Re: [zfs-discuss] x4500 x2

2008-02-04 Thread Darren J Moffat
Jorgen Lundman wrote: If we were to get two x4500s, with the idea of keeping one as a passive standby (serious hardware failure) are there any clever solutions in doing so? We can not use ZFS itself, but rather zpool volumes, with UFS on-top. I Why can't you use ZFS filesystems and

Re: [zfs-discuss] perl modules to access zfs commands?

2008-02-04 Thread Darren J Moffat
Jan Dreyer wrote: Hi, this may be a perl question more than a zfs question, but anyway: are there any perl modules hanging around to access the zfs administrative commands?! I wish to write some scripts to to some scheduled jobs with our ZFS systems; preferably in perl. But I found no

Re: [zfs-discuss] Draft one-pager for zfs-auto-snapshots

2008-02-04 Thread Mertol Ozyoney
Tim; Excellent work. This is one great feature that should have been implemented into the ZFS long ago. I also recommend integrating this functionality with the ZFS GUI. And a global manager that manages snapshots of multiple servers would be the dream of a system admin. Keepup the good

Re: [zfs-discuss] simulating directio on zfs?

2008-02-04 Thread Roch - PAE
Andrew Robb writes: The big problem that I have with non-directio is that buffering delays program execution. When reading/writing files that are many times larger than RAM without directio, it is very apparent that system response drops through the floor- it can take several minutes for

[zfs-discuss] Draft one-pager for zfs-auto-snapshots

2008-02-04 Thread Tim Foster
Hi all, I put together the attached one-pager on the ZFS Automatic Snapshots service which I've been maintaining on my blog to date. I would like to see if this could be integrated into ON and believe that a first step towards this is a project one-pager: so I've attached a draft version. I'm

Re: [zfs-discuss] mounting a copy of a zfs pool /file system while orginal is still active

2008-02-04 Thread Darren J Moffat
Dave Lowenstein wrote: Nope, doesn't work. Try presenting one of those lun snapshots to your host, run cfgadm -al, then run zpool import. #zpool import no pools available to import Does format(1M) see the luns ? If format(1M) can't see them it is unlikely that ZFS will either. It

Re: [zfs-discuss] How to get ZFS use the whole disk?

2008-02-04 Thread Robin Guo
Hi, Roman You can use 'zpool attach' to attach mirror into it. But cannot 'zpool add' new slice into it. rootpool can be a single disk device, or a device slice, or in a mirrored configuration. If you use a whole disk for a rootpool, you must use a slice notation (e.g. c0d0s0) so that it

Re: [zfs-discuss] How to get ZFS use the whole disk?

2008-02-04 Thread Will Murnane
On Feb 4, 2008 4:37 PM, Robin Guo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you use a whole disk for a rootpool, you must use a slice notation (e.g. c0d0s0) so that it is labeled with an SMI label. Will ZFS recognize that it has the whole disk at this point (and thus leave cache enabled on it) or not? Many

Re: [zfs-discuss] Draft one-pager for zfs-auto-snapshots

2008-02-04 Thread Nicolas Williams
On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 03:14:15PM +, Tim Foster wrote: Filesystems are grouped together either by setting their names as a space separated list in an SMF instance property, or queried dynamically SMF supports multi-valued properties. I think you should use that, rather than

Re: [zfs-discuss] How to get ZFS use the whole disk?

2008-02-04 Thread Roman Morokutti
Just another thought. After setting up a ZFS root on slice c0d0s4, it should be just possible after starting into it, to add the remaining slices into the created ZFS pool. Is this possible? Roman This message posted from opensolaris.org ___

Re: [zfs-discuss] mounting a copy of a zfs pool /file system while orginal is still active

2008-02-04 Thread Dave Lowenstein
Try it, it doesn't work. Format sees both but you can't import a clone of pool u001 if pool u001 is already imported, even by giving it a new name. Darren J Moffat wrote: Dave Lowenstein wrote: Nope, doesn't work. Try presenting one of those lun snapshots to your host, run cfgadm -al,

[zfs-discuss] Sun 5220 as a ZFS Server?

2008-02-04 Thread Michael Stalnaker
We¹re looking at building out sever ZFS servers, and are considering an x86 platform vs a Sun 5520 as the base platform. Any comments from the floor on comparative performance as a ZFS server? We¹d be using the LSI 3801 controllers in either case. ___

Re: [zfs-discuss] Phenom support in b78

2008-02-04 Thread slindes
Hi, On Sat, 12 Jan 2008, Alan Romeril wrote: Hello All, In a moment of insanity I've upgraded from a 5200+ to a Phenom 9600 on my zfs server and I've had a lot of problems with hard hangs when accessing the pool. The motherboard is an Asus M2N32-WS, which has had the latest available

[zfs-discuss] unexpected ZFS behavior

2008-02-04 Thread Jeremy Kister
I've got ZFS running on Solaris s10x_u3wos_10 X86 on a v40z, which has two PCI SCSI controllers, each connected to it's own external HP Diskarray (MSA30) with 7 disks + hot spare. Both controllers are: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic 53c1030 PCI-X Fusion-MPT Dual Ultra320 SCSI The disks are a mix

Re: [zfs-discuss] perl modules to access zfs commands?

2008-02-04 Thread Paul B. Henson
On Mon, 4 Feb 2008, Darren J Moffat wrote: At this time the libzfs C interfaces are not stable public documented interfaces so there are no Perl bindings for them either. The commands are the only stable and documented interfaces to ZFS at this time. Perhaps not stable, but it's hard to

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS configuration for a thumper

2008-02-04 Thread Marion Hakanson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: FYI, you can use the '-c' option to compare results from various runs and have one single report to look at. That's a handy feature. I've added a couple of such comparisons: http://acc.ohsu.edu/~hakansom/thumper_bench.html Marion

Re: [zfs-discuss] mounting a copy of a zfs pool /file system while orginal is still active

2008-02-04 Thread Jim Dunham
Darren J Moffat wrote: Dave Lowenstein wrote: Nope, doesn't work. Try presenting one of those lun snapshots to your host, run cfgadm - al, then run zpool import. #zpool import no pools available to import Does format(1M) see the luns ? If format(1M) can't see them it is unlikely that

Re: [zfs-discuss] x4500 x2

2008-02-04 Thread Jorgen Lundman
You'd have to go back and read my previous thread, I did about 6 weeks of trying to find a solution using zfs, and quotas, with mind of directly replacing the NetApps we have. It just can not be done. (yet) The closest would be to use mirror mounts, but that would require upgrading all 500

Re: [zfs-discuss] How to get ZFS use the whole disk?

2008-02-04 Thread Robin Guo
Hi, Roman If you need to ocupy a disk on rootpool, you need has at least 2 disks in the system on such case. use c[m]t[n]d[p]s0 as the second device, suppose you've SMI labeled it and let s0 take the entire space of that disk. Good luck! Roman Morokutti wrote: Hi, I am new to ZFS and

Re: [zfs-discuss] Draft one-pager for zfs-auto-snapshots

2008-02-04 Thread Robin Guo
Excellent News, Tim. That util will be handy and popular under SMF. Looking forward to that. Tim Foster wrote: Hi all, I put together the attached one-pager on the ZFS Automatic Snapshots service which I've been maintaining on my blog to date. I would like to see if this could be

Re: [zfs-discuss] How to get ZFS use the whole disk?

2008-02-04 Thread Robin Guo
Hi, Roman, The disable disk cache option is a choice by manual setting, on some particular envionment. ZIL default setting to 'on'. Regardless regular pool or rootpool. There's CR #6648965 might also related to this. It talked about slog/l2cache/spare should able to be supported in a