Re: [zfs-discuss] SSD - slow down with age

2009-02-16 Thread Adam Leventhal
On Feb 14, 2009, at 12:45 PM, Nicholas Lee wrote: A useful article about long term use of the Intel SSD X25-M: http://www.pcper.com/article.php?aid=669 - Long-term performance analysis of Intel Mainstream SSDs. Would a zfs cache (ZIL or ARC) based on a SSD device see this kind of issue?

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS on SAN?

2009-02-16 Thread Robert Milkowski
Hello Bob, Sunday, February 15, 2009, 9:42:25 PM, you wrote: BF On Sun, 15 Feb 2009, Colin Raven wrote: As a followup; is there any ongoing sensible way to defend against the dreaded fragmentation? A [shudder] defrag routine of some kind perhaps? Forgive the silly questions from the

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS on SAN?

2009-02-16 Thread Tim
On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 12:26 AM, Sanjeev sanjeev.bagew...@sun.com wrote: Sriram, On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 11:12:42AM +0530, Sriram Narayanan wrote: On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 9:11 AM, Sanjeev sanjeev.bagew...@sun.com wrote: Sendai, On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 03:21:25PM -0800, Andras

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS on SAN?

2009-02-16 Thread Miles Nordin
t == Tim t...@tcsac.net writes: t Uhhh, S10 box that provide zfs backed iSCSI is NOT fine. Cite t the plethora of examples on this list of how the fault t management stack takes so long to respond it's basically t unusable as it stands today. well...if we are talking about

Re: [zfs-discuss] Two zvol devices one volume?

2009-02-16 Thread Henrik Johansson
Thanks for the info Dave, I filed a bug on this: 6805659. Regards Henrik On Feb 13, 2009, at 1:30 AM, Dave wrote: Henrik Johansson wrote: I tried to export the zpool also, and I got this, the strange part is that it sometimes still thinks that the ubuntu-01-dsk01 dataset exists: # zpool

[zfs-discuss] fmd dying in zfs shutdown?

2009-02-16 Thread James Litchfield
known issue? I've seen this 5 times over the past few days. I think these were, for the most part BFUs on top of B107. x86. # pstack fmd.733 core 'fmd.733' of 733:/usr/lib/fm/fmd/fmd - lwp# 1 / thread# 1 fe8c3347 libzfs_fini (0, fed9e000, 8047d08,

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS on SAN?

2009-02-16 Thread Henrik Johansson
Hi all, Ok, this might be to stir some things up again but I would like to make this more clear. I have been reading this and other threads regarding ZFS on SAN and how well ZFS can recover from a serious error such as a cached disk array goes down or the connection to the SAN is lost.

Re: [zfs-discuss] fmd dying in zfs shutdown?

2009-02-16 Thread Gavin Maltby
Hi, James Litchfield wrote: known issue? I've seen this 5 times over the past few days. I think these were, for the most part BFUs on top of B107. x86. Yes, Dan Price reported this happening post the fix to 6802281. Not sure there is a CR number as yet; Steve has a proposed fix which you

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS on SAN?

2009-02-16 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Tue, 17 Feb 2009, Henrik Johansson wrote: We are currently evaluating if we should begin to implement ZFS in our SAN. I can see great opportunities with ZFS but if we have a higher risk of loosing entire pools that is a serious issue. I am aware that the other filesystems might not be in

Re: [zfs-discuss] Can't find results of send/receive on destination fs??

2009-02-16 Thread Frank Cusack
On February 15, 2009 11:02:51 PM -0600 David Dyer-Bennet d...@dd-b.net wrote: So I did this: zfs send -R rpool/export/h...@bup-20090216-044512utc | zfs receive\ -dv bup-ruin/fsfs And it indicated no errors, and said it was creating various expected filesystems (pool bup-ruin was brand new

Re: [zfs-discuss] j4200 drive carriers

2009-02-16 Thread Frank Cusack
On February 1, 2009 8:30:21 AM -0800 Frank Cusack fcus...@fcusack.com wrote: nevermind, i will just get a Promise array. Don't. I don't normally like to badmouth vendors, but my experience with Promise was one of the worst in my career, for reasons that should be relevant other ZFS-oriented

Re: [zfs-discuss] set mountpoint but don't mount?

2009-02-16 Thread Frank Cusack
Turns out setting altroot is the way to do this. Thanks to David Dyer-Bennet for the solution, given in another thread. -frank ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Can't find results of send/receive on destination fs??

2009-02-16 Thread David Dyer-Bennet
On Mon, February 16, 2009 21:31, Frank Cusack wrote: On February 15, 2009 11:02:51 PM -0600 David Dyer-Bennet d...@dd-b.net wrote: So I did this: zfs send -R rpool/export/h...@bup-20090216-044512utc | zfs receive\ -dv bup-ruin/fsfs And it indicated no errors, and said it was creating

Re: [zfs-discuss] New RAM disk from ACARD might be interesting

2009-02-16 Thread Will Murnane
On Sun, Feb 8, 2009 at 11:12, Tim t...@tcsac.net wrote: I wouldn't think grabbing 8GB memory would be a big deal after dropping that much on the controller?? There being no sense in half measures, I ordered 12GB (i.e., three kits) of this:

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS on SAN?

2009-02-16 Thread Marion Hakanson
bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us said: A 12-disk pool that I built a year ago is still working fine with absolutely no problems at all. Another two disk pool built using cheap large USB drives has been running for maybe eight months, with no problems. We have non-redundant ZFS pools on an HDS