[zfs-discuss] how do I fix this situation?

2007-12-10 Thread James C. McPherson
Hi everybody, while trying to figure out what on earth has been going on in my u20m2 due to 6636511 u20m2 bios version 1.45.1 still can't distinguish disks on sata channel #1, I engaged in a lot of cable swapping operations for the internal sata drive cables. Somehow I've managed to end up

[zfs-discuss] Expanding a RAIDZ based Pool...

2007-12-10 Thread Karl Pielorz
Hi, I've seen/read a number of articles on the net, about RAIDZ - and things like Dynamic Striping et'al. I know roughly how this works - but I can't seem to get to the bottom of expanding existing pool space, if this is even possible. e.g. If I build a RAIDZ pool with 5 * 400Gb drives, and

Re: [zfs-discuss] Expanding a RAIDZ based Pool...

2007-12-10 Thread Adam Leventhal
On Mon, Dec 10, 2007 at 03:59:22PM +, Karl Pielorz wrote: e.g. If I build a RAIDZ pool with 5 * 400Gb drives, and later add a 6th 400Gb drive to this pool, will its space instantly be available to volumes using that pool? (I can't quite see this working myself) Hi Karl, You can't

Re: [zfs-discuss] Performance writing to USB drive, performance reporting

2007-12-10 Thread Akhilesh Mritunjai
USB2 giving you ~30MB/s is normal... a little better than mine (on Windows - ~25MB/s) actually. For better performance better switch to eSATA or Firewire. Even FW400 will give you better results than USB as there are lesser overheads. However, I'm sure I saw some FW+ZFS related bug in bugdb

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS with Memory Sticks

2007-12-10 Thread Paul Gress
I did some work over the weekend. Still is having some trouble. # fdisk -E /dev/rdsk/c7t0d0s2 # zpool create Radical-Vol /dev/dsk/c7t0d0 invalid vdev specification use '-f' to override the following errors: /dev/dsk/c7t0d0s0 is part of exported or potentially active ZFS pool Radical-Vol.

Re: [zfs-discuss] NFS performance considerations (Linux vs Solaris)

2007-12-10 Thread msl
Ok, i have proposed, so, i'm trying to implement it. :) I hope you can (at least) criticizing it. :)) The document is here: http://www.posix.brte.com.br/blog/?p=89 It is not complete, i'm running some tests yet, and analyzing the results. But i think you can look and contribute with tome

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

2007-12-10 Thread Eric Haycraft
Apparently I spent more than my brain wanted me to believe. Here is what I picked up. Even though I am over the 1 meter limit on SATAII, it worked great. http://www.pc-pitstop.com/sata_enclosures/scsat84xb.asp Eric This message posted from opensolaris.org

Re: [zfs-discuss] Backup in general (was Does ZFS handle a SATA II ' port multiplier' ?)

2007-12-10 Thread Wade . Stuart
If you care enough to do backups, at least care enough to be able to restore. For my home backups, I use portable drives with copies=2 or 3 and compression enabled. I don't fool with incrementals, but many people do. The failure mode I'm worried about is decay, as the drives will be

Re: [zfs-discuss] Trial x4500, zfs with NFS and quotas.

2007-12-10 Thread Robert Milkowski
Hello Jorgen, Monday, December 10, 2007, 5:53:31 AM, you wrote: JL Robert Milkowski wrote: Hello Jorgen, Honestly - I don't think zfs is a good solution to your problem. What you could try to do however when it comes to x4500 is: 1. Use SVM+UFS+user quotas JL I am now trying zfs -V

Re: [zfs-discuss] Backup in general (was Does ZFS handle a SATA II ' port multiplier' ?)

2007-12-10 Thread David Dyer-Bennet
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you care enough to do backups, at least care enough to be able to restore. For my home backups, I use portable drives with copies=2 or 3 and compression enabled. I don't fool with incrementals, but many people do. The failure mode I'm worried about is decay, as

Re: [zfs-discuss] Yager on ZFS

2007-12-10 Thread Robert Milkowski
Hello can, Monday, December 10, 2007, 3:35:27 AM, you wrote: cyg and it made them slower cyg That's the second time you've claimed that, so you'll really at cyg least have to describe *how* you measured this even if the cyg detailed results of those measurements may be lost in the mists of

Re: [zfs-discuss] Trial x4500, zfs with NFS and quotas.

2007-12-10 Thread Jorgen Lundman
I don't know... while it will work I'm not sure I would trust it. Maybe just use Solaris Volume Manager with Soft Partitioning + UFS and forget about ZFS in your case? Well, the idea was to see if it could replace the existing NetApps as that was what Jonathan promised it could do, and we

[zfs-discuss] Faulted raidz1 shows the same device twice ?!?

2007-12-10 Thread Jeff Thompson
zpool status shows: NAME STATE READ WRITE CKSUM external DEGRADED 0 0 0 raidz1 DEGRADED 0 0 0 c18t0d0 ONLINE 0 0 0 c18t0d0 FAULTED 0 0 0 corrupted data I used to have a

Re: [zfs-discuss] Backup in general (was Does ZFS handle a SATA II '

2007-12-10 Thread Anton B. Rang
Tape drives and tapes seem to be just too expensive. Am I out of date here? No, I don't think so. The problem is that the low-end tape market has mostly vanished as CDs/DVDs/disks get cheaper -- not that it should, because tape is much more reliable -- so the cost of entry is pretty high. I

Re: [zfs-discuss] Trial x4500, zfs with NFS and quotas.

2007-12-10 Thread Mertol Ozyoney
Hello All; While sometimes not possible, ZFS+Thumper solution is not so far away from replacing expensive to buy and own NetApp like equipment. What people can sometimes forget is Thumper and Solaris are general purpose products that can be spcialized with some efforts. We had some cases where