Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS ok for single disk dev box?

2012-08-30 Thread Anonymous Remailer (austria)
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Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS ok for single disk dev box?

2012-08-30 Thread Anonymous Remailer (austria)
Hi Darren, > On 08/30/12 11:07, Anonymous wrote: > > Hi. I have a spare off the shelf consumer PC and was thinking about loading > > Solaris on it for a development box since I use Studio @work and like it > > better than gcc. I was thinking maybe it isn't so smart to use ZFS since it > > has onl

Re: [zfs-discuss] what have you been buying for slog and l2arc?

2012-08-07 Thread Anonymous Remailer (austria)
> It depends on the model. Consumer models are less likely to > immediately flush. My understanding that this is done in part to do > some write coalescing and reduce the number of P/E cycles. Enterprise > models should either flush, or contain a super capacitor that provides > enough power for th

Re: [zfs-discuss] Question on 4k sectors

2012-07-23 Thread Anonymous Remailer (austria)
You wrote: > 2012-07-23 18:37, Anonymous wrote: > > Really, it would be so helpful to know which drives we can buy with > > confidence and which should be avoided...is there any way to know from the > > manufacturers web sites or do you have to actually buy one and see what it > > does? Thanks to

Re: [zfs-discuss] What is your data error rate?

2012-01-25 Thread Anonymous Remailer (austria)
I've been watching the heat control issue carefully since I had to take a job offshore (cough reverse H1B cough) in a place without adequate AC and I was able to get them to ship my servers and some other gear. Then I read Intel is guaranteeing their servers will work up to 100 degrees F ambient t

Re: [zfs-discuss] Failing WD desktop drive in mirror, how to identify?

2012-01-17 Thread Anonymous Remailer (austria)
Richard Elling said > If the errors bubble up to ZFS, then they will be shown in the output of > "zpool status" On the console I was seeing retryable read errors that eventually failed. The block number and drive path were included but not any info I could relate to the actual disk. zpool statu

Re: [zfs-discuss] Failing WD desktop drive in mirror, how to identify?

2012-01-17 Thread Anonymous Remailer (austria)
Hello all, Trying to reply to everyone so far in one post. casper@oracle.com said > Did you try: > > iostat -En I issued that command and I see (soft) errors from all 4 drives. There is a serial no. field in the message headers but it is has no contents. > > messages in /var/adm/mes

[zfs-discuss] Failing WD desktop drive in mirror, how to identify?

2012-01-17 Thread Anonymous Remailer (austria)
I have a desktop system with 2 ZFS mirrors. One drive in one mirror is starting to produce read errors and slowing things down dramatically. I detached it and the system is running fine. I can't tell which drive it is though! The error message and format command let me know which pair the bad driv

Re: [zfs-discuss] Can I create a mirror for a root rpool?

2011-12-16 Thread Anonymous Remailer (austria)
Thank you all for your answers and links :-) ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

[zfs-discuss] Can I create a mirror for a root rpool?

2011-12-15 Thread Anonymous Remailer (austria)
On Solaris 10 If I install using ZFS root on only one drive is there a way to add another drive as a mirror later? Sorry if this was discussed already. I searched the archives and couldn't find the answer. Thank you. ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-disc

Re: [zfs-discuss] Wrong rpool used after reinstall!

2011-08-03 Thread Anonymous Remailer (austria)
You wrote: > > > > Hi Roy, things got alot worse since my first email. I don't know what > > happened but I can't import the old pool at all. It shows no errors but when > > I import it I get a kernel panic from assertion failed: zvol_get_stats(os, > > nv) which looks like is fixed by patch 68019

Re: [zfs-discuss] Wrong rpool used after reinstall!

2011-08-02 Thread Anonymous Remailer (austria)
Hi Roy, things got alot worse since my first email. I don't know what happened but I can't import the old pool at all. It shows no errors but when I import it I get a kernel panic from assertion failed: zvol_get_stats(os, nv) which looks like is fixed by patch 6801926 which is applied in Solaris 1

[zfs-discuss] Wrong rpool used after reinstall!

2011-08-02 Thread Anonymous Remailer (austria)
I am having a problem after a new install of Solaris 10. The installed rpool works fine when I have only those disks connected. When I connect disks from an rpool I created during a previous installation, my newly installed rpool is ignored even though the BIOS (x86) is set to boot only from the n

Re: [zfs-discuss] Server with 4 drives, how to configure ZFS?

2011-06-23 Thread Anonymous Remailer (austria)
> Hi Dave, Hi Cindy. > Consider the easiest configuration first and it will probably save > you time and money in the long run, like this: > > 73g x 73g mirror (one large s0 on each disk) - rpool > 73g x 73g mirror (use whole disks) - data pool > > Then, get yourself two replacement disks, a g

Re: [zfs-discuss] Any use for extra drives?

2011-03-28 Thread Anonymous Remailer (austria)
> Right, put some small (30GB or something trivial) disks in for root and > then make a nice fast multi-spindle pool for your data. If your 320s > are around the same performance as your 500s, you could stripe and > mirror them all into a big pool. ZFS will waste the extra 180 on the > bigge

Re: [zfs-discuss] Any use for extra drives?

2011-03-28 Thread Anonymous Remailer (austria)
> If you plan to generate a lot of data, why use the root pool? You can put > the /home and /proj filesystems (/export/...) on a separate pool, thus > off-loading the root pool. I don't, it's a development box with not alot happening. > > My two cents, thanks __