[zfs-discuss] building zpools on device aliases

2009-11-16 Thread sean walmsley
We have a number of Sun J4200 SAS JBOD arrays which we have multipathed using Sun's MPxIO facility. While this is great for reliability, it results in the /dev/dsk device IDs changing from cXtYd0 to something virtually unreadable like "c4t5000C5000B21AC63d0s3". Since the entries in /dev/{rdsk,d

Re: [zfs-discuss] permanent files error, unable to access pool

2009-11-16 Thread daniel.rodriguez.delg...@gmail.com
to be the best of my recollection, I only needed to run zfs scrub, reboot and the disk became operational again the irony was that the error message was asking me to recover from backup, but the disk involved was my backup of my working pool. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org

Re: [zfs-discuss] hung pool on iscsi

2009-11-16 Thread Jacob Ritorto
On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 4:49 PM, Tim Cook wrote: > Is your failmode set to wait? Yes. This box has like ten prod zones and ten corresponding zpools that initiate to iscsi targets on the filers. We can't panic the whole box just because one {zone/zpool/iscsi target} fails. Are there undocumente

Re: [zfs-discuss] hung pool on iscsi

2009-11-16 Thread Richard Elling
On Nov 16, 2009, at 2:00 PM, Martin Vool wrote: I already got my files back acctuay and the disc contains already new pools, so i have no idea how it was set. I have to make a virtualbox installation and test it. Don't forget to change VirtualBox's default cache flush setting. http://www.s

Re: [zfs-discuss] hung pool on iscsi

2009-11-16 Thread Tim Cook
On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 4:00 PM, Martin Vool wrote: > I already got my files back acctuay and the disc contains already new > pools, so i have no idea how it was set. > > I have to make a virtualbox installation and test it. > Can you please tell me how-to set the failmode? > > > http://prefetch

Re: [zfs-discuss] permanent files error, unable to access pool

2009-11-16 Thread Cindy Swearingen
Hi Daniel, In some cases, when I/O is suspended, permanent errors are logged and you need to run a zpool scrub to clear the errors. Are you saying that a zpool scrub cleared the errors that were displayed in the zpool status output? Or, did you also use zpool clear? Metadata is duplicated even

Re: [zfs-discuss] hung pool on iscsi

2009-11-16 Thread Martin Vool
I already got my files back acctuay and the disc contains already new pools, so i have no idea how it was set. I have to make a virtualbox installation and test it. Can you please tell me how-to set the failmode? -- This message posted from opensolaris.org __

Re: [zfs-discuss] hung pool on iscsi

2009-11-16 Thread Tim Cook
On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 2:10 PM, Martin Vool wrote: > I encountered the same problem...like i sed in the first post...zpool > command freezes. Anyone knows how to make it respond again? > -- > > Is your failmode set to wait? --Tim ___ zfs-discuss maili

Re: [zfs-discuss] Best config for different sized disks

2009-11-16 Thread Tim Cook
On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 12:09 PM, Bob Friesenhahn < bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us> wrote: > On Sun, 15 Nov 2009, Tim Cook wrote: > >> >> Once again I question why you're wasting your time with raid-z. You might >> as well just stripe across all the drives. You're taking a performance >> penalty f

Re: [zfs-discuss] Old zfs version with OpenSolaris 2009.06 JeOS ??

2009-11-16 Thread Tim Cook
On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 2:13 PM, Benoit Heroux wrote: > Hi guys, > > I needed a quick install of OpenSolaris and i found : > http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/view/Project+jeos/200906+Prototype#HDownloads > > The footprint is splendid: around 275 megs, so it is little. But i have a > question. > >

Re: [zfs-discuss] permanent files error, unable to access pool

2009-11-16 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Mon, 16 Nov 2009, daniel.rodriguez.delg...@gmail.com wrote: is this something common on usb disks? would it get improved in later versions of osol or it is somewhat of an incompatibility/unfriendliness of zfs with external usb disks? -- Some USB disks seem to ignore cache sync requests, w

Re: [zfs-discuss] Backing up ZVOLs

2009-11-16 Thread Chris Du
You can use VCB to backup. In my test lab, I use VCB integrated with Bacula to backup all the VMs. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discu

Re: [zfs-discuss] permanent files error, unable to access pool

2009-11-16 Thread daniel.rodriguez.delg...@gmail.com
Thanks Cindy, In fact, after some research, I ran into the scrub suggestion and it worked perfectly. Now I think that the automated message in http://www.sun.com/msg/ZFS-8000-8A should mention something about scrub as a worthy attempt. It was related to an external usb disk. I guess I am happy

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS forensics/revert/restore shellscript and how-to.

2009-11-16 Thread Martin Vool
I have no idea why this forum just makes files dissapear??? I will put a link tomorrow...a file was attached before... -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailm

[zfs-discuss] Old zfs version with OpenSolaris 2009.06 JeOS ??

2009-11-16 Thread Benoit Heroux
Hi guys, I needed a quick install of OpenSolaris and i found : http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/view/Project+jeos/200906+Prototype#HDownloads The footprint is splendid: around 275 megs, so it is little. But i have a question. Why the ZFS and ZPOOL version are that old ? r...@osol-jeos:/var/www#

Re: [zfs-discuss] hung pool on iscsi

2009-11-16 Thread Martin Vool
I encountered the same problem...like i sed in the first post...zpool command freezes. Anyone knows how to make it respond again? -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolari

Re: [zfs-discuss] Best config for different sized disks

2009-11-16 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Sun, 15 Nov 2009, Tim Cook wrote: Once again I question why you're wasting your time with raid-z.  You might as well just stripe across all the drives.  You're taking a performance penalty for a setup that essentially has 0 redundancy.  You lose a 500gb drive, you lose everything. Why do

Re: [zfs-discuss] permanent files error, unable to access pool

2009-11-16 Thread Cindy Swearingen
Hi Daniel, Unfortunately, the permanent errors are in this pool's metadata so it is unlikely that this pool can be recovered. Is this an external USB drive? These drives are not always well-behaved and its possible that it didn't synchronize successfully. Is the data accessible? I don't know

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Deduplication Replication

2009-11-16 Thread Darren J Moffat
Steven Sim wrote: Hello; Dedup on ZFS is an absolutely wonderful feature! Is there a way to conduct dedup replication across boxes from one dedup ZFS data set to another? Pass the '-D' argument to 'zfs send'. -- Darren J Moffat ___ zfs-discuss mai

[zfs-discuss] ZFS Deduplication Replication

2009-11-16 Thread Steven Sim
Hello; Dedup on ZFS is an absolutely wonderful feature! Is there a way to conduct dedup replication across boxes from one dedup ZFS data set to another? Warmest Regards Steven Sim ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mai

[zfs-discuss] hung pool on iscsi

2009-11-16 Thread Jacob Ritorto
zpool for zone of customer-facing production appserver hung due to iscsi transport errors. How can I {forcibly} reset this pool? zfs commands are hanging and iscsiadm remove refuses. r...@raadiku~[8]8:48#iscsiadm remove static-config iqn.1986-03.com.sun:02:aef78e-955a-4072-c7f6-afe087723466

Re: [zfs-discuss] Need Help Invalidating Uberblock

2009-11-16 Thread Martin Vool
You might want to check out this thread: http://opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?messageID=435420 -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discu

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS forensics/revert/restore shellscript and how-to.

2009-11-16 Thread Martin Vool
The links work fine if you take the * off from the end...sorry bout that -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS forensics/revert/restore shellscript and how-to.

2009-11-16 Thread Martin Vool
I forgot to add the script -- This message posted from opensolaris.org zfs_revert.py Description: Binary data ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

[zfs-discuss] ZFS forensics/revert/restore shellscript and how-to.

2009-11-16 Thread Martin Vool
I have written an python script that enables to get back already deleted files and pools/partitions. This is highly experimental, but I managed to get back a moths work when all the partitions were deleted by accident(and of course backups are for the weak ;-) I hope someone can pass this info