Re: [zfs-discuss] SXCE build 90 vs S10U6?

2008-06-12 Thread Mike Gerdts
complaints of repeated timeouts when the snv_90 packages were released resulting in having to restart the upgrade from the start. -- Mike Gerdts http://mgerdts.blogspot.com/ ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs promote and ENOSPC (+panic with dtrace)

2008-06-11 Thread Mike Gerdts
On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 12:58 AM, Robin Guo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Mike, It's like 6452872, it need enough space for 'zfs promote' Not really - in 6452872 a file system is at its quota before the promote is issued. I expect that a promote may cause several KB of metadata changes

[zfs-discuss] zfs promote and ENOSPC

2008-06-09 Thread Mike Gerdts
in the documentation or zfs? -- Mike Gerdts http://mgerdts.blogspot.com/ ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Filesystem for each home dir - 10,000 users?

2008-06-06 Thread Mike Mackovitch
On Fri, Jun 06, 2008 at 06:27:01PM -0400, Brian Hechinger wrote: On Fri, Jun 06, 2008 at 02:58:09PM -0700, eric kustarz wrote: clients do not. Without per-filesystem mounts, 'df' on the client will not report correct data though. I expect that mirror mounts will be coming Linux's

Re: [zfs-discuss] Filesystem for each home dir - 10,000 users?

2008-06-06 Thread Mike Mackovitch
On Fri, Jun 06, 2008 at 03:43:29PM -0700, eric kustarz wrote: On Jun 6, 2008, at 3:27 PM, Brian Hechinger wrote: On Fri, Jun 06, 2008 at 02:58:09PM -0700, eric kustarz wrote: clients do not. Without per-filesystem mounts, 'df' on the client will not report correct data though. I

[zfs-discuss] LiveUpgrade Bug? -- ZFS root finally here in SNV90

2008-06-05 Thread Ellis, Mike
PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 05, 2008 1:56 PM To: Ellis, Mike Cc: ZFS discuss Subject: Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS root finally here in SNV90 Mike, As we discussed, you can't currently break out other datasets besides /var. I'll add this issue to the FAQ. Thanks, Cindy

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS root finally here in SNV90

2008-06-05 Thread Mike Gerdts
and wrote a blog entry. http://mgerdts.blogspot.com/2008/03/future-of-opensolaris-boot-environment.html -- Mike Gerdts http://mgerdts.blogspot.com/ ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: [zfs-discuss] Get your SXCE on ZFS here!

2008-06-04 Thread Ellis, Mike
The FAQ document ( http://opensolaris.org/os/community/zfs/boot/zfsbootFAQ/ ) has a jumpstart profile example: install_type initial_install pool newpool auto auto auto mirror c0t0d0 c0t1d0 bootenv installbe bename sxce_xx The B90 jumpstart check program (SPARC) flags

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS root finally here in SNV90

2008-06-04 Thread Ellis, Mike
In addition to the standard containing the carnage arguments used to justify splitting /var/tmp, /var/mail, /var/adm (process accounting etc), is there an interesting use-case where would one split out /var for compression reasons (as in, turn on compression for /var so that process accounting,

Re: [zfs-discuss] /var/sadm on zfs?

2008-06-01 Thread Mike Gerdts
related directories is (save/patchid) may trip something up. -- Mike Gerdts http://mgerdts.blogspot.com/ ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] panic: avl_find() succeeded inside avl_add()

2008-06-01 Thread Mike Gerdts
On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 9:38 PM, Mike Gerdts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: $ find /ws/mount/onnv-gate/usr/src/uts/sun4u/serengeti/unix /ws/mount/onnv-gate/usr/src/uts/sun4u/serengeti/unix /ws/mount/onnv-gate/usr/src/uts/sun4u/serengeti/unix/.make.state.lock /ws/mount/onnv-gate/usr/src/uts/sun4u

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs equivalent of ufsdump and ufsrestore

2008-05-31 Thread Mike Gerdts
privileges has everything they need to gain full root access. I wish that there was a flag to open(2) to say not to update the atime and that there was a privilege that could be granted to allow this flag without granting file_dac_write. -- Mike Gerdts http://mgerdts.blogspot.com

Re: [zfs-discuss] /var/sadm on zfs?

2008-05-31 Thread Mike Gerdts
better method for getting rid of the cruft that builds up in /var/sadm either. I suspect that further discussion on this topic would be best directed to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or sun-managers mailing list (see http://www.sunmanagers.org/). -- Mike Gerdts http://mgerdts.blogspot.com

Re: [zfs-discuss] /var/sadm on zfs?

2008-05-31 Thread Mike Gerdts
/SPROcc/save/pspool/SPROcc/install/depend var/sadm/pkg/SPROcc/save/pspool/SPROcc/pkginfo var/sadm/pkg/SPROcc/save/pspool/SPROcc/pkgmap Notice the lack of undo.Z files (and associated patch directories), but the rest looks the same. -- Mike Gerdts http://mgerdts.blogspot.com

[zfs-discuss] panic: avl_find() succeeded inside avl_add()

2008-05-31 Thread Mike Gerdts
pool0 bootfs - default pool0 delegation on default pool0 autoreplace off default pool0 temporaryoff default -- Mike Gerdts http://mgerdts.blogspot.com/ ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] panic: avl_find() succeeded inside avl_add()

2008-05-31 Thread Mike Gerdts
On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 8:48 PM, Mike Gerdts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just experienced a zfs-related crash. I have filed a bug (don't know number - grumble). I have a crash dump but little free space. If someone would like some more info from the core, please let me know in the next few

[zfs-discuss] Create ZFS now, add mirror later

2008-05-28 Thread E. Mike Durbin
Is there a way to to a create a zfs file system (e.g. zpool create boot /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s1) Then, (after vacating the old boot disk) add another device and make the zpool a mirror? (as in: zpool create boot mirror /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s1 /dev/dsk/c1t0d0s1) Thanks! emike This message posted from

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS in S10U6 vs openSolaris 05/08

2008-05-27 Thread Mike Gerdts
to workloads that use a lot of RAM but are fairly inactive. As such, a $10k PCIe card may be able to allow a $42k 64 GB T5240 handle 5+ times the number of not-too-busy J2EE instances. If anyone's done any modelling or testing of such an idea, I'd love to hear about it. -- Mike Gerdts http

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS: A general question

2008-05-24 Thread Ellis, Mike
I like the link you sent along... They did a nice job with that. (but it does show that mixing and matching vastly different drive-sizes is not exactly optimal...) http://www.drobo.com/drobolator/index.html Doing something like this for ZFS allowing people to create pools by

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs iostat

2008-05-18 Thread Mike Gerdts
with general systemtools of a particular directory? any idea would be appreciated karsten Have you tried fsstat? I think it will do what you are looking for whether it is zfs, ufs, tmpfs, etc. -- Mike Gerdts http://mgerdts.blogspot.com/ ___ zfs-discuss

[zfs-discuss] zfs! mirror and break

2008-05-08 Thread Mike DeMarco
I currently have a zpool with two 8Gbyte disks in it. I need to replace them with a single 56Gbyte disk. with veritas I would just add the disk in as a mirror and break off the other plex then destroy it. I see no way of being able to do this with zfs. Being able to migrate data without

Re: [zfs-discuss] How many ZFS pools is it sensible to use on a single server?

2008-04-15 Thread Mike Gerdts
independently either I need to have a zpool per zone or I need to have per-dataset replication. Considering that with some workloads 20+ zones on a T2000 is quite feasible, a T5240 could be pushing 80+ zones and as such a relatively large number of zpools. -- Mike Gerdts http://mgerdts.blogspot.com

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZVOL access permissions?

2008-04-12 Thread Ellis, Mike
Could someone kindly provide some details on using a zvol in sparse-mode? Wouldn't the COW nature of zfs (assuming COW still applies on ZVOLS) quickly erode the sparse nature of the zvol? Would sparse data-presentation only work by delegating a part of a zpool to a zone, but that's at the

Re: [zfs-discuss] [storage-discuss] Preventing zpool imports on boot

2008-02-15 Thread Mike Gerdts
name, temp. (I am trying to move this thread over to zfs-discuss, since I originally posted to the wrong alias) storage-discuss trimmed in my reply. -- Mike Gerdts http://mgerdts.blogspot.com/ ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZIL controls in Solaris 10 U4?

2008-02-02 Thread Mike Gerdts
should take only a few seconds longer than a standard init 6. Failback is similarly easy. I can't remember the last time I swapped physical drives to minimize the outage during an upgrade. -- Mike Gerdts http://mgerdts.blogspot.com/ ___ zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Resizing a mirror

2008-01-29 Thread Mike Gerdts
the additional space to be seen. -- Mike Gerdts http://mgerdts.blogspot.com/ ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Moving zfs to an iscsci equallogic LUN

2008-01-15 Thread Ellis, Mike
Use zpool replace to swap one side of the mirror with the iscsi lun. -- mikee - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org Sent: Tue Jan 15 08:46:40 2008 Subject: Re: [zfs-discuss] Moving zfs to an iscsci

Re: [zfs-discuss] hardware for zfs home storage

2008-01-14 Thread mike
On 1/14/08, eric kustarz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jan 14, 2008, at 11:08 AM, Tim Cook wrote: www.mozy.com appears to have unlimited backups for 4.95 a month. Hard to beat that. And they're owned by EMC now so you know they aren't going anywhere anytime soon. mozy's been okay, but

Re: [zfs-discuss] hardware for zfs home storage

2008-01-14 Thread mike
except in my experience it is piss poor slow... but yes it is another option that is -basically- built on standards (i say that only because it's not really a traditional filesystem concept) On 1/14/08, David Magda [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jan 14, 2008, at 17:15, mike wrote: On 1/14/08

Re: [zfs-discuss] Can't access my data

2008-01-04 Thread Mike Gerdts
# zfs mount -a (not sure this needed) # cd /somewhere_else -- Mike Gerdts http://mgerdts.blogspot.com/ ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Help needed ZFS vs Veritas Comparison

2007-12-28 Thread Mike Gerdts
corruption) - Opportunities to do things previously not possible ZFS doesn't win on many of those, but with the improvements that I have seen throughout the storage stack it is somewhat likely that the required improvements are already on the roadmap. -- Mike Gerdts http://mgerdts.blogspot.com

Re: [zfs-discuss] fclose failing at 2G on a ZFS filesystem

2007-12-25 Thread Mike Gerdts
? I would guess that you don't have large file support. A variant of the following would probably be good: cc -c $CFLAGS `getconf LFS_CFLAGS` myprog.c cc -o myprog $LDFLAGS `getconf LFS_LDFLAGS` -- Mike Gerdts http://mgerdts.blogspot.com/ ___ zfs

Re: [zfs-discuss] Does Oracle support ZFS as a file system with Oracle RAC?

2007-12-18 Thread Mike Gerdts
and likely more space in production use than ZFS. I think that ZFS holds a lot of promise for shared-nothing database clusters, such as is being done by Greenplumb with their extended variant of Postgres. -- Mike Gerdts http://mgerdts.blogspot.com/ ___ zfs

Re: [zfs-discuss] /usr/bin and /usr/xpg4/bin differences

2007-12-16 Thread Mike Gerdts
. Also... since there is nothing zfs-specific here, opensolaris-code may be a more appropriate forum. -- Mike Gerdts http://mgerdts.blogspot.com/ ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs

Re: [zfs-discuss] /usr/bin and /usr/xpg4/bin differences

2007-12-15 Thread Mike Gerdts
df.xpg4 df.cdf.po df.xcl df.xpg4.o It looks to me as though df becomes /usr/bin/df and df.xpg4 becomes /usr/xpg4/bin/df. -- Mike Gerdts http://mgerdts.blogspot.com/ ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http

Re: [zfs-discuss] Error in zpool man page?

2007-12-07 Thread Mike Dotson
http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss -- Mike Dotson ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Error in zpool man page?

2007-12-07 Thread Mike Dotson
that was not included with 10_Recommended? This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss -- Thanks... Mike Dotson Area System Support

Re: [zfs-discuss] x4500 w/ small random encrypted text files

2007-11-29 Thread Mike Gerdts
of zfs are using something that does something along the lines of while readdir ; do open file read from file write to backup stream close file done Since files are unlikely to be on disk in a contiguous manner, this looks like a random read operation to me. Am I wrong? -- Mike

Re: [zfs-discuss] Kernel panic receiving incremental snapshots

2007-11-23 Thread Mike Gerdts
- mine was SPARC) to see if it addresses your problem. -- Mike Gerdts http://mgerdts.blogspot.com/ ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Home Motherboard

2007-11-22 Thread mike
I actually have a related motherboard, chassis, dual power-supplies and 12x400 gig drives already up on ebay too. If I recall Areca cards are supported in OpenSolaris... http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=300172982498 On 11/22/07, Jason P. Warr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you

Re: [zfs-discuss] How to create ZFS pool ?

2007-11-15 Thread Mike Dotson
On Thu, 2007-11-15 at 05:25 -0800, Boris Derzhavets wrote: Thank you very much Mike for your feedback. Just one more question. I noticed five device under /dev/rdsk:- c1t0d0p0 c1t0d0p1 c1t0d0p2 c1t0d0p3 c1t0d0p4 been created by system immediately after installation completed. I believe

Re: [zfs-discuss] How to create ZFS pool ?

2007-11-14 Thread Mike Dotson
c0d0p4ONLINE 0 0 0 errors: No known data errors So to create the pool in my case would be: zpool create lpool c0d0p4 -- Mike Dotson ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman

[zfs-discuss] Hierarchal zfs mounts

2007-10-22 Thread Mike DeMarco
Looking for a way to mount a zfs filesystem ontop of another zfs filesystem without resorting to legacy mode. This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [zfs-discuss] Hierarchal zfs mounts

2007-10-22 Thread Mike DeMarco
Mike DeMarco wrote: Looking for a way to mount a zfs filesystem ontop of another zfs filesystem without resorting to legacy mode. doesn't simply 'zfs set mountpoint=...' work for you? -- Michael Schuster Recursion, n.: see 'Recursion

Re: [zfs-discuss] Mounting ZFS Pool to a different server

2007-10-19 Thread Mike Gerdts
The ideal situation it would go like: host1# zpool export pool host2# zpool import pool If you know (really know) that it is offline on the other server (e.g. you can verify the host is dead), you can use: # zpool import -f pool Mike On 10/19/07, Mertol Ozyoney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi

[zfs-discuss] meet import error after reinstall the OS

2007-10-18 Thread Shuai Mike Cheng
=4844356610838567439 vdev_tree type='disk' id=0 guid=4844356610838567439 path='/dev/dsk/c1t2d0s0' devid='id1,[EMAIL PROTECTED]/a' whole_disk=1 metaslab_array=14 metaslab_shift=29 ashift=9 asize=73394552832 thanks Mike

Re: [zfs-discuss] HAMMER

2007-10-18 Thread Mike Gerdts
the importance of 2 a bit. -- Mike Gerdts http://mgerdts.blogspot.com/ ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] HAMMER

2007-10-18 Thread Mike Gerdts
that linked against the included version of OpenSSL automatically gets to take advantage of the N2 crypto engine, so long as it is using one of the algorithms supported by N2 engine. -- Mike Gerdts http://mgerdts.blogspot.com/ ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs

Re: [zfs-discuss] HAMMER

2007-10-18 Thread Mike Gerdts
). Remember marketing info his very high level, the devil as aways is in the code. Yeah, I know. It's often times difficult to find the right code when you know what you are looking for. When you don't know that you should be fact-checking, the code rarely finds its way in front of you. -- Mike Gerdts

Re: [zfs-discuss] UC Davis Cyrus Incident September 2007

2007-10-18 Thread Mike Gerdts
cheaper on systems with lower latency between CPUs. -- Mike Gerdts http://mgerdts.blogspot.com/ ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] UC Davis Cyrus Incident September 2007

2007-10-18 Thread Mike Gerdts
On 10/18/07, Gary Mills [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What's the command to show cross calls? mpstat will show it on a system basis. xcallsbypid.d from the DTraceToolkit (ask google) will tell you which PID is responsible. -- Mike Gerdts http://mgerdts.blogspot.com

Re: [zfs-discuss] df command in ZFS?

2007-10-17 Thread Mike Gerdts
+ screens[1] on the default sized terminal window. 1. If you are in this situation, there is a good chance that the formatting of df cause line folding or wrapping that doubles the number of lines to 80+ screens of df output. -- Mike Gerdts http://mgerdts.blogspot.com

Re: [zfs-discuss] enterprise scale redundant Solaris 10/ZFS server providing NFSv4/CIFS

2007-09-24 Thread Mike Gerdts
On 9/24/07, Paul B. Henson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: but checking the actual release notes shows no ZFS mention. 3.0.26 to 3.2.0? That seems an odd version bump... 3.0.x and before are GPLv2. 3.2.0 and later are GPLv3. http://news.samba.org/announcements/samba_gplv3/ -- Mike Gerdts http

Re: [zfs-discuss] enterprise scale redundant Solaris 10/ZFS server providing NFSv4/CIFS

2007-09-21 Thread Mike Gerdts
to administer the location mapping while providing transparency to the end-users. Mike -- Mike Gerdts http://mgerdts.blogspot.com/ ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] zoneadm clone doesn't support ZFS snapshots in

2007-09-21 Thread Mike Gerdts
On 9/20/07, Matthew Flanagan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mike, I followed your procedure for cloning zones and it worked well up until yesterday when I tried applying the S10U4 kernel patch 12001-14 and it wouldn't apply because I had my zones on zfs :( Thanks for sharing. That sucks. I'm

Re: [zfs-discuss] zoneadm clone doesn't support ZFS snapshots in

2007-09-21 Thread Mike Gerdts
in coordination with iSCSI. irony Oh, wait! What if the NAS device runs out of space while I'm patching? Better rule out the thin provisioning capabilities of the HDS storage that Sun sells as well. /irony -- Mike Gerdts http://mgerdts.blogspot.com/ ___ zfs

Re: [zfs-discuss] Would a device list output be a reasonable feature for zpool(1)?

2007-09-17 Thread Ellis, Mike
Yup... With Leadville/MPXIO targets in the 32-digit range, identifying the new storage/LUNs is not a trivial operatrion. -- MikeE -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Russ Petruzzelli Sent: Monday, September 17, 2007 1:51 PM To:

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS and Live Upgrade

2007-09-15 Thread Mike Gerdts
does, but Snap Upgrade does. http://opensolaris.org/os/project/caiman/Snap_Upgrade/ It is likely worth considering more of the roadmap when reading that page. http://opensolaris.org/os/project/caiman/Roadmap/ -- Mike Gerdts http://mgerdts.blogspot.com

[zfs-discuss] space allocation vs. thin provisioning

2007-09-14 Thread Mike Gerdts
-writes of data (e.g. crypto rekey) to concentrate data that had become scattered into contiguous space. -- Mike Gerdts http://mgerdts.blogspot.com/ ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs

Re: [zfs-discuss] space allocation vs. thin provisioning

2007-09-14 Thread Mike Gerdts
writes could be batched coalesced and applied in a journaled manner such that each batch fully applies or is rolled back on the target. I haven't heard of this being done. Mike -- Mike Gerdts http://mgerdts.blogspot.com/ ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs

Re: [zfs-discuss] How do I get my pool back?

2007-09-13 Thread Mike Lee
have you tried zpool clear? Peter Tribble wrote: On 9/13/07, Solaris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Try exporting the pool then import it. I have seen this after moving disks between systems, and on a couple of occasions just rebooting. Doesn't work. (How can you export something that

Re: [zfs-discuss] compression=on and zpool attach

2007-09-12 Thread Mike DeMarco
On 11/09/2007, Mike DeMarco [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've got 12Gb or so of db+web in a zone on a ZFS filesystem on a mirrored zpool. Noticed during some performance testing today that its i/o bound but using hardly any CPU, so I thought turning on compression would

Re: [zfs-discuss] compression=on and zpool attach

2007-09-12 Thread Mike DeMarco
On 9/12/07, Mike DeMarco [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Striping several disks together with a stripe width that is tuned for your data model is how you could get your performance up. Stripping has been left out of the ZFS model for some reason. Where it is true that RAIDZ will stripe

Re: [zfs-discuss] compression=on and zpool attach

2007-09-11 Thread Mike DeMarco
I've got 12Gb or so of db+web in a zone on a ZFS filesystem on a mirrored zpool. Noticed during some performance testing today that its i/o bound but using hardly any CPU, so I thought turning on compression would be a quick win. If it is io bound won't compression make it worse? I

Re: [zfs-discuss] An Academic Sysadmin's Lament for ZFS ?

2007-09-08 Thread Mike Gerdts
backups, etc. Pushing that out to desktop or laptop machines is not really a good idea. -- Mike Gerdts http://mgerdts.blogspot.com/ ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] An Academic Sysadmin's Lament for ZFS ?

2007-09-07 Thread Mike Gerdts
it with success (and failures) in limited scope. I'm sure that with time the improvements will come that make that scope increase dramatically, but for now it is confined to the lab. :( Mike -- Mike Gerdts http://mgerdts.blogspot.com/ ___ zfs-discuss mailing

Re: [zfs-discuss] An Academic Sysadmin's Lament for ZFS ?

2007-09-07 Thread mike
On 9/7/07, Mike Gerdts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For me, quotas are likely to be a pain point that prevents me from making good use of snapshots. Getting changes in application teams' understanding and behavior is just too much trouble. Others are: not to mention there are smaller-scale users

Re: [zfs-discuss] An Academic Sysadmin's Lament for ZFS ?

2007-09-07 Thread Mike Gerdts
expensive - you would be charging quota to each user but only storing one copy. Depending on the balance of CPU power vs. I/O bandwidth, compressed zvols could be a real win, more than paying back the space required to have a few snapshots around. Mike -- Mike Gerdts http://mgerdts.blogspot.com

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS/WAFL lawsuit

2007-09-06 Thread mike
On 9/6/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is my personal opinion and all, but even knowing that Sun encourages open conversations on these mailing lists and blogs it seems to falter common sense for people from @sun.com to be commenting on this topic. It seems like

Re: [zfs-discuss] (politics) Sharks in the waters

2007-09-05 Thread mike
On 9/5/07, Joerg Schilling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As I wrote before, my wofs (designed and implemented 1989-1990 for SunOS 4.0, published May 23th 1991) is copy on write based, does not need fsck and always offers a stable view on the media because it is COW. Side question: If COW is such

Re: [zfs-discuss] The Dangling DBuf Strikes Back

2007-09-03 Thread Mike Gerdts
reset (panic, I believe) of the primary LDOM seems to have caused the corruption in the guest LDOM. What was that about having the redundancy as close to the consumer as possible? :) -- Mike Gerdts http://mgerdts.blogspot.com/ ___ zfs-discuss mailing

Re: [zfs-discuss] do zfs filesystems isolate corruption?

2007-08-11 Thread Mike Gerdts
and I think snv59: panic - S10u4 backtrace is very different from snv* -- Mike Gerdts http://mgerdts.blogspot.com/ ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

[zfs-discuss] It is that time again... ZFS + Firewire/USB - and a specific enclosure

2007-08-06 Thread mike
or do maintenance. It's mainly for cheap, quiet enclosures that can export JBOD... Thanks, mike ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Will de-duplication be added?

2007-07-29 Thread Mike Gerdts
%3Amail.opensolaris.org+%28dedup+OR+%22de-duplication%22+OR+deduplication%29btnG=Google+Search -- Mike Gerdts http://mgerdts.blogspot.com/ ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Any fix for zpool import kernel panic (reboot loop)?

2007-07-25 Thread Mike Gerdts
that (I'm told) is being worked on. I only mention this to say that this type of problem is not restricted to zfs boot. Mike -- Mike Gerdts http://mgerdts.blogspot.com/ ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org

Re: [zfs-discuss] import a group

2007-07-17 Thread Mike Salehi
One last question, when it comes to patching these zones, is it better to patch it normally or destroy all the local zones and patch only the global zone and use sh file to recreate all the zones. This message posted from opensolaris.org ___

[zfs-discuss] import a group

2007-07-16 Thread Mike Salehi
Greetings, Given zfs pools, how does one import these pools to another node in the cluster. Mike This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman

Re: [zfs-discuss] import a group

2007-07-16 Thread Mike Salehi
Sorry, my question is not clear enough. These pools contain a zone each. 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] Pseudo file system access to snapshots?

2007-07-13 Thread Mike Gerdts
this is in the works. Most of my use cases for ZFS involve use of clones. Lack of space-efficient backups and especially restores makes me wait to use ZFS outside of the lab. Mike -- Mike Gerdts http://mgerdts.blogspot.com/ ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs

Re: [zfs-discuss] Pseudo file system access to snapshots?

2007-07-11 Thread Mike Gerdts
On 7/11/07, Darren J Moffat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mike Gerdts wrote: Perhaps a better approach is to create a pseudo file system that looks like: mntpt/pool /@@ /@today /@yesterday /fs /@@ /@2007-06-01

[zfs-discuss] Pseudo file system access to snapshots?

2007-07-10 Thread Mike Gerdts
. Is this something that is maybe worth spending a few more cycles on, or is it likely broken from the beginning? Mike -- Mike Gerdts http://mgerdts.blogspot.com/ ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org

Re: [zfs-discuss] Take Three: PSARC 2007/171 ZFS Separate Intent Log

2007-07-07 Thread Mike Gerdts
that is absolutely unaccepted practice. The past week of inactivity is likely related to most of Sun in the US being on mandatory vacation. Sun typically shuts down for the week that contains July 4 and (I think) the week between Christmas and Jan 1. Mike -- Mike Gerdts http://mgerdts.blogspot.com

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: ZFS usb keys

2007-06-27 Thread Mike Lee
I had a similar situation between x86 and SPARC, version number. When I created the pool on the LOWER rev machine, it was seen by the HIGHER rev machine. This was a USB HDD, not a stick. I can now move the drive between boxes. HTH, Mike Dick Davies wrote: Thanks to everyone for the sanity

RE: [zfs-discuss] ZFS - DB2 Performance

2007-06-26 Thread Ellis, Mike
At what Solaris10 level (patch/update) was the single-threaded compression situation resolved? Could you be hitting that one? -- MikeE -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Roch - PAE Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2007 12:26 PM To: Roshan Perera

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Scalability/performance

2007-06-20 Thread mike
room for two to fail then I suppose I can look for a 14 drive space usable setup and use raidz-2. Thanks, mike ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Scalability/performance

2007-06-20 Thread mike
On 6/20/07, Paul Fisher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would not risk raidz on that many disks. A nice compromise may be 14+2 raidz2, which should perform nicely for your workload and be pretty reliable when the disks start to fail. Would anyone on the list not recommend this setup? I could

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: Karma Re: Re: Best use of 4 drives?

2007-06-15 Thread mike
On 6/15/07, Brian Hechinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hmmm, that's an interesting point. I remember the old days of having to stagger startup for large drives (physically large, not capacity large). Can that be done with SATA? I had to link 2 600w power supplies together to be able to power

Re: [zfs-discuss] Btrfs, COW for Linux [somewhat OT]

2007-06-14 Thread mike
it's about time. this hopefully won't spark another license debate, etc... ZFS may never get into linux officially, but there's no reason a lot of the same features and ideologies can't make it into a linux-approved-with-no-arguments filesystem... as a more SOHO user i like ZFS mainly for it's

Re: [zfs-discuss] Btrfs, COW for Linux [somewhat OT]

2007-06-14 Thread mike
(FAT32, NTFS, XFS, JFS) it is encouraging to see more options that put emphasis on integrity... On 6/14/07, Frank Cusack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On June 14, 2007 3:57:55 PM -0700 mike [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: as a more SOHO user i like ZFS mainly for it's COW and integrity, and huh

Re: [zfs-discuss] Btrfs, COW for Linux [somewhat OT]

2007-06-14 Thread mike
On 6/14/07, Frank Cusack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, but there are many ways to get transactions, e.g. journalling. ext3 is journaled. it doesn't seem to always be able to recover data. it also takes forever to fsck. i thought COW might alleviate some of the fsck needs... it just seems like

Re: [zfs-discuss] Holding disks for home servers

2007-06-07 Thread mike
looks like you used 3 for a total of 15 disks, right? I have a CM stacker too - I used the CM 4-disks-in-3-5.25-slots though. I am currently trying to sell it too, as it is bulky and I would prefer using eSATA/maybe Firewire/USB enclosures and a small controller machine (like a Shuttle) so it is

Re: [zfs-discuss] current state of play with ZFS boot and install?

2007-05-31 Thread Mike Dotson
/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss -- Mike Dotson ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss

RE: [zfs-discuss] Re: ZFS - Use h/w raid or not?Thoughts. Considerations.

2007-05-29 Thread Ellis, Mike
Also the unmirrored memory for the rest of the system has ECC and ChipKill, which provides at least SOME protection against random bit-flips. -- Question: It appears that CF and friends would make a descent live-boot (but don't run on me like I'm a disk) type of boot-media due to the limited

RE: [zfs-discuss] Re: ZFS - Use h/w raid or not?Thoughts.Considerations.

2007-05-29 Thread Ellis, Mike
] Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2007 9:48 PM To: Ellis, Mike Cc: Carson Gaspar; zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org Subject: Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: ZFS - Use h/w raid or not?Thoughts.Considerations. Ellis, Mike wrote: Also the unmirrored memory for the rest of the system has ECC and ChipKill, which provides

RE: [zfs-discuss] Re: ZFS - Use h/w raid or not?Thoughts.Considerations.

2007-05-29 Thread Ellis, Mike
] Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2007 9:48 PM To: Ellis, Mike Cc: Carson Gaspar; zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org Subject: Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: ZFS - Use h/w raid or not?Thoughts.Considerations. Ellis, Mike wrote: Also the unmirrored memory for the rest of the system has ECC and ChipKill, which provides

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs root: legacy mount or not?

2007-05-25 Thread Mike Dotson
://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss -- Mike Dotson ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs root: legacy mount or not?

2007-05-25 Thread Mike Dotson
On Fri, 2007-05-25 at 15:50 -0600, Lori Alt wrote: Mike Dotson wrote: On Fri, 2007-05-25 at 14:29 -0600, Lori Alt wrote: Would help in many cases where an admin needs to work on a system but doesn't need, say 20k users home directories mounted, to do this work. So single-user mode

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs root: legacy mount or not?

2007-05-25 Thread Mike Dotson
on all file systems instead of minimal file systems. - Eric -- Eric Schrock, Solaris Kernel Development http://blogs.sun.com/eschrock -- Mike Dotson ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs root: legacy mount or not?

2007-05-25 Thread Mike Dotson
On Fri, 2007-05-25 at 15:46 -0700, Eric Schrock wrote: On Fri, May 25, 2007 at 03:39:11PM -0700, Mike Dotson wrote: In fact the console-login depends on filesystem/minimal which to me means minimal file systems not all file systems and there is no software dependent on console-login

RE: [zfs-discuss] DBMS on zpool

2007-05-18 Thread Ellis, Mike
This is probably a good place to start. http://blogs.sun.com/realneel/entry/zfs_and_databases Please post back to the group with your results, I'm sure many of us are interested. Thanks, -- MikeE -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of

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