Re: [zfs-discuss] Performance issues with iSCSI under Linux

2010-10-10 Thread Ian D
From the Linux side, it appears the drive in question is either sdb or dm-3, and both appear to be the same drive. Since switching to zfs, my Linux-disk-fu has become a bit rusty. Is one an alias for the other? Yes, dm-3 is the alias created by LVM while sdb is the physical (or raw) device

Re: [zfs-discuss] [RFC] Backup solution

2010-10-10 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Sat, 9 Oct 2010, Richard Elling wrote: On Oct 8, 2010, at 10:01 AM, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: Regardless, nothing beats raidz3 based on computable statistics. Well, no, not really. It all depends on the number of sets and the MTTR. Well, ok. I should have appended except for 3-way

[zfs-discuss] how to fix a pool, degraded with insufficient replicas-error

2010-10-10 Thread Günther
on my raidz3 pool one drive failed. on resilvering the hotspare seems to failed also. this ended in a insufficient replicas error with state of hotfix drive too many errors i could bring back the hotfix drive by export/import the pool (hotfix drive is definitely ok) but i could not bring the

Re: [zfs-discuss] how to fix a pool, degraded with insufficient replicas-error

2010-10-10 Thread Ian Collins
On 10/11/10 05:40 AM, Günther wrote: on my raidz3 pool one drive failed. on resilvering the hotspare seems to failed also. this ended in a insufficient replicas error with state of hotfix drive too many errors i could bring back the hotfix drive by export/import the pool (hotfix drive is

Re: [zfs-discuss] tagged ACL groups: let's just keep digging until we come out the other side

2010-10-10 Thread Nicolas Williams
On Sat, Oct 09, 2010 at 09:52:51PM -0700, Richard Elling wrote: Are we living in the past? In the bad old days, UNIX systems spoke NFS and Windows systems spoke CIFS. The cost of creating a file system was expensive -- slices, partitions, etc. With ZFS, file systems (datasets) are

[zfs-discuss] Moving camp, lock stock and barrel

2010-10-10 Thread Harry Putnam
Osol b134 I'm experiencing a forced shutdown of a machine. It is proceeded with a number of beeps in a steady pattern like beep beep beep beep beep beep And onward. 2 beeps pause 2 beeps pause... etc. The beeps are the same tone on each set of beeps but each

Re: [zfs-discuss] Moving camp, lock stock and barrel

2010-10-10 Thread Ian Collins
On 10/11/10 05:13 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: Osol b134 I'm experiencing a forced shutdown of a machine. It is proceeded with a number of beeps in a steady pattern like beep beep beep beep beep beep And onward. 2 beeps pause 2 beeps pause... etc. The beeps are the same