Re: [zfs-discuss] If you have ZFS in production, willing to share some details (with me)?

2009-09-19 Thread Blake
On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 1:51 PM, Steffen Weiberle steffen.weibe...@sun.com wrote: I am trying to compile some deployment scenarios of ZFS. # of systems 3 amount of storage 10 TB on storage server (can scale to 30) application profile(s) NFS and CIFS type of workload (low, high; random,

Re: [zfs-discuss] deduplication

2009-09-18 Thread Blake
Thanks James! I look forward to these - we could really use dedup in my org. Blake On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 6:02 PM, James C. McPherson james.mcpher...@sun.com wrote: On Thu, 17 Sep 2009 11:50:17 -0500 Tim Cook t...@cook.ms wrote: On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 5:27 AM, Thomas Burgess wonsl

Re: [zfs-discuss] Expanding a raidz pool?

2009-09-02 Thread Blake
On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 11:22 PM, Ty Newtonty.new...@copperchipgames.com wrote: Hi, I've read a few articles about the lack of 'simple' raidz pool expansion capability in ZFS.  I am interested in having a go at developing this functionality.  Is anyone working on this at the moment? I'll

Re: [zfs-discuss] Status/priority of 6761786

2009-08-27 Thread Blake
I think the value of auto-snapshotting zvols is debatable. At least, there are not many folks who need to do this. What I'd rather see is a default property of 'auto-snapshot=off' for zvols. Blake On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 4:29 PM, Tim Cookt...@cook.ms wrote: On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 3:24 PM

[zfs-discuss] zfs+nfs: scary nfs log entries?

2009-08-19 Thread Blake Irvin
that the snapshots are read-only. Any insights? br br Blake -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] missing disk space

2009-08-03 Thread Blake
        c10d1s2  ONLINE   0 0 0 errors: No known data errors -- David can you post the output of 'zfs get all storage' ? blake ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] missing disk space

2009-08-03 Thread Blake
On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 10:34 AM, Blake blake.ir...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 12:35 PM, David E. Andersondanders...@gmail.com wrote: I am new to ZFS, so please bear with me... I created a raidz1 pool from three 1.5TB disks on OpenSolaris 2009.6.  I see less than 1TB useable

Re: [zfs-discuss] why is zpool import still hanging in opensolaris 2009.06 ??? no fix yet ???

2009-07-24 Thread Blake
stopped. Blake On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 5:53 AM, Luc De Meyerno-re...@opensolaris.org wrote: Follow-up : happy end ... It took quite some thinkering but... i have my data back... I ended up starting without the troublesome zfs storage array, de-installed the iscsitartget software and re

Re: [zfs-discuss] Things I Like About ZFS

2009-06-19 Thread Blake
that rely on our multi-terabyte ZFS filer, as well as the filer itself - no waiting around for fsck, thanks! Blake ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] replicating a root pool

2009-05-22 Thread Blake
on this system. I just did this the old way, and it wasn't that hard. I didn't even script it (yet), but it seems like it should be easy to do if you use the solarisinternals recipe. Blake ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs reliability under xen

2009-05-22 Thread Blake
good performance numbers for I/O out of a 2008.11 PV domU with a zfs zvol as the storage device/install disk Blake ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Compression/copies on root pool RFE

2009-05-06 Thread Blake
On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 11:14 AM, Rich Teer rich.t...@rite-group.com wrote: On Wed, 6 May 2009, Richard Elling wrote: popular interactive installers much more simplified.  I agree that interactive installation needs to remain as simple as possible. How about offering a choice an installation

Re: [zfs-discuss] Raidz vdev size... again.

2009-04-28 Thread Blake
On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 10:08 AM, Tim t...@tcsac.net wrote: On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 8:25 PM, Richard Elling richard.ell...@gmail.com wrote: I do not believe you can achieve five 9s with current consumer disk drives for an extended period, say 1 year. Just to pipe up, while very few

Re: [zfs-discuss] [storage-discuss] Supermicro AOC-SASLP-MV8

2009-04-22 Thread Blake
I'm quite happy so far with my LSI cards, which replaced a couple of the Supermicro Marvell cards: # scanpci ... pci bus 0x0007 cardnum 0x00 function 0x00: vendor 0x1000 device 0x0058 LSI Logic / Symbios Logic SAS1068E PCI-Express Fusion-MPT SAS On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 2:45 AM, James

Re: [zfs-discuss] What can I do to shorten the long awkward names of snapshots?

2009-04-16 Thread Blake
The cool thing about the way Tim has built the service is that you can edit the variable values in the method script to make snapshot titles pretty much whatever you want. I think he made a good compromise choice between simplicity and clarity in the current titling system. Remember that the

Re: [zfs-discuss] [storage-discuss] Supermicro SAS/SATA controllers?

2009-04-15 Thread Blake Irvin
On Apr 15, 2009, at 8:28 AM, Nicholas Lee emptysa...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 5:57 AM, Will Murnane will.murn...@gmail.com wrote: Has anyone done any specific testing with SSD devices and solaris other than the FISHWORKS stuff? Which is better for what - SLC and

Re: [zfs-discuss] How recoverable is an 'unrecoverable error'?

2009-04-15 Thread Blake
On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 11:49 AM, Uwe Dippel udip...@gmail.com wrote: Bob Friesenhahn wrote: Since it was not reported that user data was impacted, it seems likely that there was a read failure (or bad checksum) for ZFS metadata which is redundantly stored. (Maybe I am too much of a

Re: [zfs-discuss] [Fwd: ZFS user/group quotas space accounting [PSARC/2009/204 FastTrack timeout 04/08/2009]]

2009-03-31 Thread Blake
much cheering ensues! 2009/3/31 Matthew Ahrens matthew.ahr...@sun.com: FYI, I filed this PSARC case yesterday, and expect to integrate into OpenSolaris in April.  Your comments are welcome. http://arc.opensolaris.org/caselog/PSARC/2009/204/ --matt -- Forwarded message --

Re: [zfs-discuss] Data corruption during resilver operation

2009-03-30 Thread Blake
You are seeing snapshots from Time-Slider's automatic snapshot service. If you have a copy of each of these 58 files elsewhere, I suppose you could re-copy them to the mirror and then do 'zpool clear [poolname]' to reset the error counter. On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 10:28 PM, Harry Putnam

Re: [zfs-discuss] Growing a zpool mirror breaks on Adaptec 1205sa PCI

2009-03-30 Thread Blake
On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 6:57 PM, Ian Collins i...@ianshome.com wrote: Please stop top-posting to threads where everyone else is normal-posting, it mucks up the flow of the thread. Thanks, -- Ian. Apologies - top-posting seems to be the Gmail default (or I set it so long ago that I forgot

Re: [zfs-discuss] Timeslider causing errors..?

2009-03-30 Thread Blake
Do you have more than one Boot Environment? pfexec beadm list On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 1:33 PM, Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote: After messing around with Timeslider... I started getting errors and the frequent and hourly services were failing, causing the service to be put into

Re: [zfs-discuss] Data corruption during resilver operation

2009-03-30 Thread Blake
Sounds like the best way - I was about to suggest that anyway :) On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 3:03 PM, Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote: Blake blake.ir...@gmail.com writes: You are seeing snapshots from Time-Slider's automatic snapshot service. If you have a copy of each of these 58 files

Re: [zfs-discuss] j4200 drive carriers

2009-03-30 Thread Blake
no idea how many of these there are: http://www.google.com/products?q=570-1182hl=enshow=li 2009/3/30 Tim t...@tcsac.net: On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 3:56 AM, Mike Futerko m...@maytech.net wrote: Hello 1) Dual IO module option 2) Multipath support 3) Zone support [multi host connecting to

Re: [zfs-discuss] About snapshots or versioned backups

2009-03-30 Thread Blake
you need zfs list -t snapshot by default, snapshots aren't shown in zfs list anymore, hence the -t option On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 11:41 AM, Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote: Richard Elling richard.ell...@gmail.com writes: It can go very fine, though you'll need to set the parameters

Re: [zfs-discuss] Zfs using java

2009-03-30 Thread Blake
Can you list the exact command you used to launch the control panel? I'm not sure what tool you are referring to. 2009/3/25 Howard Huntley hhuntle...@comcast.net: I once installed ZFS on my home Sun Blade 100 and it worked fine on the sun blade 100 running solaris 10. I reinstalled Solaris 10

Re: [zfs-discuss] About snapshots or versioned backups

2009-03-30 Thread Blake
There is a bug where the automatic snapshot service dies if there are multiple boot environments. Do you have these? I think you can check with Update Manager. On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 7:20 PM, Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote: you need zfs list -t snapshot by default, snapshots aren't

Re: [zfs-discuss] Growing a zpool mirror breaks on Adaptec 1205sa PCI

2009-03-28 Thread Blake
Have you checked the specs of the 1205 to see what maximum drive size it supports? That's an older card, IIRC, so it might top out at 500gb or something. On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 10:33 AM, Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote: casper@sun.com writes: I mentioned that pressing F3 doesn't do

Re: [zfs-discuss] j4200 drive carriers

2009-03-28 Thread Blake
This is true. Unfortunately, in my experience, controller quality is still very important. ZFS can preserve data all day long, but that doesn't help much if the controller misbehaves (you may have good data that can't be retrieved or manipulated properly - it's happened to me with whitebox

Re: [zfs-discuss] is zpool export/import | faster than rsync or cp

2009-03-28 Thread Blake
zfs send/recv *is* faster (especially since b105) than rsync, especially when you are dealing with lots of small files. rsync has to check each file, which can take a long time - zfs send/recv just moves blocks. 2009/3/27 Ahmed Kamal email.ahmedka...@googlemail.com: ZFS replication basics at

Re: [zfs-discuss] Growing a zpool mirror breaks on Adaptec 1205sa PCI

2009-03-28 Thread Blake
what's the output of 'fmadm faulty'? On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 12:22 PM, Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote: Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com writes: Once booted up I see the recurring message where I should see a login prompt (I'm setup to boot into console mode).   ata_id_common Busy

Re: [zfs-discuss] How to increase rpool size in a VM?

2009-03-25 Thread Blake
You need to use 'installgrub' to get the right boot pits in place on your new disk. The manpage for installgrub is pretty helpful. On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 6:18 PM, Bob Doolittle robert.doolit...@sun.com wrote: Hi, I have a build 109 system installed in a VM, and my rpool capacity is getting

Re: [zfs-discuss] Zpools on USB zpool.cache zpool import

2009-03-24 Thread Blake
+1 On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 8:43 PM, Damon Atkins damon.atk...@yahoo.com.au wrote: PS it would be nice to have a zpool diskinfo devicepath reports  if the device belongs to a zpool imported or not, and all the details about any zpool it can find on the disk. e.g. file-systems (zdb is only for

Re: [zfs-discuss] Size discrepancy (beyond expected amount?)

2009-03-20 Thread Blake
Replies inline (I really would recommend reading the whole ZFS Best Practices guide a few times - many of your questions are answered in that document): On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 3:15 PM, Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote: I didn't make it clear.  1 disk, the one with rpool on it is 60gb.

Re: [zfs-discuss] Size discrepancy (beyond expected amount?)

2009-03-19 Thread Blake
IIRC, that's about right. If you look at the zfs best practices wiki (genunix.org I think?), there should be some space calculations linked in there somewhere. On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 6:50 PM, Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote: I'm finally getting close to the setup I wanted, after quite a

Re: [zfs-discuss] Size discrepancy (beyond expected amount?)

2009-03-19 Thread Blake
This verifies my guess: http://www.solarisinternals.com/wiki/index.php/ZFS_Best_Practices_Guide#RAID-Z_Configuration_Requirements_and_Recommendations On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 6:57 PM, Blake blake.ir...@gmail.com wrote: IIRC, that's about right.  If you look at the zfs best practices wiki

Re: [zfs-discuss] Size discrepancy (beyond expected amount?)

2009-03-19 Thread Blake
I'd be careful about raidz unless you have either: 1 - automatic notification of failure set up using fmadm 2 - at least one hot spare Because raidz is parity-based (it does some math-magic to give you redundancy), replacing a disk that's failed can take a very long time compared to mirror

Re: [zfs-discuss] Freezing OpenSolaris with ZFS

2009-03-15 Thread Blake
This sounds quite like the problems I've been having with a spotty sata controller and/or motherboard. See my thread from last week about copying large amounts of data that forced a reboot. Lots of good info from engineers and users in that thread. On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 1:17 PM, Markus

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS GSoC ideas page rough draft

2009-03-14 Thread Blake
I just thought of an enhancement to zfs that would be very helpful in disaster recovery situations - having zfs cache device serial/model numbers - the information we see in cfgadm -v. I'm feeling the pain of this now as I try to figure out which disks on my failed filer belonged to my raidz2

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS GSoC ideas page rough draft

2009-03-14 Thread Blake
: On 14-Mar-09, at 12:09 PM, Blake wrote: I just thought of an enhancement to zfs that would be very helpful in disaster recovery situations - having zfs cache device serial/model numbers - the information we see in cfgadm -v. +1  I haven't needed this but it sounds very sensible. I can imagine

Re: [zfs-discuss] What to do with a disk partition

2009-03-14 Thread Blake
I think you will be helped by looking at this document: http://www.solarisinternals.com/wiki/index.php/ZFS_Troubleshooting_Guide#ZFS_Root_Pool_Recommendations_and_Requirements It addresses many of your questions. I think the easiest way to back up your OS might be to attach a disk to the rpool

Re: [zfs-discuss] reboot when copying large amounts of data

2009-03-13 Thread Blake Irvin
This is really great information, though most of the controllers mentioned aren't on the OpenSolaris HCL. Seems like that should be corrected :) My thanks to the community for their support. On Mar 12, 2009, at 10:42 PM, James C. McPherson james.mcpher...@sun.com wrote: On Thu, 12 Mar

Re: [zfs-discuss] reboot when copying large amounts of data

2009-03-12 Thread Blake
? It might simply be that you are eating up all your memory, and your physical backing storage is taking a while to catch up? Nathan. Blake wrote: My dump device is already on a different controller - the motherboards built-in nVidia SATA controller. The raidz2 vdev is the one I'm having

Re: [zfs-discuss] reboot when copying large amounts of data

2009-03-12 Thread Blake
So, if I boot with the -k boot flags (to load the kernel debugger?) what do I need to look for? I'm no expert at kernel debugging. I think this is a pci error judging by the console output, or at least is i/o related... thanks for your feedback, Blake On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 2:18 AM, Nathan

Re: [zfs-discuss] User quota design discussion..

2009-03-12 Thread Blake
That is pretty freaking cool. On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 11:38 AM, Eric Schrock eric.schr...@sun.com wrote: Note that: 6501037 want user/group quotas on ZFS Is already committed to be fixed in build 113 (i.e. in the next month). - Eric On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 12:04:04PM +0900, Jorgen

Re: [zfs-discuss] reboot when copying large amounts of data

2009-03-12 Thread Blake
not see the screenshot earlier... sorry about that. Nathan. Blake wrote: I start the cp, and then, with prstat -a, watch the cpu load for the cp process climb to 25% on a 4-core machine. Load, measured for example with 'uptime', climbs steadily until the reboot. Note that the machine does

[zfs-discuss] reboot when copying large amounts of data

2009-03-11 Thread Blake
I have a H8DM8-2 motherboard with a pair of AOC-SAT2-MV8 SATA controller cards in a 16-disk Supermicro chassis. I'm running OpenSolaris 2008.11, and the machine performs very well unless I start to copy a large amount of data to the ZFS (software raid) array that's on the Supermicro SATA

Re: [zfs-discuss] reboot when copying large amounts of data

2009-03-11 Thread Blake
I'm working on testing this some more by doing a savecore -L right after I start the copy. BTW, I'm copying to a raidz2 of only 5 disks, not 16 (the chassis supports 16, but isn't fully populated). So far as I know, there is no spinup happening - these are not RAID controllers, just dumb SATA

Re: [zfs-discuss] Export ZFS via ISCSI to Linux - Is it stable for production use now?

2009-03-11 Thread Blake
I blogged this a while ago: http://blog.clockworm.com/2007/10/connecting-linux-centos-5-to-solaris.html On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 1:02 PM, howard chen howac...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 10:20 PM, Darren J Moffat darr...@opensolaris.org wrote: 1. Is this setup suitable

Re: [zfs-discuss] reboot when copying large amounts of data

2009-03-11 Thread Blake
11, 2009 at 2:40 PM, Blake blake.ir...@gmail.com wrote: I'm attaching a screenshot of the console just before reboot.  The dump doesn't seem to be working, or savecore isn't working. On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 11:33 AM, Blake blake.ir...@gmail.com wrote: I'm working on testing this some more

Re: [zfs-discuss] reboot when copying large amounts of data

2009-03-11 Thread Blake
? ..Remco Blake wrote: I'm attaching a screenshot of the console just before reboot.  The dump doesn't seem to be working, or savecore isn't working. On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 11:33 AM, Blake blake.ir...@gmail.com wrote: I'm working on testing this some more by doing a savecore -L right

Re: [zfs-discuss] reboot when copying large amounts of data

2009-03-11 Thread Blake
Could the problem be related to this bug: http://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6793353 I'm testing setting the maximum payload size as a workaround, as noted in the bug notes. On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 3:14 PM, Blake blake.ir...@gmail.com wrote: I think that TMC Research

Re: [zfs-discuss] reboot when copying large amounts of data

2009-03-11 Thread Blake
be its a know Solaris or driver bug and somebody has heard of it before. Any takers on this? :) hth, Thanks! ..Remco Blake wrote: Could the problem be related to this bug: http://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6793353 I'm testing setting the maximum payload size

Re: [zfs-discuss] reboot when copying large amounts of data

2009-03-11 Thread Blake
: Blake wrote: I'm attaching a screenshot of the console just before reboot.  The dump doesn't seem to be working, or savecore isn't working. On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 11:33 AM, Blake blake.ir...@gmail.com wrote: I'm working on testing this some more by doing a savecore -L right after I start

Re: [zfs-discuss] reboot when copying large amounts of data

2009-03-11 Thread Blake
-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Blake Sent: Wednesday, March 11, 2009 4:45 PM To: Richard Elling Cc: Marc Bevand; zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org Subject: Re: [zfs-discuss] reboot when copying large amounts of data I guess I didn't make it clear that I had already tried using savecore

Re: [zfs-discuss] Is there a limit to snapshotting?

2009-03-08 Thread Blake
I think it's filesystems, not snapshots, that take a long time to enumerate. (If I'm wrong, somebody correct me :) On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 10:10 PM, mike mike...@gmail.com wrote: I do a daily snapshot of two filesystems, and over the past few months it's obviously grown to a bunch. zfs list

Re: [zfs-discuss] large file copy bug?

2009-03-06 Thread Blake
...@east.sun.com wrote: On Thu, 5 Mar 2009, Blake wrote: I had a 2008.11 machine crash while moving a 700gb file from one machine to another using cp.  I looked for an existing bug for this, but found nothing. Has anyone else seen behavior like this?  I wanted to check before filing a bug. Have you

Re: [zfs-discuss] large file copy bug?

2009-03-06 Thread Blake
I have savecore enabled, but nothing in /var/crash: r...@filer:~# savecore -v savecore: dump already processed r...@filer:~# ls /var/crash/filer/ r...@filer:~# On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 4:21 PM, Mark J Musante mmusa...@east.sun.com wrote: On Fri, 6 Mar 2009, Blake wrote: I have savecore

Re: [zfs-discuss] large file copy bug?

2009-03-06 Thread Blake
These are fair questions, answered inline below :) On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 4:45 PM, Mark J Musante mmusa...@east.sun.com wrote: On Fri, 6 Mar 2009, Blake wrote: OK, just to ask the dumb questions: is dumpadm configured for /var/crash/filer?  Is the dump zvol big enough?  How do you know

Re: [zfs-discuss] GSoC 09 zfs ideas?

2009-03-05 Thread Blake
How I do recursive, selective snapshot destroys: http://blog.clockworm.com/2008/03/remove-old-zfs-snapshots.html Saturday, February 28, 2009, 10:14:20 PM, you wrote: TW I would really add : make insane zfs destroy -r| poolname as TW harmless as zpool destroy poolname (recoverable)

[zfs-discuss] large file copy bug?

2009-03-05 Thread Blake
I had a 2008.11 machine crash while moving a 700gb file from one machine to another using cp. I looked for an existing bug for this, but found nothing. Has anyone else seen behavior like this? I wanted to check before filing a bug. cheers, Blake

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs related google summer of code ideas - your vote

2009-03-03 Thread Blake
When I go here: http://opensolaris.org/os/project/isns/bui I get an error. Where are you getting BUI from? On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 5:16 PM, Richard Elling richard.ell...@gmail.comwrote: FWIW, I just took at look at the BUI in b108 and it seems to have garnered some love since the last time

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs related google summer of code ideas - your vote

2009-03-03 Thread Blake
That's what I thought you meant, and I got excited thinking that you were talking about OpenSolaris :) I'll see about getting the new packages and trying them out. On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 8:36 PM, Richard Elling richard.ell...@gmail.comwrote: Blake wrote: When I go here: http

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS volume corrupted?

2009-03-02 Thread Blake
It looks like you only have one physical device in this pool. Is that correct? On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 9:01 AM, Lars-Gunnar Persson lars-gunnar.pers...@nersc.no wrote: Hey to everyone on this mailing list (since this is my first post)! We've a Sun Fire X4100 M2 server running Solaris 10 u6

Re: [zfs-discuss] Virutal zfs server vs hardware zfs server

2009-03-02 Thread Blake
yes, most nvidia hardware will give you much better performance on OpenSolaris (provided the card is fairly recent) On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 6:18 AM, Juergen Nickelsen n...@jnickelsen.de wrote: Juergen Nickelsen n...@jnickelsen.de writes: Solaris Bundled Driver: * vgatext/ ** radeon Video ATI

Re: [zfs-discuss] invalid vdev configuration after power failure

2009-03-02 Thread Blake
that link suggests that this is a problem with a dirty export: http://www.sun.com/msg/ZFS-8000-EY maybe try importing on system A again, doing a 'zpool export', waiting for completion, then moving to system B to import? On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 2:29 PM, Kyle Kakligian small...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: [zfs-discuss] GSoC 09 zfs ideas?

2009-03-02 Thread Blake
excellent! i wasn't sure if that was the case, though i had heard rumors. On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 12:36 PM, Matthew Ahrens matthew.ahr...@sun.com wrote: Blake wrote: zfs send is great for moving a filesystem with lots of tiny files, since it just handles the blocks :) I'd like to see

Re: [zfs-discuss] Can VirtualBox run a 64 bit guests on 32 bit host

2009-02-28 Thread Blake Irvin
Check out http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/hcl/data/os Sent from my iPhone On Feb 28, 2009, at 2:20 AM, Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote: Brian Hechinger wo...@4amlunch.net writes: [...] I think it would be better to answer this question that it would to attempt to answer the VirtualBox

Re: [zfs-discuss] GSoC 09 zfs ideas?

2009-02-28 Thread Blake Irvin
shrink and grow commands show up sooner or later. Just a data point. Joe Esposito www.j-espo.com On 2/28/09, C. Bergström cbergst...@netsyncro.com wrote: Blake wrote: Gnome GUI for desktop ZFS administration On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 9:13 PM, Blake blake.ir...@gmail.com wrote: zfs send

Re: [zfs-discuss] Virutal zfs server vs hardware zfs server

2009-02-27 Thread Blake
On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 12:31 PM, Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote: Are you talking about the official Opensol-11 install iso or something else? The official 2008.11 LiveCD has the tool on the default desktop as an icon. A big issue with running a VM is that ZFS prefers direct access to

Re: [zfs-discuss] Virutal zfs server vs hardware zfs server

2009-02-27 Thread Blake
Friesenhahn bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us wrote: On Fri, 27 Feb 2009, Blake wrote: SinceZFS is trying to checksum blocks, the fewer abstraction layers youhave in between ZFS and spinning rust, the less points oferror/failure. Are you saying that ZFS checksums are responsible for the failure

Re: [zfs-discuss] GSoC 09 zfs ideas?

2009-02-27 Thread Blake
(sometimes bad things happen) automated installgrub when mirroring an rpool On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 8:02 PM, Richard Elling richard.ell...@gmail.com wrote: David Magda wrote: On Feb 27, 2009, at 18:23, C. Bergström wrote: Blake wrote: Care to share any of those in advance?  It might

Re: [zfs-discuss] Virutal zfs server vs hardware zfs server

2009-02-27 Thread Blake
performance hit than running on bare metal. That said, my filer exporting ZFS over NFS to 10 busy CentOS clients barely breaks a sweat. On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 7:51 PM, Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote: Brandon High bh...@freaks.com writes: On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 8:35 AM, Blake blake.ir

Re: [zfs-discuss] GSoC 09 zfs ideas?

2009-02-27 Thread Blake
Gnome GUI for desktop ZFS administration On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 9:13 PM, Blake blake.ir...@gmail.com wrote: zfs send is great for moving a filesystem with lots of tiny files, since it just handles the blocks :) I'd like to see: pool-shrinking (and an option to shrink disk A when i want

Re: [zfs-discuss] Can VirtualBox run a 64 bit guests on 32 bit host

2009-02-26 Thread Blake
The changelog says 64-bit guest on 32-bit host support was added in 2.1: http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Changelog On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 10:48 AM, Brian Hechinger wo...@4amlunch.net wrote: On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 07:14:14PM -0600, Harry Putnam wrote: My whole purpose is to experiment with

Re: [zfs-discuss] Migrating to ZFS

2009-02-26 Thread Blake
Rafael, If you are talking just about moving a bunch of data, take a look at rsync. I think it will work nicely for moving files from one volume to another, preserving attributes. It comes bundled with 2008.11 and up. On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 10:41 AM, cindy.swearin...@sun.com wrote: Hi

Re: [zfs-discuss] Virutal zfs server vs hardware zfs server

2009-02-26 Thread Blake
Harry, The LiveCD for OpenSolaris has a driver detection tool on it - this will let you see if your hardware is supported without touching the installed XP system. A big issue with running a VM is that ZFS prefers direct access to storage. On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 11:48 PM, Harry Putnam

Re: [zfs-discuss] GSoC 09 zfs ideas?

2009-02-26 Thread Blake
Care to share any of those in advance? It might be cool to see input from listees and generally get some wheels turning... On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 4:39 AM, C. Bergström cbergst...@netsyncro.com wrote: Hi everyone. I've got a couple ideas for good zfs GSoC projects, but wanted to stir some

Re: [zfs-discuss] Motherboard for home zfs/solaris file server -- ECC claims

2009-02-26 Thread Blake
IIRC, the AMD board I have at my office has hardware ECC scrub. I have no idea if Solaris knows about this or makes any use of it (or needs to?) On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 2:50 PM, Miles Nordin car...@ivy.net wrote: rl == Rob Logan r...@logan.com writes:    rl that's why this X58 MB claims ECC

Re: [zfs-discuss] Migrating to ZFS

2009-02-26 Thread Blake
Ah - I think I was getting confused by my experience with the modified rsync on OS X. On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 1:54 PM, Ian Collins i...@ianshome.com wrote: Blake wrote: Rafael,   If you are talking just about moving a bunch of data, take a look at rsync.  I think it will work nicely

Re: [zfs-discuss] Backing up ZFS snapshots

2009-02-25 Thread Blake
certainly better to use a product with commercial support. I think Amanda is zfs-aware now? On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 12:16 PM, Miles Nordin car...@ivy.net wrote: b == Blake  blake.ir...@gmail.com writes:     c There are other problems besides the versioning.     b Agreed - I don't think

Re: [zfs-discuss] Confused about zfs recv -d, apparently

2009-02-22 Thread Blake
I'm actually working on this for an application at my org. I'll try to post my work somewhere when done (hopefully this week). Are you keeping in mind the fact that the '-i' option needs a pair of snapshots (original and current) to work properly? On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 2:14 PM, David

Re: [zfs-discuss] Backing up ZFS snapshots

2009-02-22 Thread Blake
I thinks that's legitimate so long as you don't change ZFS versions. Personally, I'm more comfortable doing a 'zfs send | zfs recv' than I am storing the send stream itself. The problem I have with the stream is that I may not be able to receive it in a future version of ZFS, while I'm pretty

Re: [zfs-discuss] Backing up ZFS snapshots

2009-02-22 Thread Blake
Agreed - I don't think that archiving simply the send stream is a smart idea (yet, until the stream format is stabilized in some way). I'd much rather archive to a normal ZFS filesystem. With ZFS's enormous pool capacities, it's probably the closest thing we have right now to a future-proof

Re: [zfs-discuss] Oracle doc: Unable to run Forms applications when using Solaris Zettabyte File System (ZFS)

2009-02-20 Thread Blake
If this happens if ZFS is in use anywhere in the system, I'm not sure of a solution. If you just need Oracle files and activity to be on something other than ZFS, could you try creating a ZFS block device and formatting it UFS? (disclaimer: I'm not an Oracle user) On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 12:12

Re: [zfs-discuss] Oracle doc: Unable to run Forms applications when using Solaris Zettabyte File System (ZFS)

2009-02-20 Thread Blake
then put a UFS filesystem on this ZFS-backed block device. See 'man zfs' for details. On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 1:43 PM, Jose Gregores jose.grego...@sun.com wrote: Blake escreveu: If this happens if ZFS is in use anywhere in the system, I'm not sure of a solution. Yes, this happens on our

Re: [zfs-discuss] Confused about prerequisites for ZFS to work

2009-02-18 Thread Blake
You definitely need SUNWsmbskr - the cifs server provided with OpenSolaris is tied to the kernel at some low level. I found this entry helpful: http://blogs.sun.com/timthomas/entry/solaris_cifs_in_workgroup_mode On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 1:03 PM, Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote: Ian

Re: [zfs-discuss] Zpool scrub in cron hangs u3/u4 server, stumps tech support.

2009-02-18 Thread Blake
Bob is correct to praise LiveUpgrade. It's pretty much risk-free when used properly, provided you have some spare slices/disks. At the same time, I'd say that this is probably an appropriate time to escalate the bug with support - the answers you are getting aren't satisfactory. I would also

Re: [zfs-discuss] Confused about prerequisites for ZFS to work

2009-02-18 Thread Blake
have you made sure that samba is *disabled*? svcs samba ? On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 4:14 PM, Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote: Blake wrote: You definitely need SUNWsmbskr - the cifs server provided with OpenSolaris is tied to the kernel at some low level. I found this entry helpful

Re: [zfs-discuss] scrub on snv-b107

2009-02-17 Thread Blake
Do you have more data on the 107 pool than on the sol10 pool? On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 6:11 AM, dick hoogendijk d...@nagual.nl wrote: scrub completed after 1h9m with 0 errors on Tue Feb 17 12:09:31 2009 This is about twice as slow as the same srub on a solaris 10 box with a mirrored zfs root

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs destroy hanging

2009-02-14 Thread Blake
I think you can kill the destroy command process using traditional methods. Perhaps your slowness issue is because the pool is an older format. I've not had these problems since upgrading to the zfs version that comes default with 2008.11 On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 4:14 PM, David Dyer-Bennet

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS: unreliable for professional usage?

2009-02-12 Thread Blake
That does look like the issue being discussed. It's a little alarming that the bug was reported against snv54 and is still not fixed :( Does anyone know how to push for resolution on this? USB is pretty common, like it or not for storage purposes - especially amongst the laptop-using dev crowd

Re: [zfs-discuss] strange 'too many errors' msg

2009-02-12 Thread Blake
I think you could try clearing the pool - however, consulting the fault management tools (fmdump and it's kin) might be smart first. It's possible this is an error in the controller. The output of 'cfgadm' might be of use also. On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 7:12 PM, Jens Elkner

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS: unreliable for professional usage?

2009-02-12 Thread Blake
I'm sure it's very hard to write good error handling code for hardware events like this. I think, after skimming this thread (a pretty wild ride), we can at least decide that there is an RFE for a recovery tool for zfs - something to allow us to try to pull data from a failed pool. That seems

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS snapshot splitting joinin

2009-02-09 Thread Blake
I believe Tim Foster's zfs backup service (very beta atm) has support for splitting zfs send backups. Might want to check that out and see about modifying it for your needs. On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 3:15 PM, Michael McKnight michael_mcknigh...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi everyone, I appreciate the

Re: [zfs-discuss] Introducing zilstat

2009-01-31 Thread Blake
I'm already using it. This could be really useful for my Windows roaming-profile application of ZFS/NFS/SMB On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 9:35 PM, Richard Elling richard.ell...@gmail.com wrote: For those who didn't follow down the thread this afternoon, I have posted a tool call zilstat which will

Re: [zfs-discuss] zpool status -x strangeness

2009-01-30 Thread Blake
Maybe ZFS hasn't seen an error in a long enough time that it considers the pool healthy? You could try clearing the pool and then observing. On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 9:40 AM, Ben Miller mil...@eecis.udel.edu wrote: # zpool status -xv all pools are healthy Ben What does 'zpool status -xv'

Re: [zfs-discuss] Raidz1 faulted with single bad disk. Requesting assistance.

2009-01-27 Thread Blake
I guess you could try 'zpool import -f'. This is a pretty odd status, I think. I'm pretty sure raidz1 should survive a single disk failure. Perhaps a more knowledgeable list member can explain. On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 12:48 PM, Brad Hill b...@thosehills.com wrote: I've seen reports of a

Re: [zfs-discuss] Unable to destory a pool

2009-01-27 Thread Blake
Can you share the output of 'uname -a' and the disk controller you are using? On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 6:24 PM, Ramesh Mudradi rameshm.ku...@gmail.com wrote: # zpool list NAME SIZE USED AVAILCAP HEALTH ALTROOT jira-app-zpool 272G 330K 272G 0% ONLINE - The

Re: [zfs-discuss] Replacing HDD in x4500

2009-01-27 Thread Blake
I'm not an authority, but on my 'vanilla' filer, using the same controller chipset as the thumper, I've been in really good shape since moving to zfs boot in 10/08 and doing 'zpool upgrade' and 'zfs upgrade' to all my mirrors (3 3-way). I'd been having similar troubles to yours in the past. My

Re: [zfs-discuss] zpool status -x strangeness

2009-01-27 Thread Blake
What does 'zpool status -xv' show? On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 8:01 AM, Ben Miller mil...@eecis.udel.edu wrote: I forgot the pool that's having problems was recreated recently so it's already at zfs version 3. I just did a 'zfs upgrade -a' for another pool, but some of those filesystems failed

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