[zfs-discuss] SAS-controller recommodations

2007-09-13 Thread Thomas Liesner
Hi all, i am about to put together a one month test configuration for a graphics-production server (prepress-filer that is). I would like to test zfs on a x4200 with two sas2sata-jbods attached. Initially i wanted to use an infortrend fc2sata-jbod-enclosure but these are at out of production

Re: [zfs-discuss] SAS-controller recommodations

2007-09-13 Thread Louwtjie Burger
http://www.sun.com/servers/entry/x4200/optioncards.jsp#m2pcie SG-XPCIE8SAS-E-Z ? On 9/13/07, Thomas Liesner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, i am about to put together a one month test configuration for a graphics-production server (prepress-filer that is). I would like to test zfs on a

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS RAIDZ vs. RAID5.

2007-09-13 Thread Pawel Jakub Dawidek
On Thu, Sep 13, 2007 at 04:58:10AM +, Marc Bevand wrote: Pawel Jakub Dawidek pjd at FreeBSD.org writes: This is how RAIDZ fills the disks (follow the numbers): Disk0 Disk1 Disk2 Disk3 D0 D1 D2 P3 D4 D5 D6 P7 D8 D9

Re: [zfs-discuss] SAS-controller recommodations

2007-09-13 Thread Brian Hechinger
On Thu, Sep 13, 2007 at 10:49:36AM +0200, Louwtjie Burger wrote: http://www.sun.com/servers/entry/x4200/optioncards.jsp#m2pcie SG-XPCIE8SAS-E-Z ? I believe that's one of the LSI 1068E based cards. From what I've been able to tell, anything based on the 106x chipset will work. That's what

[zfs-discuss] How do I get my pool back?

2007-09-13 Thread Peter Tribble
After having to replace an internal raid card in an X2200 (S10U3 in this case), I can see the disks just fine - and can boot, so the data isn't completely missing. However, my zpool has gone. # zpool status -x pool: storage state: FAULTED status: One or more devices could not be opened.

[zfs-discuss] hardware sizing for a zfs-based system?

2007-09-13 Thread Kent Watsen
Hi all, I'm putting together a OpenSolaris ZFS-based system and need help picking hardware. I'm thinking about using this 26-disk case: [FYI: 2-disk RAID1 for the OS 4*(4+2) RAIDZ2 for SAN] http://rackmountpro.com/productpage.php?prodid=2418 Regarding the mobo, cpus, and memory - I

[zfs-discuss] zpool versioning

2007-09-13 Thread Paul Armor
Hi, I was wondering if anyone would know if this is just an accounting-type error with the recorded version= stored on disk, or if there are/could-be any deeper issues with an upgraded zpool? I created a pool under a Sol10_x86_u3 install (11/06?), and zdb correctly reported the pool as a

Re: [zfs-discuss] zpool versioning

2007-09-13 Thread Enda O'Connor ( Sun Micro Systems Ireland)
Paul Armor wrote: Hi, I was wondering if anyone would know if this is just an accounting-type error with the recorded version= stored on disk, or if there are/could-be any deeper issues with an upgraded zpool? I created a pool under a Sol10_x86_u3 install (11/06?), and zdb correctly

Re: [zfs-discuss] zpool versioning

2007-09-13 Thread Paul Armor
On Thu, 13 Sep 2007, Enda O'Connor ( Sun Micro Systems Ireland) wrote: Paul Armor wrote: Hi, I was wondering if anyone would know if this is just an accounting-type error with the recorded version= stored on disk, or if there are/could-be any deeper issues with an upgraded zpool? I

[zfs-discuss] Automate Destroying Snapshot's

2007-09-13 Thread Poulos, Joe
I have created a script that gets a snapshot and backs the snapshot to tape. I would like to keep the snapshot around for one week, than destroy it using the following command: zfs destroy snapshotlvolume. Is there a way to automate the destroying of snapshots that are older that x

Re: [zfs-discuss] Automate Destroying Snapshot's

2007-09-13 Thread Tim Foster
Hi Joe, On Thu, 2007-09-13 at 11:39 -0400, Poulos, Joe wrote: Is there a way to automate the destroying of snapshots that are older that x amount of days? Yeah, a few people have done stuff like this. Chris has this: http://blogs.sun.com/chrisg/entry/a_faster_zfs_snapshot_massacre and

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Root and upgrades

2007-09-13 Thread Brian Hechinger
On Thu, Sep 13, 2007 at 10:54:41AM -0600, Lori Alt wrote: In-place upgrade of zfs datasets is not supported and probably never will be (LiveUpgrade will be the way to go with zfs because the cloning features of zfs make it a natural). But the LiveUpgrade changes aren't ready yet, so for the

Re: [zfs-discuss] How do I get my pool back?

2007-09-13 Thread Solaris
Try exporting the pool then import it. I have seen this after moving disks between systems, and on a couple of occasions just rebooting. On 9/13/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2007 15:19:02 +0100 From: Peter Tribble [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [zfs-discuss]

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS/WAFL lawsuit

2007-09-13 Thread Rob Windsor
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From what I gather about the East Texas venue they tend to repeatedly dismiss very competent technical testimony (prior art/non-infringement) -- instead relying more on the lawyer's arguments, lay conjecture and soft fact. This seems to be why the venue is so

Re: [zfs-discuss] How do I get my pool back?

2007-09-13 Thread Peter Tribble
On 9/13/07, Solaris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Try exporting the pool then import it. I have seen this after moving disks between systems, and on a couple of occasions just rebooting. Doesn't work. (How can you export something that isn't imported anyway?) -- -Peter Tribble

Re: [zfs-discuss] How do I get my pool back?

2007-09-13 Thread Mike Lee
have you tried zpool clear? Peter Tribble wrote: On 9/13/07, Solaris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Try exporting the pool then import it. I have seen this after moving disks between systems, and on a couple of occasions just rebooting. Doesn't work. (How can you export something that

Re: [zfs-discuss] How do I get my pool back?

2007-09-13 Thread Peter Tribble
On 9/13/07, Mike Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: have you tried zpool clear? Not yet. Let me give it a try: # zpool clear storage cannot open 'storage': pool is unavailable Bother... Thanks anyway! -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/

Re: [zfs-discuss] How do I get my pool back?

2007-09-13 Thread Eric Schrock
On Thu, Sep 13, 2007 at 06:36:33PM +0100, Peter Tribble wrote: Doesn't work. (How can you export something that isn't imported anyway?) The pool is imported, or else 'zpool status' wouldn't show it at all. It's just faulted. So when you say doesn't work, does that mean that the zpool

Re: [zfs-discuss] How do I get my pool back?

2007-09-13 Thread Marion Hakanson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: # zpool clear storage cannot open 'storage': pool is unavailable Bother... Greetings, It looks to me like maybe the device names changed with the controller swap you mentioned. Possibly the new device has not been fully recognized by the OS yet. Maybe a cfgadm -al

Re: [zfs-discuss] How do I get my pool back?

2007-09-13 Thread Solaris
Ok, I guess I misunderstood the status of your pool. If you can do a zpool status then your zpool is configured, and should be exportable, even if the pool is inoperable, right? If you do a zpool status and it says no pools available (just like the zpool import command you had shown), then my

Re: [zfs-discuss] How do I get my pool back?

2007-09-13 Thread Peter Tribble
On 9/13/07, Eric Schrock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Sep 13, 2007 at 06:36:33PM +0100, Peter Tribble wrote: Doesn't work. (How can you export something that isn't imported anyway?) The pool is imported, or else 'zpool status' wouldn't show it at all. It's just faulted. So when

Re: [zfs-discuss] How do I get my pool back?

2007-09-13 Thread Asif Iqbal
zpool import -a -f should do the trick On 9/13/07, Peter Tribble [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 9/13/07, Eric Schrock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Sep 13, 2007 at 06:36:33PM +0100, Peter Tribble wrote: Doesn't work. (How can you export something that isn't imported anyway?)

[zfs-discuss] NOINUSE_CHECK not working on ZFS

2007-09-13 Thread Bill Casale
Sun Fire 280R Solaris 10 11/06, KU Generic_125100-08 Created a ZFS pool with disk c5t0d5, format c5t0d5 shows the disk is part of a ZFS pool. Then ran format=partition=modify and was able to change the partition for it. This resulted in panic and crash when a zpool status was run. From what

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS quota

2007-09-13 Thread Jesus Cea
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Brad Plecs wrote: I ended up going back to rsync, because we had more and more complaints as the snapshots accumulated, but am now just rsyncing to another system, which in turn runs snapshots on the backup copy. It's still time- and

Re: [zfs-discuss] How do I get my pool back?

2007-09-13 Thread Peter Tribble
On 9/13/07, Eric Schrock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Sep 13, 2007 at 07:54:12PM +0100, Peter Tribble wrote: There must be a better way of handling this. It should have just brought it online first time around, without all the fiddling around (that feels like voodoo to me). Yes, the

Re: [zfs-discuss] How do I get my pool back?

2007-09-13 Thread Eric Schrock
On Thu, Sep 13, 2007 at 07:54:12PM +0100, Peter Tribble wrote: Hm. I tried this earlier, and it didn't work. (Pretty much the first thing I tried). Something like 'no such pool' when I tried the export. However, I just tried again and it worked. But I have been poking at it and it's had a

Re: [zfs-discuss] SAS-controller recommodations

2007-09-13 Thread James C. McPherson
Louwtjie Burger wrote: http://www.sun.com/servers/entry/x4200/optioncards.jsp#m2pcie SG-XPCIE8SAS-E-Z ? On 9/13/07, Thomas Liesner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, i am about to put together a one month test configuration for a graphics-production server (prepress-filer that is). I would

[zfs-discuss] How to delegate filesystems from different pools to non-global zone

2007-09-13 Thread Robert Lor
I'm trying to add filesystems from two different pools to a zone but can't seem to find any mention of how to do this in the docs. I tried this but the second set overwrites the first one. add dataset set name=pool1/fs1 set name=pool2/fs2 end Is this possible or do I need to use different

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Root and upgrades

2007-09-13 Thread Jason King
On 9/13/07, Brian Hechinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Sep 13, 2007 at 10:54:41AM -0600, Lori Alt wrote: In-place upgrade of zfs datasets is not supported and probably never will be (LiveUpgrade will be the way to go with zfs because the cloning features of zfs make it a natural).

Re: [zfs-discuss] How to delegate filesystems from different pools to non-global zone

2007-09-13 Thread Marion Hakanson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I'm trying to add filesystems from two different pools to a zone but can't seem to find any mention of how to do this in the docs. I tried this but the second set overwrites the first one. add dataset set name=pool1/fs1 set name=pool2/fs2 end Is this possible

Re: [zfs-discuss] How to delegate filesystems from different pools to non-global zone

2007-09-13 Thread Robert . Lor
Marion Hakanson wrote: You need two separate dataset declarations: add dataset set name=pool1/fs1 end add dataset set name=pool2/fs2 end Duh... makes sense. Thanks Marion! -Robert ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS RAIDZ vs. RAID5.

2007-09-13 Thread James Blackburn
On 9/12/07, Pawel Jakub Dawidek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Sep 12, 2007 at 02:24:56PM -0700, Adam Leventhal wrote: On Mon, Sep 10, 2007 at 12:41:24PM +0200, Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote: I'm a bit surprised by these results. Assuming relatively large blocks written, RAID-Z and RAID-5

[zfs-discuss] Recovering from ZFS-8000-CS: Destroy and re-create the pool from a backup source.

2007-09-13 Thread Alec Muffett
Hi All, Here's a synopsis of my morning: 23:43:17 suzi:~ $ fmdump TIME UUID SUNW-MSG-ID Sep 13 05:40:06.2394 5ad39b52-c2e7-6d53-b937-d43694ed2568 ZFS-8000-GH Sep 13 05:50:05.5643 14d37f29-d93d-ef9d-d699-d617dc65b44c ZFS-8000-GH Sep 13 05:50:05.8213

[zfs-discuss] ZFS and enterprise features

2007-09-13 Thread Flemming Danielsen
Hi I know ZFS was designed to work as a you do not need to know FS and for JBOD disks, but sometimes we need to know where we have redundancies and sometimes we do use HDS or EMC arrays. I have a large costumer that needs to ensure redundancies between sites. This means ensuring that data from

Re: [zfs-discuss] How to delegate filesystems from different pools to non-global zone

2007-09-13 Thread Marion Hakanson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Duh... makes sense. Oh, I dunno, I think your first try makes sense, too. That's what I tried to do my first time out. Maybe the zones team will get around to supporting multiple datasets in one clause someday Regards, Marion

Re: [zfs-discuss] Best way to incorporate disk size tolerance into

2007-09-13 Thread Daniel Carosone
Caveat: do not enable nonvolatile write cache for UFS. Correction: do not enable *volatile* write cache for UFS :-) -- Dan. This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [zfs-discuss] hardware sizing for a zfs-based system?

2007-09-13 Thread Jonathan Loran
I will only comment on the chassis, as this is made by AIC (short for American Industrial Computer), and I have three of these in service at my work. These chassis are quite well made, but I have experienced the following two problems: 1) The rails really are not up to the task of supporting