[zfs-discuss] Re: ZFS + rsync, backup on steroids.

2006-08-31 Thread Richard L. Hamilton
Are both of you doing a umount/mount (or export/import, I guess) of the source filesystem before both first and second test? Otherwise, there might still be a fair bit of cached data left over from the first test, which would give the 2nd an unfair advantage. I'm fairly sure unmounting a

[zfs-discuss] Newbie questions about drive problems

2006-08-31 Thread Baptiste Augrain
Hi, I'm a newbie at ZFS but I have some questions: I have 3 drives. The first one will be the primary/boot drive under UFS. The 2 others will become a mirrored pool with ZFS. Now, I have problem with the boot drive (hardware or software), so all the data on my mirrored pool are ok? How can I

[zfs-discuss] Storage Compatibilty list

2006-08-31 Thread san2rini
Hi all, I am about to try ZFS on my 420 with (of course) Solaris 10 6/06 installed. My question is : is there any storage compatibility list where to find which storage (in my case a D1000) goes or not with ZFS? cheers ___ zfs-discuss mailing

Re: [zfs-discuss] Newbie questions about drive problems

2006-08-31 Thread Constantin Gonzalez
Hi, I have 3 drives. The first one will be the primary/boot drive under UFS. The 2 others will become a mirrored pool with ZFS. Now, I have problem with the boot drive (hardware or software), so all the data on my mirrored pool are ok? How can I restore this pool? When I create the pool,

Re: [zfs-discuss] Storage Compatibilty list

2006-08-31 Thread James C. McPherson
James Dickens wrote: On 8/31/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I am about to try ZFS on my 420 with (of course) Solaris 10 6/06 installed. My question is : is there any storage compatibility list where to find which storage (in my case a D1000) goes or not with ZFS? If

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: zfs and vmware

2006-08-31 Thread Brian Hechinger
On Wed, Aug 30, 2006 at 10:53:20PM -0700, Stefan Johansson wrote: Yes I did and it works ok enough for me. Would be nice to have vmware server for Solaris instead so I can run Solaris as the host and use zfs directly on the controllers. You're not the only one who wants that. Maybe we

Re: [zfs-discuss] Find the difference between two snapshots

2006-08-31 Thread Niclas Sodergard
On 8/31/06, Tim Foster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Nickus, On Thu, 2006-08-31 at 15:44 +0300, Niclas Sodergard wrote: Is there an easy way to find out which files has changed between two snapshots? Currently I'm doing a # rsync -arvn snapshot1 snapshot2 and it creates a list. But rsync

Re: [zfs-discuss] Storage Compatibilty list

2006-08-31 Thread san2rini
Thanks guys for your help. Of course I have already put the D1000 in split so I can test the ZFS mirroring and so on cheers Alfredo James C. McPherson wrote: James Dickens wrote: On 8/31/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I am about to try ZFS on my 420 with (of

[zfs-discuss] ZFS with expanding LUNs

2006-08-31 Thread Theo Bongers
Please can anyone tell me how to handle with a LUN that is expanded (on a RAID array or SAN storage)? and grow the filesystem without data-loss? How does ZFS looks at the volume. In other words how can I grow the filesystem after LUN expansion. Do I need to format/type/autoconfigre/label on the

[zfs-discuss] Re: Newbie questions about drive problems

2006-08-31 Thread Baptiste Augrain
Thanks Now, I don't have any worry to migrate to ZFS. I have 3 drives. The first one will be the primary/boot drive under UFS. The 2 others will become a mirrored pool with ZFS. Now, I have problem with the boot drive (hardware or software), so all the data on my mirrored pool are ok?

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS with expanding LUNs

2006-08-31 Thread Matthew Ahrens
Theo Bongers wrote: Please can anyone tell me how to handle with a LUN that is expanded (on a RAID array or SAN storage)? and grow the filesystem without data-loss? How does ZFS looks at the volume. In other words how can I grow the filesystem after LUN expansion. Do I need to

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS with expanding LUNs

2006-08-31 Thread Eric Schrock
On Thu, Aug 31, 2006 at 09:54:25AM -0700, Matthew Ahrens wrote: Theo Bongers wrote: Please can anyone tell me how to handle with a LUN that is expanded (on a RAID array or SAN storage)? and grow the filesystem without data-loss? How does ZFS looks at the volume. In other words how can I grow

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: ZFS + rsync, backup on steroids.

2006-08-31 Thread Matthew Ahrens
Roch wrote: Matthew Ahrens writes: Robert Milkowski wrote: IIRC unmounting ZFS file system won't flush its caches - you've got to export entire pool. That's correct. And I did ensure that the data was not cached before each of my tests. Matt ? It seems to me that (at least

Re: [zfs-discuss] migrating data across boxes

2006-08-31 Thread Matthew Ahrens
John Beck wrote: % zfs snapshot -r [EMAIL PROTECTED] % zfs send space/[EMAIL PROTECTED] | ssh newbox zfs recv -d space % zfs send space/[EMAIL PROTECTED] | ssh newbox zfs recv -d space ... % zfs set mountpoint=/export/home space % zfs set mountpoint=/usr/local space/local % zfs set sharenfs=on

Re: [zfs-discuss] File level compression

2006-08-31 Thread Torrey McMahon
Sanjeev Bagewadi wrote: Manoj Joseph wrote: Robert Milkowski wrote: Hello Sanjeev, Wednesday, August 30, 2006, 3:26:52 PM, you wrote: SB Hi, SB We were trying out the compression=on feature of ZFS and were SB wondering if it would make SB sense to have ZFS do compression only on a certain

[zfs-discuss] libzfs question

2006-08-31 Thread SRIKANTH KONERU
Hi there... I have solaris 5.10 update 2 I am trying get some iostats on a zpool, A little bit digging indicated thtat I can do this by doing libzfs_init and zpool_open and so on .. library calls. But /lib/libzfs.so doesn't have the implementation of libzfs_int() , checked with /ucs/ccs/bin/nm

Re: [zfs-discuss] libzfs question

2006-08-31 Thread Eric Schrock
No, there is no documentation for libzfs. Your only bet is to look at the opensolaris source and see how its being used. It's a consolidation-private library, so it's not intended for public use. That being said, if you're willing to go through some growing pains on upgrade/patch, you're welcome

[zfs-discuss] can't create snapshot

2006-08-31 Thread Frank Cusack
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~]# zfs snapshot export/zone/smb/share/[EMAIL PROTECTED] internal error: unexpected error 16 at line 2302 of ../common/libzfs_dataset.c I don't have this problem with other filesystems. There was one existing snapshot which, after getting the above error, I deleted

Re: [zfs-discuss] can't create snapshot

2006-08-31 Thread Frank Cusack
On August 31, 2006 4:00:52 PM -0700 Frank Cusack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~]# zfs snapshot export/zone/smb/share/[EMAIL PROTECTED] internal error: unexpected error 16 at line 2302 of ../common/libzfs_dataset.c I don't have this problem with other filesystems. There was one