Re: [zfs-discuss] SMI lable and EFI label in one disk?

2010-06-01 Thread Fred Liu
Thanks. But it seems not the truth. I just recalled a thread in this list and it said SMI lable and EFI label cannot be in one disk. Is it correct? Let me describe my case. I have a 160GB HDD -- saying c0t0d0. I use OpenSolaris installer to cut a 100GB slice -- c0t0d0s0 for rpool. And I want

Re: [zfs-discuss] SMI lable and EFI label in one disk?

2010-06-01 Thread Richard Elling
On Jun 1, 2010, at 4:35 AM, Fred Liu wrote: Thanks. But it seems not the truth. I just recalled a thread in this list and it said SMI lable and EFI label cannot be in one disk. Is it correct? Let me describe my case. I have a 160GB HDD -- saying c0t0d0. I use OpenSolaris installer to

Re: [zfs-discuss] Small stalls slowing down rsync from holding network saturation every 5 seconds

2010-06-01 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Mon, 31 May 2010, Sandon Van Ness wrote: With sequential writes I don't see how parity writing would be any different from when I just created a 20 disk zpool which is doing the same writes every 5 seconds but the only difference is it isn't maxing out CPU usage when doing the writes and and

[zfs-discuss] HDD best practices

2010-06-01 Thread GARRISON, TRAVIS J.
We have a couple 48 - 1TB drive bays from PAC data. The drives bays support RAID 0,1,5, no JBOD unfortunately, Fibrechannel interface. What would be the best way to configure these drives? We were thinking of creating 96 - 1TB RAID 0 stripes of 1 drive each so that we can let ZFS handle

Re: [zfs-discuss] HDD best practices

2010-06-01 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Tue, 1 Jun 2010, GARRISON, TRAVIS J. wrote: We have a couple 48 - 1TB drive bays from PAC data. The drives bays support RAID 0,1,5, no JBOD unfortunately, Fibrechannel interface. What would be the best way to configure these drives? We were thinking of creating 96 – 1TB RAID 0 stripes of

Re: [zfs-discuss] [RESOLVED] Re: expand zfs for OpenSolaris running inside vm

2010-06-01 Thread Cindy Swearingen
Hi-- The purpose of the ZFS dump volume is to provide space for a system crash dump. You can choose not to have one, I suppose, but you wouldn't be able to collect valuable system info. Thanks, Cindy On 05/30/10 11:28, me wrote: Reinstalling grub helped. What is the purpose of dump slice?

[zfs-discuss] Solaris 10U8 and ZFS Encryption

2010-06-01 Thread Tony MacDoodle
Is it currently possible (Solaris 10 u8) to encrypt a ZFS pool? Thanks ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Can I change copies to 2 *after* I have copied a bunch of files?

2010-06-01 Thread David Dyer-Bennet
On Fri, May 28, 2010 11:04, Thanassis Tsiodras wrote: I've read on the web that copies=2 affects only the files copied *after* I have changed the setting That is correct. Rewriting datasets is a feature desired for future versions (it would make a LOT of things, including shrinking pools and

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs inheritance

2010-06-01 Thread Cindy Swearingen
Hi-- I'm no user property expert, but I have some syntax for you to try to resolve these problems. See below. Maybe better ways exist but one way to correct datapool inheritance of com.sun:auto-snapshot:dailyy is to set it to false, inherit the false setting, then reset the correct property at

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs inheritance

2010-06-01 Thread Brandon High
On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 5:44 AM, wojciech wojciech.g...@cimr.cam.ac.uk wrote: I wanted to do the same with system users: but i didn't notice that instead of datapool/system  I set datapool in inherit -r and all users under datapool/system inherits settings from datapool. zfs inherit -r

Re: [zfs-discuss] HDD best practices

2010-06-01 Thread Brandon High
On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 8:43 AM, GARRISON, TRAVIS J. garri...@otc.edu wrote: Anyone have any ideas? Have you contacted the vendor? There may be a way to enable JBOD mode, perhaps with new firmware. -B -- Brandon High : bh...@freaks.com ___

Re: [zfs-discuss] Solaris 10U8 and ZFS Encryption

2010-06-01 Thread Brandon High
On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 9:45 AM, Tony MacDoodle tpsdoo...@gmail.com wrote: Is it currently possible (Solaris 10 u8) to encrypt a ZFS pool? No. The feature is not in current snv builds yet, either. -B -- Brandon High : bh...@freaks.com ___ zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] SMI lable and EFI label in one disk?

2010-06-01 Thread Frank Cusack
On 6/1/10 4:35 AM -0700 Fred Liu wrote: I just recalled a thread in this list and it said SMI lable and EFI label cannot be in one disk. Is it correct? Correct. But that was not your original question. Let me describe my case. I have a 160GB HDD -- saying c0t0d0. I use OpenSolaris installer

Re: [zfs-discuss] SMI lable and EFI label in one disk?

2010-06-01 Thread Fred Liu
-Original Message- From: Frank Cusack [mailto:frank+lists/z...@linetwo.net] Sent: Wednesday, June 02, 2010 2:38 AM To: Fred Liu Cc: zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org Subject: Re: [zfs-discuss] SMI lable and EFI label in one disk? On 6/1/10 4:35 AM -0700 Fred Liu wrote: I just recalled a

[zfs-discuss] Solaris 10U8, Sun Cluster, and SSD issues.

2010-06-01 Thread Steve Jost
Hello All, We are currently testing a NFS+Sun Cluster solution with ZFS in our environment. Currently we have 2 HP DL360s each with a 2-port LSI SAS 9200-8e controller (mpt_sas driver) connected to a Xyratex OneStor SP1224s 24-bay sas tray. The xyratex sas tray has 2 ports on the controller

Re: [zfs-discuss] HDD best practices

2010-06-01 Thread GARRISON, TRAVIS J.
I have but unfortunately they don't support JBOD with this chassis. We now pay much better attention before we purchase something. :) -Original Message- From: Brandon High [mailto:bh...@freaks.com] Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 2010 1:00 PM To: GARRISON, TRAVIS J. Cc:

Re: [zfs-discuss] Solaris 10U8, Sun Cluster, and SSD issues.

2010-06-01 Thread Brian Wilson
Silly question - you're not trying to have the ZFS pool imported on both hosts at the same time, are you? Maybe I misread, had a hard time following the full description of what exact configuration caused the scsi resets. On Jun 1, 2010, at 2:22 PM, Steve Jost wrote: Hello All, We are

Re: [zfs-discuss] SMI lable and EFI label in one disk?

2010-06-01 Thread Brandon High
On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 11:54 AM, Fred Liu fred_...@issi.com wrote: That is true. Any internals about this limitation? How can I realize my goal? You can't do it using the Caiman installer that comes with the osol dev builds. There are a few ways that you can do it now that the system is

Re: [zfs-discuss] Solaris 10U8, Sun Cluster, and SSD issues.

2010-06-01 Thread Brian Wilson
On Jun 1, 2010, at 2:43 PM, Steve D. Jost wrote: Definitely not a silly question. And no, we create the pool on node1 then set up the cluster resources. Once setup, sun cluster manages importing/exporting the pool into only the active cluster node. Sorry for the lack of clarity..

Re: [zfs-discuss] Solaris 10U8, Sun Cluster, and SSD issues.

2010-06-01 Thread Steve D. Jost
Definitely not a silly question. And no, we create the pool on node1 then set up the cluster resources. Once setup, sun cluster manages importing/exporting the pool into only the active cluster node. Sorry for the lack of clarity.. not much sleep has been had recently. When connecting to

Re: [zfs-discuss] SMI lable and EFI label in one disk?

2010-06-01 Thread Fred Liu
It is cool. Many thanks. It seems the installer of Solaris 10 U8 is more flexible in this aspect which can realize my goal directly. Thanks. Fred -Original Message- From: Brandon High [mailto:bh...@freaks.com] Sent: Wednesday, June 02, 2010 3:40 AM To: Fred Liu Cc: Frank Cusack;

[zfs-discuss] Is it possible to disable MPxIO during OpenSolaris installation?

2010-06-01 Thread Fred Liu
Thanks. Fred ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Is it possible to disable MPxIO during OpenSolaris installation?

2010-06-01 Thread James C. McPherson
On 2/06/10 11:39 AM, Fred Liu wrote: Thanks. No. If you must disable MPxIO, then you do so after installation, using the stmsboot command. James C. McPherson -- Senior Software Engineer, Solaris Oracle http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog ___

Re: [zfs-discuss] Is it possible to disable MPxIO during OpenSolaris installation?

2010-06-01 Thread Fred Liu
Yes. But the output of zpool commands still uses MPxIO naming convention and format command cannot find any disks. Thanks. Fred -Original Message- From: James C. McPherson [mailto:j...@opensolaris.org] Sent: 星期三, 六月 02, 2010 9:58 To: Fred Liu Cc: zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org Subject:

Re: [zfs-discuss] Is it possible to disable MPxIO during OpenSolaris installation?

2010-06-01 Thread James C. McPherson
On 2/06/10 12:01 PM, Fred Liu wrote: Yes. But the output of zpool commands still uses MPxIO naming convention and format command cannot find any disks. _But_ ? What is the problem with ZFS using the device naming system that the system provides it with? Do you mean that you cannot see any

[zfs-discuss] Migrating to ZFS

2010-06-01 Thread zfsnoob4
Hello, I currently have a raid1 array setup on Windows 7 with a pair of 1.5TB drives. I don't have enough space in any other drives to make a backup of all this data and I really don't want to copy my ~1.1 TB of files over the network anyways. What I want to do it get a third 1.5 TB drive and

Re: [zfs-discuss] Solaris 10U8, Sun Cluster, and SSD issues.

2010-06-01 Thread Andreas Grüninger
The Intel SSD is not a dual ported SAS device. This device must be supported by the SAS expander in your external chassis. Did you use an AAMUX transposer card for the SATA device between the connector of the chassis and the SATA drive? Andreas -- This message posted from opensolaris.org

Re: [zfs-discuss] Is it possible to disable MPxIO during OpenSolaris installation?

2010-06-01 Thread Fred Liu
In fact, there is no problem for MPxIO name in technology. It only matters for storage admins to remember the name. I think there is no way to give short aliases to these long tedious MPxIO name. And I just have only one HBA card, so I don't need multipath indeed. The simple name -- cxtxdx will be

Re: [zfs-discuss] Is it possible to disable MPxIO during OpenSolaris installation?

2010-06-01 Thread Fred Liu
Fix some typos. # In fact, there is no problem for MPxIO name in technology. It only matters for storage admins to remember the name. I think there is no way to give short aliases to these

[zfs-discuss] FW: ZFS disk size report

2010-06-01 Thread Tiwari, Sharad
Hi, It would be great help to understand the how the actually allocated disk space keeps getting reduced as shown below (I understand different filesystem/volume management implementation would have different logic to set aside some space reserved for meta-data etc). If the following can be