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...s side script/batch: 1) Q-Disk 2) Remote trigger snapshot 3) Un Q-Disk I have no idea where to even begin researching VSS unfortunately... James (Sent from my mobile) -----Original Message----- From: Tim <tim at tcsac.net> Sent: Wednesday, 07 Jan 2009 23:18 To: Jason J. W. Williams <jasonjwwilliams at gmail.com> Cc: zfs-discuss at opensolaris.org; storage-discuss at opensolaris.org Subject: Re: [storage-discuss] [zfs-discuss] ZFS iscsi snapshot - VSS compatible? On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 6:30 PM, Jason J. W. Williams <jasonjwwilliams at gmailcom> wrote: Since iSCSI is block-level, I...

Is there a best practice guide for using zfs as a basic rackable small storage solution? I''m considering zfs with a 2U 12 disk Xeon based server system vs something like a second hand FAS250. Target enviroment is mixature of Xen or VI hosts via iSCSI and nfs/cifs. Being able to take snapshots of running (or maybe paused) xen iscsi vols and re-export then for cloning and remote backup

Hi there I''m busy with some tests on the above hardware and will post some scores soon. For those that do _not_ have the above available for tests, I''m open to suggestions on potential configs that I could run for you. Pop me a mail if you want something specific _or_ you have suggestions concerning filebench (varmail) config setup. Cheers This message posted from

Hello All, Awhile back (Feb ''07) when we noticed ZFS was hogging all the memory on the system, y''all were kind enough to help us use the arc_max tunable to attempt to limit that usage to a hard value. Unfortunately, at the time a sticky problem was that the hard limit did not include DNLC entries generated by ZFS. I''ve been watching the list since then and trying to

Hello all, I have a question. Below are two ::memstat outputs about 5 days apart. The interesting thing is the "anonymous" memory shows 2GB, though the two major hogs of that memory (two MySQL instances) claim to be consuming about 6.2GB (checked via pmap). Also, it seems like the ARC keeps creeping the kernel memory over the 4GB limit I set for the ARC (zfs_arc_max). What I was also,

Just for history as to why Fishworks was running on this box...we were in the beta program and have upgraded along the way. This box is an X4240 with 16x 146GB disks running the Feb 2010 release of FW with de-dupe. We were getting ready to re-purpose the box and getting our data off. We then deleted a filesystem that was using de-duplication and the box suddenly went into a freeze and the pool

Hi, My shop is a long time (~2006) ZFS user, considering moving off OpenSolaris due to a number of non-technical issues. We use ZFS for all of our MySQL databases. It''s cheap/fast snapshots are critical to our backup strategy, and we rely on the L2ARC and dedicated log device (i.e. NVRAM) features to accelerate our pools with SSDs. I''ve read through the archives for comments on

Hey Guys, Have any of y''all seen a condition where the ILOM considers a disk faulted (status is 3 instead of 1), but ZFS keeps writing to the disk and doesn''t report any errors? I''m going to do a scrub tomorrow and see what comes back. I''m curious what caused the ILOM to fault the disk. Any advice is greatly appreciated. Best Regards, Jason P.S. The system is

Hello, Is it possible to non-destructively change RAID types in zpool while the data remains on-line? -J