[zfs-discuss] Partitioning for a new system

2008-07-18 Thread Evert Meulie
Hi all! I'm planning a system which will be hosting various VM's. The host system will be kept small. I was thinking of using ZFS on all partitions. Does anyone see any reason I should NOT do the following? DISK1 partition 1: 15GB - host OS (ZFS RAID1) partition 2: remainder - ZFS

Re: [zfs-discuss] Partitioning for a new system

2008-07-18 Thread Richard Elling
Evert Meulie wrote: Hi all! I'm planning a system which will be hosting various VM's. The host system will be kept small. I was thinking of using ZFS on all partitions. Does anyone see any reason I should NOT do the following? IMHO, 15 GBytes seems a little bit small for keeping

Re: [zfs-discuss] checksum errors on root pool after upgrade to snv_94

2008-07-18 Thread Jürgen Keil
I ran a scrub on a root pool after upgrading to snv_94, and got checksum errors: Hmm, after reading this, I started a zpool scrub on my mirrored pool, on a system that is running post snv_94 bits: It also found checksum errors # zpool status files pool: files state: DEGRADED status: One

Re: [zfs-discuss] checksum errors on root pool after upgrade to snv_94

2008-07-18 Thread Jürgen Keil
I ran a scrub on a root pool after upgrading to snv_94, and got checksum errors: Hmm, after reading this, I started a zpool scrub on my mirrored pool, on a system that is running post snv_94 bits: It also found checksum errors ... OTOH, trying to verify checksums with zdb -c didn't

Re: [zfs-discuss] We have a driver for the MM-5425CN

2008-07-18 Thread Tim
On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 5:51 AM, Ross [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey everybody, Well, my pestering paid off. I have a Solaris driver which you're welcom to download, but please be aware that it comes with NO SUPPORT WHATSOEVER. I'm very grateful to the chap who provided this driver, please

Re: [zfs-discuss] install opensolaris on raidz

2008-07-18 Thread John Kotches
Andrew sez: ... RAIDZ arrays are not supported as root pools (at the moment). Cheers Andrew. I appreciate that this is quite a substantial work. Just off the top of my head, each member of the RAIDZ has to have the same boot block information, then as you bring the RAIDZ up you have

Re: [zfs-discuss] We have a driver for the MM-5425CN

2008-07-18 Thread Ross
Hi Tim, No, I'm still chasing the supplier who lost their stock of cards. So far they're not getting back to me which isn't good news. There were a couple of other people on here who had these cards and needed the driver, I haven't heard whether anybody has tested it yet however. If anybody

[zfs-discuss] Can't change owner of directories?

2008-07-18 Thread Kyle McDonald
Why can't I do this in a ZFS directory? (I was able to set the group with no problems.) # chown auser * chown: DIR1: cannot change owner [Invalid argument] chown: DIR2: cannot change owner [Invalid argument] Debugging info: # id -a uid=0(root) gid=0(root)

Re: [zfs-discuss] checksum errors on root pool after upgrade to snv_94

2008-07-18 Thread Rustam Aliyev
I'm living with this error for almost 4 months and probably have record number of checksum errors: core# zpool status -xv pool: box5 state: ONLINE status: One or more devices has experienced an error resulting in data corruption. Applications may be affected. action: Restore the file

[zfs-discuss] Interesting view on flash

2008-07-18 Thread Richard Elling
Here is an interesting view on flash drive developments... http://www.eetimes.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=209100803cid=NL_eet -- richard ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [zfs-discuss] install opensolaris on raidz

2008-07-18 Thread Richard Elling
John Kotches wrote: Oh, they should also fix Thumper and Thumper2 to have 2 slots for mirrored OS away from the big honking storage. In general, I agree. However, the data does not necessarily support this as a solution and there is a point of diminishing return. Years ago, disk MTBFs

Re: [zfs-discuss] Interesting view on flash

2008-07-18 Thread Al Hopper
On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 3:11 PM, Richard Elling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here is an interesting view on flash drive developments... http://www.eetimes.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=209100803cid=NL_eet -- richard Thanks Richard. I saw that announcement in a couple of other techsites during

Re: [zfs-discuss] Interesting view on flash

2008-07-18 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Fri, 18 Jul 2008, Al Hopper wrote: If you look at the overall I/O throughput in Mb/Sec over the years and compare it with the advances in server memory size or SPEC-int rates over the years, the I/O throughput curve looks *almost* flat - as the delta between the other two curves continues

Re: [zfs-discuss] Interesting view on flash

2008-07-18 Thread Tim
Except the article was redacted. The reason the battery life decreased was because the throughput increased so much that it drove up the cpu usage up, thus bringing down battery life. It just goes to show how SEVERELY io bound we currently are. The flash itself was using LESS power. --tim

Re: [zfs-discuss] Interesting view on flash

2008-07-18 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Fri, 18 Jul 2008, Tim wrote: Except the article was redacted. The reason the battery life decreased was because the throughput increased so much that it drove up the cpu usage up, thus bringing down battery life. It just goes to show how SEVERELY io bound we currently are. The flash

Re: [zfs-discuss] install opensolaris on raidz

2008-07-18 Thread John Kotches
Relling sez: In general, I agree. However, the data does not necessarily support this as a solution and there is a point of diminishing return. I sent a reply via e-mail to Richard as well; I basically said something along these lines... You missed my point though. It's nothing at all to

Re: [zfs-discuss] install opensolaris on raidz

2008-07-18 Thread Richard Elling
John Kotches wrote: Relling sez: In general, I agree. However, the data does not necessarily support this as a solution and there is a point of diminishing return. I sent a reply via e-mail to Richard as well; I basically said something along these lines... You missed my