is on On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 5:46 AM, Peter Radig pe...@radig.de wrote: Box running osol_133 with smb/server enabled. I create a file on a Windows box that has a remote ZFS fs mounted.

Re: [zfs-discuss] Idiots Guide to Running a NAS with ZFS/OpenSolaris

2010-02-18 Thread Thomas Burgess
On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 5:21 PM, Robert rkaye+...@spamcop.netrkaye%2b...@spamcop.net wrote: At the risk of getting myself flamed with my very first post, will someone please point me to the 'Idiots Guide to Running a NAS with ZFS/OpenSolaris'? - - - sig - - -

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS performance benchmarks in various configurations

2010-02-14 Thread Thomas Burgess
Whatever. Regardless of what you say, it does show: · Which is faster, raidz, or a stripe of mirrors? · How much does raidz2 hurt performance compared to raidz? · Which is faster, raidz, or hardware raid 5? · Is a mirror twice as fast as a single disk for

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

2010-02-14 Thread Thomas Burgess
c7, c8 and c9 are LSI controllers using the MPT driver. The motherboard has 6 SATA ports which are presented as two controllers (presumably c10 and c11) one for ports 0-3 and one for ports 4 and 5; both currently use the PCI-IDE drivers. on my motherboard, i can make the onboard sata ports

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

2010-02-14 Thread Thomas Burgess
oh, so i WAS right? awesome On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 10:45 PM, Dave Pooser dave@alfordmedia.comwrote: 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

Re: [zfs-discuss] available space

2010-02-13 Thread Thomas Burgess
one shows pool size, one shows filesystem size. the pool size is based on raw space. the zfs list size shows how much is used and how much usable space is ableable. for instance, i use raidz2 with 1tb drives so if i do zpool list i see ALL the space, including parity, but if i do zfs list i

Re: [zfs-discuss] verging OT: how to buy J4500 w/o overpriced drives

2010-02-08 Thread Thomas Burgess
Just like i said way earlier, The entire idea is like asking to buy a Ferrari without the aluminum wheels they sell because you think they are charging too much for them, after all, aluminum is cheap. It's just not done that way. There are OTHER OPTIONS for people who can't afford it. You

Re: [zfs-discuss] verging OT: how to buy J4500 w/o overpriced drives

2010-02-08 Thread Thomas Burgess
On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 9:13 PM, Tim Cook t...@cook.ms wrote: On Monday, February 8, 2010, Kjetil Torgrim Homme kjeti...@linpro.no wrote: Daniel Carosone d...@geek.com.au writes: In that context, I haven't seen an answer, just a conclusion: - All else is not equal, so I give my money

Re: [zfs-discuss] verging OT: how to buy J4500 w/o overpriced drives

2010-02-08 Thread Thomas Burgess
On Mon, Feb 08, 2010 at 09:33:12PM -0500, Thomas Burgess wrote: This is a far cry from an apples to apples comparison though. As much as I'm no fan of Apple, it's a pity they dropped ZFS because that would have brought considerable attention to the opportunity of marketing and offering zfs

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