Re: [zfs-discuss] recovering data from a dettach mirrored vdev

2008-05-07 Thread Jeff Bonwick
Yes, I think that would be useful. Something like 'zpool revive' or 'zpool undead'. It would not be completely general-purpose -- in a pool with multiple mirror devices, it could only work if all replicas were detached in the same txg -- but for the simple case of a single top-level mirror vdev,

Re: [zfs-discuss] recovering data from a dettach mirrored vdev

2008-05-07 Thread Darren J Moffat
Jeff Bonwick wrote: Yes, I think that would be useful. Something like 'zpool revive' or 'zpool undead'. Why a new subcommand when 'zpool import' got '-D' to revive destroyed pools ? It would not be completely general-purpose -- in a pool with multiple mirror devices, it could only work

[zfs-discuss] ZFS-Crypto

2008-05-07 Thread Joe S. Ixpack
Hi, is there a way to use ZFS Encryption with OpenSolaris/Indiana? I've searching for a roadmap, where will it be integrated first (opensolaris, solaris CE etc)... This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS-Crypto

2008-05-07 Thread Darren J Moffat
Joe S. Ixpack wrote: Hi, is there a way to use ZFS Encryption with OpenSolaris/Indiana? At this time no. Well not unless you build the source from the mercurial source repository yourself. I've searching for a roadmap, where will it be integrated first (opensolaris, solaris CE etc)...

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS and disk usage management?

2008-05-07 Thread Kyle McDonald
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I assume that ZFS quotas are enforced even if the current size and space free is not included in the user visible 'df'. Is that not true? Presumably applications get some unexpected error when the quota limit is hit since the client OS does not know the real

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS and disk usage management?

2008-05-07 Thread Chris Kirby
Kyle McDonald wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I assume that ZFS quotas are enforced even if the current size and space free is not included in the user visible 'df'. Is that not true? Presumably applications get some unexpected error when the quota limit is hit since the client OS does

Re: [zfs-discuss] Why root zone can't be on ZFS for upgrade ?

2008-05-07 Thread Luke Schwab
This is an old discussion but maybe someone could help me clarify a couple of things. Having not known taht zone root file systems can't be ZFS, we built several of these zones in our production environment. We are running Solaris 10 8/07. We now see that Zone roots are not supported on ZFS

Re: [zfs-discuss] Why root zone can't be on ZFS for upgrade ?

2008-05-07 Thread Paul Kraus
On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 9:59 AM, Luke Schwab [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is an old discussion but maybe someone could help me clarify a couple of things. Having not known taht zone root file systems can't be ZFS, we built several of these zones in our production environment. We are

[zfs-discuss] zfs send -R dies in middle of transfer

2008-05-07 Thread Tims Spriggs
I am attempting to clone a pool from one thumper to another using zfs send -R | zfs receive -d. To make network transfers a little faster I am using netcat so the entire path looks like: thumper-2 # nc -q 1 -l -p 8023 | zfs receive -vdF tank2 thumper-1 # zfs send -vR [EMAIL PROTECTED] | nc

[zfs-discuss] Sanity check -- x4500 storage server for enterprise file service

2008-05-07 Thread Paul B. Henson
We have been evaluating ZFS as a potential solution for delivering enterprise file services for our campus. I've posted a couple of times with various questions, but to recap we want to provide file space to our approximately 22000 students and 2400 faculty/staff, as well as group project space

Re: [zfs-discuss] Sanity check -- x4500 storage server for enterprise file service

2008-05-07 Thread Richard Elling
Paul B. Henson wrote: We have been evaluating ZFS as a potential solution for delivering enterprise file services for our campus. I've posted a couple of times with various questions, but to recap we want to provide file space to our approximately 22000 students and 2400 faculty/staff, as well

Re: [zfs-discuss] Sanity check -- x4500 storage server for enterprise file service

2008-05-07 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Wed, 7 May 2008, Paul B. Henson wrote: I was thinking about allocating 2 drives for the OS (SVM mirroring, pending ZFS boot support), two hot spares, and allocating the other 44 drives as mirror pairs into a single pool. While this will result in lower available space than raidz, my

[zfs-discuss] Moving zfs pool to new machine?

2008-05-07 Thread Steven M. Christensen
Can someone tell me or point me to links that describe how to do the following. I had a machine that crashed and I want to move to a newer machine anyway. The boot disk on the old machine is fried. The two disks I was using for a zfs pool on that machine need to be moved to a newer machine

Re: [zfs-discuss] Moving zfs pool to new machine?

2008-05-07 Thread Jim Dunham
Steve, Can someone tell me or point me to links that describe how to do the following. I had a machine that crashed and I want to move to a newer machine anyway. The boot disk on the old machine is fried. The two disks I was using for a zfs pool on that machine need to be moved to a

Re: [zfs-discuss] Moving zfs pool to new machine?

2008-05-07 Thread Steven M. Christensen
Thanks Jim and Richard - zpool import -f mypool worked. This is a mystery to me since I had done a zpool import before and it did not see mypool, but does now. Anyway I'm in good shape now. Steve C. Jim Dunham wrote: Steve, Can someone tell me or point me to links that describe how to

[zfs-discuss] Image with DD from ZFS partition

2008-05-07 Thread Hans
hello, can i create a image from ZFS with the DD command? when i work with linux i use partimage to create an image from one partitino and store it on another. so i can restore it if an error. partimage do not work with zfs, so i must use the DD command. i think so: DD IF=/dev/sda1

Re: [zfs-discuss] Image with DD from ZFS partition

2008-05-07 Thread James C. McPherson
Hans wrote: hello, can i create a image from ZFS with the DD command? when i work with linux i use partimage to create an image from one partitino and store it on another. so i can restore it if an error. partimage do not work with zfs, so i must use the DD command. i think so: DD

Re: [zfs-discuss] Image with DD from ZFS partition

2008-05-07 Thread michael schuster
Hans wrote: hello, can i create a image from ZFS with the DD command? You're probably looking for zfs send - have a go at the man-page and see whether that serves the purpose. HTH Michael -- Michael Schuster http://blogs.sun.com/recursion Recursion, n.: see 'Recursion'