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    Building out zfs with 9211-8i and SC846-E26

    I'm into necromancy as well :) I might give this P11 version a try, and see if it solves my sata issues on a sas backplane. Have to wipe my whole system out anyway.
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    ZFS and SAS expanders with SATA drives a toxic combo?

    +1 I didn't took the advices and went for SATA drives on a SAS expander. I've had 600 GB raptors (WD6000BLHX) on LSI2008 HBA and SAS2 x36 LSI based expander. Kept getting the messages below in the system log and drives dropping out the zpools. scsi: [ID 243001 kern.warning] WARNING...
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    AOC-USAS-L8i Issue

    I could not log in the card BIOS on my P5WDH mobo. I had to disable fast boot, and mess with PCI-Latency, had to increase it from default of 64 cycles to 128 or something like this. You can always try to change these settings, can't hurt.
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    VelociRaptor VR200M SATA 6Gb/s

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    Building out zfs with 9211-8i and SC846-E26

    Yea, I flashed directly the P9 version, so at first I thought you did something wrong :p
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    Building out zfs with 9211-8i and SC846-E26

    I ran into the same issue with a SMC SC417E16 chassis and a 9211-8i HBA. The patched firmware solved the problem, as far as I can tell. I would never have found the patch without the forum, so thanks for being here.
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    4k drives and x86 OpenSolaris clones : a workaround.

    Did a quick test using VmWare. Added ten 2000GB drives to the VM and created a raidz2. The vanilla system gives me 15.3T free. zpool-12 gives me 14.6T free. My modified files give me 14.6T free, and the zdb output is EXACTLY the same as the zpool-12 one, proving that my modifications were...
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    4k drives and x86 OpenSolaris clones : a workaround.

    Didn't noticed such a behaviour using Grant Pannell's binary on my 9 disk RAIDZ, or the original files, or my files. Each disk is supposed to be 2TB but its actually 2*10^12bytes, or 1.82TB. My raidz shows 14.4TB free when empty, so it's pretty much correct. If you can afford to move your data...
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    Testing ZFS RAID-Z performance with 4K sector drives

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    4k drives and x86 OpenSolaris clones : a workaround.

    [EDIT] in fact it was a much more complicated way to achieve what was done here so the post is swept clean
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    How NOT to set up your ZFS storage

    some news After a few days of normal use, my system kept panic looping. It was crashing when trying to import the raidz during boot. So, after data corruption, I thought I lost it all definitively. I was able to import it read-only in Solaris 11 express. I don't know if it the readonly...
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    How NOT to set up your ZFS storage

    odditory : sure, at least keep your most important data on a different storage. Fortunately an inner fear kept me from transferring the content I care about. ghost6303 : obviously my "don't reuse hardware" should be kept in mind, but not taken as is. As for the ECC memory I agree that it would...
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    How NOT to set up your ZFS storage

    Hi all, I wanted to share with you an infortunate experience in setting up a ZFS storage, may it help others not to make the same mistakes. It all begins with an "old" socket 775 Asus P5w-DH motherboard I had laying around, and as it is on the opensolaris HCL, I thought it would be a good idea...
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