Re: [zfs-discuss] Sun Storage 7320 system

2011-05-26 Thread Giovanni Tirloni
looking for maximum performance with availability so that narrows it down to a mirrored pool, unless your Postgresql workload is very specific that raidz would fit, but beware of the performance hit. Regards, -- Giovanni Tirloni ___ zfs-discuss mailing list

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS File / Folder Management

2011-05-17 Thread Giovanni Tirloni
/datasets from each one independently. http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E19963-01/html/821-1448/index.html http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E18752_01/html/819-5461/index.html -- Giovanni Tirloni ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http

Re: [zfs-discuss] Reboots when importing old rpool

2011-05-17 Thread Giovanni Tirloni
shouldn't panic just because it can't import a pool. Try booting with the kernel debugger on (add -kv to the grub kernel line). Take a look at dumpadm. -- Giovanni Tirloni ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org

Re: [zfs-discuss] 350TB+ storage solution

2011-05-16 Thread Giovanni Tirloni
that is not a problem comments. With the 7000s appliance I've heard that the 900hr estimated resilver time was normal and everything is working as expected. Can't help but think there is some walled garden syndrome floating around. -- Giovanni Tirloni ___ zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Quick zfs send -i performance questions

2011-05-05 Thread Giovanni Tirloni
On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 9:04 PM, Brandon High bh...@freaks.com wrote: On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 2:25 PM, Giovanni Tirloni gtirl...@sysdroid.com wrote: The problem we've started seeing is that a zfs send -i is taking hours to send a very small amount of data (eg. 20GB in 6 hours) while a zfs

Re: [zfs-discuss] Quick zfs send -i performance questions

2011-05-04 Thread Giovanni Tirloni
, -- Giovanni Tirloni ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] A resilver record?

2011-03-23 Thread Giovanni Tirloni
Anyone else with over 600 hours of resilver time? :-) Thank you, Giovanni Tirloni (gtirl...@sysdroid.com) ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Resilver misleading output

2010-12-14 Thread Giovanni Tirloni
for this type of situation? http://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6899970 -- Giovanni Tirloni gtirl...@sysdroid.com ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Supermicro AOC-USAS2-L8i

2010-10-16 Thread Giovanni Tirloni
the LSI 2004/2008 HBAs connected to the backplane (both 3Gb/s and 6Gb/s). The MegaRAID ELP, when connected to the same backplane, doesn't exhibit that behavior. -- Giovanni Tirloni gtirl...@sysdroid.com ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Supermicro AOC-USAS2-L8i

2010-10-13 Thread Giovanni Tirloni
Solaris and refuses to investigate it. -- Giovanni Tirloni gtirl...@sysdroid.com ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] non-ECC Systems and ZFS for home users

2010-09-25 Thread Giovanni Tirloni
basis. It's not if they'll happen but how often. -- Giovanni Tirloni gtirl...@sysdroid.com ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Replacing a disk never completes

2010-09-20 Thread Giovanni Tirloni
builds. -- Giovanni Tirloni gtirl...@sysdroid.com ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] what is zfs doing during a log resilver?

2010-09-04 Thread Giovanni Tirloni
in a mirror. I've always wondered what exactly it was doing since it was supposed to be 30 seconds worth of data. It also generates lots of checksum errors. -- Giovanni Tirloni gtirl...@sysdroid.com ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org

[zfs-discuss] autoreplace not kicking in

2010-08-11 Thread Giovanni Tirloni
. Was the autoreplace code supposed to replace the faulty disk and release the spare when resilver is done ? Thank you, -- Giovanni Tirloni gtirl...@sysdroid.com ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: [zfs-discuss] autoreplace not kicking in

2010-08-11 Thread Giovanni Tirloni
On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 4:06 PM, Cindy Swearingen cindy.swearin...@oracle.com wrote: Hi Giovanni, The spare behavior and the autoreplace property behavior are separate but they should work pretty well in recent builds. You should not need to perform a zpool replace operation

Re: [zfs-discuss] Upgrading 2009.06 to something current

2010-08-01 Thread Giovanni Tirloni
have reported works OK. If you want to try something in between b111 and b134, see the following instructions: http://blogs.sun.com/observatory/entry/updating_to_a_specific_build -- Giovanni Tirloni gtirl...@sysdroid.com ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs

[zfs-discuss] Increase resilver priority

2010-07-23 Thread Giovanni Tirloni
a vdev is degraded). Thank you, -- Giovanni Tirloni gtirl...@sysdroid.com ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Increase resilver priority

2010-07-23 Thread Giovanni Tirloni
On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 11:59 AM, Richard Elling rich...@nexenta.com wrote: On Jul 23, 2010, at 2:31 AM, Giovanni Tirloni wrote: Hello, We've seen some resilvers on idle servers that are taking ages. Is it possible to speed up resilver operations somehow? Eg. iostat shows 5MB/s writes

Re: [zfs-discuss] Increase resilver priority

2010-07-23 Thread Giovanni Tirloni
On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 12:50 PM, Bill Sommerfeld bill.sommerf...@oracle.com wrote: On 07/23/10 02:31, Giovanni Tirloni wrote:  We've seen some resilvers on idle servers that are taking ages. Is it possible to speed up resilver operations somehow?  Eg. iostat shows5MB/s writes

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs send to remote any ideas for a faster way than ssh?

2010-07-20 Thread Giovanni Tirloni
these issues. -- Giovanni Tirloni gtirl...@sysdroid.com ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] carrying on

2010-07-19 Thread Giovanni Tirloni
On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 7:12 AM, Joerg Schilling joerg.schill...@fokus.fraunhofer.de wrote: Giovanni Tirloni gtirl...@sysdroid.com wrote: On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 10:19 PM, Miles Nordin car...@ivy.net wrote: IMHO it's important we don't get stuck running Nexenta in the same spot we're now

Re: [zfs-discuss] corrupt pool?

2010-07-19 Thread Giovanni Tirloni
version 134. Have you enabled compression or deduplication ? Check the disks with `iostat -XCn 1` (look for high asvc_t times) and `iostat -En` (hard and soft errors). -- Giovanni Tirloni gtirl...@sysdroid.com ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] fmadm warnings about media erros

2010-07-17 Thread Giovanni Tirloni
see/change these thresholds ? -- Giovanni Tirloni gtirl...@sysdroid.com ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Lost zpool after reboot

2010-07-17 Thread Giovanni Tirloni
I can't get zpool status to show my pool.    vdev_path = /dev/dsk/c9t0d0s0    vdev_devid = id1,s...@ahitachi_hds7225scsun250g_0719bn9e3k=vfa100r1dn9e3k/a    parent_guid = 0xb89f3c5a72a22939 Does format(1M) show the devices where they once where ? -- Giovanni Tirloni gtirl...@sysdroid.com

Re: [zfs-discuss] Lost zpool after reboot

2010-07-17 Thread Giovanni Tirloni
/messages Perhaps with the additional information someone here can help you better. I don't have any experience with Windows 7 to guarantee that it hasn't messes with the disk contents. -- Giovanni Tirloni gtirl...@sysdroid.com ___ zfs-discuss mailing

Re: [zfs-discuss] Legality and the future of zfs...

2010-07-14 Thread Giovanni Tirloni
the opposite. Some companies are successfully doing the opposite of you: They are using standard parts and a competent staff that knows how to create solutions out of them without having to pay for GUI-powered systems and a 4-hour on-site part swapping service. -- Giovanni Tirloni gtirl...@sysdroid.com

Re: [zfs-discuss] [osol-help] ZFS list snapshots incurs large delay

2010-07-13 Thread Giovanni Tirloni
and packages, so I can't envision that. Would anyone have any ideas what may cause this? It could be a disk failing and dragging I/O down with it. Try to check for high asvc_t with `iostat -XCn 1` and errors in `iostat -En` Any timeouts or retries in /var/adm/messages ? -- Giovanni Tirloni gtirl

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs send/recv hanging in 2009.06

2010-07-09 Thread Giovanni Tirloni
release. -- Giovanni Tirloni gtirl...@sysdroid.com ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] NexentaStor 3.0.3 vs OpenSolaris - Patches more up to date?

2010-07-06 Thread Giovanni Tirloni
://www.nexenta.com/corp/documentation/nexentastor-changelog Is there a bug tracker were one can objectively list all the bugs (with details) that went into a release ? Many bug fixes is a bit too general. -- Giovanni Tirloni gtirl...@sysdroid.com ___ zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] WD caviar/mpt issues

2010-06-23 Thread Giovanni Tirloni
. -- Giovanni Tirloni gtirl...@sysdroid.com ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] WD caviar/mpt issues

2010-06-23 Thread Giovanni Tirloni
driver by default uses scsi_vhci, and scsi_vhci by default does load-balance round-robin. Have you tried setting load-balance=none in scsi_vhci.conf? That didn't help. -- Giovanni Tirloni gtirl...@sysdroid.com ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] WD caviar/mpt issues

2010-06-22 Thread Giovanni Tirloni
anymore so I'm guessing it's something related to the mpt_sas driver. I submitted bug #6963321 a few minutes ago (not available yet). -- Giovanni Tirloni gtirl...@sysdroid.com ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http

Re: [zfs-discuss] COMSTAR iSCSI and two Windows computers

2010-06-18 Thread Giovanni
Thanks guys - I will take a look at those clustered file systems. My goal is not to stick with Windows - I would like to have a Storage pool for XenServer (free) so that I can have guests, but using a storage server (Opensolaris - ZFS) as the iSCSI storage pool. Any suggestions for the added

[zfs-discuss] COMSTAR iSCSI and two Windows computers

2010-06-17 Thread Giovanni
Hi guys I wanted to ask how i could setup a iSCSI device to be shared by 2 computers concurrently, by that i mean sharing files like it was a NFS share but use iSCSI instead. I tried and setup iSCSI on both computers and was able to see my files (I had formatted it NTFS before), from my

Re: [zfs-discuss] zpool export / import discrepancy

2010-06-15 Thread Giovanni Tirloni
. -- Giovanni ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

[zfs-discuss] Unable to Install 2009.06 on BigAdmin Approved MOBO - FILE SYSTEM FULL

2010-06-13 Thread Giovanni
Hi Guys I am having trouble installing Opensolaris 2009.06 into my Biostar Tpower I45 motherboard, approved on BigAdmin HCL here: http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/hcl/data/systems/details/26409.html -- why is it not working? My setup: 3x 1TB hard-drives SATA 1x 500GB hard-drive (I have only left

Re: [zfs-discuss] Ideal SATA/SAS Controllers for ZFS

2010-05-27 Thread Giovanni Tirloni
the differences between PCIe 1.0 and 2.0. My fault. If Giovanni had put the Megaraid in this slot, he would have seen an even lower throughput, around 600MB/s: This slot is provided by the ICH10R which as you can see on: http://www.supermicro.com/manuals/motherboard/5500/MNL-1062.pdf

Re: [zfs-discuss] Ideal SATA/SAS Controllers for ZFS

2010-05-26 Thread Giovanni Tirloni
for a MegaRAID ELP. I'm guessing the backplane and cable are the bottleneck here. Any comments ? -- Giovanni ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Ideal SATA/SAS Controllers for ZFS

2010-05-26 Thread Giovanni Tirloni
On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 9:22 PM, Brandon High bh...@freaks.com wrote: On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 4:27 PM, Giovanni Tirloni gtirl...@sysdroid.com wrote: SuperMicro X8DTi motherboard SuperMicro SC846E1 chassis (3Gb/s backplane) LSI 9211-4i (PCIex x4) connected to backplane with a SFF-8087 cable

Re: [zfs-discuss] Plugging in a hard drive after Solaris has booted up?

2010-05-11 Thread Giovanni Mazzeo
them back as configured any help is appreciated. Thanks On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 9:45 PM, Ian Collins i...@ianshome.com wrote: On 05/ 8/10 04:38 PM, Giovanni wrote: Hi guys, I have a quick question, I am playing around with ZFS and here's what I did. I created a storage pool with several

Re: [zfs-discuss] Supermicro AOC-SAT2-MV8 -- cfgadm won't create attach point (dsk/xxxx)

2010-05-08 Thread Giovanni
Hi, Were you ever able to solve this problem on your AOC-SAT2-MV8 card? I am in need of purchasing it to add more drives to my server. Thanks Giovanni -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Hard disk buffer at 100%

2010-05-07 Thread Giovanni Tirloni
of 24 would show that). If you look in the archives, people have sent a few averaged I/O performance numbers that you could compare to your workload. -- Giovanni ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org

[zfs-discuss] Plugging in a hard drive after Solaris has booted up?

2010-05-07 Thread Giovanni
Hi guys, I have a quick question, I am playing around with ZFS and here's what I did. I created a storage pool with several drives. I unplugged 3 out of 5 drives from the array, currently: NAMESTATE READ WRITE CKSUM gpool UNAVAIL 0 0 0

Re: [zfs-discuss] Loss of L2ARC SSD Behaviour

2010-05-06 Thread Giovanni Tirloni
to version 19). Right ? This happened on OpenSolaris 2009.6. -- Giovanni ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

[zfs-discuss] Default 'zpool' I want to move it to my new raidz pool 'gpool' how?

2010-05-02 Thread Giovanni
Hi guys I am new to Opensolaris and ZFS world, I have 6x2TB SATA hdds on my system, I picked a single 2TB disk and installed opensolaris (therefore zpool was created by the installer) I went ahead and created a new pool gpool with raidz (the kind of redundancy I want. Here's the output:

Re: [zfs-discuss] Default 'zpool' I want to move it to my new raidz pool 'gpool' how?

2010-05-02 Thread Giovanni
Thank you. I was not aware that root pools could not be moved. But here's the kicker, what if I have a single drive for root pool, and its failing... I connect a new HDD to replace the boot drive thats dying, ZFS has no way of migrating to a new drive? Thanks -- This message posted from

Re: [zfs-discuss] What about this status report

2010-03-27 Thread Giovanni Tirloni
in fmdump. But check 'fmdump -eV' and see the actual errors that got created. You could find something there. -- Giovanni ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Moving drives around...

2010-03-23 Thread Giovanni Tirloni
only need to make sure your system will boot from the correct disk. -- Giovanni ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Proposition of a new zpool property.

2010-03-20 Thread Giovanni Tirloni
could hack zfs.c to automatically handle editing the crontab but I don't know if it's worth the effort. Are you worried that cron will fail or is it just an aesthetic requirement ? -- Giovanni ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [zfs-discuss] lazy zfs destroy

2010-03-18 Thread Giovanni Tirloni
idle time falls under a certain percentage. What build of OpenSolaris are you using ? Is it nearly freezing during all the process or just at the end ? There was another thread where a similar issue was discusses a week ago. -- Giovanni ___ zfs

Re: [zfs-discuss] Posible newbie question about space between zpool and zfs file systems

2010-03-17 Thread Giovanni Tirloni
drives and advertise a real 1TB disk using power-of-2 and show how people are being misled by other vendors that use power-of-10. Highly unlikely but would sure get some respect from the storage community. -- Giovanni ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs

Re: [zfs-discuss] How to reserve space for a file on a zfs filesystem

2010-03-17 Thread Giovanni Tirloni
the filesystem reservation. I'm not sure it's doable. -- Giovanni ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Posible newbie question about space between zpool and zfs file systems

2010-03-17 Thread Giovanni Tirloni
of 10 Main memory is the odd one out. My bad on generalizing that information. Perhaps the software stack dealing with disks should be changed to use power-of-10. Unlikely too. -- Giovanni ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http

Re: [zfs-discuss] Scrub not completing?

2010-03-17 Thread Giovanni Tirloni
the relationship between that and the defect database ? I'm still trying to understand the flow of information here, since both databases seem to be used exclusively for OpenSolaris but one is less open. -- Giovanni ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] persistent L2ARC

2010-03-15 Thread Giovanni Tirloni
opened for that but it doesn't seem to be implemented yet. http://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6662467 -- Giovanni ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Can you manually trigger spares?

2010-03-08 Thread Giovanni Tirloni
. You can try to import the pool again and see if `fmdump -e` lists any errors afterwards. You use the spare with `zpool replace`. -- Giovanni Tirloni sysdroid.com ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman

Re: [zfs-discuss] Hardware Failure Best Practices

2010-03-08 Thread Giovanni Tirloni
of encouragement or wisdom? What does `iostat -En` say ? My suggestion is to replace the cable that's connecting the c3t3d0 disk. IMHO, the cable is much more likely to be faulty than a single port on the disk controller. -- Giovanni Tirloni sysdroid.com ___ zfs

Re: [zfs-discuss] why L2ARC device is used to store files ?

2010-03-05 Thread Giovanni Tirloni
files being created on the SSD disk ? You can check device usage with `zpool iostat -v hdd`. Please also send the output of `zpool status hdd`. Thank you, -- Giovanni Tirloni sysdroid.com ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http

Re: [zfs-discuss] why L2ARC device is used to store files ?

2010-03-05 Thread Giovanni Tirloni
there is nothing to read back from later when a read() misses the ARC cache and checks L2ARC. I don't know what your OLTP benchmark does but my advice is to check if it's really writing files in the 'hdd' zpool mount point. -- Giovanni Tirloni sysdroid.com ___ zfs

Re: [zfs-discuss] Huge difference in reporting disk usage via du and zfs list. Fragmentation?

2010-03-04 Thread Giovanni Tirloni
of 3.7TByte. Please check the ZFS FAQ: http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/view/Community+Group+zfs/faq There is a question regarding the difference between du, df and zfs list. -- Giovanni Tirloni sysdroid.com ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Fishworks 2010Q1 and dedup bug?

2010-03-04 Thread Giovanni Tirloni
is incredible in terms of resilience and performance, no doubt. Which makes me think the pretty interface becomes an annoyance sometimes. Let's wait for 2010.Q1 :) -- Giovanni Tirloni sysdroid.com ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http

Re: [zfs-discuss] Snapshot recycle freezes system activity

2010-03-04 Thread Giovanni Tirloni
. For small datasets/snapshots that doesn't happen or is harder to notice. Does ZFS have to do something special when it's done releasing the data blocks at the end of the destroy operation ? -- Giovanni Tirloni sysdroid.com ___ zfs-discuss mailing list

Re: [zfs-discuss] Mirror Stripe

2010-03-01 Thread Giovanni Tirloni
together. AFAIK, RAID0+1 is not supported since a vdev can only be of type disk, mirror or raidz. And all vdevs are stripped together. Someone more experienced in ZFS can probably confirm/deny this. -- Giovanni Tirloni sysdroid.com ___ zfs-discuss mailing

[zfs-discuss] Slowing down zfs destroy

2010-02-26 Thread Giovanni Tirloni
0 0 0 c7t1d0 ONLINE 0 0 0 c7t2d0 ONLINE 0 0 0 cache c7t22d0ONLINE 0 0 0 spares c7t3d0 AVAIL Any ideas? Thank you, -- Giovanni Tirloni sysdroid.com

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS replace - many to one

2010-02-25 Thread Giovanni Tirloni
noted, it doesn't seem possible. You could create a new zpool with this larger LUN and use zfs send/receive to migrate your data. -- Giovanni Tirloni sysdroid.com ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman

Re: [zfs-discuss] Problems with sudden zfs capacity loss on snv_79a

2010-02-18 Thread Giovanni Tirloni
, and that makes us all very nervous. Any ideas? Is it possible that your users are now deleting everything before starting to write the backup data ? -- Giovanni Tirloni sysdroid.com ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http

Re: [zfs-discuss] verging OT: how to buy J4500 w/o overpriced drives

2010-02-10 Thread Giovanni Tirloni
analogy, then by all means lets hear it. Dell joins the party: http://lists.us.dell.com/pipermail/linux-poweredge/2010-February/041335.html -- Giovanni ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: [zfs-discuss] verging OT: how to buy J4500 w/o overpriced drives

2010-02-07 Thread Giovanni Tirloni
fixed in other drives that Seagate/WD sells ? For me it's just hard to objectively point out the differences between Seagate's enterprise drives and the ones provided by Sun except that they were tested more. 1 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freebie_marketing -- Giovanni

Re: [zfs-discuss] verging OT: how to buy J4500 w/o overpriced drives

2010-02-07 Thread Giovanni Tirloni
. That is, for disk and storage vendors. Not customers. -- Giovanni ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] hard drive choice, TLER/ERC/CCTL

2010-01-04 Thread Giovanni Tirloni
' firmware is programmed (timeouts, retries, etc) but so far nothing in the official docs. In this case the disk's retry timeout seem way too high for our needs and I believe a timeout limit imposed by the OS would help. -- Giovanni P. Tirloni ___ zfs

Re: [zfs-discuss] hard drive choice, TLER/ERC/CCTL

2010-01-04 Thread Giovanni Tirloni
On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 3:51 PM, Joerg Schilling joerg.schill...@fokus.fraunhofer.de wrote: Giovanni Tirloni tirl...@gmail.com wrote: We use Seagate Barracuda ES.2 1TB disks and every time the OS starts to bang on a region of the disk with bad blocks (which essentially degrades the performance