[zfs-discuss] Re: Current status of a ZFS root

2006-10-27 Thread Mika Borner
Unfortunately, the T1000 only has a single drive bay (!) which makes it impossible to follow our normal practice of mirroring the root file You can replace the existing 3.5 disk with two 2.5 disks (quite cheap) //Mika This message posted from opensolaris.org

[zfs-discuss] Re: Re: ZFS hangs systems during copy

2006-10-27 Thread Jürgen Keil
Sounds familiar. Yes it is a small system a Sun blade 100 with 128MB of memory. Oh, 128MB... Btw, does anyone know if there are any minimum hardware (physical memory) requirements for using ZFS? It seems as if ZFS wan't tested that much on machines with 256MB (or less)

[zfs-discuss] Re: zpool snapshot fails on unmounted filesystem

2006-10-27 Thread Jürgen Keil
I just retried to reproduce it to generate a reliable test case. Unfortunately, I cannot reproduce the error message. So I really have no idea what might have cause it I also had this problem 2-3 times in the past, but I cannot reproduce it.

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: zpool import takes to long with large numbers of file systems

2006-10-27 Thread Roch - PAE
as an alternative, I thaught this would be relevant to the discussion: Bug ID: 6478980 Synopsis: zfs should support automount property In other words, do we really need to mount 1 FS in a snap, or do we just need to system to be up quickly then mount on demand -r

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: zpool snapshot fails on unmounted filesystem

2006-10-27 Thread Tim Foster
On Fri, 2006-10-27 at 01:40 -0700, Jürgen Keil wrote: Using dtrace against the kernel, I found out that the source of the EBUSY error 16 is the kernel function zil_suspend(): . . It seems that you can identify zfs filesystems that fail zfs snapshot with error 16 EBUSY using zdb -iv

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: ZFS hangs systems during copy

2006-10-27 Thread Edmundo Ocalagan
no UFS works fine, as well as VXFS 4.1. Is this something that Sun will improve in the future?.. Edmundo - Original Message - From: Juergen Keil [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org Sent: Thursday, October 26, 2006 11:35 AM Subject: Re: [zfs-discuss]

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: ZFS hangs systems during copy

2006-10-27 Thread Edmundo Ocalagan
Also the funny part is that it takes the machine about a second to freeze and I have to power cycle. I can't Stop-A, the machine becomes totally unresponsive. Never seem that before on a Sun Server. Edmundo - Original Message - From: Juergen Keil [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: ZFS hangs systems during copy

2006-10-27 Thread Juergen Keil
Sounds familiar. Yes it is a small system a Sun blade 100 with 128MB of memory. Oh, 128MB... Also the funny part is that it takes the machine about a second to freeze and I have to power cycle. I can't Stop-A, the machine becomes totally unresponsive. Never seem that before on a Sun

[zfs-discuss] Best version of Solaris 10 fro ZFS ?

2006-10-27 Thread David Blacklock
What is the current recommended version of Solaris 10 for ZFS ? -thanks, -Dave ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Best version of Solaris 10 fro ZFS ?

2006-10-27 Thread Joe Little
The latest OpenSolaris release? Perhaps Nexenta in the end is the way to best deliver/maintain that. On 10/27/06, David Blacklock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is the current recommended version of Solaris 10 for ZFS ? -thanks, -Dave ___ zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Current status of a ZFS root

2006-10-27 Thread Lori . Alt
Chris Adams wrote: Is anyone actually booting ZFS in production and, if so, would you recommend this approach? ZFS-boot has not been released in any official way yet. Only parts of it are available in OpenSolaris. So no, no one should be booting ZFS in production yet. Lori

Re: [zfs-discuss] Best version of Solaris 10 fro ZFS ?

2006-10-27 Thread Robert Milkowski
Hello David, Friday, October 27, 2006, 3:04:03 PM, you wrote: DB What is the current recommended version of Solaris 10 for ZFS ? DB -thanks, Depends what you mean by recommended. If you want support and patches than S10U2 - in a next few weeks S10U3 will be available (with raidz2, hot-spares,

Re: [zfs-discuss] Current status of a ZFS root

2006-10-27 Thread Brian Hechinger
On Fri, Oct 27, 2006 at 07:52:36AM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Chris Adams wrote: Is anyone actually booting ZFS in production and, if so, would you recommend this approach? ZFS-boot has not been released in any official way yet. Only parts of it are available in OpenSolaris. So

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: Porting ZFS file system to FreeBSD.

2006-10-27 Thread Eric Schrock
Congrats, Pawel. This is truly an impressive piece of work. As you're probably aware, Noel integrated the patches your provided us into build 51. Hopefully that got rid of some spurious differences between the code bases. We do have a program called 'ziltest' that Neil can probably provide for

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: Porting ZFS file system to FreeBSD.

2006-10-27 Thread Neil Perrin
Pawel, I second that praise. Well done! Attached is a copy of ziltest. You will have to adapt this a bit to your environment. In particular it uses bringover to pull a subtree of our source and then builds and later runs it. This tends to create a fair number of transactions with various

[zfs-discuss] Re: Re: ZFS hangs systems during copy

2006-10-27 Thread Jürgen Keil
This is: 6483887 without direct management, arc ghost lists can run amok That seems to be a new bug? http://bugs.opensolaris.org does not yet find it. The fix I have in mind is to control the ghost lists as part of the arc_buf_hdr_t allocations. If you want to test out my fix, I can send

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: Re: ZFS hangs systems during copy

2006-10-27 Thread Neil Perrin
Jürgen Keil wrote On 10/27/06 11:55,: This is: 6483887 without direct management, arc ghost lists can run amok That seems to be a new bug? http://bugs.opensolaris.org does not yet find it. It's not so new as it was created on 10/19, but as you say bug search doesn't find it. However, you

Re: [zfs-discuss] Current status of a ZFS root

2006-10-27 Thread Brian Hechinger
On Fri, Oct 27, 2006 at 01:23:37PM -0500, Christopher Scott wrote: You can manually set up a ZFS root environment but it requires a UFS partition to boot off of. See: http://blogs.sun.com/tabriz/entry/are_you_ready_to_rumble That's not was I was refering to. I'm interested in testing the

Re: [zfs-discuss] Current status of a ZFS root

2006-10-27 Thread Lori . Alt
Brian Hechinger wrote: On Fri, Oct 27, 2006 at 01:23:37PM -0500, Christopher Scott wrote: You can manually set up a ZFS root environment but it requires a UFS partition to boot off of. See: http://blogs.sun.com/tabriz/entry/are_you_ready_to_rumble That's not was I was refering to.

[zfs-discuss] s10u3 query

2006-10-27 Thread ozan s. yigit
can someone please confirm if hot spares are supported in s10u3? thanks. oz -- ozan s. yigit | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://nextbit.blogspot.com an open mind is no substitute for hard work -- nelson goodman ___ zfs-discuss mailing list

Re: [zfs-discuss] s10u3 query

2006-10-27 Thread Cindy Swearingen
Yes, hot spares are in the upcoming Solaris 10 release... You can read about hot spares in the Solaris Express docs, here: http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/817-2271/6mhupg6ft?a=view#gcvcw Essentially the same information will appear in the upcoming Solaris 10 version. Cindy ozan s. yigit

Re: [zfs-discuss] chmod A=.... on ZFS != chmod A=... on UFS

2006-10-27 Thread Peter Tribble
On 10/24/06, Mark Shellenbaum [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Chris Gerhard wrote: I want a file system that is shared by the group. Everything in the file system writable by the group no matter what the umask.The simplest way to do something like that would be: # zfs create pool/fs# chmod

Re: [zfs-discuss] chmod A=.... on ZFS != chmod A=... on UFS

2006-10-27 Thread Mark Shellenbaum
Peter Tribble wrote: On 10/24/06, *Mark Shellenbaum* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Chris Gerhard wrote: I want a file system that is shared by the group. Everything in the file system writable by the group no matter what the umask. The

Re: [zfs-discuss] chmod A=.... on ZFS != chmod A=... on UFS

2006-10-27 Thread Peter Tribble
On 10/27/06, Mark Shellenbaum [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Peter Tribble wrote: Make everything be group writeable. % chmod A+group@:rwxp:fd:allow aYou can't use the abstractions owner@,group@, or everyone@ you need tospecify an explicit group, such as. $ chmod A+group:staff:rwx:fd:allow aUgh. That's

Re: [zfs-discuss] chmod A=.... on ZFS != chmod A=... on UFS

2006-10-27 Thread Mark Shellenbaum
Peter Tribble wrote: On 10/27/06, *Mark Shellenbaum* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Peter Tribble wrote: Make everything be group writeable. % chmod A+group@:rwxp:fd:allow a You can't use the abstractions owner@,group@, or everyone@ you