Re: [zfs-discuss] Problem booting after zfs upgrade

2011-08-06 Thread Stuart Anderson
anyone know at what version you get a warning, and at what version installgrub is run automatically after upgrading a root pool/filesystem? -- Stuart Anderson ander...@ligo.caltech.edu http://www.ligo.caltech.edu/~anderson ___ zfs-discuss mailing

[zfs-discuss] Problem booting after zfs upgrade

2011-08-05 Thread stuart anderson
After upgrading to zpool version 29/zfs version 5 on a S10 test system via the kernel patch 144501-19 it will now boot only as far as the to the grub menu. What is a good Solaris rescue image that I can boot that will allow me to import this rpool to look at it (given the newer version)?

[zfs-discuss] Validating a zfs send object

2011-01-31 Thread stuart anderson
How do you verify that a zfs send binary object is valid? I tried running a truncated file through zstreamdump and it completed with no error messages and an exit() status of 0. However, I noticed it was missing a final print statement with a checksum value, END checksum = ... Is there any

Re: [zfs-discuss] Partitioning ARC

2011-01-31 Thread Stuart Anderson
On Jan 30, 2011, at 6:03 PM, Richard Elling wrote: On Jan 30, 2011, at 5:01 PM, Stuart Anderson wrote: On Jan 30, 2011, at 2:29 PM, Richard Elling wrote: On Jan 30, 2011, at 12:21 PM, stuart anderson wrote: Is it possible to partition the global setting for the maximum ARC size

Re: [zfs-discuss] Query zfs send objects

2011-01-30 Thread Stuart Anderson
On Jan 29, 2011, at 10:00 PM, Richard Elling wrote: On Jan 29, 2011, at 5:48 PM, stuart anderson wrote: Is there a simple way to query zfs send binary objects for basic information such as: 1) What snapshot they represent? 2) When they where created? 3) Whether they are the result

[zfs-discuss] Partitioning ARC

2011-01-30 Thread stuart anderson
Is it possible to partition the global setting for the maximum ARC size with finer grained controls? Ideally, I would like to do this on a per zvol basis but a setting per zpool would be interesting as well? The use case is to prioritize which zvol devices should be fully cached in DRAM on a

Re: [zfs-discuss] Query zfs send objects

2011-01-30 Thread Stuart Anderson
On Jan 30, 2011, at 1:49 PM, Richard Elling wrote: On Jan 30, 2011, at 11:19 AM, Stuart Anderson wrote: On Jan 29, 2011, at 10:00 PM, Richard Elling wrote: On Jan 29, 2011, at 5:48 PM, stuart anderson wrote: Is there a simple way to query zfs send binary objects for basic information

Re: [zfs-discuss] Partitioning ARC

2011-01-30 Thread Stuart Anderson
On Jan 30, 2011, at 2:29 PM, Richard Elling wrote: On Jan 30, 2011, at 12:21 PM, stuart anderson wrote: Is it possible to partition the global setting for the maximum ARC size with finer grained controls? Ideally, I would like to do this on a per zvol basis but a setting per zpool would

[zfs-discuss] Query zfs send objects

2011-01-29 Thread stuart anderson
Is there a simple way to query zfs send binary objects for basic information such as: 1) What snapshot they represent? 2) When they where created? 3) Whether they are the result of an incremental send? 4) What the the baseline snapshot was, if applicable? 5) What ZFS version number they where

Re: [zfs-discuss] Sun Flash Accelerator F20 numbers

2010-04-02 Thread Stuart Anderson
device for the mirror, that's slightly smaller than the others, I have no reason to care. However, I believe there are some downsides to letting ZFS manage just a slice rather than an entire drive, but perhaps those do not apply as significantly to SSD devices? Thanks -- Stuart Anderson ander

Re: [zfs-discuss] Sun Flash Accelerator F20 numbers

2010-03-31 Thread Stuart Anderson
Edward Ned Harvey solaris2 at nedharvey.com writes: Allow me to clarify a little further, why I care about this so much. I have a solaris file server, with all the company jewels on it. I had a pair of intel X.25 SSD mirrored log devices. One of them failed. The replacement device came

Re: [zfs-discuss] Sun Flash Accelerator F20 numbers

2010-03-31 Thread Stuart Anderson
to upgrade the firmware if you are going to be running multiple X25-E drives from the same controller. I hope that helps. -- Stuart Anderson ander...@ligo.caltech.edu http://www.ligo.caltech.edu/~anderson ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS caching of compressed data

2010-03-27 Thread Stuart Anderson
On Oct 2, 2009, at 11:54 AM, Robert Milkowski wrote: Stuart Anderson wrote: On Oct 2, 2009, at 5:05 AM, Robert Milkowski wrote: Stuart Anderson wrote: I am wondering if the following idea makes any sense as a way to get ZFS to cache compressed data in DRAM? In particular, given a 2

Re: [zfs-discuss] force 4k writes

2009-12-18 Thread Stuart Anderson
On Dec 17, 2009, at 9:21 PM, Richard Elling wrote: On Dec 17, 2009, at 9:04 PM, stuart anderson wrote: As a specific example of 2 devices with dramatically different performance for sub-4k transfers has anyone done any ZFS benchmarks between the X25E and the F20 they can share? I am

Re: [zfs-discuss] force 4k writes

2009-12-17 Thread stuart anderson
On Wed, Dec 16 at 7:35, Bill Sprouse wrote: The question behind the question is, given the really bad things that can happen performance-wise with writes that are not 4k aligned when using flash devices, is there any way to insure that any and all writes from ZFS are 4k aligned?

Re: [zfs-discuss] zvol used apparently greater than volsize for sparse volume

2009-10-20 Thread Stuart Anderson
only a small percentage. Sparse-ness is not a factor here. Sparse just means we ignore the reservation so you can create a zvol bigger than what we'd normally allow. Cindy On 10/17/09 13:47, Stuart Anderson wrote: What does it mean for the reported value of a zvol volsize to be less than

[zfs-discuss] zvol used apparently greater than volsize for sparse volume

2009-10-17 Thread Stuart Anderson
) * compresratio (11.20) = 166907917926 which is 3.6% larger than volsize. Is this a bug or a feature for sparse volumes? If a feature, how much larger than volsize/compressratio can the actual used storage space grow? e.g., fixed amount overhead and/or fixed percentage? Thanks. -- Stuart Anderson

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS caching of compressed data

2009-10-02 Thread Stuart Anderson
On Oct 2, 2009, at 5:05 AM, Robert Milkowski wrote: Stuart Anderson wrote: I am wondering if the following idea makes any sense as a way to get ZFS to cache compressed data in DRAM? In particular, given a 2-way zvol mirror of highly compressible data on persistent storage devices, what

[zfs-discuss] ZFS caching of compressed data

2009-10-01 Thread Stuart Anderson
but unavailable? Note, this Gedanken experiment is for highly compressible (~9x) metadata for a non-ZFS filesystem. Thanks. -- Stuart Anderson ander...@ligo.caltech.edu http://www.ligo.caltech.edu/~anderson ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs

Re: [zfs-discuss] Transient permanent errors

2009-09-13 Thread Stuart Anderson
:31 PM, Stuart Anderson wrote: This is S10U7 fully patched and not open solaris, but I would appreciate any advice on the following transient Permanent error message generated while running a zpool scrub. -- Stuart Anderson ander...@ligo.caltech.edu http://www.ligo.caltech.edu/~anderson

Re: [zfs-discuss] Change the volblocksize of a ZFS volume

2009-08-30 Thread stuart anderson
Question : Is there a way to change the volume blocksize say via 'zfs snapshot send/receive'? As I see things, this isn't possible as the target volume (including property values) gets overwritten by 'zfs receive'. By default, properties are not received. To

Re: [zfs-discuss] Change the volblocksize of a ZFS volume

2009-08-29 Thread stuart anderson
Question : Is there a way to change the volume blocksize say via 'zfs snapshot send/receive'? As I see things, this isn't possible as the target volume (including property values) gets overwritten by 'zfs receive'. By default, properties are not received. To pass properties,

[zfs-discuss] Transient permanent errors

2009-06-28 Thread Stuart Anderson
0 errors: No known data errors Thanks. -- Stuart Anderson ander...@ligo.caltech.edu http://www.ligo.caltech.edu/~anderson ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Speeding up resilver on x4500

2009-06-23 Thread Stuart Anderson
0 c3t0d0 ONLINE 0 0 0 spares c6t0d0INUSE currently in use errors: No known data errors -- Stuart Anderson ander...@ligo.caltech.edu http://www.ligo.caltech.edu/~anderson ___ zfs

Re: [zfs-discuss] Speeding up resilver on x4500

2009-06-22 Thread Stuart Anderson
On Jun 21, 2009, at 10:21 PM, Nicholas Lee wrote: On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 4:24 PM, Stuart Anderson ander...@ligo.caltech.edu wrote: However, it is a bit disconcerting to have to run with reduced data protection for an entire week. While I am certainly not going back to UFS, it seems like

[zfs-discuss] Speeding up resilver on x4500

2009-06-21 Thread Stuart Anderson
, e.g., adding a faster cache device for reading and/or writing? I am also curious if anyone has a prediction on when the snapshot-restarting-resilvering bug will be patched in Solaris 10? http://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6343667 Thanks. -- Stuart Anderson ander

Re: [zfs-discuss] Speeding up resilver on x4500

2009-06-21 Thread Stuart Anderson
On Jun 21, 2009, at 8:57 PM, Richard Elling wrote: Stuart Anderson wrote: It is currently taking ~1 week to resilver an x4500 running S10U6, recently patched with~170M small files on ~170 datasets after a disk failure/replacement, i.e., wow, that is impressive. There is zero chance

Re: [zfs-discuss] Confused by compressratio

2008-04-16 Thread Stuart Anderson
aggregated filesystem metadata via /bin/df or zfs list and the compressratio. Thanks. -- Stuart Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ligo.caltech.edu/~anderson ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman

Re: [zfs-discuss] Confused by compressratio

2008-04-16 Thread Stuart Anderson
On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 10:09:00AM -0700, Richard Elling wrote: Stuart Anderson wrote: On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 03:51:17PM -0700, Richard Elling wrote: UTSL. compressratio is the ratio of uncompressed bytes to compressed bytes. http://cvs.opensolaris.org/source/search?q

Re: [zfs-discuss] Confused by compressratio

2008-04-16 Thread Stuart Anderson
/compressratio in the context of compression={on,off}, possibly also refering to both sparse and non-sparse files? Thanks. -- Stuart Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ligo.caltech.edu/~anderson ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http

Re: [zfs-discuss] Confused by compressratio

2008-04-15 Thread Stuart Anderson
specifically for this possibility. -- Stuart Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ligo.caltech.edu/~anderson ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Confused by compressratio

2008-04-14 Thread Stuart Anderson
On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 09:59:48AM -0400, Luke Scharf wrote: Stuart Anderson wrote: As an artificial test, I created a filesystem with compression enabled and ran mkfile 1g and the reported compressratio for that filesystem is 1.00x even though this 1GB file only uses only 1kB. ZFS

Re: [zfs-discuss] Confused by compressratio

2008-04-14 Thread Stuart Anderson
On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 05:22:03PM -0400, Luke Scharf wrote: Stuart Anderson wrote: On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 09:59:48AM -0400, Luke Scharf wrote: Stuart Anderson wrote: As an artificial test, I created a filesystem with compression enabled and ran mkfile 1g and the reported

[zfs-discuss] Confused by compressratio

2008-04-11 Thread Stuart Anderson
in understanding what compressratio means. Thanks. -- Stuart Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ligo.caltech.edu/~anderson ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

[zfs-discuss] scrub performance

2008-03-06 Thread Stuart Anderson
if the scrub completion event was also logged in the zpool history along with the initiation event. Thanks. -- Stuart Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ligo.caltech.edu/~anderson ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http

Re: [zfs-discuss] scrub performance

2008-03-06 Thread Stuart Anderson
On Thu, Mar 06, 2008 at 11:51:00AM -0800, Stuart Anderson wrote: I currently have an X4500 running S10U4 with the latest ZFS uber patch (127729-07) for which zpool scrub is making very slow progress even though the necessary resources are apparently available. Currently it has It is also

Re: [zfs-discuss] scrub performance

2008-03-06 Thread Stuart Anderson
, somehow accelerated your Thumper to near the speed of light. (:-) If true, that would certainly help, since we actually are using these thumpers to help detect gravitational waves! See, http://www.ligo.caltech.edu. Thanks. -- Stuart Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ligo.caltech.edu

Re: [zfs-discuss] Kernel panic on arc_buf_remove_ref() assertion

2008-02-19 Thread Stuart Anderson
Anderson wrote: Thanks for the information. How does the temporary patch 127729-07 relate to the IDR127787 (x86) which I believe also claims to fix this panic? -- Stuart Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ligo.caltech.edu/~anderson ___ zfs

[zfs-discuss] Kernel panic on arc_buf_remove_ref() assertion

2008-02-18 Thread Stuart Anderson
thumper1 genunix: [ID 655072 kern.notice] fe8000809c60 genunix:taskq_thread+bc () Feb 18 17:55:18 thumper1 genunix: [ID 655072 kern.notice] fe8000809c70 unix:thread_start+8 () Feb 18 17:55:18 thumper1 unix: [ID 10 kern.notice] -- Stuart Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

Re: [zfs-discuss] Kernel panic on arc_buf_remove_ref() assertion

2008-02-18 Thread Stuart Anderson
On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 06:28:31PM -0800, Stuart Anderson wrote: Is this kernel panic a known ZFS bug, or should I open a new ticket? Feb 18 17:55:18 thumper1 genunix: [ID 403854 kern.notice] assertion failed: arc_buf_remove_ref(db-db_buf, db) == 0, file: ../../common/fs/zfs/dbuf.c, line

Re: [zfs-discuss] Kernel panic on arc_buf_remove_ref() assertion

2008-02-18 Thread Stuart Anderson
for this panic is in temporary state and will be released via SunSolve soon. Please contact your support channel to get these patches. -- Prabahar. Stuart Anderson wrote: On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 06:28:31PM -0800, Stuart Anderson wrote: Is this kernel panic a known ZFS bug, or should I open

Re: [zfs-discuss] Parallel zfs destroy results in No more processes

2007-10-26 Thread Stuart Anderson
and has not displayed any disconnected messages since then. Can anyone confirm that that 125205-07 has solved these NCQ problems? Thanks. -- Stuart Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ligo.caltech.edu/~anderson ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs

[zfs-discuss] X4500 device disconnect problem persists

2007-10-26 Thread Stuart Anderson
-- Stuart Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ligo.caltech.edu/~anderson ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Parallel zfs destroy results in No more processes

2007-10-24 Thread Stuart Anderson
On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 10:40:41AM -0700, David Bustos wrote: Quoth Stuart Anderson on Sun, Oct 21, 2007 at 07:09:10PM -0700: Running 102 parallel zfs destroy -r commands on an X4500 running S10U4 has resulted in No more processes errors in existing login shells for several minutes of time

[zfs-discuss] Parallel zfs destroy results in No more processes

2007-10-21 Thread Stuart Anderson
590 4552K 1492K sleep0:26 0.00% zfs -- Stuart Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ligo.caltech.edu/~anderson ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] chgrp -R hangs all writes to pool

2007-10-04 Thread Stuart Anderson
On Mon, Jul 16, 2007 at 09:36:06PM -0700, Stuart Anderson wrote: Running Solaris 10 Update 3 on an X4500 I have found that it is possible to reproducibly block all writes to a ZFS pool by running chgrp -R on any large filesystem in that pool. As can be seen below in the zpool iostat output

Re: [zfs-discuss] zpool degraded status after resilver completed

2007-09-08 Thread Stuart Anderson
() = 1189279453 /13:time() = 1189279453 Is this a known bug with fmd and ZFS? Thanks. On Fri, Sep 07, 2007 at 08:55:52PM -0700, Stuart Anderson wrote: I am curious why zpool status reports a pool to be in the DEGRADED

[zfs-discuss] zpool degraded status after resilver completed

2007-09-07 Thread Stuart Anderson
c8t1d0 INUSE currently in use errors: No known data errors -- Stuart Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ligo.caltech.edu/~anderson ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs

[zfs-discuss] Kernel panic receiving incremental snapshots

2007-08-25 Thread Stuart Anderson
/d3, offset 1645084672, content: kernel -- Stuart Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ligo.caltech.edu/~anderson ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] chgrp -R hangs all writes to pool

2007-07-17 Thread Stuart Anderson
Dump device: /dev/md/dsk/d2 (swap) Savecore directory: /var/crash/x4500gc Savecore enabled: yes # ls -laR /var/crash/x4500gc/ /var/crash/x4500gc/: total 2 drwx-- 2 root root 512 Jul 12 16:26 . drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 512 Jul 12 16:26 .. Thanks. -- Stuart Anderson [EMAIL

Re: [zfs-discuss] chgrp -R hangs all writes to pool

2007-07-17 Thread Stuart Anderson
x4500gc genunix: [ID 943907 kern.notice] Copyright 1983-2007 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved. On Tue, Jul 17, 2007 at 12:40:16PM -0700, Stuart Anderson wrote: On Tue, Jul 17, 2007 at 03:08:44PM +1000, James C. McPherson wrote: Log a new case with Sun, and make sure you supply

[zfs-discuss] chgrp -R hangs all writes to pool

2007-07-16 Thread Stuart Anderson
or should I open a new case with Sun? Thanks. -- Stuart Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ligo.caltech.edu/~anderson ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] chgrp -R hangs all writes to pool

2007-07-16 Thread Stuart Anderson
On Tue, Jul 17, 2007 at 02:49:08PM +1000, James C. McPherson wrote: Stuart Anderson wrote: Running Solaris 10 Update 3 on an X4500 I have found that it is possible to reproducibly block all writes to a ZFS pool by running chgrp -R on any large filesystem in that pool. As can be seen below