[zfs-discuss] Another user looses his pool (10TB) in this case and 40 days work

2009-07-18 Thread Russel
Well I have a 10TB (5x2TB) in RAIDZ on VirtualBox got it all working on Windows XP and Windows 7. SMB shares back to my PC, great managed the impossible! Copied all my data over form a loads of old external disks, sorted it, all in all 15 days work (my holiday :-)) Used raw disks to the VirtualBox

Re: [zfs-discuss] Another user looses his pool (10TB) in this case and 40 days work

2009-07-18 Thread Orvar Korvar
Sorry to hear that, but you do know that VirtualBox is not really stable? VirtualBox does show some instability from time to time. You havent read the VirtualBox forums? I would advice against VirtualBox for saving all your data in ZFS. I would use OpenSolaris without virtualization. I hope your

Re: [zfs-discuss] Another user looses his pool (10TB) in this case and 40 days work

2009-07-18 Thread Russel
Yes you'll find my name all over VB at the moment, but I have found it to be stable (don't install the addons disk for solaris!!, use 3.0.2, and for me winXP32bit and OpenSolaris 2009.6 has been rock solid, it was (seems) to be opensolaris failed with extract_boot_list doesn't belong to 101, but

Re: [zfs-discuss] triple-parity: RAID-Z3

2009-07-18 Thread Martin
> Don't hear about triple-parity RAID that often: I agree completely. In fact, I have wondered (probably in these forums), why we don't bite the bullet and make a generic raidzN, where N is any number >=0. In fact, get rid of mirroring, because it clearly is a variant of raidz with two devices

[zfs-discuss] The zfs performance decrease when enable the MPxIO round-robin

2009-07-18 Thread lf yang
Hi Guys I have a SunFire X4200M2 and the Xyratex RS1600 JBOD which I try to run the ZFS on it.But I found a problem: I set mpxio-disable="yes" in the /kernel/drv/fp.conf to enable the MPxIO, and set load-balance="round-robin" in the /kernel/drv/scsi_vhci.conf enable the round-robin.The ZFS performa

Re: [zfs-discuss] The zfs performance decrease when enable the MPxIO round-robin

2009-07-18 Thread James C. McPherson
On Sat, 18 Jul 2009 23:25:27 -0700 (PDT) lf yang wrote: > Hi Guys > I have a SunFire X4200M2 and the Xyratex RS1600 JBOD which I try to > run the ZFS on it.But I found a problem: > I set mpxio-disable="yes" in the /kernel/drv/fp.conf to enable the MPxIO, > and set load-balance="round-robin" in th