Re: [zfs-discuss] encfs on top of zfs

2012-07-31 Thread Ray Arachelian
On 07/31/2012 09:46 AM, opensolarisisdeadlongliveopensolaris wrote: Dedup: First of all, I don't recommend using dedup under any circumstance. Not that it's unstable or anything, just that the performance is so horrible, it's never worth while. But particularly with encrypted data, you're

[zfs-discuss] How do I import a zpool with a file as a member device?

2012-08-13 Thread Ray Arachelian
While attempting to fix the last of my damaged zpools, there's one that consists of 4 drives + one 60G file. The file happened by accident - I attempted to add a partition off an SSD drive but missed the cache keyword. Of course, once this is done, there's no way to remove the new unwanted

Re: [zfs-discuss] How do I import a zpool with a file as a member device?

2012-08-13 Thread Ray Arachelian
On 08/13/2012 06:50 AM, Sašo Kiselkov wrote: See the -d option to zpool import. -- Saso Many thanks for this, it worked very nicely, though the first time I ran it, it failed. So what -d does is to substitute /dev. In order for it to work, you also have to make links to the drive devices in

Re: [zfs-discuss] Recover data after zpool create -f

2012-08-20 Thread Ray Arachelian
On 08/20/2012 02:55 PM, Ernest Dipko wrote: Is there any way to recover the data within a zpool after a spool create -f was issued on the disks? We had a pool that contained two internal disks (mirrored) and we added a zvol to it our of an existing pool for some temporary space. After the

Re: [zfs-discuss] Changing rpool device paths/drivers

2012-10-03 Thread Ray Arachelian
On 10/03/2012 05:54 AM, Jim Klimov wrote: Hello all, It was often asked and discussed on the list about how to change rpool HDDs from AHCI to IDE mode and back, with the modern routine involving reconfiguration of the BIOS, bootup from separate live media, simple import and export of the

Re: [zfs-discuss] Scrub and checksum permutations

2012-10-27 Thread Ray Arachelian
On 10/26/2012 04:29 AM, Karl Wagner wrote: Does it not store a separate checksum for a parity block? If so, it should not even need to recalculate the parity: assuming checksums match for all data and parity blocks, the data is good. I could understand why it would not store a checksum for a

Re: [zfs-discuss] Repairing corrupted ZFS pool

2012-11-19 Thread Ray Arachelian
On 11/16/2012 07:15 PM, Peter Jeremy wrote: I have been tracking down a problem with zfs diff that reveals itself variously as a hang (unkillable process), panic or error, depending on the ZFS kernel version but seems to be caused by corruption within the pool. I am using FreeBSD but the issue

Re: [zfs-discuss] Repairing corrupted ZFS pool

2012-11-19 Thread Ray Arachelian
On 11/19/2012 12:03 PM, Peter Jeremy wrote: On 2012-Nov-19 11:02:06 -0500, Ray Arachelian r...@arachelian.com wrote: The damage exists in the oldest snapshot for that filesystem. Are you able to delete that snapshot? ___ zfs-discuss mailing list

Re: [zfs-discuss] Has anyone used a Dell with a PERC H310?

2013-01-08 Thread Ray Arachelian
On 01/07/2013 04:16 PM, Sašo Kiselkov wrote: PERC H200 are well behaved cards that are easy to reflash and work well (even in JBOD mode) on Illumos - they are essentially a LSI SAS 9211. If you can get them, they're one heck of a reliable beast, and cheap too! I've had trouble with one of

Re: [zfs-discuss] Heavy write IO for no apparent reason

2013-01-17 Thread Ray Arachelian
On 01/16/2013 10:25 PM, Peter Wood wrote: Today I started migrating file systems from some old Open Solaris servers to these Supermicro boxes and noticed the transfer to one of them was going 10x slower then to the other one (like 10GB/hour). What does dladm show-link show? I'm guessing one

Re: [zfs-discuss] RFE: Un-dedup for unique blocks

2013-01-23 Thread Ray Arachelian
On 01/22/2013 10:50 PM, Gary Mills wrote: On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 11:54:53PM +, Edward Ned Harvey (opensolarisisdeadlongliveopensolaris) wrote: Paging out unused portions of an executing process from real memory to the swap device is certainly beneficial. Swapping out complete processes