Re: [zfs-discuss] [storage-discuss] Supermicro AOC-SASLP-MV8

2009-04-22 Thread James Andrewartha
myxi...@googlemail.com wrote: Bouncing a thread from the device drivers list: http://opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?messageID=357176 Does anybody know if OpenSolaris will support this new Supermicro card, based on the Marvell 88SE6480 chipset? It's a true PCI Express 8 port JBOD SAS/SATA

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

2009-04-22 Thread Haudy Kazemi
Brad Hill wrote: I've seen reports of a recent Seagate firmware update bricking drives again. What's the output of 'zpool import' from the LiveCD? It sounds like ore than 1 drive is dropping off. r...@opensolaris:~# zpool import pool: tank id: 16342816386332636568 state: FAULTED

Re: [zfs-discuss] [storage-discuss] Supermicro AOC-SASLP-MV8

2009-04-22 Thread Blake
I'm quite happy so far with my LSI cards, which replaced a couple of the Supermicro Marvell cards: # scanpci ... pci bus 0x0007 cardnum 0x00 function 0x00: vendor 0x1000 device 0x0058 LSI Logic / Symbios Logic SAS1068E PCI-Express Fusion-MPT SAS On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 2:45 AM, James

Re: [zfs-discuss] [storage-discuss] Supermicro AOC-SASLP-MV8

2009-04-22 Thread Will Murnane
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 02:45, James Andrewartha jam...@daa.com.au wrote: myxi...@googlemail.com wrote: Bouncing a thread from the device drivers list: http://opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?messageID=357176 Does anybody know if OpenSolaris will support this new Supermicro card, based on

[zfs-discuss] posix_fadvise on ZFS

2009-04-22 Thread Jignesh K. Shah
This is wrt Postgres 8.4 beta1 which has a new effective_io_concurrency tunable which uses posix_fadvice http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.4/static/runtime-config-resource.html (Go to the bottom) Quote: synchronous I/O depends on an effective |posix_fadvise| function, which some operating

Re: [zfs-discuss] What causes slow performance under load?

2009-04-22 Thread David Dyer-Bennet
On Tue, April 21, 2009 14:20, Joerg Schilling wrote: Miles Nordin car...@ivy.net wrote: First, there is plain-GPLv2, Linux-modified-GPLv2 with the ``or any later version'' clause deleted and the suspect ``interpretation'' of kernel modules, and plain-GPLv3: there are three GPL licenses to

Re: [zfs-discuss] What causes slow performance under load?

2009-04-22 Thread Gary Mills
On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 04:09:03PM -0400, Oscar del Rio wrote: There's a similar thread on hied-emailad...@listserv.nd.edu that might help or at least can get you in touch with other University admins in a similar situation. https://listserv.nd.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A1=ind0904L=HIED-EMAILADMIN

[zfs-discuss] zfs promote/destroy enhancements?

2009-04-22 Thread Edward Pilatowicz
hey all, in both nevada and opensolaris, the zones infrastructure tries to leverage zfs where ever possible. we take advantage of snapshotting and cloning for things like zone cloning and zone be management. because of this, we've recently run into multiple scenarios where a zoneadm uninstall

[zfs-discuss] prstat -Z and load average values in different zones give same numeric results

2009-04-22 Thread Nobel Shelby
Folks, Perplexing question about load average display with prstat -Z Solaris 10 OS U4 (08/07) We have 4 zones with very different processes and workloads.. The prstat -Z command issued within each of the zones, correctly displays the number of processes and lwps, but the load average value looks