Re: [zfs-discuss] SVM > ZFS

2013-02-26 Thread Paul Kraus
under Solaris 10, but I would be surprised if the ufsrestore code has changed since then. -- Paul Kraus Deputy Technical Director, LoneStarCon 3 Sound Coordinator, Schenectady Light Opera Company ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.or

Re: [zfs-discuss] SVM > ZFS

2013-02-26 Thread Paul Kraus
r for some other tasks. Basic (Sun, not GNU) cp and mv should > work correctly too. Under Solaris 10 I found 'cp -pr' to be the both most reliable and fastest way to move data into, out of, and between ZFS datasets. -- Paul Kraus Deputy Technical Director, LoneStarCon 3 Sound Co

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs sata mirror slower than single disk

2013-02-26 Thread Paul Kraus
764468 > 268435456 512 410246 403019 766627 768739 > > Bob > -- > Bob Friesenhahn > bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ > GraphicsMagick Maintainer,http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/ > _____

Re: [zfs-discuss] maczfs / ZEVO

2013-02-19 Thread Paul Kraus
it. I often find that going to the command line on Mac OS X is very helpful, but since the GUI really is very well done for most (but certainly not all) tasks, I usually don't remember to go to the command line until after I have been beating my head against the GUI for too long :

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs + NFS + FreeBSD with performance prob

2013-02-04 Thread Paul Kraus
d I get between 40 and 50 MB/sec throughput on a Gigabit ethernet link. Since you have already ruled out the known sync issue with ZFS and no SSD-based write cache, then perhaps you are running into an NFS 3 vs. NFS 4 issue. I am not sure if Mac OS X is using NF

[zfs-discuss] Restore destroyed snapshot ???

2012-06-18 Thread Paul Kraus
writes since I did the destroy then I *might* have a chance at this ... HELP! -- {1-2-3-4-5-6-7-} Paul Kraus -> Senior Systems Architect, Garnet River ( http://www.garnetriver.com/ ) -> Assistant Technical Director, LoneStarCon 3

Re: [zfs-discuss] Terminology question on ZFS COW

2012-06-05 Thread Paul Kraus
ation segment. Once you grow out of that you are (usually) fragmented. > This may be important for large objects randomly updated "inside", > like VM disk images and iSCSI backing stores, precreated database > table files, maybe swapfiles, etc. -- {1-2-3

[zfs-discuss] Question about how resilver works (zpool version 22)

2012-06-04 Thread Paul Kraus
ts are our backups we really can't disable them, if we do we run into a different zpool 22 issue where the amount of RAM we will need to destroy a large snapshot will be more than we have. This is also fixed with zpool 26. -- {1-2-3-4-5-6-----7

Re: [zfs-discuss] Disk failure chokes all the disks attached to the failing disk HBA

2012-05-30 Thread Paul Kraus
e chain of two and one chain of three, the problem occurred on the chain of three) Not specifically applicable here, but probably related and might be of use to someone here. -- {1-2-3-4-5-6-----7-} Paul Kraus -> Senior Systems Archi

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs_arc_max values

2012-05-17 Thread Paul Kraus
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[zfs-discuss] Hard Drive Choice Question

2012-05-16 Thread Paul Kraus
d for 7x24 operation. Thanks, in advance for all of your informed opinions. P.S. I am sending this to TWO lists, please do NOT respond to the list you are NOT subscribed to :-) -- {1-2-3-4-5-6-----7-} Paul Kraus -> Senior Systems

Re: [zfs-discuss] IOzone benchmarking

2012-05-03 Thread Paul Kraus
On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 10:39 AM, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: >> From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- >> boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Paul Kraus >> >>     If you have compression turned on (and I highly recommend turning >> it on if yo

Re: [zfs-discuss] current status of SAM-QFS?

2012-05-02 Thread Paul Kraus
market. Now, as to sharing futures and NDA material, that _should_ only be available via direct Oracle channels (as it was under Sun as well). -- {1-2-3-4-5-6-----7-----} Paul Kraus -> Senior Systems Architect, Garnet River ( http

Re: [zfs-discuss] IOzone benchmarking

2012-05-01 Thread Paul Kraus
ed benchmark was effectively a "worst case" number and the full ARC the "best case". The real world, as usual, fell somewhere in between. Finding a benchmark tool that matches _my_ work load is why I have started kludging together my own. -- {----1-2-3--

Re: [zfs-discuss] IOzone benchmarking

2012-05-01 Thread Paul Kraus
nce level). > Am I off on this? > > System is a 240x2TB (7200RPM) system in 20 Dell MD1200 JBODs.  16 vdevs of 15 > disks each -- RAIDZ3.  NexentaStor 3.1.2. -- {1-2-----3-----4-5-6-7-} Paul Kraus -> Senior Systems Archite

Re: [zfs-discuss] cluster vs nfs (was: Re: ZFS on Linux vs FreeBSD)

2012-04-25 Thread Paul Kraus
never releases the lock or closes the file until the application exits will require a restart of the application with an automounter / NFS approach. -- {1-2-3-4-5-6-7-} Paul Kraus -> Senior Systems Architect, Garnet River ( h

[zfs-discuss] J4400 question (not directly ZFS)

2012-04-09 Thread Paul Kraus
wondering if there is something about slot 20 that may be causing drives to fail. -- {1-2-3-4-5-6-7-} Paul Kraus -> Senior Systems Architect, Garnet River ( http://www.garnetriver.com/ ) -> Sound Coordinator, Schenectady Light

[zfs-discuss] Reliability WAS: LSI 3081 (1068) + expander + (bad) SATA disk?

2012-04-09 Thread Paul Kraus
mpared them with. In the past, my need for an increase in capacity caused replacement of hard drives. This time I'm not sure if I'll run out of capacity before the drives reach end of practical service life and start failing. -- {1-2-3-4-5-6

Re: [zfs-discuss] What's wrong with LSI 3081 (1068) + expander + (bad) SATA disk?

2012-04-05 Thread Paul Kraus
nt path through the MPT code, so there are differences. -- {1-2-3-4-----5-6-7-} Paul Kraus -> Senior Systems Architect, Garnet River ( http://www.garnetriver.com/ ) -> Sound Coordinator, Schenectady Light Opera Company ( http://www.slo

Re: [zfs-discuss] What's wrong with LSI 3081 (1068) + expander + (bad) SATA disk?

2012-04-05 Thread Paul Kraus
due to the J4400 in the two J4400 configuration (we have had other issues with this system, but they were not related to the J4400). No data has been lost due to any of the failures or outages. Thank you ZFS. -- {----1-----2-3-4-5-6-7-} Pa

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

2012-03-27 Thread Paul Kraus
ect that the incomplete snapshot was also corrupt in some strange way, but could never make a solid determination of that. We think what caused the zfs send | zfs recv to be interrupted was hitting an e1000g Ethernet device driver bug. -- {1-2-3-4-

Re: [zfs-discuss] Basic ZFS Questions + Initial Setup Recommendation

2012-03-21 Thread Paul Kraus
d. My 22 vdev zpool takes about 300 hours for this while the 2 vdev zpool takes over 600 hours. Both have comparable amounts of data and snapshots. The 22 vdev zpool is on a production server with normal I/O activity, the 2 vdev case is only receiving zfs snapshots and doing no other I/O. -- {---

Re: [zfs-discuss] Basic ZFS Questions + Initial Setup Recommendation

2012-03-21 Thread Paul Kraus
tter performance 4 x 3 (mirror) == best performance 6 x 2 (mirror) == almost best performance If you have the time, setup each configuration and _measure_ the performance. If you can, load up a bunch of data (at least 33% full) and then trigger a scrub to see how long a resilver takes. Remember

Re: [zfs-discuss] Basic ZFS Questions + Initial Setup Recommendation

2012-03-21 Thread Paul Kraus
consists of two vdevs each a RAIDz2 of 23 drives and two hot spares. The performance is dreadful, but we _have_ the data in case of a real disaster. -- {1-----2-3-4-5-6-7-} Paul Kraus -> Senior Systems Architect, Garnet River ( http://www.garn

Re: [zfs-discuss] Move files between ZFS folder/Datasets ?

2012-03-14 Thread Paul Kraus
to start the move while people are still using the files. I run a first rsync to copy all of them, then I declare a very short outage window and do a final rsync to catch anything that got changed. I do NOT use the --remove-source-files option. -- {1-2-3-4

Re: [zfs-discuss] Move files between ZFS folder/Datasets ?

2012-03-14 Thread Paul Kraus
last time I checked. -- {1-2-3-4-5-6-7-} Paul Kraus -> Senior Systems Architect, Garnet River ( http://www.garnetriver.com/ ) -> Sound Coordinator, Schenectady Light Opera Company ( http://www.sloctheater.org/ ) -> Technical Adv

Re: [zfs-discuss] Advice for migrating ZFS configuration

2012-03-08 Thread Paul Kraus
hat is now a simple two-disk zpool (less than 50% full) to a > three-disk raidz configuration, starting with one unused disk? In the end I > want the three-disk raidz to have the same name (and mount point) as the > original zpool. There must be an easy way to do this. -- {----1-2-

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs send/receive script

2012-03-06 Thread Paul Kraus
est guess is that only a > receive would do this to you. I have NOT seen issues recv'ing a zfs send while a scrub was running. I am at zpool 22. Always implement locking on tasks that should be single threaded (like zfs send \ zfs recv on a given dataset). -- {----1-2

Re: [zfs-discuss] [zones-discuss] Backing up my zones

2012-02-18 Thread Paul Kraus
products you could try to use for this). I have been using NBU to backup NG Zones from the Global for years. Is the version of NBU so old that it does not support ZFS ? -- {1-2-3-4-5-6-7-----} Paul Kraus -> Senior Systems Architect,

Re: [zfs-discuss] Server upgrade

2012-02-16 Thread Paul Kraus
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Re: [zfs-discuss] [o.seib...@cs.ru.nl: A broken ZFS pool...]

2012-02-15 Thread Paul Kraus
FreeBSD with no outage (assuming the drive is in a hot swap capable enclosure), but as I am not familiar with FreeBSD I do not know what it is. -- {1-2-3-4-5-6-----7-----} Paul Kraus -> Senior Systems Architect, Garnet River ( http://w

[zfs-discuss] destroy snapshot vs. destroy incomplete snapshot

2012-02-06 Thread Paul Kraus
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Re: [zfs-discuss] What is your data error rate?

2012-01-25 Thread Paul Kraus
-15 or 10^-15) which translates into one error per 10^14 bits (bytes ?) transferred to / from the drive. Note the sign change on the exponent :-) -- {1-2-3-----4-5-6-7-} Paul Kraus -> Senior Systems Architect, Garnet River ( http://www

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Recovery: What do I try next?

2011-12-22 Thread Paul Kraus
s are healthy|no pools available"` if [ "X${not_ok}" != "X" ] then fault_details="There is at least one zpool error." let fault_count=fault_count+1 new_faults[${fault_count}]=${fault_details} fi -- {1-2-3--

Re: [zfs-discuss] slow zfs send/recv speed

2011-11-16 Thread Paul Kraus
y and only for moving data physically around, so the lack of ZFS redundancy is not an issue). There are over 2300 snapshots on the source side and we were replicating close to 2000 of them. -- {1-2-3-4-5-6-7-} Paul Kraus -> Sen

Re: [zfs-discuss] about btrfs and zfs

2011-11-14 Thread Paul Kraus
t of address bits?  Or is it something that offers functionality > that other filesystems don't have?     ;-) The stories I have heard indicate that the name came after the TLA. "zfs" came first and "zettabyte" later. -- {1-2-3-4---

Re: [zfs-discuss] about btrfs and zfs

2011-11-11 Thread Paul Kraus
On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 1:39 PM, Linder, Doug wrote: > Paul Kraus wrote: > >>> My main reasons for using zfs are pretty basic compared to some here >> >> What are they ? (the reasons for using ZFS) > > All technical reasons aside, I can tell you one huge reason I

Re: [zfs-discuss] zpool scrub bad block list

2011-11-08 Thread Paul Kraus
uch above 0 or is growing. Keep in mind that any type of hardware RAID should report back 0 for both to the OS. -- {1-2-3-4-5-6-7-} Paul Kraus -> Senior Systems Architect, Garnet River ( http://www.garnetriver.com/ ) ->

Re: [zfs-discuss] Remove corrupt files from snapshot

2011-11-03 Thread Paul Kraus
apdir=hidden " to set the parameter. -- {1-2-3-4-----5-6-7-} Paul Kraus -> Senior Systems Architect, Garnet River ( http://www.garnetriver.com/ ) -> Sound Coordinator, Schenectady Light Opera Company ( http://www.slocth

Re: [zfs-discuss] (OT) forums and email

2011-11-02 Thread Paul Kraus
to (in fact, in the early days of Google Mail I did just that as a backup). -- {1-2-3-4-5-6-7-} Paul Kraus -> Senior Systems Architect, Garnet River ( http://www.garnetriver.com/ ) -> Sound Coordinator, Schenectady Light Opera Co

Re: [zfs-discuss] (Incremental) ZFS SEND at sub-snapshot level

2011-10-31 Thread Paul Kraus
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Re: [zfs-discuss] Poor relative performance of SAS over SATA drives

2011-10-31 Thread Paul Kraus
test server, so any ideas to try and help me understand greatly > appreciated. What do real benchmarks (iozone, filebench, orion) show ? -- {1-2-3-4-5-6-7-} Paul Kraus -> Senior Systems Archi

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs destroy snapshot runs out of memory bug

2011-10-31 Thread Paul Kraus
On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 9:07 AM, Jim Klimov wrote: > 2011-10-31 16:28, Paul Kraus wrote: >> Oracle has provided a loaner system with 128 GB RAM and it took 75 GB of >> RAM >> to destroy the problem snapshot). I had not yet posted a summary as we >> are still working

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs destroy snapshot runs out of memory bug

2011-10-31 Thread Paul Kraus
I had not yet posted a summary as we are still working through the overall problem (we tripped over this on the replica, now we are working on it on the production copy). -- {1-2-3-4-5-6-7-} Paul Kraus -> Senior Systems Archite

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS in front of MD3000i

2011-10-25 Thread Paul Kraus
ort use only according to the documentation), so I created RAID0 sets of 2 drives each and ZFS sees 6 x 1TB LUNs. ZFS then provides my redundancy and data integrity. -- {1-2-3-4-5-----6-----7-} Paul Kraus -> Senior Systems Architect, Garnet Ri

Re: [zfs-discuss] FS Reliability WAS: about btrfs and zfs

2011-10-25 Thread Paul Kraus
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Re: [zfs-discuss] FS Reliability WAS: about btrfs and zfs

2011-10-24 Thread Paul Kraus
On Sat, Oct 22, 2011 at 12:36 AM, Paul Kraus wrote: > Recently someone posted to this list of that _exact_ situation, they loaded > an OS to a pair of drives while a pair of different drives containing an OS > were still attached. The zpool on the first pair ended up not being abl

Re: [zfs-discuss] File contents changed with no ZFS error

2011-10-24 Thread Paul Kraus
e as it does not try to change the data). This was originally reported to me as a problem with ZFS, SAMBA, or the ACLs I had set up. It is amazing how much _changing_ of data goes on with no knowledge by the end users. -- {1-2-3-4-----5-----6-7

Re: [zfs-discuss] FS Reliability WAS: about btrfs and zfs

2011-10-21 Thread Paul Kraus
t; > > Can you elaborate #3? In what situation will it happen? > > > Thanks. > > Fred > -- {1-2-3-4-5-6-7-} Paul Kraus -> Senior Systems Architect, Garnet River ( http://www.garnetriver.com/ ) ->

Re: [zfs-discuss] about btrfs and zfs

2011-10-19 Thread Paul Kraus
@opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss > > -- {1-2-3-4-5-6-7-} Paul Kraus -> Senior Systems Architect, Garnet River ( http://www.garnetriver.com/ )

Re: [zfs-discuss] about btrfs and zfs

2011-10-18 Thread Paul Kraus
operation rewrote the data that had been corrupted on the failing component. No corrupt data was ever presented to the application. -- {1-2-3-4-5-6-7-} Paul Kraus -> Senior Systems Architect, Garnet River ( http://www.garnetrive

Re: [zfs-discuss] FS Reliability WAS: about btrfs and zfs

2011-10-18 Thread Paul Kraus
ss. So far, ZFS is one of the technologies that has not let me down. Of course, in some cases it has taken weeks if not months to resolve or work around a "bug" in the code, but in all cases the data was recovered. -- {1-2-3-4-----5-----6-7

[zfs-discuss] FS Reliability WAS: about btrfs and zfs

2011-10-18 Thread Paul Kraus
I have seen too many horror stories on this list that I just avoid it). -- {1-2-3-4-----5-6-7-} Paul Kraus -> Senior Systems Architect, Garnet River ( http://www.garnetriver.com/ ) -> Sound Coordinator, Schenectady Light Opera Com

Re: [zfs-discuss] about btrfs and zfs

2011-10-18 Thread Paul Kraus
not a substitute for a real online rebalance, but it gets the job done (if you can take the data offline, I do it a small chunk at a time). -- {1-2-3-4-5-6-7-} Paul Kraus -> Senior Systems Architect, Garnet River ( http://www.garn

Re: [zfs-discuss] about btrfs and zfs

2011-10-17 Thread Paul Kraus
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Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS issue on read performance

2011-10-11 Thread Paul Kraus
c3t5000C5001A55F7A6d0 ONLINE 0 0 0 114K repaired c3t5000C5001A5347FEd0 ONLINE 0 0 0 spares c3t5000C5001A485C88d0AVAIL c3t5000C50026A0EC78d0AVAIL errors: No known data errors -- {----1-2-3-4--

Re: [zfs-discuss] S10 version question

2011-10-05 Thread Paul Kraus
On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 5:56 PM, Paul B. Henson wrote: > On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 07:13:40PM -0700, Paul Kraus wrote: > >> Another potential difference ... I have been told by Oracle Support >> (but have not yet confirmed) that just running the latest zfs code >> (Solaris

Re: [zfs-discuss] S10 version question

2011-09-29 Thread Paul Kraus
. I have been told by Oracle Support (but have not yet confirmed) that just running the latest zfs code (Solaris 10U10) will disable the aclmode property, even if you do not upgrade the zpool version beyond 22. I expect to test this next week, as we _need_ ACLs to work for our data. -- {---

Re: [zfs-discuss] All (pure) SSD pool rehash

2011-09-27 Thread Paul Kraus
SB1dFB1cmw0QWNNd0RkR1ZnN0JEb2RsLXc&output=html for the results of some of my testing. -- {1-2-3-----4-----5-6-7-} Paul Kraus -> Senior Systems Architect, Garnet River ( http://www.garnetriver.com/ ) -> Sound Designer: Frankenstei

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs destroy snapshot runs out of memory bug

2011-09-15 Thread Paul Kraus
which would be viable for the backup server, if we had a spare 20+ TB of storage just sitting around. Copying off is NOT an option for production due to outage window _and_ lack of spare 20+ storage :-( -- {1-2-3-4-5-6-7-} Paul Kraus -

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs destroy snapshot runs out of memory bug

2011-09-14 Thread Paul Kraus
run the machine out of memory. -- {1-2-3-4-5-6-7-} Paul Kraus -> Senior Systems Architect, Garnet River ( http://www.garnetriver.com/ ) -> Sound Designer: Frankenstein, A New Musical (http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=123

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs destroy snapshot runs out of memory bug

2011-09-14 Thread Paul Kraus
nel structure in RAM when the system runs out of RAM. It has not committed anything to disk. -- {1-2-3-----4-----5-6-7-} Paul Kraus -> Senior Systems Architect, Garnet River ( http://www.garnetriver.com/ ) -> Sound Designer: Frankenstein

[zfs-discuss] zfs destroy snapshot runs out of memory bug

2011-09-14 Thread Paul Kraus
, and upgrading the zpool won't help with legacy snapshots). -- {1-2-3-4-5-6-7-----} Paul Kraus -> Senior Systems Architect, Garnet River ( http://www.garnetriver.com/ ) -> Sound Designer: Frankenstein, A New Musical (http://

Re: [zfs-discuss] aclmode gone in S10u10?

2011-09-13 Thread Paul Kraus
ran into the bug full steam ahead and is off line right now. On production, once I realized the root cause I stopped the snapshot destroy script, so they are just piling up now :-) Production is 20 TB and 400 million objects, we can't reload that, the outage would kill us. -- {1

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS

2011-09-13 Thread Paul Kraus
ive zfs tools (zfs send / recv), the native Solaris tools (cp, mv, etc.), and Symantec NetBackup. I have not tried other commercial backup systems as we already have NBU in house. zfs send / recv is far, far faster than NBU. -- {1-2-3-4-5-6----

Re: [zfs-discuss] aclmode gone in S10u10?

2011-09-13 Thread Paul Kraus
y have 32 GB in this system and the faulty snapshot *should* be about 2.5 TB. -- {1-2-3-4-5-6-7-} Paul Kraus -> Senior Systems Architect, Garnet River ( http://www.garnetriver.com/ ) -> Sound Designer: Frankenstein, A New Mu

Re: [zfs-discuss] zpool import starves machine of memory

2011-08-24 Thread Paul Kraus
hear back on status of this new bug (which looks like an old bug, but the old bug has been fixed in the patches I'm now running). On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 9:19 AM, Paul Kraus wrote: >    I am having a very odd problem, and so far the folks at Oracle > Support have not provided a working s

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

2011-08-15 Thread Paul Kraus
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Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs destory snapshot takes an hours.

2011-08-11 Thread Paul Kraus
s). -- {----1-----2-3-4-5-6-7-} Paul Kraus -> Senior Systems Architect, Garnet River ( http://www.garnetriver.com/ ) -> Sound Designer: Frankenstein, A New Musical (http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=123170297765140) -> Sound Coordinator, S

Re: [zfs-discuss] Issues with supermicro

2011-08-10 Thread Paul Kraus
ing to /etc/system and reboot: set zfs:zfs_arc_max = can be decimal or hex (but don't use a scale like 4g). Best to keep it a power of 2. -- {1-2-3-4-5-6-7-} Paul Kraus -> Senior Systems Architect, Garne

Re: [zfs-discuss] Issues with supermicro

2011-08-09 Thread Paul Kraus
if=/dev/zero > of=/fooPool0/86gb.tst bs=4096 count=20971520 > ^C6272342+0 records in > 6272342+0 records out > 25691512832 bytes (26 GB) copied, 70.4122 s, 365 MB/s > > > real    1m10.433s > user    0m3.187s > sys     1m4.426s > __

Re: [zfs-discuss] Disk IDs and DD

2011-08-09 Thread Paul Kraus
eyond the three you indicate. Keep in mind that once the kernel finds a controller it makes an entry in /etc/path_to_inst so that the IDs remain consistent if new controllers are added (earlier in the search path). -- {1-2-3-4-5-6-7---

Re: [zfs-discuss] zpool import starves machine of memory

2011-08-05 Thread Paul Kraus
e the "fullness" of this zpool. On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 1:25 PM, Paul Kraus wrote: > Updates to my problem: > > 1. The destroy operation appears to be restarting from the same point > after the system hangs and has to be rebooted. Oracle gave me the > following to track prog

Re: [zfs-discuss] zpool import starves machine of memory

2011-08-04 Thread Paul Kraus
zfs recv ... and every time I try to import this zpool I hang the system due to lack of memory (the box has 32 GB of RAM). Any suggestions how to delete / destroy this incomplete snapshot without running the system out of RAM ? On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 9:56 AM, Paul Kraus wrote: > An additional dat

Re: [zfs-discuss] zpool import starves machine of memory

2011-08-03 Thread Paul Kraus
this might impact importing this zpool ? On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 9:19 AM, Paul Kraus wrote: >    I am having a very odd problem, and so far the folks at Oracle > Support have not provided a working solution, so I am asking the crowd > here while still pursuing it via Oracle Support. > >

[zfs-discuss] zpool import starves machine of memory

2011-08-03 Thread Paul Kraus
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Re: [zfs-discuss] How about 4KB disk sectors?

2011-07-13 Thread Paul Kraus
hould be OK ? [Not applicable to the root zpool, will the OS installation utility do the right thing ?] -- {1-2-3-4-5-6-----7-----} Paul Kraus -> Senior Systems Architect, Garnet River ( http://www.garnetriver.com/ ) -> Sound Coordinator

Re: [zfs-discuss] Non-Global zone recovery

2011-07-07 Thread Paul Kraus
nd it's data. You may have to force an operation since you did not detach the zone. -- {1-2-3-4-----5-----6-7-} Paul Kraus -> Senior Systems Architect, Garnet River ( http://www.garnetriver.com/ ) -> Sound Coordinator

Re: [zfs-discuss] Non-Global zone recovery

2011-07-07 Thread Paul Kraus
ion ? -- {1-2-3-4-5-6-7-} Paul Kraus -> Senior Systems Architect, Garnet River ( http://www.garnetriver.com/ ) -> Sound Coordinator, Schenectady Light Opera Company ( http://www.sloctheater.org/ ) ->

Re: [zfs-discuss] Changed to AHCI, can not access disk???

2011-07-05 Thread Paul Kraus
the LVM layer uses a private region on disk to identify the device (much like both SLVM and ZFS). -- {1-2-3-4-5-6-7-} Paul Kraus -> Senior Systems Architect, Garnet River ( http://www.garnetriver.com/ ) -> Sound Coordinator,

Re: [zfs-discuss] Finding disks [was: # disks per vdev]

2011-07-05 Thread Paul Kraus
00, so we can lose two complete J4400 chassis and not lose any data. -- {1-2-3-4-5-6-7-} Paul Kraus -> Senior Systems Architect, Garnet River ( http://www.garnetriver.com/ ) -> Sound Coordinator, Schenectady Light Opera

Re: [zfs-discuss] Encryption accelerator card recommendations.

2011-06-29 Thread Paul Kraus
l I enabled encryption, which brought the transfer rates down > to around 20 MB/sec... -- {1-----2-----3-4-5-6-7-} Paul Kraus -> Senior Systems Architect, Garnet River ( http://www.garnetriver.com/ ) -> Sound Coordinator, Schenectady Li

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

2011-06-23 Thread Paul Kraus
Spare ? If you have another zpool and the Hot Spare will be shared, that makes sense. If the drive is powered on and spinning, I don't see any downside to making it a 4-way mirror instead of 3-way + HS. -- {1-2-3-4-5-6-----7-----} P

Re: [zfs-discuss] question about COW and snapshots

2011-06-16 Thread Paul Kraus
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[zfs-discuss] Versioning FS WAS:question about COW and snapshots

2011-06-15 Thread Paul Kraus
it's auto-archive (and versioning) capability, but it cannot meet our performance needs. -- {1-2-----3-----4-5-6-7-} Paul Kraus -> Senior Systems Architect, Garnet River ( http://www.garnetriver.com/ ) -> Sound Coordina

Re: [zfs-discuss] optimal layout for 8x 1 TByte SATA (consumer)

2011-06-14 Thread Paul Kraus
On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 11:48 AM, Eric D. Mudama wrote: > On Tue, Jun 14 at  8:04, Paul Kraus wrote: >> I saw some stats a year or more ago that indicated the MTDL for raidZ2 >> was better than for a 2-way mirror. In order of best to worst I >> remember the rankings as

Re: [zfs-discuss] optimal layout for 8x 1 TByte SATA (consumer)

2011-06-14 Thread Paul Kraus
nformation came out of Sun (pre-Oracle) and _may_ have been traceable back to Brendan Gregg. -- {1-2-3-4-5-6-----7-} Paul Kraus -> Senior Systems Architect, Garnet River ( http://www.garnetriver.com/ ) -> Sound Coordinator, Sch

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS receive checksum mismatch

2011-06-10 Thread Paul Kraus
entals through the WAN link. -- {1-2-----3-----4-5-6-7-} Paul Kraus -> Senior Systems Architect, Garnet River ( http://www.garnetriver.com/ ) -> Sound Coordinator, Schenectady Light Opera Company ( htt

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS receive checksum mismatch

2011-06-09 Thread Paul Kraus
On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 1:17 PM, Jim Klimov wrote: > 2011-06-09 18:52, Paul Kraus пишет: >> >> On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 8:59 AM, Jonathan Walker  wrote: >> >>> New to ZFS, I made a critical error when migrating data and >>> configuring zpools according to need

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS receive checksum mismatch

2011-06-09 Thread Paul Kraus
ch and thought I had lost my > data. Was the cause of the checksum mismatch just that the stream data was stored as a file ? That does not seem right to me. -- {1-2-3-4-5-6-7-} Paul Kraus -> Senior Systems Architect, Garnet

[zfs-discuss] Resilver / Scrub Status

2011-06-07 Thread Paul Kraus
, 3 MB/sec. maybe) or just wait it out. I'll be honest, I am nervous with a raidz2 vdev not at full strength, and I am looking for some comfort :-) -- {1-2-3-4-5-6-7-----} Paul Kraus -> Senior Systems Architect, Garnet Rive

Re: [zfs-discuss] SATA disk perf question

2011-06-03 Thread Paul Kraus
On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 11:49 PM, Erik Trimble wrote: > On 6/2/2011 5:12 PM, Jens Elkner wrote: >> >> On Wed, Jun 01, 2011 at 06:17:08PM -0700, Erik Trimble wrote: >>> >>> On Wed, 2011-06-01 at 12:54 -0400, Paul Kraus wrote: >> >>> Here's how

Re: [zfs-discuss] SATA disk perf question

2011-06-02 Thread Paul Kraus
time to resilver a failed drive, for example). -- {1-2-3-4-5-6-7-} Paul Kraus -> Senior Systems Architect, Garnet River ( http://www.garnetriver.com/ ) -> Sound Coordinator, Schenectady Light Opera Company ( http://www.sloctheater.

Re: [zfs-discuss] changing vdev types

2011-06-01 Thread Paul Kraus
the zfs "mountpoint" property (zfs get mountpoint and zfs set mountpoint= ). -- {----1-2-3-4-5-6-7-} Paul Kraus -> Senior Systems Architect, Garnet River ( http://www.garnetriver.com/ ) -> Sound Coordinator, Schenec

Re: [zfs-discuss] SATA disk perf question

2011-06-01 Thread Paul Kraus
oles from deleted snapshots). -- {1-2-3-4-5-6-7-} Paul Kraus -> Senior Systems Architect, Garnet River ( http://www.garnetriver.com/ ) -> Sound Coordinator, Schenectady Light Opera Company ( http://www.sloctheater.org/ )

[zfs-discuss] SATA disk perf question

2011-06-01 Thread Paul Kraus
/O activity on this box, as this is a remote replication target for production data. I have a the replication disabled until the resilver completes. Solaris 10U9 zpool version 22 Server is a T2000 -- {1-2-3-4-5-6-7-} Paul Kraus

Re: [zfs-discuss] Experiences with 10.000+ filesystems

2011-05-31 Thread Paul Kraus
(snapshot and replicate) each in turn. -- {1-----2-----3-4-5-6-7-} Paul Kraus -> Senior Systems Architect, Garnet River ( http://www.garnetriver.com/ ) -> Sound Coordinator, Schenectady Light Opera Com

Re: [zfs-discuss] optimal layout for 8x 1 TByte SATA (consumer)

2011-05-31 Thread Paul Kraus
kR1ZnN0JEb2RsLXc&output=html for results using raidz2 vdevs. I did not test sequential read performance here as our workload does not include any. -- {1-2-3-4-5-----6-7-} Paul Kraus -> Senior Systems Architect, Garnet River ( htt

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS, Oracle and Nexenta

2011-05-25 Thread Paul Kraus
existing naming convention. I am NOT saying that was a bad change, but that it was a change driven by ONE vendor. -- {1-2-3-----4-5-6-7-} Paul Kraus -> Senior Systems Architect, Garnet River ( http://www.garnetriver.com/ ) ->

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS, Oracle and Nexenta

2011-05-25 Thread Paul Kraus
lts. -- {1-2-3-----4-5-6-7-} Paul Kraus -> Senior Systems Architect, Garnet River ( http://www.garnetriver.com/ ) -> Sound Coordinator, Schenectady Light Opera Company ( http://www.sloctheater.org/ ) -> Technical Advisor, RPI Players

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