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

2013-02-26 Thread Paul Kraus
/ GraphicsMagick Maintainer,http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/ ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss -- Paul Kraus Deputy Technical Director, LoneStarCon 3 Sound Coordinator

Re: [zfs-discuss] SVM ZFS

2013-02-26 Thread Paul Kraus
. 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 Coordinator, Schenectady Light Opera Company ___ zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] SVM ZFS

2013-02-26 Thread Paul Kraus
. That was 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

Re: [zfs-discuss] maczfs / ZEVO

2013-02-19 Thread Paul Kraus
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 :-( -- Paul Kraus Deputy Technical Director, LoneStarCon 3 Sound Coordinator, Schenectady Light Opera Company

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

2013-02-04 Thread Paul Kraus
-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 NFS 3 or NFS 4. -- Paul Kraus Deputy Technical Director, LoneStarCon 3 Sound Coordinator, Schenectady Light Opera Company ___ zfs-discuss

[zfs-discuss] Restore destroyed snapshot ???

2012-06-18 Thread Paul Kraus
no 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 (http

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

2012-06-05 Thread Paul Kraus
be important for large objects randomly updated inside, like VM disk images and iSCSI backing stores, precreated database table files, maybe swapfiles, etc. -- {1-2-3-4-5-6-7-} Paul Kraus - Senior Systems Architect, Garnet River

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

2012-06-04 Thread Paul Kraus
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-} Paul

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

2012-05-30 Thread Paul Kraus
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 Architect

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
. 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 Architect, Garnet River

Re: [zfs-discuss] IOzone benchmarking

2012-05-03 Thread Paul Kraus
On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 10:39 AM, Edward Ned Harvey opensolarisisdeadlongliveopensola...@nedharvey.com 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

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

2012-05-02 Thread Paul Kraus
in the 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
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 Architect, Garnet River ( http://www.garnetriver.com/ ) - Assistant

Re: [zfs-discuss] IOzone benchmarking

2012-05-01 Thread Paul Kraus
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. -- {1-2-3-4-5-6-7-} Paul Kraus - Senior Systems Architect

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

2012-04-25 Thread Paul Kraus
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 ( http://www.garnetriver.com/ ) - Sound Coordinator, Schenectady Light Opera

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

2012-04-09 Thread Paul Kraus
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. -- {1-2-3-4-5-6-7-} Paul Kraus - Senior Systems Architect

[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 Opera Company

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

2012-04-05 Thread Paul Kraus
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-} Paul Kraus - Senior Systems Architect, Garnet River ( http

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

2012-04-05 Thread Paul Kraus
, 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.sloctheater.org/ ) - Technical Advisor

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

2012-03-27 Thread Paul Kraus
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. -- {1-2-3-4-5-6-7-} Paul Kraus - Senior Systems Architect, Garnet River ( http

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

2012-03-21 Thread Paul Kraus
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.garnetriver.com/ ) - Sound Coordinator, Schenectady Light Opera Company ( http

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

2012-03-21 Thread Paul Kraus
that you are looking for _relative_ measures (unless you have a performance goal you need to hit). -- {1-2-3-4-5-6-7-} Paul Kraus - Senior Systems Architect, Garnet River ( http://www.garnetriver.com/ ) - Sound Coordinator, Schenectady Light

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

2012-03-21 Thread Paul Kraus
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. -- {1-2-3-4-5-6-7-} Paul Kraus - Senior Systems Architect, Garnet

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

2012-03-14 Thread Paul Kraus
-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, Troy Civic Theatre Company - Technical

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

2012-03-14 Thread Paul Kraus
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. -- {1-2-3-4-5-6-7-} Paul Kraus - Senior

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

2012-03-08 Thread Paul Kraus
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. -- {1-2-3-4-5-6-7-} Paul Kraus - Senior Systems

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

2012-03-06 Thread Paul Kraus
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Re: [zfs-discuss] [zones-discuss] Backing up my zones

2012-02-18 Thread Paul Kraus
makes many 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

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
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

[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
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.garnetriver.com/ ) - Sound Coordinator

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

2011-12-22 Thread Paul Kraus
] then fault_details=There is at least one zpool error. let fault_count=fault_count+1 new_faults[${fault_count}]=${fault_details} fi -- {1-2-3-4-5-6-7-} Paul Kraus - Senior Systems Architect, Garnet River ( http

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

2011-11-16 Thread Paul Kraus
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 - Senior

Re: [zfs-discuss] about btrfs and zfs

2011-11-14 Thread Paul Kraus
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Re: [zfs-discuss] about btrfs and zfs

2011-11-11 Thread Paul Kraus
On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 1:39 PM, Linder, Doug doug.lin...@merchantlink.com 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 love ZFS

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

2011-11-08 Thread Paul Kraus
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/ ) - Sound Coordinator, Schenectady

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

2011-11-03 Thread Paul Kraus
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.sloctheater.org/ ) - Technical Advisor, RPI Players

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

2011-11-02 Thread Paul Kraus
if I need 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

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

2011-10-31 Thread Paul Kraus
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 Architect, Garnet River ( http://www.garnetriver.com/ ) - Sound Coordinator, Schenectady

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 jimkli...@cos.ru 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 through the overall

Re: [zfs-discuss] Poor relative performance of SAS over SATA drives

2011-10-31 Thread Paul Kraus
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Re: [zfs-discuss] (Incremental) ZFS SEND at sub-snapshot level

2011-10-31 Thread Paul Kraus
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Re: [zfs-discuss] FS Reliability WAS: about btrfs and zfs

2011-10-25 Thread Paul Kraus
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Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS in front of MD3000i

2011-10-25 Thread Paul Kraus
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 River ( http

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

2011-10-24 Thread Paul Kraus
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-} Paul Kraus - Senior

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 p...@kraus-haus.org 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

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

2011-10-21 Thread Paul Kraus
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/ ) - Sound Coordinator, Schenectady Light Opera Company ( http

Re: [zfs-discuss] about btrfs and zfs

2011-10-19 Thread Paul Kraus
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Re: [zfs-discuss] about btrfs and zfs

2011-10-18 Thread Paul Kraus
after adding devices. I know this is 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

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

2011-10-18 Thread Paul Kraus
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 Company ( http://www.sloctheater.org

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

2011-10-18 Thread Paul Kraus
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-} Paul Kraus

Re: [zfs-discuss] about btrfs and zfs

2011-10-18 Thread Paul Kraus
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.garnetriver.com/ ) - Sound

Re: [zfs-discuss] about btrfs and zfs

2011-10-17 Thread Paul Kraus
-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 ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS issue on read performance

2011-10-11 Thread Paul Kraus
c3t5000C5001A5347FEd0 ONLINE 0 0 0 spares c3t5000C5001A485C88d0AVAIL c3t5000C50026A0EC78d0AVAIL errors: No known data errors -- {1-2-3-4-5-6-7-} Paul Kraus - Senior Systems Architect

Re: [zfs-discuss] S10 version question

2011-10-05 Thread Paul Kraus
On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 5:56 PM, Paul B. Henson hen...@acm.org 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 10U10) will disable

Re: [zfs-discuss] S10 version question

2011-09-29 Thread Paul Kraus
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Re: [zfs-discuss] All (pure) SSD pool rehash

2011-09-27 Thread Paul Kraus
-SB1dFB1cmw0QWNNd0RkR1ZnN0JEb2RsLXcoutput=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: Frankenstein, A New Musical (http://www.facebook.com

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

2011-09-15 Thread Paul Kraus
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 - Senior Systems

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

2011-09-14 Thread Paul Kraus
there, 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://www.facebook.com

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

2011-09-14 Thread Paul Kraus
. -- {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, Schenectady

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

2011-09-13 Thread Paul Kraus
objects, we can't reload that, the outage would kill us. -- {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

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

2011-08-24 Thread Paul Kraus
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 p...@kraus-haus.org wrote:    I am having a very odd problem, and so far the folks at Oracle Support have not provided a working

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
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Re: [zfs-discuss] Issues with supermicro

2011-08-10 Thread Paul Kraus
. Add the following to /etc/system and reboot: set zfs:zfs_arc_max = bytes bytes 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, Garnet

Re: [zfs-discuss] Disk IDs and DD

2011-08-09 Thread Paul Kraus
are added (earlier in the search path). -- {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

Re: [zfs-discuss] Issues with supermicro

2011-08-09 Thread Paul Kraus
___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@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

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

2011-08-05 Thread Paul Kraus
the fullness of this zpool. On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 1:25 PM, Paul Kraus p...@kraus-haus.org 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 progress: echo '::pgrep

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

2011-08-04 Thread Paul Kraus
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 p...@kraus-haus.org wrote: An additional data point, when i try to do

[zfs-discuss] zpool import starves machine of memory

2011-08-03 Thread Paul Kraus
in sy cs us sy id 0 0 112 8117096 211888 55 46 0 0 425 0 912684 0 0 0 0 976 166 836 0 2 98 0 0 112 8117096 211936 53 51 6 0 394 0 926702 0 0 0 0 976 167 833 0 2 98 ARC size (B): 4065882656 -- {1-2-3-4-5-6-7-} Paul Kraus

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

2011-08-03 Thread Paul Kraus
impact importing this zpool ? On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 9:19 AM, Paul Kraus p...@kraus-haus.org 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

Re: [zfs-discuss] How about 4KB disk sectors?

2011-07-13 Thread Paul Kraus
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, Schenectady

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

2011-07-07 Thread Paul Kraus
? -- {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

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

2011-07-07 Thread Paul Kraus
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, Schenectady Light Opera Company

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

2011-07-05 Thread Paul Kraus
. -- {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

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

2011-07-05 Thread Paul Kraus
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Re: [zfs-discuss] Encryption accelerator card recommendations.

2011-06-29 Thread Paul Kraus
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 Light Opera Company ( http://www.sloctheater.org/ ) - Technical Advisor, RPI

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-} Paul Kraus

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

2011-06-16 Thread Paul Kraus
). -- {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

[zfs-discuss] Versioning FS WAS:question about COW and snapshots

2011-06-15 Thread Paul Kraus
, 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 Coordinator, Schenectady Light Opera Company ( http://www.sloctheater.org

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

2011-06-14 Thread Paul Kraus
. This information 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, Schenectady Light

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 edmud...@bounceswoosh.org 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

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS receive checksum mismatch

2011-06-10 Thread Paul Kraus
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Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS receive checksum mismatch

2011-06-09 Thread Paul Kraus
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 River ( http

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS receive checksum mismatch

2011-06-09 Thread Paul Kraus
On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 1:17 PM, Jim Klimov jimkli...@cos.ru wrote: 2011-06-09 18:52, Paul Kraus пишет: On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 8:59 AM, Jonathan Walkerkall...@gmail.com  wrote: New to ZFS, I made a critical error when migrating data and configuring zpools according to needs - I stored

[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 River ( http

Re: [zfs-discuss] SATA disk perf question

2011-06-03 Thread Paul Kraus
On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 11:49 PM, Erik Trimble erik.trim...@oracle.com 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 you calculate (average) how long a random IOPs

Re: [zfs-discuss] SATA disk perf question

2011-06-02 Thread Paul Kraus
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[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] changing vdev types

2011-06-01 Thread Paul Kraus
mountpoint=foo zfs). -- {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

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

2011-05-31 Thread Paul Kraus
-SB1dFB1cmw0QWNNd0RkR1ZnN0JEb2RsLXcoutput=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 ( http://www.garnetriver.com

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

2011-05-31 Thread Paul Kraus
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Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS, Oracle and Nexenta

2011-05-25 Thread Paul Kraus
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Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS, Oracle and Nexenta

2011-05-25 Thread Paul Kraus
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/ ) - Sound Coordinator, Schenectady Light Opera

Re: [zfs-discuss] New twist on the faulted zpools

2011-05-21 Thread Paul Kraus
driver was not handling a couple very specific scsi commands fast enough for ZFS. The problem shows itself when importing under Solaris 10U9 or when making other underlying storage changes. It is apparently 10U9 specific. On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 1:12 PM, Paul Kraus p...@kraus-haus.org wrote: I have

Re: [zfs-discuss] Faulted Pool Question

2011-05-20 Thread Paul Kraus
On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 12:53 AM, Richard Elling richard.ell...@gmail.com wrote: On May 19, 2011, at 2:09 PM, Paul Kraus p...@kraus-haus.org wrote:    Is there a way (other than zpool online) to kick ZFS into rescanning the LUNs ? zpool clear poolname I am unclear on when clear

[zfs-discuss] New twist on the faulted zpools

2011-05-20 Thread Paul Kraus
, and the rest are fine. The pool has a capacity of 1.5 TB and is about 1.37 TB used, the remaining pool to cleanup is 8 TB used out of 9 TB and we really can't afford to have these kinds of problems with that one. -- {1-2-3-4-5-6-7-} Paul Kraus

[zfs-discuss] Faulted Pool Question

2011-05-19 Thread Paul Kraus
that did not have devices on the faulted 3511 are OK. Because of these other zpools we can't really reboot the box or pull the FC connections. -- {1-2-3-4-5-6-7-} Paul Kraus - Senior Systems Architect, Garnet River ( http

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