Re: [zfs-discuss] NOINUSE_CHECK not working on ZFS

2007-09-17 Thread yu larry liu
It is weird. Did you run label subcommand after modifying the partition table? Did you try unset NOINUSE_CHECK before running format? Larry Bill Casale wrote: Sun Fire 280R Solaris 10 11/06, KU Generic_125100-08 Created a ZFS pool with disk c5t0d5, format c5t0d5 shows the disk is part

Re: [zfs-discuss] hardware sizing for a zfs-based system?

2007-09-17 Thread Kent Watsen
Probably not, my box has 10 drives and two very thirsty FX74 processors and it draws 450W max. At 1500W, I'd be more concerned about power bills and cooling than the UPS! Yeah - good point, but I need my TV! - or so I tell my wife so I can play with all this gear :-X Cheers, Kent

[zfs-discuss] ZFS or NFS?

2007-09-17 Thread Ian Collins
I have a build 62 system with a zone that NFS mounts an ZFS filesystem. From the zone, I keep seeing issues with .nfs files remaining in otherwise empty directories preventing their deletion. The files appear to be immediately replaced when they are deleted. Is this an NFS or a ZFS issue?

[zfs-discuss] change uid/god below 100

2007-09-17 Thread Claus Guttesen
Hi. Only indirectly related to zfs. I need to test diskusage/performance on zfs shared via nfs. I have installed nevada b64a. Historically uid/gid for user www has been 16/16 but when I try to add uid/gid www via smc with the value 16 I'm not allowed to do so. I'm coming from a FreeBSD

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS or NFS?

2007-09-17 Thread Darren J Moffat
Ian Collins wrote: I have a build 62 system with a zone that NFS mounts an ZFS filesystem. From the zone, I keep seeing issues with .nfs files remaining in otherwise empty directories preventing their deletion. The files appear to be immediately replaced when they are deleted. Is

[zfs-discuss] question about uberblock blkptr

2007-09-17 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi All, I have modified mdb so that I can examine data structures on disk using ::print. This works fine for disks containing ufs file systems. It also works for zfs file systems, but... I use the dva block number from the uberblock_t to print what is at the block on disk. The problem I am

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS or NFS?

2007-09-17 Thread Robert Thurlow
Ian Collins wrote: I have a build 62 system with a zone that NFS mounts an ZFS filesystem. From the zone, I keep seeing issues with .nfs files remaining in otherwise empty directories preventing their deletion. The files appear to be immediately replaced when they are deleted. Is

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS or NFS?

2007-09-17 Thread Paul Kraus
On 9/17/07, Darren J Moffat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It is NFS that is doing that. It happens when a process on the NFS client still has the file open. fuser(1) is your friend here. ... and if fuser doesn't tell you what you need to know, you can use lsof (

[zfs-discuss] Strange behavior zfs and soalris cluster

2007-09-17 Thread Ulf Björklund
Hi All, Two and three-node clusters with SC3.2 and S10u3 (120011-14). If a node is rebooted when using SCSI3-PGR the node is not able to take the zpool by HAStoragePlus due to reservation conflict. SCSI2-PGRE is okay. Using the same SAN-LUN:s in a metaset (SVM) and HAStoragePlus works okay with

Re: [zfs-discuss] change uid/god below 100

2007-09-17 Thread Claus Guttesen
Only indirectly related to zfs. I need to test diskusage/performance on zfs shared via nfs. I have installed nevada b64a. Historically uid/gid for user www has been 16/16 but when I try to add uid/gid www via smc with the value 16 I'm not allowed to do so. I'm coming from a FreeBSD

[zfs-discuss] ZFS Evil Tuning Guide

2007-09-17 Thread Roch - PAE
Tuning should not be done in general and Best practices should be followed. So get very much acquainted with this first : http://www.solarisinternals.com/wiki/index.php/ZFS_Best_Practices_Guide Then if you must, this could soothe or sting :

Re: [zfs-discuss] PLOGI errors

2007-09-17 Thread Tim Cook
What lead you to the assumption it's ONLY those switches? Just because the patch is ONLY for those switches doesn't mean that the bug is only for them. The reason you only see the patch for 3xxx and newer is because the 2xxx was EOL before the patch was released... FabOS is FabOS, the nature

[zfs-discuss] zpool create -f not applicable to hot spares

2007-09-17 Thread Robert Milkowski
Hello zfs-discuss, If you do 'zpool create -f test A B C spare D E' and D or E contains UFS filesystem then despite of -f zpool command will complain that there is UFS file system on D. workaround: create a test pool with -f on D and E, destroy it and that create first pool with D and

Re: [zfs-discuss] change uid/god below 100

2007-09-17 Thread Darren J Moffat
Claus Guttesen wrote: Only indirectly related to zfs. I need to test diskusage/performance on zfs shared via nfs. I have installed nevada b64a. Historically uid/gid for user www has been 16/16 but when I try to add uid/gid www via smc with the value 16 I'm not allowed to do so. I'm coming

Re: [zfs-discuss] zpool create -f not applicable to hot spares

2007-09-17 Thread Mark J Musante
On Mon, 17 Sep 2007, Robert Milkowski wrote: If you do 'zpool create -f test A B C spare D E' and D or E contains UFS filesystem then despite of -f zpool command will complain that there is UFS file system on D. This was fixed recently in build 73. See CR 6573276. Regards, markm

[zfs-discuss] OT zfs system UPS sizing was Re: hardware sizing for a zfs-based system?

2007-09-17 Thread Al Hopper
On Mon, 17 Sep 2007, Kent Watsen wrote: ... snip ... (Incidentally, I rarely see these discussions touch upon what sort of UPS is being used. Power fluctuations are a great source of correlated disk failures.) Glad you brought that up - I currently have an APC 2200XL

Re: [zfs-discuss] change uid/god below 100

2007-09-17 Thread Claus Guttesen
Only indirectly related to zfs. I need to test diskusage/performance on zfs shared via nfs. I have installed nevada b64a. Historically uid/gid for user www has been 16/16 but when I try to add uid/gid www via smc with the value 16 I'm not allowed to do so. I'm coming from a FreeBSD

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Evil Tuning Guide

2007-09-17 Thread Pawel Jakub Dawidek
On Mon, Sep 17, 2007 at 03:40:05PM +0200, Roch - PAE wrote: Tuning should not be done in general and Best practices should be followed. So get very much acquainted with this first : http://www.solarisinternals.com/wiki/index.php/ZFS_Best_Practices_Guide Then if you must, this

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Evil Tuning Guide

2007-09-17 Thread Roch - PAE
Pawel Jakub Dawidek writes: On Mon, Sep 17, 2007 at 03:40:05PM +0200, Roch - PAE wrote: Tuning should not be done in general and Best practices should be followed. So get very much acquainted with this first :

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Evil Tuning Guide

2007-09-17 Thread Victor Latushkin
Roch - PAE wrote: Pawel Jakub Dawidek writes: On Mon, Sep 17, 2007 at 03:40:05PM +0200, Roch - PAE wrote: Tuning should not be done in general and Best practices should be followed. So get very much acquainted with this first :

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Evil Tuning Guide

2007-09-17 Thread Nicolas Williams
On Mon, Sep 17, 2007 at 05:22:04PM +0200, Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote: On Mon, Sep 17, 2007 at 03:40:05PM +0200, Roch - PAE wrote: Tuning should not be done in general and Best practices should be followed. So get very much acquainted with this first :

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS or NFS?

2007-09-17 Thread Richard Elling
Ian Collins wrote: I have a build 62 system with a zone that NFS mounts an ZFS filesystem. From the zone, I keep seeing issues with .nfs files remaining in otherwise empty directories preventing their deletion. The files appear to be immediately replaced when they are deleted. Is

Re: [zfs-discuss] change uid/gid below 100

2007-09-17 Thread Paul Kraus
On 9/17/07, Darren J Moffat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why not use the already assigned webservd/webserved 80/80 uid/gid pair ? Note that ALL uid and gid values below 100 are explicitly reserved for use by the operating system itself and should not be used by end admins. This is why smc

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

2007-09-17 Thread Ellis, Mike
Yup... With Leadville/MPXIO targets in the 32-digit range, identifying the new storage/LUNs is not a trivial operatrion. -- MikeE -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Russ Petruzzelli Sent: Monday, September 17, 2007 1:51 PM To:

Re: [zfs-discuss] zpool create -f not applicable to hot spares

2007-09-17 Thread Robert Milkowski
Hello Mark, Monday, September 17, 2007, 3:04:03 PM, you wrote: MJM On Mon, 17 Sep 2007, Robert Milkowski wrote: If you do 'zpool create -f test A B C spare D E' and D or E contains UFS filesystem then despite of -f zpool command will complain that there is UFS file system on D. MJM This was

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

2007-09-17 Thread MC
Just to answer one of my questions, df seems to work pretty well. That said I still think the zpool creation tool would do well to list what it can create zpools out of. This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list

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

2007-09-17 Thread Russ Petruzzelli
Seconded! MC wrote: With the arrival of ZFS, the format command is well on its way to deprecation station. But how else do you list the devices that zpool can create pools out of? Would it be reasonable to enhance zpool to list the vdevs that are available to it? Perhaps as part of the

Re: [zfs-discuss] Mixing SATA PATA Drives

2007-09-17 Thread Christopher Gibbs
Great, that's the answer I was looking for. My current emphasis is on storage rather than performance. So I just wanted to make sure that mixing the two speeds would be just as safe as using only one kind. Thanks! On 9/17/07, Eric Schrock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, the pool would run at the

Re: [zfs-discuss] change uid/gid below 100

2007-09-17 Thread Cindy . Swearingen
Paul, Scroll down a bit in this section to the default passwd/group tables: http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/819-2379/6n4m1vl99?a=view Cindy Paul Kraus wrote: On 9/17/07, Darren J Moffat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why not use the already assigned webservd/webserved 80/80 uid/gid pair ? Note

Re: [zfs-discuss] Mixing SATA PATA Drives

2007-09-17 Thread Tim Spriggs
I'm far from an expert but my understanding is that the zil is spread across the whole pool by default so in theory the one drive could slow everything down. I don't know what it would mean in this respect to keep the PATA drive as a hot spare though. -Tim Christopher Gibbs wrote: Anyone?

Re: [zfs-discuss] Mixing SATA PATA Drives

2007-09-17 Thread Neil Perrin
Yes performance will suffer, but it's a bit difficult to say by how much. Both pool transaction group writes and zil writes are spread across all devices. It depends on what applications you will run as to how much use is made of the zil. Maybe you should experiment and see if performance is good

Re: [zfs-discuss] Mixing SATA PATA Drives

2007-09-17 Thread Eric Schrock
Yes, the pool would run at the speed of the slowest drive. There is an open RFE to better balance allocations acros variable latency toplevel vdevs, but within a toplevel vdev there's not much we can do; we need to make sure your data is on disk with sufficient replication before returning

Re: [zfs-discuss] reccomended disk configuration

2007-09-17 Thread Peter Schuller
I also wanted to test a recovery of my pool, so my took two disk raidz pool onto a friends freebsd box. It seems both systems use zfs version 6, but the import failed. I noticed on the boot logs: GEOM: ad6: corrupt or invalid GPT detected. GEOM: ad6: GPT rejected -- may not be

Re: [zfs-discuss] reccomended disk configuration

2007-09-17 Thread Richard Elling
Mario Goebbels wrote: Hi, thanks for the tips. I currently using a 2 disk raidz configuration and it seems to work fine, but I'll probably take your advice and use mirrors because I'm finding the raidz a bit slow. What? How would a two disk RAID-Z work, anyway? A three disk RAID-Z

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'... :-)

[zfs-discuss] ZFS panic in space_map.c line 125

2007-09-17 Thread Matty
One of our Solaris 10 update 3 servers paniced today with the following error: Sep 18 00:34:53 m2000ef savecore: [ID 570001 auth.error] reboot after panic: assertion failed: ss != NULL, file: ../../common/fs/zfs/space_map.c, line: 125 The server saved a core file, and the resulting backtrace is

Re: [zfs-discuss] question about uberblock blkptr

2007-09-17 Thread Jim Mauro
Hey Max - Check out the on-disk specification document at http://opensolaris.org/os/community/zfs/docs/. Page 32 illustration shows the rootbp pointing to a dnode_phys_t object (the first member of a objset_phys_t data structure). The source code indicates ub_rootbp is a blkptr_t, which

Re: [zfs-discuss] Mixing SATA PATA Drives

2007-09-17 Thread Daniel Carosone
If your priorities were different, or for others pondering a similar question, the PATA disk might be a hotspare. This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org

[zfs-discuss] zpool history not found

2007-09-17 Thread sunnie
my system is currently running ZFS versionnn 3. And I just can't find the zpool history command. can anyone help me with the problem? This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [zfs-discuss] zpool history not found

2007-09-17 Thread Robin Guo
Hi, Sunnie, 'zpool history' is only introduced from the ZFS version 4. You could check the update info and pick the bits after Build 62 corresponded # zpool upgrade -v This system is currently running ZFS pool version 8. The following versions are supported: VER DESCRIPTION ---

Re: [zfs-discuss] zpool history not found

2007-09-17 Thread Prabahar Jeyaram
'zpool history' is the 4th feature of ZFS in S10. You should get it in S10U4. -- Prabahar. On Sep 17, 2007, at 8:01 PM, sunnie wrote: my system is currently running ZFS versionnn 3. And I just can't find the zpool history command. can anyone help me with the problem? This message posted

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS panic in space_map.c line 125

2007-09-17 Thread Robin Guo
Hi Matty, From the stack I saw, that is 6454482. But this defect has been marked as 'Not reproducible', I have no idea about how to recover from it, but looks like new update will not hit this issue. Matty wrote: One of our Solaris 10 update 3 servers paniced today with the following error: