[zfs-discuss] cannot destroy, volume is busy

2013-02-21 Thread John D Groenveld
device and that iSCSI is disabled. On Solaris 11.1, how would I determine what's busying it? John groenv...@acm.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] cannot destroy, volume is busy

2013-02-21 Thread John D Groenveld
-lu -v Bingo! Deleted the LU and destroyed the volume. John groenv...@acm.org ___ 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 John D Groenveld
installation media, import the mirror drive. If it imports, you will be able to installgrub(1M). By the way, whatever the error message is when booting, it disapears so quickly I can't read it, so I am only guessing that this is the reason. Boot with kernel debugger so you can see the panic. John groenv

[zfs-discuss] pool metadata has duplicate children

2013-01-08 Thread John Giannandrea
I seem to have managed to end up with a pool that is confused abut its children disks. The pool is faulted with corrupt metadata: pool: d state: FAULTED status: The pool metadata is corrupted and the pool cannot be opened. action: Destroy and re-create the pool from a backup source.

Re: [zfs-discuss] pool metadata has duplicate children

2013-01-08 Thread John Giannandrea
Gregg Wonderly gregg...@gmail.com wrote: Have you tried importing the pool with that drive completely unplugged? Thanks for your reply. I just tried that. zpool import now says: pool: d id: 13178956075737687211 state: FAULTED status: The pool metadata is corrupted. action: The

Re: [zfs-discuss] The format command crashes on 3TB disk but zpool create ok

2012-12-13 Thread John D Groenveld
# pstack core John groenv...@acm.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

[zfs-discuss] dm-crypt + ZFS on Linux

2012-11-23 Thread John Baxter
After searching for dm-crypt and ZFS on Linux and finding too little information, I shall ask here. Please keep in mind this in the context of running this in a production environment. We have the need to encypt our data, approximately 30TB on three ZFS volumes under Solaris 10. The volumes

Re: [zfs-discuss] dm-crypt + ZFS on Linux

2012-11-23 Thread John Baxter
Replacing the SANs is cost prohibitive. On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 10:24 AM, Tim Cook t...@cook.ms wrote: On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 9:49 AM, John Baxter johnleebax...@gmail.comwrote: We have the need to encypt our data, approximately 30TB on three ZFS volumes under Solaris 10. The volumes

[zfs-discuss] horrible slow pool

2012-10-11 Thread Carsten John
Hello everybody, I just wanted to share my experience with a (partially) broken SSD that was in use in a ZIL mirror. We experienced a dramatic performance problem with one of our zpools, serving home directories. Mainly NFS clients were affected. Our SunRay infrastructure came to a complete

[zfs-discuss] Sol11 time-slider / snapshot not starting [again]

2012-09-11 Thread Carsten John
Hello everybody, my time-slider service on a Sol11 machine died. I already deinstalled/installed the time-slider packeage, restarted manifest-import service etc., but no success. /var/svc/log/application-time-slider:default.log: --snip-- [ Sep 11 12:40:04 Enabled. ] [ Sep 11 12:40:04

Re: [zfs-discuss] Sol11 time-slider / snapshot not starting [SOLVED]

2012-09-11 Thread Carsten John
-Original message- To: zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org; From: Carsten John cj...@mpi-bremen.de Sent: Tue 11-09-2012 13:08 Subject:[zfs-discuss] Sol11 time-slider / snapshot not starting [again] Hello everybody, my time-slider service on a Sol11 machine died. I already

Re: [zfs-discuss] Can the ZFS copies attribute substitute HW disk redundancy?

2012-07-30 Thread John Martin
On 07/29/12 14:52, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: My opinion is that complete hard drive failure and block-level media failure are two totally different things. That would depend on the recovery behavior of the drive for block-level media failure. A drive whose firmware does excessive (reports of up

Re: [zfs-discuss] Very poor small-block random write performance

2012-07-19 Thread John Martin
On 07/19/12 19:27, Jim Klimov wrote: However, if the test file was written in 128K blocks and then is rewritten with 64K blocks, then Bob's answer is probably valid - the block would have to be re-read once for the first rewrite of its half; it might be taken from cache for the second half's

[zfs-discuss] S11 zfs snapshot crash

2012-07-10 Thread John D Groenveld
() # pkg info entire| grep Summary Summary: entire incorporation including Support Repository Update (Oracle Solaris 11 11/11 SRU 8.5). John groenv...@acm.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org

Re: [zfs-discuss] New fast hash algorithm - is it needed?

2012-07-10 Thread John Martin
On 07/10/12 19:56, Sašo Kiselkov wrote: Hi guys, I'm contemplating implementing a new fast hash algorithm in Illumos' ZFS implementation to supplant the currently utilized sha256. On modern 64-bit CPUs SHA-256 is actually much slower than SHA-512 and indeed much slower than many of the SHA-3

Re: [zfs-discuss] Sol11 missing snapshot facility [solved]

2012-07-06 Thread Carsten John
-Original message- To: Carsten John cj...@mpi-bremen.de; CC: zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org; From: Ian Collins i...@ianshome.com Sent: Thu 05-07-2012 21:40 Subject:Re: [zfs-discuss] Sol11 missing snapshot facility On 07/ 5/12 11:32 PM, Carsten John wrote

[zfs-discuss] Sol11 missing snapshot facility

2012-07-05 Thread Carsten John
Hello everybody, for some reason I can not find the zfs-autosnapshot service facility any more. I already reinstalles time-slider, but it refuses to start: RuntimeError: Error reading SMF schedule instances Details: ['/usr/bin/svcs', '-H', '-o', 'state',

Re: [zfs-discuss] Sol11 missing snapshot facility

2012-07-05 Thread Carsten John
-Original message- To: Carsten John cj...@mpi-bremen.de; CC: zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org; From: Ian Collins i...@ianshome.com Sent: Thu 05-07-2012 09:59 Subject:Re: [zfs-discuss] Sol11 missing snapshot facility On 07/ 5/12 06:52 PM, Carsten John wrote: Hello

Re: [zfs-discuss] Sol11 missing snapshot facility

2012-07-05 Thread Carsten John
-Original message- To: Carsten John cj...@mpi-bremen.de; CC: zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org; From: Ian Collins i...@ianshome.com Sent: Thu 05-07-2012 11:35 Subject:Re: [zfs-discuss] Sol11 missing snapshot facility On 07/ 5/12 09:25 PM, Carsten John wrote: Hi Ian

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

2012-07-04 Thread John Martin
On 07/04/12 16:47, Nico Williams wrote: I don't see that the munmap definition assures that anything is written to disk. The system is free to buffer the data in RAM as long as it likes without writing anything at all. Oddly enough the manpages at the Open Group don't make this clear. So I

[zfs-discuss] snapshots slow on sol11?

2012-06-26 Thread Carsten John
Hello everybody, I recently migrated a file server (NFS Samba) from OpenSolaris (Build 111) to Sol11. This the move we are facing random (or random looking) outages of our Samba. As we have moved several folders (like Desktop and ApplicationData) out of the usual profile to a folder inside

Re: [zfs-discuss] Migrating 512 byte block zfs root pool to 4k disks

2012-06-16 Thread John Martin
On 06/16/12 12:23, Richard Elling wrote: On Jun 15, 2012, at 7:37 AM, Hung-Sheng Tsao Ph.D. wrote: by the way when you format start with cylinder 1 donot use 0 There is no requirement for skipping cylinder 0 for root on Solaris, and there never has been. Maybe not for core Solaris, but it

Re: [zfs-discuss] Migrating 512 byte block zfs root pool to 4k disks

2012-06-15 Thread John Martin
On 06/15/12 15:52, Cindy Swearingen wrote: Its important to identify your OS release to determine if booting from a 4k disk is supported. In addition, whether the drive is really 4096p or 512e/4096p. ___ zfs-discuss mailing list

Re: [zfs-discuss] (fwd) Re: ZFS NFS service hanging on Sunday morning

2012-06-14 Thread John D Groenveld
In message 201206141413.q5eedvzq017...@mklab.ph.rhul.ac.uk, tpc...@mklab.ph.r hul.ac.uk writes: Memory: 2048M phys mem, 32M free mem, 16G total swap, 16G free swap My WAG is that your zpool history is hanging due to lack of RAM. John groenv...@acm.org

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

2012-06-11 Thread John D Groenveld
In message 008c01cd4812$7399c180$5acd4480$@net, David Combs writes: Actual newsgroup for zfs-discuss? Did you try Gmane's interface? URL:http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=jo43q0%24no50%241%40tr22n12.aset.psu.edu John groenv...@acm.org ___ zfs

Re: [zfs-discuss] Advanced Format HDD's - are we there yet? (or - how to buy a drive that won't be teh sux0rs on zfs)

2012-05-29 Thread John Martin
On 05/28/12 08:48, Nathan Kroenert wrote: Looking to get some larger drives for one of my boxes. It runs exclusively ZFS and has been using Seagate 2TB units up until now (which are 512 byte sector). Anyone offer up suggestions of either 3 or preferably 4TB drives that actually work well with

Re: [zfs-discuss] Advanced Format HDD's - are we there yet? (or - how to buy a drive that won't be teh sux0rs on zfs)

2012-05-29 Thread John Martin
On 05/29/12 08:35, Nathan Kroenert wrote: Hi John, Actually, last time I tried the whole AF (4k) thing, it's performance was worse than woeful. But admittedly, that was a little while ago. The drives were the seagate green barracuda IIRC, and performance for just about everything was 20MB/s

Re: [zfs-discuss] Advanced Format HDD's - are we there yet? (or - how to buy a drive that won't be teh sux0rs on zfs)

2012-05-29 Thread John Martin
On 05/29/12 07:26, bofh wrote: ashift:9 is that standard? Depends on what the drive reports as physical sector size. ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Spare drive inherited cksum errors?

2012-05-29 Thread John D Groenveld
info entire John groenv...@acm.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] kernel panic during zfs import [UPDATE]

2012-04-17 Thread Carsten John
Hello everybody, just to let you know what happened in the meantime: I was able to open a Service Request at Oracle. The issue is a known bug (Bug 6742788 : assertion panic at: zfs:zap_deref_leaf) The bug has bin fixed (according to Oracle support) since build 164, but there is no fix for

Re: [zfs-discuss] Good tower server for around 1,250 USD?

2012-03-30 Thread John D Groenveld
::NO:RP,6:P6_LPI:27242443094470222098916 John groenv...@acm.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] kernel panic during zfs import [ORACLE should notice this]

2012-03-30 Thread John D Groenveld
of transferring the core file though. I will ask around and see if I can help you here. How to Upload Data to Oracle Such as Explorer and Core Files [ID 1020199.1] John groenv...@acm.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http

Re: [zfs-discuss] kernel panic during zfs import [ORACLE should notice this]

2012-03-30 Thread Carsten John
-Original message- To: zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org; From: John D Groenveld jdg...@elvis.arl.psu.edu Sent: Fri 30-03-2012 21:47 Subject:Re: [zfs-discuss] kernel panic during zfs import [ORACLE should notice this] In message 4f735451.2020...@oracle.com, Deepak Honnalli

[zfs-discuss] Puzzling problem with zfs receive exit status

2012-03-29 Thread Carsten John
-Original message- To: zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org; From: Borja Marcos bor...@sarenet.es Sent: Thu 29-03-2012 11:49 Subject:[zfs-discuss] Puzzling problem with zfs receive exit status Hello, I hope someone has an idea. I have a replication program that copies a

Re: [zfs-discuss] kernel panic during zfs import

2012-03-28 Thread Carsten John
-Original message- To: ZFS Discussions zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org; From: Paul Kraus p...@kraus-haus.org Sent: Tue 27-03-2012 15:05 Subject:Re: [zfs-discuss] kernel panic during zfs import On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 3:14 AM, Carsten John cj...@mpi-bremen.de wrote: Hallo

[zfs-discuss] kernel panic during zfs import [ORACLE should notice this]

2012-03-28 Thread Carsten John
-Original message- To: zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org; From: Deepak Honnalli deepak.honna...@oracle.com Sent: Wed 28-03-2012 09:12 Subject:Re: [zfs-discuss] kernel panic during zfs import Hi Carsten, This was supposed to be fixed in build 164 of Nevada (6742788). If

Re: [zfs-discuss] kernel panic during zfs import [ORACLE should notice this]

2012-03-28 Thread John D Groenveld
paid for keeping systems running and not clicking through f lash overloaded support portals searching for CSIs, I'm giving the relevant in formation to the list now. If the Flash interface is broken, try the non-Flash MOS site: URL:http://SupportHTML.Oracle.COM/ John groenv...@acm.org

Re: [zfs-discuss] Good tower server for around 1,250 USD?

2012-03-26 Thread John D Groenveld
will support Solaris running on third-party hardware. URL:http://www.oracle.com/webfolder/technetwork/hcl/hcts/index.html John groenv...@acm.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs

Re: [zfs-discuss] Good tower server for around 1,250 USD?

2012-03-24 Thread The Honorable Senator and Mrs . John Blutarsky
laotsu said: well check this link https://shop.oracle.com/pls/ostore/product?p1=3DSunFireX4270M2serverp2=3Dp= 3=3Dp4=3Dsc=3Docom_x86_SunFireX4270M2servertz=3D-4:00 you may not like the price Hahahah! Thanks for the laugh. The dual 10Gbe PCI card breaks my budget. I'm not going to try to

Re: [zfs-discuss] Good tower server for around 1,250 USD?

2012-03-23 Thread The Honorable Senator and Mrs . John Blutarsky
Bob Friesenhahn bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us wrote: On Thu, 22 Mar 2012, The Honorable Senator and Mrs. John Blutarsky wrote: This will be a do-everything machine. I will use it for development, hosting various apps in zones (web, file server, mail server etc.) and running other systems

Re: [zfs-discuss] Good tower server for around 1,250 USD?

2012-03-23 Thread The Honorable Senator and Mrs . John Blutarsky
On Fri Mar 23 at 10:06:12 2012 laot...@gmail.com wrote: well use component of x4170m2 as example you will be ok intel cpu lsi sas controller non raid sas 72rpm hdd my 2c That sounds too vague to be useful unless I could afford an X4170M2. I can't build a custom box and I don't have the

[zfs-discuss] Good tower server for around 1,250 USD?

2012-03-22 Thread The Honorable Senator and Mrs . John Blutarsky
Ladies and Gentlemen, I'm thinking about spending around 1,250 USD for a tower format (desk side) server with RAM but without disks. I'd like to have 16G ECC RAM as a minimum and ideally 2 or 3 times that amount and I'd like for the case to have room for at least 6 drives, more would be better

Re: [zfs-discuss] Any recommendations on Perc H700 controller on Dell Rx10 ?

2012-03-10 Thread John D Groenveld
? # MegaCli -AdpSetProp -EnableJBOD -1 -aALL # MegaCli -PDMakeJBOD -PhysDrv[E0:S0,E1:S1,...] -aALL John groenv...@acm.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

[zfs-discuss] zfs import from i86 to sparc

2012-03-06 Thread Carsten John
Hi everybody, are there any problems to expect if we try to export/import a zfs pool from opensolaris (intel) (zpool version 14) to solaris 10 (sparc) (zpool version 19)? thanks Carsten ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org

[zfs-discuss] zfs send/receive script

2012-03-06 Thread Carsten John
Hello everybody, I set up a script to replicate all zfs filesystems (some 300 user home directories in this case) within a given pool to a mirror machine. The basic idea is to send the snapshots incremental if the corresponding snapshot exists on the remote side or send a complete snapshot if

Re: [zfs-discuss] 4k sector support in Solaris 11?

2012-02-21 Thread John D Groenveld
In message 4f435ca9.8010...@tuneunix.com, nathank writes: Is there actually a fix to allow manual setting of ashift now that I No. URL:http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E23824_01/html/821-1462/zpool-1m.html John groenv...@acm.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list

Re: [zfs-discuss] 4k sector support in Solaris 11?

2012-02-16 Thread John D Groenveld
a new pool with ashift=12 out of the box or will Yes. John groenv...@acm.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

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

2012-01-25 Thread John Martin
On 01/25/12 09:08, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: Assuming the failure rate of drives is not linear, but skewed toward higher failure rate after some period of time (say, 3 yrs) ... See section 3.1 of the Google study: http://research.google.com/archive/disk_failures.pdf although section 4.2

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

2012-01-24 Thread John Martin
On 01/24/12 17:06, Gregg Wonderly wrote: What I've noticed, is that when I have my drives in a situation of small airflow, and hence hotter operating temperatures, my disks will drop quite quickly. While I *believe* the same thing and thus have over provisioned airflow in my cases (for both

Re: [zfs-discuss] Data loss by memory corruption?

2012-01-16 Thread John Martin
On 01/16/12 11:08, David Magda wrote: The conclusions are hardly unreasonable: While the reliability mechanisms in ZFS are able to provide reasonable robustness against disk corruptions, memory corruptions still remain a serious problem to data integrity. I've heard the same thing said (use

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs read-ahead and L2ARC

2012-01-09 Thread John Martin
On 01/08/12 20:10, Jim Klimov wrote: Is it true or false that: ZFS might skip the cache and go to disks for streaming reads? I don't believe this was ever suggested. Instead, if data is not already in the file system cache and a large read is made from disk should the file system put this

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs read-ahead and L2ARC

2012-01-09 Thread John Martin
On 01/08/12 10:15, John Martin wrote: I believe Joerg Moellenkamp published a discussion several years ago on how L1ARC attempt to deal with the pollution of the cache by large streaming reads, but I don't have a bookmark handy (nor the knowledge of whether the behavior is still accurate

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs read-ahead and L2ARC

2012-01-08 Thread John Martin
On 01/08/12 09:30, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: In the case of your MP3 collection... Probably the only thing you can do is to write a script which will simply go read all the files you predict will be read soon. The key here is the prediction - There's no way ZFS or solaris, or any other OS in

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs read-ahead and L2ARC

2012-01-08 Thread John Martin
On 01/08/12 11:30, Jim Klimov wrote: However for smaller servers, such as home NASes which have about one user overall, pre-reading and caching files even for a single use might be an objective per se - just to let the hard-disks spin down. Say, if I sit down to watch a movie from my NAS, it is

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

2011-12-15 Thread John D Groenveld
the answer. Thank you. URL:http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E23823_01/html/819-5461/ggset.html#gkdep | How to Create a Mirrored ZFS Root Pool (Postinstallation) John groenv...@acm.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http

Re: [zfs-discuss] weird bug with Seagate 3TB USB3 drive

2011-12-05 Thread John D Groenveld
/11 still spews the I/O request is not aligned with 4096 disk sector size warnings but zpool(1M) create's label persists and I can export and import between systems. John groenv...@acm.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http

Re: [zfs-discuss] weird bug with Seagate 3TB USB3 drive

2011-11-10 Thread John D Groenveld
recent kernel build. Thanks, John groenv...@acm.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] weird bug with Seagate 3TB USB3 drive

2011-10-18 Thread John D Groenveld
In message 201110150202.p9f22w2n000...@elvis.arl.psu.edu, John D Groenveld writes: I'm baffled why zpool import is unable to find the pool on the drive, but the drive is definitely functional. Per Richard Elling, it looks like ZFS is unable to find the requisite labels for importing. John

Re: [zfs-discuss] weird bug with Seagate 3TB USB3 drive

2011-10-18 Thread John D Groenveld
i386 # zpool destroy foobar # newfs /dev/rdsk/c1t0d0s0 newfs: construct a new file system /dev/rdsk/c1t0d0s0: (y/n)? y The device sector size 4096 is not supported by ufs! John groenv...@acm.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http

Re: [zfs-discuss] weird bug with Seagate 3TB USB3 drive

2011-10-18 Thread John D Groenveld
this on more recent bits, like the EA release, which I think is b 171. Doubtful I'll find time to install EA before S11 FCS's November launch. I'll still file the CR. Thank you. John groenv...@acm.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] weird bug with Seagate 3TB USB3 drive

2011-10-18 Thread John D Groenveld
In message 4e9db04b.80...@oracle.com, Cindy Swearingen writes: This is CR 7102272. Anyone out there have Western Digital's competing 3TB Passport drive handy to duplicate this bug? John groenv...@acm.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] weird bug with Seagate 3TB USB3 drive

2011-10-14 Thread John D Groenveld
baffled why zpool import is unable to find the pool on the drive, but the drive is definitely functional. John groenv...@acm.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] weird bug with Seagate 3TB USB3 drive

2011-10-13 Thread John D Groenveld
it. John groenv...@acm.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] weird bug with Seagate 3TB USB3 drive

2011-10-13 Thread John D Groenveld
In message 4e970387.3040...@oracle.com, Cindy Swearingen writes: Any USB-related messages in /var/adm/messages for this device? Negative. cfgadm(1M) shows the drive and format-fdisk-analyze-read runs merrily. John groenv...@acm.org ___ zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] weird bug with Seagate 3TB USB3 drive

2011-10-12 Thread John D Groenveld
In message 4e95cb2a.30...@oracle.com, Cindy Swearingen writes: What is the error when you attempt to import this pool? cannot import 'foo': no such pool available John groenv...@acm.org # format -e Searching for disks...done AVAILABLE DISK SELECTIONS: 0. c1t0d0 Seagate-External-SG11 cyl

Re: [zfs-discuss] weird bug with Seagate 3TB USB3 drive

2011-10-12 Thread John D Groenveld
slices presumably hunting for pools. John groenv...@acm.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

[zfs-discuss] weird bug with Seagate 3TB USB3 drive

2011-10-11 Thread John D Groenveld
import it. I thought weird USB connectivity issue, but I can run format - analyze - read merrily. Anyone seen this bug? John groenv...@acm.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs

Re: [zfs-discuss] bad seagate drive?

2011-09-12 Thread John Martin
On 09/12/11 10:33, Jens Elkner wrote: Hmmm, at least if S11x, ZFS mirror, ICH10 and cmdk (IDE) driver is involved, I'm 99.9% confident, that a while turns out to be some days or weeks, only - no matter what Platinium-Enterprise-HDDs you use ;-) On Solaris 11 Express with a dual drive mirror,

Re: [zfs-discuss] BAD WD drives - defective by design?

2011-09-06 Thread John Martin
http://wdc.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/1397/~/difference-between-desktop-edition-and-raid-%28enterprise%29-edition-drives ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

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

2011-08-19 Thread John D Groenveld
? John groenv...@acm.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

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

2011-08-15 Thread John D Groenveld
. John groenv...@acm.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

[zfs-discuss] matching zpool versions to development builds

2011-08-08 Thread John Martin
Is there a list of zpool versions for development builds? I found: http://blogs.oracle.com/stw/entry/zfs_zpool_and_file_system where it says Solaris 11 Express is zpool version 31, but my system has BEs back to build 139 and I have not done a zpool upgrade since installing this system but it

[zfs-discuss] snapshots in solaris11 express

2011-07-27 Thread Carsten John
Hello everybody, is there any known way to configure the point-in-time *when* the time-slider will snapshot/rotate? With hundreds of zfs filesystems, the daily snapshot rotation slows down a big file server significantly, so it would be better to have the snapshots rotated outside the usual

Re: [zfs-discuss] replace zil drive

2011-06-28 Thread Carsten John
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Re: [zfs-discuss] replace zil drive

2011-06-28 Thread Carsten John
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/28/11 02:55, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Carsten John Now I'm wondering about the best option to replace the HDD with the SSD: What version

Re: [zfs-discuss] replace zil drive [SOLVED}

2011-06-28 Thread Carsten John
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/28/11 02:55, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Carsten John Now I'm wondering about the best option to replace the HDD with the SSD: What version

[zfs-discuss] replace zil drive

2011-06-27 Thread Carsten John
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello everybody, some time ago a SSD within a ZIL mirror died. As I had no SSD available to replace it, I dropped in a normal SAS harddisk to rebuild the mirror. In the meantime I got the warranty replacement SSD. Now I'm wondering about the best

Re: [zfs-discuss] Resizing ZFS partition, shrinking NTFS?

2011-06-16 Thread John D Groenveld
of that fdisk partition, use beadm(1M) to copy your BE back to your new rpool, and then restore any other ZFS from those snapshots. John groenv...@acm.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: [zfs-discuss] Compatibility between Sun-Oracle Fishworks appliance zfs and other zfs implementations

2011-05-26 Thread John D Groenveld
. Ask Keith Block and company's sales critter about Hardware from Oracle - Pricing for Education (HOPE): URL:http://www.oracle.com/ocom/groups/public/@ocom/documents/webcontent/364419.pdf John groenv...@acm.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] 350TB+ storage solution

2011-05-16 Thread John Doe
following are some thoughts if it's not too late: 1 SuperMicro 847E1-R1400LPB I guess you meant the 847E1[b]6[/b]-R1400LPB, the SAS1 version makes no sense 1 SuperMicro H8DG6-F not the best choice, see below why 171 Hitachi 7K3000 3TB I'd go for the more environmentally

Re: [zfs-discuss] Changed ACL behavior in snv_151 ?

2011-01-26 Thread Ryan John
-Original Message- From: Frank Lahm [mailto:frankl...@googlemail.com] Sent: 25 January 2011 14:50 To: Ryan John Cc: zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org Subject: Re: [zfs-discuss] Changed ACL behavior in snv_151 ? John, welcome onboard! 2011/1/25 Ryan John john.r...@bsse.ethz.ch: I’m

[zfs-discuss] Changed ACL behavior in snv_151 ?

2011-01-25 Thread Ryan John
any ideas? On a snv_134 system, the ACLs are retained. Regards John ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Changed ACL behavior in snv_151 ?

2011-01-25 Thread Ryan John
I’m using /usr/bin/chmod From: phil.har...@gmail.com [mailto:phil.har...@gmail.com] Sent: 25 January 2011 14:50 To: Ryan John; zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org Subject: Re: [zfs-discuss] Changed ACL behavior in snv_151 ? Which chmod are you using? (check your PATH) - Reply message - From

[zfs-discuss] zfs roolback

2010-11-09 Thread John Goolsby
I'm trying to rollback from a bad patch install on Solaris 10. From the failsafe BE I tried to rollback, but zfs is asking me to provide allow rollback permissions. It's hard for me to tell exactly because the messages are scrolling off the screen before I can read them. Any help would be

Re: [zfs-discuss] How do you use 1 partition on x86?

2010-10-25 Thread John D Groenveld
, but I can't figure out how to access it. Use beadm(1M) to duplicate your BE to a USB disk, then boot it, then format/fdisk your workstation disk, then use beadm(1M) to duplicate your BE back to your workstation disk. John groenv...@acm.org ___ zfs

Re: [zfs-discuss] BugID 6961707

2010-10-07 Thread John D Groenveld
In message 201008112022.o7bkmc2j028...@elvis.arl.psu.edu, John D Groenveld wr ites: I'm stumbling over BugID 6961707 on build 134. I see the bug has been stomped in build 150. Awesome! URL:http://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6961707 In which build did it first arrive

Re: [zfs-discuss] pool died during scrub

2010-09-01 Thread Carsten John
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jeff Bacon wrote: I have a bunch of sol10U8 boxes with ZFS pools, most all raidz2 8-disk stripe. They're all supermicro-based with retail LSI cards. I've noticed a tendency for things to go a little bonkers during the weekly scrub (they all

Re: [zfs-discuss] VM's on ZFS - 7210

2010-08-27 Thread John
Wouldn't it be possible to saturate the SSD ZIL with enough backlogged sync writes? What I mean is, doesn't the ZIL eventually need to make it to the pool, and if the pool as a whole (spinning disks) can't keep up with 30+ vm's of write requests, couldn't you fill up the ZIL that way? --

Re: [zfs-discuss] Opensolaris is apparently dead

2010-08-18 Thread John D Groenveld
service order requests to /dev/null, but someone manually entered after I submitted web feedback. John groenv...@acm.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

[zfs-discuss] BugID 6961707

2010-08-11 Thread John D Groenveld
hit this and gotten it resolved? Is the pool corrupted on disk? John groenv...@acm.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

[zfs-discuss] Optimal Disk configuration

2010-07-21 Thread John Andrunas
. JBOD, RAID zvols on both controllers. -- John ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

[zfs-discuss] Need ZFS master!

2010-07-12 Thread john
Hello all. I am new...very new to opensolaris and I am having an issue and have no idea what is going wrong. So I have 5 drives in my machine. all 500gb. I installed open solaris on the first drive and rebooted. . Now what I want to do is ad a second drive so they are mirrored. How does one do

Re: [zfs-discuss] mount zfs boot disk on another server?

2010-06-17 Thread Seaman, John
Could you import it back on the original server with Zpool import -f newpool rpool? Jay -Original Message- From: Brandon High [mailto:bh...@freaks.com] Sent: Wednesday, June 16, 2010 2:19 PM To: Seaman, John Cc: zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org Subject: Re: [zfs-discuss] mount zfs boot disk

Re: [zfs-discuss] Dedup performance hit

2010-06-13 Thread John J Balestrini
the filesystem, is there another way to de-dedup the pool? Thanks, John On Jun 13, 2010, at 10:17 PM, Erik Trimble wrote: Hernan F wrote: Hello, I tried enabling dedup on a filesystem, and moved files into it to take advantage of it. I had about 700GB of files and left it for some hours. When I

[zfs-discuss] don't mount a zpool on boot

2010-05-20 Thread John Andrunas
Can I make a pool not mount on boot? I seem to recall reading somewhere how to do it, but can't seem to find it now. -- John ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS in campus clusters

2010-05-19 Thread John Hoogerdijk
From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of John Hoogerdijk I'm building a campus cluster with identical storage in two locations with ZFS mirrors spanning both storage frames. Data will be mirrored using zfs. I'm looking

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS in campus clusters

2010-05-19 Thread John Hoogerdijk
On Tue, May 18, 2010 20:45, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: The whole point of a log device is to accelerate sync writes, by providing nonvolatile storage which is faster than the primary storage. You're not going to get this if any part of the log device is at the other side of a WAN. So

[zfs-discuss] zfs mount -a kernel panic

2010-05-19 Thread John Andrunas
-0 ONLINE 0 0 0 c3t3d0 ONLINE 0 0 0 c3t2d0 ONLINE 0 0 0 errors: Permanent errors have been detected in the following files: vol2/v...@snap-daily-1-2010-05-06-:/as5/as5-flat.vmdk -- John

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs mount -a kernel panic

2010-05-19 Thread John Andrunas
Not to my knowledge, how would I go about getting one? (CC'ing discuss) On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 8:46 AM, Mark J Musante mark.musa...@oracle.com wrote: Do you have a coredump?  Or a stack trace of the panic? On Wed, 19 May 2010, John Andrunas wrote: Running ZFS on a Nexenta box, I had

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs mount -a kernel panic

2010-05-19 Thread John Andrunas
genunix:taskq_thread+248 () ff001f45eb60 unix:thread_start+8 () syncing file systems... done skipping system dump - no dump device configured rebooting... On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 8:55 AM, Michael Schuster michael.schus...@oracle.com wrote: On 19.05.10 17:53, John Andrunas wrote: Not to my knowledge

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