Re: [zfs-discuss] Zones root-fs in ZFS ? (fwd)

2006-07-27 Thread Matty
On Thu, 27 Jul 2006, Eric Schrock wrote: The original reasoning was that we didn't have enough time to validate the behavior of the zone upgrade tools with ZFS as the root filesystem, particularly as these tools (Ashanti, Zulu) are a moving target. Upon closer inspection, we found that this

[zfs-discuss] Migrating vdevs to new pools

2006-10-23 Thread Matty
Howdy, We use VxVM quite a bit at my place of employment, and are extremely interested in moving to ZFS to reduce complexity and costs. One useful feature that is in VxVM that doesn't seem to be in ZFS is the ability to migrate vdevs between pools. This is extremely useful when you want to

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Automatic Device Error Notification?

2006-10-31 Thread Matty
On 10/31/06, Wes Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Okay, so now that I'm planning to build my NAS using ZFS, I now need to devise or learn of a preexisting method to receive notification of ZFS handled errors on a remote machine. For example, if a disk fails and I don't regularly login or

[zfs-discuss] Re: [storage-discuss] ZFS/iSCSI target integration

2006-11-01 Thread Matty
On Wed, 1 Nov 2006, Adam Leventhal wrote: Rick McNeal and I have been working on building support for sharing ZVOLs as iSCSI targets directly into ZFS. Below is the proposal I'll be submitting to PSARC. Comments and suggestions are welcome. Adam ---8--- iSCSI/ZFS Integration A. Overview

[zfs-discuss] Work arounds for bug #6456888?

2007-02-10 Thread Matty
Howdy, We bumped into the issues described in bug #6456888 on one of our production systems, and I was curious if any progress has been made on this bug? Are there any workarounds available for this issue (the work around section in the bug is empty)? Thanks, - Ryan -- UNIX Administrator

[zfs-discuss] Why doesn't Solaris remove a faulty disk from operation?

2007-02-11 Thread Matty
Howdy, On one of my Solaris 10 11/06 servers, I am getting numerous errors similar to the following: Feb 11 09:30:23 rx scsi: WARNING: /[EMAIL PROTECTED],2000/[EMAIL PROTECTED],1/[EMAIL PROTECTED],0 (sd1): Feb 11 09:30:23 rx Error for Command: write(10) Error Level: Retryable Feb 11

[zfs-discuss] Re: [storage-discuss] Why doesn't Solaris remove a faulty disk from operation?

2007-02-11 Thread Matty
On 2/11/07, Robert Milkowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Matty, Sunday, February 11, 2007, 6:56:14 PM, you wrote: M Howdy, M On one of my Solaris 10 11/06 servers, I am getting numerous errors M similar to the following: AFAIK nothing was integrated yet to do it. Hot Spare will kick

[zfs-discuss] ZFS fragmentation

2007-02-13 Thread Matty
Howdy, I have seen a number of folks run into issues due to ZFS file system fragmentation, and was curious if anyone on team ZFS is working on this issue? Would it be possible to share with the list any changes that will be made to to help address fragmentation problems? Thanks, - Ryan -- UNIX

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs and iscsi: cannot open device: I/O error

2007-02-26 Thread Matty
On 2/26/07, cedric briner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hello, I'm trying to consolidate my HDs in a cheap but (I hope) reliable manner. To do so, I was thinking to use zfs over iscsi. Unfortunately, I'm having some issue with it, when I do: # iscsi server (nexenta alpha 5) # svcadm

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: Re: update on zfs boot support

2007-03-11 Thread Matty
On 3/11/07, Robert Milkowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: IW Got it, thanks, and a more general question, in a single disk IW root pool scenario, what advantage zfs will provide over ufs w/ IW logging? And when zfs boot integrated in neveda, will live upgrade work with zfs root? Snapshots/clones

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: Re: update on zfs boot support

2007-03-11 Thread Matty
On 3/11/07, Lin Ling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Matty wrote: I am curious how snapshots and clones will be integrated with grub. Will it be posible to boot from a snapshot? I think this would be useful when applying patches, since you could snapshot / ,/var and /opt, patch the system

Re: Re[6]: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Boot support for the x86 platform

2007-03-28 Thread Matty
Howdy, This is awesome news that ZFS boot support is available for x86 platforms. Do any of the ZFS developers happen to know when ZFS boot support for SPARC will be available? Thanks, - Ryan -- UNIX Administrator http://prefetch.net ___ zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Permanently removing vdevs from a pool

2007-04-19 Thread Matty
On 4/19/07, Mark J Musante [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 19 Apr 2007, Mario Goebbels wrote: Is it possible to gracefully and permanently remove a vdev from a pool without data loss? Is this what you're looking for? http://bugs.opensolaris.org/view_bug.do?bug_id=4852783 If so, the

Re: [zfs-discuss] Permanently removing vdevs from a pool

2007-04-20 Thread Matty
On 4/20/07, George Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is a high priority for us and is actively being worked. Vague enough for you. :-) Sorry I can't give you anything more exact that that. Hi George, If ZFS is supposed to be part of opensolaris, then why can't the community get additional

Re: [zfs-discuss] ARC, mmap, pagecache...

2007-05-04 Thread Matty
On 5/4/07, Roch - PAE [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Manoj Joseph writes: Hi, I was wondering about the ARC and its interaction with the VM pagecache... When a file on a ZFS filesystem is mmaped, does the ARC cache get mapped to the process' virtual memory? Or is there another copy? My

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS + ISCSI + LINUX QUESTIONS

2007-05-31 Thread Matty
On 5/31/07, Darren J Moffat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Since you are doing iSCSI and may not be running ZFS on the initiator (client) then I highly recommend that you run with IPsec using at least AH (or ESP with Authentication) to protect the transport. Don't assume that your network is

[zfs-discuss] Supporting recordsizes larger than 128K?

2007-09-04 Thread Matty
Are there any plans to support record sizes larger than 128k? We use ZFS file systems for disk staging on our backup servers (compression is a nice feature here), and we typically configure the disk staging process to read and write large blocks (typically 1MB or so). This reduces the number of

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

2007-09-12 Thread Matty
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 the data

[zfs-discuss] ZFS panic in space_map.c line 125

2007-09-17 Thread Matty
One of our Solaris 10 update 3 servers paniced today with the following error: Sep 18 00:34:53 m2000ef savecore: [ID 570001 auth.error] reboot after panic: assertion failed: ss != NULL, file: ../../common/fs/zfs/space_map.c, line: 125 The server saved a core file, and the resulting backtrace is

Re: [zfs-discuss] Bugs fixed in update 4?

2007-09-18 Thread Matty
On 9/18/07, Larry Wake [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Matty wrote: George Wilson put together a list of ZFS enhancements and bug fixes that were integrated into Solaris 10 update 3, and I was curious if there was something similar for update 4? There have been a bunch of reliability

Re: [zfs-discuss] Zfs log device (zil) ever coming to Sol10?

2007-09-18 Thread Matty
On 9/18/07, Neil Perrin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Separate log devices (slogs) didn't make it into S10U4 but will be in U5. This is awesome! Will the SYNC_NV support that was integrated this week be added to update 5 as well? That would be super useful, assuming the major arrays vendors support

[zfs-discuss] TCP connections not getting cleaned up after application exits

2007-09-26 Thread Matty
Howdy, We are running zones on a number of Solaris 10 update 3 hosts, and we are bumping into an issue where the kernel doesn't clean up connections after an application exits. When this issue occurs, the netstat utility doesn't show anything listening on the port the application uses (8080 in

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Oracle10

2007-10-08 Thread Matty
On 10/8/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there any collateral that I could share with a prospective customer on ZFS and Oracle 10 ? The following documents (as well as the blogs from the ZFS developers) contain some useful information related to database tuning (including

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs comparison

2008-01-19 Thread Matty
On Jan 18, 2008 7:35 AM, Darren J Moffat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sengor wrote: On 1/17/08, Darren J Moffat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Pardon my ignorance, but is ZFS with compression safe to use in a production environment? Yes, why wouldn't it be ? If it wasn't safe it wouldn't have been

[zfs-discuss] Throttling application I/O

2009-04-14 Thread Matty
Howdy, We are running one write intensive and one read intensive Java process on a server, and would like to give preferential I/O treatment to the read intensive process. There was a discussion a while back about adding throttling measures to ZFS, and I was curious if this feature allows you to

Re: [zfs-discuss] deduplication

2009-10-12 Thread Matty
On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 2:42 PM, Brandon High bh...@freaks.com wrote: The keynote was given on Wednesday. Any more willingness to discuss dedup on the list now? The following video contains a de-duplication overview from Bill and Jeff: https://slx.sun.com/1179275620 Hope this helps, - Ryan