Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS problems which scrub can't find?

2008-12-18 Thread Marcin Szychowski
Do you use any form of compression? I changed compression from none to gzip-9, got some message about changing properties of boot pool (or fs), copied and moved all files under /usr and /etc to enforce compression, rebooted, and - guess what message did I get. -- This message posted from

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS problems which scrub can't find?

2008-11-07 Thread Matt Ingenthron
Off the lists, someone suggested to me that the Inconsistent filesystem may be the boot archive and not the ZFS filesystem (though I still don't know what's wrong with booting b99). Regardless, I tried rebuilding the boot_archive with bootadm update-archive -vf and verified it by mounting it

[zfs-discuss] ZFS problems which scrub can't find?

2008-11-06 Thread Matt . Ingenthron
Hi, After a recent pkg image-update to OpenSolaris build 100, my system booted once and now will no longer boot. After exhausting other options, I am left wondering if there is some kind of ZFS issue a scrub won't find. The current behavior is that it will load GRUB, but trying to boot the

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Problems under vmware

2008-06-17 Thread Anthony Worrall
Raw Device Mapping is a feature of ESX 2.5 and above which allows a guest OS to have access to a LUN on fibre or ISCSI SAN. See http://www.vmware.com/pdf/esx25_rawdevicemapping.pdf for more details. You may be able to do something similar with the raw disks under workstation see

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Problems under vmware

2008-06-16 Thread Anthony Worrall
I am seeing the same problem using a seperate virtual disk for the pool. This is happening with Solaris 10 U3, U4 and U5 SCSI reservations is know to be an issue with clustered solaris http://blogs.sun.com/SC/entry/clustering_solaris_guests_that_run I wonder if this is the same problem. Maybe

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Problems under vmware

2008-06-16 Thread Anthony Worrall
Added an vdev using rdm and that seems to be stable over reboots however the pools based on a virtual disk now also seems to be stable after doing an export and import -f This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS problems with USB Storage devices

2008-06-06 Thread Paulo Soeiro
Hi Ricardo, I'll try that. Thanks (Obrigado) Paulo Soeiro On 6/5/08, Ricardo M. Correia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Ter, 2008-06-03 at 23:33 +0100, Paulo Soeiro wrote: 6)Remove and attached the usb sticks: zpool status pool: myPool state: UNAVAIL status: One or more devices could not

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS problems with USB Storage devices

2008-06-04 Thread Ricardo M. Correia
On Ter, 2008-06-03 at 23:33 +0100, Paulo Soeiro wrote: 6)Remove and attached the usb sticks: zpool status pool: myPool state: UNAVAIL status: One or more devices could not be used because the label is missing or invalid. There are insufficient replicas for the pool to continue

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS problems with USB Storage devices

2008-06-03 Thread Paulo Soeiro
Did the same test again and here is the result: 1) zpool create myPool mirror c6t0d0p0 c7t0d0p0 2) -bash-3.2# zfs create myPool/myfs -bash-3.2# zpool status pool: myPool state: ONLINE scrub: none requested config: NAME STATE READ WRITE CKSUM myPool ONLINE 0 0 0 mirror ONLINE 0 0 0

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS problems with USB Storage devices

2008-06-03 Thread Paulo Soeiro
This test was done without the hub: On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 11:33 PM, Paulo Soeiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Did the same test again and here is the result: 1) zpool create myPool mirror c6t0d0p0 c7t0d0p0 2) -bash-3.2# zfs create myPool/myfs -bash-3.2# zpool status pool: myPool

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS problems with USB Storage devices

2008-06-03 Thread Bill McGonigle
On Jun 3, 2008, at 18:34, Paulo Soeiro wrote: This test was done without the hub: FWIW, I bought 9 microSD's and 9 USB controller units for them from NewEgg to replicate the famous ZFS demo video, and I had problems getting them working with OpenSolaris (on VMWare on OSX, in this case).

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS problems with USB Storage devices

2008-06-02 Thread Thommy M.
Paulo Soeiro wrote: Greetings, I was experimenting with zfs, and i made the following test, i shutdown the computer during a write operation in a mirrored usb storage filesystem. Here is my configuration NGS USB 2.0 Minihub 4 3 USB Silicom Power Storage Pens 1 GB each These are the

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS problems with USB Storage devices

2008-06-02 Thread Justin Vassallo
June 2008 13:19 To: zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org Subject: Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS problems with USB Storage devices Paulo Soeiro wrote: Greetings, I was experimenting with zfs, and i made the following test, i shutdown the computer during a write operation in a mirrored usb storage filesystem

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS problems with USB Storage devices

2008-06-02 Thread Thommy M.
Justin Vassallo wrote: Thommy, If I read correctly your post stated that the pools did not automount on startup, not that they would go corrupt. It seems to me that Paulo is actually experiencing a corrupt fs Nah, I also had indications of corrupted data if you read my posts. But the data

[zfs-discuss] ZFS problems with USB Storage devices

2008-06-01 Thread Paulo Soeiro
Greetings, I was experimenting with zfs, and i made the following test, i shutdown the computer during a write operation in a mirrored usb storage filesystem. Here is my configuration NGS USB 2.0 Minihub 4 3 USB Silicom Power Storage Pens 1 GB each These are the ports: hub devices

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Problems under vmware

2008-05-28 Thread Gabriele Bulfon
Hello, I'm having the same exact situation on one VM, and not on another VM on the same infrastructure. The only difference is that on the failing VM I initially created the pool with a name and then changed the mountpoint to another name. Did you found a solution to the issue? Should I consider

[zfs-discuss] ZFS Problems under vmware

2008-05-12 Thread Paul B. Henson
I have a test bed S10U5 system running under vmware ESX that has a weird problem. I have a single virtual disk, with some slices allocated as UFS filesystem for the operating system, and s7 as a ZFS pool. Whenever I reboot, the pool fails to open: May 8 17:32:30 niblet fmd: [ID 441519

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS problems in dCache

2007-08-22 Thread Jens Elkner
On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 09:49:26AM -0700, Sergey Chechelnitskiy wrote: Hi Sergey, I have a flat directory with a lot of small files inside. And I have a java application that reads all these files when it starts. If this directory is located on ZFS the application starts fast (15 mins) when

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS problems in dCache

2007-08-22 Thread Xavier Canehan
We have the same issue (using dCache on Thumpers, data on ZFS). A workaround has been to move the directory on a local UFS filesystem using a low nbpi parameter. However, this is not a solution. Doesn't look like a threading problem, thanks anyway Jens ! This message posted from

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS problems in dCache

2007-08-08 Thread Steven Gelsie
I think I am having the same problem using a different application (Windchill). zfs is consuming hugh amounts of memory and system (T2000) is performing poorly. Occasionally it will take a long time (several hours) to do a snapshot. Normally a snapshot will take a second or two. The

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS problems in dCache

2007-08-01 Thread Joerg Schilling
Boyd Adamson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Or alternatively, are you comparing ZFS(Fuse) on Linux with XFS on Linux? That doesn't seem to make sense since the userspace implementation will always suffer. Someone has just mentioned that all of UFS, ZFS and XFS are available on FreeBSD. Are you

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS problems in dCache

2007-08-01 Thread Boyd Adamson
On 01/08/2007, at 7:50 PM, Joerg Schilling wrote: Boyd Adamson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Or alternatively, are you comparing ZFS(Fuse) on Linux with XFS on Linux? That doesn't seem to make sense since the userspace implementation will always suffer. Someone has just mentioned that all of

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS problems in dCache

2007-08-01 Thread Wade . Stuart
On 01/08/2007, at 7:50 PM, Joerg Schilling wrote: Boyd Adamson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Or alternatively, are you comparing ZFS(Fuse) on Linux with XFS on Linux? That doesn't seem to make sense since the userspace implementation will always suffer. Someone has just mentioned

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS problems in dCache

2007-08-01 Thread Sergey Chechelnitskiy
Hi All, Thank you for answers. I am not really comparing anything. I have a flat directory with a lot of small files inside. And I have a java application that reads all these files when it starts. If this directory is located on ZFS the application starts fast (15 mins) when the number of

[zfs-discuss] ZFS problems in dCache

2007-07-31 Thread Sergey Chechelnitskiy
Hi All, We have a problem running a scientific application dCache on ZFS. dCache is a java based software that allows to store huge datasets in pools. One dCache pool consists of two directories pool/data and pool/control. The real data goes into pool/data/ For each file in pool/data/ the

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS problems in dCache

2007-07-31 Thread Boyd Adamson
Sergey Chechelnitskiy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi All, We have a problem running a scientific application dCache on ZFS. dCache is a java based software that allows to store huge datasets in pools. One dCache pool consists of two directories pool/data and pool/control. The real data goes

Re[2]: [zfs-discuss] ZFS problems

2006-12-11 Thread Robert Milkowski
Hello James, Saturday, November 18, 2006, 11:34:52 AM, you wrote: JM as far as I can see, your setup does not mee the minimum JM redundancy requirements for a Raid-Z, which is 3 devices. JM Since you only have 2 devices you are out on a limb. Actually only two disks for raid-z is fine and you

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS problems

2006-11-26 Thread Richard Elling
David Dyer-Bennet wrote: On 11/26/06, Al Hopper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [4] I proposed this solution to a user on the [EMAIL PROTECTED] list - and it resolved his problem. His problem - the system would reset after getting about 1/2 way through a Solaris install. The installer was simply

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS problems

2006-11-25 Thread zfs
First thing is I would like to thank everyone for their replies/help. This machine has been running for two years under Linux, but for last two or three months has had Nexenta Solaris on it. This machine has never once crashed. I rebooted with a Knoppix disk in and ran memtest86. Within 30

[zfs-discuss] ZFS problems

2006-11-18 Thread zfs
I'm new to this group, so hello everyone! I am having some issues with my Nexenta system I set up about two months ago as a zfs/zraid server. I have two new Maxtor 500GB Sata drives and an Adaptec controller which I believe has a Silicon Image chipset. Also I have a Seasonic 80+ power supply,

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS problems

2006-11-18 Thread James McPherson
On 11/18/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... scrub: scrub completed with 0 errors on Mon Nov 13 04:49:35 2006 config: NAMESTATE READ WRITE CKSUM amber ONLINE 0 0 0 raidz1ONLINE 0 0 0 c4d0

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS problems

2006-11-18 Thread Bill Moore
Hi Michael. Based on the output, there should be no user-visible file corruption. ZFS saw a bunch of checksum errors on the disk, but was able to recover in every instance. While 2-disk RAID-Z is really a fancy (and slightly more expensive, CPU-wise) way of doing mirroring, at no point should

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS problems

2006-11-18 Thread Toby Thain
On 18-Nov-06, at 2:01 PM, Bill Moore wrote: Hi Michael. Based on the output, there should be no user-visible file corruption. ZFS saw a bunch of checksum errors on the disk, but was able to recover in every instance. While 2-disk RAID-Z is really a fancy (and slightly more expensive,

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS problems

2006-11-18 Thread Al Hopper
On Sat, 18 Nov 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm new to this group, so hello everyone! I am having some issues with Welcome! my Nexenta system I set up about two months ago as a zfs/zraid server. I have two new Maxtor 500GB Sata drives and an Adaptec controller which I believe has a Silicon

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS problems

2006-11-18 Thread Frank Cusack
[ I've seen the response where one astute list participate noticed you're running a 2-way raidz device, when the documentation clearly states that the mimimum raidz volume consists of 3 devices ] Not very astute. The documentation clearly states that the minimum is 2 devices. zpool(1M):