Re: [zfs-discuss] One dataset per user?

2010-07-28 Thread Juergen Nickelsen
Edward Ned Harvey solar...@nedharvey.com writes: There are legitimate specific reasons to use separate filesystems in some circumstances. But if you can't name one reason why it's better ... then it's not better for you. Having separate filesystems per user lets you create user-specific

[zfs-discuss] modified mdb and zdb

2010-07-28 Thread Jonathan Cifuentes
Hi, I would really apreciate if any of you can help me get the modified mdb and zdb (in any version of OpenSolaris) for digital forensic reserch purpose. Thank you. Jonathan Cifuentes _

[zfs-discuss] root pool expansion

2010-07-28 Thread Gary Gendel
Right now I have a machine with a mirrored boot setup. The SAS drives are 43Gs and the root pool is getting full. I do a backup of the pool nightly, so I feel confident that I don't need to mirror the drive and can break the mirror and expand the pool with the detached drive. I understand

Re: [zfs-discuss] root pool expansion

2010-07-28 Thread Mark J Musante
On Wed, 28 Jul 2010, Gary Gendel wrote: Right now I have a machine with a mirrored boot setup. The SAS drives are 43Gs and the root pool is getting full. I do a backup of the pool nightly, so I feel confident that I don't need to mirror the drive and can break the mirror and expand the pool

Re: [zfs-discuss] Mirrored raidz

2010-07-28 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
From: Richard Elling [mailto:richard.ell...@gmail.com] http://arc.opensolaris.org/caselog/PSARC/2010/193/mail Agree. This is a better solution because some configurable parameters are hidden from zfs get all Forgive me for not seeing it ... That link is extremely dense, and 34 pages

Re: [zfs-discuss] raidz2 + spare or raidz3 and no spare for nine 1.5 TB SATA disks?

2010-07-28 Thread Richard Elling
On Jul 27, 2010, at 10:37 PM, Jack Kielsmeier wrote: The only other zfs pool in my system is a mirrored rpool (2 500 gb disks). This is for my own personal use, so it's not like the data is mission critical in some sort of production environment. The advantage I can see with going with

Re: [zfs-discuss] raidz2 + spare or raidz3 and no spare for nine 1.5 TB SATA disks?

2010-07-28 Thread Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk
The performance will be similar, but in the non-degraded case, the raidz3 will perform better for small, random reads. Why is this? The two will have the same amount of data drives Vennlige hilsener / Best regards roy -- Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk (+47) 97542685 r...@karlsbakk.net

Re: [zfs-discuss] root pool expansion

2010-07-28 Thread Cindy Swearingen
Hi Gary, If your root pool is getting full, you can replace the root pool disk with a larger disk. My recommendation is to attach the replacement disk, let the replacement disk resilver, install the boot blocks, and then detach the smaller disk. The system will see the expanded space

Re: [zfs-discuss] raidz2 + spare or raidz3 and no spare for nine 1.5 TB SATA disks?

2010-07-28 Thread Richard Elling
On Jul 28, 2010, at 8:34 AM, Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk wrote: The performance will be similar, but in the non-degraded case, the raidz3 will perform better for small, random reads. Why is this? The two will have the same amount of data drives The simple small, random read model for

[zfs-discuss] COMSTAR iscsi replication - dataset busy

2010-07-28 Thread Bruno Sousa
Hi all, I have in lab two servers running snv_134 and while doing some experiences with iscsi volumes and replication i came up to a road-block that i would like to ask for your help. So in server A i have a lun created in COMSTAR without any views attach to it and i can zfs send it to server B

Re: [zfs-discuss] raidz2 + spare or raidz3 and no spare for nine 1.5 TB SATA disks?

2010-07-28 Thread Jack Kielsmeier
Thanks, Looks like I'll be using raidz3. -- 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 allow does not work for rpool

2010-07-28 Thread Mike DeMarco
I am trying to give a general user permissions to create zfs filesystems in the rpool. zpool set=delegation=on rpool zfs allow user create rpool both run without any issues. zfs allow rpool reports the user does have create permissions. zfs create rpool/test cannot create rpool/test :

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs allow does not work for rpool

2010-07-28 Thread Cindy Swearingen
Hi Mark, A couple of things are causing this to fail: 1. The user needs permissions to the underlying mount point. 2. The user needs both create and mount permissions to create ZFS datasets. See the syntax below, which might vary depending on your Solaris release. Thanks, Cindy # chmod

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs allow does not work for rpool

2010-07-28 Thread Mike DeMarco
Thanks adding mount did allow me to create it but does not allow me to create the mountpoint. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs allow does not work for rpool

2010-07-28 Thread Cindy Swearingen
Mike, Did you also give the user permissions to the underlying mount point: # chmod A+user:user-name:add_subdirectory:fd:allow /rpool If so, please let me see the syntax and error messages. Thanks, Cindy On 07/28/10 12:23, Mike DeMarco wrote: Thanks adding mount did allow me to create it

Re: [zfs-discuss] Tips for ZFS tuning for NFS store of VM images

2010-07-28 Thread Saxon, Will
-Original Message- From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of sol Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 2010 3:12 PM To: Richard Elling; Gregory Gee Cc: zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org Subject: Re: [zfs-discuss] Tips for ZFS tuning for NFS

[zfs-discuss] How can a mirror lose a file?

2010-07-28 Thread sol
Hi Having just done a scrub of a mirror I've lost a file and I'm curious how this can happen in a mirror. Doesn't it require the almost impossible scenario of exactly the same sector being trashed on both disks? However the zpool status shows checksum errors not I/O errors and I'm not sure what

Re: [zfs-discuss] How can a mirror lose a file?

2010-07-28 Thread Richard Elling
On Jul 28, 2010, at 12:41 PM, sol wrote: Having just done a scrub of a mirror I've lost a file and I'm curious how this can happen in a mirror. Doesn't it require the almost impossible scenario of exactly the same sector being trashed on both disks? However the zpool status shows checksum

Re: [zfs-discuss] How can a mirror lose a file?

2010-07-28 Thread Ian Collins
On 07/29/10 07:41 AM, sol wrote: Hi Having just done a scrub of a mirror I've lost a file and I'm curious how this can happen in a mirror. Doesn't it require the almost impossible scenario of exactly the same sector being trashed on both disks? However the zpool status shows checksum errors

Re: [zfs-discuss] Tips for ZFS tuning for NFS store of VM images

2010-07-28 Thread Richard Elling
On Jul 28, 2010, at 12:11 PM, sol wrote: Richard Elling wrote: Gregory Gee wrote: I am using OpenSolaris to host VM images over NFS for XenServer. I'm looking for tips on what parameters can be set to help optimize my ZFS pool that holds my VM images. There is nothing special about

Re: [zfs-discuss] How can a mirror lose a file?

2010-07-28 Thread Cindy Swearingen
Hi Sol, What kind of disks? You should be able to use the fmdump -eV command to identify when the checksum errors occurred. Thanks, Cindy On 07/28/10 13:41, sol wrote: Hi Having just done a scrub of a mirror I've lost a file and I'm curious how this can happen in a mirror. Doesn't it

Re: [zfs-discuss] Mirrored raidz

2010-07-28 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
From: Darren J Moffat [mailto:darr...@opensolaris.org] It basically says that 'zfs send' gets a new '-b' option so send back properties, and 'zfs recv' gets a '-o' and '-x' option to allow explicit set/ignore of properties in the stream. It also adds a '-r' option for 'zfs set'. If/when

Re: [zfs-discuss] How can a mirror lose a file?

2010-07-28 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Richard Elling This can happen if there is a failure in a common system component during the write (eg. main memory, HBA, PCI bus, CPU, bridges, etc.) I bet that's the cause. Because as sol

[zfs-discuss] Fwd: zpool import despite missing log [PSARC/2010/292 Self Review]

2010-07-28 Thread Robert Milkowski
fyi -- Robert Milkowski http://milek.blogspot.com Original Message Subject:zpool import despite missing log [PSARC/2010/292 Self Review] Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2010 08:38:22 -0600 From: Tim Haley tim.ha...@oracle.com To: psarc-...@sun.com CC: zfs-t...@sun.com

[zfs-discuss] ZFS read performance terrible

2010-07-28 Thread Karol
I appear to be getting between 2-9MB/s reads from individual disks in my zpool as shown in iostat -v I expect upwards of 100MBps per disk, or at least aggregate performance on par with the number of disks that I have. My configuration is as follows: Two Quad-core 5520 processors 48GB ECC/REG

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS read performance terrible

2010-07-28 Thread Richard Jahnel
How many iops per spindle are you getting? A rule of thumb I use is to expect no more than 125 iops per spindle for regular HDDs. SSDs are a different story of course. :) -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS read performance terrible

2010-07-28 Thread Karol
Hi r2ch The operations column shows about 370 operations for read - per spindle (Between 400-900 for writes) How should I be measuring iops? -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [zfs-discuss] Fwd: zpool import despite missing log [PSARC/2010/292 Self Review]

2010-07-28 Thread James Dickens
+1 On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 6:11 PM, Robert Milkowski mi...@task.gda.pl wrote: fyi -- Robert Milkowski http://milek.blogspot.com Original Message Subject: zpool import despite missing log [PSARC/2010/292 Self Review] Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2010 08:38:22 -0600 From: Tim