Re: [zfs-discuss] help me....

2008-08-04 Thread Nathan Kroenert
It starts with Z, which makes it the one of the last to be considered if it's listed alphabetically? Nathan. Rahul wrote: hi can you give some disadvantages of the ZFS file system?? plzz its urgent... help me. This message posted from opensolaris.org

Re: [zfs-discuss] help me....

2008-08-04 Thread Ross
Tell you what, go away, do some work on your own reading around the topics you're interested in, and when you come back try asking some more intelligent questions instead of expecting us to do everything for you. You'll find you get much more helpful replies that way. Right now you come

[zfs-discuss] S10u6, zfs and zones

2008-08-04 Thread dick hoogendijk
My server runs S10u5. All slices are UFS. I run a couple of sparse zones on a seperate slice mounted on /zones. When S10u6 comes out booting of ZFS will become possible. That is great news. However, will it be possible to have those zones I run now too? I always understood ZFS and root zones are

Re: [zfs-discuss] help me....

2008-08-04 Thread Mario Goebbels
Rahul wrote: hi can you give some disadvantages of the ZFS file system?? plzz its urgent... help me. This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [zfs-discuss] 'legacy' mount after installing B95

2008-08-04 Thread Darren J Moffat
Lori Alt wrote: Alan Burlison wrote: NAME USED AVAIL REFER MOUNTPOINT pool/ROOT 5.58G 53.4G18K legacy What's the legacy mount for? Is it related to zones? Basically, it means that we don't want it mounted at all because it's a placeholder dataset. It's

Re: [zfs-discuss] Supermicro AOC-USAS-L8i

2008-08-04 Thread Ross
Did anybody ever get this card working? SuperMicro only have Windows and Linux drivers listed on their site. Do Sun's generic drivers work with this card? This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list

Re: [zfs-discuss] Supermicro AOC-USAS-L8i

2008-08-04 Thread Tim
On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 8:02 AM, Ross [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Did anybody ever get this card working? SuperMicro only have Windows and Linux drivers listed on their site. Do Sun's generic drivers work with this card? Still waiting to buy a set. I've already got the supermicro marvell

Re: [zfs-discuss] How to get a file's crtime attribute from a znode?

2008-08-04 Thread Mark Shellenbaum
Todd E. Moore wrote: I'm used to using fstat() and other calls to get atime, ctime, and mtime values, but I understand that the znode also stores a files creation time in crtime attribute. Which system call can I use to retrieve this information? You can use the getattrat() or

Re: [zfs-discuss] LSI SAS3081E = unstable drive numbers?

2008-08-04 Thread Ross
Did anybody ever find out if this option worked? Does setting this hidden option mean that drives are always listed and named according to the order they are physically connected? Ross Hi Kent: So, in using the lsiutil utility, what do I find, but the following option: (this was under

Re: [zfs-discuss] 'legacy' mount after installing B95

2008-08-04 Thread Lori Alt
Darren J Moffat wrote: Lori Alt wrote: Alan Burlison wrote: NAME USED AVAIL REFER MOUNTPOINT pool/ROOT 5.58G 53.4G18K legacy What's the legacy mount for? Is it related to zones? Basically, it means that we don't want it mounted at all

[zfs-discuss] Zpool import not working - I broke my pool...

2008-08-04 Thread Ross
I'm trying to import a pool I just exported but I can't, even -f doesn't help. Every time I try I'm getting an error: cannot import 'rc-pool': one or more devices is currently unavailable Now I suspect the reason it's not happy is that the pool used to have a ZIL :) However I know the pool

Re: [zfs-discuss] 'legacy' mount after installing B95

2008-08-04 Thread Michael Schuster
Lori Alt wrote: Darren J Moffat wrote: Lori Alt wrote: Alan Burlison wrote: NAME USED AVAIL REFER MOUNTPOINT pool/ROOT 5.58G 53.4G18K legacy What's the legacy mount for? Is it related to zones? Basically, it means that we don't

Re: [zfs-discuss] Zpool import not working - I broke my pool...

2008-08-04 Thread Richard Elling
Ross wrote: I'm trying to import a pool I just exported but I can't, even -f doesn't help. Every time I try I'm getting an error: cannot import 'rc-pool': one or more devices is currently unavailable Now I suspect the reason it's not happy is that the pool used to have a ZIL :)

Re: [zfs-discuss] Zpool import not working - I broke my pool...

2008-08-04 Thread Neil Perrin
Richard Elling wrote: Ross wrote: I'm trying to import a pool I just exported but I can't, even -f doesn't help. Every time I try I'm getting an error: cannot import 'rc-pool': one or more devices is currently unavailable Now I suspect the reason it's not happy is that the pool used to

[zfs-discuss] zpool upgrade wrecked GRUB

2008-08-04 Thread Seymour Krebs
Machine is running x86 snv_94 after recent upgrade from opensolaris 2008.05. ZFS and zpool reported no troubles except suggesting upgrade for from ver.10 to ver.11. seemed like a good idea at the time. system up for several days after that point then took down for some unrelated maintenance.

Re: [zfs-discuss] zpool upgrade wrecked GRUB

2008-08-04 Thread Lori Alt
Seymour Krebs wrote: Machine is running x86 snv_94 after recent upgrade from opensolaris 2008.05. ZFS and zpool reported no troubles except suggesting upgrade for from ver.10 to ver.11. seemed like a good idea at the time. system up for several days after that point then took down for

Re: [zfs-discuss] 'legacy' mount after installing B95

2008-08-04 Thread Lori Alt
Michael Schuster wrote: Lori Alt wrote: Darren J Moffat wrote: Lori Alt wrote: Alan Burlison wrote: NAME USED AVAIL REFER MOUNTPOINT pool/ROOT 5.58G 53.4G18K legacy What's the legacy mount for? Is it related to zones?

Re: [zfs-discuss] zpool upgrade wrecked GRUB

2008-08-04 Thread Mario Goebbels (iPhone)
-- Via iPhone 3G On 04-août-08, at 19:46, Lori Alt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'll try to help, but I'm confused by a few things. First, when you say that you upgraded from OpenSolaris 2008.05 to snv_94, what do you mean? Because I'm not sure how one upgrades an IPS-based release to the

Re: [zfs-discuss] zpool upgrade wrecked GRUB

2008-08-04 Thread Mario Goebbels (iPhone)
The first attempt at this went well... Anyway, he meant updating to the latest Indiana repo, which is based on snv_94. Regards, -mg -- Via iPhone 3G On 04-août-08, at 19:46, Lori Alt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Seymour Krebs wrote: Machine is running x86 snv_94 after recent upgrade from

Re: [zfs-discuss] zpool upgrade wrecked GRUB

2008-08-04 Thread Kris Kasner
Did you do the extra required grub step between the 'pkg image-update' and rebooting? If I recall correctly, it needs to happen once between snv_86 (which I think is stock OS2008.05 and snv_89+ I think the grub step is documented at opensolaris.org in the downloads section where it talks about

[zfs-discuss] NexentaStor API Windows SDK published

2008-08-04 Thread Erast Benson
Hey folks, just saw another cool news this morning - Nexenta Systems released documentation for remote API and Windows SDK with demos for accessing NexentaStor. News itself: http://www.nexenta.com/corp/index.php?option=com_contenttask=viewid=154Itemid=56 ZFS and the rest of appliance

Re: [zfs-discuss] help me....

2008-08-04 Thread Jason A. Hoffman
On Aug 3, 2008, at 8:46 PM, Rahul wrote: hi can you give some disadvantages of the ZFS file system?? plzz its urgent... help me. This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [zfs-discuss] zpool upgrade wrecked GRUB

2008-08-04 Thread Seymour Krebs
So, it looks like only snv94 is capable of understanding the upgraded zfs pool. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# zpool history no pools available [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# zpool import pool: rpool id: 17601658646371843627 state: UNAVAIL status: The pool was last accessed by another system. action: The

[zfs-discuss] Can't see files on client

2008-08-04 Thread John Stoneback
Created and shared zfs pool containing user file systems on Solaris server. Mount this on Solaris client. Can view user file systems on client but not user files. If I mount the user file systems on the client, then can see files. Both running Solaris 10. What is going wrong? Thanks This

Re: [zfs-discuss] Can't see files on client

2008-08-04 Thread Will Murnane
On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 16:26, John Stoneback [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Created and shared zfs pool containing user file systems on Solaris server. Mount this on Solaris client. Can view user file systems on client but not user files. If I mount the user file systems on the client, then can see

Re: [zfs-discuss] Supermicro AOC-USAS-L8i

2008-08-04 Thread Brandon High
On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 6:49 AM, Tim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: really had the motivation or the cash to do so yet. I've been keeping my eye out for a board that supports the opteron 165 and the wider lane dual pci-E slots that isn't stricly a *gaming* board. I'm starting to think the

[zfs-discuss] Can't see files on client

2008-08-04 Thread Will Murnane
PS (prescript?): t's considered good form to reply all so that other people can see and thus reply to your question as well. After all, I could have been hit by a bus between the last message and this one ;) On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 16:42, John P. Stoneback [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Will, Thanks

Re: [zfs-discuss] Supermicro AOC-USAS-L8i

2008-08-04 Thread Tim
Thanks for the link. I'll consider those, but it still means a new CPU, and it appears it does not support any of the opteron line-up. On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 3:58 PM, Brandon High [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 6:49 AM, Tim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: really had the

Re: [zfs-discuss] Supermicro AOC-USAS-L8i

2008-08-04 Thread Nathan Kroenert
And I can certainly vouch for that series of chipsets... I have a 750a-sli chipset (the one below the 790) and the SATA ports (in AHCI mode) Just Work(tm) under nevada / opensolaris. I'm yet to give it a while on S10, mostly as I pretty much run nevada everywhere... As S10 does indeed have an

Re: [zfs-discuss] Supermicro AOC-USAS-L8i

2008-08-04 Thread Brandon High
On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 2:52 PM, Tim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for the link. I'll consider those, but it still means a new CPU, and it appears it does not support any of the opteron line-up. It should support any AM2/AM2+ dual-core Opteron like the 1220, etc. as well as the quad-core

Re: [zfs-discuss] Supermicro AOC-USAS-L8i

2008-08-04 Thread Miles Nordin
bh == Brandon High [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: nk == Nathan Kroenert [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: nk And I can certainly vouch for that series of chipsets... I nk have a 750a-sli chipset (the one below the 790) um...what? 750a is an nVidia chip

Re: [zfs-discuss] help me....

2008-08-04 Thread Miles Nordin
np == Neal Pollack [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: wj == wan jm [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: np Yes, it's too easy to administer. This makes it rough to np charge a lot as a sysadmin. yeah, sure, until you get a simple question like this: wj there are two disks in one ZFS pool used as

Re: [zfs-discuss] Supermicro AOC-SAT2-MV8 hang when drive removed

2008-08-04 Thread Miles Nordin
re == Richard Elling [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: pf == Paul Fisher [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: re I was able to reproduce this in b93, but might have a re different interpretation You weren't able to reproduce the hang of 'zpool status'? Your 'zpool status' was after the FMA fault kicked

Re: [zfs-discuss] Supermicro AOC-USAS-L8i

2008-08-04 Thread Richard Elling
Miles Nordin wrote: The other is requirement for workaround of the BA/B2 stepping TLB bug. This was fixed some months ago, and it should be hard to find the old B2 chips anymore (not many were made or sold). -- richard ___ zfs-discuss mailing

Re: [zfs-discuss] zpool upgrade wrecked GRUB

2008-08-04 Thread Seymour Krebs
thanks for the help folks esp. Mikee who had experienced a similar problem and provided a concise solution basically, after an excruciating download of the sxce_b94.iso, I was able to boot from the dvd, zpool import -f rpool. this gave me failures to mount x4 unable to create mount point. so i