Re: [zfs-discuss] replace same sized disk fails with too small error

2009-01-22 Thread Dale Sears
Would this work? (to get rid of an EFI label). dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/dsk/thedisk bs=1024k count=1 Then use format format might complain that the disk is not labeled. You can then label the disk. Dale Antonius wrote: can you recommend a walk-through for this process, or

[zfs-discuss] Failure to boot from zfs on Sun v880

2009-01-22 Thread Al Slater
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi. I am trying to move the root volume from an existing svm mirror to a zfs root. The machine is a Sun V880 (SPARC) running nv_96, with OBP version 4.22.34 which is AFAICT the latest. The svm mirror was constructed as follows / d4 m

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Recovery after SAN Corruption

2009-01-22 Thread fredrick phol
ZFS should repair any files it can and mark any it can't as bad from memory. Restore the files zfs has marked as corrupted from backup? -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [zfs-discuss] JZ spammer

2009-01-22 Thread dick hoogendijk
fredrick phol wrote: seconded Guess I missed something about JZ because I created a sieve rule for him and never saw something from him again. Is he going to be blocked in some way? -- Dick Hoogendijk -- PGP/GnuPG key: F86289CE +http://nagual.nl/ | SunOS 10u6 10/08 ZFS+

Re: [zfs-discuss] zpool status -x strangeness

2009-01-22 Thread Ben Miller
The pools are upgraded to version 10. Also, this is on Solaris 10u6. # zpool upgrade This system is currently running ZFS pool version 10. All pools are formatted using this version. Ben What's the output of 'zfs upgrade' and 'zpool upgrade'? (I'm just curious - I had a similar situation

Re: [zfs-discuss] Failure to boot from zfs on Sun v880

2009-01-22 Thread Mark J Musante
On Thu, 22 Jan 2009, Al Slater wrote: Mounting root on rpool/ROOT/Sol11_b105 with filesystem type zfs is not supported This line is coming from svm, which leads me to believe that the zfs boot blocks were not properly installed by live upgrade. You can try doing this by hand, with the

[zfs-discuss] time slider cleanup errors

2009-01-22 Thread Tom Buskey
I'm running OpenSolaris 10/08 snv_101b with the auto snapshot packages. I'm getting this error: /usr/lib/time-slider-cleanup -y Traceback (most recent call last): File /usr/lib/time-slider-cleanup, line 10, in module main(abspath(__file__)) File

Re: [zfs-discuss] cifs perfomance

2009-01-22 Thread Matt Harrison
Brandon High wrote: On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 5:40 PM, Bob Friesenhahn bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us wrote: Several people reported this same problem. They changed their ethernet adaptor to an Intel ethernet interface and the performance problem went away. It was not ZFS's fault. It may not

Re: [zfs-discuss] cifs perfomance

2009-01-22 Thread Toby Thain
On 21-Jan-09, at 9:11 PM, Brandon High wrote: On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 5:40 PM, Bob Friesenhahn bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us wrote: Several people reported this same problem. They changed their ethernet adaptor to an Intel ethernet interface and the performance problem went away. It was

[zfs-discuss] checksum errors on Sun Fire X4500

2009-01-22 Thread Jay Anderson
I have b105 running on a Sun Fire X4500, and I am constantly seeing checksum errors reported by zpool status. The errors are showing up over time on every disk in the pool. In normal operation there might be errors on two or three disks each day, and sometimes there are enough errors so it

Re: [zfs-discuss] checksum errors on Sun Fire X4500

2009-01-22 Thread Carsten Aulbert
Hi Jay, Jay Anderson schrieb: I have b105 running on a Sun Fire X4500, and I am constantly seeing checksum errors reported by zpool status. The errors are showing up over time on every disk in the pool. In normal operation there might be errors on two or three disks each day, and sometimes

Re: [zfs-discuss] ISCI Network Hang - Lun becomes unavailable

2009-01-22 Thread M
Heres what fixed this: Added tx_hcksum_enable=0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0; lso_enable=0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0; to /kernel/drv/e1000g.conf -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [zfs-discuss] ISCI Network Hang - Lun becomes unavailable

2009-01-22 Thread M
Here what fixed this: Added tx_hcksum_enable=0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0; lso_enable=0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0; to /kernel/drv/e1000g.conf -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org

[zfs-discuss] SSD drives in Sun Fire X4540 or X4500 for dedicated ZIL device

2009-01-22 Thread Greg Mason
We're evaluating the possibility of speeding up NFS operations of our X4540s with dedicated log devices. What we are specifically evaluating is replacing 1 or two of our spare sata disks with sata SSDs. Has anybody tried using SSD device(s) as dedicated ZIL devices in a X4540? Are there any

Re: [zfs-discuss] cifs perfomance

2009-01-22 Thread Nathan Kroenert
Are you able to qualify that a little? I'm using a realtek interface with OpenSolaris and am yet to experience any issues. Nathan. Brandon High wrote: On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 5:40 PM, Bob Friesenhahn bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us wrote: Several people reported this same problem. They

Re: [zfs-discuss] cifs perfomance

2009-01-22 Thread Brandon High
On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 1:29 PM, Nathan Kroenert nathan.kroen...@sun.com wrote: Are you able to qualify that a little? I'm using a realtek interface with OpenSolaris and am yet to experience any issues. There's a lot of anecdotal evidence that replacing the rge driver with the gani driver can

Re: [zfs-discuss] cifs perfomance

2009-01-22 Thread Nathan Kroenert
Interesting. I'll have a poke... Thanks! Nathan. Brandon High wrote: On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 1:29 PM, Nathan Kroenert nathan.kroen...@sun.com wrote: Are you able to qualify that a little? I'm using a realtek interface with OpenSolaris and am yet to experience any issues. There's a lot

[zfs-discuss] zfs send -R slow

2009-01-22 Thread BJ Quinn
I'm using OpenSolaris with ZFS as a backup server. I copy all my data from various sources onto the OpenSolaris server daily, and run a snapshot at the end of each backup. Using gzip-1 compression, mount -F smbfs, and the --in-place and --no-whole-file switches for rsync, I get efficient

Re: [zfs-discuss] replace same sized disk fails with too small error

2009-01-22 Thread Antonius
yes, that's exactly what I did. the issue is that I can't get the corrected label to be written once I've zero'd the drive. I get and error from fdisk that apparently views the backup label -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs send -R slow

2009-01-22 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Thu, 22 Jan 2009, BJ Quinn wrote: Is there any way to speed up a compressed zfs send -R? Or is there some other way to approach this? Maybe some way to do a bit-level clone of the internal drive to the external drive (the internal backup drive is not the same as the OS drive, so it

[zfs-discuss] Bug report: disk replacement confusion

2009-01-22 Thread Scott L. Burson
This is in snv_86. I have a four-drive raidz pool. One of the drives died. I replaced it, but wasn't careful to put the new drive on the same controller port; one of the existing drives wound up on the port that had previously been used by the failed drive, and the new drive wound up on the

Re: [zfs-discuss] Raidz1 faulted with single bad disk. Requesting assistance.

2009-01-22 Thread Brad Hill
I would get a new 1.5 TB and make sure it has the new firmware and replace c6t3d0 right away - even if someone here comes up with a magic solution, you don't want to wait for another drive to fail. The replacement disk showed up today but I'm unable to replace the one marked UNAVAIL:

Re: [zfs-discuss] replace same sized disk fails with too small error

2009-01-22 Thread Jonathan Edwards
not quite .. it's 16KB at the front and 8MB back of the disk (16384 sectors) for the Solaris EFI - so you need to zero out both of these of course since these drives are 1TB you i find it's easier to format to SMI (vtoc) .. with format -e (choose SMI, label, save, validate - then choose

Re: [zfs-discuss] Bug report: disk replacement confusion

2009-01-22 Thread Scott L. Burson
Well, the second resilver finished, and everything looks okay now. Doing one more scrub to be sure... -- Scott -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [zfs-discuss] Failure to boot from zfs on Sun v880

2009-01-22 Thread Al Slater
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mark J Musante wrote: On Thu, 22 Jan 2009, Al Slater wrote: Mounting root on rpool/ROOT/Sol11_b105 with filesystem type zfs is not supported This line is coming from svm, which leads me to believe that the zfs boot blocks were not properly

Re: [zfs-discuss] Failure to boot from zfs on Sun v880

2009-01-22 Thread Al Slater
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Al Slater wrote: Mark J Musante wrote: On Thu, 22 Jan 2009, Al Slater wrote: Mounting root on rpool/ROOT/Sol11_b105 with filesystem type zfs is not supported This line is coming from svm, which leads me to believe that the zfs boot blocks were

Re: [zfs-discuss] SSD drives in Sun Fire X4540 or X4500 for dedicated ZIL device

2009-01-22 Thread Ross
I don't have an x4540, and this may not be relevant to your usage, but the concern I would have would be how this is going to affect throughput. An x4540 can stream data to and from the disk far faster than any SATA SSD, or even a pair of SATA SSD's can. I'd be nervous about improving my

Re: [zfs-discuss] SSD drives in Sun Fire X4540 or X4500 for dedicated ZIL device

2009-01-22 Thread Ross
However, now I've written that, Sun use SATA (SAS?) SSD's in their high end fishworks storage, so I guess it definately works for some use cases. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [zfs-discuss] 'zfs recv' is very slow

2009-01-22 Thread Brent Jones
On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 11:41 PM, Brent Jones br...@servuhome.net wrote: On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 7:53 PM, Ian Collins i...@ianshome.com wrote: Ian Collins wrote: Send/receive speeds appear to be very data dependent. I have several different filesystems containing differing data types. The

Re: [zfs-discuss] 'zfs recv' is very slow

2009-01-22 Thread Ian Collins
Brent Jones wrote: On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 11:41 PM, Brent Jones br...@servuhome.net wrote: On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 7:53 PM, Ian Collins i...@ianshome.com wrote: Ian Collins wrote: Send/receive speeds appear to be very data dependent. I have several different filesystems