[zfs-discuss] Snapshot size as reported by the USED property

2010-08-30 Thread Peter Radig
I create snapshots on my datasets quite frequently. My understanding of the USED property of a snapshot is that it indicates the amount of data that was written to the dataset after the snapshot was taken. But now I'm seeing a snapshot with USED == 0 where there was definitely write activity

[zfs-discuss] pool died during scrub

2010-08-30 Thread Jeff Bacon
I have a bunch of sol10U8 boxes with ZFS pools, most all raidz2 8-disk stripe. They're all supermicro-based with retail LSI cards. I've noticed a tendency for things to go a little bonkers during the weekly scrub (they all scrub over the weekend), and that's when I'll lose a disk here and there.

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs lists discrepancy after added a new vdev to pool

2010-08-30 Thread Darin Perusich
On Saturday, August 28, 2010 06:04:17 am Mattias Pantzare wrote: On Sat, Aug 28, 2010 at 02:54, Darin Perusich darin.perus...@cognigencorp.com wrote: Hello All, I'm sure this has been discussed previously but I haven't been able to find an answer to this. I've added another raidz1

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs lists discrepancy after added a new vdev to pool

2010-08-30 Thread Darin Perusich
On Saturday, August 28, 2010 12:27:36 am Edho P Arief wrote: On Sat, Aug 28, 2010 at 7:54 AM, Darin Perusich darin.perus...@cognigencorp.com wrote: Hello All, I'm sure this has been discussed previously but I haven't been able to find an answer to this. I've added another raidz1 vdev

Re: [zfs-discuss] VM's on ZFS - 7210

2010-08-30 Thread Eff Norwood
As I said, please by all means try it and post your benchmarks for first hour, first day and first week and then first month. The data will be of interest to you. On a subjective basis, if you feel that an SSD is working just fine as your ZIL, run with it. Good luck! -- This message posted

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs lists discrepancy after added a new vdev to pool

2010-08-30 Thread Darin Perusich
On Saturday, August 28, 2010 05:56:27 am Tomas Ă–gren wrote: On 27 August, 2010 - Darin Perusich sent me these 2,1K bytes: Hello All, I'm sure this has been discussed previously but I haven't been able to find an answer to this. I've added another raidz1 vdev to an existing storage

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs lists discrepancy after added a new vdev to pool

2010-08-30 Thread Richard Elling
This is a FAQ Why doesn't the space that is reported by the zpool list command and the zfs list command match? http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/view/Community+Group+zfs/faq -- richard On Aug 30, 2010, at 5:47 AM, Darin Perusich wrote: On Saturday, August 28, 2010 06:04:17 am Mattias Pantzare

Re: [zfs-discuss] Postmortem - file system recovered [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

2010-08-30 Thread Brian
I am afraid I can't describe the exact procedure that eventually fixed the file system as I merely observed it while Victor was logged into my system. I am quoting from the explanation he provided but if he reads this perhaps he could add whatever details seem pertinent. -- This message

Re: [zfs-discuss] pool died during scrub

2010-08-30 Thread Mark J Musante
On Mon, 30 Aug 2010, Jeff Bacon wrote: All of this would be ok... except THOSE ARE THE ONLY DEVICES THAT WERE PART OF THE POOL. How can it be missing a device that didn't exist? The device(s) in question are probably the logs you refer to here: I can't obviously use b134 to import the

Re: [zfs-discuss] pool died during scrub

2010-08-30 Thread Jeff Bacon
All of this would be ok... except THOSE ARE THE ONLY DEVICES THAT WERE PART OF THE POOL. How can it be missing a device that didn't exist? The device(s) in question are probably the logs you refer to here: There is a log, with a different GUID, from another pool from long ago. It isn't

[zfs-discuss] Intermittent ZFS hang

2010-08-30 Thread Charles J. Knipe
Howdy, We're having a ZFS performance issue over here that I was hoping you guys could help me troubleshoot. We have a ZFS pool made up of 24 disks, arranged into 7 raid-z devices of 4 disks each. We're using it as an iSCSI back-end for VMWare and some Oracle RAC clusters. Under normal

Re: [zfs-discuss] pool scrub clean, filesystem broken

2010-08-30 Thread Brian
I've posted a post-mortem followup thread: http://opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=133472 -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [zfs-discuss] Terrible ZFS performance on a Dell 1850 w/ PERC 4e/Si (Sol10U6)

2010-08-30 Thread Andrei Ghimus
I have the same problem you do, ZFS performance under Solaris 10 u8 is horrible. When you say passthrough mode, do you mean non-RAID configuration? And if so, could you tell me how you configured it? The best I can manage is to configure each physical drive as a RAID 0 array then export that as

Re: [zfs-discuss] Intermittent ZFS hang

2010-08-30 Thread Remco Lengers
Charles, Did you check for any HW issues reported during the hangs? fmdump -ev and the like? ..Remco On 8/30/10 6:02 PM, Charles J. Knipe wrote: Howdy, We're having a ZFS performance issue over here that I was hoping you guys could help me troubleshoot. We have a ZFS pool made up of 24

Re: [zfs-discuss] Intermittent ZFS hang

2010-08-30 Thread David Blasingame Oracle
Charles, Is it just ZFS hanging (or what it appears to be is slowing down or blocking) or does the whole system hang? A couple of questions What does iostat show during the time period of the slowdown? What does mpstat show during the time of the slowdown? You can look at the metadata

Re: [zfs-discuss] Intermittent ZFS hang

2010-08-30 Thread Charles J. Knipe
David, Thanks for your reply. Answers to your questions are below. Is it just ZFS hanging (or what it appears to be is slowing down or blocking) or does the whole system hang?nbsp; br Only the ZFS storage is affected. Any attempt to write to it blocks until the issue passes. Other than

Re: [zfs-discuss] 4k block alignment question (X-25E)

2010-08-30 Thread Eric D. Mudama
On Mon, Aug 30 at 15:05, Ray Van Dolson wrote: I want to fix (as much as is possible) a misalignment issue with an X-25E that I am using for both OS and as an slog device. This is on x86 hardware running Solaris 10U8. Partition table looks as follows: Part TagFlag Cylinders

Re: [zfs-discuss] 4k block alignment question (X-25E)

2010-08-30 Thread Ray Van Dolson
On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 03:37:52PM -0700, Eric D. Mudama wrote: On Mon, Aug 30 at 15:05, Ray Van Dolson wrote: I want to fix (as much as is possible) a misalignment issue with an X-25E that I am using for both OS and as an slog device. This is on x86 hardware running Solaris 10U8.

Re: [zfs-discuss] 4k block alignment question (X-25E)

2010-08-30 Thread Richard Elling
comment below... On Aug 30, 2010, at 3:42 PM, Ray Van Dolson wrote: On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 03:37:52PM -0700, Eric D. Mudama wrote: On Mon, Aug 30 at 15:05, Ray Van Dolson wrote: I want to fix (as much as is possible) a misalignment issue with an X-25E that I am using for both OS and as an

Re: [zfs-discuss] 4k block alignment question (X-25E)

2010-08-30 Thread Ray Van Dolson
On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 03:56:42PM -0700, Richard Elling wrote: comment below... On Aug 30, 2010, at 3:42 PM, Ray Van Dolson wrote: On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 03:37:52PM -0700, Eric D. Mudama wrote: On Mon, Aug 30 at 15:05, Ray Van Dolson wrote: I want to fix (as much as is possible) a

Re: [zfs-discuss] 4k block alignment question (X-25E)

2010-08-30 Thread Edho P Arief
On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 6:03 AM, Ray Van Dolson rvandol...@esri.com wrote: In any case -- any thoughts on whether or not I'll be helping anything if I change my slog slice starting cylinder to be 4k aligned even though slice 0 isn't? some people claims that due to how zfs works, there will be

Re: [zfs-discuss] 4k block alignment question (X-25E)

2010-08-30 Thread Eric D. Mudama
On Tue, Aug 31 at 6:12, Edho P Arief wrote: On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 6:03 AM, Ray Van Dolson rvandol...@esri.com wrote: In any case -- any thoughts on whether or not I'll be helping anything if I change my slog slice starting cylinder to be 4k aligned even though slice 0 isn't? some people

Re: [zfs-discuss] 4k block alignment question (X-25E)

2010-08-30 Thread Ray Van Dolson
On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 04:12:48PM -0700, Edho P Arief wrote: On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 6:03 AM, Ray Van Dolson rvandol...@esri.com wrote: In any case -- any thoughts on whether or not I'll be helping anything if I change my slog slice starting cylinder to be 4k aligned even though slice 0

Re: [zfs-discuss] 4k block alignment question (X-25E)

2010-08-30 Thread Christopher George
I was wondering if anyone had a benchmarking showing this alignment mattered on the latest SSDs. My guess is no, but I have no data. I don't believe there can be any doubt whether a Flash based SSD (tier1 or not) is negatively affected by partition misalignment. It is intrinsic to the