[zfs-discuss] Solaris 8/07 Zfs Raidz NFS dies during iozone test on client host

2007-11-18 Thread Tim
that will be registered # and offered by the server. The default is 4. NFS_SERVER_VERSMAX=3 At this point I have no clue what the issue is On the NFS server I've successfully ran 'iozone' 2X. I've also ran scrub on this zpool. Please advise... Tim This message posted from opensolaris.org

Re: [zfs-discuss] raidz and compression, difficulties

2008-01-27 Thread Tim
Why not create a sample dataset and throw some large .txt files out there and see what happens? That way you'll know for certain if there's some bug you're hitting, or if it's just not applicable to your current dataset. On 1/27/08, Joachim Pihl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 26 Jan 2008

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS configuration for a thumper

2008-01-30 Thread Tim
++ http://www.sunfreeware.com/programlistintel10.html#bonnie++ --Tim ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] mounting a copy of a zfs pool /file system while orginal is still active

2008-01-31 Thread Tim
you to import as. So you could: zpool import --import-as yourpool.backup yourpool I definitely see why you'd want to do it. I haven't a clue if you can :) --Tim ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS+ config for 8 drives, mostly reads

2008-02-05 Thread Tim
On 2/5/08, Sam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I posted in the Solaris install forum as well about the fileserver I'm building for media files but wanted to ask more specific questions about zfs here. The setup is 8x500GB SATAII drives to start and down the road another 4x750 SATAII drives,

Re: [zfs-discuss] 3ware support

2008-02-12 Thread Tim
On 2/12/08, Johan Kooijman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Goodmorning all, can anyone confirm that 3ware raid controllers are indeed not working under Solaris/OpenSolaris? I can't seem to find it in the HCL. We're now using a 3Ware 9550SX as a S-ATA RAID controller. The original plan was to

Re: [zfs-discuss] 3ware support

2008-02-13 Thread Tim
On 2/13/08, Tom Buskey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are you using the Supermicro in Solaris or OpenSolaris? Which version? 64 bit or 32 bits? I'm asking because I recently went through a number of SCSI cards that are in the HCL as supported, but do not have 64 bit drivers. So they only work

Re: [zfs-discuss] Performance with Sun StorageTek 2540

2008-02-14 Thread Tim
of the LUNs? Perhaps I'm misunderstanding why you went from one giant raid-0 to what is essentially a raid-10. --Tim ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS vs. Novell NSS

2008-02-28 Thread Tim
On 2/28/08, Christine Tran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alan Perry wrote: Alan Perry wrote: I gave a talk on ZFS at a local user group meeting this evening. What I didn't know going in was that the meeting was hosted at a Novell consulting shop. I got asked a lot of what does

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS vs. Novell NSS

2008-02-28 Thread Tim
On 2/28/08, Alan Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tim wrote: Don't forget, ZFS is open source, and can be ported to any other number of platforms as well. It's also currently supported on FreeBSD 7.0, and is basically production ready on that platform. The open source is HUGE in my mind

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS vs. Novell NSS

2008-02-28 Thread Tim
On 2/28/08, Alan Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tim wrote: Don't forget, ZFS is open source, and can be ported to any other number of platforms as well. It's also currently supported on FreeBSD 7.0, and is basically production ready on that platform. The open source is HUGE in my

Re: [zfs-discuss] Newbie question removing disk

2008-03-03 Thread Tim
On 3/3/08, John R. Sconiers II [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, New user question. In ZFS (solaris 10) are we able to evacuate a disk if I later decide to remove it from a ZFS pool. I know the answer use to be no but I'm not sure if that has changed or will change. JOHN --

Re: [zfs-discuss] Newbie question removing disk

2008-03-03 Thread Tim
On 3/3/08, John R. Sconiers II [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, New user question. In ZFS (solaris 10) are we able to evacuate a disk if I later decide to remove it from a ZFS pool. I know the answer use to be no but I'm not sure if that has changed or will change. JOHN --

Re: [zfs-discuss] What is likely the best way to accomplish this task?

2008-03-04 Thread Tim
On 3/4/08, Brian Hechinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I realize I can't remove devices from a vdev, which, well, sucks and all, but I'm not going to complain about that. ;) I have 4x500G disks in a RAIDZ. I'd like to repurpose one of them as I'm finding that all that space isn't really needed

Re: [zfs-discuss] Round-robin NFS protocol with ZFS

2008-03-13 Thread Tim
mount it from two systems at the same time. That is, unless something big has changed recently... I haven't been doing a very good job of keeping up lately, but I think it'd be hard to miss an announcement like that! --Tim ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs

Re: [zfs-discuss] Cpying between pools

2008-03-14 Thread Tim
On 3/14/08, Vahid Moghaddasi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 11:26 PM, Tim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: replace your LUNs one at a time: zpool replace -f rd_01 c4t6006048187870150525244353543d0 first_lun_off_dmx-3 zpool replace -f rd_01

Re: [zfs-discuss] 7-disk raidz achieves 430 MB/s reads and 220 MB/s writes on a $1320 box

2008-03-17 Thread Tim
, and all hot swappable. http://www.supermicro.com/products/chassis/3U/933/SC933T-R760.cfm I paired one of those with a pair of the supermicro 8-port sata cards. Works like a charm. --Tim ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS on Sun X2100?

2008-03-19 Thread Tim
Assuming you don't need their standard enterprise support, your plan is to await the release of opensolaris snv_b87. This will include the zfs boot bits, so that you can use zfs as your root filesystem. --Tim ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS performance lower than expected

2008-03-20 Thread Tim
on iSCSI for working well with itself, and nothing else. Have you tested this with vxvm or UFS before blindly pointing the finger at zfs? It seems very unlikely ZFS is the source of your problem. --Tim ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS performance lower than expected

2008-03-20 Thread Tim
On 3/20/08, Kyle McDonald [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bart Smaalders wrote: On 4 commodity 500 GB SATA drives set up w/ RAID Z, my 2.6 Ghz dual core AMD box sustains 100+ MB/sec read or write it happily saturates a GB nic w/ multiple concurrent reads over Samba. This leads me to a

Re: [zfs-discuss] uncorrectable error during zfs send; what are the right next steps?

2008-03-22 Thread Tim
On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 11:33 PM, Matt Ingenthron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One more scrub later, and now the snapshot I was trying to send, @laptopmigration, is now showing errors but the errors on the old snapshots are gone, since I destroyed the snapshots. Is this expected behavior?

Re: [zfs-discuss] not able to create file greate than 2gb on zfs file system over NFS

2008-03-25 Thread Tim
What are you using to create the files? Is this x86/32bit solaris 9, or 64bit sparc? On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 11:13 AM, Sachin Palav [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Team, I have a file server running solaris 10 (X86), I have ZFS on the file server and the file systems are exported using NFS.

Re: [zfs-discuss] Best practices for ZFS plaiding

2008-03-25 Thread Tim
What you want to do should actually be pretty easy. On the thumper's, just do your normal raid-z/raid-z2, and export them to the solaris box. Then on the solaris box, you just create a zpool, and add the LUN's one at a time. No raid at all. The system should just stripe across all of the LUN's

Re: [zfs-discuss] Best practices for ZFS plaiding

2008-03-26 Thread Tim
would be across all the thumpers. Tim wrote: What you want to do should actually be pretty easy. On the thumper's, just do your normal raid-z/raid-z2, and export them to the solaris box. Then on the solaris box, you just create a zpool, and add the LUN's one at a time. No raid at all

Re: [zfs-discuss] Problem importing pool from BSD 7.0 into Nexenta

2008-03-30 Thread Tim
What's on the rest of the disk? On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 7:25 PM, Michael Armbrust [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I have a pool of four raidz-ed drives that I created in BSD that I would like to move to a box with a solaris kernel. However, when I run zpool import it displays the

Re: [zfs-discuss] Problem importing pool from BSD 7.0 into Nexenta

2008-03-31 Thread Tim
, 2008 at 11:11 PM, Michael Armbrust [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mar 30, 2008, at 7:42 PM, Tim wrote: What's on the rest of the disk? Nothing, when I created the pool I used the entire disk. On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 7:25 PM, Michael Armbrust [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I have

Re: [zfs-discuss] Simple monitoring of ZFS pools, email alerts?

2008-04-02 Thread Tim
On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 4:23 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Been goggling around on this to no avail... We're hoping to soon put into production an x4500 with a big ZFS pool, replacing a (piece of junk) NAS head which replaced our old trusty NetApp. In each of those older boxes, we configured

Re: [zfs-discuss] OpenSolaris ZFS NAS Setup

2008-04-04 Thread Tim
On Sat, Apr 5, 2008 at 12:25 AM, Jonathan Loran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This guy seems to have had lots of fun with iSCSI :) http://web.ivy.net/~carton/oneNightOfWork/20061119-carton.htmlhttp://web.ivy.net/%7Ecarton/oneNightOfWork/20061119-carton.html This is scaring the heck out of

Re: [zfs-discuss] OpenSolaris ZFS NAS Setup

2008-04-07 Thread Tim
On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 10:40 AM, Christine Tran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Crazy question here... but has anyone tried this with say, a QLogic hardware iSCSI card? Seems like it would solve all your issues. Granted, they aren't free like the software stack, but if you're trying to setup an

Re: [zfs-discuss] LZO compression?

2008-04-12 Thread Tim
On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 4:58 PM, Bob Friesenhahn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 12 Apr 2008, roland wrote: i'm really wondering that interest in alternative compression schemes is that low, especially due to the fact that lzo seems to compress better and be faster than lzjb. LZO

Re: [zfs-discuss] 24-port SATA controller options?

2008-04-14 Thread Tim
On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 11:34 PM, Will Murnane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 1:25 AM, Bob Friesenhahn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For obvious reasons (redundancy and throughput), it makes more sense to purchase two 12 port cards. I see that there is an option to

Re: [zfs-discuss] 24-port SATA controller options?

2008-04-15 Thread Tim
On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 10:09 AM, Maurice Volaski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have 16 disks in RAID 5 and I'm not worried. I'm sure you're already aware, but if not, 22 drives in a raid-6 is absolutely SUICIDE when using SATA disks. 12 disks is the upper end of what you want even with

Re: [zfs-discuss] 24-port SATA controller options?

2008-04-15 Thread Tim
On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 12:03 PM, Keith Bierman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Apr 15, 2008, at 10:58 AM, Tim wrote: On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 10:09 AM, Maurice Volaski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have 16 disks in RAID 5 and I'm not worried. I'm sure you're already aware, but if not, 22

Re: [zfs-discuss] Cifs and Solaris

2008-04-18 Thread Tim
On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 9:12 AM, Zlotnick Fred [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The in-kernel CIFS stack is not in Solaris 10 Update 5, and will never appear in any Solaris 10 update, because the kernel changes required are too invasive. You need OpenSolaris. -- Fred Fred, Correct me if I'm

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Project Hardware

2008-05-23 Thread Tim
On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 2:36 PM, Brian Hechinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 12:25:34PM -0700, Erik Trimble wrote: I'm running a 3124 with snv81 and haven't had a single problem with it. Whatever problems you ran into have likely been resolved. The Silicon Image

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Project Hardware

2008-05-23 Thread Tim
On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 3:15 PM, Brandon High [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 12:43 PM, Tim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm looking on their site and don't even see any data on the 3134... this *something new* that hasn't been released or? The only thing I see is 3132

Re: [zfs-discuss] Indiana vs Nevada (for ZFS file server)

2008-05-23 Thread Tim
. Personally I chose option 3 and loaded nexenta. You get regular updates, but it still *stable* (or has been for me to date). --Tim On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 2:43 PM, Christopher Gibbs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Pretty much what the subject says. I'm wondering which platform will have the best

Re: [zfs-discuss] Indiana vs Nevada (for ZFS file server)

2008-05-23 Thread Tim
Yup. They were the first to do so (as far as I know). --Tim On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 4:47 PM, Christopher Gibbs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One other thing I noticed is that OpenSolaris (.com) will automatically install ZFS root for you. Will Nexenta do that? On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 4:31 PM

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS: A general question

2008-05-24 Thread Tim
of disks is). The gui is a web interface. Just point your browser at https://localhost:6789 --Tim ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs hangs after disk failure

2008-05-28 Thread Tim
http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss Is there a way to tell zfs to manually fail it vs. physically removing the drive? Having access to physically remove a disk isn't always possible :) --Tim ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Project Hardware

2008-05-30 Thread Tim
USED hardware is your friend :) He wasn't quoting new prices. On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 8:54 PM, Brandon High [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 5:59 PM, Erik Trimble [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One thought on this:for a small server, which is unlikely to ever be CPU

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Hardware Check, OS X Compatibility, NEWBIE!!

2008-06-02 Thread Tim
On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 8:25 AM, Darryl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is my first post here, and i hope it is ok that i posted in this thread. I have been doing a bit of reading on the solaris platforms, and seem to be inclined to try out the open solaris os or solaris 10. My only worry is

Re: [zfs-discuss] Get your SXCE on ZFS here!

2008-06-04 Thread Tim
On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 5:01 PM, Kyle McDonald [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: andrew wrote: With the release of the Nevada build 90 binaries, it is now possible to install SXCE directly onto a ZFS root filesystem, and also put ZFS swap onto a ZFS filesystem without worrying about having it

Re: [zfs-discuss] SATA controller suggestion

2008-06-05 Thread Tim
-MV8 http://www.supermicro.com/products/accessories/addon/AOC-SAT2-MV8.cfm It's the same chipset that's in the thumper, and it pretty cheap for an 8-port card. --Tim ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org

Re: [zfs-discuss] SATA controller suggestion

2008-06-05 Thread Tim
On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 11:12 PM, Joe Little [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 8:16 PM, Tim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 9:17 PM, Peeyush Singh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey guys, please excuse me in advance if I say or ask anything stupid :) Anyway

Re: [zfs-discuss] Filesystem for each home dir - 10,000 users?

2008-06-07 Thread Tim
For the cifs side of the house, I think it would be in Sun's best interest to work with a third party vendor like NTP software. The quota functionality they provide is far more robust than anything I expect we'll ever see come directly with zfs. And rightly so... it's what they specialize in.

Re: [zfs-discuss] SATA controller suggestion

2008-06-09 Thread Tim
On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 7:16 AM, Tom Buskey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 16:23, Tom Buskey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have an AMD 939 MB w/ Nvidea on the motherboard and 4 500GB SATA II drives in a RAIDZ. ... I get 550 MB/s I doubt this number a lot. That's

Re: [zfs-discuss] SATA controller suggestion

2008-06-11 Thread Tim
On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 10:18 AM, Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If your worried about the bandwidth limitations of putting something like the supermicro card in a pci slot how about using an active riser card to convert from PCI-E to PCI-X. One of these, or something similar:

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS root boot failure?

2008-06-11 Thread Tim
Sounds correct to me. The disk isn't sync'd so boot should fail. If you pull disk0 or set disk1 as the primary boot device what does it do? You can't expect it to resliver before booting. On 6/11/08, Vincent Fox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So I decided to test out failure modes of ZFS root

Re: [zfs-discuss] SXCE build 90 vs S10U6?

2008-06-12 Thread Tim
I guess I find the difference between b90 and opensolaris trivial given we're supposed to be getting constant updates following the sxce builds. On 6/12/08, Mike Gerdts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 9:22 PM, Tim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: They aren't even close to each other

Re: [zfs-discuss] SXCE build 90 vs S10U6?

2008-06-12 Thread Tim
. I love the platform, but its nowhere near the league of a filer, or universe of a usp/sym. On 6/12/08, Mike Gerdts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 10:12 PM, Tim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I guess I find the difference between b90 and opensolaris trivial given we're supposed

Re: [zfs-discuss] CIFS mkdir permission problems

2008-06-14 Thread Tim
Samba is (at least in sxce) installed by default. On 6/14/08, matt estela [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been testing opensolaris 2008.05 as a replacement for our main fileserver. After following the CIFS walthrough on the genunix wiki, its working great with our render farm. Running into a

Re: [zfs-discuss] RFE 4852783

2008-06-16 Thread Tim
Why would you have to buy smaller disks? You can replace the 320's with 1tb drives and after the last 320 is out of the raidgroup, it will grow automatically. On 6/16/08, Miles Nordin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is RFE 4852783 (need for an equivalent to LVM2's pvmove) likely to happen within

Re: [zfs-discuss] memory hog

2008-06-16 Thread Tim
Remind me again what a veritas license is. If you can't find ram for less than that you need to find a new var/disti On 6/16/08, Chris Siebenmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | I guess I find it ridiculous you're complaining about ram when I can | purchase 4gb for under 50 dollars on a

Re: [zfs-discuss] memory hog

2008-06-17 Thread Tim
On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 5:33 AM, Darren J Moffat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tim wrote: I guess I find it ridiculous you're complaining about ram when I can purchase 4gb for under 50 dollars on a desktop. For many people around the world US$50 is a very significant amount of money

Re: [zfs-discuss] memory hog

2008-06-17 Thread Tim
On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 8:42 AM, Volker A. Brandt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a quite old machine with an AMD Athlon 900MHz with 640Mb of RAM serving up NFS, WebDAV locally to my house and running my webserver (Apache) in a Zone. For me performance is perfectly acceptable, but this

Re: [zfs-discuss] CIFS HA service with solaris 10 and SC 3.2

2008-06-22 Thread Tim
Samba cifs has been in opensolaris from day1. No, it cannot be used to meet sun's end goal which is cifs INTEGRATION with the core kernel. Sun cifs supports windows acl's from the kernel up. Samba does not. On 6/22/08, Marcelo Leal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all, i would like to

Re: [zfs-discuss] raid card vs zfs

2008-06-22 Thread Tim
It is indeed true and yoi can. On 6/22/08, kevin williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: digg linked to an article related to the apple port of ZFS (http://www.dell.com/content/products/productdetails.aspx/print_1125?c=uscs=19l=ens=dhss). I dont have a mac but was interested in ZFS. The article

Re: [zfs-discuss] memory hog

2008-06-23 Thread Tim
On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 11:18 AM, Edward [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes you are all correct. Ram cost nothing today, even though it might be bouncing back to their normal margin. DDR2 Ram are relatively cheap. Not to mention DDR3 will bring us double or more memory capacity. Not likely. Their

Re: [zfs-discuss] memory hog

2008-06-23 Thread Tim
On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 1:26 PM, Charles Soto [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 6/23/08 11:59 AM, Tim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 11:18 AM, Edward [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But the sad thing is Windows XP / Vista is still 32Bit. It doesn't recognize more then 3.x GB

Re: [zfs-discuss] raid card vs zfs

2008-06-25 Thread Tim
On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 10:44 AM, Bob Friesenhahn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I see that the configuration tested in this X4500 writeup only uses the four built-in gigabit ethernet interfaces. This places a natural limit on the amount of data which can stream from the system. For local host

Re: [zfs-discuss] raid card vs zfs

2008-06-25 Thread Tim
On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 1:19 PM, Bob Friesenhahn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 25 Jun 2008, Tim wrote: Uhhh... 64bit/133mhz is 17Gbit/sec. I *HIGHLY* doubt that bus will be a limit. Without some serious offloading, you aren't pushing that amount of bandwidth out the card. Most

Re: [zfs-discuss] raid card vs zfs

2008-06-25 Thread Tim
On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 3:13 PM, Lida Horn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tim wrote: On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 10:44 AM, Bob Friesenhahn [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I see that the configuration tested in this X4500 writeup only uses the four built-in gigabit

Re: [zfs-discuss] Problem with AOC-SAT2-MV8

2008-06-27 Thread Tim
On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 2:47 PM, Christophe Dupre [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, based on comments on this list, I bought a new server with 8 SATA bays and an AOC-SAT2-MV8 SATA controller. I them fired up a jumpstart of Solaris 10 5/08 of the server. Install runs through perfectly, with a

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS configuration for VMware

2008-06-27 Thread Tim
On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 11:50 AM, Albert Chin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 08:13:14AM -0700, Ross wrote: Bleh, just found out the i-RAM is 5v PCI only. Won't work on PCI-X slots which puts that out of the question for the motherboad I'm using. Vmetro have a 2GB PCI-E

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS configuration for VMware

2008-06-28 Thread Tim
On Sat, Jun 28, 2008 at 1:42 AM, Erik Trimble [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Brian Hechinger wrote: On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 03:02:43PM -0700, Erik Trimble wrote: Unfortunately, we need to be careful here with our terminology. You are completely and 100% correct, Erik. I've been throwing

Re: [zfs-discuss] Problem with AOC-SAT2-MV8

2008-06-29 Thread Tim
BIOS revs? Any other pci cards in the system? On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 5:16 PM, Christophe Dupre [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tim, the system is a Silicon Mechanics A266; the motherboard is a SuperMicro H8DM8E-2 I tried pluging the Marvell card in both 133MHz PCI-X slots. In one I get

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs mount failed at boot stops network services.

2008-06-29 Thread Tim
On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 8:30 PM, Matthew Gardiner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think Kyle might be onto something here. With ZFS it is so easy to create file systems, one could expect many people to do so. In the past, it was so difficult and required planning, so people tended to be more

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs mount failed at boot stops network services.

2008-06-29 Thread Tim
On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 8:34 PM, Matthew Gardiner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2008/6/30 Tim [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 8:30 PM, Matthew Gardiner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think Kyle might be onto something here. With ZFS it is so easy to create file systems, one could

Re: [zfs-discuss] Problem with AOC-SAT2-MV8

2008-07-01 Thread Tim
So what version is on you new card? Seems itd be far easier to request from supermicro if we knew what to ask for. On 7/1/08, Marc Bevand [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I remember a similar pb with an AOC-SAT2-MV8 controller in a system of mine: Solaris rebooted each time the marvell88sx driver

Re: [zfs-discuss] J4200/J4400 Array

2008-07-02 Thread Tim
So when are they going to release msrp? On 7/2/08, Mertol Ozyoney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Availibilty may depend on where you are located but J4200 and J4400 are available for most regions. Those equipment is engineered to go well with Sun open storage components like ZFS. Besides price

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS problem mirror

2008-07-08 Thread Tim
://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss Might want to provide some basics: What build of Opensolaris are you running? What version of ZFS? --Tim ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs-discuss Digest, Vol 33, Issue 19

2008-07-09 Thread Tim
Do we have drivers available for ANY OS for these cards currently? It'd be nice to at least be able to test if they function properly. --Tim ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs

[zfs-discuss] X4540

2008-07-09 Thread Tim
-to-network bandwidth. http://www.sun.com/servers/x64/x4540/ --Tim ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] previously mentioned J4000 released

2008-07-09 Thread Tim
zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss So are these *tagged* drives/firmware? Do we have to buy them direct from Sun or can we throw anything we want at it? Does it come pre-loaded with real drive trays instead of useless blanks? --Tim

Re: [zfs-discuss] X4540

2008-07-09 Thread Tim
On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 3:09 PM, Eric Schrock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The X4540 uses on-board LSI SAS controllers (C1068E). - Eric On Wed, Jul 09, 2008 at 02:59:26PM -0500, Tim wrote: So, I see Sun finally updated the Thumper, and it appears they're now using a PCI-E backplane. Anyone

Re: [zfs-discuss] previously mentioned J4000 released

2008-07-09 Thread Tim
, or those worthless blanks that won't hold a drive? --Tim ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] X4540

2008-07-09 Thread Tim
was misquoted, or someone was confused :) http://www.byteandswitch.com/document.asp?doc_id=158533WT.svl=news1_1 --Tim On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 3:44 PM, Richard Elling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, thanks for catching this. I'm sure it is just a copy-n-paste mistake. I've alerted product

Re: [zfs-discuss] Supermicro AOC-USAS-L8i

2008-07-09 Thread Tim
Dunno how old it is, but James is right, no Raid which is why it's cheaper. Also why I like it ;) On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 7:34 PM, Brandon High [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 1:12 PM, Tim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Perfect. Which means good ol' supermicro would come through

Re: [zfs-discuss] X4540

2008-07-10 Thread Tim
the thumpers. --Tim ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] X4540

2008-07-11 Thread Tim
, but they're a reality. --Joe Why not? There's several in the market today whom I suspect have done just that :D I won't name names, but for anyone in the industry I doubt I have to. --Tim ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http

Re: [zfs-discuss] Supermicro AOC-USAS-L8i

2008-07-12 Thread Tim
Bryan, Where did you find the sas to sata cables? I've been looking but haven't found anything at the usual watering holes. I assume you grabbed mini-sas to 4 sata? Thanks! --tim On 7/12/08, Bryan Wagoner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here's to hoping it works, I just pulled the trigger

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

2008-07-18 Thread Tim
? Does it work with the new(er) SNV builds? --Tim ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

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] The best motherboard for a home ZFS fileserver

2008-07-23 Thread Tim
On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 2:37 PM, Steve [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm a fan of ZFS since I've read about it last year. Now I'm on the way to build a home fileserver and I'm thinking to go with Opensolaris and eventually ZFS!! Apart from the other components, the main problem is to choose the

Re: [zfs-discuss] Supermicro AOC-USAS-L8i

2008-08-04 Thread Tim
On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 8:02 AM, Ross [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Did anybody ever get this card working? SuperMicro only have Windows and Linux drivers listed on their site. Do Sun's generic drivers work with this card? Still waiting to buy a set. I've already got the supermicro marvell

Re: [zfs-discuss] Supermicro AOC-USAS-L8i

2008-08-04 Thread Tim
Thanks for the link. I'll consider those, but it still means a new CPU, and it appears it does not support any of the opteron line-up. On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 3:58 PM, Brandon High [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 6:49 AM, Tim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: really had

Re: [zfs-discuss] FW: Supermicro AOC-SAT2-MV8 hang when drive removed

2008-08-14 Thread Tim
chips. Food for thought. --Tim On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 5:24 AM, Ross [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is the problem when you try to write up a good summary of what you found. I've got pages and pages of notes of all the tests I did here, far more than I could include in that PDF. What

Re: [zfs-discuss] FW: Supermicro AOC-SAT2-MV8 hang when drive removed

2008-08-15 Thread Tim
You could always try FreeBSD :) --Tim On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 9:44 AM, Ross [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Haven't a clue, but I've just gotten around to installing windows on this box to test and I can confirm that hot plug works just fine in windows. Drives appear and dissappear in device

Re: [zfs-discuss] shrinking a zpool - roadmap

2008-08-18 Thread Tim
. --Tim On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 6:06 AM, Bernhard Holzer [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: Hi, I am searching for a roadmap for shrinking a pool. Is there some project, where can I find informations, when will it be implemented in Solars10 Thanks Regards Bernhard -- Bernhard Holzer Sun

Re: [zfs-discuss] FW: Supermicro AOC-SAT2-MV8 hang when drive removed

2008-08-20 Thread Tim
I don't think its just b94, I recall this behavior for as long as I've had the card. I'd also be interested to know if the sun driver team has ever even tested with this card. I realize its probably not a top priority, but it sure would be nice to have it working properly. On 8/20/08, Ross

Re: [zfs-discuss] Best layout for 15 disks?

2008-08-22 Thread Tim
14+2 or 7+1 On 8/22/08, Miles Nordin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: m == mike [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: m can you combine two zpools together? no. You can have many vdevs in one pool. for example you can have a mirror vdev and a raidz2 vdev in the same pool. You can also destroy pool

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS hangs/freezes after disk failure, resumes when disk is replaced

2008-08-23 Thread Tim
On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 11:06 PM, Todd H. Poole [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: Howdy yall, Earlier this month I downloaded and installed the latest copy of OpenSolaris (2008.05) so that I could test out some of the newer features I've heard so much about, primarily ZFS. My goal was to replace our

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS hangs/freezes after disk failure,

2008-08-23 Thread Tim
isn't working as it should be. --Tim ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS hangs/freezes after disk failure,

2008-08-24 Thread Tim
I'm pretty sure pci-ide doesn't support hot-swap. I believe you need ahci. On 8/24/08, Todd H. Poole [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ah, yes - all four hard drives are connected to the motherboard's onboard SATA II ports. There is one additional drive I have neglected to mention thus far (the

Re: [zfs-discuss] pulling disks was: ZFS hangs/freezes after disk failure,

2008-08-27 Thread Tim
By the way: Is there a way to pull up a text-only interface from the log in screen (or during the boot process?) without having to log in (or just sit there reading about SunOS Release 5.11 Version snv_86 64-bit)? It would be nice if I could see a bit more information during boot, or if I

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS hangs/freezes after disk failure,

2008-08-27 Thread Tim
information back to the list. --Tim ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Pools 1+TB

2008-08-27 Thread Tim
On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 1:08 PM, Kenny [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anyone had issues with creating ZFS pools greater than 1 terabyte (TB)? I've created 11 LUNs from a Sun 2540 Disk array (approx 1 TB each). The host system ( SUN Enterprise 5220) reconizes the disks as each having 931GB

Re: [zfs-discuss] Can a iSCS-targetI and CIFIS-share co-exist?

2008-08-27 Thread Tim
out an iSCSI LUN to *insert destination*. Then share out the LUN from the host it's presented to via cifs/nfs/whatever. You can't magically make an iSCSI LUN out of the cifs data currently sitting on the share on the Solaris host. Doesn't work that way. --Tim

Re: [zfs-discuss] pulling disks was: ZFS hangs/freezes after disk failure,

2008-08-27 Thread Tim
this. This is one of the many annoyances I have with linux. The way they handle /dev is ridiculous. Did you add a new drive? Let's renumber everything! --Tim ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs

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