Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] HDD Upgrade problem

2012-06-12 Thread George Wilson
On Jun 12, 2012, at 12:58 AM, Rich wrote: On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 12:50 AM, Richard Elling richard.ell...@richardelling.com wrote: On Jun 11, 2012, at 6:08 PM, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: On Mon, 11 Jun 2012, Jim Klimov wrote: ashift=12 (2^12 = 4096). For disks which do not lie, it works

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] HDD Upgrade problem

2012-06-12 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Tue, 12 Jun 2012, George Wilson wrote: Illumos has a way to override the physical block size of a given disk by using the sd.conf file. Here's an example: sd-config-list = DGC RAID, physical-block-size:4096, NETAPP LUN, physical-block-size:4096; By adding the VID PID

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] HDD Upgrade problem

2012-06-12 Thread George Wilson
On Jun 12, 2012, at 11:00 AM, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: On Tue, 12 Jun 2012, George Wilson wrote: Illumos has a way to override the physical block size of a given disk by using the sd.conf file. Here's an example: sd-config-list = DGC RAID, physical-block-size:4096, NETAPP

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] HDD Upgrade problem

2012-06-12 Thread Jim Klimov
2012-06-12 19:00, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: On Tue, 12 Jun 2012, George Wilson wrote: Illumos has a way to override the physical block size of a given disk by using the sd.conf file. Here's an example: sd-config-list = DGC RAID, physical-block-size:4096, NETAPP LUN,

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] HDD Upgrade problem

2012-06-12 Thread Jim Klimov
2012-06-12 19:22, Jim Klimov wrote: First of all, I believe this snippet belongs on a Wiki page, and I'll try to make one to sum up all knowledge and FUD we have about The AShift Problem ;) At least, it would be easier to point people to this page as a common answer ;) FWIW, here is the first

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] HDD Upgrade problem

2012-06-12 Thread michelle
That is absolutely stunning. Many thanks for that. I guess I'm going to have to bite the bullet, wait until I've got another two 3tb drives and create a new pool. Thanks to all for the feedback. Your patience with me is much appreciated. On 12/06/12 17:44, Jim Klimov wrote: 2012-06-12

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] HDD Upgrade problem

2012-06-11 Thread michelle
Broke the mirror and tried to a single drive and the backup worked; the combination of USB and e-sata was obviously upsetting it. If only this Marvel chipset was supported then I could get the second e-sata channel working. Ah well. After the backup was complete I have tried reconnecting and

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] HDD Upgrade problem

2012-06-11 Thread michelle
Someone posted this comment about my description of the problem on YouTube. Anyone care to comment please? nope I don't think it does, I think you experiencing 4K and Advance Format compatibility issues. The solution is a patched version of zpool. I am not so sure that OpenIndiana has been

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] HDD Upgrade problem

2012-06-11 Thread Jim Klimov
2012-06-11 21:16, michelle wrote: Someone posted this comment about my description of the problem on YouTube. Anyone care to comment please? nope I don't think it does, I think you experiencing 4K and Advance Format compatibility issues. The solution is a patched version of zpool. I am not so

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] HDD Upgrade problem

2012-06-11 Thread Richard Elling
On Jun 11, 2012, at 6:08 PM, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: On Mon, 11 Jun 2012, Jim Klimov wrote: ashift=12 (2^12 = 4096). For disks which do not lie, it works properly out of the box. The patched zpool binary forced ashift=12 at the user's discretion. It seems like new pools should provide the

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] HDD Upgrade problem

2012-06-11 Thread Rich
On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 12:50 AM, Richard Elling richard.ell...@richardelling.com wrote: On Jun 11, 2012, at 6:08 PM, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: On Mon, 11 Jun 2012, Jim Klimov wrote: ashift=12 (2^12 = 4096). For disks which do not lie, it works properly out of the box. The patched zpool binary

[OpenIndiana-discuss] HDD Upgrade problem

2012-06-10 Thread michelle
Hi Folks, I'm not having much luck and if someone can help with solid suggestions before I start poking around, it could save me stuffing up the machine. Firstly, I think that the graphics is having a problem with my TV, so if someone can tell me how to stop the system from wanting to boot

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] HDD Upgrade problem

2012-06-10 Thread michelle
I've bitten the bullet and have started an upgrade process. The troubled graphics card has been removed and I'm currently using the on-board graphics which, as OI starts, is fine up until launching GNOME and then no display, but I can ssh in to the box. My efforts on Google are so far coming

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] HDD Upgrade problem

2012-06-10 Thread michelle
I'm getting somewhere, but I might have a RAM corruption issue. In the mean time, trying to replace a 2tb drive with a 3tb drive in a three drive RaidZ, gives ... cannot replace c2t5d0 with c2t2d0: devices have different sector alignment How do I get around this please? I want to remain

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] HDD Upgrade problem

2012-06-10 Thread michelle
OK - so far... System RAM passes Memtest86 v4.20 That leaves me with two problems... 1) Disable Gnome from starting, or remove it completely. 2) How to get around the sector alignment problem. I have a very ugly feeling that the only way is going to be to destroy the set and start again, as

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] HDD Upgrade problem

2012-06-10 Thread James C. McPherson
On 10/06/12 09:37 PM, michelle wrote: OK - so far... System RAM passes Memtest86 v4.20 That leaves me with two problems... 1) Disable Gnome from starting, or remove it completely. svcadm disable gnome is a good place to start. 2) How to get around the sector alignment problem. I can't

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] HDD Upgrade problem

2012-06-10 Thread Jim Klimov
2012-06-10 14:31, michelle wrote: That leaves me with two problems... 1) Disable Gnome from starting, or remove it completely. As for GNOME, try svcadm disable gdm. I'd think there may be some video driver problems, but just about any card should work as a VESA or SVGA driver. Still, I also

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] HDD Upgrade problem

2012-06-10 Thread michelle
Hi Jim, Thanks for the gdm, I just couldn't work out what the service name was. I've disabled that. I did try yanking the drive, with kindness, of course, but still got the same error message; zfs is obviously smarter than me At the moment, I'm backing up the drives so I had to revert the

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] HDD Upgrade problem

2012-06-10 Thread Jim Klimov
2012-06-10 16:30, michelle wrote: To test the 3tb drive in a Linux system, before I trusted it to the server, I did create a partition on it; however my understanding is that when I give a zfs command at device level ... zpool replace data c2t3d0 c2t5d0 ... it shouldn't matter what partitions

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] HDD Upgrade problem

2012-06-10 Thread Jim Klimov
BTW, can you give some more detail on the machine and its HDD controllers? There were recently discussions on zfs-discuss list about Dell-branded HBAs with Dell firmware bent on power saving, which sent the WD disks in particular to slep mode right away instead of having them work. There were

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] HDD Upgrade problem

2012-06-10 Thread michelle
Thanks for the info Jim, The motherboard is a Gigabyte GA-H55M-UD2H and has five SATA sockets, two IDE and one E-sata. The SATA are, I believe, Intel. I think I've got an i5 in it, with 4gig of RAM. I don't use compression or encryption. There are two Intel SSDs in a ZFS mirror and I

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] HDD Upgrade problem

2012-06-10 Thread michelle
The system seems to have hung again, any query to the ZFS system hangs the session. Nothing in /var/adm/messages. I'm wondering whether the combination of having a mirrored zfs set with one drive on e-sata and one drive on USB could be upsetting it. On 10/06/12 14:53, michelle wrote:

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] HDD Upgrade problem

2012-06-10 Thread Jim Klimov
2012-06-10 18:45, michelle wrote: The system seems to have hung again, any query to the ZFS system hangs the session. Nothing in /var/adm/messages. I'm wondering whether the combination of having a mirrored zfs set with one drive on e-sata and one drive on USB could be upsetting it. The

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] HDD Upgrade problem

2012-06-10 Thread Richard Elling
On Jun 10, 2012, at 7:45 AM, michelle wrote: The system seems to have hung again, any query to the ZFS system hangs the session. Nothing in /var/adm/messages. Try fmdump -eV -- richard I'm wondering whether the combination of having a mirrored zfs set with one drive on e-sata and

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] HDD Upgrade problem

2012-06-10 Thread Bill Sommerfeld
On 06/10/12 04:37, michelle wrote: 2) How to get around the sector alignment problem. I have a very ugly feeling that the only way is going to be to destroy the set and start again, as everything I've tried so far hasn't worked. That was my conclusion as well - I wound up using zfs send | zfs