Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS ok for single disk dev box?

2012-08-30 Thread Anonymous Remailer (austria)
Hi Darren, On 08/30/12 11:07, Anonymous wrote: Hi. I have a spare off the shelf consumer PC and was thinking about loading Solaris on it for a development box since I use Studio @work and like it better than gcc. I was thinking maybe it isn't so smart to use ZFS since it has only one

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS ok for single disk dev box?

2012-08-30 Thread Anonymous Remailer (austria)
Thank you. ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] what have you been buying for slog and l2arc?

2012-08-07 Thread Anonymous Remailer (austria)
It depends on the model. Consumer models are less likely to immediately flush. My understanding that this is done in part to do some write coalescing and reduce the number of P/E cycles. Enterprise models should either flush, or contain a super capacitor that provides enough power for the

Re: [zfs-discuss] Question on 4k sectors

2012-07-23 Thread Anonymous Remailer (austria)
You wrote: 2012-07-23 18:37, Anonymous wrote: Really, it would be so helpful to know which drives we can buy with confidence and which should be avoided...is there any way to know from the manufacturers web sites or do you have to actually buy one and see what it does? Thanks to

Re: [zfs-discuss] What is your data error rate?

2012-01-25 Thread Anonymous Remailer (austria)
I've been watching the heat control issue carefully since I had to take a job offshore (cough reverse H1B cough) in a place without adequate AC and I was able to get them to ship my servers and some other gear. Then I read Intel is guaranteeing their servers will work up to 100 degrees F ambient

Re: [zfs-discuss] Failing WD desktop drive in mirror, how to identify?

2012-01-17 Thread Anonymous Remailer (austria)
Hello all, Trying to reply to everyone so far in one post. casper@oracle.com said Did you try: iostat -En I issued that command and I see (soft) errors from all 4 drives. There is a serial no. field in the message headers but it is has no contents. messages in

Re: [zfs-discuss] Failing WD desktop drive in mirror, how to identify?

2012-01-17 Thread Anonymous Remailer (austria)
Richard Elling said If the errors bubble up to ZFS, then they will be shown in the output of zpool status On the console I was seeing retryable read errors that eventually failed. The block number and drive path were included but not any info I could relate to the actual disk. zpool status

Re: [zfs-discuss] Can I create a mirror for a root rpool?

2011-12-16 Thread Anonymous Remailer (austria)
Thank you all for your answers and links :-) ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

[zfs-discuss] Can I create a mirror for a root rpool?

2011-12-15 Thread Anonymous Remailer (austria)
On Solaris 10 If I install using ZFS root on only one drive is there a way to add another drive as a mirror later? Sorry if this was discussed already. I searched the archives and couldn't find the answer. Thank you. ___ zfs-discuss mailing list

Re: [zfs-discuss] Wrong rpool used after reinstall!

2011-08-03 Thread Anonymous Remailer (austria)
You wrote: Hi Roy, things got alot worse since my first email. I don't know what happened but I can't import the old pool at all. It shows no errors but when I import it I get a kernel panic from assertion failed: zvol_get_stats(os, nv) which looks like is fixed by patch 6801926 which

[zfs-discuss] Wrong rpool used after reinstall!

2011-08-02 Thread Anonymous Remailer (austria)
I am having a problem after a new install of Solaris 10. The installed rpool works fine when I have only those disks connected. When I connect disks from an rpool I created during a previous installation, my newly installed rpool is ignored even though the BIOS (x86) is set to boot only from the

Re: [zfs-discuss] Wrong rpool used after reinstall!

2011-08-02 Thread Anonymous Remailer (austria)
Hi Roy, things got alot worse since my first email. I don't know what happened but I can't import the old pool at all. It shows no errors but when I import it I get a kernel panic from assertion failed: zvol_get_stats(os, nv) which looks like is fixed by patch 6801926 which is applied in Solaris

Re: [zfs-discuss] Server with 4 drives, how to configure ZFS?

2011-06-23 Thread Anonymous Remailer (austria)
Hi Dave, Hi Cindy. Consider the easiest configuration first and it will probably save you time and money in the long run, like this: 73g x 73g mirror (one large s0 on each disk) - rpool 73g x 73g mirror (use whole disks) - data pool Then, get yourself two replacement disks, a good

Re: [zfs-discuss] Any use for extra drives?

2011-03-28 Thread Anonymous Remailer (austria)
If you plan to generate a lot of data, why use the root pool? You can put the /home and /proj filesystems (/export/...) on a separate pool, thus off-loading the root pool. I don't, it's a development box with not alot happening. My two cents, thanks