[zfs-discuss] ZFS recordsize

2008-01-18 Thread Manoj Nayak
Hi All, Is it not poosible to increase zfs record size beyond 128k.I am using Solaris 10 Update 4. I get following error when I try to set zfs record size to 1024 k. zfs set recordsize=1024k md9/test cannot set property for 'md9/test': 'recordsize' must be power of 2 from 512 to 128k Thanks Ma

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS recordsize

2008-01-18 Thread Roch - PAE
Why do you want greater than 128K records. Do Check out : http://blogs.sun.com/roch/entry/128k_suffice -r Manoj Nayak writes: > Hi All, > > Is it not poosible to increase zfs record size beyond 128k.I am using > Solaris 10 Update 4. > > I get following error when I try to set

Re: [zfs-discuss] how to relocate a disk

2008-01-18 Thread Robert Milkowski
Hello Thomas, Friday, January 18, 2008, 10:31:17 AM, you wrote: TMK> Hi, TMK> I'd like to move a disk from one controller to another. This disk is TMK> part of a mirror in a zfs pool. How can one do this without having to TMK> export/import the pool or reboot the system? TMK> I tried taking i

Re: [zfs-discuss] how to relocate a disk

2008-01-18 Thread Robert Milkowski
Hello Victor, Friday, January 18, 2008, 11:35:27 AM, you wrote: >> I tried taking it offline and online again, but then zpool says the disk >> is unavailable. Trying a zpool replace didn't work because it complains >> that the "new" disk is part of a zfs pool... VE> So you offlined the disk and

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS recordsize

2008-01-18 Thread Roch - PAE
Manoj Nayak writes: > Roch - PAE wrote: > > Why do you want greater than 128K records. > > > A single-parity RAID-Z pool on thumper is created & it consists of four > disk.Solaris 10 update 4 runs on thumper.Then zfs filesystem is created in > the pool.1 mb data is written to a file i

Re: [zfs-discuss] how to relocate a disk

2008-01-18 Thread Victor Engle
> I tried taking it offline and online again, but then zpool says the disk > is unavailable. Trying a zpool replace didn't work because it complains > that the "new" disk is part of a zfs pool... So it would look like a new disk to ZFS and not like a disk belonging to a zpool. Vic ___

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS recordsize

2008-01-18 Thread Manoj Nayak
Roch - PAE wrote: > Why do you want greater than 128K records. > A single-parity RAID-Z pool on thumper is created & it consists of four disk.Solaris 10 update 4 runs on thumper.Then zfs filesystem is created in the pool.1 mb data is written to a file in filesystem using write (2) system c

Re: [zfs-discuss] how to relocate a disk

2008-01-18 Thread Thomas Maier-Komor
Robert Milkowski schrieb: > Hello Thomas, > > Friday, January 18, 2008, 10:31:17 AM, you wrote: > > TMK> Hi, > > TMK> I'd like to move a disk from one controller to another. This disk is > TMK> part of a mirror in a zfs pool. How can one do this without having to > TMK> export/import the pool

[zfs-discuss] how to relocate a disk

2008-01-18 Thread Thomas Maier-Komor
Hi, I'd like to move a disk from one controller to another. This disk is part of a mirror in a zfs pool. How can one do this without having to export/import the pool or reboot the system? I tried taking it offline and online again, but then zpool says the disk is unavailable. Trying a zpool re

Re: [zfs-discuss] how to relocate a disk

2008-01-18 Thread Victor Engle
> I tried taking it offline and online again, but then zpool says the disk > is unavailable. Trying a zpool replace didn't work because it complains > that the "new" disk is part of a zfs pool... So you offlined the disk and moved it to the new controller and then tried to add it back to the pool?

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs comparison

2008-01-18 Thread Sengor
On 1/17/08, Darren J Moffat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Pardon my ignorance, but is ZFS with compression safe to use in a > > production environment? > > Yes, why wouldn't it be ? If it wasn't safe it wouldn't have been > delivered. Few reasons - http://prefetch.net/blog/index.php/2007/11/28/

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs comparison

2008-01-18 Thread Darren J Moffat
Sengor wrote: > On 1/17/08, Darren J Moffat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Pardon my ignorance, but is ZFS with compression safe to use in a >>> production environment? >> Yes, why wouldn't it be ? If it wasn't safe it wouldn't have been >> delivered. > > Few reasons - > http://prefetch.net/blog

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs comparison

2008-01-18 Thread Paul Kraus
On 1/18/08, Sengor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't see many enterprises adopting ZFS even though it's been > officially out for a while now. Looking over the mailing list and > numbers of ZFS patches, it's enough to scare lots of people away. I suspect that the amount of changes / di

Re: [zfs-discuss] SSD cache device hangs ZFS

2008-01-18 Thread Richard Elling
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi richard, > using kstat -m zfs as you recommended produces some > interesting results in the L2 catagory > > I can see the l2_size field increase immediately > after doing a: > zpool add pool cache cache_device > and the l2_hits value increase with each test > run as t

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs comparison

2008-01-18 Thread Richard Elling
Paul Kraus wrote: > On 1/18/08, Sengor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> Don't get me wrong, I believe ZFS is a great product to have come out >> of Sun's software group, however I don't think it's matured enough to >> be relied upon with mission crititcal systems. ZFS is changing too >> fast to

Re: [zfs-discuss] how to relocate a disk

2008-01-18 Thread Robert Milkowski
Hello Thomas, Friday, January 18, 2008, 11:29:11 AM, you wrote: TMK> Robert Milkowski schrieb: >> Hello Thomas, >> >> Friday, January 18, 2008, 10:31:17 AM, you wrote: >> >> TMK> Hi, >> >> TMK> I'd like to move a disk from one controller to another. This disk is >> TMK> part of a mirror in a

Re: [zfs-discuss] ATA UDMA data parity error

2008-01-18 Thread Kent Watsen
Thanks for the note Anton. I let memtest86 run overnight and it found no issues. I've also now moved the cards around and have confirmed that slot #3 on the mobo is bad (all my aoc-sat2-mv8 cards, cables, and backplanes are OK). However, I think its more than just slot #3 that has a fault b

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs comparison

2008-01-18 Thread eric kustarz
On Jan 18, 2008, at 4:23 AM, Sengor wrote: > On 1/17/08, Darren J Moffat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Pardon my ignorance, but is ZFS with compression safe to use in a >>> production environment? >> >> Yes, why wouldn't it be ? If it wasn't safe it wouldn't have been >> delivered. > > Few reas

[zfs-discuss] are there any workarounds for (low memory) deadlocks?

2008-01-18 Thread Jochem Ippers
Hi! We're running Solaris10u4 here on a Sun Fire 2200 (x86/Opteron) with 8 GB RAM, and after a long time of problems I'm about to give up our zfs installation (on a simple scsi hardware raid) because of massive problems with (low memory?) deadlocks - even a simple 'zfs list' sometimes locks the

[zfs-discuss] sharenfs with over 10000 file systems

2008-01-18 Thread zfsmonk
Anyone out there using sharenfs=on with a large amount of filesystems? We have over 1 filesystems all in one pool. Everything is great until we turn on sharenfs (zfs set sharenfs=on poolName). Once that is enabled, zfs create poolName/filesystem takes about 5 minutes to complete. If nfs shari

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs comparison

2008-01-18 Thread Fred Zlotnick
Many enterprise customers have told us that they are waiting for two features, not yet available in ZFS, before they will adopt it widely in their datacenter environments: - The ability to boot off of a ZFS partition. I don't actually understand this one, since you can't boot Solaris from a Vx

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs comparison

2008-01-18 Thread Sengor
On 1/19/08, Darren J Moffat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On what do you base that statement ? > > How do you "see" what enterprises are adopting ? > > State your sources please. Out of the many I work on only one's been keen on adopting it any time soon, another one's planning to look into it but

Re: [zfs-discuss] Can't access my data

2008-01-18 Thread Andre Lue
I seem to remember hostid being added to the zpool to solve a bug for the poor man's storage cluster. Trying doing a zdb -v ( you should see 4 copies and note if hostid is a field and if it differs from the current one) you can also try a zpool import -f -a I've seen cases where zfs mount -v

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs comparison

2008-01-18 Thread Sengor
On 1/18/08, Darren J Moffat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Simply FUD. I don't see many enterprises adopting ZFS even though it's been officially out for a while now. Looking over the mailing list and numbers of ZFS patches, it's enough to scare lots of people away. Don't get me wrong, I believe ZF

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS recordsize

2008-01-18 Thread Manoj Nayak
Roch - PAE wrote: > Manoj Nayak writes: > > Roch - PAE wrote: > > > Why do you want greater than 128K records. > > > > > A single-parity RAID-Z pool on thumper is created & it consists of four > > disk.Solaris 10 update 4 runs on thumper.Then zfs filesystem is created in > > the pool.1

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs comparison

2008-01-18 Thread Darren J Moffat
Sengor wrote: > On 1/18/08, Darren J Moffat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Simply FUD. > > I don't see many enterprises adopting ZFS even though it's been > officially out for a while now. On what do you base that statement ? How do you "see" what enterprises are adopting ? State your sources pl

Re: [zfs-discuss] how to relocate a disk

2008-01-18 Thread Robert Milkowski
Hello Victor, Friday, January 18, 2008, 11:53:23 AM, you wrote: >> I tried taking it offline and online again, but then zpool says the disk >> is unavailable. Trying a zpool replace didn't work because it complains >> that the "new" disk is part of a zfs pool... VE> So it would look like a new d

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs comparison

2008-01-18 Thread Sengor
On 1/19/08, Paul Kraus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I suspect that the amount of changes / discussion is no less > for ZFS than for any new filesystem, just that due to the open source > nature of it the discussions are in public view. The fact that the > issues *are* being discussed is a h

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs comparison

2008-01-18 Thread Sengor
On 1/19/08, Fred Zlotnick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > But, of course, many other enterprise customers _have_ adopted > ZFS, and are quite happy with it. For a list of ZFS reference > customers please contact Solaris Marketing. ZFS is used in many > mission critical roles today, and by and large

Re: [zfs-discuss] [osol-help] ZFS woes

2008-01-18 Thread Scott L. Burson
To my astonishment, the problem has turned out to be a bad power supply after all. I didn't believe it until some of the SCSI drives in the same box started acting up also. Score: ZFS: 1, $180 OCZ PowerStream 600: 0 :) I would still argue that a salvager would be a useful addition to ZFS for