Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Storage server hardwae

2010-08-26 Thread Tom Buskey
On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 12:29 PM, Dr. Martin Mundschenk m.mundsch...@me.com wrote: Well, I wonder what are the components to build a stable system without having an enterprise solution: eSATA, USB, FireWire, FibreChannel? If possible to get a card to fit into a MacMini, eSATA would be a

Re: [zfs-discuss] zpool import issue after a crash - Followup

2010-06-29 Thread Tom Buskey
I'm not sure I didn't have dedup enabled. I might have. As it happens, the system rebooted and is now in single user mode. I'm trying another import. Most services are not running which should free ram. If it crashes again, I'll try the live CD while I see about more RAM. Success. I

[zfs-discuss] zpool import issue after a crash

2010-06-11 Thread Tom Buskey
My power supply failed. After I replaced it, I had issues staying up after doing zpool import -f. I reinstalled OpenSolaris 134 on my rpool and still had issues. I have 5 pools: rpool - 1*37GB data - RAIDZ, 4*500GB data1 - RAID1 2*750GB data2 - RAID1 2*750GB data3 - RAID1 2*2TB - WD20EARS The

Re: [zfs-discuss] zpool import issue after a crash

2010-06-11 Thread Tom Buskey
to 4GB though. That's why I exported the other zpools - to free up RAM. The rule is 1GB/TB right? I have about 4.5 TB with 3 GB RAM so I'm a bit over that rule. Thanks, Cindy On 06/11/10 10:27, Tom Buskey wrote: My power supply failed. After I replaced it, I had issues staying up

Re: [zfs-discuss] zpool import issue after a crash

2010-06-11 Thread Tom Buskey
Tom, If you freshly installed the root pool, then those devices should be okay so that wasn't a good test. The other pools should remain unaffected by the install, and I hope, from the power failure. Yes. I was able to import them and have since exported them. We've seen device

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS with Rational (ClearCase VOB) Supported ???

2009-01-30 Thread Tom Buskey
I'm running ClearCase on a Solaris 10u4 system. Views vobs. I lock the vob, snapshot /var/adm/rational, vobs, views, then unlock the vobs. We've been able to copy the snapshot to another server restore. I believe ClearCase is supported by Rational on ZFS also. We would not have done it

[zfs-discuss] time slider cleanup errors

2009-01-22 Thread Tom Buskey
I'm running OpenSolaris 10/08 snv_101b with the auto snapshot packages. I'm getting this error: /usr/lib/time-slider-cleanup -y Traceback (most recent call last): File /usr/lib/time-slider-cleanup, line 10, in module main(abspath(__file__)) File

Re: [zfs-discuss] Windows XP nfs client poor performance

2008-10-27 Thread Tom Buskey
I've found that SFU NFS is pretty poor in general. I setup Samba on the host system. Let the client stay native have the server adapt. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [zfs-discuss] SATA controller suggestion

2008-06-09 Thread Tom Buskey
On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 16:23, Tom Buskey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have an AMD 939 MB w/ Nvidea on the motherboard and 4 500GB SATA II drives in a RAIDZ. ... I get 550 MB/s I doubt this number a lot. That's almost 200 (550/N-1 = 183) MB/s per disk, and drives I've seen are usually

Re: [zfs-discuss] SATA controller suggestion

2008-06-09 Thread Tom Buskey
time gdd if=/dev/zero bs=1048576 count=10240 of=/data/video/x real 0m13.503s user 0m0.016s sys 0m8.981s As someone pointed out, this is a compressed file system :-) I'll have to get a copy of Bonnie++ or some such to get more accurate numbers This message posted from

Re: [zfs-discuss] SATA controller suggestion

2008-06-06 Thread Tom Buskey
**pci or pci-x.  Yes, you might see *SOME* loss in speed from a pci interface, but let's be honest, there aren't a whole lot of users on this list that have the infrastructure to use greater than 100MB/sec who are asking this sort of question.  A PCI bus should have no issues pushing that.br

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS sharing options for Windows

2008-06-02 Thread Tom Buskey
Justin, Thanks for the reply In the environment I currently work in, the powers that be are almost completely anti unix. Installing the nfs client on all machines would take a real good sales pitch. None the less I am still I've pro unix I'm against putting NFS on all the PC clients

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Project Hardware

2008-06-02 Thread Tom Buskey
(2) You want a 64-bit CPU. So that probably rules out your P4 machines, unless they were extremely late-model P4s with the EM64T features. Given that file-serving alone is relatively low-CPU, you can get away with practically any 64-bit capable CPU made in the last 4 years. Assuming

[zfs-discuss] ZFS boot mirror

2008-05-21 Thread Tom Buskey
I've always done a disksuite mirror of the boot disk. It's been easry to do after the install in Solaris. WIth Linux I had do do it during the install. OpenSolaris 2008.05 didn't give me an option. How do I add my 2nd drive to the boot zpool to make it a mirror? This message posted from

Re: [zfs-discuss] The ZFS inventor and Linus sitting in a tree?

2008-05-20 Thread Tom Buskey
On May 18, 2008, at 14:01, Mario Goebbels wrote: ZFS on Linux on humper would actually be very interesting to many of them. I think that's good for Sun. Of course, ZFS on Linux on Umm, how many Linux shops buy support and/or HW from Sun ? It it's a Linux shop money is (in

Re: [zfs-discuss] 3ware support

2008-02-13 Thread Tom Buskey
Are you using the Supermicro in Solaris or OpenSolaris? Which version? 64 bit or 32 bits? I'm asking because I recently went through a number of SCSI cards that are in the HCL as supported, but do not have 64 bit drivers. So they only work in 32 bit mode. This message posted from

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

2007-12-17 Thread Tom Buskey
Where do you get an 8 port SATA card that works with Solaris for around $100? This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Yager on ZFS

2007-12-03 Thread Tom Buskey
I never said I was a typical consumer. After all, I bought a $1600 DSLR. If you look around photo forums, you'll see an interest the digital workflow which includes long term storage and archiving. A chunk of these users will opt for an external RAID box (10%? 20%?). I suspect ZFS will

Re: [zfs-discuss] Yager on ZFS

2007-11-29 Thread Tom Buskey
Getting back to 'consumer' use for a moment, though, given that something like 90% of consumers entrust their PC data to the tender mercies of Windows, and a large percentage of those neither back up their data, nor use RAID to guard against media failures, nor protect it effectively from

Re: [zfs-discuss] Single SAN Lun presented to 4 Hosts

2007-08-28 Thread Tom Buskey
If you have disks to experiment on corrupt (and you will!) try this: System A mounts the SAN [b]disk[/b] and format w/ UFS System A umounts [b]disk[/b] System B mounts [b]disk[/b] B runs [i]touch x[/i] on [b]disk[/b]. System A mounts [b]disk[/b] System A and B umount [b]disk[/b] System B

[zfs-discuss] Re: Re: Need guidance on RAID 5, ZFS, and RAIDZ on home file server

2007-05-24 Thread Tom Buskey
On Wed, May 23, 2007 at 08:03:41AM -0700, Tom Buskey wrote: Solaris is 64 bits with support for 32 bits. I've been running 64 bit Solaris since Solaris 7 as I imagine most Solaris users have. I don't think any other major 64 bit OS has been in general use as long (VMS?). IRIX, AIX

[zfs-discuss] Re: Need guidance on RAID 5, ZFS, and RAIDZ on home file server

2007-05-23 Thread Tom Buskey
Sorry about that, the specific processor in question is the Pentium D 930 which supports 64 bit computing through the Extended Memory 64 Technology. It was my initial reaction to say I'd go with 32 bit computing because my general experience with 64-bit is Windows, Linux, and some FreeBSD.

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: A quick ZFS question: RAID-Z Disk Replacement + Growth ?

2007-05-14 Thread Tom Buskey
I did this on Solaris 10u3. 4 120GB - 4 500GB drives. Replace, resilver; repeat until all all drives replaced. On 5/14/07, Alec Muffett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, My mate Chris posed me the following; rather than flail about with engineering friends trying to get a

[zfs-discuss] ZFS raid on removable media for backups/temporary use possible?

2007-05-07 Thread Tom Buskey
I've been using long SATA cables routed out through the case to a home built chassis with its own power supply for a year now. Not even eSATA. That part works well. Substitute this for USB/Firewire/SCSI/USB thumb drives. It's really the same problem. Ok, now you want to deal with a ZFS

[zfs-discuss] Re: Shrinking a zpool?

2007-02-13 Thread Tom Buskey
No 'home user' needs shrink. Every professional datacenter needs shrink. I can think of a scenario. I have a n disk RAID that I built with n newly purchased disks that are m GB. One dies. I buy a replacement disk, also m GB but when I put it in, it's really ( m - x ) GB. I need to shrink

[zfs-discuss] Re: Re: Cheap ZFS homeserver.

2007-02-07 Thread Tom Buskey
Tom Buskey wrote: As a followup, the system I'm trying to use this on is a dual PII 400 with 512MB. Real low budget. Hmm... that's lower than I would have expected. Something is ikely wrong. These machines do have very limited memory How fast can you DD from the raw device to /dev

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: Re: Cheap ZFS homeserver.

2007-02-07 Thread Tom Buskey
Sorry, that's dd from /dev/zero to /dev/null I think there's an issue with my SATA card On 2/7/07, Bart Smaalders [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tom Buskey wrote: Tom Buskey wrote: As a followup, the system I'm trying to use this on is a dual PII 400 with 512MB. Real low budget. Hmm... that's

[zfs-discuss] Re: Cheap ZFS homeserver.

2007-01-31 Thread Tom Buskey
As a followup, the system I'm trying to use this on is a dual PII 400 with 512MB. Real low budget. 2 500 GB drives with 2 120 GB in a RAIDZ. The idea is that I can get 2 more 500 GB drives later to get full capacity. I tested going from a 20GB to a 120GB and that worked well. I'm finding

[zfs-discuss] Re: Re: Cheap ZFS homeserver.

2007-01-31 Thread Tom Buskey
That's good to know. It's a new Addonics 4 port card. Specifically: ADS3GX4R5-ERAID5/JBOD 4-port ext. SATA II PCI-X prtconf -v output: pci1095,7124, instance #0 Driver properties: name='sata' type=int items=1 dev=none . name='compatible'

[zfs-discuss] Re: What SATA controllers are people using for ZFS?

2007-01-19 Thread Tom Buskey
I've been using the syba 4port card on linux and it works well. I bricked another one trying to downgrade the bios so it was just disks, no RAID. Ah, $20 gone. So I got an Addonics eSata card. Sata 3.0. PCI *or* PCI-X. Works right off the bat w/ 10u3. No firmware update needed. It was

[zfs-discuss] Re: Re: Adding disk to a RAID-Z?

2007-01-10 Thread Tom Buskey
[i]I think the original poster, was thinking that non-enterprise users would be most interested in only having to *purchase* one drive at a time. Enterprise users aren't likely to balk at purchasing 6-10 drives at a time, so for them adding an additional *new* RaidZ to stripe across is easier.

[zfs-discuss] Adding disk to a RAID-Z?

2007-01-08 Thread Tom Buskey
I want to setup a ZFS server with RAID-Z. Right now I have 3 disks. In 6 months, I want to add a 4th drive and still have everything under RAID-Z without a backup/wipe/restore scenario. Is this possible? I've used NetApps in the past (1996 even!) and they do it. I think they're using