Re: [zfs-discuss] Mac OS X clients with ZFS server

2010-09-29 Thread Rich Teer
Hi all, Thanks to some clues from people on this list, I have finally resolved this issue! To summarise, I was having problems with timeouts when applications on my MacBook Pro tried to create new files on an NFS file system that was mounted from my server running snv_130 (writes to existing

Re: [zfs-discuss] Mac OS X clients with ZFS server

2010-09-28 Thread Erik Ableson
Le 16 sept. 2010 à 16:18, Rich Teer rich.t...@rite-group.com a écrit : On Thu, 16 Sep 2010, erik.ableson wrote: And for reference, I have a number of 10.6 clients using NFS for sharing Fusion virtual machines, iTunes library, iPhoto libraries etc. without any issues. Excellent; what OS

Re: [zfs-discuss] Mac OS X clients with ZFS server

2010-09-28 Thread Erik Ableson
The only tweak needed was making sure that I used the FQDN of the client machines (with appropriate reverse lookups in my DNS) for the sharenfs properties. Envoyé de mon iPhone Le 16 sept. 2010 à 17:15, Rich Teer rich.t...@rite-group.com a écrit : On Thu, 16 Sep 2010, Erik Ableson wrote:

Re: [zfs-discuss] Mac OS X clients with ZFS server

2010-09-16 Thread erik.ableson
On 15 sept. 2010, at 22:04, Mike Mackovitch wrote: On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 12:08:20PM -0700, Nabil wrote: any resolution to this issue? I'm experiencing the same annoying lockd thing with mac osx 10.6 clients. I am at pool ver 14, fs ver 3. Would somehow going back to the earlier 8/2

Re: [zfs-discuss] Mac OS X clients with ZFS server

2010-09-16 Thread Rich Teer
On Thu, 16 Sep 2010, erik.ableson wrote: And for reference, I have a number of 10.6 clients using NFS for sharing Fusion virtual machines, iTunes library, iPhoto libraries etc. without any issues. Excellent; what OS is your NFS server running? -- Rich Teer, Publisher Vinylphile Magazine

Re: [zfs-discuss] Mac OS X clients with ZFS server

2010-09-16 Thread Rich Teer
On Thu, 16 Sep 2010, Erik Ableson wrote: OpenSolaris snv129 Hmm, SXCE snv_130 here. Did you have to do any server-side tuning (e.g., allowing remote connections), or did it just work out of the box? I know that Sendmail needs some gentle persuasion to accept remote connections out of the box;

Re: [zfs-discuss] Mac OS X clients with ZFS server

2010-09-16 Thread Mike Mackovitch
On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 08:15:53AM -0700, Rich Teer wrote: On Thu, 16 Sep 2010, Erik Ableson wrote: OpenSolaris snv129 Hmm, SXCE snv_130 here. Did you have to do any server-side tuning (e.g., allowing remote connections), or did it just work out of the box? I know that Sendmail needs

Re: [zfs-discuss] Mac OS X clients with ZFS server

2010-09-15 Thread Nabil
any resolution to this issue? I'm experiencing the same annoying lockd thing with mac osx 10.6 clients. I am at pool ver 14, fs ver 3. Would somehow going back to the earlier 8/2 setup make things better? -Nabil -- This message posted from opensolaris.org

Re: [zfs-discuss] Mac OS X clients with ZFS server

2010-09-15 Thread Mike Mackovitch
On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 12:08:20PM -0700, Nabil wrote: any resolution to this issue? I'm experiencing the same annoying lockd thing with mac osx 10.6 clients. I am at pool ver 14, fs ver 3. Would somehow going back to the earlier 8/2 setup make things better? As noted in the earlier

Re: [zfs-discuss] Mac OS X clients with ZFS server

2010-04-26 Thread Chris Ridd
On 26 Apr 2010, at 06:02, Dave Pooser wrote: On 4/25/10 6:07 PM, Rich Teer rich.t...@rite-group.com wrote: Sounds fair enough! Let's move this to email; meanwhile, what's the packet sniffing incantation I need to use? On Solaris I'd use snoop, but I don't htink Mac OS comes with that!

Re: [zfs-discuss] Mac OS X clients with ZFS server

2010-04-25 Thread Rich Teer
On Thu, 22 Apr 2010, Mike Mackovitch wrote: Oh, and the kernel.log should at least have the lockd not responding messages in it. So, I presume you meant nothing *else* interesting. I think it's time to look at the packets... I'll double check later (my wife is currently using the lpatop).

Re: [zfs-discuss] Mac OS X clients with ZFS server

2010-04-25 Thread Rich Teer
On Fri, 23 Apr 2010, Alex Blewitt wrote: For your information, the ZFS project lives (well, limps really) on at http://code.google.com/p/mac-zfs. You can get ZFS for Snow Leopard from there and we're working on moving forwards from the ancient pool support to something more recent.

Re: [zfs-discuss] Mac OS X clients with ZFS server

2010-04-25 Thread Andrew Kener
The correct URL is: http://code.google.com/p/maczfs/ -Original Message- From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Rich Teer Sent: Sunday, April 25, 2010 7:11 PM To: Alex Blewitt Cc: ZFS discuss Subject: Re: [zfs-discuss] Mac OS X

Re: [zfs-discuss] Mac OS X clients with ZFS server

2010-04-25 Thread Dave Pooser
On 4/25/10 6:07 PM, Rich Teer rich.t...@rite-group.com wrote: Sounds fair enough! Let's move this to email; meanwhile, what's the packet sniffing incantation I need to use? On Solaris I'd use snoop, but I don't htink Mac OS comes with that! Use Wireshark (formerly Ethereal); works great for

Re: [zfs-discuss] Mac OS X clients with ZFS server

2010-04-25 Thread Dave Pooser
On 4/25/10 6:11 PM, Rich Teer rich.t...@rite-group.com wrote: I tried going to that URL, but got a 404 error... :-( What's the correct one, please? http://code.google.com/p/maczfs/ -- Dave Pooser, ACSA Manager of Information Services Alford Media http://www.alfordmedia.com

Re: [zfs-discuss] Mac OS X clients with ZFS server

2010-04-23 Thread Alex Blewitt
On 22 Apr 2010, at 20:50, Rich Teer rich.t...@rite-group.com wrote: On Thu, 22 Apr 2010, Alex Blewitt wrote: Hi Alex, For your information, the ZFS project lives (well, limps really) on at http://code.google.com/p/mac-zfs. You can get ZFS for Snow Leopard from there and we're working on

Re: [zfs-discuss] Mac OS X clients with ZFS server

2010-04-22 Thread Shawn Ferry
On Apr 22, 2010, at 1:26 PM, Rich Teer wrote: Hi all, I have a server running SXCE b130 and I use ZFS for all file systems. I also have a couple of workstations running the same OS, and all is well. But I also have a MacBook Pro laptop running Snow Leopard (OS X 10.6.3), and I have

Re: [zfs-discuss] Mac OS X clients with ZFS server

2010-04-22 Thread Rich Teer
On Thu, 22 Apr 2010, Shawn Ferry wrote: I haven't seen this behavior. However, all of my file systems used by my Mac are pool version 8 fs ver 2. I don't know if that could be part of your problem or not. Thanks for the info. I should have said that all the file systems I'm using were

Re: [zfs-discuss] Mac OS X clients with ZFS server

2010-04-22 Thread Tomas Ögren
On 22 April, 2010 - Rich Teer sent me these 1,1K bytes: Hi all, I have a server running SXCE b130 and I use ZFS for all file systems. I also have a couple of workstations running the same OS, and all is well. But I also have a MacBook Pro laptop running Snow Leopard (OS X 10.6.3), and I

Re: [zfs-discuss] Mac OS X clients with ZFS server

2010-04-22 Thread Alex Blewitt
Rich, Shawn, Of course, it probably doesn't help that Apple, in their infinite wisdom, canned native suport for ZFS in Snow Leopard (idiots). For your information, the ZFS project lives (well, limps really) on at http://code.google.com/p/mac-zfs. You can get ZFS for Snow Leopard from there

Re: [zfs-discuss] Mac OS X clients with ZFS server

2010-04-22 Thread Rich Teer
On Thu, 22 Apr 2010, Tomas Ögren wrote: Copying via terminal (and cp) works. Interesting: if I copy a file *which has no extended attributes* using cp in a terminal, it works fine. If I try to cp a file that has EA (to the same destination), it hangs. But I get this error message after a few

Re: [zfs-discuss] Mac OS X clients with ZFS server

2010-04-22 Thread Rich Teer
On Thu, 22 Apr 2010, Alex Blewitt wrote: Hi Alex, For your information, the ZFS project lives (well, limps really) on at http://code.google.com/p/mac-zfs. You can get ZFS for Snow Leopard from there and we're working on moving forwards from the ancient pool support to something more recent.

Re: [zfs-discuss] Mac OS X clients with ZFS server

2010-04-22 Thread Mike Mackovitch
On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 12:40:37PM -0700, Rich Teer wrote: On Thu, 22 Apr 2010, Tomas Ögren wrote: Copying via terminal (and cp) works. Interesting: if I copy a file *which has no extended attributes* using cp in a terminal, it works fine. If I try to cp a file that has EA (to the same

Re: [zfs-discuss] Mac OS X clients with ZFS server

2010-04-22 Thread Rich Teer
On Thu, 22 Apr 2010, Mike Mackovitch wrote: Hi Mike, So, it looks like you need to investigate why the client isn't getting responses from the server's lockd. This is usually caused by a firewall or NAT getting in the way. Great idea--I was indeed connected to my network using the AirPort

Re: [zfs-discuss] Mac OS X clients with ZFS server

2010-04-22 Thread Mike Mackovitch
On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 01:54:26PM -0700, Rich Teer wrote: On Thu, 22 Apr 2010, Mike Mackovitch wrote: Hi Mike, So, it looks like you need to investigate why the client isn't getting responses from the server's lockd. This is usually caused by a firewall or NAT getting in the way.

Re: [zfs-discuss] Mac OS X clients with ZFS server

2010-04-22 Thread Rich Teer
On Thu, 22 Apr 2010, Mike Mackovitch wrote: I would also check /var/log/system.log and /var/log/kernel.log on the Mac to see if any other useful messages are getting logged. Ah, we're getting closer. The latter shows nothing interesting, but system.log has this line appended the minute I try