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FC720 stalling
by Simon Waters 18 Feb '05

18 Feb '05

Okay - first post - be gentle. FC720 old and unloved, has finally started having issues where it ceases to handle CIFS request correctly. The problem manifests as a failure to respond to client requests. Two areas of possible "change" I think likely; Linux client mounting the CIF partitons. Wed Feb 16 11:57:57 GMT [de1]: CIFS t2 request 6 not implemented debuginfo( 15d 9e RH9CLIENT) Or the Windows clients finally being stable enough to stay up long enough to exhaust some resource (good riddance to NT4). In particular I'd be interested in seeing what the CIFS Session information looks like on other filers. I see a lot of repeats..... W2KIISSERV (WINDOMAIN\iusr_anon - pcuser) 10 0 W2KIISSERV (WINDOMAIN\iusr_anon - pcuser) 10 0 W2KIISSERV (WINDOMAIN\iusr_anon - pcuser) 10 0 W2KIISSERV (WINDOMAIN\iusr_anon - pcuser) 10 0 W2KIISSERV (WINDOMAIN\iusr_anon - pcuser) 10 0 W2KIISSERV (WINDOMAIN\iusr_anon - pcuser) 10 0 W2KIISSERV (WINDOMAIN\iusr_anon - pcuser) 10 0 W2KIISSERV (WINDOMAIN\iusr_anon - pcuser) 10 0 W2KIISSERV (WINDOMAIN\iusr_anon - pcuser) 10 0 W2KIISSERV (WINDOMAIN\iusr_anon - pcuser) 10 0 W2KIISSERV (WINDOMAIN\iusr_anon - pcuser) 10 91 ... is that normal? However I have no clear handle on what is going wrong. The box just supplies CIFS service to a bunch of W2K webservers using IIS. The problem seems to manifest itself randomly, but does look like it is accumulating over time. Last time it managed 6 days. A reboot or restart of CIFS seems to clear it. When it happens nothing unusual is logged. The box is claiming to handle about 500,000 to 1,000,000 CIFS ops an hour. This doesn't seem to change much when the box fails?! All the status reports look normal. I guess it could be a networking issue, but it only affects the FC720, and is fixed by a reboot. We are in the process of sourcing replacement hardware because is has basically reached the end of it's life. Till recently it "just worked", so no one touched it, and as a result has archaic firmware 2.3_a2. If it was supported and with a future, I'd probably stick a firmware upgrade in straight away and see if this fixes it. But if anyone has any clues where to look, or what might be doing this....

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problems with netapp snapshot backups
by Coder, James (STP) 18 Feb '05

18 Feb '05

We recently upgraded from a 960 NT cluster to a 980 cluster. Prior to this, the NT backups consisted of taking a snapshot and then backing this up to via CIFS using Veritas NetBackup. Since moving to the new cluster (and moving to DataOnTap 7.0) , we are unable to do this. The error we get is 12:01:54.350 AM: [5896.5736] <16> file_access::V_OpenForRead: ERR - CreateFile() failed: \\?\UNC\STPNAS01\VOL2BU$\~snapshot\backup\project3\QIT Admin\Project Ve locity\Release 5.1\TechnologyTeam\SoftwareInstallation\Windchill\OOTB\ptc\oracle \oo4o\CODEWIZ\DOC\HTML\WIZPROC.GIF (WIN32 5: Access is denied. ) Anyone seen / having similar problems? thx in advance. jcc James C. Coder " Plan the Work - Accept Only One Number 1 Priority at a Time." Sr. UNIX Administrator Guidant Corporation 4100 Hamline Avenue North St. Paul, MN 55112 Tel: 651-582-4797 Fax 651-582-4285 email: james.coder(a)guidant.com "Any views expressed in this e-mail are not those of Guidant Corporation."

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Can you Help? Seeking a senior-level IT Project Manager
by HotJobs＠MicroSurvivor.com 17 Feb '05

17 Feb '05

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FAS 9xx and Intel Pro1000
by Aurélien Beaujean 15 Feb '05

15 Feb '05

Hi, I try to insert an Intel Pro1000 "MX" ethernet (cu) card but it is not detected: slot 11: 10/100/1000 Ethernet Controller VI ***** NIC in slot 11: Rev 4-R not supported e11 MAC Address: 00:00:00:00:00:00 (unknown) Device Type: Rev 4-R memory mapped I/O base 0xa0340000, size 0x20000 memory mapped I/O base 0xa0300000, size 0x40000 I/O base 0xefc0, size 0x40 My others FAS9xx seems to use Intel Pro1000 "TX" ethernet (cu) cards. Is there only Intel Pro1000 "TX" ethernet (cu) card that works with FAS9xx ? There is a special Ontap version for thoses ethernet cards or something special to make it working ? -- Auré

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RE: autosupport - logs
by Hill, Aaron 14 Feb '05

14 Feb '05

George, We have safely deleted the entire contents of this directory on a number of occasions. Our original reason for doing so was because multiple autosupport send failures were causing the data to be accumulated for sending at a later date. The failures were mostly due to email attachment restrictions on our mailrelay. You may like to check your messages log around the time that weekly autosupports are due to go out. It is likely you will see something related to an SMTP failure. Aaron -----Original Message----- From: George Kahler [mailto:george@YorkU.CA] Sent: Tuesday, 15 February 2005 5:20 AM To: toasters(a)mathworks.com Subject: autosupport - logs I have around 50 or so entries in ./etc/log/autosupport directory on all of my filers dating back to July '04. Does anyone know if this is something that can be safely purged ? Why is it being accumulated ? BTW, autosupport is enabled and is working correctly. Thx, George ************** IMPORTANT MESSAGE ************** This e-mail message is intended only for the addressee(s) and contains information which may be confidential. If you are not the intended recipient please advise the sender by return email, do not use or disclose the contents, and delete the message and any attachments from your system. Unless specifically indicated, this email does not constitute formal advice or commitment by the sender or the Commonwealth Bank of Australia (ABN 48 123 123 124) or its subsidiaries. We can be contacted through our web site: commbank.com.au. If you no longer wish to receive commercial electronic messages from us, please reply to this e-mail by typing Unsubscribe in the subject line. ***************************************************************

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RE: high performance file systems, non Netapp.
by Ben Rockwood 13 Feb '05

13 Feb '05

UFS (Solaris9/Solaris10) will cut it, but probly isn't the best without tuning, and definately not on Linux. If your using Linux, carefully consider JFS and XFS, both can do what you want but have up and downsides. Do NOT run ReiserFS in production, too many people have been bitten by it. EXT2/3 are just not even contenders, and who wants to pay for VxFS. For your requirements my first attempt (on Linux anyway) would be JFS. And, ZFS, btw, would handle this all nicely, but won't be introduced to Solaris10 untill Update1, sometime in the summer. benr. -----Original Message----- From: owner-toasters(a)mathworks.com on behalf of Maren S. Leizaola Sent: Fri 2/11/2005 2:35 AM To: toasters(a)mathworks.com Cc: Subject: high performance file systems, non Netapp. Hi, We have an application where we need to store between 4 to 20 million small files on the on a large drive or a 3 drive raid system. We are finding that file systems like UFS just don't cut it never mind Linux extFS... These file systems can handle what we are trying to do but they tend to slow down as they get full and in some cases we will have to be able to delete millions of files in one go. In this type of configuration unfortunately we can't bundle at netapp as the technical overhead and cost would make the system unfeasable. I have so far seen the ReiserFS can do what we are looking for but we need a fs that will work on Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris etc... We must have a path to scale up or deploy a heavy load system and migrate to a big sun box if required. Anyone knows how well Solaris 10's ZFS would work for this kind of application? What do you guys suggest? Maren. -------------------------------------------------------------- HKdotCOM Ltd Tel: 852 2865-4865 ext 888 Fax: 852 2865-4100 leizaola(a)hk.com AIM: MarenHKdotCOM ICQ: 39905706 MSN:MarenHKdotCOM -------------------------------------------------------------- Get your @hk.com email address on http://www.hk.com

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Is there a Toasters-like list for EMC?
by Michael Coxe 12 Feb '05

12 Feb '05

Just curious if there is a mailing list similar to Toasters - independent of the vendor - for EMC Clarion/Celerra/etc. - michael

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Re: high performance file systems, non Netapp.
by Maren S. Leizaola 12 Feb '05

12 Feb '05

On Fri, 11 Feb 2005, John Stoffel wrote: > > Maren> Hi, We have an application where we need to store between 4 to > Maren> 20 million small files on the on a large drive or a 3 drive > Maren> raid system. > > You should read up on how newservers used to deal with this issue. > Basically, you want to keep down the number of entries per-directory > as much as possible. So instead of having /data/<millions of files> > you would have /data/a/<a* files>, /data/b/<b* files>, ... /data/z/<z* > files>. You would push this down as many levels as you needed. Yes, that may help on seeking and reading but the ammount of time required to delete 1Million files is still huge. I've not tested it though. I recall delete this kind of structure that squid would setup and it would take for ever. The application that is creating all these files is actually Mysql, and under UFS2 we got upto the limit of 1 million files in a single directory. Yes, it worked ok, but deleting the files took for ever. We are looking at hacking mysql so that it creates a directory tree. Still this only going to solve one part of the problem. The time required for dropping such databases or removing tables is long. We have use the more advance database format Innodb that Mysql offers as it is meant to be faster and it only uses one file per table instead of the default 3 files. > Maren> We are finding that file systems like UFS just don't cut it > Maren> never mind Linux extFS... These file systems can handle what we > Maren> are trying to do but they tend to slow down as they get full > Maren> and in some cases we will have to be able to delete millions of > Maren> files in one go. > > Have you looked at the ext3 with the indexed directory entries? > Supposedly it's alot faster. Google for it, using 'ext3 dir_index'. > I just did it on my 2.6.11-rc2-mm2 kernel system at home. Not > performance testing though. I will have a look at this.... > > tune2fs -O dir_index /dev/sdc1 > > Maren> In this type of configuration unfortunately we can't bundle at > Maren> netapp as the technical overhead and cost would make the system > Maren> unfeasable. > > What techincal overhead? You just turn it on and it runs. Just say > it's a cost issue and let it be. > This is part of a system that we need to hand over to customers and sticking a netapp into the equation would make most people panic i think. Even though I don't dissagree that a netapp would be ideal for this. It won't need huge throughputs just low latency and lots of random seeking. > Maren> I have so far seen the ReiserFS can do what we are looking for > Maren> but we need a fs that will work on Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris > Maren> etc... We must have a path to scale up or deploy a heavy load > Maren> system and migrate to a big sun box if required. > > Maren> Anyone knows how well Solaris 10's ZFS would work for this kind > Maren> of application? > > Well, since ZFS is only on Solaris, it doesn't meet your standard of > being available on all filesystems. The only one that I can think of, > and I don't know about FreeBSD, is VxFS from Veritas. I'd look into > that if I was you. > at least if we can start on solaris we can start from old U2' E250 to huge monster machines and one maybe could dare to go into X86 solaris... it seems that sun have been working very hard on this. > But first, I'd read up on how nntp news servers handled the exact > same issue, with millions of small files that needed to be > added/deleted all the time. Follow their lead and re-write your > application to fit the requirements. Yes i think it would a good place to where to start... Maren. > John > John Stoffel - Senior Staff Systems Administrator - System LSI Group > Toshiba America Electronic Components, Inc. - http://www.toshiba.com/taec > john.stoffel(a)taec.toshiba.com - 508-486-1087 > -------------------------------------------------------------- HKdotCOM Ltd Tel: 852 2865-4865 ext 888 Fax: 852 2865-4100 leizaola(a)hk.com AIM: MarenHKdotCOM ICQ: 39905706 MSN:MarenHKdotCOM -------------------------------------------------------------- Get your @hk.com email address on http://www.hk.com

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high performance file systems, non Netapp.
by Maren S. Leizaola 11 Feb '05

11 Feb '05

Hi, We have an application where we need to store between 4 to 20 million small files on the on a large drive or a 3 drive raid system. We are finding that file systems like UFS just don't cut it never mind Linux extFS... These file systems can handle what we are trying to do but they tend to slow down as they get full and in some cases we will have to be able to delete millions of files in one go. In this type of configuration unfortunately we can't bundle at netapp as the technical overhead and cost would make the system unfeasable. I have so far seen the ReiserFS can do what we are looking for but we need a fs that will work on Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris etc... We must have a path to scale up or deploy a heavy load system and migrate to a big sun box if required. Anyone knows how well Solaris 10's ZFS would work for this kind of application? What do you guys suggest? Maren. -------------------------------------------------------------- HKdotCOM Ltd Tel: 852 2865-4865 ext 888 Fax: 852 2865-4100 leizaola(a)hk.com AIM: MarenHKdotCOM ICQ: 39905706 MSN:MarenHKdotCOM -------------------------------------------------------------- Get your @hk.com email address on http://www.hk.com

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RE: Diskless Boot of Windows/iSCSI
by Jeff Mohler 10 Feb '05

10 Feb '05

This fits 1/2 the model, the key is that the base load never changes..if the end-user changes something that could have messed the encoding process up somehow, a simple reboot would repair it. To replace the base LUNs, I would have to copy from the snapshot, would take time to copy that file from snapshot space to real space, correct? Ive got Gig to the tent switch (clean workspace on refuel floor) and 100Mbit from there to the PCs. Performance should be in the OK range. The critical function for these PCs is encoding video, once loaded up network traffic for apps or I/O would be small. Also looking at some solutions that manage disk images that will always force clients to a base boot image on a reboot, but Id like to keep the technology layer thin, and I already have netapps in the design. -----Original Message----- From: owner-toasters(a)mathworks.com [mailto:owner-toasters@mathworks.com]On Behalf Of Alan Biren Sent: Sunday, February 06, 2005 7:42 PM To: toasters(a)mathworks.com Subject: RE: Diskless Boot of Windows/iSCSI Jeff, As long as you have the base snapshot you can replace the boot LUNs quickly. You can also replicate this image to all of the field sites so that each are configured identically. The one major problem is the hardware has to be identical on each PC that will boot from SAN if you want to use the same image. You'll also need an iSCSI HBA. I would make sure that Network connectivity is reliable between the 250's and the PC's. I believe that the NOW site has instructions on seeting up a diskless system and the requirements to double check. _____ From: owner-toasters(a)mathworks.com on behalf of Jeff Mohler Sent: Sun 2/6/2005 5:19 PM To: toasters(a)mathworks.com Subject: Diskless Boot of Windows/iSCSI Greets: Same name, new location.. Im working a storage solution under contract using Netapp F250s in the field using snapmirror to replicate data back to a central F270 from nuclear plant inspection projects all over the world. I have 8 windows based PCs at each site doing encoding of camera inspections (IVVI), and those write to a file and/or go live over the network to the central location based on the inspection parameters. My largest source of problems are the encoding PCs which are not in the friendliest of environments on the refueling floor. Im looking for advice on whether I should change these PCs to work as diskless boot stations using ISCSI from the F250 that is at each site. The ultimate goal would be a situation where on boot the PC is booted to a static state of base configuration, and if the end-user changes anything (within MS Media encoder/etc) they just reboot to get back to a reliable configuration. The end user isnt storing any data in this image, just USING it to create data stored in a volume on the same F250 at the remote site. Just how diskless can I get, while maintaining an easy to use environment where nobody can screw up the base load image? My window of downtime is 10mins or less to full recovery. ***************************************************************************************************** If you have received this email in error please notify the the system manager or the sender immediately and do not disclosed the to anyone or make copies. ** eSafe scanned this email for viruses, vandals or malicious content ** ** To find out eSafe(TM) and other Aladdin Security Products, contact AMC Corporation at (212) 736-0111 *****************************************************************************************************

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