Re: [zfs-discuss] HELP! RPool problem

2013-02-16 Thread James C. McPherson
should be enough for him to make significant progress. James C. McPherson -- Oracle Systems / Solaris / Core http://www.jmcpdotcom.com/blog ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] HELP! RPool problem

2013-02-16 Thread James C. McPherson
On 17/02/13 08:48 AM, Sašo Kiselkov wrote: On 02/16/2013 10:47 PM, James C. McPherson wrote: ... Whether that message winds up being something you need to talk with a Oracle about is entirely different. He got a kernel panic on a completely legitimate operation (booting with one half

Re: [zfs-discuss] mpt_sas multipath problem?

2013-01-07 Thread James C. McPherson
that MPxIO isn't working. James C. McPherson -- Oracle Systems / Solaris / Core http://www.jmcpdotcom.com/blog ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

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

2012-10-19 Thread James C. McPherson
devid's in preference to physical paths. James C. McPherson -- Oracle Systems / Solaris / Core http://www.jmcpdotcom.com/blog ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

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

2012-10-19 Thread James C. McPherson
On 19/10/12 09:27 PM, Edward Ned Harvey (opensolarisisdeadlongliveopensolaris) wrote: From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of James C. McPherson As far as I'm aware, having an rpool on multipathed devices is fine. Even a year ago

Re: [zfs-discuss] Interesting question about L2ARC

2012-09-11 Thread James H
reads and I'm seeing 20-80% l2arc hits. These have been running for about a week and, given my understanding of how L2ARC fills, I'd suggest maybe leaving it to warm up longer (e.g. 1-2 weeks?) caveat: I'm a complete newbie to zfs so I could be completely wrong ;) Cheers, James

Re: [zfs-discuss] Interaction between ZFS intent log and mmap'd files

2012-07-03 Thread James Litchfield
inline On 07/02/12 15:00, Nico Williams wrote: On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 3:32 PM, Bob Friesenhahn bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us wrote: On Mon, 2 Jul 2012, Iwan Aucamp wrote: I'm interested in some more detail on how ZFS intent log behaves for updated done via a memory mapped file - i.e. will the

Re: [zfs-discuss] Interaction between ZFS intent log and mmap'd files

2012-07-03 Thread James Litchfield
Agreed - msync/munmap is the only guarantee. On 07/ 3/12 08:47 AM, Nico Williams wrote: On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 9:48 AM, James Litchfield jim.litchfi...@oracle.com wrote: On 07/02/12 15:00, Nico Williams wrote: You can't count on any writes to mmap(2)ed files hitting disk until you msync(2

Re: [zfs-discuss] Is there an actual newsgroup for zfs-discuss?

2012-06-11 Thread James C. McPherson
On 12/06/12 06:40 AM, David Combs wrote: Actual newsgroup for zfs-discuss? Actually, no. Where's the value in having a newsgroup as well as a mailing list? James C. McPherson -- Oracle http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog ___ zfs-discuss mailing list

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2012-05-01 Thread james cypcar
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Re: [zfs-discuss] SAS world-wide name

2012-03-01 Thread James C. McPherson
location information in format, and using the diskinfo too. Otherwise, if you're running S11, you could try using /usr/lib/fm/fmd/fmti - a tool which blinks LEDs at you and prompts for label confirmation. James C. McPherson -- Oracle http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog

Re: [zfs-discuss] HP JBOD D2700 - ok?

2012-01-31 Thread James C. McPherson
in order for those changes to be correctly propagated. You can (and should) read about this in the stmsboot(1m) manpage, and there's more information available in my blog post http://blogs.oracle.com/jmcp/entry/on_stmsboot_1m James C. McPherson -- Oracle http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog

Re: [zfs-discuss] HP JBOD D2700 - ok?

2012-01-31 Thread James C. McPherson
this cache by running strings over /etc/mpxio/devid_path.cache. This is all available for your perusal at http://src.opensolaris.org/source/xref/onnv/onnv-gate/usr/src/cmd/stmsboot/ cheers, James -- Oracle http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog ___ zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Any rhyme or reason to disk dev names?

2011-12-21 Thread James C. McPherson
and/or prtconf -v. hth, James C. McPherson -- Oracle http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] LSI 3GB HBA SAS Errors (and other misc)

2011-12-04 Thread James C. McPherson
that was supplied to the manufacturer by a third party. Personally, I'd start looking at the cables first - in my experience they seem to incur more physical stress through the connect/disconnect operations than HBAs. James C. McPherson -- Oracle http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog

Re: [zfs-discuss] tuning zfs_arc_min

2011-10-10 Thread James Litchfield
The value of zfs_arc_min specified in /etc/system must be over 64MB (0x400). Otherwise the setting is ignored. The value is in bytes not pages. Jim --- n 10/ 6/11 05:19 AM, Frank Van Damme wrote: Hello, quick and stupid question: I'm breaking my head over how to tunz zfs_arc_min on a

Re: [zfs-discuss] Importing old vdev

2011-10-10 Thread James Lee
On 10/07/2011 11:02 AM, James Lee wrote: Hello, I had a pool made from a single LUN, which I'll call c4t0d0 for the purposes of this email. We replaced it with another LUN, c4t1d0, to grow the pool size. Now c4t1d0 is hosed and I'd like to see about recovering whatever data we can from

[zfs-discuss] Importing old vdev

2011-10-07 Thread James Lee
guys don't really understand ZFS or else I would have made the pool redundant in the first place. Thanks, James [1] starlight ~ # zdb -l /dev/dsk/c4t0d0s0 LABEL 0 version=22 name='idmtestdb2

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

2011-08-05 Thread Stuart James Whitefish
Jim wrote: But I may be wrong, and anyway the single user shell in the u9 DVD also panics when I try to import tank so maybe that won't help. Ian wrote: Put your old drive in a USB enclosure and connect it to another system in order to read back the data. Given that update 9 can't import

[zfs-discuss] Kernel panic on zpool import. 200G of data inaccessible!

2011-08-05 Thread Stuart James Whitefish
I am opening a new thread since I found somebody else reported a similar failure in May and I didn't see a resolution hopefully this post will be easier to find for people with similar problems. Original thread was http://opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=140861 System: snv_151a 64 bit

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

2011-08-05 Thread Stuart James Whitefish
I'm opening a new thread since the original subject was not as helpful and I saw a similar problem mentioned in May of this year (2011) and others going back to 2009. New thread is found at http://opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=140899 -- This message posted from opensolaris.org

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

2011-08-03 Thread Stuart James Whitefish
Thanks for your comments so far. I'll try to put everything I know into this post now that I have signed up at the forums. Solaris 10, update 8 Intel, 500G ZFS root mirror rpool. I recently received two 320G drives and realized from reading this list it would have been better if I would have

[zfs-discuss] Pool error in a hex file name

2011-06-13 Thread James Sutherland
Anyone know what this means? After a scrub I apparently have an error in a file name that I don't understand: zpool status -v pumbaa1 pool: pumbaa1 state: ONLINE status: One or more devices has experienced an error resulting in data corruption. Applications may

Re: [zfs-discuss] Pool error in a hex file name

2011-06-13 Thread James Sutherland
A reboot and then another scrub fixed this. Reboot made no difference. So after the reboot I started another scrub and now the pool shows clean. So the sequence was like this: 1. zpool reported ioerrors after a scrub with an error on a file in a snapshot 2. destroyed the snapshot with the

Re: [zfs-discuss] dual protocal on one file system?

2011-03-14 Thread James C. McPherson
which tracks the inclusion in a Solaris 10 Update. I'd also like to know where you're getting your information from on this topic. James C. McPherson -- Oracle http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [zfs-discuss] dual protocal on one file system?

2011-03-14 Thread James C. McPherson
On 14/03/11 11:26 PM, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: From: James C. McPherson [mailto:j...@opensolaris.org] Sent: Monday, March 14, 2011 9:20 AM Just for clarity: The in-kernel CIFS service is indeed available in solaris 10. Are you really, really sure about that? Please point the RFE number which

Re: [zfs-discuss] Format returning bogus controller info

2011-02-28 Thread James C. McPherson
On 1/03/11 03:00 AM, Dave Pooser wrote: On 2/27/11 11:13 PM, James C. McPhersonj...@opensolaris.org wrote: /pci@0,0/pci8086,340c@5/pci1000,3020@0 and /pci@0,0/pci8086,340e@7/pci1000,3020@0 which are in different slots on your motherboard and connected to different PCI Express Root Ports

Re: [zfs-discuss] Format returning bogus controller info

2011-02-28 Thread James C. McPherson
employer. James C. McPherson -- Oracle http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Format returning bogus controller info

2011-02-27 Thread James C. McPherson
to see bay numbers with the fmtopo command - when you run it as root: # /usr/lib/fm/fmd/fmtopo -V If this doesn't work for you, then you'll have to resort to the tried and tested use of dd to /dev/null for each disk, and see which lights blink. James C. McPherson -- Oracle http

Re: [zfs-discuss] Format returning bogus controller info

2011-02-27 Thread James C. McPherson
and has different firmware to what you have in your 9211 card. The 9211 card is also 2nd generation SAS, not 1st generation like the 3081. Personally, having worked on the mpt_sas(7d) project, I'm disappointed that you believe the card and its driver are a failed bit. James C. McPherson -- Oracle

Re: [zfs-discuss] Format returning bogus controller info

2011-02-27 Thread James C. McPherson
are fairly closely tied to the PC architecture, that perhaps they do some bios calls to try to figure out correct order mappings. James C. McPherson -- Oracle http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http

Re: [zfs-discuss] Format returning bogus controller info

2011-02-27 Thread James C. McPherson
On 28/02/11 02:08 AM, Dave Pooser wrote: On 2/27/11 5:15 AM, James C. McPhersonj...@opensolaris.org wrote: On 27/02/11 05:24 PM, Dave Pooser wrote: On 2/26/11 7:43 PM, Bill Sommerfeldsommerf...@hamachi.org wrote: On your system, c12 is the mpxio virtual controller; any disk which

Re: [zfs-discuss] Format returning bogus controller info

2011-02-27 Thread James C. McPherson
On 28/02/11 12:46 PM, Dave Pooser wrote: On 2/27/11 4:07 PM, James C. McPhersonj...@opensolaris.org wrote: ... PHY iport@ 01 12 24 38 410 520 640 780 OK, bear with me for a moment because I'm feeling extra dense this evening. The PHY tells me which port

Re: [zfs-discuss] Format returning bogus controller info

2011-02-27 Thread James C. McPherson
On 28/02/11 02:51 PM, Dave Pooser wrote: On 2/27/11 10:06 PM, James C. McPhersonj...@opensolaris.org wrote: ... 2nd controller c16t5000CCA222DDD7BAd0 /pci@0,0/pci8086,340c@5/pci1000,3020@0/iport@2/disk@w5000cca222ddd7ba,0 3rd controller c14t5000CCA222DF8FBEd0 /pci@0,0/pci8086,340e@7

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS and spindle speed (7.2k / 10k / 15k)

2011-02-02 Thread James
Edward, Thanks for the reply. Good point on platter density. I'ld considered the benefit of lower fragmentation but not the possible increase in sequential iops due to density. I assume while a 2TB 7200rpm drive may have better sequential IOPS than a 500GB, it will not be double and

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS and spindle speed (7.2k / 10k / 15k)

2011-02-02 Thread James
Thanks Richard Edward for the additional contributions. I had assumed that maximum sequential transfer rates on datasheets (btw - those are the same for differing capacity seagate's) were based on large block sizes and a ZFS 4kB recordsize* would mean much lower IOPS. e.g. Seagate

Re: [zfs-discuss] multiple disk failure

2011-01-31 Thread James Van Artsdalen
He says he's using FreeBSD. ZFS recorded names like ada0 which always means a whole disk. In any case FreeBSD will search all block storage for the ZFS dev components if the cached name is wrong: if the attached disks are connected to the system at all FreeBSD will find them wherever they may

[zfs-discuss] ZFS and spindle speed (7.2k / 10k / 15k)

2011-01-31 Thread James
G'day All. I’m trying to select the appropriate disk spindle speed for a proposal and would welcome any experience and opinions (e.g. has anyone actively chosen 10k/15k drives for a new ZFS build and, if so, why?). This is for ZFS over NFS for VMWare storage ie. primarily random 4kB

Re: [zfs-discuss] Lower latency ZIL Option?: SSD behind Controller BB Write Cache

2011-01-27 Thread James
Chris Eff, Thanks for your expertise on this and other posts. Greatly appreciated. I've just been re-reading some of the great SSD-as-ZIL discussions. Chris, Cost: Our case is a bit non-representative as we have spare P410/512's that came with ESXi hosts (USB boot) so I've budgetted them at

[zfs-discuss] Lower latency ZIL Option?: SSD behind Controller BB Write Cache

2011-01-26 Thread James
. James * For NTFS 4kB clusters on VMWare / NFS, I believe 4kB zfs recordsize will provide best performance (avoid partial writes). Thoughts welcome on that too. ** Assumes 10k SAS can do max 900 sequential writes each striped across 12 mirrors and rounded down (900 based on TomsHardware hdd

[zfs-discuss] possible zfs recv bug?

2010-11-23 Thread James Van Artsdalen
I am seeing a zfs recv bug on FreeBSD and am wondering if someone could test this in the Solaris code. If it fails there then I guess a bug report into Solaris is needed. This is a perverse case of filesystem renaming between snapshots. kraken:/root# cat zt zpool create rec1 da3 zpool create

Re: [zfs-discuss] WarpDrive SLP-300

2010-11-17 Thread James C. McPherson
On 18/11/10 01:49 PM, Fred Liu wrote: http://www.lsi.com/channel/about_channel/whatsnew/warpdrive_slp300/index.html Good stuff for ZFS. Looks a bit like the Sun/Oracle Flash Accelerator card, only with a 2nd generation SAS controller - which would probably use the mpt_sas(7d) driver. James

Re: [zfs-discuss] WarpDrive SLP-300

2010-11-17 Thread James C. McPherson
On 18/11/10 03:05 PM, Fred Liu wrote: Yeah, no driver issue. BTW, any new storage-controller-related drivers introduced in snv151a? LSI seems the only one who works very closely with Oracle/Sun. You would have to have a look at what's in the repo, I'm not allowed to tell you :| James C

Re: [zfs-discuss] Online zpool expansion feature in Solaris 10 9/10

2010-11-07 Thread James Patterson
it to the zpool to create a mirror, then detach the old smaller device. Then run zpool online -e to actually expand the zpool. James. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http

[zfs-discuss] Online zpool expansion feature in Solaris 10 9/10

2010-10-13 Thread James Patterson
I’m testing the new online zpool expansion feature of Solaris 10 9/10. My zpool was created using the entire disk (ie. no slice number was used). When I resize my LUN on our SAN (an HP-EVA4400) the EFI label does not change. On the zpool, I have autoexpand=on, and I’ve tried using zpool

Re: [zfs-discuss] Supermicro AOC-USAS2-L8i

2010-10-12 Thread James C. McPherson
runs under OSOL build134 or solaris10? I can. This card should attach using the mpt_sas(7d) driver. This is *different* to the mpt(7d) driver. PSARC 2008/443 Driver for LSI MPT2.0 compliant SAS controller went into build 118. James C. McPherson -- Oracle http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZPool creation brings down the host

2010-10-08 Thread James C. McPherson
On 8/10/10 03:28 PM, Anand Bhakthavatsala wrote: ... -- *From:* James C. McPherson j...@opensolaris.org *To:* Ramesh Babu rama.b...@gmail.com On 7/10/10 03:46 PM, Ramesh Babu wrote: I am trying to create ZPool using

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZPool creation brings down the host

2010-10-07 Thread James C. McPherson
the kernel. Do you have the panic stack trace we can look at, and/or a crash dump? James C. McPherson -- Oracle http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs

Re: [zfs-discuss] Intermittent ZFS hang

2010-09-28 Thread James C. McPherson
which was fixed in snv_135. James C. McPherson -- Oracle http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] How to obtain vdev information for a zpool?

2010-08-11 Thread James C. McPherson
0 0 0 c5t50024E90037AF38Cd0s0 ONLINE 0 0 0 errors: No known data errors James C. McPherson -- Senior Software Engineer, Solaris Oracle http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] [install-discuss] Installing on alternate hardware

2010-08-03 Thread James C. McPherson
On 4/08/10 12:55 PM, Emily Grettel wrote: Wow! Thanks for the information James, after consulting with my manager we're going to install the text-install version. Better to stick with the supportable methods, imho :-) I'm going to try that as we're installing it on a new disk. Just curious

Re: [zfs-discuss] Fwd: zpool import despite missing log [PSARC/2010/292 Self Review]

2010-07-28 Thread James Dickens
+1 On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 6:11 PM, Robert Milkowski mi...@task.gda.pl wrote: fyi -- Robert Milkowski http://milek.blogspot.com Original Message Subject: zpool import despite missing log [PSARC/2010/292 Self Review] Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2010 08:38:22 -0600 From: Tim

Re: [zfs-discuss] corrupt pool?

2010-07-27 Thread James
I have been working on the same problem now for almost 48 straight hours. I have managed to recover some of my data using zpool import -f pool The command never completes, but you can do a zpool list and zpool status and you will see the pool. Then you do zfs list and the file systems

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS where to go!

2010-07-26 Thread James
I might be mistaken, but it looks like 3ware does have a driver, several in fact: http://www.3ware.com/support/downloadpageprod.asp?pcode=9path=Escalade9500SSeriesprodname=3ware%209500S%20Series Any comment on this? I'm thinking about picking up a server with this card, and it would be cool

Re: [zfs-discuss] zpool throughput: snv 134 vs 138 vs 143

2010-07-19 Thread James C. McPherson
, why crypto bits are you using, and what changeset is your own workspace synced with? James C. McPherson -- Oracle http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs

Re: [zfs-discuss] Legality and the future of zfs...

2010-07-19 Thread James Litchfield
a service contract. Doesn't take too long for that kind of math to blow out any savings whiteboxes may have had. Worst case, someone goes and buys Dell. :-) -- James Litchfield | Senior Consultant Phone: +1 4082237059 | Mobile: +1 4082180790 Oracle Oracle ACS California Oracle is

Re: [zfs-discuss] Legality and the future of zfs...

2010-07-09 Thread James Van Artsdalen
On Thu, 8 Jul 2010, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: Yep. Provided it supported ZFS, a Mac Mini makes for a compelling SOHO server. Warning: a Mac Mini does not have eSATA ports for external storage. It's dangerous to use USB for external storage since many (most? all?) USB-SATA chips discard SYNC

Re: [zfs-discuss] Expected throughput

2010-07-07 Thread James Van Artsdalen
Under FreeBSD I've seen zpool scrub sustain nearly 500 MB/s in pools with large files (a pool with eight MIRROR vdevs on two Silicon Image 3124 controllers). You need to carefully look for bottlenecks in the hardware. You don't indicate how the disks are attached. I would measure the total

Re: [zfs-discuss] Using a zvol from your rpool as zil for another zpool

2010-07-02 Thread James Dickens
On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 1:18 AM, Ray Van Dolson rvandol...@esri.com wrote: We have a server with a couple X-25E's and a bunch of larger SATA disks. To save space, we want to install Solaris 10 (our install is only about 1.4GB) to the X-25E's and use the remaining space on the SSD's for ZIL

Re: [zfs-discuss] NexentaStor 3.0.3 vs OpenSolaris - Patches more up to date?

2010-07-02 Thread James C. McPherson
, James -- Senior Software Engineer, Solaris Oracle http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

[zfs-discuss] Processes hang in /dev/zvol/dsk/poolname

2010-06-28 Thread James Dickens
4.00G - James Dickens http://uadmin.blogspot.com ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] One dataset per user?

2010-06-21 Thread James C. McPherson
On 21/06/10 10:38 PM, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: From: James C. McPherson [mailto:j...@opensolaris.org] On the build systems that I maintain inside the firewall, we mandate one filesystem per user, which is a very great boon for system administration. What's the reasoning behind

Re: [zfs-discuss] One dataset per user?

2010-06-21 Thread James C. McPherson
On 22/06/10 01:05 AM, Fredrich Maney wrote: On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 8:59 AM, James C. McPherson j...@opensolaris.org wrote: [...] So when I'm trying to figure out who I need to yell at because they're using more than our acceptable limit (30Gb), I have to run du -s /builds/[zyx

Re: [zfs-discuss] Please trim posts

2010-06-20 Thread James C. McPherson
RESPONDING to this thread? It's not about ZFS at all. James C. McPherson -- Senior Software Engineer, Solaris Oracle http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: [zfs-discuss] One dataset per user?

2010-06-20 Thread James C. McPherson
don't have to traverse whole directory trees (ala ufs). James C. McPherson -- Senior Software Engineer, Solaris Oracle http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: [zfs-discuss] Zfs disk device name

2010-06-17 Thread James C. McPherson
device. It really shouldn't be a problem for you. James C. McPherson -- Senior Software Engineer, Solaris Oracle http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs

Re: [zfs-discuss] Is it possible to disable MPxIO during OpenSolaris installation?

2010-06-02 Thread James C. McPherson
/dsk/c5t50014EE1007EE473d0s0(sd39) unavailable disk-pathn /devices/p...@ff,0/pci10de,3...@f/pci1000,3...@0:scsi::6,0 No need to use luxadm. James C. McPherson -- Senior Software Engineer, Solaris Oracle http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog ___ zfs

Re: [zfs-discuss] Is it possible to disable MPxIO during OpenSolaris installation?

2010-06-02 Thread James C. McPherson
/dsk/c5t50014EE1007EE473d0s0(sd39) unavailable disk-pathn /devices/p...@ff,0/pci10de,3...@f/pci1000,3...@0:scsi::6,0 No need to use luxadm. James C. McPherson -- Senior Software Engineer, Solaris Oracle http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog ___ zfs

Re: [zfs-discuss] Is it possible to disable MPxIO during OpenSolaris installation?

2010-06-01 Thread James C. McPherson
On 2/06/10 11:39 AM, Fred Liu wrote: Thanks. No. If you must disable MPxIO, then you do so after installation, using the stmsboot command. James C. McPherson -- Senior Software Engineer, Solaris Oracle http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog ___ zfs

Re: [zfs-discuss] Is it possible to disable MPxIO during OpenSolaris installation?

2010-06-01 Thread James C. McPherson
plain old targets, or that no disk devices of any sort show up in your host when you are installing? What is your actual problem, and why do you think that turning off MPxIO will solve it? James C. McPherson -- Senior Software Engineer, Solaris Oracle http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog

Re: [zfs-discuss] HDD Serial numbers for ZFS

2010-05-22 Thread James C. McPherson
...@tata_st3320620as_4qf01rze' And while I'm at it, let me recommend my presentation on devids and guids http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/~jmcp/WhatIsAGuid.pdf hth, James C. McPherson -- Senior Software Engineer, Solaris Oracle http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog

Re: [zfs-discuss] Opteron 6100? Does it work with opensolaris?

2010-05-12 Thread James C. McPherson
believe you are talking through your hat. James C. McPherson -- Senior Software Engineer, Solaris Oracle http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Opteron 6100? Does it work with opensolaris?

2010-05-12 Thread James C. McPherson
on a driver that I worked on (mpt_sas), and I'm still trying to find out from you and others what you think is a problem with it. James C. McPherson -- Senior Software Engineer, Solaris Oracle http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog ___ zfs-discuss mailing list

Re: [zfs-discuss] Opteron 6100? Does it work with opensolaris?

2010-05-11 Thread James C. McPherson
in progress in regards to being 'production ready'. What metric are you using for production ready ? Are there features missing which you expect to see in the driver, or is it just oh noes, I haven't seen enough big customers with it ? James C. McPherson -- Senior Software Engineer, Solaris Oracle http

Re: [zfs-discuss] Another MPT issue - kernel crash

2010-05-06 Thread James C. McPherson
it. James C. McPherson -- Senior Software Engineer, Solaris Oracle http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Another MPT issue - kernel crash

2010-05-05 Thread James C. McPherson
it. James C. McPherson -- Senior Software Engineer, Solaris Oracle http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Solaris 10 default caching segmap/vpm size

2010-04-28 Thread James C. McPherson
. Note that not all of those will be applicable for ZFS. You should read the ZFS Best Practices Guide http://www.solarisinternals.com/wiki/index.php/ZFS_Best_Practices_Guide and the ZFS Config Guide too http://www.solarisinternals.com/wiki/index.php/ZFS_Configuration_Guide James C. McPherson

Re: [zfs-discuss] SAS vs SATA: Same size, same speed, why SAS?

2010-04-26 Thread James C. McPherson
:-) I don't know of any other specific difference between Enterprise SATA and SAS drives. James C. McPherson -- Senior Software Engineer, Solaris Oracle http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http

Re: [zfs-discuss] Which build is the most stable, mainly for NAS (zfs)?

2010-04-15 Thread James C.McPherson
as a base for a NAS system? James C. McPherson -- Senior Software Engineer, Solaris Oracle http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Secure delete?

2010-04-13 Thread James Van Artsdalen
If you're concerned about someone reading the charge level of a Flash cell to infer the value of the cell before being erased, then overwrite with random data twice before issuing TRIM (remapping in an SSD probably makes this ineffective). Most people needing a secure erase feature need it to

Re: [zfs-discuss] How to Catch ZFS error with syslog ?

2010-04-13 Thread J James
Thanks for the clue. Still not successful, but some hope is there. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] How to Catch ZFS error with syslog ?

2010-04-13 Thread J James
that some of the error messages are generated only once. Joji James -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

[zfs-discuss] How to Catch ZFS error with syslog ?

2010-04-12 Thread J James
I have a simple mirror pool with 2 disks. I pulled out one disk to simulate a failed drive. zpool status shows that the pool is in DEGRADED state. I want syslog to log these type of ZFS errors. I have syslog running and logging all sorts of error to a log server. But this failed disk in ZFS

Re: [zfs-discuss] Secure delete?

2010-04-12 Thread James Van Artsdalen
My point is not to advocate the TRIM command - those issues are already well-known - but rather suggest that the code that sends TRIM is also a good place to securely erase data on other media, such a hard disk. TRIM is not a Windows 7 command but rather a device command. FreeBSD's CAM layer

Re: [zfs-discuss] Secure delete?

2010-04-11 Thread James Van Artsdalen
OpenSolaris needs support for the TRIM command for SSDs. This command is issued to an SSD to indicate that a block is no longer in use and the SSD may erase it in preparation for future writes. A SECURE_FREE dataset property might be added that says that when a block is released to free space

Re: [zfs-discuss] Diagnosing Permanent Errors

2010-04-06 Thread James C.McPherson
On 6/04/10 11:47 PM, Willard Korfhage wrote: Yes, I was hoping to find the serial numbers. Unfortunately, it doesn't show any serial numbers for the disk attached to the Areca raid card. You'll need to reboot and go into the card bios to get that information. James C. McPherson -- Senior

Re: [zfs-discuss] Adaptec AAC driver

2010-03-29 Thread James Lee
with an Adaptec 52445 Raid HBA, and the driver supplied by Opensolaris doesn't support JBOD drives. FYI, there is a bug report open for this issue: http://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6862536 Hopefully we'll see some action on it soon. James

Re: [zfs-discuss] Intel SASUC8I - worth every penny

2010-03-28 Thread James Van Artsdalen
* SII3132-based PCIe X1 SATA card (2 ports) This chip is slow. PCIe cards based on the Silicon Image 3124 are much faster, peaking around 1 GB/sec aggregate throughput. However, the 3124 is a PCI-X chip and hence is used behind an Intel PCI serial-to-parallel bridge for PCIe applications:

Re: [zfs-discuss] LSISAS2004 support

2010-03-23 Thread James C. McPherson
) driver name:mr_sas This should be using the mpt_sas driver, not the mr_sas driver. James C. McPherson -- Senior Software Engineer, Solaris Sun Microsystems http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Performance on SATA Deive

2010-03-18 Thread James C. McPherson
user0m0.458s sys 0m5.260s James C. McPherson -- Senior Software Engineer, Solaris Sun Microsystems http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Performance on SATA Deive

2010-03-18 Thread James C. McPherson
sata Memory 16 GB Processor Processor 1GH 6 core Solaris 10 8/07 s10s_u4wos_12b SPARC Since you are seeing this on a Solaris 10 update release, you should log a call with your support provider to get this investigated. James C. McPherson -- Senior Software Engineer, Solaris Sun Microsystems

Re: [zfs-discuss] Does OpenSolaris mpt driver support LSI 2008 controller

2010-03-07 Thread James C. McPherson
build snv_118. So you could either wait until 2010.$spring comes out, or start using the /dev repo instead. hth, James C. McPherson -- Senior Software Engineer, Solaris Sun Microsystems http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs

Re: [zfs-discuss] Does OpenSolaris mpt driver support LSI 2008 controller

2010-03-07 Thread James C. McPherson
On 8/03/10 01:42 AM, Tim Cook wrote: On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 3:12 AM, James C. McPherson j...@opensolaris.org mailto:j...@opensolaris.org wrote: On 7/03/10 12:28 PM, norm.tallant wrote: I'm about to try it! My LSI SAS 9211-8i should arrive Monday or Tuesday. I bought

Re: [zfs-discuss] Fishworks 2010Q1 and dedup bug?

2010-03-05 Thread James Dickens
) exceeds memory, your performance degrades exponentially probably before that. James Dickens http://uadmin.blogspot.com I.e., I am not using any snapshots and have also turned off automatic snapshots because I was bitten by system hangs while destroying datasets with living snapshots. I am

Re: [zfs-discuss] why L2ARC device is used to store files ?

2010-03-05 Thread James Dickens
please post the output of zpool status -v. Thanks James Dickens On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 3:46 AM, Abdullah Al-Dahlawi dahl...@ieee.orgwrote: Greeting All I have create a pool that consists oh a hard disk and a ssd as a cache zpool create hdd c11t0d0p3 zpool add hdd cache c8t0d0p0

Re: [zfs-discuss] swap across multiple pools

2010-03-03 Thread James C. McPherson
to be used or as extra swap ? Yes. This is what I do at home, and what we do on the onnv gate machines - we've got swap in rpool and a separate, dedicated, swap pool. Would this have any performance implications ? Negative performance implications? none that I know of. James C. McPherson -- Senior

Re: [zfs-discuss] future of OpenSolaris

2010-02-22 Thread James C. McPherson
for the official word to be announced - as will we all. James C. McPherson -- Senior Kernel Software Engineer, Solaris Sun Microsystems http://blogs.sun.com/jmcp http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Workaround for mpt timeouts in snv_127

2010-02-18 Thread James C. McPherson
=0xc Feb 17 04:47:57 thecratewall scsi: [ID 365881 kern.info] /p...@0,0/pci15ad,7...@15/pci1000,3...@0 (mpt_sas0): Feb 17 04:47:57 thecratewall Log info 0x31110630 received for target 33. Feb 17 04:47:57 thecratewall scsi_status=0x0, ioc_status=0x804b, scsi_state=0xc -- James C. McPherson -- Senior

Re: [zfs-discuss] Proposed idea for enhancement - damage control

2010-02-16 Thread James Dickens
the likely hood of getting hit by a bad batch taking out your pool. replace disks early as soon as you see disk errors. And above all backup all data you can't afford to loose. James Dickens http://uadmin.blogspot.com Remember. The goal is damage control. I know 2x raidz2 offers better

Re: [zfs-discuss] Plan for upgrading a ZFS based SAN

2010-02-15 Thread James Dickens
Yes send and receive will do the job. see zfs manpage for details. James Dickens http://uadmin.blogspot.com On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 11:56 AM, Tiernan OToole lsmart...@gmail.comwrote: Good morning all. I am in the process of building my V1 SAN for media storage in house, and i am already

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