[zfs-discuss] HP Smart Array and b99?

2008-11-04 Thread Fajar A. Nugraha
Per subject, has abyone sucessfully used b99 with HP hardware? I've been using opensolaris for some time on HP Blade. Installing from os200805 back in June works fine, with the caveat that I had to manually add cpqary3 driver (v 1.90 was available back then). After installation, I regulary

Re: [zfs-discuss] [storage-discuss] Help with bizarre S10U5 / zfs / iscsi / thumper / Oracle RAC problem

2008-11-04 Thread Jim Dunham
George, I'm looking for any pointers or advice on what might have happened to cause the following problem... To run Oracle RAC on iSCSI Target LUs, accessible by three or more iSCSI Initiator nodes, requires support for SCSI-3 Persistent Reservations. This functionality was added to

Re: [zfs-discuss] ufsrestore to ZFS

2008-11-04 Thread Joerg Schilling
Mark Shellenbaum [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You can, but I don't think ufsdump is ACL aware. ufsdump is ACL aware since 12 years. The problem may be in ufsrestore that IIRC only supports POSIX draft ACLs. If ZFS is able to translate this to NFSv4 ACLs, you may have luck. So it

Re: [zfs-discuss] gzip compression throttles system?

2008-11-04 Thread David Gwynne
On 11/05/2007, at 4:54 AM, Bill Sommerfeld wrote: On Thu, 2007-05-10 at 10:10 -0700, Jürgen Keil wrote: Btw: In one experiment I tried to boot the kernel under kmdb control (-kd), patched minclsyspri := 61 and used a breakpoint inside spa_active() to patch the spa_zio_* taskq to use prio 60

Re: [zfs-discuss] Help with simple (?) reconfigure of zpool

2008-11-04 Thread Robert Rodriguez
Hello Marc. Thank you so much for your help with this. Although the process took a full two days (I've got the Supermicro AOC 8 port PCI-X card in a PCI slot, dog-slow write speeds) it went off without a hitch thanks to your excellent guide. # zpool list mp NAME SIZE USED AVAILCAP

[zfs-discuss] Best method do securely wipe a zpool?

2008-11-04 Thread Sean Alderman
Greetings, I have been evaluating an X4540 server. I now have to return it. I'm curious about all of your thoughts on the best method for securely wiping the data might be. Thanks. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Best method do securely wipe a zpool?

2008-11-04 Thread Darren J Moffat
Sean Alderman wrote: Greetings, I have been evaluating an X4540 server. I now have to return it. I'm curious about all of your thoughts on the best method for securely wiping the data might be. Use the purge command from the analyze submenu of format(1M) on each disk. -- Darren J

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS wrecked our system...

2008-11-04 Thread Thomas Maier-Komor
Christiaan Willemsen schrieb: do the disks show up as expected in format? Is your root pool just a single disk or is it a mirror of mutliple disks? Did you attach/detach any disks to the root pool before rebooting? No, we did nothing at all to the pools. The root pool is a hardware

[zfs-discuss] L2ARC in S10 10/08

2008-11-04 Thread Robert Milkowski
Hello zfs-discuss, Looks like it is not supported there - what are the current plan to bring L2ARC to Solaris 10? -- Best regards, Robert Milkowski mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://milek.blogspot.com

[zfs-discuss] problems with ludelete

2008-11-04 Thread Hernan Freschi
Hi, I'm not sure if this is the right place to ask. I'm having a little trouble deleting old solaris installs: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~]# lustatus Boot Environment Is Active ActiveCanCopy Name Complete NowOn Reboot Delete Status

Re: [zfs-discuss] gzip compression throttles system?

2008-11-04 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Wed, 5 Nov 2008, David Gwynne wrote: be done in a very short time. perhaps you can amortize that cost by doing it when the data from userland makes it into the kernel. another idea could be doing the compression when you reach a relatively low threshold of uncompressed data in the cache.

Re: [zfs-discuss] problems with ludelete

2008-11-04 Thread Cyril Plisko
On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 7:24 PM, Hernan Freschi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm not sure if this is the right place to ask. I'm having a little trouble deleting old solaris installs: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~]# lustatus Boot Environment Is Active ActiveCanCopy Name

Re: [zfs-discuss] L2ARC in S10 10/08

2008-11-04 Thread Richard Elling
Robert Milkowski wrote: Hello zfs-discuss, Looks like it is not supported there - what are the current plan to bring L2ARC to Solaris 10? L2ARC did not make Solaris 10 10/08 (aka update 6). I think the plans for update 7 are still being formed. -- richard

Re: [zfs-discuss] problems with ludelete

2008-11-04 Thread Ian Collins
Hernan Freschi wrote: Hi, I'm not sure if this is the right place to ask. I'm having a little trouble deleting old solaris installs: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~]# lustatus Boot Environment Is Active ActiveCanCopy Name Complete NowOn Reboot Delete

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS wrecked our system...

2008-11-04 Thread Thomas Maier-Komor
Christiaan Willemsen schrieb: Since the last reboot, our system wont boot anymore. It hangs at the Use is subject to license terms. line for a few minutes, and then gives an error that it can't find the device it needs for making the root pool, and eventually reboots. We did not change

Re: [zfs-discuss] Lost Disk Space

2008-11-04 Thread Matthew Ahrens
Ben Rockwood wrote: I've been struggling to fully understand why disk space seems to vanish. I've dug through bits of code and reviewed all the mails on the subject that I can find, but I still don't have a proper understanding of whats going on. I did a test with a local zpool on

Re: [zfs-discuss] TimeSlider and ZFS auto snapshot problem into indiana

2008-11-04 Thread Lars Timmann
I fixed it by setting the *LK* to *NL* in /etc/shadow so that zfssnap can execute cronjobs. And I added this line to /etc/user_attr: zfssnaptype=role;auths=solaris.smf.manage.zfs-auto-snapshot;profiles=ZFS File System Management to give zfssnap the rights to snapshot. Maybe there is a

Re: [zfs-discuss] S10U6 and x4500 thumper sata controller

2008-11-04 Thread Paul B. Henson
On Sat, 1 Nov 2008, Mertol Ozyoney wrote: I also need this information. Thanks a lot for keeping me on the loop also I didn't hear anything back on this, so I went ahead and opened an SR on my contract, it's #66126640. With an @sun.com address I think you'd have better information sources than

[zfs-discuss] does disksize matter for a zfs mirror

2008-11-04 Thread dick hoogendijk
Right now s10u6 runs on ZFS off disk c1d0s0. A check proved that even zones are copied good at last! Hurray. So, I have no more need of c0d0s0. For data integrity is is very wise to use this disk in a mirror, right? Only problem: the system (zfs) disk is 320Mb; the older c0d0s0 drive is only

Re: [zfs-discuss] gzip compression throttles system?

2008-11-04 Thread David Gwynne
On 05/11/2008, at 3:27 AM, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: On Wed, 5 Nov 2008, David Gwynne wrote: be done in a very short time. perhaps you can amortize that cost by doing it when the data from userland makes it into the kernel. another idea could be doing the compression when you reach a

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs compression - btrfs compression

2008-11-04 Thread Darren J Moffat
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Nov 03, 2008 at 12:33:52PM -0600, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: On Mon, 3 Nov 2008, Robert Milkowski wrote: Now, the good filter could be to use MAGIC numbers within files or approach btrfs come up with, or maybe even both combined. You are suggesting that ZFS should

[zfs-discuss] Is there a baby thumper?

2008-11-04 Thread Gary Mills
One of our storage guys would like to put a thumper into service, but he's looking for a smaller model to use for testing. Is there something that has the same CPU, disks, and disk controller as a thumper, but fewer disks? The ones I've seen all have 48 disks. -- -Gary Mills--Unix Support-

[zfs-discuss] Fwd: Re: FYI: s10u6 LU issues

2008-11-04 Thread Dick Hoogendijk
Newsgroups: comp.unix.solaris From: Dick Hoogendijk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: FYI: s10u6 LU issues quoting cindy (Mon, 3 Nov 2008 13:01:07 -0800 (PST)): Besides the release notes, I'm collecting many issues here as well:

Re: [zfs-discuss] Is there a baby thumper?

2008-11-04 Thread Gary Mills
On Tue, Nov 04, 2008 at 03:31:16PM -0700, Carl Wimmi wrote: There isn't a de-populated version. Would X4540 with 250 or 500 GB drives meet your needs? That might be our only choice. -- -Gary Mills--Unix Support--U of M Academic Computing and Networking-

[zfs-discuss] QUESTIONS from EMC: EFI and SMI Disk Labels

2008-11-04 Thread Sharlene Wong
All, my apologies in advance for the wide distribution - it was recommended that I contact these aliases but if there is a more appropriate one, please let me know... I have received the following EFI disk-related questions from the EMC PowerPath team who would like to provide more complete

Re: [zfs-discuss] Is there a baby thumper?

2008-11-04 Thread Tim
Well, what's the end goal? What are you testing for that you need from the thumper? I/O interfaces? CPU? Chipset? If you need *everything* you don't have any other choice. --Tim On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 5:11 PM, Gary Mills [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Nov 04, 2008 at 03:31:16PM -0700,

Re: [zfs-discuss] Is there a baby thumper?

2008-11-04 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Tue, 4 Nov 2008, Gary Mills wrote: On Tue, Nov 04, 2008 at 03:31:16PM -0700, Carl Wimmi wrote: There isn't a de-populated version. Would X4540 with 250 or 500 GB drives meet your needs? Other than the number of drives offered, it seems that the X4540 is a substantially different

Re: [zfs-discuss] Fwd: Re: FYI: s10u6 LU issues

2008-11-04 Thread Lori Alt
Would you send the messages that appeared with the failed ludelete? Lori Dick Hoogendijk wrote: Newsgroups: comp.unix.solaris From: Dick Hoogendijk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: FYI: s10u6 LU issues quoting cindy (Mon, 3 Nov 2008 13:01:07 -0800 (PST)): Besides the release notes, I'm

Re: [zfs-discuss] Files from the future are not accessible on ZFS

2008-11-04 Thread A Darren Dunham
On Tue, Nov 04, 2008 at 05:52:33AM -0800, Ivan Wang wrote: $ /usr/bin/amd64/ls -l .gtk-bookmarks -rw-r--r-- 1 user opc0 oct. 16 2057 .gtk-bookmarks This is a bit absurd. I thought Solaris was fully 64 bit. I hope those tools will be integrated soon. Solaris runs on

[zfs-discuss] change in zpool_get_prop_int

2008-11-04 Thread Thomas Maier-Komor
Hi, I'm observing a change in the values returned by zpool_get_prop_int. In Solaris 10 update 5 this function returned the values for ZPOOL_PROP_CAPACITY in bytes, but in update 6 (i.e. nv88?) it seems to be returning the value in kB. Both Solaris versions were shipped with libzfs.so.2. So how

[zfs-discuss] ufs to zfs root file system migration

2008-11-04 Thread Krzys
I did upgrade my Solaris and wanted to move from ufs to zfs, I did read about it a little but I am not sure about all the steps... Anyway I do understand that I cannot use whole disk as zpool, so I cannot use c1t1d0 but I do have to use c1t1d0s0 instead is that correct? also all documents

[zfs-discuss] ZFS problem recognition script?

2008-11-04 Thread Vincent Fox
Has anyone done a script to check for filesystem problems? On our existing UFS infrastructure we have a cron job run metacheck.pl periodically so we get email if an SVM setup has problems. We can scratch something like this together but if someone else already has. -- This message posted

Re: [zfs-discuss] gzip compression throttles system?

2008-11-04 Thread Ian Collins
Bob Friesenhahn wrote: On Wed, 5 Nov 2008, David Gwynne wrote: be done in a very short time. perhaps you can amortize that cost by doing it when the data from userland makes it into the kernel. another idea could be doing the compression when you reach a relatively low threshold of

Re: [zfs-discuss] gzip compression throttles system?

2008-11-04 Thread David Gwynne
On 05/11/2008, at 2:22 PM, Ian Collins wrote: Bob Friesenhahn wrote: On Wed, 5 Nov 2008, David Gwynne wrote: be done in a very short time. perhaps you can amortize that cost by doing it when the data from userland makes it into the kernel. another idea could be doing the compression

Re: [zfs-discuss] HP Smart Array and b99?

2008-11-04 Thread Fajar A. Nugraha
Fajar A. Nugraha wrote: After that, I decided to upgrade my zpool (b98 has zpool v13). Surprise, surpise, the system now doesn't boot at all. Apparently I got hit by this bug : http://www.genunix.org/wiki/index.php/ZFS_rpool_Upgrade_and_GRUB b98 CD works as expected. I made a little

[zfs-discuss] compression on for zpool boot disk?

2008-11-04 Thread Krzys
compression is not supported for rootpool? # zpool create rootpool c1t1d0s0 # zfs set compression=gzip-9 rootpool # lucreate -c ufsBE -n zfsBE -p rootpool Analyzing system configuration. ERROR: ZFS pool rootpool does not support boot environments # why? are there any plans to have compression on

Re: [zfs-discuss] compression on for zpool boot disk?

2008-11-04 Thread Fajar A. Nugraha
Krzys wrote: compression is not supported for rootpool? # zpool create rootpool c1t1d0s0 # zfs set compression=gzip-9 rootpool I think gzip compression is not supported on zfs root. Try compression=on. Regards, Fajar smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: [zfs-discuss] FYI - proposing storage pm project

2008-11-04 Thread Nathan Kroenert
Not wanting to hijack this thread, but... I'm a simple man with simple needs. I'd like to be able to manually spin down my disks whenever I want to... Anyone come up with a way to do this? ;) Nathan. Jens Elkner wrote: On Mon, Nov 03, 2008 at 02:54:10PM -0800, Yuan Chu wrote: Hi, a