Re: [zfs-discuss] [zfs] Re: how to know available disk space, 22% free space missing

2013-02-20 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
Hello, Any comments/suggestions about this would be very nice.. Thanks! -- Pasi On Fri, Feb 08, 2013 at 05:09:56PM +0200, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: > > I'm seeing weird output aswell: > > # zpool list foo > NAME SIZE ALLOC FREECAP DEDUP HEALTH ALTROOT >

Re: [zfs-discuss] how to know available disk space

2013-02-08 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Fri, Feb 08, 2013 at 09:47:38PM +, Edward Ned Harvey (opensolarisisdeadlongliveopensolaris) wrote: > > From: Pasi Kärkkäinen [mailto:pa...@iki.fi] > > > > What's the correct way of finding out what actually uses/reserves that 1023G > > of FREE in the zpool?

Re: [zfs-discuss] how to know available disk space

2013-02-08 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Wed, Feb 06, 2013 at 08:03:13PM -0700, Jan Owoc wrote: > On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 4:26 PM, Edward Ned Harvey > (opensolarisisdeadlongliveopensolaris) > wrote: > > > > When I used "zpool status" after the system crashed, I saw this: > > NAME SIZE ALLOC FREE EXPANDSZCAP DEDUP HEALTH

Re: [zfs-discuss] RFE: Un-dedup for unique blocks

2013-02-03 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Sun, Jan 20, 2013 at 07:51:15PM -0800, Richard Elling wrote: > > 2. VAAI support. > >VAAI has 4 features, 3 of which have been in illumos for a long time. The >remaining >feature (SCSI UNMAP) was done by Nexenta and exists in their NexentaStor >product, >but the CEO ma

Re: [zfs-discuss] Has anyone used a Dell with a PERC H310?

2013-01-08 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Tue, Jan 08, 2013 at 06:36:18AM -0500, Ray Arachelian wrote: > On 01/07/2013 04:16 PM, Sašo Kiselkov wrote: > > PERC H200 are well behaved cards that are easy to reflash and work > > well (even in JBOD mode) on Illumos - they are essentially a LSI SAS > > 9211. If you can get them, they're one h

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Appliance as a general-purpose server question

2012-11-29 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 09:42:21AM +0100, Grégory Giannoni wrote: > > Le 29 nov. 2012 à 09:27, Pasi Kärkkäinen a écrit : > >> The LSI 9240-4I was not able to connect to the 25-drives bay ; Not tested > >> LSI 9260-16I or LSI 9280-24i. > >> > > > >

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Appliance as a general-purpose server question

2012-11-29 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 08:52:06AM +0100, Grégory Giannoni wrote: > > The LSI 9240-4I was not able to connect to the 25-drives bay ; Not tested > LSI 9260-16I or LSI 9280-24i. > What was the problem connecting LSI 9240-4i to the 25-drives bay? -- Pasi

Re: [zfs-discuss] all in one server

2012-09-18 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 05:30:56PM +0200, Erik Ableson wrote: > > If you're running ESXi with a vSphere license, I'd recommend looking at VDR > (free with the vCenter license) for backing up the VMs to the little HPs > since you get compressed and deduplicated backups that will minimize the > r

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

2012-06-26 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 01:42:27AM +0300, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: > On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 06:23:42PM -0500, Timothy Coalson wrote: > > Sorry, if you meant distinguishing between true 512 and emulated > > 512/4k, I don't know, it may be vendor-specific as to whether they &

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

2012-06-26 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 06:23:42PM -0500, Timothy Coalson wrote: > Sorry, if you meant distinguishing between true 512 and emulated > 512/4k, I don't know, it may be vendor-specific as to whether they > expose it through device commands at all. > At least on Linux you can see the info from: /sys

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS and spread-spares (kinda like GPFS declustered RAID)?

2012-01-08 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Sun, Jan 08, 2012 at 06:59:57AM +0400, Jim Klimov wrote: > 2012-01-08 5:37, Richard Elling ??: >> The big question is whether they are worth the effort. Spares solve a >> serviceability >> problem and only impact availability in an indirect manner. For single-parity >> solutions, spares

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

2011-11-13 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 10:08:04AM -0800, Richard Elling wrote: > > On Nov 12, 2011, at 8:31 AM, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: > > > On Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 08:15:31AM -0500, David Magda wrote: > >> On Nov 12, 2011, at 00:55, Richard Elling wrote: > >> > >>&g

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

2011-11-12 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
; on. Might as well enable the functionality now, when 4K is rarer, so you have > more time to test and tunes things out?rather than later when you can > potentially be left scrambling. > > As Pasi Kärkkäinen mentions, there's not much you can do if the disks lies > (just as has

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

2011-11-12 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 09:55:29PM -0800, Richard Elling wrote: > On Nov 10, 2011, at 7:47 PM, David Magda wrote: > > > On Nov 10, 2011, at 18:41, Daniel Carosone wrote: > > > >> On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 08:17:55PM -0400, John D Groenveld wrote: > >>> Under both Solaris 10 and Solaris 11x, I recei

Re: [zfs-discuss] [OpenIndiana-discuss] Question about WD drives with Super Micro systems

2011-08-08 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Sat, Aug 06, 2011 at 07:45:31PM +0200, Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk wrote: > > Might this be the SATA drives taking too long to reallocate bad > > sectors? This is a common problem "desktop" drives have, they will > > stop and basically focus on reallocating the bad sector as long as it > > takes, which

Re: [zfs-discuss] Question about drive LEDs

2011-06-22 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 09:49:44PM +0200, Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk wrote: > Hi all > > I have a few machines setup with OI 148, and I can't make the LEDs on the > drives work when something goes bad. The chassies are supermicro ones, and > work well, normally. Any idea how to make drive LEDs wirk wi

Re: [zfs-discuss] Impact of L2ARC device failure and SSD recommendations

2011-06-12 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 08:26:34PM +0400, Jim Klimov wrote: > 2011-06-11 19:15, Pasi Kärkkäinen ??: >> On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 08:35:19AM -0500, Edmund White wrote: >>> I've had two incidents where performance tanked suddenly, leaving the VM >>> gue

Re: [zfs-discuss] Impact of L2ARC device failure and SSD recommendations

2011-06-11 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 08:35:19AM -0500, Edmund White wrote: >Posted in greater detail at Server Fault >- [1]http://serverfault.com/q/277966/13325 > >I have an HP ProLiant DL380 G7 system running NexentaStor. The server has >36GB RAM, 2 LSI 9211-8i SAS controllers (no SAS expander

Re: [zfs-discuss] best migration path from Solaris 10

2011-03-19 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 06:26:37PM -0700, Michael DeMan wrote: > ZFSv28 is in HEAD now and will be out in 8.3. > > ZFS + HAST in 9.x means being able to cluster off different hardware. > > In regards to OpenSolaris and Indiana - can somebody clarify the relationship > there? It was clear with O

Re: [zfs-discuss] native ZFS on Linux

2011-02-13 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 08:54:26PM +0100, Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk wrote: > > I see that Pinguy OS, an uber-Ubuntu o/s, includes native ZFS support. > > Any pointers to more info on this? > > There are some work in progress from http://zfsonlinux.org/, but the posix > layer was still lacking last I c

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS and TRIM

2011-01-31 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 03:41:52PM +0100, Joerg Schilling wrote: > Brandon High wrote: > > > On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 8:31 AM, Edward Ned Harvey > > wrote: > > > What is the status of ZFS support for TRIM? > > > > I believe it's been supported for a while now. > > http://www.c0t0d0s0.org/archives

Re: [zfs-discuss] reliable, enterprise worthy JBODs?

2011-01-25 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 11:53:49AM -0800, Rocky Shek wrote: > Philip, > > You can consider DataON DNS-1600 4U 24Bay 6Gb/s SAS JBOD Storage. > http://dataonstorage.com/dataon-products/dns-1600-4u-6g-sas-to-sas-sata-jbod > -storage.html > > It is the best fit for ZFS Storage application. It can be

Re: [zfs-discuss] A few questions

2011-01-09 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Sat, Jan 08, 2011 at 12:33:50PM -0500, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: > > From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- > > boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Garrett D'Amore > > > > When you purchase NexentaStor from a top-tier Nexenta Hardware Partner, > > you get a product that

Re: [zfs-discuss] Looking for 3.5" SSD for ZIL

2010-12-22 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 01:43:35PM +, Jabbar wrote: >Hello, > >I was thinking of buying a couple of SSD's until I found out that Trim is >only supported with SATA drives. > Yes, because TRIM is ATA command. SATA means Serial ATA. SCSI (SAS) drives have "WRITE SAME" command, which

Re: [zfs-discuss] Looking for 3.5" SSD for ZIL

2010-12-22 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 11:36:48AM +0100, Stephan Budach wrote: >Hello all, > >I am shopping around for 3.5" SSDs that I can mount into my storage and >use as ZIL drives. >As of yet, I have only found 3.5" models with the Sandforce 1200, which >was not recommended on this list.

Re: [zfs-discuss] AHCI or IDE?

2010-12-16 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 08:43:02PM +0100, Alexander Lesle wrote: > Hello All, > > I want to build a home file and media server now. After experiment with a > Asus Board and running in unsolve problems I have bought this > Supermicro Board X8SIA-F with Intel i3-560 and 8 GB Ram > http://www.supermi

Re: [zfs-discuss] zpool does not like iSCSI ?

2010-11-30 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Tue, Nov 09, 2010 at 04:18:17AM -0800, Andreas Koppenhoefer wrote: > From Oracle Support we got the following info: > > Bug ID: 6992124 reboot of Sol10 u9 host makes zpool FAULTED when zpool uses > iscsi LUNs > This is a duplicate of: > Bug ID: 6907687 zfs pool is not automatically fixed when

Re: [zfs-discuss] Faster than 1G Ether... ESX to ZFS

2010-11-17 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 10:14:10AM +, Bruno Sousa wrote: >Hi all, > >Let me tell you all that the MC/S *does* make a difference...I had a >windows fileserver using an ISCSI connection to a host running snv_134 >with an average speed of 20-35 mb/s...After the upgrade to snv_151a

Re: [zfs-discuss] Finding corrupted files

2010-10-16 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 08:38:28AM -0700, Richard Elling wrote: >On Oct 15, 2010, at 6:18 AM, Stephan Budach wrote: > > So, what would you suggest, if I wanted to create really big pools? Say > in the 100 TB range? That would be quite a number of single drives then, > especially

Re: [zfs-discuss] dedicated ZIL/L2ARC

2010-09-14 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 08:08:42AM -0700, Ray Van Dolson wrote: > On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 06:59:07AM -0700, Wolfraider wrote: > > We are looking into the possibility of adding a dedicated ZIL and/or > > L2ARC devices to our pool. We are looking into getting 4 ??? 32GB > > Intel X25-E SSD drives. Wo

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

2010-07-19 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 12:57:40AM +0200, Richard Elling wrote: > > > Because of BTRFS for Linux, Linux's popularity itself and also thanks > > to the Oracle's help. > > BTRFS does not matter until it is a primary file system for a dominant > distribution. > From what I can tell, the dominant

Re: [zfs-discuss] NexentaStor Community edition 3.0.3 released

2010-07-01 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 10:57:53PM +0530, Anil Gulecha wrote: > Hi All, > > On behalf of NexentaStor team, I'm happy to announce the release of > NexentaStor Community Edition 3.0.3. This release is the result of the > community efforts of Nexenta Partners and users. > > Changes over 3.0.2 includ

Re: [zfs-discuss] Erratic behavior on 24T zpool

2010-06-18 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 02:21:15AM -0700, artiepen wrote: > 40MB/sec is the best that it gets. Really, the average is 5. I see 4, 5, 2, > and 6 almost 10x as many times as I see 40MB/sec. It really only bumps up to > 40 very rarely. > > As far as random vs. sequential. Correct me if I'm wrong, b

Re: [zfs-discuss] Erratic behavior on 24T zpool

2010-06-18 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 05:15:44AM -0400, Thomas Burgess wrote: >On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 4:42 AM, Pasi Kärkkäinen <[1]pa...@iki.fi> wrote: > > On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 01:26:11AM -0700, artiepen wrote: > > Well, I've searched my brains out and I can't s

Re: [zfs-discuss] Erratic behavior on 24T zpool

2010-06-18 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
, in the worst case of small random IO. (the parity needs to be written and that limits the performance of raidz/z2/z3 to the performance of single disk). This is not really zfs specific at all, it's the same with any raid implementation. -- Pasi > On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 4:42 AM, Pasi

Re: [zfs-discuss] OCZ Devena line of enterprise SSD

2010-06-18 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 09:58:25AM -0700, Ray Van Dolson wrote: > On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 09:54:59AM -0700, Ragnar Sundblad wrote: > > > > On 17 jun 2010, at 18.17, Richard Jahnel wrote: > > > > > The EX specs page does list the supercap > > > > > > The pro specs page does not. > > > > They do

Re: [zfs-discuss] Erratic behavior on 24T zpool

2010-06-18 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 01:26:11AM -0700, artiepen wrote: > Well, I've searched my brains out and I can't seem to find a reason for this. > > I'm getting bad to medium performance with my new test storage device. I've > got 24 1.5T disks with 2 SSDs configured as a zil log device. I'm using the

Re: [zfs-discuss] Homegrown Hybrid Storage

2010-06-11 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 03:30:26PM -0400, Miles Nordin wrote: > >>>>> "pk" == Pasi Kärkkäinen writes: > > >>> You're really confused, though I'm sure you're going to deny > >>> it. > > >> I don

Re: [zfs-discuss] Homegrown Hybrid Storage

2010-06-11 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Tue, Jun 08, 2010 at 08:33:40PM -0500, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > On Tue, 8 Jun 2010, Miles Nordin wrote: > >>> "re" == Richard Elling writes: >> >>re> Please don't confuse Ethernet with IP. >> >> okay, but I'm not. seriously, if you'll look into it. >> >> Did you misread where I said FC

Re: [zfs-discuss] Intel X25-E SSD in x4500 followup

2010-06-10 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 05:46:19AM -0700, Peter Eriksson wrote: > Just a quick followup that the same issue still seems to be there on our > X4500s with the latest Solaris 10 with all the latest patches and the > following SSD disks: > > Intel X25-M G1 firmware 8820 (80GB MLC) > Intel X25-M G2 f

Re: [zfs-discuss] nfs share of nested zfs directories?

2010-06-04 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Fri, Jun 04, 2010 at 08:43:32AM -0400, Cassandra Pugh wrote: >Thank you, when I manually mount using the "mount -t nfs4" option, I am >able to see the entire tree, however, the permissions are set as >nfsnobody. >"Warning: rpc.idmapd appears not to be running. > All u

Re: [zfs-discuss] [ZIL device brainstorm] intel x25-M G2 has ram cache?

2010-05-25 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 01:52:47PM +0100, Karl Pielorz wrote: > > --On 25 May 2010 15:28 +0300 Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: > >>> I've tried contacting Intel to find out if it's true their "enterprise" >>> SSD has no cache protection on it, and what the

Re: [zfs-discuss] [ZIL device brainstorm] intel x25-M G2 has ram cache?

2010-05-25 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 10:08:57AM +0100, Karl Pielorz wrote: > > > --On 24 May 2010 23:41 -0400 rwali...@washdcmail.com wrote: > >> I haven't seen where anyone has tested this, but the MemoRight SSD (sold >> by RocketDisk in the US) seems to claim all the right things: >> >> http://www.rocketdisk.

Re: [zfs-discuss] Using WD Green drives?

2010-05-17 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 03:12:44PM -0700, Erik Trimble wrote: > On Mon, 2010-05-17 at 12:54 -0400, Dan Pritts wrote: > > On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 06:25:18PM +0200, Tomas Ögren wrote: > > > Resilver does a whole lot of random io itself, not bulk reads.. It reads > > > the filesystem tree, not "block

Re: [zfs-discuss] Ideal SATA/SAS Controllers for ZFS

2010-05-15 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 11:01:00AM +, Marc Bevand wrote: > I have done quite some research over the past few years on the best (ie. > simple, robust, inexpensive, and performant) SATA/SAS controllers for ZFS. > Especially in terms of throughput analysis (many of them are designed with an > i

Re: [zfs-discuss] Performance of the ZIL

2010-05-05 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Wed, May 05, 2010 at 11:32:23PM -0400, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: > > From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- > > boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Robert Milkowski > > > > if you can disable ZIL and compare the performance to when it is off it > > will give you an estim