Re: [zfs-discuss] Scrub found error in metadata:0x0, is that always fatal? No checks um errors now...

2011-12-17 Thread Jim Klimov
Another update to my post: it took a week to try running some ZDB walks on my pool, but they coredumped after a while. However, I've also noticed some clues in my FMADM outputs dating from 'zpool scrub' attempts. There are several sets (one set per scrub) of similar error reports, differing only

Re: [zfs-discuss] SATA hardware advice

2011-12-17 Thread Chris Ridd
On 16 Dec 2011, at 23:48, Edmund White wrote: If you're building from scratch, please choose nearline/midline SAS disks instead of SATA if you're looking for capacity. For detailed reasoning, see: http://serverfault.com/a/331504/13325 For the server, I've had great success with HP ProLiant

Re: [zfs-discuss] SATA hardware advice

2011-12-17 Thread Edmund White
On 12/17/11 8:27 PM, Chris Ridd chrisr...@mac.com wrote: Can you explain how you got the SSDs into the HP sleds? Did you buy blank sleds from somewhere, or cannibalise some cheap HP drives? I assumed some part of the HP hardware would freak out if it ever saw a drive with non-HP firmware - is

Re: [zfs-discuss] SATA hardware advice

2011-12-17 Thread Chris Ridd
On 17 Dec 2011, at 19:35, Edmund White wrote: On 12/17/11 8:27 PM, Chris Ridd chrisr...@mac.com wrote: Can you explain how you got the SSDs into the HP sleds? Did you buy blank sleds from somewhere, or cannibalise some cheap HP drives? I assumed some part of the HP hardware would