[zfs-discuss] Backing up ZFS metadata

2012-08-24 Thread Scott Aitken
the start and end of two member disks (and possibly some data). I assume that if I could have restored the lost metadata I could have recovered most of the real data. Thanks Scott ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http

Re: [zfs-discuss] Recovering lost labels on raidz member

2012-08-13 Thread Scott
Hi Saso, thanks for your reply. If all disks are the same, is the root pointer the same? Also, is there a signature or something unique to the root block that I can search for on the disk? I'm going through the On-disk specification at the moment. Scott On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 10:02:58AM

Re: [zfs-discuss] Recovering lost labels on raidz member

2012-08-13 Thread Scott
Thanks again Saso, at least I have closure :) Scott On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 11:24:55AM +0200, Sa?o Kiselkov wrote: On 08/13/2012 10:45 AM, Scott wrote: Hi Saso, thanks for your reply. If all disks are the same, is the root pointer the same? No. Also, is there a signature

Re: [zfs-discuss] Recovering lost labels on raidz member

2012-08-13 Thread Scott
On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 10:40:45AM -0700, Richard Elling wrote: On Aug 13, 2012, at 2:24 AM, Sa?o Kiselkov wrote: On 08/13/2012 10:45 AM, Scott wrote: Hi Saso, thanks for your reply. If all disks are the same, is the root pointer the same? No. Also

[zfs-discuss] Recovering lost labels on raidz member

2012-08-12 Thread Scott
the labels using the infomration from the 3 valid disks? Thanks Scott ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

[zfs-discuss] Corrupted pool: I/O error and Bad exchange descriptor

2012-07-16 Thread Scott Aitken
recovery is a bonus. If anyone is keen, I have enabled SSH into the Open Indiana box which I'm using to try and recovery the pool, so if you'd like to take a shot please let me know. Thanks in advance, Scott ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Recovery of RAIDZ with broken label(s)

2012-06-16 Thread Scott Aitken
root@openindiana-01:/mnt# zpool scrub ZP-8T-RZ1-01 cannot scrub 'ZP-8T-RZ1-01': pool is currently unavailable Thanks for your tenacity Stefan. Scott ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs

Re: [zfs-discuss] Recovery of RAIDZ with broken label(s)

2012-06-16 Thread Scott Aitken
and then you can 'zpool replace' the new disk into the pool perhaps? Gregg Wonderly On 6/16/2012 2:02 AM, Scott Aitken wrote: On Sat, Jun 16, 2012 at 08:54:05AM +0200, Stefan Ring wrote: when you say remove the device, I assume you mean simply make it unavailable for import (I

Re: [zfs-discuss] Recovery of RAIDZ with broken label(s)

2012-06-16 Thread Scott Aitken
On Sat, Jun 16, 2012 at 09:58:40AM -0500, Gregg Wonderly wrote: On Jun 16, 2012, at 9:49 AM, Scott Aitken wrote: On Sat, Jun 16, 2012 at 09:09:53AM -0500, Gregg Wonderly wrote: Use 'dd' to replicate as much of lofi/2 as you can onto another device, and then cable that into place

Re: [zfs-discuss] Recovery of RAIDZ with broken label(s)

2012-06-15 Thread Scott Aitken
the device, rather than saying it has corrupted data. It's interesting that even though 4 of the 5 disks are available, it still can import it as DEGRADED. Thanks again. Scott ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http

Re: [zfs-discuss] Recovery of RAIDZ with broken label(s)

2012-06-14 Thread Scott Aitken
On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 09:56:43AM +1000, Daniel Carosone wrote: On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 03:46:00PM +1000, Scott Aitken wrote: Hi all, Hi Scott. :-) I have a 5 drive RAIDZ volume with data that I'd like to recover. Yeah, still.. I tried using Jeff Bonwick's labelfix binary

[zfs-discuss] Recovery of RAIDZ with broken label(s)

2012-06-11 Thread Scott Aitken
if some wonderful person wants to poke around. If I lose the data that's ok, but it'd be nice to know all avenues were tried before I delete the 9TB of images (I need the space...) Many thanks, Scott zfs-list at thismonkey dot com ___ zfs-discuss mailing

Re: [zfs-discuss] Sudden drop in disk performance - WD20EURS 4k sectors to blame?

2011-08-15 Thread chris scott
Did you 4k align your partition table and is ashift=12? -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

[zfs-discuss] ZFS Hard link space savings

2011-06-12 Thread Scott Lawson
, Scott. ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Hard link space savings

2011-06-12 Thread Scott Lawson
On 13/06/11 10:28 AM, Nico Williams wrote: On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 4:14 PM, Scott Lawson scott.law...@manukau.ac.nz wrote: I have an interesting question that may or may not be answerable from some internal ZFS semantics. This is really standard Unix filesystem semantics. I

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Hard link space savings

2011-06-12 Thread Scott Lawson
licensing. So it is bye bye Sun Messaging Server for us. 2011-06-13 1:14, Scott Lawson пишет: Hi All, I have an interesting question that may or may not be answerable from some internal ZFS semantics. I have a Sun Messaging Server which has 5 ZFS based email stores. The Sun Messaging server uses

Re: [zfs-discuss] Best choice - file system for system

2011-01-27 Thread Tristram Scott
I don't disagree that zfs is the better choice, but... Seriously though. UFS is dead. It has no advantage over ZFS that I'm aware of. When it comes to dumping and restoring filesystems, there is still no official replacement for the ufsdump and ufsrestore. The discussion has been had

Re: [zfs-discuss] OT: anyone aware how to obtain 1.8.0 for X2100M2?

2010-12-19 Thread Scott Lawson
Hi, Took me a couple of minutes to find the download for this in my Oracle support. Search for the patch like this . Patches and Updates Panel - Patch Search - Patch Name or Number is : 10275731 Pretty easy really. Scott. PS. I found that patch by using product or family equals x2100

Re: [zfs-discuss] how to replace failed vdev on non redundant pool?

2010-10-15 Thread Scott Meilicke
burst a mighty flame. -Dante Alighieri ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss Scott Meilicke ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs

Re: [zfs-discuss] Optimal raidz3 configuration

2010-10-13 Thread Scott Meilicke
Hello Peter, Read the ZFS Best Practices Guide to start. If you still have questions, post back to the list. http://www.solarisinternals.com/wiki/index.php/ZFS_Best_Practices_Guide#Storage_Pool_Performance_Considerations -Scott On Oct 13, 2010, at 3:21 PM, Peter Taps wrote: Folks, If I

Re: [zfs-discuss] Bursty writes - why?

2010-10-12 Thread Scott Meilicke
, while writes to the ZIL/SLOG will be more random (in order to commit quickly)? Scott Meilicke ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] [RFC] Backup solution

2010-10-08 Thread Scott Meilicke
. At some point you have to rely on your backups for the unexpected and unforeseen. Make sure they are good! Michael, nice reliability write up! -- Scott Meilicke ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org

Re: [zfs-discuss] [RFC] Backup solution

2010-10-07 Thread Scott Meilicke
@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss Scott Meilicke ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Finding corrupted files

2010-10-06 Thread Scott Meilicke
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Re: [zfs-discuss] When is it okay to turn off the verify option.

2010-10-04 Thread Scott Meilicke
, before it got corrupted by your system, happens to be saved somewhere else before it reached your system. ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss Scott Meilicke

Re: [zfs-discuss] Is there any way to stop a resilver?

2010-09-29 Thread Scott Meilicke
Has it been running long? Initially the numbers are way off. After a while it settles down into something reasonable. How many disks, and what size, are in your raidz2? -Scott On 9/29/10 8:36 AM, LIC mesh licm...@gmail.com wrote: Is there any way to stop a resilver? We gotta stop

Re: [zfs-discuss] Is there any way to stop a resilver?

2010-09-29 Thread Scott Meilicke
in) and restarts. Never gets past 0.00% completion, and K resilvered on any LUN. 64 LUNs, 32x5.44T, 32x10.88T in 8 vdevs. On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 11:40 AM, Scott Meilicke scott.meili...@craneaerospace.com wrote: Has it been running long? Initially the numbers are way off. After

Re: [zfs-discuss] Fwd: Is there any way to stop a resilver?

2010-09-29 Thread Scott Meilicke
before you do it :). Although stopping a scrub is pretty innocuous. -Scott On 9/29/10 9:22 AM, LIC mesh licm...@gmail.com wrote: You almost have it - each iSCSI target is made up of 4 of the raidz vdevs - 4 * 6 = 24 disks. 16 targets total. We have one LUN with status of UNAVAIL but didn't

[zfs-discuss] Resliver making the system unresponsive

2010-09-29 Thread Scott Meilicke
insights. -Scott -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Resliver making the system unresponsive

2010-09-29 Thread Scott Meilicke
I should add I have 477 snapshots across all files systems. Most of them are hourly snaps (225 of them anyway). On Sep 29, 2010, at 3:16 PM, Scott Meilicke wrote: This must be resliver day :) I just had a drive failure. The hot spare kicked in, and access to the pool over NFS

Re: [zfs-discuss] When Zpool has no space left and no snapshots

2010-09-28 Thread Scott Meilicke
://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss -- Scott Meilicke | Enterprise Systems Administrator | Crane Aerospace Electronics | +1 425-743-8153 | M: +1 206-406-2670 We value your opinion! How may we serve you better

Re: [zfs-discuss] Kernel panic on ZFS import - how do I recover?

2010-09-28 Thread Meilicke, Scott
Brilliant. I set those parameters via /etc/system, rebooted, and the pool imported with just the ­f switch. I had seen this as an option earlier, although not that thread, but was not sure it applied to my case. Scrub is running now. Thank you very much! -Scott On 9/23/10 7:07 PM, David

Re: [zfs-discuss] Kernel panic on ZFS import - how do I recover?

2010-09-27 Thread Scott Meilicke
, although not that thread, but was not sure it applied to my case. Scrub is running now. Thank you very much! -Scott Update: The scrub finished with zero errors. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss

[zfs-discuss] My filesystem turned from a directory into a special character device

2010-09-27 Thread Scott Meilicke
, as seen by ls -l: drwxr-xr-x 4 root root4 Sep 27 09:14 scott crwxr-xr-x 9 root root 0, 0 Sep 20 11:51 scott2 Notice the 'c' vs. 'd' at the beginning of the permissions list. I had been fiddling with permissions last week, then had problems with a kernel panic. Perhaps this is related? Any

Re: [zfs-discuss] My filesystem turned from a directory into a special character device

2010-09-27 Thread Scott Meilicke
On 9/27/10 9:56 AM, Victor Latushkin victor.latush...@oracle.com wrote: On Sep 27, 2010, at 8:30 PM, Scott Meilicke wrote: I am running nexenta CE 3.0.3. I have a file system that at some point in the last week went from a directory per 'ls -l' to a special character device

Re: [zfs-discuss] Dedup relationship between pool and filesystem

2010-09-25 Thread Scott Meilicke
When I do the calculations, assuming 300bytes per block to be conservative, with 128K blocks, I get 2.34G of cache (RAM, L2ARC) per Terabyte of deduped data. But block size is dynamic, so you will need more than this. Scott -- This message posted from opensolaris.org

Re: [zfs-discuss] Data transfer taking a longer time than expected (Possibly dedup related)

2010-09-24 Thread Scott Meilicke
the process, delete the deduped file system (your copy target), and create a new file system without dedupe to see if that is any better? Scott -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http

Re: [zfs-discuss] Dedup relationship between pool and filesystem

2010-09-23 Thread Scott Meilicke
, they will dedupe. I am not sure why reporting is not done at the file system level. It may be an accounting issue, i.e. which file system owns the dedupe blocks. But it seems some fair estimate could be made. Maybe the overhead to keep a file system updated with these stats is too high? -Scott

Re: [zfs-discuss] Configuration questions for Home File Server (CPU cores, dedup, checksum)?

2010-09-07 Thread Scott Meilicke
CPU penalty as well. My four core (1.86GHz xeons, 4 yrs old) box nearly maxes out when putting a lot of data into a deduped file system. -Scott -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS development moving behind closed doors

2010-08-16 Thread Scott Meilicke
I had already begun the process of migrating my 134 boxes over to Nexenta before Oracle's cunning plans became known. This just reaffirms my decision. Us too. :) -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list

Re: [zfs-discuss] snapshot space - miscalculation?

2010-08-04 Thread Scott Meilicke
Are there other file systems underneath daten/backups that have snapshots? -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] slog/L2ARC on a hard drive and not SSD?

2010-07-21 Thread Scott Meilicke
Another data point - I used three 15K disks striped using my RAID controller as a slog for the zil, and performance went down. I had three raidz sata vdevs holding the data, and my load was VMs, i.e. a fair amount of small, random IO (60% random, 50% write, ~16k in size). Scott

Re: [zfs-discuss] Deleting large amounts of files

2010-07-19 Thread Scott Meilicke
If these files are deduped, and there is not a lot of RAM on the machine, it can take a long, long time to work through the dedupe portion. I don't know enough to know if that is what you are experiencing, but it could be the problem. How much RAM do you have? Scott -- This message posted

Re: [zfs-discuss] Announce: zfsdump

2010-07-05 Thread Tristram Scott
At this point, I will repeat my recommendation about using zpool-in-files as a backup (staging) target. Depending where you ost, and how you combine the files, you can achieve these scenarios without clunkery, and with all the benefits a zpool provides. This is another good scheme. I

Re: [zfs-discuss] Announce: zfsdump

2010-06-29 Thread Tristram Scott
would be nice if i could pipe the zfs send stream to a split and then send of those splitted stream over the network to a remote system. it would help sending it over to remote system quicker. can your tool do that? something like this s | - | j -

Re: [zfs-discuss] Announce: zfsdump

2010-06-29 Thread Tristram Scott
if, for example, the network pipe is bigger then one unsplitted stream of zfs send | zfs recv then splitting it to multiple streams should optimize the network bandwidth, shouldn't it ? Well, I guess so. But I wonder, what is the bottle neck here. If it is the rate at which zfs send

Re: [zfs-discuss] Announce: zfsdump

2010-06-29 Thread Tristram Scott
evik wrote: Reading this list for a while made it clear that zfs send is not a backup solution, it can be used for cloning the filesystem to a backup array if you are consuming the stream with zfs receive so you get notified immediately about errors. Even one bitflip will render the stream

[zfs-discuss] Announce: zfsdump

2010-06-28 Thread Tristram Scott
For quite some time I have been using zfs send -R fsn...@snapname | dd of=/dev/rmt/1ln to make a tape backup of my zfs file system. A few weeks back the size of the file system grew to larger than would fit on a single DAT72 tape, and I once again searched for a simple solution to allow

Re: [zfs-discuss] Announce: zfsdump

2010-06-28 Thread Tristram Scott
. On 6/28/2010 11:26 AM, Tristram Scott wrote: [snip] Tristram ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discu ss -- This message posted from opensolaris.org

Re: [zfs-discuss] COMSTAR iSCSI and two Windows computers

2010-06-23 Thread Scott Meilicke
Look again at how XenServer does storage. I think you will find it already has a solution, both for iSCSI and NFS. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [zfs-discuss] raid-z - not even iops distribution

2010-06-23 Thread Scott Meilicke
for this assertion, so I may be completely wrong. I assume your hardware is recent, the controllers are on PCIe x4 buses, etc. -Scott -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http

[zfs-discuss] zpool export / import discrepancy

2010-06-15 Thread Scott Squires
ONLINE 0 0 0 |c10t3d6 ONLINE 0 0 0 |spares | c10t3d7AVAIL |_ Is ZFS dependent on the order of the drives? Will this cause any issue down the road? Thank you all; Scott

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

2010-06-15 Thread Scott Meilicke
Price? I cannot find it. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] combining series of snapshots

2010-06-08 Thread Scott Meilicke
for your live data, another to access the historical data. -Scott -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] iScsi slow

2010-05-26 Thread Scott Meilicke
iSCSI writes require a sync to disk for every write. SMB writes get cached in memory, therefore are much faster. I am not sure why it is so slow for reads. Have you tried comstar iSCSI? I have read in these forums that it is faster. -Scott -- This message posted from opensolaris.org

Re: [zfs-discuss] iSCSI confusion

2010-05-24 Thread Scott Meilicke
VMware will properly handle sharing a single iSCSI volume across multiple ESX hosts. We have six ESX hosts sharing the same iSCSI volumes - no problems. -Scott -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Consolidating a huge stack of DVDs using ZFS dedup: automation?

2010-05-04 Thread Scott Steagall
! Scott Using ZFS Dedup is an interesting way of doing this. However archiving the result may be hard. If you use different datasets (FS's) for each backup, can you only send 1 dataset at a time (since you can only snapshot on a dataset level? Won't that 'undo' the deduping? If you

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS for ISCSI ntfs backing store.

2010-04-23 Thread Scott Meilicke
At the time we had it setup as 3 x 5 disk raidz, plus a hot spare. These 16 disks were in a SAS cabinet, and the the slog was on the server itself. We are now running 2 x 7 raidz2 plus a hot spare and slog, all inside the cabinet. Since the disks are 1.5T, I was concerned about resliver times

Re: [zfs-discuss] Benchmarking Methodologies

2010-04-23 Thread Scott Meilicke
. Scott -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS for ISCSI ntfs backing store.

2010-04-16 Thread Scott Meilicke
as a target for Doubletake, so it only saw write IO, with very little read. My load testing using iometer was very positive, and I would not have hesitated to use it as the primary node serving about 1000 users, maybe 200-300 active at a time. Scott -- This message posted from opensolaris.org

Re: [zfs-discuss] sharing a ssd between rpool and l2arc

2010-03-30 Thread Scott Duckworth
a ZVOL from rpool (on fast 15k rpm drives) as a cache device for another pool (on slower 7.2k rpm drives). It worked great up until it hit the race condition and hung the system. It would have been nice if zfs had issued a warning, or at least if this fact was better documented. Scott Duckworth

Re: [zfs-discuss] Rethinking my zpool

2010-03-19 Thread Scott Meilicke
of performance do you need? Maybe raidz2 will give you the performance you need. Maybe not. Measure the performance of each configuration and decide for yourself. I am a big fan of iometer for this type of work. -Scott -- This message posted from opensolaris.org

Re: [zfs-discuss] Is this a sensible spec for an iSCSI storage box?

2010-03-19 Thread Scott Meilicke
One of the reasons I am investigating solaris for this is sparse volumes and dedupe could really help here. Currently we use direct attached storage on the dom0s and allocate an LVM to the domU on creation. Just like your example above, we have lots of those 80G to start with please

Re: [zfs-discuss] Is this a sensible spec for an iSCSI storage box?

2010-03-18 Thread Scott Meilicke
? Hopefully your switches support NIC aggregation? The only issue I have had on 2009.06 using iSCSI (I had a windows VM directly attaching to an iSCSI 4T volume) was solved and back ported to 2009.06 (bug 6794994). -Scott -- This message posted from opensolaris.org

Re: [zfs-discuss] Is this a sensible spec for an iSCSI storage box?

2010-03-18 Thread Scott Meilicke
I was planning to mirror them - mainly in the hope that I could hot swap a new one in the event that an existing one started to degrade. I suppose I could start with one of each and convert to a mirror later although the prospect of losing either disk fills me with dread. You do not need to

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS/OSOL/Firewire...

2010-03-18 Thread Scott Meilicke
Apple users have different expectations regarding data loss than Solaris and Linux users do. Come on, no Apple user bashing. Not true, not fair. Scott -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Can we get some documentation on iSCSI sharing after comstar took over?

2010-03-16 Thread Scott Meilicke
volume, no security. Not quite a one liner. After you create the target once (step 3), you do not have to do that again for the next volume. So three lines. -Scott -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] backup zpool to tape

2010-03-15 Thread Scott Meilicke
Greg, I am using NetBackup 6.5.3.1 (7.x is out) with fine results. Nice and fast. -Scott -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] [osol-discuss] Moving Storage to opensolaris+zfs. What a

2010-03-04 Thread Scott Meilicke
of whichever main backup software you use. That's it. You backup data using Amanda/Bacula/et al onto tape. You backup your boot/root filesystem using 'zfs send' onto the USB key. Erik, great! I never thought of the USB key to store an rpool copy. I will give it a go on my test box. Scott

Re: [zfs-discuss] raidz2 array FAULTED with only 1 drive down

2010-02-25 Thread Scott Meilicke
You might have to force the import with -f. Scott -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] SSD and ZFS

2010-02-12 Thread Scott Meilicke
. Here is the ZFS best practices guide, which should help with this decision: http://www.solarisinternals.com/wiki/index.php/ZFS_Best_Practices_Guide Read that, then come back with more questions. Best, Scott -- This message posted from opensolaris.org

Re: [zfs-discuss] Mounting a snapshot of an iSCSI volume using Windows

2010-02-08 Thread Scott Meilicke
. Thanks, Scott -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Mounting a snapshot of an iSCSI volume using Windows

2010-02-08 Thread Scott Meilicke
Sure, but that will put me back into the original situation. -Scott -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Mounting a snapshot of an iSCSI volume using Windows

2010-02-08 Thread Scott Meilicke
That is likely it. I create the volume using 2009.06, then later upgraded to 124. I just now created a new zvol, connected it to my windows server, formatted, and added some data. Then I snapped the zvol, cloned the snap, and used 'pfexec sbdadm create-lu'. When presented to the windows server,

Re: [zfs-discuss] Mounting a snapshot of an iSCSI volume using Windows

2010-02-08 Thread Scott Meilicke
I plan on filing a support request with Sun, and will try to post back with any results. Scott -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs

[zfs-discuss] Mounting a snapshot of an iSCSI volume using Windows

2010-02-04 Thread Scott Meilicke
, my server Gallardo can see the LUN, but like I said, it looks blank to the OS. I suspect the 'sbdadm create-lu' phase. Any help to get Windows to see it as a LUN with NTFS data would be appreciated. Thanks, Scott -- This message posted from opensolaris.org

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS configuration suggestion with 24 drives

2010-01-29 Thread Scott Meilicke
'conversation', but the LAG setup will determine how a conversation is defined. Scott -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS configuration suggestion with 24 drives

2010-01-28 Thread Scott Meilicke
It looks like there is not a free slot for a hot spare? If that is the case, then it is one more factor to push towards raidz2, as you will need time to remove the failed disk and insert a new one. During that time you don't want to be left unprotected. -- This message posted from

[zfs-discuss] ZFS/NFS/LDOM performance issues

2010-01-19 Thread Scott Duckworth
[Cross-posting to ldoms-discuss] We are occasionally seeing massive time-to-completions for I/O requests on ZFS file systems on a Sun T5220 attached to a Sun StorageTek 2540 and a Sun J4200, and using a SSD drive as a ZIL device. Primary access to this system is via NFS, and with NFS COMMITs

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS/NFS/LDOM performance issues

2010-01-19 Thread Scott Duckworth
No errors reported on any disks. $ iostat -xe extended device statistics errors --- devicer/sw/s kr/s kw/s wait actv svc_t %w %b s/w h/w trn tot vdc0 0.65.6 25.0 33.5 0.0 0.1 17.3 0 2 0 0 0 0 vdc1 78.1 24.4

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS/NFS/LDOM performance issues

2010-01-19 Thread Scott Duckworth
Thus far there is no evidence that there is anything wrong with your storage arrays, or even with zfs. The problem seems likely to be somewhere else in the kernel. Agreed. And I tend to think that the problem lays somewhere in the LDOM software. I mainly just wanted to get some experienced

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZIL to disk

2010-01-15 Thread Scott Meilicke
writes. That same server can only consume about 22 MBps using an artificial load designed to simulate my VM activity (using iometer). So it varies greatly depending upon Y. -Scott -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing

Re: [zfs-discuss] raidz data loss stories?

2009-12-21 Thread Scott Meilicke
protection. Scott -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Using iSCSI on ZFS with non-native FS - How to backup.

2009-12-07 Thread Scott Meilicke
It does 'just work', however you may have some file and/or file system corruption if the snapshot was taken at the moment that your mac is updating some files. So use the time slider function and take a lot of snaps. :) -- This message posted from opensolaris.org

Re: [zfs-discuss] mirroring ZIL device

2009-11-23 Thread Scott Meilicke
about losing power and having the X25 RAM cache disappear during a write. -Scott -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] X45xx storage vs 7xxx Unified storage

2009-11-23 Thread Scott Meilicke
If the 7310s can meet your performance expectations, they sound much better than a pair of x4540s. Auto-fail over, SSD performance (although these can be added to the 4540s), ease of management, and a great front end. I haven't seen if you can use your backup software with the 7310s, but from

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS ZIL/log on SSD weirdness

2009-11-18 Thread Scott Meilicke
nothing to do with ZFS' zil usage. -Scott -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS ZIL/log on SSD weirdness

2009-11-17 Thread Scott Meilicke
. Same for NFS. I see no ZIL activity using rsync, for an example of a network file transfer that does not require sync. Scott -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org

Re: [zfs-discuss] CIFS crashes when accessed with Adobe Photoshop Elements 6.0 via Vista

2009-11-10 Thread scott smallie
upgrade to the latest dev release fixed the problem for me. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

[zfs-discuss] CIFS crashes when accessed with Adobe Photoshop Elements 6.0 via Vista

2009-11-09 Thread scott smallie
I have a repeatable test case for this indecent.Every time I access my ZFS cifs shared file system with Adobe Photoshop elements 6.0 via my Vista workstation the OpenSolaris server stops serving CIFS. The share functions as expected for all other CIFS operations. -Begin

Re: [zfs-discuss] Difficulty testing an SSD as a ZIL

2009-10-30 Thread Scott Meilicke
Excellent! That worked just fine. Thank you Victor. -Scott -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

[zfs-discuss] Difficulty testing an SSD as a ZIL

2009-10-29 Thread Scott Meilicke
. Any ideas why I am getting the import error? Thanks, Scott -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] File level cloning

2009-10-28 Thread Scott Meilicke
I don't think so. But, you can clone at the ZFS level, and then just use the vmdk(s) that you need. As long as you don't muck about with the other stuff in the clone, the space usage should be the same. -Scott -- This message posted from opensolaris.org

Re: [zfs-discuss] zpool getting in a stuck state?

2009-10-28 Thread Scott Meilicke
ago, I have had no problems. Again, I don't know if this would fix your problem, but it may be worth a try. Just don't upgrade your ZFS version, and you will be able to roll back to 2009.06 at any time. -Scott -- This message posted from opensolaris.org

Re: [zfs-discuss] Setting up an SSD ZIL - Need A Reality Check

2009-10-22 Thread Meilicke, Scott
Interesting. We must have different setups with our PERCs. Mine have always auto rebuilt. -- Scott Meilicke On Oct 22, 2009, at 6:14 AM, Edward Ned Harvey sola...@nedharvey.com wrote: Replacing failed disks is easy when PERC is doing the RAID. Just remove the failed drive and replace

Re: [zfs-discuss] Setting up an SSD ZIL - Need A Reality Check

2009-10-21 Thread Meilicke, Scott
Thank you Bob and Richard. I will go with A, as it also keeps things simple. One physical device per pool. -Scott On 10/20/09 6:46 PM, Bob Friesenhahn bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us wrote: On Tue, 20 Oct 2009, Richard Elling wrote: The ZIL device will never require more space than RAM

Re: [zfs-discuss] Setting up an SSD ZIL - Need A Reality Check

2009-10-21 Thread Meilicke, Scott
Thanks Ed. It sounds like you have run in this mode? No issues with the perc? -- Scott Meilicke On Oct 20, 2009, at 9:59 PM, Edward Ned Harvey sola...@nedharvey.com wrote: System: Dell 2950 16G RAM 16 1.5T SATA disks in a SAS chassis hanging off of an LSI 3801e, no extra drive slots

Re: [zfs-discuss] Setting up an SSD ZIL - Need A Reality Check

2009-10-21 Thread Scott Meilicke
to using the regular pool for the ZIL, correct? Assuming this is correct, a mirror would be to preserve performance during a failure? Thanks everyone, this has been really helpful. -Scott -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing

Re: [zfs-discuss] Setting up an SSD ZIL - Need A Reality Check

2009-10-21 Thread Scott Meilicke
with a good one, and the PERC will rebuild automatically. But are you talking about OpenSolaris managed RAID? I am pretty sure, but not tested, that in pseudo JBOD mode (each disk a raid 0 or 1), the PERC would still present a replaced disk to the OS without reconfiguring the PERC BIOS. Scott

[zfs-discuss] Setting up an SSD ZIL - Need A Reality Check

2009-10-20 Thread Scott Meilicke
, I am leaning towards option C. Any gotchas I should be aware of? Thanks, Scott -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

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