[zfs-discuss] Remove a mirrored pair from a pool

2008-01-07 Thread Alex
Hi, I had a question regarding a situation i have with my zfs pool I have a zfs pool ftp and within it are 3 250gb drives in a raid z and 2 400gb drives in a simple mirror. The pool itself has more than 400gb free and I would like to remove the 400gb drives from the server. My concern is how to

Re: [zfs-discuss] Remove a mirrored pair from a pool

2008-01-07 Thread Robert Milkowski
Hello Alex, Monday, January 7, 2008, 11:59:42 AM, you wrote: A Hi, I had a question regarding a situation i have with my zfs pool A I have a zfs pool ftp and within it are 3 250gb drives in a raid A z and 2 400gb drives in a simple mirror. The pool itself has more A than 400gb free and I would

[zfs-discuss] removing a separate zil device

2008-01-07 Thread Bill Moloney
This is a re-post of this issue ... I didn't get any replies to the previous post of 12/27 ... I'm hoping someone is back from holiday who may have some insight into this problem ... Bill when I remove a separate zil disk from a pool, the pool continues to function, logging synchronous writes to

Re: [zfs-discuss] removing a separate zil device

2008-01-07 Thread Kyle McDonald
Bill Moloney wrote: Taking it out does not impact the immediate function of the pool, but the inability to re-import it after this event is a significant issue. Has anyone found a workaround for this problem ? I have data in a pool that I cannot import because the separate zil is no longer

[zfs-discuss] Intent logs vs Journaling

2008-01-07 Thread parvez shaikh
Hello, I am learning ZFS, its design and layout. I would like to understand how Intent logs are different from journal? Journal too are logs of updates to ensure consistency of file system over crashes. Purpose of intent log also appear to be same. I hope I am not missing something

Re: [zfs-discuss] Intent logs vs Journaling

2008-01-07 Thread Neil Perrin
parvez shaikh wrote: Hello, I am learning ZFS, its design and layout. I would like to understand how Intent logs are different from journal? Journal too are logs of updates to ensure consistency of file system over crashes. Purpose of intent log also appear to be same. I hope I am

Re: [zfs-discuss] removing a separate zil device

2008-01-07 Thread Richard Elling
Perhaps this is being tracked as 6538021? http://bugs.opensolaris.org/view_bug.do?bug_id=6538021 -- richard Bill Moloney wrote: This is a re-post of this issue ... I didn't get any replies to the previous post of 12/27 ... I'm hoping someone is back from holiday who may have some insight into

[zfs-discuss] ZFS speaker needed (Was: Upcoming 1/9 Meeting at Google Chicago...)

2008-01-07 Thread Eric Boutilier
Marc Temkin wrote: Eric, ... ... In addition we are interested in getting a speaker on the Sun ZFS technology. If you know of any available speakers knowledgeable with ZFS please let me know or pass onto them my contact information. Thanks, Marc Temkin

Re: [zfs-discuss] removing a separate zil device

2008-01-07 Thread Eric Schrock
The problem is that the ZIL device is treated just like another toplevel vdev. As part of the import process, we find all vdevs and assemble the config, and verify that the sum of all vdev GUIDs match the expected sum. Now, each vdev only stores enough configuration to keep track of the toplevel

Re: [zfs-discuss] copy on write related query

2008-01-07 Thread Nicolas Williams
On Sun, Jan 06, 2008 at 08:05:56AM -0800, sudarshan sridhar wrote: My exact doubt is, if COW is default behavior of ZFS then does COWd data written to the same physical drive where the filesystem resides? Just to clarify: there is no way to disable COW in ZFS. If so the physical

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs pool does remount automatically

2008-01-07 Thread Mark J Musante
On Mon, 7 Jan 2008, Andre Lue wrote: I usually have to do a zpool import -f pool to get it back. What do you mean by 'usually'? After the import, what's the output of 'zpool status'? During reboot, are there any relevant messages in the console? Regards, markm

[zfs-discuss] ZFS via Virtualized Solaris?

2008-01-07 Thread Eric L. Frederich
From what I read, one of the main things about ZFS is Don't trust the underlying hardware. If this is the case, could I run Solaris under VirtualBox or under some other emulated environment and still get the benefits of ZFS such as end to end data integrity? The reason I ask is that the only

Re: [zfs-discuss] Intent logs vs Journaling

2008-01-07 Thread Bill Moloney
file system journals may support a variety of availability models, ranging from simple support for fast recovery (return to consistency) with possible data loss, to those that attempt to support synchronous write semantics with no data loss on failure, along with fast recovery the simpler

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS via Virtualized Solaris?

2008-01-07 Thread ian
Eric L. Frederich writes: From what I read, one of the main things about ZFS is Don't trust the underlying hardware. If this is the case, could I run Solaris under VirtualBox or under some other emulated environment and still get the benefits of ZFS such as end to end data integrity? You

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS via Virtualized Solaris?

2008-01-07 Thread Peter Schuller
From what I read, one of the main things about ZFS is Don't trust the underlying hardware. If this is the case, could I run Solaris under VirtualBox or under some other emulated environment and still get the benefits of ZFS such as end to end data integrity? You could probably answer

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS via Virtualized Solaris?

2008-01-07 Thread Peter Dunlap
You could probably run MythTV in a linux domU within a Solaris system (basically your same idea but virtualize the Linux instead of the Solaris). The only hangup would be your TV tuner card(s). I use MythTV with a separate Solaris file server but I've contemplated the possibility of

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS via Virtualized Solaris?

2008-01-07 Thread Torrey McMahon
Peter Schuller wrote: From what I read, one of the main things about ZFS is Don't trust the underlying hardware. If this is the case, could I run Solaris under VirtualBox or under some other emulated environment and still get the benefits of ZFS such as end to end data integrity?

[zfs-discuss] Does block allocation for small writes work over iSCSI?

2008-01-07 Thread Gilberto Mautner
Hello list, I'm thinking about this topology: NFS Client NFS--- zFS Host ---iSCSI--- zFS Node 1, 2, 3 etc. The idea here is to create a scalable NFS server by plugging in more nodes as more space is needed, striping data across them. A question is: we know from the docs that zFS

Re: [zfs-discuss] Does block allocation for small writes work over iSCSI?

2008-01-07 Thread Richard Elling
Gilberto Mautner wrote: Hello list, I'm thinking about this topology: NFS Client NFS--- zFS Host ---iSCSI--- zFS Node 1, 2, 3 etc. The idea here is to create a scalable NFS server by plugging in more nodes as more space is needed, striping data across them. I see people