Re: [zfs-discuss] NexentaStor 3.0.3 vs OpenSolaris - Patches more up to date?

2010-07-06 Thread Giovanni Tirloni
On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 4:06 PM, Spandana Goli spand...@nexenta.com wrote:
 Release Notes information:
 If there are new features, each release is added to
 http://www.nexenta.com/corp/documentation/release-notes-support.

 If just bug fixes, then the Changelog listing is updated:
 http://www.nexenta.com/corp/documentation/nexentastor-changelog

Is there a bug tracker were one can objectively list all the bugs
(with details) that went into a release ?

Many bug fixes is a bit too general.

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Re: [zfs-discuss] NexentaStor 3.0.3 vs OpenSolaris - Patches more up to date?

2010-07-05 Thread Erast

In 3.0.3+ new option would list appliance changelog going forward:

nmc$ show version -c

On 07/04/2010 05:58 PM, Bohdan Tashchuk wrote:

Where can I find a list of these?


This leads to the more generic question of: where are *any* release notes?

I saw on Genunix that Community Edition 3.0.3 was replaced by 3.0.3-1. What changed? I  
went to nexenta.org and looked around. But it wasn't immediately obvious where to find 
release notes. Also, as Tim Cook noted, the Nexenta forums aren't exactly 
lively.

For a simple, easily understood and easily navigated web site, you can't beat 
www.openbsd.org. Both Sun/Oracle and Nexenta could learn a lot from it. And I can also 
follow very clean, simple instructions for running the stable OpenBSD branch 
(which is mostly security fixes).

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Re: [zfs-discuss] NexentaStor 3.0.3 vs OpenSolaris - Patches more up to date?

2010-07-04 Thread Fajar A. Nugraha
On Sun, Jul 4, 2010 at 12:22 AM, Garrett D'Amore garr...@nexenta.com wrote:
 I am sorry you feel that way.  I will look at your issue as soon as I am 
 able, but I should say that it is almost certain that whatever the problem 
 is, it probably is inherited from OpenSolaris and the build of NCP you were 
 testing was indeed not the final release so some issues are not entirely 
 surprising.

So would you say that NCP / NexentaStore Community 3.0.3  is good
enough to use today as stand-in replacement for last available build
of Opensolaris when used primarily for storage server?

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Re: [zfs-discuss] NexentaStor 3.0.3 vs OpenSolaris - Patches more up to date?

2010-07-04 Thread Garrett D'Amore
Compared to b134?  Yes!  We have fixed many bugs that still exist in 134.

Fajar A. Nugraha fa...@fajar.net wrote:

On Sun, Jul 4, 2010 at 12:22 AM, Garrett D'Amore garr...@nexenta.com wrote:
 I am sorry you feel that way.  I will look at your issue as soon as I am 
 able, but I should say that it is almost certain that whatever the problem 
 is, it probably is inherited from OpenSolaris and the build of NCP you were 
 testing was indeed not the final release so some issues are not entirely 
 surprising.

So would you say that NCP / NexentaStore Community 3.0.3  is good
enough to use today as stand-in replacement for last available build
of Opensolaris when used primarily for storage server?

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Re: [zfs-discuss] NexentaStor 3.0.3 vs OpenSolaris - Patches more up to date?

2010-07-04 Thread Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk
- Original Message -
 Compared to b134? Yes! We have fixed many bugs that still exist in
 134.

Where can I find a list of these?

Vennlige hilsener / Best regards

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Re: [zfs-discuss] NexentaStor 3.0.3 vs OpenSolaris - Patches more up to date?

2010-07-04 Thread Bohdan Tashchuk
 Where can I find a list of these?

This leads to the more generic question of: where are *any* release notes?

I saw on Genunix that Community Edition 3.0.3 was replaced by 3.0.3-1. What 
changed? I  went to nexenta.org and looked around. But it wasn't immediately 
obvious where to find release notes. Also, as Tim Cook noted, the Nexenta 
forums aren't exactly lively.

For a simple, easily understood and easily navigated web site, you can't beat 
www.openbsd.org. Both Sun/Oracle and Nexenta could learn a lot from it. And I 
can also follow very clean, simple instructions for running the stable 
OpenBSD branch (which is mostly security fixes).
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Re: [zfs-discuss] NexentaStor 3.0.3 vs OpenSolaris - Patches more up to date?

2010-07-03 Thread Garrett D'Amore
I am sorry you feel that way.  I will look at your issue as soon as I am able, 
but I should say that it is almost certain that whatever the problem is, it 
probably is inherited from OpenSolaris and the build of NCP you were testing 
was indeed not the final release so some issues are not entirely surprising.

  - Garrett

Tim Cook t...@cook.ms wrote:

On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 8:06 PM, Richard Elling rich...@nexenta.com wrote:

 On Jul 2, 2010, at 12:53 PM, Steve Radich, BitShop, Inc. wrote:

  I see in NexentaStor's announcement of Community Edition 3.0.3 they
 mention some backported patches in this release.

 Yes.  These patches are in the code tree, currently at b143 (~18 weeks
 newer than b134)

  Aside from their management features / UI what is the core OS difference
 if we move to Nexenta from OpenSolaris b134?

 You're not stuck at b134 for ZFS anymore ;-)

  These DeDup bugs are my main frustration - if a staff member does a rm *
 in a directory with dedup you can take down the whole storage server - all
 with 1% cpu load and relatively little disk i/o due to DeDup DDT not fitting
 in the SSD + RAM (l2arc+arc). This is rediculous, something must be single
 threaded and it can't be that difficult to at least allow reads from other
 files.. Writes perhaps are more complex - But in our case the other files
 don't even have DeDup enabled on them and they can't be read.

 Some are fixed, more are in the upstream development queue.

  It seems like some of these bugs have been fixed but Oracle hasn't
 published a new build - Perhaps we should be updating to newer builds, I
 haven't invested much time in seeking these out but b134 is the latest
 obvious build I see. Am I just not RTFM enough on finding new builds?

 No, what you see is what you get.  After the CIC there hasn't been a
 binary release from Oracle, just source releases.  I read this as saying
 the community should build their own distros. In a quick look at
 http://www.genunix.org it appears that Nexenta and EON are the only
 distro releases since early March.  Rich Lowe has released a b142
 tarball, too, but does that qualify as a distro?

  I hate to move to Nexenta, I would think in the future Oracle will
 maintain this better than a third party and don't want to switch back and
 forth.


 I understand, but if actions speak louder than words, then consider joining
 the Nexenta core platform community at http://www.nexenta.org
 But don't forget to stay up to date with ZFS on zfs-discuss :-)
  -- richard

 --
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 rich...@nexenta.com   +1-760-896-4422
 ZFS and NexentaStor training, Rotterdam, July 13-15, 2010
 http://nexenta-rotterdam.eventbrite.com/



Given that the most basic of functionality was broken in Nexenta, and not
Opensolaris, and I couldn't get a single response, I have a hard time
recommending ANYONE go to Nexenta.  It's great they're employing you now,
but the community edition has an extremely long way to go before it comes
close to touching the community that still hangs around here, despite
Oracle's lack of care and feeding.

http://www.nexenta.org/boards/1/topics/211


--Tim

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[zfs-discuss] NexentaStor 3.0.3 vs OpenSolaris - Patches more up to date?

2010-07-02 Thread Steve Radich, BitShop, Inc.
I see in NexentaStor's announcement of Community Edition 3.0.3 they mention 
some backported patches in this release.

Aside from their management features / UI what is the core OS difference if we 
move to Nexenta from OpenSolaris b134? 

These DeDup bugs are my main frustration - if a staff member does a rm * in a 
directory with dedup you can take down the whole storage server - all with 1% 
cpu load and relatively little disk i/o due to DeDup DDT not fitting in the SSD 
+ RAM (l2arc+arc). This is rediculous, something must be single threaded and it 
can't be that difficult to at least allow reads from other files.. Writes 
perhaps are more complex - But in our case the other files don't even have 
DeDup enabled on them and they can't be read.

It seems like some of these bugs have been fixed but Oracle hasn't published a 
new build - Perhaps we should be updating to newer builds, I haven't invested 
much time in seeking these out but b134 is the latest obvious build I see. Am 
I just not RTFM enough on finding new builds? 

I hate to move to Nexenta, I would think in the future Oracle will maintain 
this better than a third party and don't want to switch back and forth.

Steve Radich - www.BitShop.com - www.LinkedIn.com/in/SteveRadich
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Re: [zfs-discuss] NexentaStor 3.0.3 vs OpenSolaris - Patches more up to date?

2010-07-02 Thread Richard Elling
On Jul 2, 2010, at 12:53 PM, Steve Radich, BitShop, Inc. wrote:

 I see in NexentaStor's announcement of Community Edition 3.0.3 they mention 
 some backported patches in this release.

Yes.  These patches are in the code tree, currently at b143 (~18 weeks
newer than b134)

 Aside from their management features / UI what is the core OS difference if 
 we move to Nexenta from OpenSolaris b134? 

You're not stuck at b134 for ZFS anymore ;-)

 These DeDup bugs are my main frustration - if a staff member does a rm * in a 
 directory with dedup you can take down the whole storage server - all with 1% 
 cpu load and relatively little disk i/o due to DeDup DDT not fitting in the 
 SSD + RAM (l2arc+arc). This is rediculous, something must be single threaded 
 and it can't be that difficult to at least allow reads from other files.. 
 Writes perhaps are more complex - But in our case the other files don't 
 even have DeDup enabled on them and they can't be read.

Some are fixed, more are in the upstream development queue.

 It seems like some of these bugs have been fixed but Oracle hasn't published 
 a new build - Perhaps we should be updating to newer builds, I haven't 
 invested much time in seeking these out but b134 is the latest obvious 
 build I see. Am I just not RTFM enough on finding new builds? 

No, what you see is what you get.  After the CIC there hasn't been a 
binary release from Oracle, just source releases.  I read this as saying
the community should build their own distros. In a quick look at 
http://www.genunix.org it appears that Nexenta and EON are the only
distro releases since early March.  Rich Lowe has released a b142
tarball, too, but does that qualify as a distro?

 I hate to move to Nexenta, I would think in the future Oracle will maintain 
 this better than a third party and don't want to switch back and forth.


I understand, but if actions speak louder than words, then consider joining
the Nexenta core platform community at http://www.nexenta.org  
But don't forget to stay up to date with ZFS on zfs-discuss :-)
 -- richard

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Re: [zfs-discuss] NexentaStor 3.0.3 vs OpenSolaris - Patches more up to date?

2010-07-02 Thread Tim Cook
On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 8:06 PM, Richard Elling rich...@nexenta.com wrote:

 On Jul 2, 2010, at 12:53 PM, Steve Radich, BitShop, Inc. wrote:

  I see in NexentaStor's announcement of Community Edition 3.0.3 they
 mention some backported patches in this release.

 Yes.  These patches are in the code tree, currently at b143 (~18 weeks
 newer than b134)

  Aside from their management features / UI what is the core OS difference
 if we move to Nexenta from OpenSolaris b134?

 You're not stuck at b134 for ZFS anymore ;-)

  These DeDup bugs are my main frustration - if a staff member does a rm *
 in a directory with dedup you can take down the whole storage server - all
 with 1% cpu load and relatively little disk i/o due to DeDup DDT not fitting
 in the SSD + RAM (l2arc+arc). This is rediculous, something must be single
 threaded and it can't be that difficult to at least allow reads from other
 files.. Writes perhaps are more complex - But in our case the other files
 don't even have DeDup enabled on them and they can't be read.

 Some are fixed, more are in the upstream development queue.

  It seems like some of these bugs have been fixed but Oracle hasn't
 published a new build - Perhaps we should be updating to newer builds, I
 haven't invested much time in seeking these out but b134 is the latest
 obvious build I see. Am I just not RTFM enough on finding new builds?

 No, what you see is what you get.  After the CIC there hasn't been a
 binary release from Oracle, just source releases.  I read this as saying
 the community should build their own distros. In a quick look at
 http://www.genunix.org it appears that Nexenta and EON are the only
 distro releases since early March.  Rich Lowe has released a b142
 tarball, too, but does that qualify as a distro?

  I hate to move to Nexenta, I would think in the future Oracle will
 maintain this better than a third party and don't want to switch back and
 forth.


 I understand, but if actions speak louder than words, then consider joining
 the Nexenta core platform community at http://www.nexenta.org
 But don't forget to stay up to date with ZFS on zfs-discuss :-)
  -- richard

 --
 Richard Elling
 rich...@nexenta.com   +1-760-896-4422
 ZFS and NexentaStor training, Rotterdam, July 13-15, 2010
 http://nexenta-rotterdam.eventbrite.com/



Given that the most basic of functionality was broken in Nexenta, and not
Opensolaris, and I couldn't get a single response, I have a hard time
recommending ANYONE go to Nexenta.  It's great they're employing you now,
but the community edition has an extremely long way to go before it comes
close to touching the community that still hangs around here, despite
Oracle's lack of care and feeding.

http://www.nexenta.org/boards/1/topics/211


--Tim
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Re: [zfs-discuss] NexentaStor 3.0.3 vs OpenSolaris - Patches more up to date?

2010-07-02 Thread Richard Elling
On Jul 2, 2010, at 6:48 PM, Tim Cook wrote:
 Given that the most basic of functionality was broken in Nexenta, and not 
 Opensolaris, and I couldn't get a single response, I have a hard time 
 recommending ANYONE go to Nexenta.  It's great they're employing you now, but 
 the community edition has an extremely long way to go before it comes close 
 to touching the community that still hangs around here, despite Oracle's lack 
 of care and feeding.
 
 http://www.nexenta.org/boards/1/topics/211

I can't test that, due to lack of equivalent hardware, but did you file a bug?  
The dladm code and nge drivers come from upstream, so look for an equivalent
opensolaris bug,  perhaps something like
http://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6913874
 -- richard

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Re: [zfs-discuss] NexentaStor 3.0.3 vs OpenSolaris - Patches more up to date?

2010-07-02 Thread Tim Cook
On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 9:25 PM, Richard Elling rich...@nexenta.com wrote:

 On Jul 2, 2010, at 6:48 PM, Tim Cook wrote:
  Given that the most basic of functionality was broken in Nexenta, and not
 Opensolaris, and I couldn't get a single response, I have a hard time
 recommending ANYONE go to Nexenta.  It's great they're employing you now,
 but the community edition has an extremely long way to go before it comes
 close to touching the community that still hangs around here, despite
 Oracle's lack of care and feeding.
 
  http://www.nexenta.org/boards/1/topics/211

 I can't test that, due to lack of equivalent hardware, but did you file a
 bug?
 The dladm code and nge drivers come from upstream, so look for an
 equivalent
 opensolaris bug,  perhaps something like
 http://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6913874
  -- richard



No, I didn't file a bug.  I couldn't get a response to the issue to even
begin troubleshooting, so I had no desire to file a bug or continue using a
product that was broken out of the box.  Opensolaris worked, so I went back
to it.  I can say with a fair amount of confidence, the same wouldn't happen
with Opensolaris proper.  Even if I chose not to continue running down a
problem, I've never run into a situation where I didn't at least get a
suggestion for troubleshooting tips.

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Re: [zfs-discuss] NexentaStor 3.0.3 vs OpenSolaris - Patches more up to date?

2010-07-02 Thread James C. McPherson

On  3/07/10 12:25 PM, Richard Elling wrote:

On Jul 2, 2010, at 6:48 PM, Tim Cook wrote:

Given that the most basic of functionality was broken in Nexenta, and not 
Opensolaris, and I couldn't get a single response, I have a hard time 
recommending ANYONE go to Nexenta.  It's great they're employing you now, but 
the community edition has an extremely long way to go before it comes close to 
touching the community that still hangs around here, despite Oracle's lack of 
care and feeding.

http://www.nexenta.org/boards/1/topics/211


I can't test that, due to lack of equivalent hardware, but did you file a bug?
The dladm code and nge drivers come from upstream, so look for an equivalent
opensolaris bug,  perhaps something like
http://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6913874
  -- richard




Hi Tim,
does this CR match what you were experiencing?

http://bugs.opensolaris.org/view_bug.do?bug_id=6901419
6901419 dladm create-aggr -u incorrectly rejects some valid ethernet 
addresses


If so - fixed in snv_136.

The only other dladm CR I can see in the push logs for builds
post 134 is

6932656 dladm set-linkprop -p cpus can't take more than 32 CPUs
fixed in 138.


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Re: [zfs-discuss] NexentaStor 3.0.3 vs OpenSolaris - Patches more up to date?

2010-07-02 Thread Tim Cook
On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 9:55 PM, James C. McPherson j...@opensolaris.orgwrote:

 On  3/07/10 12:25 PM, Richard Elling wrote:

 On Jul 2, 2010, at 6:48 PM, Tim Cook wrote:

 Given that the most basic of functionality was broken in Nexenta, and not
 Opensolaris, and I couldn't get a single response, I have a hard time
 recommending ANYONE go to Nexenta.  It's great they're employing you now,
 but the community edition has an extremely long way to go before it comes
 close to touching the community that still hangs around here, despite
 Oracle's lack of care and feeding.

 http://www.nexenta.org/boards/1/topics/211


 I can't test that, due to lack of equivalent hardware, but did you file a
 bug?
 The dladm code and nge drivers come from upstream, so look for an
 equivalent
 opensolaris bug,  perhaps something like
 http://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6913874
  -- richard



 Hi Tim,
 does this CR match what you were experiencing?

 http://bugs.opensolaris.org/view_bug.do?bug_id=6901419
 6901419 dladm create-aggr -u incorrectly rejects some valid ethernet
 addresses

 If so - fixed in snv_136.

 The only other dladm CR I can see in the push logs for builds
 post 134 is

 6932656 dladm set-linkprop -p cpus can't take more than 32 CPUs
 fixed in 138.


 hth,
 James
 --
 Senior Software Engineer, Solaris
 Oracle
 http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog


Hi james,

Nope.  I'm not sure what exactly I was hitting.  I've never run into a
problem on any release of Opensolaris.  I believe I've tested on 126, 132,
133, and 134 (as well as many iterations of older versions).  The dladm
issue was exclusively on nexenta.

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