Re: [zfs-discuss] Sil3124 Sata controller for ZFS on Sparc OpenSolaris Nevada b130

2011-02-08 Thread Robert Soubie
Le 08/02/2011 07:10, Jerry Kemp a écrit : As part of a small home project, I have purchased a SIL3124 hba in hopes of attaching an external drive/drive enclosure via eSATA. The host in question is an old Sun Netra T1 currently running OpenSolaris Nevada b130. The card in question is this

Re: [zfs-discuss] Drive i/o anomaly

2011-02-08 Thread a . smith
It is a 4k sector drive, but I thought zfs recognised those drives and didn't need any special configuration...? 4k drives are a big problem for ZFS, much has been posted/written about it. Basically, if the 4k drives report 512 byte blocks, as they almost all do, then ZFS does not detect

Re: [zfs-discuss] Sil3124 Sata controller for ZFS on Sparc OpenSolaris Nevada b130

2011-02-08 Thread Tomas Ögren
On 08 February, 2011 - Robert Soubie sent me these 1,1K bytes: Le 08/02/2011 07:10, Jerry Kemp a écrit : As part of a small home project, I have purchased a SIL3124 hba in hopes of attaching an external drive/drive enclosure via eSATA. The host in question is an old Sun Netra T1 currently

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS/Drobo (Newbie) Question

2011-02-08 Thread David Dyer-Bennet
On Mon, February 7, 2011 14:59, David Dyer-Bennet wrote: On Sat, February 5, 2011 11:54, Gaikokujin Kyofusho wrote: Thank you kebabber. I will try out indiana and virtual box to play around with it a bit. Just to make sure I understand your example, if I say had a 4x2tb drives, 2x750gb,

Re: [zfs-discuss] Sil3124 Sata controller for ZFS on Sparc OpenSolaris Nevada b130

2011-02-08 Thread Erik Trimble
On 2/8/2011 2:17 AM, Tomas Ögren wrote: On 08 February, 2011 - Robert Soubie sent me these 1,1K bytes: Le 08/02/2011 07:10, Jerry Kemp a écrit : As part of a small home project, I have purchased a SIL3124 hba in hopes of attaching an external drive/drive enclosure via eSATA. The host in

[zfs-discuss] CPU Limited on Checksums?

2011-02-08 Thread Krunal Desai
Hi all, My system is powered by an Intel Core 2 Duo (E6600) with 8GB of RAM. Running into some very heavy CPU usage. First, a copy from one zpool to another (cp -aRv /oldtank/documents* /tank/documents/*), both in the same system. Load averages are around ~4.8. I think I used lockstat correctly,

Re: [zfs-discuss] CPU Limited on Checksums?

2011-02-08 Thread Erik Trimble
On 2/8/2011 8:41 AM, Krunal Desai wrote: Hi all, My system is powered by an Intel Core 2 Duo (E6600) with 8GB of RAM. Running into some very heavy CPU usage. First, a copy from one zpool to another (cp -aRv /oldtank/documents* /tank/documents/*), both in the same system. Load averages are

Re: [zfs-discuss] Repairing Faulted ZFS pool when zbd doesn't recognize the pool as existing

2011-02-08 Thread Chris Forgeron
Quick update; George has been very helpful, and there is progress with my zpool. I've got partial read ability at this point, and some data is being copied off. It was _way_ beyond my skillset to do anything. Once we have things resolved to a better level, I'll post more details (with a lot

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS/Drobo (Newbie) Question

2011-02-08 Thread Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk
Or you could stick strictly to mirrors; 4 pools 2x2T, 2x2T, 2x750G, 2x1.5T. Mirrors are more flexible, give you more redundancy, and are much easier to work with. Easier to work with, yes, but a RAIDz2 will statistically be safer than a set of mirrors, since in many cases, you loose a drive

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS and TRIM

2011-02-08 Thread Jens Elkner
On Fri, Feb 04, 2011 at 03:30:45PM +0100, Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote: On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 11:31:59AM -0500, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: What is the status of ZFS support for TRIM? [...] My initial idea was to implement 100% reliable TRIM, so that I can implement secure delete using it, eg.

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS/Drobo (Newbie) Question

2011-02-08 Thread David Dyer-Bennet
On Tue, February 8, 2011 13:03, Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk wrote: Or you could stick strictly to mirrors; 4 pools 2x2T, 2x2T, 2x750G, 2x1.5T. Mirrors are more flexible, give you more redundancy, and are much easier to work with. Easier to work with, yes, but a RAIDz2 will statistically be safer

Re: [zfs-discuss] Repairing Faulted ZFS pool when zbd doesn't recognize the pool as existing

2011-02-08 Thread Chris Forgeron
Yes, a full disclosure will be made once it's back to normal (hopefully that event will happen). The pool is mounted RO right now, and I can give some better stats; I had 10.3 TB of data in that pool, all a mix of dedup and compression. Interesting enough, anything that wasn't being touched

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS/Drobo (Newbie) Question

2011-02-08 Thread Brandon High
On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 12:53 PM, David Dyer-Bennet d...@dd-b.net wrote: Wait, are you saying that the handling of errors in RAIDZ and mirrors is completely different?  That it dumps the mirror disk immediately, but keeps trying to get what it can from the RAIDZ disk?  Because otherwise, you

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS/Drobo (Newbie) Question

2011-02-08 Thread David Dyer-Bennet
On 2011-02-08 21:39, Brandon High wrote: On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 12:53 PM, David Dyer-Bennetd...@dd-b.net wrote: Wait, are you saying that the handling of errors in RAIDZ and mirrors is completely different? That it dumps the mirror disk immediately, but keeps trying to get what it can from

Re: [zfs-discuss] Sil3124 Sata controller for ZFS on Sparc OpenSolaris Nevada b130

2011-02-08 Thread Jerry Kemp
Thank you for the solid answer. It now looks like I am now seeking a 32 bit SAS card that I can put into a Netra T1 or a V120. Jerry On 02/08/11 09:38, Erik Trimble wrote: STUFF DELETED HERE Thomas is correct. This is a hardware issue, not an OS driver one. In order to use a card with

Re: [zfs-discuss] CPU Limited on Checksums?

2011-02-08 Thread Richard Elling
On Feb 8, 2011, at 8:41 AM, Krunal Desai wrote: Hi all, My system is powered by an Intel Core 2 Duo (E6600) with 8GB of RAM. Running into some very heavy CPU usage. The data below does not show heavy CPU usage. Do you have data that does show heavy CPU usage? mpstat would be a good start.