Re: [zfs-discuss] pool metadata has duplicate children

2013-01-10 Thread Peter Jeremy
da2 at twa0 bus 0 scbus0 target 2 lun 0 da3 at twa0 bus 0 scbus0 target 3 lun 0 da4 at twa0 bus 0 scbus0 target 4 lun 0 Are these all JBOD devices? -- Peter Jeremy pgpykCYjUFT7j.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Repairing corrupted ZFS pool

2012-11-19 Thread Peter Jeremy
. The damage exists in the oldest snapshot for that filesystem. -- Peter Jeremy pgpxQIIBICxmG.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Repairing corrupted ZFS pool

2012-11-19 Thread Peter Jeremy
On 2012-Nov-19 13:47:01 -0500, Ray Arachelian r...@arachelian.com wrote: On 11/19/2012 12:03 PM, Peter Jeremy wrote: The damage exists in the oldest snapshot for that filesystem. Are you able to delete that snapshot? Yes but it has no effect - the corrupt object exists in the current pool so

Re: [zfs-discuss] Repairing corrupted ZFS pool

2012-11-19 Thread Peter Jeremy
On 2012-Nov-19 21:10:56 +0100, Jim Klimov jimkli...@cos.ru wrote: On 2012-11-19 20:28, Peter Jeremy wrote: Yep - that's the fallback solution. With 1874 snapshots spread over 54 filesystems (including a couple of clones), that's a major undertaking. (And it loses timestamp information). Well

Re: [zfs-discuss] Repairing corrupted ZFS pool

2012-11-19 Thread Peter Jeremy
to be documented as a caveat on zfs diff - especially since it can cause hangs and panics with older kernel code. -- Peter Jeremy pgpFsaNn4GfUQ.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org

[zfs-discuss] Repairing corrupted ZFS pool

2012-11-16 Thread Peter Jeremy
in the pool). -- Peter Jeremy pgpi6E6cZupsp.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS best practice for FreeBSD?

2012-10-12 Thread Peter Jeremy
with FreeBSD 9.0 and ZFS 28 but I didn't want to make any basic design mistakes in doing this. I'd suggest you test 9.1-RC2 (just released) with a view to using 9.1, rather than installing 9.0. Since your questions are FreeBSD specific, you might prefer to ask on the freebsd-fs list. -- Peter Jeremy

Re: [zfs-discuss] FreeBSD ZFS

2012-08-09 Thread Peter Jeremy
prebuilt distro (I don't know of other builds with that - feature integrated into code this summer). FreeBSD-head does. -- Peter Jeremy pgpaswWHOLhMp.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http

Re: [zfs-discuss] Can the ZFS copies attribute substitute HW disk redundancy?

2012-08-02 Thread Peter Jeremy
=2. b) Attempt to rebuild your laptop and restore from backups (left securely at home) via the dodgy hotel wifi. -- Peter Jeremy pgpvosNQQa9DJ.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http

Re: [zfs-discuss] Can the ZFS copies attribute substitute HW disk redundancy?

2012-08-01 Thread Peter Jeremy
it'll be available in ZFS in the near future. -- Peter Jeremy pgpNyzMT6fOdD.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Interaction between ZFS intent log and mmap'd files

2012-07-04 Thread Peter Jeremy
on a later munmap(2) and it should always be safe to call msync(MS_ASYNC) before munmap(2) (in fact, it's a good idea to maximise portability). -- Peter Jeremy pgp7hDyys4IEu.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Spare drive inherited cksum errors?

2012-05-29 Thread Peter Jeremy
fragmented. If you do try this, I'd recommend creating a snapshot first and then rolling back to it, rather than just deleting the junk file. Also, this (obviously) won't work at all on a filesystem with compression enabled. -- Peter Jeremy pgpwHwVLcSvcK.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [zfs-discuss] Drive upgrades

2012-04-17 Thread Peter Jeremy
written in (2) can be read. 7) Argue with drive vendor that drive doesn't meet specifications :-) A similar approach can also be used to verify that NCQ cache flush commands actually work. -- Peter Jeremy pgp4WNXKBfWaW.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [zfs-discuss] Drive upgrades

2012-04-16 Thread Peter Jeremy
the drive cache enabled in either situation. I'm not sure how OI or Linux behave. -- Peter Jeremy pgprzpycAxFkZ.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs

Re: [zfs-discuss] Improving snapshot write performance

2012-04-11 Thread Peter Jeremy
) disk in the target pool? -- Peter Jeremy ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] about btrfs and zfs

2011-10-18 Thread Peter Jeremy
. -- Peter Jeremy pgpe2tUImniF1.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Large scale performance query

2011-08-08 Thread Peter Jeremy
of snapshots and a fair amount of activity. A scrub takes around 17 hours. This is another area where the mythical block rewrite would help a lot. -- Peter Jeremy pgpH1dpSOBHnT.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] SSD vs hybrid drive - any advice?

2011-07-26 Thread Peter Jeremy
a lower-performance (cheaper) SSD. -- Peter Jeremy pgpoOozgavEXj.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Changed to AHCI, can not access disk???

2011-07-05 Thread Peter Jeremy
in either mode. ZFS makes it easier to switch modes because it doesn't care about the actual device name - at worst, you will need an export and import. -- Peter Jeremy pgpHPygB4VeNl.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS working group and feature flags proposal

2011-05-25 Thread Peter Jeremy
port from reading (and maybe even writing to) the pool. -- Peter Jeremy pgpj1BokjEkft.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS, Oracle and Nexenta

2011-05-24 Thread Peter Jeremy
be a disadvantage). -- Peter Jeremy ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Backup complete rpool structure and data to tape

2011-05-11 Thread Peter Jeremy
compression isn't supported - at least in v15, trying to make a gzip compressed filesystem bootable or trying to set compression=gzip on a bootable filesystem gives a very uninformative error message and it took a fair amount of trawling through the source code to find the real cause. -- Peter

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

2011-05-03 Thread Peter Jeremy
. Hopefully a silly question but does the SB1000 support USB2? All of the Sun hardware I've dealt with only has USB1 ports. And, BTW, 2GB RAM is very light on for ZFS (though I note you only have a very small amount of data). -- Peter Jeremy pgp8UazHZQHJM.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs incremental send?

2011-03-28 Thread Peter Jeremy
to the backup host). -- Peter Jeremy pgpn3inOqECRR.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Invisible snapshot/clone

2011-03-17 Thread Peter Jeremy
be better switching to nexenta or openindiana or solaris 11 express, because they all support ZFS much better than freebsd. I'm primarily interested in running FreeBSD and will be upgrading to ZFSv28 once it's been shaken out a bit longer. -- Peter Jeremy pgp0CAxj3Ebk1.pgp Description: PGP

[zfs-discuss] Invisible snapshot/clone

2011-03-16 Thread Peter Jeremy
:872819992] dataset = 469 2011-03-17.11:30:13 zfs rollback zroot/home@20110309 2011-03-17.12:01:02 zfs recv -vd zroot 2011-03-17.12:03:57 [internal rollback txg:872820399] dataset = 469 2011-03-17.12:03:57 zfs rollback zroot/home@20110309 -- Peter Jeremy pgpQBYUCWUiu1.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [zfs-discuss] Free space on ZFS file system unexpectedly missing

2011-03-09 Thread Peter Jeremy
or rebuild your pool (via send/recv or similar). -- Peter Jeremy pgp2oCcOvB9YH.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] RAID Failure Calculator (for 8x 2TB RAIDZ)

2011-02-07 Thread Peter Jeremy
the time-to-notice plus time-to-resilver before regaining redundancy. The downside is that actively using the hot spare may increase the probability of it failing. -- Peter Jeremy ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http

Re: [zfs-discuss] Best choice - file system for system

2011-01-30 Thread Peter Jeremy
is missing - which might let me recover it in other ways. -- Peter Jeremy pgppzMAxBmwjV.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] multiple disk failure

2011-01-30 Thread Peter Jeremy
view of the physical disks. It might also be worthwhile looking at a hexdump of the first and last few MB of the faulty disks - it's possible that the controller has decided to just shift things by a few sectors so the labels aren't where ZFS expects to find them. -- Peter Jeremy

Re: [zfs-discuss] stupid ZFS question - floating point operations

2010-12-22 Thread Peter Jeremy
of floating point within the kernel also means changes to when FPU context is saved - and, unless this can be implemented lazily, it will adversely impact the cost of all context switches and potentially system calls. -- Peter Jeremy pgphVXYz2zc3s.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [zfs-discuss] Growing the swap vol?

2010-11-14 Thread Peter Jeremy
I'm subscribed to where signatures get mangled. -- Peter Jeremy ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] hardware going bad

2010-10-27 Thread Peter Jeremy
of evidence and clues if I only knew how to look for them, in the logs. Serious hardware problems are unlikely to be in the logs because the system will die before it can write the error to disk and sync the disks. You are more likely to see a problem on the console. -- Peter Jeremy

Re: [zfs-discuss] Jumping ship.. what of the data

2010-10-27 Thread Peter Jeremy
? With care, nothing. -- Peter Jeremy pgpN6MGlBBoFC.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Balancing LVOL fill?

2010-10-20 Thread Peter Jeremy
that adding disks to them is a routine operation; to the extent that that's a problem, that really needs to be fixed. It will (should) arrive as part of the mythical block pointer rewrite project. -- Peter Jeremy pgpy4W6UFItyz.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [zfs-discuss] Newbie ZFS Question: RAM for Dedup

2010-10-19 Thread Peter Jeremy
KB. -- Peter Jeremy pgp8Dn2Yb6bMc.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] How to avoid striping ?

2010-10-18 Thread Peter Jeremy
the applications trying to write will suspend. What would be the risk of that? At least some versions of Oracle rdbms have timeouts around I/O and will abort if I/O operations don't complete within a short period. -- Peter Jeremy pgp1r1gM7cLEs.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [zfs-discuss] [RFC] Backup solution

2010-10-07 Thread Peter Jeremy
disk in each mirror pair can fail. With a mirror, Murphy's Law says that the second disk to fail will be the pair of the first disk :-). -- Peter Jeremy pgpqLss4mZKH3.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] TLER and ZFS

2010-10-05 Thread Peter Jeremy
instead of getting custom firmware for their CD drives to make them provide 512-byte logical blocks for 2KB CD-ROMs. It's even more idiotic of WD to sell a drive with 4KB sectors but not provide any way for an OS to identify those drives and perform 4KB aligned I/O. -- Peter Jeremy

Re: [zfs-discuss] non-ECC Systems and ZFS for home users (was: Please warn a home user against OpenSolaris under VirtualBox under WinXP ; ))

2010-09-23 Thread Peter Jeremy
about what happens if you find a silent bit corruption in a file system that includes encrypted files. Or compressed files. -- Peter Jeremy pgp2gl67ZdR99.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http

[zfs-discuss] Unwanted filesystem mounting when using send/recv

2010-09-14 Thread Peter Jeremy
... then the mountpoint gets replicated and the backup gets mounted over the top of my real filesystems. - If I skip the '-R' then none of the properties get backed up. Is there some way to have zfs recv not automatically mount filesystems when it creates them? -- Peter Jeremy pgpOliK2tC1Vs.pgp Description: PGP

Re: [zfs-discuss] 64-bit vs 32-bit applications

2010-08-18 Thread Peter Jeremy
is at least as important as whether it's 32-bit or 64-bit. -- Peter Jeremy pgpSec5hUa4mU.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Opensolaris is apparently dead

2010-08-15 Thread Peter Jeremy
but they can put a different (non-OSS) license on any new code. -- Peter Jeremy pgpuCWzXnMlHq.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] FreeBSD 8.1 out, has zfs vserion 14 and can boot from zfs

2010-07-27 Thread Peter Jeremy
On 2010-Jul-27 19:43:50 +0800, Andrey V. Elsukov bu7c...@yandex.ru wrote: On 27.07.2010 1:57, Peter Jeremy wrote: Note that ZFS v15 has been integrated into the development branches (-current and 8-stable) and will be in FreeBSD 8.2 (or you can run it ZFS v15 is not yet in 8-stable. Only

Re: [zfs-discuss] FreeBSD 8.1 out, has zfs vserion 14 and can boot from zfs

2010-07-26 Thread Peter Jeremy
be downloaded). See http://www.freebsd.org/releases/8.1R/announce.html -- Peter Jeremy pgppFbh5U0Jj5.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS compression

2010-07-25 Thread Peter Jeremy
at the time of the send. If you have sufficient free space, you can even do a send|recv on the same system - but if the original fileset was mounted that this will result in the new fileset being mounted over the top of it, so you shouldn't do this on an active system. -- Peter Jeremy

Re: [zfs-discuss] Hashing files rapidly on ZFS

2010-07-08 Thread Peter Jeremy
publicise it widely as you have broken that hash function. -- Peter Jeremy pgpiebzGoklvU.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Remove non-redundant disk

2010-07-07 Thread Peter Jeremy
know other companies with similar policies. And getting approval for a couple of thousand dollars of new disks is very much easier than getting approval for a complete new SAN with (eg) twice the capacity of the existing one. -- Peter Jeremy ___ zfs

Re: [zfs-discuss] Native ZFS for Linux

2010-06-14 Thread Peter Jeremy
segregated (note the 'gnu' in the above URI). -- Peter Jeremy pgpvmgKqx7nJf.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Pool revcovery from replaced disks.

2010-05-18 Thread Peter Jeremy
and trying to import the original zpool from the detached files. -- Peter Jeremy pgp5OU8Gba0CI.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Reverse lookup: inode to name lookup

2010-05-03 Thread Peter Jeremy
' was traditionally implemented. Note that you need to check device and inode, not just inode, to correctly handle mountpoints. -- Peter Jeremy pgpsc9geRSx95.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS snapshot versus Netapp - Security and convenience

2010-05-03 Thread Peter Jeremy
more significant change and the utility is not clear. Also not trivial, it's certainly possible to make all this information available under proposed directories, .zfs/inodes or something similar. HP Tru64 already does something like this. -- Peter Jeremy pgp2nCFDIdxia.pgp Description: PGP

Re: [zfs-discuss] Single-disk pool corrupted after controller failure

2010-05-03 Thread Peter Jeremy
and restore it later, this will recover your existing boot and swap so you shouldn't need to restore them. -- Peter Jeremy pgpHLIUCADaBM.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org

Re: [zfs-discuss] Single-disk pool corrupted after controller failure

2010-05-02 Thread Peter Jeremy
is to (temporarily) change the disk slicing so that there is a fdisk slice that matches ad6s1d. -- Peter Jeremy pgpuiR7yDRv37.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS snapshot versus Netapp - Security and convenience

2010-04-29 Thread Peter Jeremy
() and rmdir() to manage the backlinks (taking into account transactional consistency). -- Peter Jeremy pgpLmGCkPtpSv.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

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

2010-02-02 Thread Peter Jeremy
, Oracle contracts are deliberately designed so you can't be certain whether you are compliant or not. -- Peter Jeremy ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Is ZFS internal reservation excessive?

2010-01-18 Thread Peter Jeremy
I freed up a few percent more space, the performance recovered. Maybe it would be useful if ZFS allowed the reserved space to be tuned lower but, at least for ZFS v13, the reserved space seems to actually be a bit less than is needed for ZFS to function reasonably. -- Peter Jeremy

Re: [zfs-discuss] raid-z as a boot pool

2009-12-16 Thread Peter Jeremy
on i386). It may be possible to reuse some of that code. -- Peter Jeremy pgp0WiQELKoEj.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Recovering FAULTED zpool

2009-12-07 Thread Peter Jeremy
. -- Peter Jeremy pgpC0sjEufK37.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Best practices for zpools on zfs

2009-11-25 Thread Peter Jeremy
congruential generator, lagged fibonacci generator, mersenne twister or even random(3) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_random_number_generators -- Peter Jeremy pgpO9mAWzbb7x.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Recovering FAULTED zpool

2009-11-19 Thread Peter Jeremy
the relevant ZFS bits for my b127 system but haven't managed to get them to work so far. -- Peter Jeremy ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Recovering FAULTED zpool

2009-11-18 Thread Peter Jeremy
copies of metadata are written at the same time, it cannot protect against failures localized in time. Thanks for that. I suspected it might be something like this. -- Peter Jeremy pgpTbho8x8cyp.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ zfs-discuss mailing

[zfs-discuss] Recovering FAULTED zpool

2009-11-17 Thread Peter Jeremy
that metadata is triplicated, where did the objset go? -- Peter Jeremy pgpcSxvFaLwUM.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss