Re: [zfs-discuss] Drive upgrades

2012-04-17 Thread Jim Klimov
2012-04-17 5:15, Richard Elling wrote: For the archives... Write-back cache enablement is toxic for file systems that do not issue cache flush commands, such as Solaris' UFS. In the early days of ZFS, on Solaris 10 or before ZFS was bootable on OpenSolaris, it was not uncommon to have ZFS and

Re: [zfs-discuss] Solaris 11/ZFS historical reporting

2012-04-17 Thread Darren J Moffat
On 04/16/12 20:18, Anh Quach wrote: Are there any tools that ship w/ Solaris 11 for historical reporting on things like network activity, zpool iops/bandwidth, etc., or is it pretty much roll-your-own scripts and whatnot? For network activity look at flowstat it can read exacct format files.

Re: [zfs-discuss] zpool split failing

2012-04-17 Thread Matt Keenan
Hi Cindy, Tried out your example below in a vbox env, and detaching a device from a pool makes that device simply unavailable. and simply cannot be re-imported. I then tried setting up a mirrored rpool within a vbox env, agreed one device is not USB however, when booted into the rpool,

Re: [zfs-discuss] zpool split failing

2012-04-17 Thread Jim Klimov
2012-04-17 14:47, Matt Keenan wrote: - or is it possible that one of the devices being a USB device is causing the failure ? I don't know. Might be, I've got little experience with those beside LiveUSB imagery ;) My reason for splitting the pool was so I could attach the clean USB rpool to

Re: [zfs-discuss] zpool split failing

2012-04-17 Thread Matt Keenan
On 04/17/12 01:00 PM, Jim Klimov wrote: 2012-04-17 14:47, Matt Keenan wrote: - or is it possible that one of the devices being a USB device is causing the failure ? I don't know. Might be, I've got little experience with those beside LiveUSB imagery ;) My reason for splitting the pool was

Re: [zfs-discuss] Drive upgrades

2012-04-17 Thread Richard Elling
On Apr 17, 2012, at 12:25 AM, Jim Klimov wrote: 2012-04-17 5:15, Richard Elling wrote: For the archives... Write-back cache enablement is toxic for file systems that do not issue cache flush commands, such as Solaris' UFS. In the early days of ZFS, on Solaris 10 or before ZFS was bootable

Re: [zfs-discuss] kernel panic during zfs import [UPDATE]

2012-04-17 Thread Carsten John
Hello everybody, just to let you know what happened in the meantime: I was able to open a Service Request at Oracle. The issue is a known bug (Bug 6742788 : assertion panic at: zfs:zap_deref_leaf) The bug has bin fixed (according to Oracle support) since build 164, but there is no fix for

Re: [zfs-discuss] zpool split failing

2012-04-17 Thread Cindy Swearingen
Hi Matt, Regarding this issue: As an aside, I have noticed that on the old laptop, it would not boot if the USB part of the mirror was not attached to the laptop, successful boot could only be achieved when both mirror devices were online. Is this a know issue with ZFS ? bug ? Which Solaris

Re: [zfs-discuss] kernel panic during zfs import [UPDATE]

2012-04-17 Thread Enda O'Connor
On 17/04/2012 16:40, Carsten John wrote: Hello everybody, just to let you know what happened in the meantime: I was able to open a Service Request at Oracle. The issue is a known bug (Bug 6742788 : assertion panic at: zfs:zap_deref_leaf) The bug has bin fixed (according to Oracle support)

Re: [zfs-discuss] kernel panic during zfs import [UPDATE]

2012-04-17 Thread Stephan Budach
Hi Carsten, Am 17.04.12 17:40, schrieb Carsten John: Hello everybody, just to let you know what happened in the meantime: I was able to open a Service Request at Oracle. The issue is a known bug (Bug 6742788 : assertion panic at: zfs:zap_deref_leaf) The bug has bin fixed (according to

Re: [zfs-discuss] Drive upgrades

2012-04-17 Thread Peter Jeremy
On 2012-Apr-17 17:25:36 +1000, Jim Klimov jimkli...@cos.ru wrote: For the sake of archives, can you please post a common troubleshooting techinque which users can try at home to see if their disks honour the request or not? ;) I guess it would involve random-write bandwidths in two cases? 1)

[zfs-discuss] Aaron Toponce: Install ZFS on Debian GNU/Linux

2012-04-17 Thread David E.
fyi Sent to you by David E. via Google Reader: Aaron Toponce: Install ZFS on Debian GNU/Linux via Planet Ubuntu on 4/17/12 Quick post on installing ZFS as a kernel module, not FUSE, on Debian GNU/Linux. The documents already exist for getting this going, I’m just hoping to spread this to a