Re: [zfs-discuss] Live resize/grow of iscsi shared ZVOL

2010-10-03 Thread Steve
I am certainly a little late to this post, but I recently began using ZFS and had to figure this all out. There are ways to do this without disturbing the volume or removing it and re-connecting it on the Windows side. I had a bit of research involved, and I put up a blog about it. Plan to

Re: [zfs-discuss] Live resize/grow of iscsi shared ZVOL

2010-10-03 Thread eXeC001er
correct link: http://kornax.org/wordpress/2010/10/zfs-iscsi-how-to-do-it-and-my-journey-part-2/ 2010/10/3 Steve stwag...@prg.com I am certainly a little late to this post, but I recently began using ZFS and had to figure this all out. There are ways to do this without disturbing the volume

[zfs-discuss] Monitoring zfs using dtrace

2010-10-03 Thread Paul Johnston
Apologies for cross posting but I have been looking at the probes fired when a snapshot is created. I get pa...@openindiana:~/programming/dtrace$ pfexec ./snapshots.d dtrace: script './snapshots.d' matched 54 probes CPU IDFUNCTION:NAME 0 37478

Re: [zfs-discuss] Please warn a home user against OpenSolaris under VirtualBox under WinXP ; )

2010-10-03 Thread Nils
OK, replying to myself after having played around a bit with both Unix under Billware and vice versa: 1) - Somehow the HDs turned into a GPT Protective Partition, which XP cannot read. Googling a bit reveals that XP cannot read these (although a utility for destroying and reformatting is

[zfs-discuss] Unexpected ZFS space consumption

2010-10-03 Thread JR Dalrymple
I'm pretty new to ZFS and OpenSolaris as a whole. I am an experienced storage administrator, however my storage equipment has typically been NetApp or EMC branded. I administer NetApp FAS2000 and FAS3000 series boxes to host a VMware only virtual infrastructure so I am versed on a pretty high

[zfs-discuss] ZFS panic on blade BL465c G1

2010-10-03 Thread Jorgen Lundman
Hello list, I got a c7000 with BL465c G1 blades to play with and have been trying to get some form of Solaris to work on it. However, this is the state: OpenSolaris 134: Installs with ZFS, but no BNX nic drivers. OpenIndiana 147: Panics on zpool create everytime, even from console. Has no

Re: [zfs-discuss] Please warn a home user against OpenSolaris under VirtualBox under WinXP ; )

2010-10-03 Thread R.G. Keen
At the risk of being repetitive: [i]Why not two separate machines, one for XP, one for zfs/raid?[/i] At today's network speeds, hooking a cable between those two would provide any speed data access to the files in the raid that you want. A suitable ZFS machine could sit in another room if you

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS panic on blade BL465c G1

2010-10-03 Thread Richard Elling
On Oct 3, 2010, at 7:22 PM, Jorgen Lundman lund...@lundman.net wrote: One option would be to get 147 NIC drivers for 134. IIRC, the bnx drivers are closed source and obtained from Broadcom. No need to upgrade OS just for a NIC driver. -- richard