[zfs-discuss] zfs and jbod

2008-05-13 Thread Claus Guttesen
Hi. I've ordered an areca ARC-1680 sas-adapter and supermicro 3U storage cabinet which can hold 16 sata-disks. The disks are WD RAID Edition 2 GP - 1000GB (server-edition). This will be a jbod-storage. My plan is to create one zpool and add disks in chunks of 10 disks in raidz2 and allocate one

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs and jbod

2008-05-13 Thread James C. McPherson
Claus Guttesen wrote: Hi. I've ordered an areca ARC-1680 sas-adapter and supermicro 3U storage cabinet which can hold 16 sata-disks. The disks are WD RAID Edition 2 GP - 1000GB (server-edition). This will be a jbod-storage. My plan is to create one zpool and add disks in chunks of 10 disks

Re: [zfs-discuss] Deletion of file from ZFS Disk and Snapshots

2008-05-13 Thread Aaron Epps
See, that's the problem. I don't want to delete the entire snapshot, I just want to remove a particular file from the snapshot. This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org

[zfs-discuss] HOWTO: Backup a Storage Pool

2008-05-13 Thread Aaron Epps
What's the preferred method for easily backing up a storage pool? I know about send/recieve/etc, but I'm asking are people using another Solaris box, Tapes, CDs/DVDs, External Drives? Basically, I want an off-site backup so that if my place burns down and the OpenSolaris box I have goes with

Re: [zfs-discuss] Deletion of file from ZFS Disk and Snapshots

2008-05-13 Thread Simon Breden
OK, I understand. I don't think it's possible though, as snapshots are read only, as far as I know. If you like voodoo you could try going into the .zfs directory, then into the snapshot directory and see what you can do there, but I wouldn't try it, as it might be possible to do harm that

Re: [zfs-discuss] HOWTO: Backup a Storage Pool

2008-05-13 Thread Darren J Moffat
Aaron Epps wrote: What's the preferred method for easily backing up a storage pool? I know about send/recieve/etc, but I'm asking are people using another Solaris box, Tapes, CDs/DVDs, External Drives? Basically, I want an off-site backup so that if my place burns down and the OpenSolaris

Re: [zfs-discuss] Deletion of file from ZFS Disk and Snapshots

2008-05-13 Thread Darren J Moffat
Simon Breden wrote: OK, I understand. I don't think it's possible though, as snapshots are read only, as far as I know. If you like voodoo you could try going into the .zfs directory, then into the snapshot directory and see what you can do there, but I wouldn't try it, as it might be

Re: [zfs-discuss] Deletion of file from ZFS Disk and Snapshots

2008-05-13 Thread Simon Breden
Thanks Darren, that's good to know. If multiple snapshots reference (own?) the same file, what's the quickest way to zap that file from all snapshots? I say 'own' because apparently the original file system that the snapshots were created from, has been deleted, apparently, if I understood the

Re: [zfs-discuss] HOWTO: Backup a Storage Pool

2008-05-13 Thread Ross
Who needs high bandwidth? Create an off-site ZFS store, and output the ZFS send command to an external USB drive. Import that every night and backups are a piece of cake. It's quite possible to build a silent 6TB home server for around £1,200, and it's a surprisingly good solution. Failing

Re: [zfs-discuss] Deletion of file from ZFS Disk and Snapshots

2008-05-13 Thread Marc Glisse
Can't you turn the snapshot into a clone (kind of an editable snapshot)? Or does the existence of a clone created from this snapshot prevent from removing the snapshot afterwards? This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing

Re: [zfs-discuss] Deletion of file from ZFS Disk and Snapshots

2008-05-13 Thread A Darren Dunham
On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 10:02:01AM -0700, Marc Glisse wrote: Can't you turn the snapshot into a clone (kind of an editable snapshot)? Or does the existence of a clone created from this snapshot prevent from removing the snapshot afterwards? You can create a clone from the snapshot, but it does

Re: [zfs-discuss] Deletion of file from ZFS Disk and Snapshots

2008-05-13 Thread Nicolas Williams
On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 04:33:29PM +0200, Simon Breden wrote: Thanks Darren, that's good to know. If multiple snapshots reference (own?) the same file, what's the quickest way to zap that file from all snapshots? There isn't a way to do that at all, not short of deleting the actual snapshots

Re: [zfs-discuss] Deletion of file from ZFS Disk and Snapshots

2008-05-13 Thread A Darren Dunham
On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 04:33:29PM +0200, Simon Breden wrote: If multiple snapshots reference (own?) the same file, what's the quickest way to zap that file from all snapshots? There is no way. If you could do that, then they wouldn't really be snapshots. I'm not saying that the ability

[zfs-discuss] Using O_EXCL flag on /dev/zvol nodes

2008-05-13 Thread Sumit Gupta
The /dev/[r]dsk nodes implement the O_EXCL flag. If a node is opened using the O_EXCL, subsequent open(2) to that node fail. But I dont think the same is true for /dev/zvol/[r]dsk nodes. Is that a bug (or maybe RFE) ? Thanks Sumit This message posted from opensolaris.org