Re: [zfs-discuss] zpool reporting corrupt metadata

2010-03-12 Thread Richard Elling
On Mar 11, 2010, at 11:28 PM, Paul Tetley wrote: Hi, My zpool is reporting unrecoverable errors with the metadata: pool: rpool2 state: ONLINE status: One or more devices has experienced an error resulting in data corruption. Applications may be effected. action:

Re: [zfs-discuss] Intel SASUC8I - worth every penny

2010-03-12 Thread Marc Bevand
Russ Price rjp_sun at fubegra.net writes: I had recently started setting up a homegrown OpenSolaris NAS with a large RAIDZ2 pool, and had found its RAIDZ2 performance severely lacking - more like downright atrocious. As originally set up: * Asus M4A785-M motherboard * Phenom II X2 550

Re: [zfs-discuss] Intel SASUC8I - worth every penny

2010-03-12 Thread Tonmaus
On Mar 11, 2010, at 10:02 PM, Tonmaus wrote: All of the other potential disk controllers line up ahead of it. For example, you will see controller numbers assigned for your CD, floppy, USB, SD, CF etc. -- richard Hi Richard, thanks for the explanation. Actually, I started to worry about

Re: [zfs-discuss] Change a zpool to raidz

2010-03-12 Thread Erik Trimble
Ian Garbutt wrote: I was wondering if there is any way of converting a zpool which only have one LUN in there to a raidz zpool that was 3 or more LUNS in it? Thanks No. Adding, removing, or otherwise changing disks in a RAIDZ is not possible without destroying data in the pool. You'll

Re: [zfs-discuss] Change a zpool to raidz

2010-03-12 Thread Tomas Ă–gren
On 12 March, 2010 - Erik Trimble sent me these 0,7K bytes: Ian Garbutt wrote: I was wondering if there is any way of converting a zpool which only have one LUN in there to a raidz zpool that was 3 or more LUNS in it? Thanks No. Adding, removing, or otherwise changing disks in a RAIDZ

Re: [zfs-discuss] Change a zpool to raidz

2010-03-12 Thread Ian Garbutt
Thats fair enough, pity there isn't a simpler way. Many thanks -- 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 send and receive ... any ideas for FEC?

2010-03-12 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
I don't think retransmissions of b0rken packets is a problem anymore, most people use ssh which provides good error detection at a fine grain. It is rare that one would need to resend an entire ZFS dump stream when using ssh (or TLS or ...) Archival tape systems are already designed to

Re: [zfs-discuss] Intel SASUC8I - worth every penny

2010-03-12 Thread Russ Price
Did you enable AHCI mode on _every_ SATA controller? I have the exact opposite experience with 2 of your 3 types of controllers. It wasn't possible to do so, and that also made me think that a real HBA would work better. First off, with the AMD SB700/SB800 on-board ports, if I set the last

Re: [zfs-discuss] Intel SASUC8I - worth every penny

2010-03-12 Thread Andrew Gabriel
Dedhi Sujatmiko wrote: As a user of el-cheapo US$18 SIL3114, I managed to make the system freeze continuously when one of SATA cable got disconnected. I am using 8 disks RAIDZ2 driven by 2 x SIL3114 System is still able to answer the ping, but SSH and console are no longer responsive,

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS error while enabling DIRECT_IO for the DB chunks

2010-03-12 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Thu, 11 Mar 2010, Kashif Mumtaz wrote: We are facing an issue while enabling DIRECT_IO for the DB chunks. The error message which appears in the online.log file is Direct I/O cannot be used for the chunk file file_name Kindly help me in this regard .How can I overcome this ZFS does not

[zfs-discuss] [OT] Interesting ranking of MLC SSDs

2010-03-12 Thread Marc Nicholas
Given that quote a few folk ask which is the best SSD?, I thought some folk might find the following interesting: http://www.storagenewsletter.com/news/flash/dramexchange-intel-ssds -marc P.S: Apologies if the slightly off-topic post offends anyone.

Re: [zfs-discuss] Change a zpool to raidz

2010-03-12 Thread Cindy Swearingen
Ian, You might consider converting this pool to a mirrored pool, which is currently more flexible than a raidz pool and provide good performance. Its easy too. See the example below. Cindy A non-redundant pool of one disk (33 GB). # zpool status tank pool: tank state: ONLINE scrub: none

Re: [zfs-discuss] Replacing a failed/failed mirrored root disk

2010-03-12 Thread David L Kensiski
On Mar 11, 2010, at 3:08 PM, Cindy Swearingen wrote: Hi David, In general, an I/O error means that the slice 0 doesn't exist or some other problem exists with the disk. Which makes complete sense because the partition table on the replacement didn't have anything specified for slice 0.

Re: [zfs-discuss] Replacing a failed/failed mirrored root disk

2010-03-12 Thread Cindy Swearingen
Hi David, Make sure you test booting from the newly attached disk and update the BIOS, if necessary. The boot process occurs over several stages. I'm not sure what the zfs_stage1_5 file provides but is the first two that we need for booting. For more details, go to this site:

Re: [zfs-discuss] backup zpool to tape

2010-03-12 Thread Greg
Hey Miles, Do you have any idea if there is a way to backup a zvol in the manner you speak of with bacula? Is DD a secure way to do this or are there better methods to do this? Otherwise I will just use dd. Thanks again! Thanks! Greg -- This message posted from opensolaris.org

Re: [zfs-discuss] backup zpool to tape

2010-03-12 Thread Svein Skogen
Wouldn't his scripts in the other thread (zfs send plugin for Bacula) work with zvol as well? //Svein -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [zfs-discuss] backup zpool to tape

2010-03-12 Thread Greg
Yes it would, however we only have the restore/verify portion. Unless of course I am overlooking something. Thanks, Greg -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [zfs-discuss] backup zpool to tape

2010-03-12 Thread Svein Skogen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12.03.2010 21:34, Greg wrote: Yes it would, however we only have the restore/verify portion. Unless of course I am overlooking something. I think those can be tweaked further, now that I know Bacula accepts plugins in this fashion (I didn't

Re: [zfs-discuss] Intel SASUC8I - worth every penny

2010-03-12 Thread Marc Bevand
Russ Price rjp_sun at fubegra.net writes: Did you enable AHCI mode on _every_ SATA controller? I have the exact opposite experience with 2 of your 3 types of controllers. It wasn't possible to do so, and that also made me think that a real HBA would work better. First off, with the