Re: [zfs-discuss] Zfs and mpxio - device name changed

2008-08-19 Thread Dony Pierre
James, Thanks a lot for your answer and for your presentation. I will read it before making the activation of mpxio. Thanks ! Kind regards. Pierre. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: maandag 18 augustus 2008 22:49 To: Dony Pierre Cc:

Re: [zfs-discuss] Kernel panic at zpool import

2008-08-19 Thread Borys Saulyak
From what I can predict, and *nobody* has provided any panic essages to confirm, ZFS likely had difficulty writing. For Solaris 10u5 Panic stack is looking pretty much the same as panic on imprt, and cannot be correlated to write failure: Aug 5 12:01:27 omases11 unix: [ID 836849

Re: [zfs-discuss] OpenSolaris installer can't be run, if target ZFS pool exists.

2008-08-19 Thread jan damborsky
Hi John, I like this idea - it would be clear solution for the problem. Is it possible to manage custom parameters with standard CLI commands (these are used by the installer for manipulating ZFS entities) - zpool(1M), zfs(1M), ... ? I am asking, since I haven't found information about setting

Re: [zfs-discuss] Moving a ZFS root to another target

2008-08-19 Thread Johan Hartzenberg
You may also need to just boot to safe mode and manually import the root pool to mount on /a, then reboot as this updates the device path stored in the pool's on-disk meta-data. If you search for my posts you will find plenty discussions about my adventures with this. On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at

Re: [zfs-discuss] more ZFS recovery

2008-08-19 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi Robert, et.al., I have blogged about a method I used to recover a removed file from a zfs file system at http://mbruning.blogspot.com. Be forewarned, it is very long... All comments are welcome. max Robert Milkowski wrote: Hello max, Sunday, August 17, 2008, 1:02:05 PM, you wrote: mbc A

Re: [zfs-discuss] OpenSolaris installer can't be run, if target ZFS pool exists.

2008-08-19 Thread Darren J Moffat
jan damborsky wrote: Hi John, I like this idea - it would be clear solution for the problem. Is it possible to manage custom parameters with standard CLI commands (these are used by the installer for manipulating ZFS entities) - zpool(1M), zfs(1M), ... ? I am asking, since I haven't

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS commands hanging in B95

2008-08-19 Thread Mark Shellenbaum
Ian Collins wrote: Mark Shellenbaum wrote: Ian Collins wrote: I have a pretty standard ZFS boot AMD64 desktop. A the moment, most ZFS related commands are hanging (can't be killed) . Running 'truss share' the last few lines I see are: Can you provide a kernel thread list report? You can

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS + MPXIO + SRDF

2008-08-19 Thread Veltror
We do this all the time SRDF with zfs. Zones built on R!-R2 pairs as are the application disks. Fast failover and some intelligence with scripts checking that a resync has been completed before we failback. v This message posted from opensolaris.org

Re: [zfs-discuss] OpenSolaris installer can't be run, if target ZFS pool exists.

2008-08-19 Thread andrew
Perhaps user properties on pools would be useful here? At present only ZFS filesystems can have user properties - not pools. Not really an immediate solution to your problem though. Cheers Andrew. This message posted from opensolaris.org ___

Re: [zfs-discuss] OpenSolaris installer can't be run, if target ZFS pool exists.

2008-08-19 Thread jan damborsky
Hi Darren, thank you very much for your help. Please see my comments below. Jan Darren J Moffat wrote: jan damborsky wrote: Hi John, I like this idea - it would be clear solution for the problem. Is it possible to manage custom parameters with standard CLI commands (these are used by the

Re: [zfs-discuss] OpenSolaris installer can't be run, if target ZFS pool exists.

2008-08-19 Thread jan damborsky
Hi Andrew, this is what I am thinking about based on John's and Darren's responses. I will file RFE for having possibility to set user properties for pools (if it doesn't already exist). Thank you, Jan andrew wrote: Perhaps user properties on pools would be useful here? At present only ZFS

Re: [zfs-discuss] OpenSolaris installer can't be run, if target ZFS pool exists.

2008-08-19 Thread Darren J Moffat
jan damborsky wrote: zfs set caiman:install=preparing rpool/ROOT That sounds reasonable. It is not atomic operation from installer point of view, but the time window is really short (installer can set ZFS user property almost immediately after pool is created). Not it isn't but this

Re: [zfs-discuss] OpenSolaris installer can't be run, if target ZFS pool exists.

2008-08-19 Thread jan damborsky
Darren J Moffat wrote: jan damborsky wrote: zfs set caiman:install=preparing rpool/ROOT That sounds reasonable. It is not atomic operation from installer point of view, but the time window is really short (installer can set ZFS user property almost immediately after pool is created).

Re: [zfs-discuss] Kernel panic at zpool import

2008-08-19 Thread Richard Elling
This panic message seems consistent with bugid 6322646, which was fixed in NV b77 (post S10u5 freeze). http://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6322646 -- richard Borys Saulyak wrote: From what I can predict, and *nobody* has provided any panic essages to confirm, ZFS

Re: [zfs-discuss] OpenSolaris installer can't be run, if target ZFS pool exists.

2008-08-19 Thread Menno Lageman
Darren J Moffat wrote: jan damborsky wrote: Hi John, I like this idea - it would be clear solution for the problem. Is it possible to manage custom parameters with standard CLI commands (these are used by the installer for manipulating ZFS entities) - zpool(1M), zfs(1M), ... ? I am

Re: [zfs-discuss] C code for reading ZFS ACL

2008-08-19 Thread Joe Blount
Mark Shellenbaum wrote: Joe Blount wrote: Is the acl_t intentionally designed to be opaque? Yes, its meant to be opaque. The layout of the acl_t will likely change in the not too distant future. Will old versions be supported? For example, if ADM

Re: [zfs-discuss] Kernel panic at zpool import

2008-08-19 Thread Richard Elling
Borys Saulyak wrote: May I remind you that I issue occurred on Solaris 10, not on OpenSolaris. I believe you. If you review the life cycle of a bug, http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/hubs/documentation/patch/patch-docs/abugslife.pdf then you will recall that bugs are fixed in NV and then

Re: [zfs-discuss] Moving a ZFS root to another target

2008-08-19 Thread andrew
Just tried with a fresh install from the OpenSolaris 2008.11 snv_95 CD and it works fine. Thanks Andrew. This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org

[zfs-discuss] Setup idea

2008-08-19 Thread Ivan Ordonez
Hi all, I'm a total newbie to Solaris administration. Please be patient. I would like to get your opinion on what is the best way to setup the machine using ZFS on all drives and partitions. I want to use Zones, Live Upgrade and Virtualbox in the future. The machine is SUN Ultra 40 M2 with

Re: [zfs-discuss] C code for reading ZFS ACL

2008-08-19 Thread Nicolas Williams
On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 08:15:56PM -0600, Mark Shellenbaum wrote: We are currently investigating adding more functionality to libsec to provide many of the things you desire. We will have iterators, editing capabilities and so on. I'm still ironing a design/architecture document out. I'll

Re: [zfs-discuss] Setup idea

2008-08-19 Thread Malachi de Ælfweald
I had recently got the mirroring part of it resolved. Here's the steps I took: http://malsserver.blogspot.com/2008/08/mirroring-resolved-correct-way.html Malachi On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 10:16 AM, Ivan Ordonez [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: Hi all, I'm a total newbie to Solaris administration.

Re: [zfs-discuss] Setup idea

2008-08-19 Thread Ivan Ordonez
Hello, Thanks for your help. I will give it a shot. Does anyone know how can I make the filesystem ZFS instead of the default UFS? Thanks, -Ivan On Tue, 2008-08-19 at 10:40, Malachi de Ælfweald wrote: I had recently got the mirroring part of it resolved. Here's the steps I took:

Re: [zfs-discuss] Setup idea

2008-08-19 Thread Cindy . Swearingen
Hi Ivan, If you are asking how you can make a ZFS root file system on a Solaris 10 system, then you'll need to wait a bit until that release is available. This features is currently provided in the SXCE, build 90 release, which provides similar support. You can read more about this support

Re: [zfs-discuss] Setup idea

2008-08-19 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Tue, 19 Aug 2008, Ivan Ordonez wrote: I would like to get your opinion on what is the best way to setup the machine using ZFS on all drives and partitions. I want to use Zones, Live Upgrade and Virtualbox in the future. The machine is SUN Ultra 40 M2 with 6G of RAM, 2 dual core AMD CPU,

Re: [zfs-discuss] Setup idea

2008-08-19 Thread Ivan Ordonez
Thanks to all of you for the help. -Ivan On Tue, 2008-08-19 at 10:56, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: On Tue, 19 Aug 2008, Ivan Ordonez wrote: I would like to get your opinion on what is the best way to setup the machine using ZFS on all drives and partitions. I want to use Zones, Live Upgrade

Re: [zfs-discuss] C code for reading ZFS ACL

2008-08-19 Thread Ian Collins
Nicolas Williams wrote: On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 08:15:56PM -0600, Mark Shellenbaum wrote: We are currently investigating adding more functionality to libsec to provide many of the things you desire. We will have iterators, editing capabilities and so on. I'm still ironing a

[zfs-discuss] CF to SATA adapters for boot device

2008-08-19 Thread Ian Collins
Has anyone here had any luck using a CF to SATA adapter? I've just tried an Addonics ADSACFW CF to SATA adaptor with an 8GB card that I wanted to use for a boot pool and even though the BIOS reports the disk, Solaris B95 (or the installer) doesn't see it. I might give the IDE version a go (I