 beerbumobscurum per obscuriusPremium
join:2000-05-06
Eastern PA | reply to koitsu
Re: Problem with Open Solaris + disks said by koitsu:Given that my place of employment has relied on Solaris 8 through 10 (~90% of our machines are using 10 at this point) for 5+ years now, my experience is quite the opposite. huh??.. maybe you missed it.. the OP is running OpenSolaris (SunOS 5.11), not Solaris (SunOS 5.10).. I would not recommend anyone run OpenSolaris in a production system. Heck no admin worth anyone would recommend that.. Comparing OpenSolaris to Solaris, the SATA support is much more robust than the same in OpenSolaris.. While the new features and whatnot in OS do make it into production Solaris, one should consider OpenSolaris as a beta product.
Hell I'm pretty sure even Sun does not recommend using OpenSolaris in a production environment..
Use whatever OS gets the job done. If that's Linux, great. If that's Solaris 10, great. If that's OS/2, I'll punch you.  |
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 koitsuPremium,MVM
join:2002-07-16
Mountain View, CA
kudos:14 | said by beerbum:huh??.. maybe you missed it.. the OP is running OpenSolaris (SunOS 5.11), not Solaris (SunOS 5.10).. ... Well colour me stupid. For the longest while now I've been under the impression that Solaris 10 (5.10) was in fact OpenSolaris. Good lord, there's something seriously wrong when an administrator of machines doesn't even know what the official title of his OS is.
I think I might save this thread to remind me of my stupid moments.
Thanks for clearing that up for me -- I appreciate it. (Damn you Sun...)
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| This was just a personal system which I built primarily as a NAS box, but also to run a couple VMs for various things. I was more or less running OpenSolaris strictly for the features of ZFS. I thought I would end up adding a lot more space and using some other features of ZFS which I never ended up using.
I will look at btrfs. It sounds like it could be very nice in the future.
For now, OpenFiler looks like it will work well enough for NAS, and Linux or BSD will be good for running the VMs. |
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| I finally managed to move the files over to an Openfiler box and I just installed Debian on the system that has OpenSolaris.
I used smartmon tools to check both hard drives. Disk 1 is fine, but disk 2 has quite a few reallocated sectors (currently at 1996). I will definitely replace it if I get any more reallocated sectors. I suspect that the read failures created by disk 2 were not being handled well by OpenSolaris (or rather the SATA driver).
Linux seems to handle the errors correctly, although I haven't tried it out with the Xen VMs yet (I'm currently transferring the images). |
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