Re: [zfs-discuss] recovering data from a dettach mirrored vdev

2008-04-28 Thread Jeff Bonwick
If your entire pool consisted of a single mirror of two disks, A and B, and you detached B at some point in the past, you *should* be able to recover the pool as it existed when you detached B. However, I just tried that experiment on a test pool and it didn't work. I will investigate further and

[zfs-discuss] recovering data from a dettach mirrored vdev

2008-04-28 Thread Benjamin Brumaire
Hi, my system (solaris b77) was physically destroyed and i loosed data saved in a zpool mirror. The only thing left is a dettached vdev from the pool. I'm aware that uberblock is gone and that i can't import the pool. But i still hope their is a way or a tool (like tct http://www.porcupine.org/

Re: [zfs-discuss] Metadata corrupted

2008-04-28 Thread Siegfried Nikolaivich
> Were you able to fix this problem in the end? Unfortunately, no. I believe Matthew Ahrens took a look at it and couldn't find the cause or how to fix it. We had to destroy the pool and re-create it from scratch. Fortunately, this was during the ZFS testing period, and no critically importa

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS - Implementation Successes and Failures

2008-04-28 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Mon, 28 Apr 2008, Dominic Kay wrote: > > I'm not looking to replace the Best Practices or Evil Tuning guides but to > take a slightly different slant. If you have been involved in a ZFS > implementation small or large and would like to discuss it either in > confidence or as a referenceable cas

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS - Implementation Successes and Failures

2008-04-28 Thread Vincent Fox
Cyrus mail-stores for UC Davis are in ZFS. Began as failure ended as success. We hit the FSYNC performance issue and our systems collapsed under user load. We could not track it down and neither could the Sun reps we contacted. Eventually I found a reference to FSYNC bug and we tried out wha

[zfs-discuss] ZFS - Implementation Successes and Failures

2008-04-28 Thread Dominic Kay
Hi Firstly apologies for the spam if you got this email via multiple aliases. I'm trying to document a number of common scenarios where ZFS is used as part of the solution such as email server, $homeserver, RDBMS and so forth but taken from real implementations where things worked and equally imp

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs data corruption

2008-04-28 Thread eric kustarz
On Apr 27, 2008, at 4:39 PM, Carson Gaspar wrote: > Ian Collins wrote: >> Carson Gaspar wrote: > >>> If this is possible, it's entirely undocumented... Actually, fmd's >>> documentation is generally terrible. The sum total of configuration >>> information is: >>> >>> FILES >>> /etc/fm/fmd

Re: [zfs-discuss] cp -r hanged copying a directory

2008-04-28 Thread Rob Logan
> I did the cp -r dir1 dir2 again and when it hanged when its hung, can you type: iostat -xce 1 in another window and is there a 100 in the %b column? when you reset and try the cp again, and look at iostat -xce 1 on the second hang, is the same disk at 100 in %b? if all your windows are hung,

Re: [zfs-discuss] cp -r hanged copying a directory

2008-04-28 Thread Simon Breden
I don't like the sound of broken hardware :( I did the cp -r dir1 dir2 again and when it hanged I issued 'fmdump -e' like you said -- here is the output: # fmdump -e TIME CLASS fmdump: /var/fm/fmd/errlog is empty # I also checked /var/adm/messages and I didn't see anything in t

[zfs-discuss] zfsboot from USB stick

2008-04-28 Thread Bernd Schemmer
Hi, Is it possible to boot Solaris via zfs boot from an USB stick? My efforts to boot Milax via zfs boot from an USB stick are not successfull until now (the kernel loads and panics with a message about not being able to mount root from /ramdisk:a) and before I continue I want to make sure that