Recent content by Zerosum

VMDirectPath is just hardware passthrough for the controller. It's so the underlying OS has direct access to the hardware which is what ZFS wants.

I'm about to setup a new ZFS system and just wondering what the preferred OS currently is. I've been running ZFS on OpenIndiana oi_151a7 in ESXI for many years. Running Napp-It free0.9b3 nightly Aug.01.2013 (thanks Gea). This is a system I'm running for my own personal home use so I rarely...

I don't know about every single part but I can tell you that I'm running a lots of the same parts. I'm using 1880i attached to an HP SAS expander *AND* 2 chenbro expanders. All on an Xeon/Supermicro board without a single issue. My server's been running 24/7, with almost no downtime (only...

I thought that was for deleting snapshots or clones. Not for individual files. I was interpreting that as filesystems and not files. But I'm far from someone who I would trust to be correct on these things. :D

Ah, so i see. I'm using version 28. The only features I see new (with -v) are: FEAT DESCRIPTION ------------------------------------------------------------- async_destroy (read-only compatible) Destroy filesystems asynchronously. empty_bpobj...

Thanks, I ended up rebooting and then exporting and importing the pools. Everything seems to be working fine now. Waiting for it to finish resilvering then I'll do a scrub just to be safe. I did notice that I was able to export via Napp-it without issues but tring to import it gave me an...

No and no. I've never exported or imported anything before so I'm unfamiliar with the process. I thought that was only done when moving the drives to a new system. I have not rebooted in awhile. At least over a month and that's only because I wanted to do some work on the main esxi boot...

I'm running a pretty beefy zfs server for quite awhile now. Probably 3-4 years. And never really any problems. I had drives go bad before, I mean it happens especially when I'm running 72 drives (at almost 200TB) for all this time. When I built my server and the chassis I always order an...

It's not *all* Blu-Ray rips. They are ummm ...linux isos. =) The truth is, less than 25% of that are what you think they are.

Hitachis. All my drives are either Hitachi 3tb or Samsungs (pre-bought out) 2tb in my fileservers. I got lucky and was able to buy almost 40 of those 3TB drives a few days after the flooding (when they were on sale for $110-ish). I'm sitting on almost 200TB of home server storage now. :D

If that's all you have in your fstab, then you aren't mounting the shares. You should have at least one more line pointing to your fileserver. Something like this: //server/share /media/share smbfs auto,credentials=/root/.credentials,uuid=1000,umask=000,user 0 0 //server/share...

This sounds like what I'm doing. I'm on ESXI with OI/zfs in a VM. I have another VM on the same box running ubuntu with sab/sb/cp/hp on it. I absolutely would not combine my fileserver (zfs) with my 'services' in the same vm. It adds complications when upgrading your software packages that...

Why would you need 2 raid cards? Are you physically out of ports? I would perfer to get a single good card then 2 older/lower ones. Probably not much of a price difference when you consider that anyways. An areca 16/18xx would be better off then the 12xx or RocketRaid. I would avoid the...

I do. But you still got to observe the UPS max. Just because you can plug a dozen items in it doesn't mean you should. I have one UPS attached to a number of my 'lower powered' devices. My modem, router/firewall, switch, kvm, monitor and other misc devices while my bigger ups take up each...

I just tried again. I actually swapped out my entire expander and the same issue. I even swapped out my raid card. Just for completion, I skipped my SAS Expander completely and plugged the troublesome planes directly to my areca card. When it's directly plugged into the card, none of the...