[OpenIndiana-discuss] fuiture small expansion of raidz1 possible?

2014-02-11 Thread Hans J. Albertsson
Suppose I set up a raidz1 of N disks now, and fill it up, and suddenly I realize I'm going to need more space, but not enough to warrant setting up a new raidz1 of another N or more disks, it's just a minor need, so I need N+1 disks, rather than just N. Can this be done w/o losing the data on

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] fuiture small expansion of raidz1 possible?

2014-02-11 Thread Hans J. Albertsson
The reason I wrote te below is not that I'm totally daft, I know ZFS could have had expandability for any vdev included, but didn't. But I read this piece on Expand-O-Matic ZFS (a dream of a future ZFS property) by Adam Lewenthal (sp??), written in 2008. And I really just wonder if it happened

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] fuiture small expansion of raidz1 possible?

2014-02-11 Thread jason matthews
On Feb 11, 2014, at 1:12 AM, Hans J. Albertsson hans.j.alberts...@branneriet.se wrote: Suppose I set up a raidz1 of N disks now, and fill it up, and suddenly I realize I'm going to need more space, but not enough to warrant setting up a new raidz1 of another N or more disks, it's just a

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] iostat - sum of the parts

2014-02-11 Thread jason matthews
I am aware of how this calculated for devices, but if underlying physical devices don't have I/Os why does the pool report I/Os taking so long? In other words, the pool in this example reports and average wait time of 5170 ms but the devices report 0.0 save one which 0.1ms. Where does the

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Powerloss protected SSDs for ...Re: Low low end server

2014-02-11 Thread Jim Klimov
On 2014-02-11 01:08, Alex Smith (K4RNT) wrote: Wouldn't a UPS with monitoring be a better alternative? Allow the server to power down safely on UPS when it detects a power lost state. Most UPSes I know have either serial or USB monitoring, sometimes even Ethernet on higher-end models (although

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] fuiture small expansion of raidz1 possible?

2014-02-11 Thread Hans J. Albertsson
That 4th, file, device wouldn't need to be physically large, would it?? It could reside on a much smaller disk. And smaller disks I have a bagload of. On 2014-02-11 11:13, Jim Klimov wrote: Technically, it is possible to fool ZFS into making a pool with a missing device (i.e. make a raidz1

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] fuiture small expansion of raidz1 possible?

2014-02-11 Thread Jim Klimov
On 2014-02-11 12:13, Hans J. Albertsson wrote: That 4th, file, device wouldn't need to be physically large, would it?? It could reside on a much smaller disk. And smaller disks I have a bagload of. No, initially the space is not used - so it can be a huge sparse file. I believe mkfile -n is

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Hybrid disks in a raidz1 array??

2014-02-11 Thread Hans J. Albertsson
How would hybrid SSD/HDD-s fare in a raidz1 array?? I suppose for large sequential reads it wouldn't be much use, while for random read/write cycles it might help? ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] fuiture small expansion of raidz1 possible?

2014-02-11 Thread Hans J. Albertsson
I think I just decided to not go too far in saving that last cent... (Can't say dollar in Europe, but cent is as european as raspberry pie... :-) ) so I'll buy 3 new disks, split the original mirror to get a 4th and leave the original other mirror half as extra storage for my login/desktop

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] FW: Low low end server

2014-02-11 Thread Ben Taylor
That's a cool unit. Could use something like that internal drive bay that supported SAS disks. On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 8:13 PM, Floris van Essen ..:: House of Ancients Amstafs ::.. i...@houseofancients.nl wrote: Hi Hans, Take a look at this :

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] FW: Low low end server

2014-02-11 Thread Saso Kiselkov
On 2/11/14, 7:59 PM, Ben Taylor wrote: That's a cool unit. Could use something like that internal drive bay that supported SAS disks. Don't know if somebody mentioned it before, but the MicroServer's internal drive bays use SAS connectors and they are all plumbed into the motherboard using a

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] fuiture small expansion of raidz1 possible?

2014-02-11 Thread Brogyányi József
And on a similar note: Suppose I have a signgle disk with data, and I decide I can just afford a raidz1 of 4 disks, so I buy 3 more can I somehow migrate the data on the original single disk onto a 3 disk raidz1 and then add the original disk to that raidz? Hi Here is the technik:

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Hybrid disks in a raidz1 array??

2014-02-11 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Tue, 11 Feb 2014, Hans J. Albertsson wrote: How would hybrid SSD/HDD-s fare in a raidz1 array?? I suppose for large sequential reads it wouldn't be much use, while for random read/write cycles it might help? The value would depend entirely on how much RAM (and L2ARC) a system has. If

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] FW: Low low end server

2014-02-11 Thread Ben Taylor
On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 3:20 PM, Saso Kiselkov skiselkov...@gmail.comwrote: On 2/11/14, 7:59 PM, Ben Taylor wrote: That's a cool unit. Could use something like that internal drive bay that supported SAS disks. Don't know if somebody mentioned it before, but the MicroServer's internal

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] fuiture small expansion of raidz1 possible?

2014-02-11 Thread Doug Hughes
On 2/11/2014 5:57 PM, Brogyányi József wrote: And on a similar note: Suppose I have a signgle disk with data, and I decide I can just afford a raidz1 of 4 disks, so I buy 3 more can I somehow migrate the data on the original single disk onto a 3 disk raidz1 and then add the original disk to

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] fuiture small expansion of raidz1 possible?

2014-02-11 Thread Hans J. Albertsson
Thanks. That clarified the procedure! On 11 februari 2014 23:57:14 CET, Brogyányi József bro...@gmail.com wrote: And on a similar note: Suppose I have a signgle disk with data, and I decide I can just afford a raidz1 of 4 disks, so I buy 3 more can I somehow migrate the data on the original

[OpenIndiana-discuss] CIFS automount share visibility

2014-02-11 Thread Stefan Müller-Wilken
Dear all, I'm currently having problems with CIFS automount shares being visible to all connected users and not only to each user personally. Quick search has revealed that similar has happened in the past (https://www.mail-archive.com/cifs-discuss@opensolaris.org/msg01197.html), but it seems