Re: ZFS question

2013-03-21 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 10:10:20PM -0700, Reed A. Cartwright wrote: {snipped stuff about CAM and mps and ZFS deadman} Jeremy, I have a question about enabling kernel dumps based on my current swap config. I currently have a 1TB drive split into 4 geli encrypted swap partitions (Freebsd

Re: ZFS question

2013-03-21 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
{thread snip} For those following/interested in this conversation, it's been moved to freebsd-fs: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-fs/2013-March/016812.html http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-fs/2013-March/016813.html And the long/more recent analysis I did of the problem

Re: ZFS question

2013-03-20 Thread Reed A. Cartwright
Several people, including me, have an issue like this with 9.1. Your best bet is to try 9.0. On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 5:49 PM, Quartz qua...@sneakertech.com wrote: I'm experiencing fatal issues with pools hanging my machine requiring a hard-reset. I'm new to freebsd and these mailing lists in

Re: ZFS question

2013-03-20 Thread Quartz
Several people, including me, have an issue like this with 9.1. Your best bet is to try 9.0. Hmm... interesting. Is there any consensus as to what's going on? Before anyone jumps to conclusions though, lemme just post the whole issue so we're on the same page (apologizes if it turns out

Re: ZFS question

2013-03-20 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
(Please keep me CC'd as I'm not subscribed to -questions) Lots to say about this. 1. freebsd-fs is the proper list for filesystem-oriented questions of this sort, especially for ZFS. 2. The issue you've described is experienced by some, and **not** experienced by even more/just as many, so

Re: ZFS question

2013-03-20 Thread Reed A. Cartwright
Note that my issue seems to do with an interaction between the CAM system and the MPS driver in 9.1. Thus it is more than likely different than what you are experiencing Quartz. Now that ZFS deadman has been incorporated into stable, I'll probably give a 9.1 (i.e. 9/stable) another try. Jeremy,

Re: ZFS question

2013-03-20 Thread Quartz
1. freebsd-fs is the proper list for filesystem-oriented questions of this sort, especially for ZFS. Ok, I'm assuming I should subscribe to that list and post there then? 2. The issue you've described is experienced by some, and **not** experienced by even more/just as many, so please keep

Re: ZFS question

2012-02-18 Thread George Kontostanos
On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 12:35 PM, Denis Fortin for...@acm.org wrote: Good morning, On a small system using FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE, ZFS is reporting an issue on a pool, that I am not certain is really an issue, but I don't know how to investgate... Here is the situation: I have created a ZFS

Re: ZFS Question

2010-08-16 Thread Elias Chrysocheris
On 8/15/2010 6:17 PM, Elias Chrysocheris wrote: On Monday 16 of August 2010 01:56:10 Depo Catcher wrote: Hi, I'm building a new file server. Right now I'm on FreeBSD 6.4/UFS2 and going to go to 8.1 with ZFS. Right now I have 3 disks, but one of them has data on it. I'd like to setup a

Re: ZFS Question

2010-08-15 Thread Sam Fourman Jr.
On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 5:56 PM, Depo Catcher depocatc...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I'm building a new file server.  Right now I'm on FreeBSD 6.4/UFS2 and going to go to 8.1 with ZFS. in a few weeks, ZFS v15 will be MFC'd to RELENG_8 this is a much more mature and stable ZFS I would suggest that

Re: ZFS Question

2010-08-15 Thread David Rawling
On 16/08/2010 8:56 AM, Depo Catcher wrote: Hi, I'm building a new file server. Right now I'm on FreeBSD 6.4/UFS2 and going to go to 8.1 with ZFS. Right now I have 3 disks, but one of them has data on it. I'd like to setup a RaidZ but have a question on how to do this: Basically, I need to

Re: zfs question

2010-08-10 Thread David Rawling
On 9/08/2010 2:52 AM, krad wrote: On 8 August 2010 16:51, Adam Vande Moreamvandem...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 10:37 AM, Dick Hoogendijkd...@nagual.nl wrote: On 8-8-2010 14:27, Matthew Seaman wrote: Yes. It works very well. On amd64 you'll get a pretty reasonable setup out

Re: zfs question

2010-08-10 Thread Dick Hoogendijk
On 10-8-2010 16:00, David Rawling wrote: On 9/08/2010 2:52 AM, krad wrote: So I ask you to ponder - at four o'clock in the morning, with mail down, web servers down and all the disks holding your files failing to mount - which file system or disk structure would you prefer to try to

Re: zfs question

2010-08-08 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 08/08/2010 12:43:48, Dick Hoogendijk wrote: Years back I ran FreeBSD, so I have some experience. The last couple of years I ran Solaris, followed by Opensolaris. I am very satisfied. However, considering the troubles after Oracle took over I have rebuild my server system under FreeBSD-8.1

Re: zfs question

2010-08-08 Thread krad
On 8 August 2010 13:27, Matthew Seaman m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.ukwrote: On 08/08/2010 12:43:48, Dick Hoogendijk wrote: Years back I ran FreeBSD, so I have some experience. The last couple of years I ran Solaris, followed by Opensolaris. I am very satisfied. However, considering the

Re: zfs question

2010-08-08 Thread Elias Chrysocheris
On Sunday 08 of August 2010 14:43:48 Dick Hoogendijk wrote: Years back I ran FreeBSD, so I have some experience. The last couple of years I ran Solaris, followed by Opensolaris. I am very satisfied. However, considering the troubles after Oracle took over I have rebuild my server system

Re: zfs question

2010-08-08 Thread Dick Hoogendijk
On 8-8-2010 14:27, Matthew Seaman wrote: Yes. It works very well. On amd64 you'll get a pretty reasonable setup out of the box (so to speak) which will work fine for most purposes. Of course, if your system has particularly demanding IO patterns, then you may have to tweak some loader.conf or

Re: zfs question

2010-08-08 Thread Dick Hoogendijk
On 8-8-2010 14:27, Matthew Seaman wrote: Yes. It works very well. On amd64 you'll get a pretty reasonable setup out of the box (so to speak) which will work fine for most purposes. One other thing comes to mind. I want a very robus, fast rockl solid *server* It will be a file- email and

Re: zfs question

2010-08-08 Thread Adam Vande More
On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 10:37 AM, Dick Hoogendijk d...@nagual.nl wrote: On 8-8-2010 14:27, Matthew Seaman wrote: Yes. It works very well. On amd64 you'll get a pretty reasonable setup out of the box (so to speak) which will work fine for most purposes. One other thing comes to mind. I want

Re: zfs question

2010-08-08 Thread krad
On 8 August 2010 16:51, Adam Vande More amvandem...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 10:37 AM, Dick Hoogendijk d...@nagual.nl wrote: On 8-8-2010 14:27, Matthew Seaman wrote: Yes. It works very well. On amd64 you'll get a pretty reasonable setup out of the box (so to speak)

Re: ZFS Question

2009-04-08 Thread Julien Cigar
On Wed, 2009-04-08 at 08:57 -0700, Amaru Netapshaak wrote: Hello, I am interested in using something like ZFS for its distributed nature. I run a file server with samba acting as a PDC. I also run a second server as a BDC. What I would like is a method for keeping both servers shared data

Re: ZFS question...

2008-04-10 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Apr 10), Wael Nasreddine said: Hello list, I have 3 external USB hard disks hooked to my server, serving media files via NFS, SSHFS and samba to my local network, laptops and Playstation 2, the sizes of these hard disks are 160Gb, 500Gb and 750Gb, the 160Gb has no space

Re: ZFS question...

2008-04-10 Thread Wael Nasreddine
This One Time, at Band Camp, Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] said, On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 01:14:02PM -0500: You don't necessarily need ZFS for this; gmirror would work just as well. You can split your 750GB drive into three partitions/slices/whatevers: 160GB - mirror this with your physical

Re: ZFS question...

2008-04-10 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Apr 10), Wael Nasreddine said: This One Time, at Band Camp, Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] said, On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 01:14:02PM -0500: You don't necessarily need ZFS for this; gmirror would work just as well. You can split your 750GB drive into three