[zfs-discuss] Does the zpool cache file affect import?

2011-08-29 Thread Gary Mills
I have a system with ZFS root that imports another zpool from a start method. It uses a separate cache file for this zpool, like this: if [ -f $CCACHE ] then echo Importing $CPOOL with cache $CCACHE zpool import -o cachefile=$CCACHE -c $CCACHE $CPOOL

[zfs-discuss] BAD WD drives - defective by design?

2011-08-29 Thread Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk
Hi all It seems recent WD drives that aren't Raid edition can cause rather a lot of problems on RAID systems. We have a few machines with LSI controllers (6801/6081/9201) and we're seeing massive errors occuring. The usual pattern is a drive failing or even a resilver/scrub starting and then,

Re: [zfs-discuss] [OpenIndiana-discuss] BAD WD drives - defective by design?

2011-08-29 Thread Rich
The drives are attached to a backplane? Try using 4k sector sizes and see if that improves it - I've seen and been part of a number of discussions which involved this - and you, I think, actually. - Rich On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 5:07 PM, Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk r...@karlsbakk.net wrote: Hi all

Re: [zfs-discuss] [OpenIndiana-discuss] BAD WD drives - defective by design?

2011-08-29 Thread Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk
And, yes, they're connected to an LSI SAS expander from Super Micro. Works well with Seagate and Hitachi, but not with WD - Original Message - The drives are attached to a backplane? Try using 4k sector sizes and see if that improves it - I've seen and been part of a number of

Re: [zfs-discuss] Does the zpool cache file affect import?

2011-08-29 Thread LaoTsao
Q? are you intent to import this zpool to different host? Sent from my iPad Hung-Sheng Tsao ( LaoTsao) Ph.D On Aug 29, 2011, at 14:13, Gary Mills mi...@cc.umanitoba.ca wrote: I have a system with ZFS root that imports another zpool from a start method. It uses a separate cache file for this

Re: [zfs-discuss] Does the zpool cache file affect import?

2011-08-29 Thread Richard Elling
Hi Gary, We use this method to implement NexentaStor HA-Cluster and, IIRC, Solaris Cluster uses shared cachefiles, too. More below... On Aug 29, 2011, at 11:13 AM, Gary Mills wrote: I have a system with ZFS root that imports another zpool from a start method. It uses a separate cache file

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs send and zfs destroy at the same time

2011-08-29 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
From: Richard Elling [mailto:richard.ell...@gmail.com] What do you expect to happen if you're in progress doing a zfs send, and then simultaneously do a zfs destroy of the snapshot you're sending? It depends on the release. For modern implementations, a hold is placed on the snapshot and

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS raidz on top of hardware raid0

2011-08-29 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Daniel Carosone On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 08:44:13AM -0700, Richard Elling wrote: I'm getting a but tired of people designing for fast resilvering. It is a design consideration, regardless,

[zfs-discuss] Advice with SSD, ZIL and L2ARC

2011-08-29 Thread Jesus Cea
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi all. Sorry if I am asking a FAQ, but I haven't found a really authorizative answer to this. Most references are old, incomplete or of I have heard of kind. I am running Solaris 10 Update 9, and my pool is v22. I recently got two 40GB SSD I plan