Re: [zfs-discuss] grow zpool by replacing disks

2009-08-03 Thread Tobias Exner
, Tobias * Kurt Schreiner schrieb: On Mon, Aug 03, 2009 at 11:51:59AM +0200, Tobias Exner wrote: Hi list, some months ago I spoke with an zfs expert on a Sun Storage event. He told it's possible to grow a zpool by replacing every single disk with a larger one. After replacing

Re: [zfs-discuss] [SOLVED] grow zpool by replacing disks

2009-08-03 Thread Tobias Exner
schrieb: Tobias Exner wrote: Hi list, some months ago I spoke with an zfs expert on a Sun Storage event. He told it's possible to grow a zpool by replacing every single disk with a larger one. After replacing and resilvering all disks of this pool zfs will provide the new size automatically

Re: [zfs-discuss] sam-fs on zfs-pool

2009-07-31 Thread Tobias Exner
Hi Jim, first of all I'm sure this behaviour is a bug or has been changed sometime in the past, because I've used this configuration a lot of times. If I understand you right it is as you said. Here's an example and you can see what happened. The sam-fs is filled to only 6% and the zvol ist

Re: [zfs-discuss] sam-fs on zfs-pool

2009-07-31 Thread Tobias Exner
No, just did zfs create -V. and I didn't change the size of the zpool or zvol at any time.. regards, Tobias Jim Klimov schrieb: Concerning the reservations, here's a snip from man zfs: The reservation is kept equal to the volume's logical size to prevent

[zfs-discuss] sam-fs on zfs-pool

2009-07-27 Thread Tobias Exner
Hi list, I've did some tests and run into a very strange situation.. I created a zvol using zfs create -V and initialize an sam-filesystem on this zvol. After that I restored some testdata using a dump from another system. So far so good. After some big troubles I found out that releasing

Re: [zfs-discuss] sam-fs on zfs-pool

2009-07-27 Thread Tobias Exner
, Tobias Exner wrote: Hi list, I've did some tests and run into a very strange situation.. I created a zvol using zfs create -V and initialize an sam-filesystem on this zvol. After that I restored some testdata using a dump from another system. So far so good. After some big troubles I

[zfs-discuss] l2arc and iscsi

2009-06-05 Thread Tobias Exner
Hi list, I'm thinking about to put the MS Exchange storage on a zfs volume via iscsi... I guess that's not a problem, but the more interesting question is if it's possible to get more performance using the l2arc function with a FusionIO Flash card... I understood the idea of the l2arc

Re: [zfs-discuss] [fm-discuss] fmd wakeup disks in zpool

2008-11-17 Thread Tobias Exner
Tarik, thank you. I did some tests and that's the solution.. regards, Tobias Exner Tarik Soydan - Sun BOS Software schrieb: On 11/14/08 04:29, Tobias Exner wrote: Hi experts, I need a little help from your site to understand what's going on. I've got a SUN X4540 Thumper and setup some

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS conflict with MAID?

2008-06-11 Thread Tobias Exner
Richard Elling schrieb: Tobias Exner wrote: Hi John, I've done some tests with a SUN X4500 with zfs and MAID using the powerd of Solaris 10 to power down the disks which weren't access for a configured time. It's working fine... The only thing I run into was the problem that it took

Re: [zfs-discuss] SSD reliability, wear levelling, warranty period

2008-06-11 Thread Tobias Exner
is a little bit OT. regards, Tobias Exner Al Hopper schrieb: I've been reading, with great (personal/professional) interest about Sun getting very serious about SSD-equipping servers as a standard feature in the 2nd half of this year. Yeah! Excellent news - and it's nice to see Sun lead

Re: [zfs-discuss] SSD reliability, wear levelling, warranty period

2008-06-11 Thread Tobias Exner
The reliability of flash increasing alot if "wear leveling" is implemented and there's the capability to build a raid over a couple of flash-modules ( maybe automatically by the controller ). And if there are RAM-modules as a cache infront of the flash the most problems will be solved

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS conflict with MAID?

2008-06-10 Thread Tobias Exner
s in a zfs-pool. The problem seems to be that the powerd starts the disks sequentially. I tried to open a RFE... but until now without success. kind regards, Tobias Exner eo ipso Systeme GmbH Mertol Ozyoney schrieb: Hi ; If you want to use ZFS special ability to pool all the storag