Re: [zfs-discuss] Enabling compression/encryption on a populated filesystem

2006-07-16 Thread Darren J Moffat
Bill Sommerfeld wrote: On Fri, 2006-07-14 at 07:03, Darren J Moffat wrote: The current plan is that encryption must be turned on when the file system is created and can't be turned on later. This means that the zfs-crypto work depends on the RFE to set properties at file system creation time.

Re: [zfs-discuss] Enabling compression/encryption on a populated filesystem

2006-07-16 Thread Darren J Moffat
Jeff Victor wrote: Why? Is the 'data is encrypted' flag only stored in filesystem metadata, or is that flag stored in each data block? Like compression and which checksum algorithm it will be stored in every dmu object. If the latter is true, it would be possible (though potentially time-c

Re: [zfs-discuss] Enabling compression/encryption on a populated filesystem

2006-07-16 Thread Darren Reed
Joseph Mocker wrote: Jeff Victor wrote: And if that file system is multiple terrabytes would you be okay with there being a read and write lock while this runs ? I am only guessing, but when encryption is "important enough" the answer is "yes." But the next question is then "is this s

Re: [zfs-discuss] Enabling compression/encryption on a populated filesystem

2006-07-16 Thread Joseph Mocker
Jeff Victor wrote: And if that file system is multiple terrabytes would you be okay with there being a read and write lock while this runs ? I am only guessing, but when encryption is "important enough" the answer is "yes." But the next question is then "is this situation common enough

Re: [zfs-discuss] Enabling compression/encryption on a populated filesystem

2006-07-16 Thread Jeff Victor
Darren J Moffat wrote: Darren Reed wrote: Hmmm, well, I suppose the same problem might apply to encrypting data too...so maybe what I need is a zfs command that will walk the filesystem's data tree, read in data and write it back out according to the current data policy. And if that file syst

Re: [zfs-discuss] How to monitor ZFS ?

2006-07-16 Thread James Dickens
On 7/16/06, Torrey McMahon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Dick Davies wrote: > On 15/07/06, Torrey McMahon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> eric kustarz wrote: >> > martin wrote: > >> > To monitor activity, use 'zpool iostat 1' to monitor just zfs >> > datasets, or iostat(1M) to include non-zfs devices.

Re: [zfs-discuss] How to monitor ZFS ?

2006-07-16 Thread Torrey McMahon
Dick Davies wrote: On 15/07/06, Torrey McMahon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: eric kustarz wrote: > martin wrote: > To monitor activity, use 'zpool iostat 1' to monitor just zfs > datasets, or iostat(1M) to include non-zfs devices. Perhaps Martin was asking for something a little more robust. So

Re: [zfs-discuss] How to monitor ZFS ?

2006-07-16 Thread George Wilson
ZFS will generate error events through FMA and they will be visible via syslog or fmdump. The hot spares facility will also listen for vdev failures to determine when to automatically kick in a hot spare. - George Dick Davies wrote: On 15/07/06, Torrey McMahon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: eric

Re: [zfs-discuss] How to monitor ZFS ?

2006-07-16 Thread Dick Davies
On 15/07/06, Torrey McMahon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: eric kustarz wrote: > martin wrote: > To monitor activity, use 'zpool iostat 1' to monitor just zfs > datasets, or iostat(1M) to include non-zfs devices. Perhaps Martin was asking for something a little more robust. Something like SNMP tr