[zfs-discuss] Production ZFS Server Death (06/06)

2006-11-28 Thread Elizabeth Schwartz
So I rebuilt my production mail server as Solaris 10 06/06 with zfs, it ran for three months, and it's had no hardware errors. But my zfs file system seems to have died a quiet death. Sun engineering response was to point to the FMRI, which says to throw out the zfs partition and start over. I'm

Re: [zfs-discuss] Production ZFS Server Death (06/06)

2006-11-28 Thread Elizabeth Schwartz
On 11/28/06, David Dyer-Bennet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Looks to me like another example of ZFS noticing and reporting an error that would go quietly by on any other filesystem. And if you're concerned with the integrity of the data, why not use some ZFS redundancy? (I'm guessing you're

Re: [zfs-discuss] Production ZFS Server Death (06/06)

2006-11-28 Thread Nicolas Williams
On Tue, Nov 28, 2006 at 03:02:59PM -0500, Elizabeth Schwartz wrote: So I rebuilt my production mail server as Solaris 10 06/06 with zfs, it ran for three months, and it's had no hardware errors. But my zfs file system seems to have died a quiet death. Sun engineering response was to point to

Re: [zfs-discuss] Production ZFS Server Death (06/06)

2006-11-28 Thread Jason J. W. Williams
Do both RAID-Z and Mirror redundancy use checksums on ZFS? Or just RAID-Z? Thanks in advance, J On 11/28/06, David Dyer-Bennet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 11/28/06, Elizabeth Schwartz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So I rebuilt my production mail server as Solaris 10 06/06 with zfs, it ran for

Re: [zfs-discuss] Production ZFS Server Death (06/06)

2006-11-28 Thread Bill Moore
They both use checksums and can provide self-healing data. --Bill On Tue, Nov 28, 2006 at 02:54:56PM -0700, Jason J. W. Williams wrote: Do both RAID-Z and Mirror redundancy use checksums on ZFS? Or just RAID-Z? Thanks in advance, J On 11/28/06, David Dyer-Bennet [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [zfs-discuss] Production ZFS Server Death (06/06)

2006-11-28 Thread Darren J Moffat
Jason J. W. Williams wrote: Do both RAID-Z and Mirror redundancy use checksums on ZFS? Or just RAID-Z? Both do not only that but even if you have no redundancy in the pool you still use checksuming. That is what has actually happened in this case. The checksuming in ZFS has detected errors

Re: [zfs-discuss] Production ZFS Server Death (06/06)

2006-11-28 Thread Matthew Ahrens
Elizabeth Schwartz wrote: On 11/28/06, *David Dyer-Bennet* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Looks to me like another example of ZFS noticing and reporting an error that would go quietly by on any other filesystem. And if you're concerned with the integrity of the

Re: [zfs-discuss] Production ZFS Server Death (06/06)

2006-11-28 Thread David Dyer-Bennet
On 11/28/06, Elizabeth Schwartz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 11/28/06, David Dyer-Bennet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Looks to me like another example of ZFS noticing and reporting an error that would go quietly by on any other filesystem. And if you're concerned with the integrity of the data,

Re: [zfs-discuss] Production ZFS Server Death (06/06)

2006-11-28 Thread Richard Elling
Matthew Ahrens wrote: Elizabeth Schwartz wrote: How would I use more redundancy? By creating a zpool with some redundancy, eg. 'zpool create poolname mirror disk1 disk2'. after the fact, you can add a mirror using 'zpool attach' -- richard ___

Re: [zfs-discuss] Production ZFS Server Death (06/06)

2006-11-28 Thread Al Hopper
On Tue, 28 Nov 2006, Matthew Ahrens wrote: Elizabeth Schwartz wrote: On 11/28/06, *David Dyer-Bennet* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Looks to me like another example of ZFS noticing and reporting an error that would go quietly by on any other filesystem.