[OpenIndiana-discuss] pkg: No image found

2012-04-29 Thread Achim Wolpers
Hi! After updating my global zone to OI_151a3, I also updated my non global zones by executing zoneadm zonename detatch and zoneadm zonename attach -u After that procedure I get the following error on all pkg commands: pkg: No image found. Thus I can not update / install any packages

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Hitachi 4 TB disks + HP Microserver + OI 151 + ZFS

2012-04-29 Thread andy thomas
On Sat, 28 Apr 2012, Enrico wrote: did a little research, just because i'm curious about this, my storage needs are much lower :) they say (http://forums.overclockers.com.au/showpost.php?p=13963218postcount=4727) that SB820M south-bridge on n40l has a limit of 3.2tb for hdd capacity. but

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] pkg: No image found

2012-04-29 Thread Matt Connolly
On 29/04/2012, at 4:34 PM, Achim Wolpers achim...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi! After updating my global zone to OI_151a3, I also updated my non global zones by executing zoneadm zonename detatch and zoneadm zonename attach -u After that procedure I get the following error on all

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Hitachi 4 TB disks + HP Microserver + OI 151 + ZFS

2012-04-29 Thread Enrico
thank you Andy for this info let us know your experience when you'll setup-up the disks On 04/29/2012 09:24 AM, andy thomas wrote: On Sat, 28 Apr 2012, Enrico wrote: did a little research, just because i'm curious about this, my storage needs are much lower :) they say

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Hitachi 4 TB disks + HP Microserver + OI 151 + ZFS

2012-04-29 Thread Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk
As for using Advanced Format disks with 4K sectors in ZFS pools, the worst case scenario would be that these disks can be used in a backwards-compatible legacy 512 byte sector format but with slower r/w performance. Also, Hitachi provide a Windows utility to re-align 4k sectors on their

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Hitachi 4 TB disks + HP Microserver + OI 151 + ZFS

2012-04-29 Thread Jan Owoc
On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 9:29 AM, Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk r...@karlsbakk.net wrote: Finally, it looks like OI has some support for 4k sector disks: http://wiki.openindiana.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=4883847 and ZFS pools can be created with the 'zpool create block-size 4096 ...' option.

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Hitachi 4 TB disks + HP Microserver + OI 151 + ZFS

2012-04-29 Thread Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk
Finally, it looks like OI has some support for 4k sector disks: http://wiki.openindiana.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=4883847 and ZFS pools can be created with the 'zpool create block-size 4096 ...' option. The patch allowing this option was, for various reasons, rejected,

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Hitachi 4 TB disks + HP Microserver + OI 151 + ZFS

2012-04-29 Thread Jan Owoc
On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 10:33 AM, Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk r...@karlsbakk.net wrote: The patch allowing this option was, for various reasons, rejected, and no such option currently exists. Are you able to forward a link to the reasons? I'm asking because were they technical (i.e. something

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Hitachi 4 TB disks + HP Microserver + OI 151 + ZFS

2012-04-29 Thread Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk
Also, I posted a bug report for it here https://www.illumos.org/issues/2663 Thanks :-). We can now track the progress of the OI-specific discussion about this issue. Seems the old post about the initial patch is here https://www.illumos.org/issues/453 After som discussion on

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Hitachi 4 TB disks + HP Microserver + OI 151 + ZFS

2012-04-29 Thread George Wilson
On Apr 29, 2012, at 1:28 PM, Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk wrote: Also, I posted a bug report for it here https://www.illumos.org/issues/2663 Thanks :-). We can now track the progress of the OI-specific discussion about this issue. Seems the old post about the initial patch is here

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Hitachi 4 TB disks + HP Microserver + OI 151 + ZFS

2012-04-29 Thread Gary Mills
On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 02:45:05PM -0400, George Wilson wrote: On Apr 29, 2012, at 1:28 PM, Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk wrote: Also, I posted a bug report for it here https://www.illumos.org/issues/2663 Seems the old post about the initial patch is here https://www.illumos.org/issues/453

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Hitachi 4 TB disks + HP Microserver + OI 151 + ZFS

2012-04-29 Thread George Wilson
On Apr 29, 2012, at 2:53 PM, Gary Mills wrote: On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 02:45:05PM -0400, George Wilson wrote: On Apr 29, 2012, at 1:28 PM, Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk wrote: Also, I posted a bug report for it here https://www.illumos.org/issues/2663 Seems the old post about the initial patch

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] pkg: No image found

2012-04-29 Thread Richard Lowe
One possibility: One of the recent pre-stable updates came with an image format update, which older pkg won't be able to read Another possibility: The same update is umask-sensitive, so if you have a restrictive umask, /var/pkg will become unreadable (making it 0755 again should wake things

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Hitachi 4 TB disks + HP Microserver + OI 151 + ZFS

2012-04-29 Thread Richard Elling
On Apr 29, 2012, at 11:45 AM, George Wilson wrote: On Apr 29, 2012, at 1:28 PM, Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk wrote: Also, I posted a bug report for it here https://www.illumos.org/issues/2663 Thanks :-). We can now track the progress of the OI-specific discussion about this issue. Seems

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Hitachi 4 TB disks + HP Microserver + OI 151 + ZFS

2012-04-29 Thread Gordon Ross
On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 8:46 PM, Richard Elling richard.ell...@richardelling.com wrote: On Apr 29, 2012, at 11:45 AM, George Wilson wrote: [...] Speaking of 4K sectors, I've taken a slightly different approach that fixes this outside of ZFS. The idea is to allow sd to override the