Re: [zfs-discuss] HELP! RPool problem

2013-02-16 Thread James C. McPherson
should be enough for him to make significant progress. James C. McPherson -- Oracle Systems / Solaris / Core http://www.jmcpdotcom.com/blog ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] HELP! RPool problem

2013-02-16 Thread James C. McPherson
On 17/02/13 08:48 AM, Sašo Kiselkov wrote: On 02/16/2013 10:47 PM, James C. McPherson wrote: ... Whether that message winds up being something you need to talk with a Oracle about is entirely different. He got a kernel panic on a completely legitimate operation (booting with one half

Re: [zfs-discuss] mpt_sas multipath problem?

2013-01-07 Thread James C. McPherson
that MPxIO isn't working. James C. McPherson -- Oracle Systems / Solaris / Core http://www.jmcpdotcom.com/blog ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Changing rpool device paths/drivers

2012-10-19 Thread James C. McPherson
devid's in preference to physical paths. James C. McPherson -- Oracle Systems / Solaris / Core http://www.jmcpdotcom.com/blog ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Changing rpool device paths/drivers

2012-10-19 Thread James C. McPherson
On 19/10/12 09:27 PM, Edward Ned Harvey (opensolarisisdeadlongliveopensolaris) wrote: From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of James C. McPherson As far as I'm aware, having an rpool on multipathed devices is fine. Even a year ago

Re: [zfs-discuss] Is there an actual newsgroup for zfs-discuss?

2012-06-11 Thread James C. McPherson
On 12/06/12 06:40 AM, David Combs wrote: Actual newsgroup for zfs-discuss? Actually, no. Where's the value in having a newsgroup as well as a mailing list? James C. McPherson -- Oracle http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog ___ zfs-discuss mailing list

Re: [zfs-discuss] SAS world-wide name

2012-03-01 Thread James C. McPherson
location information in format, and using the diskinfo too. Otherwise, if you're running S11, you could try using /usr/lib/fm/fmd/fmti - a tool which blinks LEDs at you and prompts for label confirmation. James C. McPherson -- Oracle http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog

Re: [zfs-discuss] HP JBOD D2700 - ok?

2012-01-31 Thread James C. McPherson
in order for those changes to be correctly propagated. You can (and should) read about this in the stmsboot(1m) manpage, and there's more information available in my blog post http://blogs.oracle.com/jmcp/entry/on_stmsboot_1m James C. McPherson -- Oracle http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog

Re: [zfs-discuss] HP JBOD D2700 - ok?

2012-01-31 Thread James C. McPherson
On 1/02/12 12:40 PM, Ragnar Sundblad wrote: ... I still don't really get what stmsboot -u actually does (and if - and if so how much - this differs between x86 and sparc). Would it be impolite to ask you to elaborate on this a little? Not at all. Here goes. /usr/sbin/stmsboot -u arms the

Re: [zfs-discuss] Any rhyme or reason to disk dev names?

2011-12-21 Thread James C. McPherson
and/or prtconf -v. hth, James C. McPherson -- Oracle 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] LSI 3GB HBA SAS Errors (and other misc)

2011-12-04 Thread James C. McPherson
that was supplied to the manufacturer by a third party. Personally, I'd start looking at the cables first - in my experience they seem to incur more physical stress through the connect/disconnect operations than HBAs. James C. McPherson -- Oracle http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog

Re: [zfs-discuss] dual protocal on one file system?

2011-03-14 Thread James C. McPherson
which tracks the inclusion in a Solaris 10 Update. I'd also like to know where you're getting your information from on this topic. James C. McPherson -- Oracle http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [zfs-discuss] dual protocal on one file system?

2011-03-14 Thread James C. McPherson
On 14/03/11 11:26 PM, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: From: James C. McPherson [mailto:j...@opensolaris.org] Sent: Monday, March 14, 2011 9:20 AM Just for clarity: The in-kernel CIFS service is indeed available in solaris 10. Are you really, really sure about that? Please point the RFE number which

Re: [zfs-discuss] Format returning bogus controller info

2011-02-28 Thread James C. McPherson
On 1/03/11 03:00 AM, Dave Pooser wrote: On 2/27/11 11:13 PM, James C. McPhersonj...@opensolaris.org wrote: /pci@0,0/pci8086,340c@5/pci1000,3020@0 and /pci@0,0/pci8086,340e@7/pci1000,3020@0 which are in different slots on your motherboard and connected to different PCI Express Root Ports -

Re: [zfs-discuss] Format returning bogus controller info

2011-02-28 Thread James C. McPherson
employer. James C. McPherson -- Oracle 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] Format returning bogus controller info

2011-02-27 Thread James C. McPherson
to see bay numbers with the fmtopo command - when you run it as root: # /usr/lib/fm/fmd/fmtopo -V If this doesn't work for you, then you'll have to resort to the tried and tested use of dd to /dev/null for each disk, and see which lights blink. James C. McPherson -- Oracle http

Re: [zfs-discuss] Format returning bogus controller info

2011-02-27 Thread James C. McPherson
and has different firmware to what you have in your 9211 card. The 9211 card is also 2nd generation SAS, not 1st generation like the 3081. Personally, having worked on the mpt_sas(7d) project, I'm disappointed that you believe the card and its driver are a failed bit. James C. McPherson -- Oracle

Re: [zfs-discuss] Format returning bogus controller info

2011-02-27 Thread James C. McPherson
are fairly closely tied to the PC architecture, that perhaps they do some bios calls to try to figure out correct order mappings. James C. McPherson -- Oracle http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http

Re: [zfs-discuss] Format returning bogus controller info

2011-02-27 Thread James C. McPherson
, then you'll have pretty much the same mpt_sas(7d) driver that S11x has. James C. McPherson -- Oracle 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] Format returning bogus controller info

2011-02-27 Thread James C. McPherson
On 28/02/11 12:46 PM, Dave Pooser wrote: On 2/27/11 4:07 PM, James C. McPhersonj...@opensolaris.org wrote: ... PHY iport@ 01 12 24 38 410 520 640 780 OK, bear with me for a moment because I'm feeling extra dense this evening. The PHY tells me which port on

Re: [zfs-discuss] Format returning bogus controller info

2011-02-27 Thread James C. McPherson
On 28/02/11 02:51 PM, Dave Pooser wrote: On 2/27/11 10:06 PM, James C. McPhersonj...@opensolaris.org wrote: ... 2nd controller c16t5000CCA222DDD7BAd0 /pci@0,0/pci8086,340c@5/pci1000,3020@0/iport@2/disk@w5000cca222ddd7ba,0 3rd controller c14t5000CCA222DF8FBEd0

Re: [zfs-discuss] WarpDrive SLP-300

2010-11-17 Thread James C. McPherson
C. McPherson -- Oracle 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] WarpDrive SLP-300

2010-11-17 Thread James C. McPherson
On 18/11/10 03:05 PM, Fred Liu wrote: Yeah, no driver issue. BTW, any new storage-controller-related drivers introduced in snv151a? LSI seems the only one who works very closely with Oracle/Sun. You would have to have a look at what's in the repo, I'm not allowed to tell you :| James C

Re: [zfs-discuss] Supermicro AOC-USAS2-L8i

2010-10-12 Thread James C. McPherson
runs under OSOL build134 or solaris10? I can. This card should attach using the mpt_sas(7d) driver. This is *different* to the mpt(7d) driver. PSARC 2008/443 Driver for LSI MPT2.0 compliant SAS controller went into build 118. James C. McPherson -- Oracle http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZPool creation brings down the host

2010-10-08 Thread James C. McPherson
On 8/10/10 03:28 PM, Anand Bhakthavatsala wrote: ... -- *From:* James C. McPherson j...@opensolaris.org *To:* Ramesh Babu rama.b...@gmail.com On 7/10/10 03:46 PM, Ramesh Babu wrote: I am trying to create ZPool using

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZPool creation brings down the host

2010-10-07 Thread James C. McPherson
the kernel. Do you have the panic stack trace we can look at, and/or a crash dump? James C. McPherson -- Oracle http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs

Re: [zfs-discuss] Intermittent ZFS hang

2010-09-28 Thread James C. McPherson
which was fixed in snv_135. James C. McPherson -- Oracle 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] How to obtain vdev information for a zpool?

2010-08-11 Thread James C. McPherson
0 0 0 c5t50024E90037AF38Cd0s0 ONLINE 0 0 0 errors: No known data errors James C. McPherson -- Senior Software Engineer, Solaris Oracle http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] [install-discuss] Installing on alternate hardware

2010-08-03 Thread James C. McPherson
for them within the pool should stick around over an export/import operation. If they don't, I would be very, very surprised. [note: everybody was a noob at some point] James C. McPherson -- Oracle http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog ___ zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] zpool throughput: snv 134 vs 138 vs 143

2010-07-19 Thread James C. McPherson
, why crypto bits are you using, and what changeset is your own workspace synced with? James C. McPherson -- Oracle http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs

Re: [zfs-discuss] NexentaStor 3.0.3 vs OpenSolaris - Patches more up to date?

2010-07-02 Thread James C. McPherson
On 3/07/10 12:25 PM, Richard Elling wrote: On Jul 2, 2010, at 6:48 PM, Tim Cook wrote: Given that the most basic of functionality was broken in Nexenta, and not Opensolaris, and I couldn't get a single response, I have a hard time recommending ANYONE go to Nexenta. It's great they're

Re: [zfs-discuss] One dataset per user?

2010-06-21 Thread James C. McPherson
On 21/06/10 10:38 PM, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: From: James C. McPherson [mailto:j...@opensolaris.org] On the build systems that I maintain inside the firewall, we mandate one filesystem per user, which is a very great boon for system administration. What's the reasoning behind

Re: [zfs-discuss] One dataset per user?

2010-06-21 Thread James C. McPherson
On 22/06/10 01:05 AM, Fredrich Maney wrote: On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 8:59 AM, James C. McPherson j...@opensolaris.org wrote: [...] So when I'm trying to figure out who I need to yell at because they're using more than our acceptable limit (30Gb), I have to run du -s /builds/[zyx

Re: [zfs-discuss] Please trim posts

2010-06-20 Thread James C. McPherson
RESPONDING to this thread? It's not about ZFS at all. James C. McPherson -- Senior Software Engineer, Solaris Oracle http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: [zfs-discuss] One dataset per user?

2010-06-20 Thread James C. McPherson
don't have to traverse whole directory trees (ala ufs). James C. McPherson -- Senior Software Engineer, Solaris Oracle http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: [zfs-discuss] Zfs disk device name

2010-06-17 Thread James C. McPherson
device. It really shouldn't be a problem for you. James C. McPherson -- Senior Software Engineer, Solaris Oracle http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs

Re: [zfs-discuss] Is it possible to disable MPxIO during OpenSolaris installation?

2010-06-02 Thread James C. McPherson
/dsk/c5t50014EE1007EE473d0s0(sd39) unavailable disk-pathn /devices/p...@ff,0/pci10de,3...@f/pci1000,3...@0:scsi::6,0 No need to use luxadm. James C. McPherson -- Senior Software Engineer, Solaris Oracle http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog ___ zfs

Re: [zfs-discuss] Is it possible to disable MPxIO during OpenSolaris installation?

2010-06-02 Thread James C. McPherson
/dsk/c5t50014EE1007EE473d0s0(sd39) unavailable disk-pathn /devices/p...@ff,0/pci10de,3...@f/pci1000,3...@0:scsi::6,0 No need to use luxadm. James C. McPherson -- Senior Software Engineer, Solaris Oracle http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog ___ zfs

Re: [zfs-discuss] Is it possible to disable MPxIO during OpenSolaris installation?

2010-06-01 Thread James C. McPherson
On 2/06/10 11:39 AM, Fred Liu wrote: Thanks. No. If you must disable MPxIO, then you do so after installation, using the stmsboot command. James C. McPherson -- Senior Software Engineer, Solaris Oracle http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog ___ zfs

Re: [zfs-discuss] Is it possible to disable MPxIO during OpenSolaris installation?

2010-06-01 Thread James C. McPherson
plain old targets, or that no disk devices of any sort show up in your host when you are installing? What is your actual problem, and why do you think that turning off MPxIO will solve it? James C. McPherson -- Senior Software Engineer, Solaris Oracle http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog

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

2010-05-22 Thread James C. McPherson
...@tata_st3320620as_4qf01rze' And while I'm at it, let me recommend my presentation on devids and guids http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/~jmcp/WhatIsAGuid.pdf hth, James C. McPherson -- Senior Software Engineer, Solaris Oracle http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog

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

2010-05-12 Thread James C. McPherson
believe you are talking through your hat. James C. McPherson -- Senior Software Engineer, Solaris Oracle 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] Opteron 6100? Does it work with opensolaris?

2010-05-12 Thread James C. McPherson
on a driver that I worked on (mpt_sas), and I'm still trying to find out from you and others what you think is a problem with it. James C. McPherson -- Senior Software Engineer, Solaris Oracle http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog ___ zfs-discuss mailing list

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

2010-05-11 Thread James C. McPherson
in progress in regards to being 'production ready'. What metric are you using for production ready ? Are there features missing which you expect to see in the driver, or is it just oh noes, I haven't seen enough big customers with it ? James C. McPherson -- Senior Software Engineer, Solaris Oracle http

Re: [zfs-discuss] Another MPT issue - kernel crash

2010-05-06 Thread James C. McPherson
it. James C. McPherson -- Senior Software Engineer, Solaris Oracle 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] Another MPT issue - kernel crash

2010-05-05 Thread James C. McPherson
it. James C. McPherson -- Senior Software Engineer, Solaris Oracle 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] Solaris 10 default caching segmap/vpm size

2010-04-28 Thread James C. McPherson
. Note that not all of those will be applicable for ZFS. You should read the ZFS Best Practices Guide http://www.solarisinternals.com/wiki/index.php/ZFS_Best_Practices_Guide and the ZFS Config Guide too http://www.solarisinternals.com/wiki/index.php/ZFS_Configuration_Guide James C. McPherson

Re: [zfs-discuss] SAS vs SATA: Same size, same speed, why SAS?

2010-04-26 Thread James C. McPherson
:-) I don't know of any other specific difference between Enterprise SATA and SAS drives. James C. McPherson -- Senior Software Engineer, Solaris Oracle http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http

Re: [zfs-discuss] LSISAS2004 support

2010-03-23 Thread James C. McPherson
) driver name:mr_sas This should be using the mpt_sas driver, not the mr_sas driver. James C. McPherson -- Senior Software Engineer, Solaris Sun Microsystems http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Performance on SATA Deive

2010-03-18 Thread James C. McPherson
user0m0.458s sys 0m5.260s James C. McPherson -- Senior Software Engineer, Solaris Sun Microsystems 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] ZFS Performance on SATA Deive

2010-03-18 Thread James C. McPherson
sata Memory 16 GB Processor Processor 1GH 6 core Solaris 10 8/07 s10s_u4wos_12b SPARC Since you are seeing this on a Solaris 10 update release, you should log a call with your support provider to get this investigated. James C. McPherson -- Senior Software Engineer, Solaris Sun Microsystems

Re: [zfs-discuss] Does OpenSolaris mpt driver support LSI 2008 controller

2010-03-07 Thread James C. McPherson
build snv_118. So you could either wait until 2010.$spring comes out, or start using the /dev repo instead. hth, James C. McPherson -- Senior Software Engineer, Solaris Sun Microsystems http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs

Re: [zfs-discuss] Does OpenSolaris mpt driver support LSI 2008 controller

2010-03-07 Thread James C. McPherson
On 8/03/10 01:42 AM, Tim Cook wrote: On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 3:12 AM, James C. McPherson j...@opensolaris.org mailto:j...@opensolaris.org wrote: On 7/03/10 12:28 PM, norm.tallant wrote: I'm about to try it! My LSI SAS 9211-8i should arrive Monday or Tuesday. I bought

Re: [zfs-discuss] swap across multiple pools

2010-03-03 Thread James C. McPherson
to be used or as extra swap ? Yes. This is what I do at home, and what we do on the onnv gate machines - we've got swap in rpool and a separate, dedicated, swap pool. Would this have any performance implications ? Negative performance implications? none that I know of. James C. McPherson -- Senior

Re: [zfs-discuss] future of OpenSolaris

2010-02-22 Thread James C. McPherson
for the official word to be announced - as will we all. 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] Workaround for mpt timeouts in snv_127

2010-02-18 Thread James C. McPherson
=0xc Feb 17 04:47:57 thecratewall scsi: [ID 365881 kern.info] /p...@0,0/pci15ad,7...@15/pci1000,3...@0 (mpt_sas0): Feb 17 04:47:57 thecratewall Log info 0x31110630 received for target 33. Feb 17 04:47:57 thecratewall scsi_status=0x0, ioc_status=0x804b, scsi_state=0xc -- James C. McPherson -- Senior

Re: [zfs-discuss] CR 6811542: that's interesting

2010-02-02 Thread James C. McPherson
was fixed in snv_122. 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] verging OT: how to buy J4500 w/o overpriced drives

2010-02-01 Thread James C. McPherson
is different. The qualification is done with the assumption that the disks will be spinning every single second for a number of years, and that they will have a much, *much* higher duty cycle than consumer grade hardware. Please stop assuming that all this only costs a few pennies. It doesn't. James C

Re: [zfs-discuss] Can ZFS update disk drive firmware

2010-01-29 Thread James C. McPherson
/Community+Group+on/2009052003 and the update to the pluggable fwflash spec is http://arc.opensolaris.org/caselog/PSARC/2009/163/ original pluggable fwflash case http://arc.opensolaris.org/caselog/PSARC/2008/151 James C. McPherson -- Senior Kernel Software Engineer, Solaris Sun Microsystems http

Re: [zfs-discuss] Is LSI SAS3081E-R suitable for a ZFS NAS ?

2010-01-28 Thread James C. McPherson
of the whole picture that is the SS7000 appliance series, as well as the J4x00 series. Personally, I'm quite happy with the LSISAS3081E that I have installed in my system, with the attached 320Gb consumer-grade SATA2 disks. James C. McPherson -- Senior Kernel Software Engineer, Solaris Sun

Re: [zfs-discuss] Does OpenSolaris mpt driver support LSI 2008 controller ?

2010-01-21 Thread James C. McPherson
-USAS2-L8i 2. LSI SAS 9211-8i No, the 2nd generation non-RAID LSI SAS controllers make use of the mpt_sas(7d). Second generation RAID LSI SAS controllers use mr_sas(7d). Code for both of these drivers is Open and you can find it on src.opensolaris.org. James C. McPherson -- Senior Kernel Software

Re: [zfs-discuss] Does OpenSolaris mpt driver support LSI 2008 controller

2010-01-21 Thread James C. McPherson
to the task. If you do come across problems, please bring it up in storage-discuss or zfs-discuss, and if necessary file a bug on bugs.opensolaris.org solaris/driver/mpt-sas, and solaris/driver/mr_sas are the two subcats that you'll need in that case. James C. McPherson -- Senior Kernel

Re: [zfs-discuss] Is LSI SAS3081E-R suitable for a ZFS NAS ?

2010-01-11 Thread James C. McPherson
? Anything else I should know before buying one of these cards ? These cards work very well with OpenSolaris, and attach using the mpt(7d) driver - supports hotplugging and MPxIO too. James C. McPherson -- Senior Kernel Software Engineer, Solaris Sun Microsystems http://blogs.sun.com/jmcp http

Re: [zfs-discuss] Changing ZFS drive pathing

2009-12-31 Thread James C. McPherson
/WhatIsAGuid.pdf 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

Re: [zfs-discuss] Update - mpt errors on snv 101b

2009-12-08 Thread James C. McPherson
proving so is, however, another thing entirely. Could you send the output from prtconf -v for your host please, so that we can have a look at the vital information for the enclosure services and SMP nodes that the SAS Expander presents/ thankyou, James C. McPherson -- Senior Kernel Software

Re: [zfs-discuss] possible mega_sas issue sol10u8 (Re: Workaround for mpt timeouts in snv_127)

2009-12-03 Thread James C. McPherson
Tru Huynh wrote: follow up, another crash today. On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 11:35:07AM +0100, Tru Huynh wrote: 1) OS SunOS xargos.bis.pasteur.fr 5.10 Generic_141445-09 i86pc i386 i86pc You should be logging a support call for this issue. James C. McPherson -- Senior Kernel Software Engineer

Re: [zfs-discuss] b128a available w/deduplication

2009-12-03 Thread James C. McPherson
Dennis Clarke wrote: FYI, OpenSolaris b128a is available for download or image-update from the dev repository. Enjoy. I thought that dedupe has been out for weeks now ? The source has, yes. But what Richard was referring to was the respun build now available via IPS. cheers, James C

Re: [zfs-discuss] Workaround for mpt timeouts in snv_127

2009-11-30 Thread James C. McPherson
Tru Huynh wrote: On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 07:08:20PM +1000, James C. McPherson wrote: If you and everybody else who is seeing this problem could provide details about your configuration (output from cfgadm -lva, raidctl -l, prtconf -v, what your zpool configs are, and the firmware rev of each

Re: [zfs-discuss] Workaround for mpt timeouts in snv_127

2009-11-30 Thread James C. McPherson
here, we're just trying to nail down specifics of what seems to be a likely cause. thankyou in advance, James C. McPherson -- Senior Kernel Software Engineer, Solaris Sun Microsystems http://blogs.sun.com/jmcp http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog

Re: [zfs-discuss] mpt errors on snv 127

2009-11-30 Thread James C. McPherson
LSI SAS3081E-R PCI-E 8 port SAS controllers, with 8 drives each. Are these disks internal to your server's chassis, or external in a jbod? If in a jbod, which one? Also, which cables are you using? thankyou, James C. McPherson -- Senior Kernel Software Engineer, Solaris Sun Microsystems http

Re: [zfs-discuss] mpt errors on snv 127

2009-11-30 Thread James C. McPherson
Chad Cantwell wrote: Hi, Replied to your previous general query already, but in summary, they are in the server chassis. It's a Chenbro 16 hotswap bay case. It has 4 mini backplanes that each connect via an SFF-8087 cable (1m) to my LSI cards (2 cables / 8 drives per card). Hi Chad, thanks

Re: [zfs-discuss] mpt errors on snv 127

2009-11-30 Thread James C. McPherson
the config space (that's the pci bus config space), then you've got about 1/2 the nails in the coffin hammered in. Then the failure to restart the IOC (io controller unit) == the rest of the lid hammered down. best regards, James C. McPherson -- Senior Kernel Software Engineer, Solaris Sun

Re: [zfs-discuss] Opensolaris with J4400 - Experiences

2009-11-29 Thread James C. McPherson
to. 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

Re: [zfs-discuss] Workaround for mpt timeouts in snv_127

2009-11-29 Thread James C. McPherson
of the CR, and removed the reference to xVM from the synopsis - hopefully the mail gateway will send your copy reasonably soon :-) Best regards, James C. McPherson -- Senior Kernel Software Engineer, Solaris Sun Microsystems http://blogs.sun.com/jmcp http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog

Re: [zfs-discuss] Workaround for mpt timeouts in snv_127

2009-11-29 Thread James C. McPherson
on for the moment, thankyou. 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

Re: [zfs-discuss] Workaround for mpt timeouts in snv_127

2009-11-29 Thread James C. McPherson
command should have automatically run bootadm update-archive for you, I have this habit of running it by hand whenever I change a driver or /etc/system to make sure that I have an up to date boot archive from that point in time onwards. James C. McPherson -- Senior Kernel Software Engineer

Re: [zfs-discuss] Workaround for mpt timeouts in snv_127

2009-11-24 Thread James C. McPherson
Thankyou for all who've procvided data about this. I've updated the bugs mentioned earlier and I believe we can now make progress on diagnosis. The new synopsis (should show up on b.o.o tomorrow) is as follows: 6894775 mpt's msi support is suboptimal with xVM James C. McPherson -- Senior

Re: [zfs-discuss] Workaround for mpt timeouts in snv_127

2009-11-23 Thread James C. McPherson
(2SS00_01) of which we take the last 4 bytes as the actual revision field, and the vendor and product ids. The devid information helps here too. James C. McPherson -- Senior Kernel Software Engineer, Solaris Sun Microsystems http://blogs.sun.com/jmcp http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog

Re: [zfs-discuss] Workaround for mpt timeouts in snv_127

2009-11-21 Thread James C. McPherson
us sort through and find any commonalities and hopefully a fix. 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] SNV_125 MPT warning in logfile

2009-11-12 Thread James C. McPherson
? Hi Travis, your bug showed up - it's 6900767. Since bugs.opensolaris.org isn't a live system, you won't be able to see it at http://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6900767 until tomorrow. cheers, James C. McPherson -- Senior Kernel Software Engineer, Solaris Sun Microsystems

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS on JBOD storage, mpt driver issue - server not responding

2009-11-11 Thread James C. McPherson
that there might be a problem outside of the ones that we identify. 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] ZFS on JBOD storage, mpt driver issue - server not responding

2009-11-11 Thread James C. McPherson
Travis Tabbal wrote: On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 10:25 PM, James C. McPherson j...@opensolaris.org mailto:j...@opensolaris.org wrote: The first step towards acknowledging that there is a problem is you logging a bug in bugs.opensolaris.org http://bugs.opensolaris.org. If you don't

Re: [zfs-discuss] ..and now ZFS send dedupe

2009-11-09 Thread James C. McPherson
Roman Naumenko wrote: Interesting stuff. By the way, is there a place to watch lated news like this on zfs/opensolaris? rss maybe? You could subscribe to onnv-not...@opensolaris.org... James C. McPherson -- Senior Kernel Software Engineer, Solaris Sun Microsystems http://blogs.sun.com

Re: [zfs-discuss] ..and now ZFS send dedupe

2009-11-09 Thread James C. McPherson
/view/Community+Group+on/flag-days The flag days page has not been updated since the switch to XWiki, it's on my todo list but I don't have an ETA for when it'll be done. James C. McPherson -- Senior Kernel Software Engineer, Solaris Sun Microsystems http://blogs.sun.com/jmcp http

Re: [zfs-discuss] ..and now ZFS send dedupe

2009-11-09 Thread James C. McPherson
Roman Naumenko wrote: James C. McPherson wrote, On 09-11-09 04:40 PM: Roman Naumenko wrote: Interesting stuff. By the way, is there a place to watch lated news like this on zfs/opensolaris? rss maybe? You could subscribe to onnv-not...@opensolaris.org... James C. McPherson

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS + fsck

2009-11-09 Thread James C. McPherson
-discuss/2009-November/033672.html On Mon Nov 9 14:26:54 PST 2009, James C. McPherson wrote: The flag days page has not been updated since the switch to XWiki, it's on my todo list but I don't have an ETA for when it'll be done. Perhaps anyone interested in seeing the flags days page resurrected

Re: [zfs-discuss] Quick dedup question

2009-11-07 Thread James C. McPherson
or pkg.opensolaris.org by early December. 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

Re: [zfs-discuss] SunOS neptune 5.11 snv_127 sun4u sparc SUNW, Sun-Fire-880

2009-11-03 Thread James C. McPherson
Dennis Clarke wrote: I just went through a BFU update to snv_127 on a V880 : neptune console login: root Password: Nov 3 08:19:12 neptune login: ROOT LOGIN /dev/console Last login: Mon Nov 2 16:40:36 on console Sun Microsystems Inc. SunOS 5.11 snv_127 Nov. 02, 2009 SunOS Internal

Re: [zfs-discuss] SNV_125 MPT warning in logfile

2009-10-23 Thread James C. McPherson
, but missed seeing it, not sure why. I've now moved the bug to the appropriate category so it will get attention from the right people. Thanks, James C. McPherson -- Senior Kernel Software Engineer, Solaris Sun Microsystems http://blogs.sun.com/jmcp http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog

Re: [zfs-discuss] SNV_125 MPT warning in logfile

2009-10-22 Thread James C. McPherson
Adam Cheal wrote: Cindy: How can I view the bug report you referenced? Standard methods show my the bug number is valid (6694909) but no content or notes. We are having similar messages appear with snv_118 with a busy LSI controller, especially during scrubbing, and I'd be interested to see what

Re: [zfs-discuss] SNV_125 MPT warning in logfile

2009-10-22 Thread James C. McPherson
Adam Cheal wrote: James: We are running Phase 16 on our LSISAS3801E's, and have also tried the recently released Phase 17 but it didn't help. All firmware NVRAM settings are default. Basically, when we put the disks behind this controller under load (e.g. scrubbing, recursive ls on large ZFS

Re: [zfs-discuss] MPT questions

2009-10-08 Thread James C. McPherson
I'd ask before forking out for a SATA DVD drive - just hate to put perfectly good drives out for recycling. It might work. It certainly wouldn't hurt to try. James C. McPherson -- Senior Kernel Software Engineer, Solaris Sun Microsystems http://blogs.sun.com/jmcp http

Re: [zfs-discuss] KCA ZFS keynote available

2009-09-29 Thread James C. McPherson
Trevor Pretty wrote: It think James said there was audio problems and that's why it took so long to get published. Well, one of the reasons. The other, more major, reason is that there's been a heckuvalot of video generated lately that we want to get up on slx.sun.com etc, and we don't have

Re: [zfs-discuss] deduplication

2009-09-17 Thread James C. McPherson
they are ready I will announce their availability as soon as I possibly can. 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] Intel X25-E SSD in x4500 followup

2009-09-12 Thread James C. McPherson
were definitely not the recommended actions! Given the rest of this thread, I'm really keen to see (as somebody who works on mpt(7d)) how your system behaves with fixed SSD firmware, using mpt(7d) and with disk fma turned on again. After that, let's talk about broken drivers. James C

Re: [zfs-discuss] Zfs deduplication

2009-08-03 Thread James C. McPherson
. The video from the session is now being edited, however, with more than one hour of footage to process, and only one person to do it this is taking a while to get finished. James C. McPherson -- Senior Kernel Software Engineer, Solaris Sun Microsystems http://blogs.sun.com/jmcp http

Re: [zfs-discuss] [storage-discuss] ZFS and deduplication

2009-08-02 Thread James C. McPherson
On Sun, 02 Aug 2009 15:26:12 -0700 (PDT) Andre Lue no-re...@opensolaris.org wrote: Was de-duplication slated for snv_119? No. If not can anyone say which snv_xxx and in which form will we see it (synchronous, asynchronous both)? No, and no. Sorry, James -- Senior Kernel Software Engineer,

Re: [zfs-discuss] Fed up with ZFS causing data loss

2009-07-31 Thread James C. McPherson
Loop disk device driver SYNOPSIS s...@port,target:partition You won't see an ssd instance on x86, only on sparc. James C. McPherson -- Senior Kernel Software Engineer, Solaris Sun Microsystems http://blogs.sun.com/jmcp http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog Kernel Conference Australia

[zfs-discuss] article on btrfs, comparison with zfs

2009-07-30 Thread James C. McPherson
An introduction to btrfs, from somebody who used to work on ZFS: http://www.osnews.com/story/21920/A_Short_History_of_btrfs James C. McPherson -- Senior Kernel Software Engineer, Solaris Sun Microsystems http://blogs.sun.com/jmcp http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog Kernel Conference

Re: [zfs-discuss] deduplication

2009-07-27 Thread James C. McPherson
in both Bill and Jeff's keynote as well as their roundtable discussion. We had some problems with audio and video quality during the conference, I think that's had an impact on what we've been able to put up for viewing. I will find out more and post when I have some facts on it. James C

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