Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Panicing System Cluster Crash effect

2008-09-12 Thread Ross
What version of Solaris are you running there? For a long while the default response on encountering unrecoverable errors was to panic, but I believe that has been improved in newer builds. Also, part of your problem may be down to running with just a single disk. With just one disk, ZFS

Re: [zfs-discuss] Any commands to dump all zfs snapshots like NetApp snap

2008-09-12 Thread Ross
It's a capital i, not an L. For sending all intermediate snapshots to a destination. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

[zfs-discuss] ZFS: First use recommendations

2008-09-12 Thread gm_sjo
Hi all, I'm about to embark on my first voyage into ZFS (and Solaris, frankly) as it seems very appealing for a low-cost SAN/NAS solution. I am in the process of building up a HCL-compliant whitebox server which ultimately will contain 8x1TB SATA disks. I would appreciate some advice and

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS: First use recommendations

2008-09-12 Thread Michael Schuster
Hi, I'm by no means a ZFS expert, but I do have one comment: gm_sjo wrote: - To provide a large slice of storage (~4TB) to a Windows 2003/8 file server guest on the vmware host, to be accessed by Windows clients over CIFS. Solaris provide CIFS support natively too - maybe you can save

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS: First use recommendations

2008-09-12 Thread Malachi de Ælfweald
Currently, you can mirror your boot but not raidz2 it. I'd recommend using 2 of the drives for a mirrored boot and the other 6 drives for raidz2. I used 2x Addonics AE5RCS35NSA to hold the drives to give me hot swappability. Out of curiousity, is there any reason you are going with vmware rather

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS: First use recommendations

2008-09-12 Thread gm_sjo
2008/9/12 Malachi de Ælfweald: Currently, you can mirror your boot but not raidz2 it. I'd recommend using 2 of the drives for a mirrored boot and the other 6 drives for raidz2. I used 2x Addonics AE5RCS35NSA to hold the drives to give me hot swappability. Sorry, forgot to mention - I have

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS: First use recommendations

2008-09-12 Thread gm_sjo
2008/9/12 Michael Schuster: Solaris provide CIFS support natively too - maybe you can save yourself the hassle of going through the vmware + windows combo. There will be approx. 20 vmware guests running on this infrastructure, so having a windows guest there for serving files isn't a problem.

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS: First use recommendations

2008-09-12 Thread Malachi de Ælfweald
Comments inline On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 8:24 AM, gm_sjo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2008/9/12 Malachi de Ælfweald: Currently, you can mirror your boot but not raidz2 it. I'd recommend using 2 of the drives for a mirrored boot and the other 6 drives for raidz2. I used 2x Addonics AE5RCS35NSA

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS: First use recommendations

2008-09-12 Thread gm_sjo
2008/9/12 Malachi de Ælfweald: I'd say that if you are planning on using Windows to host the VMs, then either vmware or virtualbox is your best bet. If you are looking to have the OpenSolaris box host the VMs, xVM might be a better choice. I'm not - as per my original post, the vmware host

[zfs-discuss] Do you grok it?

2008-09-12 Thread Richard Elling
greenBytes has a very well produced teaser commercial on their site. http://www.green-bytes.com Actually, I think it is one of the better commercials done by tech companies in a long time. Do you grok it? -- richard ___ zfs-discuss mailing list

Re: [zfs-discuss] Do you grok it?

2008-09-12 Thread Dale Ghent
On Sep 12, 2008, at 1:35 PM, Richard Elling wrote: greenBytes has a very well produced teaser commercial on their site. http://www.green-bytes.com Actually, I think it is one of the better commercials done by tech companies in a long time. Do you grok it? Did I detect a (well-done)

Re: [zfs-discuss] Error: value too large for defined data type

2008-09-12 Thread Paul Raines
On Fri, 5 Sep 2008, Kyle McDonald wrote: Paul Raines wrote: I am having a very odd problem on one of our ZFS filesystems On certain files, when accessed on the Solaris server itself locally where the zfs fs sits, we get an error like the following: [EMAIL PROTECTED] # ls -l ./README:

Re: [zfs-discuss] x4500 vs AVS ?

2008-09-12 Thread Jim Dunham
On Sep 11, 2008, at 5:16 PM, A Darren Dunham wrote: On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 04:28:03PM -0400, Jim Dunham wrote: On Sep 11, 2008, at 11:19 AM, A Darren Dunham wrote: On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 10:33:00AM -0400, Jim Dunham wrote: The issue with any form of RAID 1, is that the instant a disk

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZPOOL Import Problem

2008-09-12 Thread Jim Dunham
Corey, I ran into an odd problem importing a zpool while testing avs. I was trying to simulate a drive failure, break SNDR replication, and then import the pool on the secondary. To simulate the drive failure is just offlined one of the disks in the RAIDZ set. Are all constituent

[zfs-discuss] format command confused by pool data ?

2008-09-12 Thread Chris
Hi guys, I recently was adding and removing some devices to a zfs mirror and now the format command command seems to be a bit confused (or is being given erroneous information) This happened under Solaris Express Community Edition snv_81 X86 I have 3 disks in a pool

Re: [zfs-discuss] Will ZFS stay consistent with AVS/ZFS and async replication

2008-09-12 Thread Jim Dunham
Miles, mb == Matt Beebe [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: mb When using AVS's Async replication with memory queue, am I mb guaranteed a consistent ZFS on the distant end? The assumed mb failure case is that the replication broke, and now I'm trying mb to promote the secondary replicate

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZPOOL Import Problem

2008-09-12 Thread Leopold, Corey
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 12, 2008 4:34 PM To: Leopold, Corey Cc: zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [zfs-discuss] ZPOOL Import Problem Corey, I ran into an odd problem importing a