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Well this is a new one.... Illumos/Openindiana let me add a device as a hot spare that evidently has a different sector alignment than all of the other drives in the array. So now I''m at the point that I /need/ a hot spare and it doesn''t look like I have it. And, worse, the other spares I have are all the same model as said hot spare. Is there anything I can do with this or

zdb -C shows an shift value on each vdev in my pool, I was just wondering if it is vdev specific, or pool wide. Google didn''t seem to know. I''m considering a mixed pool with some "advanced format" (4KB sector) drives, and some normal 512B sector drives, and was wondering if the ashift can be set per vdev, or only per pool. Theoretically, this would save me some size on

Hi, my oi151 based home NAS is approaching a frightening "drive space" level. Right now the data volume is a 4*1TB Raid-Z1, 3 1/2" local disks individually connected to an 8 port LSI 6Gbit controller. So I can either exchange the disks one by one with autoexpand, use 2-4 TB disks and be happy. This was my original approach. However I am totally unclear about the 512b vs 4Kb issue.

Hi, Does anyone use Seagate ST32000542AS disks with ZFS? I wonder if the performance is not that ugly as with WD Green WD20EARS disks. Thanks, -- Piotr Jasiukajtis | estibi | SCA OS0072 http://estseg.blogspot.com

Hi ZFS Discuss, I have a 8x 1TB RAIDZ running on Samsung 1TB 5400rpm drives with 512b sectors. I will be replacing all of these with 8x Western Digital 2TB drives with support for 4K sectors. The replacement plan will be to swap out each of the 8 drives until all are replaced and the new size (~16TB) is available with a `zfs scrub`. My question is, how do I do this and also factor in the new

as used on Illumos? I''ve seen a few tutorials written by people who obviously are very action oriented; afterwards you find you have worn your keyboard down a bit and not learned a lot at all, at least not in the sense of understanding what zfs is and what it does and why things are the way they are. I''m looking for something that would make me afterwards understand what,

If I want to use a batch of new Seagate 3TB Barracudas with Solaris 11, will zpool let me create a new pool with ashift=12 out of the box or will I need to play around with a patched zpool binary (or the iSCSI loopback)? -- Dave Pooser Manager of Information Services Alford Media http://www.alfordmedia.com

Hi all, We have a server with a LSI 9240-4i controller configured in JBOD with 4 SATA disks. Running FreeBSD 9.1-Beta1: Relevant dmesg: FreeBSD 9.1-BETA1 #0: Thu Jul 12 09:38:51 UTC 2012 root@farrell.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64 CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E31230 @ 3.20GHz (3200.09-MHz K8-class CPU) Origin = "GenuineIntel" Id = 0x206a7 Family = 6 Model =

I'm trying to set up a first test for a dovecot + postfix (+ many other things) mail server for about 1000 accounts, and I keep stumbling on confusing inconsistencies in the HowTo documents I'm trying to follow. I tried to do a simple setup with virtual users using a howto saying it was for just that and that it's for Dovecot 2.x, and it shows a few text chunks to put in files,

So, what is the story about 4KB disk sectors? Should such disks be avoided with ZFS? Or, no problem? Or, need to modify some config file before usage? -- This message posted from opensolaris.org

So I'm playing around with S3 and elasticdrive, and I create a filesystem on it with a block size larger then 4k. mkfs.xfs -b size=8k /mnt/ed5/ed0 -f This completes fine and sets up the proper filesystem. When I try to mount it, however, I get: mount /mnt/ed5/ed0 /mnt/eds35/ -o loop mount: Function not implemented looking at dmesg I get: XFS: Attempted to mount file system with

Hello, Daniel, Apparently your data is represented by rather small files (thus many small data blocks), so proportion of metadata is relatively high, and your<4k blocks are now using at least 4k disk space. For data with small blocks (a 4k volume on an ashift=12 pool) I saw metadata use up most of my drive - becoming equal to data size. Just for the sake of completeness, I brought up a

Hello all, I found this dialog on the zfs-devel at zfsonlinux.org list, and I''d like someone to confirm-or-reject the discussed statement. Paraphrasing in my words and understanding: "Labels, including Uberblock rings, are fixed 256KB in size each, of which 128KB is the UB ring. Normally there is 1KB of data in one UB, which gives 128 TXGs to rollback to. When ashift=12 is

Hi I am thinking of ripping albums to a single flac file with embedded cuesheet. As track and index points have to be on a 588 sample boundary due to the CD TOC standard working in 588 sample frames, I thought it may be beneficial to rip CDs with a blocksize of 588 samples. According to the format page on sourcefourge a stream is subset if "The blocksize bits in the frame header must be

Does anyone know if 4k sectors will be handled better by the kernel in Centos6? I'd like to copy backups to a 750Gb laptop type drive for offsite storage but the best write speed I can get is about 8MB/sec even with dd to the raw disk which shouldn't have an issue with partition alignment. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com

Hi, I've a question about the max. ext3 FS size. The ext3 FAQ explains that the limit is 4TB. http://batleth.sapienti-sat.org/projects/FAQs/ext3-faq.html | Ext3 can support files up to 1TB. With a 2.4 kernel the filesystem size is | limited by the maximal block device size, which is 2TB. In 2.6 the maximum | (32-bit CPU) limit is of block devices is 16TB, but ext3 supports only up | to 4TB.

I mean that the first statement [Subset streams must use one of 192/576/1152/2304/4608/256/512/1024/2048/4096 (and 8192/16384 if the sample rate is >48kHz).] published on https://www.xiph.org/flac/documentation_tools_flac.html#flac_options_blocksize page IS NOT EQUAL to second statement [The blocksize bits in the frame header must be 0001-1110. The blocksize must be <=16384; if the sample

Any progress? > I agree. Please keep up informed. >> FLAC__format_blocksize_is_subset() was introduced by commit #8ab0138 >> (https://gitorious.org/flac/flac/commit/8ab013837d379d3d1fa84eac5420faec41852fd7) >> over 5 years ago and available in the latest stable release 1.3.0. >> >> It would be nice if the official FLAC documentation used common >> adopted

I'm misleading about FLAC subset constraints... Please help me understand exact FLAC subset limitation.

Hi, can someone explain whats the meaning of the two blocksizes in the first header of Vorbis, please? So far I assumed that they meant that 2^b0 and 2^b1 were the only two blocksizes used during the whole encode, but something makes me believe they are not: if b0 and b1 are 0xb8 respectively (that I interpeted as 2^11 = 2048 and 2^8 = 256) I observe 3 different deltas between each couple of