Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS HW RAID

2009-09-19 Thread Scott Lawson
Bob Friesenhahn wrote: On Fri, 18 Sep 2009, David Magda wrote: If you care to keep your pool up and alive as much as possible, then mirroring across SAN devices is recommended. One suggestion I heard was to get a LUN that's twice the size, and set copies=2. This way you have some

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS HW RAID

2009-09-19 Thread Erik Trimble
All this reminds me: how much work (if any) has been done on the asyncronous mirroring option? That is, for supporting mirrors with radically different access times? (useful for supporting a mirror across a WAN, where you have hundred(s)-millisecond latency to the other side of the

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS HW RAID

2009-09-19 Thread Orvar Korvar
I asked the same question about one year ago here, and the posts poured in. Search for my user id? There is more info in that thread about which is best: ZFS vs ZFS+HWraid -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list

Re: [zfs-discuss] Crazy Phantom Zpools Again

2009-09-19 Thread Victor Latushkin
On 18.09.09 22:18, Dave Abrahams wrote: I just did a fresh reinstall of OpenSolaris and I'm again seeing the phenomenon described in http://article.gmane.org/gmane.os.solaris.opensolaris.zfs/26259 which I posted many months ago and got no reply to. Can someone *please* help me figure out

Re: [zfs-discuss] Persistent errors - do I believe?

2009-09-19 Thread Victor Latushkin
On 17.09.09 21:44, Chris Murray wrote: Thanks David. Maybe I mis-understand how a replace works? When I added disk E, and used 'zpool replace [A] [E]' (still can't remember those drive names), I thought that disk A would still be part of the pool, and read from in order to build the contents of

Re: [zfs-discuss] Crazy Phantom Zpools Again

2009-09-19 Thread David Abrahams
Hey, thanks for following up. on Sat Sep 19 2009, Victor Latushkin Victor.Latushkin-AT-Sun.COM wrote: Can you provide output of zdb -l /dev/rdsk/c8t1d0p0 zdb -l /dev/rdsk/c8t1d0s0 zdb -l /dev/rdsk/c9t0d0p0 zdb -l /dev/rdsk/c9t0d0s0 zdb -l /dev/rdsk/c9t1d0p0 zdb -l /dev/rdsk/c9t1d0s0

Re: [zfs-discuss] Crazy Phantom Zpools Again

2009-09-19 Thread David Abrahams
on Fri Sep 18 2009, Cindy Swearingen Cindy.Swearingen-AT-Sun.COM wrote: Not much help, but some ideas: 1. What does the zpool history -l output say for the phantom pools? d...@hoss:~# zpool history -l Xc8t1d0p0 History for 'Xc8t1d0p0': 2009-05-14.06:00:20 zpool create Xc8t1d0p0 c8t1d0p0

Re: [zfs-discuss] Adding new disks and ditto block behaviour

2009-09-19 Thread Joseph Toppi
Yeah, after I learned that ditto blocks don't protect against failed drives, I started working on a plan to move to raidz. I couldn't find any good documentation on setting multiple filesystems systems in one pool, though I know it is possible. I think I have enough storage to work this together

[zfs-discuss] ZFS and HW RAID

2009-09-19 Thread Lloyd H. Gill
Hello folks, I am sure this topic has been asked, but I am new to this list. I have read a ton of docĀ¹s on the web, but wanted to get some opinions from you all. Also, if someone has a digest of the last time this was discussed, you can just send that to me. In any case, I am reading a lot of

Re: [zfs-discuss] addendum: zpool UNAVAIL even though disk is online: another label issue?

2009-09-19 Thread michael schuster
Victor Latushkin wrote: I think you need to get a closer look at your another disk. Is it possible to get result of (change controller/target numbers as appropriate if needed) dd if=/dev/rdsk/c8t0d0p0 bs=1024k count=4 | bzip2 -9 c8t0d0p0.front.bz2 while booted off OpenSolaris CD? not

Re: [zfs-discuss] If you have ZFS in production, willing to share some details (with me)?

2009-09-19 Thread Blake
On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 1:51 PM, Steffen Weiberle steffen.weibe...@sun.com wrote: I am trying to compile some deployment scenarios of ZFS. # of systems 3 amount of storage 10 TB on storage server (can scale to 30) application profile(s) NFS and CIFS type of workload (low, high; random,

Re: [zfs-discuss] If you have ZFS in production, willing to share some details (with me)?

2009-09-19 Thread Erik Trimble
In the Eat-Your-Own-Dogfood mode: Here in CSG at Sun (which is mainly all Java-related things): Steffen Weiberle wrote: I am trying to compile some deployment scenarios of ZFS. If you are running ZFS in production, would you be willing to provide (publicly or privately)? # of systems All

[zfs-discuss] Fwd: ZFS HW RAID

2009-09-19 Thread Al Hopper
-- Forwarded message -- From: Al Hopper a...@logical-approach.com Date: Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 5:55 PM Subject: Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS HW RAID To: Scott Lawson scott.law...@manukau.ac.nz On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 4:38 PM, Scott Lawson scott.law...@manukau.ac.nzwrote: . snip

[zfs-discuss] backup disk of rpool on solaris

2009-09-19 Thread Jeremy Kister
I added a disk to the rpool of my zfs root: # zpool attach rpool c1t0d0s0 c1t1d0s0 # installgrub /boot/grub/stage1 /boot/grub/stage2 /dev/rdsk/c1t1d0s0 I waited for the resilver to complete, then i shut the system down. then i physically removed c1t0d0 and put c1t1d0 in it's place. I tried to