[zfs-discuss] Anybody running S10 or 11 on AMD bulldozer 8 core?

2012-05-25 Thread Nomen Nescio
I have a chance to pick up a system at a reasonable price built with an AMD FX8120 8 core 3.1 GHz on a Gigabyte motherboard. Is anybody runing with this combo? Looking for info from an actual user. Thanks. ___ zfs-discuss mailing list

[zfs-discuss] MPxIO n00b question

2012-05-25 Thread Sašo Kiselkov
I'm currently trying to get a SuperMicro JBOD with dual SAS expander chips running in MPxIO, but I'm a total amateur to this and would like to ask about how to detect whether MPxIO is working (or not). My SAS topology is: *) One LSI SAS2008-equipped HBA (running the latest IT firmware from

Re: [zfs-discuss] MPxIO n00b question

2012-05-25 Thread Jim Klimov
Sorry I can't comment on MPxIO, except that I thought zfs could by itself discern two paths to the same drive, if only to protect against double-importing the disk into pool. 2012-05-25 21:07, Sašo Kiselkov wrote: I'd like to create a 5x 9-drive raidz's on the JBOD, but I'm not sure how to do

Re: [zfs-discuss] MPxIO n00b question

2012-05-25 Thread Sašo Kiselkov
On 05/25/2012 07:35 PM, Jim Klimov wrote: Sorry I can't comment on MPxIO, except that I thought zfs could by itself discern two paths to the same drive, if only to protect against double-importing the disk into pool. Unfortunately, it isn't the same thing. MPxIO provides redundant signaling to

Re: [zfs-discuss] MPxIO n00b question

2012-05-25 Thread Jim Klimov
2012-05-25 21:45, Sašo Kiselkov wrote: On 05/25/2012 07:35 PM, Jim Klimov wrote: Sorry I can't comment on MPxIO, except that I thought zfs could by itself discern two paths to the same drive, if only to protect against double-importing the disk into pool. Unfortunately, it isn't the same

Re: [zfs-discuss] MPxIO n00b question

2012-05-25 Thread Richard Elling
See the soluion at https://www.illumos.org/issues/644 -- richard On May 25, 2012, at 10:07 AM, Sašo Kiselkov wrote: I'm currently trying to get a SuperMicro JBOD with dual SAS expander chips running in MPxIO, but I'm a total amateur to this and would like to ask about how to detect whether

Re: [zfs-discuss] MPxIO n00b question

2012-05-25 Thread Sašo Kiselkov
On 05/25/2012 08:40 PM, Richard Elling wrote: See the soluion at https://www.illumos.org/issues/644 -- richard Good Lord, that was it! It never occurred to me that the drives had a say in this. Thanks a billion! Cheers, -- Saso ___ zfs-discuss mailing

Re: [zfs-discuss] How does resilver/scrub work?

2012-05-25 Thread zfs user
On 5/23/12 11:28 PM, Richard Elling wrote: The man page is clear on this topic, IMHO Indeed, even in snv_117 the zpool man page says that. But the console/dmesg message was also quite clear, so go figure whom to trust (or fear) more ;) The FMA message is consistent with the man page. The

Re: [zfs-discuss] How does resilver/scrub work?

2012-05-25 Thread Richard Elling
On May 25, 2012, at 1:53 PM, zfs user wrote: On 5/23/12 11:28 PM, Richard Elling wrote: The man page is clear on this topic, IMHO Indeed, even in snv_117 the zpool man page says that. But the console/dmesg message was also quite clear, so go figure whom to trust (or fear) more ;) The

Re: [zfs-discuss] How does resilver/scrub work?

2012-05-25 Thread Jim Klimov
2012-05-26 1:07, Richard Elling wrote: On May 25, 2012, at 1:53 PM, zfs user wrote: The man page seems to not mention the critical part of the FMA msg that OP is worried about. OP said that his motivation for clearing the errors and fearing the degraded state was because he feared this: