[zfs-discuss] Replaced pool device shows up in zpool status

2010-08-16 Thread Matthias Appel
Hi all, yesterday I had to remove a zpool device due to controller errors (I tried to replace the harddisk, but checksum errors occured again) so I connected a fresh harddisk to another controller port. Now I have the problem that zpool status looks as following: r...@storage:~# zpool status

[zfs-discuss] Degraded Zpool

2010-01-21 Thread Matthias Appel
Hi list, I have a serious issue with my zpool. My zpool consists of 4 vdevs which are assembled to 2 mirrors. One of this mirrors got degraded cause of too many errors on each vdev of the mirror. Yes, both vdevs of the mirror got degraded. According to murphys law I don't have a backup as

Re: [zfs-discuss] Problems while resilvering

2009-12-07 Thread Matthias Appel
I accidentially only replied to cindy but I wanted to reply to the list. I don't want to overstrain cindys time...maybe one of the list members can help me as well. -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Matthias Appel Gesendet: Dienstag, 08. Dezember 2009 03:34 An: 'cindy.swearin...@sun.com

[zfs-discuss] Let's guess which filesystem.....

2009-11-13 Thread Matthias Appel
NSA might choose in the future. I just found this link on the Backblaze blog and I hope you will find it as amusing as I do: http://blog.backblaze.com/2009/11/12/nsa-might-want-some-backblaze-pods/ -- Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; give him a freshly-charged Electric Eel and

Re: [zfs-discuss] bewailing of the n00b

2009-10-23 Thread Matthias Appel
I consider myself also as a noob when it gets to ZFS but I already built myself a ZFS filer and maybe I can enlighten you by sharing my advanced noob who read about a lot about ZFS thoughts about ZFS A few examples of duh ?s - How can I effect OCE with ZFS? The traditional 'back up all the

Re: [zfs-discuss] Sun Flash Accelerator F20

2009-10-20 Thread Matthias Appel
People here dream of using it for the ZFS intent log but it is clear that this was not Sun's initial focus for the product. At the moment I'm considering using a Gigabyte iRAM as ZIL device. (see http://cgi.ebay.com/Gigabyte-IRAM-I-Ram-GC-RAMDISK-SSD-4GB-PCI-card-SATA_W0Q

[zfs-discuss] Adding another mirror to storage pool

2009-10-20 Thread Matthias Appel
Hi, at the moment I am running a pool consisting of 4 vdefs (Seagate Enterprise SATA disks) assmebled to 2 mirrors. Now I want to add two more drives to extend the capacity to 1.5 times the old capacity. As these mirrors will be striped in the pool I want to know what will happen to the

Re: [zfs-discuss] Zpool without any redundancy

2009-10-20 Thread Matthias Appel
Is anyone else tired of seeing the word redundancy? (:-) Only in a perfect world (tm) ;-) IMHO there is no such thing as too much redundancy. In the real world the possibilities of redundancy are only limited by money, be it online redundancy (mirror/RAIDZx,) offline redundancy (tape

Re: [zfs-discuss] Zpool without any redundancy

2009-10-20 Thread Matthias Appel
Redundancy costs in terms of both time and money. Redundant hardware which fails or feels upset requires time to administer and repair. This is why there is indeed such a thing as too much redundancy. Yes that's true, but all I wanted to say is: If there is infinite of money there can be

Re: [zfs-discuss] Adding another mirror to storage pool

2009-10-20 Thread Matthias Appel
You will see more IOPS/bandwith, but if your existing disks are very full, then more traffic may be sent to the new disks, which results in less benefit. OK, that means, over time, data will be distributed across all mirrors? (assuming all blocks will be written once) I think a useful

Re: [zfs-discuss] Sun Flash Accelerator F20

2009-10-20 Thread Matthias Appel
So, yes, SSD and HDD are different, but latency is still important. But on SSD, write performance is much more unpredictable than on HDD. If you want to write to SSD you will have to erase the used blocks (assuming this is not a brand-new SSD) before you are able to write to them. This takes

Re: [zfs-discuss] Adding another mirror to storage pool

2009-10-20 Thread Matthias Appel
Von: Bruno Sousa [mailto:bso...@epinfante.com] Gesendet: Dienstag, 20. Oktober 2009 22:20 An: Matthias Appel Cc: zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org Betreff: Re: [zfs-discuss] Adding another mirror to storage pool Hi, Something like http://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id