Re: [zfs-discuss] Feature Request for zfs pool/filesystem protection?

2013-02-20 Thread Mike Gerdts
': snapshot is busy Extending the hold mechanism to filesystems and volumes would be quite nice. Mike ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Very poor small-block random write performance

2012-07-19 Thread Traffanstead, Mike
vfs.zfs.txg.synctime_ms: 1000 vfs.zfs.txg.timeout: 5 On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 8:47 PM, John Martin john.m.mar...@oracle.com wrote: On 07/19/12 19:27, Jim Klimov wrote: However, if the test file was written in 128K blocks and then is rewritten with 64K blocks, then Bob's answer is probably

Re: [zfs-discuss] Benefits of enabling compression in ZFS for the zones

2012-07-10 Thread Mike Gerdts
$ du -k 1gig 0 1gig -- Mike Gerdts http://mgerdts.blogspot.com/ ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Occasional storm of xcalls on segkmem_zio_free

2012-06-12 Thread Mike Gerdts
happen): If processing in interrupt context (use intrstat) is dominating cpu usage, you may be able to use pcitool to cause the device generating all of those expensive interrupts to be moved to another CPU. -- Mike Gerdts http://mgerdts.blogspot.com

Re: [zfs-discuss] Strange hang during snapshot receive

2012-05-10 Thread Mike Gerdts
(such as https://pkg.oracle.com/solaris/support), I suggest reading https://forums.oracle.com/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=2380689tstart=15 before updating to SRU 6 (SRU 5 is fine, however). The fix for the problem mentioned in that forums thread should show up in an upcoming SRU via CR 7157313. -- Mike

Re: [zfs-discuss] test for holes in a file?

2012-03-26 Thread Mike Gerdts
2012/3/26 ольга крыжановская olga.kryzhanov...@gmail.com: How can I test if a file on ZFS has holes, i.e. is a sparse file, using the C api? See SEEK_HOLE in lseek(2). -- Mike Gerdts http://mgerdts.blogspot.com/ ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs

Re: [zfs-discuss] test for holes in a file?

2012-03-26 Thread Mike Gerdts
[ 1332804325.889143166 ] bsz=131072 blks=32fs=zfs Notice that it says it has 32 512 byte blocks. The mechanism you suggest does work for every other file system that I've tried it on. -- Mike Gerdts http://mgerdts.blogspot.com/ ___ zfs-discuss mailing

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

2011-12-21 Thread Mike Gerdts
/dev/chassis//SYS/SASBP/HDD1/disk disk c0t5000CCA012B68AC8d0 The text in the left column represents text that should be printed on the corresponding disk slots. -- Mike Gerdts http://mgerdts.blogspot.com/ ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs

Re: [zfs-discuss] gaining access to var from a live cd

2011-11-29 Thread Mike Gerdts
mount -o mountpoint=/mnt/rpool/var rpool/ROOT/solaris/var -- Mike Gerdts http://mgerdts.blogspot.com/ ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] gaining access to var from a live cd

2011-11-29 Thread Mike Gerdts
-- Mike Gerdts http://mgerdts.blogspot.com/ ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] FS Reliability WAS: about btrfs and zfs

2011-10-21 Thread Mike Gerdts
were issued. I'd never do that in production without some form of I/O fencing in place. -- Mike Gerdts http://mgerdts.blogspot.com/ ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Kernel panic on zpool import. 200G of data inaccessible!

2011-08-05 Thread Mike Gerdts
On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 2:47 PM, Stuart James Whitefish swhitef...@yahoo.com wrote: # zpool import -f tank http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/13/zfsimportfail.jpg/ I encourage you to open a support case and ask for an escalation on CR 7056738. -- Mike Gerdts http://mgerdts.blogspot.com

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs rename query

2011-07-27 Thread Mike Gerdts
of: zlogin z1c1 init 0 zoneadm -z z1c1 detach zfs rename rpool/zones/z1c1 rpool/new/z1c1 zoneadm -z z1c1 'set zonepath=/new/z1c1' zoneadm -z z1c1 attach zoneadm -z z1c1 boot -- Mike Gerdts http://mgerdts.blogspot.com/ ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] What is .$EXTEND/$QUOTA ?

2011-07-19 Thread Mike Gerdts
. This is created in 757 * a special directory, $EXTEND, at the root of the shared file 758 * system. To hide this directory prepend a '.' (dot). 759 */ -- Mike Gerdts http://mgerdts.blogspot.com/ ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Summary: Dedup memory and performance (again, again)

2011-07-15 Thread Mike Gerdts
-discuss -- Mike Gerdts http://mgerdts.blogspot.com/ ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Non-Global zone recovery

2011-07-07 Thread Mike Gerdts
follow-ups should probably go to Oracle Support or zones-discuss. Your problems are not related to zfs. -- Mike Gerdts http://mgerdts.blogspot.com/ ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs

Re: [zfs-discuss] FW: Solaris panic

2011-03-17 Thread Mike Gerdts
/zfs-discuss -- Mike Gerdts http://mgerdts.blogspot.com/ ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

[zfs-discuss] zfs-nfs-sun 7000 series

2011-03-10 Thread Mike MacNeil
are the underlying file system zfs vs ufs. Any thoughts to speed up the backup of the Sun 7000 nfs mount? Thanks you. Mike MacNeil Global IT Infrastructure [cid:image001.gif@01CBDF3D.6192F090] 4281 Harvester Rd. Burlington, ON l7l 5m4 Canada Phone: 905 632 2999 ext.2920 Fax: 905 632 2055 Email

Re: [zfs-discuss] External SATA drive enclosures + ZFS?

2011-02-25 Thread Mike Tancsa
to Canada as well without issue) Why use USB ? You wll get much better performance/throughput on eSata (if you have good drivers of course). I use their sil3124 eSata controller on FreeBSD as well as a number of PM units and they work great. ---Mike -- --- Mike Tancsa, tel

Re: [zfs-discuss] multiple disk failure (solved?)

2011-02-01 Thread Mike Tancsa
On 1/31/2011 4:19 PM, Mike Tancsa wrote: On 1/31/2011 3:14 PM, Cindy Swearingen wrote: Hi Mike, Yes, this is looking much better. Some combination of removing corrupted files indicated in the zpool status -v output, running zpool scrub and then zpool clear should resolve the corruption

Re: [zfs-discuss] multiple disk failure (solved?)

2011-01-31 Thread Mike Tancsa
On 1/29/2011 6:18 PM, Richard Elling wrote: On Jan 29, 2011, at 12:58 PM, Mike Tancsa wrote: On 1/29/2011 12:57 PM, Richard Elling wrote: 0(offsite)# zpool status pool: tank1 state: UNAVAIL status: One or more devices could not be opened. There are insufficient replicas

Re: [zfs-discuss] multiple disk failure (solved?)

2011-01-31 Thread Mike Tancsa
On 1/31/2011 3:14 PM, Cindy Swearingen wrote: Hi Mike, Yes, this is looking much better. Some combination of removing corrupted files indicated in the zpool status -v output, running zpool scrub and then zpool clear should resolve the corruption, but its depends on how bad the corruption

Re: [zfs-discuss] multiple disk failure

2011-01-30 Thread Mike Tancsa
On 1/30/2011 12:39 AM, Richard Elling wrote: Hmmm, doesnt look good on any of the drives. I'm not sure of the way BSD enumerates devices. Some clever person thought that hiding the partition or slice would be useful. I don't find it useful. On a Solaris system, ZFS can show a disk

Re: [zfs-discuss] multiple disk failure

2011-01-29 Thread Mike Tancsa
)# ---Mike ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] multiple disk failure

2011-01-29 Thread Mike Tancsa
for backups of backups in a DR site ---Mike ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] multiple disk failure

2011-01-29 Thread Mike Tancsa
On 1/29/2011 6:18 PM, Richard Elling wrote: 0(offsite)# The next step is to run zdb -l and look for all 4 labels. Something like: zdb -l /dev/ada2 If all 4 labels exist for each drive and appear intact, then look more closely at how the OS locates the vdevs. If you can't solve the

[zfs-discuss] multiple disk failure

2011-01-28 Thread Mike Tancsa
Hi, I am using FreeBSD 8.2 and went to add 4 new disks today to expand my offsite storage. All was working fine for about 20min and then the new drive cage started to fail. Silly me for assuming new hardware would be fine :( The new drive cage started to fail, it hung the server and the

[zfs-discuss] zpool import crashes system

2010-11-11 Thread Mike DeMarco
I am trying to bring in my zpool from build 121 into build 134 and every time I do a zpool import the system crashes. I have read other posts for this and have tried setting zfs_recover = 1 and aok = 1 in /etc/system I have used mdb to verify that they are in the kernel but the system still

Re: [zfs-discuss] Moving the 17 zones from one LUN to another LUN

2010-10-27 Thread Mike Gerdts
On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 9:27 AM, bhanu prakash bhanu.sys...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Mike, Thanks for the information... Actually the requirement is like this. Please let me know whether it matches for the below requirement or not. Question: The SAN team will assign the new LUN’s on EMC DMX4

Re: [zfs-discuss] hardware going bad

2010-10-27 Thread Mike Gerdts
. Perhaps this belongs somewhere other than zfs-discuss - it has nothing to do with zfs. -- Mike Gerdts http://mgerdts.blogspot.com/ ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Moving the 17 zones from one LUN to another LUN

2010-10-26 Thread Mike Gerdts
that you are comfortable that the zone data moved over ok... zfs destroy -r oldpool/zones Again, verify the procedure works on a test/lab/whatever box before trying it for real. -- Mike Gerdts http://mgerdts.blogspot.com/ ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs

Re: [zfs-discuss] making sense of arcstat.pl output

2010-10-01 Thread Mike Harsch
For posterity, I'd like to point out the following: neel's original arcstat.pl uses a crude scaling routine that results in a large loss of precision as numbers cross from Kilobytes to Megabytes to Gigabytes. The 1G reported arc size case described here, could actually be anywhere between

Re: [zfs-discuss] making sense of arcstat.pl output

2010-10-01 Thread Mike Harsch
Hello Christian, Thanks for bringing this to my attention. I believe I've fixed the rounding error in the latest version. http://github.com/mharsch/arcstat -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list

Re: [zfs-discuss] making sense of arcstat.pl output

2010-10-01 Thread Mike Harsch
przemol, Thanks for the feedback. I had incorrectly assumed that any machine running the script would have L2ARC implemented (which is not the case with Solaris 10). I've added a check for this that allows the script to work on non-L2ARC machines as long as you don't specify L2ARC stats on

Re: [zfs-discuss] file level clones

2010-09-27 Thread Mike Gerdts
On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 6:23 AM, Robert Milkowski mi...@task.gda.pl wrote: snip Also see http://www.symantec.com/connect/virtualstoreserver And http://blog.scottlowe.org/2008/12/03/2031-enhancements-to-netapp-cloning-technology/ -- Mike Gerdts http://mgerdts.blogspot.com

Re: [zfs-discuss] non-ECC Systems and ZFS for home users (was: Please warn a home user against OpenSolaris under VirtualBox under WinXP ; ))

2010-09-23 Thread Mike.
On 9/23/2010 at 12:38 PM Erik Trimble wrote: | [snip] |If you don't really care about ultra-low-power, then there's absolutely |no excuse not to buy a USED server-class machine which is 1- or 2- |generations back. They're dirt cheap, readily available, | [snip] = Anyone have

[zfs-discuss] recordsize

2010-09-16 Thread Mike DeMarco
it effect that data? zpool consists of 8 SANs Luns. Thanks mike -- 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] Mac OS X clients with ZFS server

2010-09-16 Thread Mike Mackovitch
On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 08:15:53AM -0700, Rich Teer wrote: On Thu, 16 Sep 2010, Erik Ableson wrote: OpenSolaris snv129 Hmm, SXCE snv_130 here. Did you have to do any server-side tuning (e.g., allowing remote connections), or did it just work out of the box? I know that Sendmail needs

Re: [zfs-discuss] Mac OS X clients with ZFS server

2010-09-15 Thread Mike Mackovitch
On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 12:08:20PM -0700, Nabil wrote: any resolution to this issue? I'm experiencing the same annoying lockd thing with mac osx 10.6 clients. I am at pool ver 14, fs ver 3. Would somehow going back to the earlier 8/2 setup make things better? As noted in the earlier

Re: [zfs-discuss] How to migrate to 4KB sector drives?

2010-09-12 Thread Mike Gerdts
, to be released on Tuesday, is based on b146 or later. -- Mike Gerdts http://mgerdts.blogspot.com/ ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] VM's on ZFS - 7210

2010-08-28 Thread Mike Gerdts
With this in place, I would imagine a next step is for zfs to issue TRIM commands as zil entries have been committed to the data disks. -- Mike Gerdts http://mgerdts.blogspot.com/ ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http

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

2010-08-25 Thread Mike Kirk
Update: version 3.2.5 out now, with changes to better support snv_134: http://forums.halcyoninc.com/showthread.php?t=368 If you've downloaded v3.2.4 and are on 09/06, there is no reason to upgrade. Regards, mike.k...@halcyoninc.com -- This message posted from opensolaris.org

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

2010-08-20 Thread Mike Kirk
Hi zfs user, Is the beta free? for how long? if not how much for 5 machines? Everything on our web site (including the beta) runs for 30 days with the baked-in license. After 30 days it will stop collecting fresh numbers, unless you add a license key, or a demo extension file from the sales

Re: [zfs-discuss] EMC migration and zfs

2010-08-16 Thread Mike DeMarco
Bump this up. Anyone? -- 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] New Supermicro SAS/SATA controller: AOC-USAS2-L8e in SOHO NAS and HD HTPC

2010-08-16 Thread Mike DeMarco
What I would really like to know is why do pci-e raid controller cards cost more than an entire motherboard with processor. Some cards can cost over $1,000 dollars, for what. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list

Re: [zfs-discuss] Moving /export to another zpool

2010-08-13 Thread Mike Gerdts
can I mount my first drive that has opensolaris installed ? To list the zpools it can see: zpool import To import one called rpool at an alternate root: zpool import -R /mnt rpool -- Mike Gerdts http://mgerdts.blogspot.com/ ___ zfs-discuss mailing

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS development moving behind closed doors

2010-08-13 Thread Mike M
On 8/13/2010 at 8:56 PM Eric D. Mudama wrote: |On Fri, Aug 13 at 19:06, Frank Cusack wrote: |Interesting POV, and I agree. Most of the many distributions of |OpenSolaris had very little value-add. Nexenta was the most interesting |and why should Oracle enable them to build a business at their

[zfs-discuss] zfs allow does not work for rpool

2010-07-28 Thread Mike DeMarco
I am trying to give a general user permissions to create zfs filesystems in the rpool. zpool set=delegation=on rpool zfs allow user create rpool both run without any issues. zfs allow rpool reports the user does have create permissions. zfs create rpool/test cannot create rpool/test :

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs allow does not work for rpool

2010-07-28 Thread Mike DeMarco
Thanks adding mount did allow me to create it but does not allow me to create the mountpoint. -- 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] NFS performance?

2010-07-26 Thread Mike Gerdts
On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 1:27 AM, Garrett D'Amore garr...@nexenta.com wrote: On Sun, 2010-07-25 at 21:39 -0500, Mike Gerdts wrote: On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 8:50 PM, Garrett D'Amore garr...@nexenta.com wrote: On Sun, 2010-07-25 at 17:53 -0400, Saxon, Will wrote: I think there may be very good

Re: [zfs-discuss] NFS performance?

2010-07-26 Thread Mike Gerdts
On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 2:56 PM, Miles Nordin car...@ivy.net wrote: mg == Mike Gerdts mger...@gmail.com writes:    mg it is rather common to have multiple 1 Gb links to    mg servers going to disparate switches so as to provide    mg resilience in the face of switch failures

Re: [zfs-discuss] NFS performance?

2010-07-25 Thread Mike Gerdts
there was an option to load balance using a round robin hashing algorithm. When pushing high network loads this may cause performance problems with reassembly. -- Mike Gerdts http://mgerdts.blogspot.com/ ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [zfs-discuss] Hashing files rapidly on ZFS

2010-07-07 Thread Mike Gerdts
, otherwise the checksum will get changed by the archiving agent. What is the likelihood that the same data is re-written to the file? If that is unlikely, it looks as though znode_t's z_seq may be useful. While it isn't a checksum, it seems to be incremented on every file change. -- Mike Gerdts

Re: [zfs-discuss] Expected throughput

2010-07-04 Thread Mike Gerdts
of reads that didn't turn into physical I/Os. -- Mike Gerdts http://mgerdts.blogspot.com/ ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Expected throughput

2010-07-04 Thread Mike Gerdts
with options like: netperf -H $host -t TCP_RR -r 32768 -l 30 That is speculation based on reading http://www.netperf.org/netperf/training/Netperf.html. Someone else (perhaps on networking or performance lists) may have better tests to run. -- Mike Gerdts http://mgerdts.blogspot.com

Re: [zfs-discuss] Expected throughput

2010-07-04 Thread Mike Gerdts
block size? How does 32 KB compare to the block size on the relevant zfs filesystem or zvol? Are blocks aligned at the various layers? http://blogs.sun.com/dlutz/entry/partition_alignment_guidelines_for_unified -- Mike Gerdts http://mgerdts.blogspot.com

Re: [zfs-discuss] Use of blocksize (-b) during zfs zvol create, poor performance

2010-06-30 Thread Mike La Spina
' outputs on a 5 min interval and a 'zpool iostat -v 30 5' which would help visualize the I/O behavior. Regards, Mike http://blog.laspina.ca/ -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http

Re: [zfs-discuss] COMSTAR ISCSI - configuration export/import

2010-06-28 Thread Mike Devlin
I havnt tried it yet, but supposedly this will backup/restore the comstar config: $ svccfg export -a stmf ⁠comstar⁠.bak.${DATE} If you ever need to restore the configuration, you can attach the storage and run an import: $ svccfg import ⁠comstar⁠.bak.${DATE} - Mike On 6/28/10, bso

Re: [zfs-discuss] VXFS to ZFS Quota

2010-06-18 Thread Mike Gerdts
of engineering where group projects were common and CAD, EDA, and simulation tools could generate big files very quickly. -- Mike Gerdts http://mgerdts.blogspot.com/ ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman

Re: [zfs-discuss] Dedup... still in beta status

2010-06-15 Thread Mike Gerdts
I would have written it for the last decade or so... -- Mike Gerdts http://mgerdts.blogspot.com/ ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Sun Flash Accelerator F20

2010-06-10 Thread Mike Gerdts
there are two blocks that are identical, thus confounding deduplication as well. -- Mike Gerdts http://mgerdts.blogspot.com/ ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Small stalls slowing down rsync from holding network saturation every 5 seconds

2010-05-31 Thread Mike Gerdts
that the idle time reaches 0 or the process' latency column is more then a few tenths of a percent, you are probably short on CPU. It could also be that interrupts are stealing cycles from rsync. Placing it in a processor set with interrupts disabled in that processor set may help. -- Mike Gerdts

Re: [zfs-discuss] Small stalls slowing down rsync from holding network saturation every 5 seconds

2010-05-31 Thread Mike Gerdts
Sorry, turned on html mode to avoid gmail's line wrapping. On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 4:58 PM, Sandon Van Ness san...@van-ness.comwrote: On 05/31/2010 02:52 PM, Mike Gerdts wrote: On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 4:32 PM, Sandon Van Ness san...@van-ness.com wrote: On 05/31/2010 01:51 PM, Bob

Re: [zfs-discuss] Is it safe to disable the swap partition?

2010-05-09 Thread Mike Gerdts
that have been swapped out are never scheduled) then those pages will not consume RAM. The best thing to do with processes that can be swapped out forever is to not run them. -- Mike Gerdts http://mgerdts.blogspot.com/ ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs

Re: [zfs-discuss] Mac OS X clients with ZFS server

2010-04-22 Thread Mike Mackovitch
On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 12:40:37PM -0700, Rich Teer wrote: On Thu, 22 Apr 2010, Tomas Ögren wrote: Copying via terminal (and cp) works. Interesting: if I copy a file *which has no extended attributes* using cp in a terminal, it works fine. If I try to cp a file that has EA (to the same

Re: [zfs-discuss] Mac OS X clients with ZFS server

2010-04-22 Thread Mike Mackovitch
On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 01:54:26PM -0700, Rich Teer wrote: On Thu, 22 Apr 2010, Mike Mackovitch wrote: Hi Mike, So, it looks like you need to investigate why the client isn't getting responses from the server's lockd. This is usually caused by a firewall or NAT getting in the way

[zfs-discuss] Why does ARC grow above hard limit?

2010-04-05 Thread Mike Z
I would appreciate if somebody can clarify a few points. I am doing some random WRITES (100% writes, 100% random) testing and observe that ARC grows way beyond the hard limit during the test. The hard limit is set 512 MB via /etc/system and I see the size going up to 1 GB - how come is it

[zfs-discuss] ZFS behavior under limited resources

2010-04-02 Thread Mike Z
I am trying to see how ZFS behaves under resource starvation - corner cases in embedded environments. I see some very strange behavior. Any help/explanation would really be appreciated. My current setup is : OpenSolaris 111b (iSCSI seems to be broken in 132 - unable to get multiple

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs diff

2010-03-29 Thread Mike Gerdts
systems will millions of files with relatively few changes. -- Mike Gerdts http://mgerdts.blogspot.com/ ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Thoughts on ZFS Pool Backup Strategies

2010-03-20 Thread Mike Gerdts
the NDMP_CONFIG_GET_BUTYPE_INFO request. http://www.ndmp.org/download/sdk_v4/draft-skardal-ndmp4-04.txt It seems pretty clear from this that an NDMP data stream can contain most anything and is dependent on the device being backed up. -- Mike Gerdts http://mgerdts.blogspot.com

Re: [zfs-discuss] Thoughts on ZFS Pool Backup Strategies

2010-03-18 Thread Mike Gerdts
zfs send | zfs receive. -- Mike Gerdts http://mgerdts.blogspot.com/ ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] [OT] excess zfs-discuss mailman digests

2010-02-08 Thread Mike Gerdts
/. -- Mike Gerdts http://mgerdts.blogspot.com/ ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] zero out block / sectors

2010-01-25 Thread Mike Gerdts
On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 2:32 AM, Kjetil Torgrim Homme kjeti...@linpro.no wrote: Mike Gerdts mger...@gmail.com writes: John Hoogerdijk wrote: Is there a way to zero out unused blocks in a pool?  I'm looking for ways to shrink the size of an opensolaris virtualbox VM and using the compact

Re: [zfs-discuss] zero out block / sectors

2010-01-23 Thread Mike Gerdts
On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 11:55 AM, John Hoogerdijk john.hoogerd...@sun.com wrote: Mike Gerdts wrote: On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 1:00 PM, John Hoogerdijk john.hoogerd...@sun.com wrote: Is there a way to zero out unused blocks in a pool?  I'm looking for ways to shrink the size

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs send/receive as backup - reliability?

2010-01-22 Thread Mike Gerdts
and to be able to extract your data after you no longer use netbackup. -- Mike Gerdts http://mgerdts.blogspot.com/ ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] zero out block / sectors

2010-01-22 Thread Mike Gerdts
should be able to just use mkfile or dd if=/dev/zero ... to create a file that consumes most of the free space then delete that file. Certainly it is not an ideal solution, but seems quite likely to be effective. -- Mike Gerdts http://mgerdts.blogspot.com

Re: [zfs-discuss] Dedup memory overhead

2010-01-21 Thread Mike Gerdts
32 Jan 22 04:13 sha256 -rw-r--r-- 1 428411 Jan 22 04:14 sha256.Z -rw-r--r-- 1 321846 Jan 22 04:14 sha256.bz2 -rw-r--r-- 1 320068 Jan 22 04:14 sha256.gz -- Mike Gerdts http://mgerdts.blogspot.com/ ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs send/receive as backup - reliability?

2010-01-19 Thread Mike La Spina
I use zfs send/recv in the enterprise and in smaller environments all time and it's is excellent. Have a look at how awesome the functionally is in this example. http://blog.laspina.ca/ubiquitous/provisioning_disaster_recovery_with_zfs Regards, Mike -- This message posted from

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs send/receive as backup - reliability?

2010-01-16 Thread Mike Gerdts
in the successor to flash archives. This initial proposal seems to imply using the same mechanism for a system image backup (instead of just system provisioning). http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/caiman-discuss/2010-January/015909.html -- Mike Gerdts http://mgerdts.blogspot.com

Re: [zfs-discuss] [zones-discuss] Zones on shared storage - a warning

2010-01-08 Thread Mike Gerdts
a pkg image create followed by *multiple* pkg install invocations. No checksum errors pop up there. -- Mike Gerdts http://mgerdts.blogspot.com/ ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs

Re: [zfs-discuss] [zones-discuss] Zones on shared storage - a warning

2010-01-08 Thread Mike Gerdts
, but the fix might be to remove the option. This unsupported feature is supported with the use of Sun Ops Center 2.5 when a zone is put on a NAS Storage Library. -- Mike Gerdts http://mgerdts.blogspot.com/ ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [zfs-discuss] [zones-discuss] Zones on shared storage - a warning

2010-01-08 Thread Mike Gerdts
On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 5:28 AM, Frank Batschulat (Home) frank.batschu...@sun.com wrote: [snip] Hey Mike, you're not the only victim of these strange CHKSUM errors, I hit the same during my slightely different testing, where I'm NFS mounting an entire, pre-existing remote file living

Re: [zfs-discuss] [zones-discuss] Zones on shared storage - a warning

2010-01-08 Thread Mike Gerdts
On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 9:11 AM, Mike Gerdts mger...@gmail.com wrote: I've seen similar errors on Solaris 10 in the primary domain and on a M4000.  Unfortunately Solaris 10 doesn't show the checksums in the ereport.  There I noticed a mixture between read errors and checksum errors - and lots

Re: [zfs-discuss] [zones-discuss] Zones on shared storage - a warning

2010-01-08 Thread Mike Gerdts
On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 12:28 PM, Torrey McMahon tmcmah...@yahoo.com wrote: On 1/8/2010 10:04 AM, James Carlson wrote: Mike Gerdts wrote: This unsupported feature is supported with the use of Sun Ops Center 2.5 when a zone is put on a NAS Storage Library. Ah, ok.  I didn't know

Re: [zfs-discuss] Zones on shared storage - a warning

2010-01-07 Thread Mike Gerdts
[removed zones-discuss after sending heads-up that the conversation will continue at zfs-discuss] On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 5:16 PM, Cindy Swearingen cindy.swearin...@sun.com wrote: Hi Mike, It is difficult to comment on the root cause of this failure since the several interactions

Re: [zfs-discuss] Clearing a directory with more than 60 million files

2010-01-05 Thread Mike Gerdts
in a mirror setup. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks, Mikko --  Mikko Lammi | l...@lmmz.net | http://www.lmmz.net ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss -- Mike

Re: [zfs-discuss] Zpool creation best practices

2010-01-03 Thread Mike
Thanks for the response Marion. I'm glad that Im not the only one. :) Message was edited by: mijohnst -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [zfs-discuss] Thin device support in ZFS?

2009-12-30 Thread Mike Gerdts
. -- Mike Gerdts http://mgerdts.blogspot.com/ ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Thin device support in ZFS?

2009-12-30 Thread Mike Gerdts
rocket scientists. :) -- Mike Gerdts http://mgerdts.blogspot.com/ ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Changing ZFS drive pathing

2009-12-30 Thread Mike
Just thought I would let you all know that I followed what Alex suggested along with what many of you pointed out and it worked! Here are the steps I followed: 1. Break root drive mirror 2. zpool export filesystem 3. run the command to start MPIOX and reboot the machine 4. zpool import

[zfs-discuss] Zpool creation best practices

2009-12-30 Thread Mike
I'm just wondering what some of you might do with your systems. We have an EMC Clariion unit that I connect several sun machines to. I allow the EMC to do it's hardware raid5 for several luns and then I stripe them together. I considered using raidz and just configuring the EMC as a JBOD,

[zfs-discuss] Zones on shared storage - a warning

2009-12-22 Thread Mike Gerdts
errors: No known data errors r...@soltrain19# zlogin osol uptime 5:31pm up 1 min(s), 0 users, load average: 0.69, 0.38, 0.52 -- Mike Gerdts http://mgerdts.blogspot.com/ ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http

Re: [zfs-discuss] Zones on shared storage - a warning

2009-12-22 Thread Mike Gerdts
On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 8:02 PM, Mike Gerdts mger...@gmail.com wrote: I've been playing around with zones on NFS a bit and have run into what looks to be a pretty bad snag - ZFS keeps seeing read and/or checksum errors.  This exists with S10u8 and OpenSolaris dev build snv_129.  This is likely

Re: [zfs-discuss] compressratio vs. dedupratio

2009-12-14 Thread Mike Gerdts
compressratio. If I disable compression and enable dedup, does it count deduplicated blocks of zeros toward the dedupratio? -- Mike Gerdts http://mgerdts.blogspot.com/ ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS - how to determine which physical drive to replace

2009-12-12 Thread Mike Gerdts
Soft Errors: 0 Hard Errors: 0 Transport Errors: 0 Model: Hitachi HTS5425 Revision: Serial No: 080804BB6300HCG Size: 160.04GB 160039305216 bytes Media Error: 0 Device Not Ready: 0 No Device: 0 Recoverable: 0 Illegal Request: 0 ... That /should/ be printed on the disk somewhere. -- Mike Gerdts http

Re: [zfs-discuss] Changing ZFS drive pathing

2009-12-10 Thread Mike Johnston
be done. On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 5:16 AM, Alexander J. Maidak ajmai...@mchsi.comwrote: On Tue, 2009-12-08 at 09:15 -0800, Mike wrote: I had a system that I was testing zfs on using EMC Luns to create a striped zpool without using the multi-pathing software PowerPath. Of coarse a storage

Re: [zfs-discuss] Changing ZFS drive pathing

2009-12-09 Thread Mike
Alex, thanks for the info. You made my heart stop a little when reading your problem with PowerPath, but MPxIO seems like it might be a good option for me. I'll will try that as well although I have not used it before. Thank you! -- This message posted from opensolaris.org

[zfs-discuss] Changing ZFS drive pathing

2009-12-08 Thread Mike
I had a system that I was testing zfs on using EMC Luns to create a striped zpool without using the multi-pathing software PowerPath. Of coarse a storage emergency came up so I lent this storage out for temp storage and we're still using. I'd like to add PowerPath to take advanage of the

Re: [zfs-discuss] Changing ZFS drive pathing

2009-12-08 Thread Mike
Thanks Cindys for your input... I love your fear example too, but lucky for me I have 10 years before I have to worry about that and hopefully we'll all be in hovering bumper cars by then. It looks like I'm going to have to create another test system and try recommondations give here...and

[zfs-discuss] Any way to remove a vdev

2009-12-02 Thread Mike Freeman
I'm sure its been asked a thousand times but is there any prospect of being able to remove a vdev from a pool anytime soon? Thanks! -- Mike ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs

  1   2   3   4   5   >