Re: [zfs-discuss] help diagnosing system hang

2008-12-04 Thread Ross
I'm no expert, but the first thing I'd ask is whether you could repeat that test without using compression? I'd be quite worried about how a system is going to perform when it's basically running off a 50GB compressed file. There seem to be a lot of variables here, on quite a few new systems,

Re: [zfs-discuss] Hardware Raid Vs ZFS implementation on Sun X4150/X4450

2008-12-04 Thread William D. Hathaway
Keep in mind that if you use ZFS you get a lot of additional functionality like snapshots, compression, clones. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org

[zfs-discuss] Resilvers restarting - is there a current bug for this?

2008-12-04 Thread Ross
I can see a number of closed bugs, and some discussion on this, but I can't find if there's any outstanding bug for it. Can anybody find one, or should I create a new bug? In snv_103 I've seen resilvers restarting several times. I have been running zpool status as root, but most of the time

Re: [zfs-discuss] help diagnosing system hang

2008-12-04 Thread Richard Elling
Ethan Erchinger wrote: Hi all, First, I'll say my intent is not to spam a bunch of lists, but after posting to opensolaris-discuss I had someone communicate with me offline that these lists would possibly be a better place to start. So here we are. For those on all three lists, sorry for

Re: [zfs-discuss] help diagnosing system hang

2008-12-04 Thread Ethan Erchinger
Richard Elling wrote: I've seen these symptoms when a large number of errors were reported in a short period of time and memory was low. What does fmdump -eV show? fmdump -eV shows lots of messages like this, and yea, I believe that to be sd16 which is the SSD: Dec 03 2008

Re: [zfs-discuss] help diagnosing system hang

2008-12-04 Thread Ethan Erchinger
Ross wrote: I'm no expert, but the first thing I'd ask is whether you could repeat that test without using compression? I'd be quite worried about how a system is going to perform when it's basically running off a 50GB compressed file. Yes this does occur with compression off, but

Re: [zfs-discuss] help diagnosing system hang

2008-12-04 Thread Tim
On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 11:55 AM, Ethan Erchinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ross wrote: I'm no expert, but the first thing I'd ask is whether you could repeat that test without using compression? I'd be quite worried about how a system is going to perform when it's basically running off a

Re: [zfs-discuss] help diagnosing system hang

2008-12-04 Thread Ethan Erchinger
Tim wrote: Are you leaving ANY ram for zfs to do it's thing? If you're consuming ALL system memory for just this file/application, I would expect the system to fall over and die. Hmm. I believe that the kernel should manage that relationship for me. If the system cannot manage swap or

Re: [zfs-discuss] help diagnosing system hang

2008-12-04 Thread Richard Elling
Ethan Erchinger wrote: Richard Elling wrote: I've seen these symptoms when a large number of errors were reported in a short period of time and memory was low. What does fmdump -eV show? fmdump -eV shows lots of messages like this, and yea, I believe that to be sd16 which is the SSD:

Re: [zfs-discuss] zpool replace - choke point

2008-12-04 Thread Marion Hakanson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I think we found the choke point. The silver lining is that it isn't the T2000 or ZFS. We think it is the new SAN, an Hitachi AMS1000, which has 7200RPM SATA disks with the cache turned off. This system has a very small cache, and when we did turn it on for one of

[zfs-discuss] ZFS+NFS4 strange timestamps on file creation

2008-12-04 Thread Scott Williamson
Has anyone seen files created on a linux client with negative or zero creation timestamps on zfs+nfs exported datasets? ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS+NFS4 strange timestamps on file creation

2008-12-04 Thread Ed Spencer
Yes, I've seen them on nfs filesystems on solaris10 using a Netapp nfs server. Here's a link to a solution that I just implemented on a solaris10 server: https://equoria.net/index.php/Value_too_large_for_defined_data_type On Thu, 2008-12-04 at 15:31, Scott Williamson wrote: Has anyone seen files

[zfs-discuss] help please - The pool metadata is corrupted

2008-12-04 Thread Brett
As a result of a power spike during a thunder storm I lost a sata controller card. This card supported my zfs pool called newsan which is a 4 x samsung 1Tb sata2 disk raid-z. I replaced the card and the devices have the same controller/disk numbers, but now have the following issue.

Re: [zfs-discuss] help diagnosing system hang

2008-12-04 Thread Ethan Erchinger
Richard Elling wrote: asc = 0x29 ascq = 0x0 ASC/ASCQ 29/00 is POWER ON, RESET, OR BUS DEVICE RESET OCCURRED http://www.t10.org/lists/asc-num.htm#ASC_29 [this should be more descriptive as the codes are, more-or-less, standardized, I'll try to file an RFE, unless someone

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS+NFS4 strange timestamps on file creation

2008-12-04 Thread Scott Williamson
On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 4:52 PM, Ed Spencer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, I've seen them on nfs filesystems on solaris10 using a Netapp nfs server. Here's a link to a solution that I just implemented on a solaris10 server: https://equoria.net/index.php/Value_too_large_for_defined_data_type I

Re: [zfs-discuss] zpool replace - choke point

2008-12-04 Thread Alan Rubin
Thanks for the tips. I'm not sure if they will be relevant, though. We don't talk directly with the AMS1000. We are using a USP-VM to virtualize all of our storage and we didn't have to add anything to the drv configuration files to see the new disk (mpxio was already turned on). We are

Re: [zfs-discuss] help please - The pool metadata is corrupted

2008-12-04 Thread Eric Schrock
Can you send the output of the attached D script when running 'zpool status'? - Eric On Thu, Dec 04, 2008 at 02:58:54PM -0800, Brett wrote: As a result of a power spike during a thunder storm I lost a sata controller card. This card supported my zfs pool called newsan which is a 4 x samsung

Re: [zfs-discuss] zpool cannot replace a replacing device

2008-12-04 Thread Courtney Malone
any suggestions? I would like to restore redundancy ASAP -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss