I have a ZFS filesystem consisting of four maxtor 1000k scsi drives in a raidz2 storage pool. I have been using these for a shared nfs storage repository for a Xenserver cluster. I would notice that every once in a while I would lock the opensolaris nfs server up everyonce in a while(Opensolaris 2009.6). It usually happened while managing Xenserver vm's from their Xencenter software. I was blaming Xencenter for these lock ups. This last Friday I moved my users home directories from a linux server to the opensolaris server. I set up the shares on the client sides using nfsv4 and automount. Everything went ok that Saturday with about 5 people using the system. Come Monday morning I get calls that everything is running very slowly. By the time I got to a computer I was not able to get access to our system remotely. The server that sees the outside world had locked up. I got a hold of a coworker and he came in early, and started unmounting the shares. We went back to our previous server for nfs shares and everything started to work normally. I am still using this Opensolaris server as the storage repository and have plans on making it my file server. Does anyone have any ideas of what I can do to address the issues I had with sharing the home directories. Total number of users at capacity is only about 40-45.
Thank you. Grant -- This message posted from opensolaris.org
