Re: [zfs-discuss] APPLE: ZFS need bug corrections instead of new func! Or?

2009-06-22 Thread Moutacim LACHHAB
Nicolas Williams schrieb: On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 04:09:29PM -0400, Miles Nordin wrote: Also, as I said elsewhere, there's a barrier controlled by Sun to getting bugs accepted. This is a useful barrier: the bug database is a more useful drive toward improvement if it's not cluttered. It

Re: [zfs-discuss] Speeding up resilver on x4500

2009-06-22 Thread Erik Trimble
Nicholas Lee wrote: On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 4:24 PM, Stuart Anderson ander...@ligo.caltech.edu mailto:ander...@ligo.caltech.edu wrote: However, it is a bit disconcerting to have to run with reduced data protection for an entire week. While I am certainly not going back to UFS,

Re: [zfs-discuss] Best controller card for 8 SATA drives ?

2009-06-22 Thread Carson Gaspar
James C. McPherson wrote: On Sun, 21 Jun 2009 19:01:31 -0700 As a member of the team which works on mpt(7d), I'm disappointed that\ you believe you need to use lsiutil to fully access all the functionality of the board. What gaps have you found in mpt(7d) and the standard OpenSolaris tools

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs find list of properties per dataset

2009-06-22 Thread Darren J Moffat
Richard Elling wrote: Harry Putnam wrote: James C. McPherson james.mcpher...@sun.com writes: your original question was somewhat vague - could you clarify what it is you need to find out? I wanted to see a list of all the properties available to zfs on a filesystem. NB, the

Re: [zfs-discuss] Best controller card for 8 SATA drives ?

2009-06-22 Thread James C. McPherson
On Mon, 22 Jun 2009 01:25:54 -0700 Carson Gaspar car...@taltos.org wrote: James C. McPherson wrote: On Sun, 21 Jun 2009 19:01:31 -0700 As a member of the team which works on mpt(7d), I'm disappointed that\ you believe you need to use lsiutil to fully access all the functionality of

Re: [zfs-discuss] Speeding up resilver on x4500

2009-06-22 Thread Richard Elling
Stuart Anderson wrote: On Jun 21, 2009, at 8:57 PM, Richard Elling wrote: Stuart Anderson wrote: It is currently taking ~1 week to resilver an x4500 running S10U6, recently patched with~170M small files on ~170 datasets after a disk failure/replacement, i.e., wow, that is impressive.

Re: [zfs-discuss] Creating ZFS filesystem with inherited ACLs ?

2009-06-22 Thread Mark Shellenbaum
Thomas Fili wrote: Hi @all, with ZFS its recommended to create a new filesystem, for example for each user to give them a home directory. So far, so good. The homes should be under tank/export/home/staff and my intention is to restrict the ACL rights so only the user self can access his own

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs find list of properties per dataset

2009-06-22 Thread Harry Putnam
[...] Richard wrote: NB, the user and group quotas are stored as properties, but get all does not return them. So it is not a true statement that get all returns all of the properties. Darren M responded: There are are other hidden properties too. 'zfs get all' should be returning the

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs find list of properties per dataset

2009-06-22 Thread Darren J Moffat
Harry Putnam wrote: [...] Richard wrote: NB, the user and group quotas are stored as properties, but get all does not return them. So it is not a true statement that get all returns all of the properties. Darren M responded: There are are other hidden properties too. 'zfs get all' should

Re: [zfs-discuss] Speeding up resilver on x4500

2009-06-22 Thread Bill Sommerfeld
On Mon, 2009-06-22 at 06:06 -0700, Richard Elling wrote: Nevertheless, in my lab testing, I was not able to create a random-enough workload to not be write limited on the reconstructing drive. Anecdotal evidence shows that some systems are limited by the random reads. Systems I've run which

Re: [zfs-discuss] Turn off the time slider on some zpools

2009-06-22 Thread dick hoogendijk
On Mon, 22 Jun 2009 09:38:18 -0500 Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote: How to turn off the timeslider snapshots on certain file systems? http://wikis.sun.com/display/OpenSolarisInfo/How+to+Manage+the+Automatic+ZFS+Snapshot+Service -- Dick Hoogendijk -- PGP/GnuPG key: 01D2433D +

Re: [zfs-discuss] Turn off the time slider on some zpools

2009-06-22 Thread Harry Putnam
dick hoogendijk d...@nagual.nl writes: On Mon, 22 Jun 2009 09:38:18 -0500 Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote: How to turn off the timeslider snapshots on certain file systems? http://wikis.sun.com/display/OpenSolarisInfo/How+to+Manage+the+Automatic+ZFS+Snapshot+Service The first steps

[zfs-discuss] ZFS attributes for CIFS.

2009-06-22 Thread Kyle McDonald
Hi all, I'm setting up a new fileserver, and while I'm not planning on enabling CIFS right away, I know I will in the future. I know there are several ZFS properties or attributes that affect how CIFS behaves. I seem to recall that at least one of those needs to be set early (like when the

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS attributes for CIFS.

2009-06-22 Thread Cindy . Swearingen
Hi Kyle, The first thing to plan for is that the Solaris CIFS services are not available in the Solaris 10 release. You can use the property descriptions in this table to review the CIFS related features. Using your browser's find in page feature and searching on CIFS is probably the easiest

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS attributes for CIFS.

2009-06-22 Thread Mark Shellenbaum
Kyle McDonald wrote: Hi all, I'm setting up a new fileserver, and while I'm not planning on enabling CIFS right away, I know I will in the future. I know there are several ZFS properties or attributes that affect how CIFS behaves. I seem to recall that at least one of those needs to be set

[zfs-discuss] core dump on zfs receive

2009-06-22 Thread Charles Hedrick
I'm trying to do a simple backup. I did zfs snapshot -r rp...@snapshot zfs send -R rp...@snapshot | zfs receive -Fud external/rpool zfs snapshot -r rp...@snapshot2 zfs send -RI rp...@snapshot1 rp...@snapshot2 | zfs receive -d external/rpool The receive coredumps $c

[zfs-discuss] Narrow escape!

2009-06-22 Thread Ross
Hey folks, Well, I've had a disk fail in my home server, so I've had my first experience of hunting down the faulty drive and replacing it (damn site easier on Sun kit than on a home built box I can tell you!). All seemed well, I replaced the faulty drive, imported the pool again, and kicked

[zfs-discuss] recovering fs's

2009-06-22 Thread Matt Harrison
I know this may have been discussed before but my google-fu hasn't turned up anything directly related. My girlfriend had some files stored in a zfs dataset on my home server. She assured me that she didn't need them any more so I destroyed the dataset (I know I should have kept it anyway for

[zfs-discuss] SAN server

2009-06-22 Thread Greg
Hey all, I am working on a SAN server for my office and would like to know about hardware recommendations. I am quite confused as to go the raidz route or a standard raid route. As for what this will be doing, I will be having a vmware esxi server connected via iscsi and it will be running

[zfs-discuss] SPARC SATA, please.

2009-06-22 Thread Jacob Ritorto
Is there a card for OpenSolaris 2009.06 SPARC that will do SATA correctly yet? Need it for a super cheapie, low expectations, SunBlade 100 filer, so I think it has to be notched for 5v PCI slot, iirc. I'm OK with slow -- main goals here are power saving (sleep all 4 disks) and 1TB+ space. Oh,

Re: [zfs-discuss] recovering fs's

2009-06-22 Thread dick hoogendijk
On Mon, 22 Jun 2009 21:42:23 +0100 Matt Harrison iwasinnamuk...@genestate.com wrote: She's now desperate to get it back as she's realised there some important work stuff hidden away in there. Without snapshots you're lost. -- Dick Hoogendijk -- PGP/GnuPG key: 01D2433D + http://nagual.nl/ |

Re: [zfs-discuss] Best controller card for 8 SATA drives ?

2009-06-22 Thread Simon Breden
Also, is anybody using the AOC-USAS-L8i? If so, what's your experience of it, and identifying drives and replacing failed drives with it? -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [zfs-discuss] recovering fs's

2009-06-22 Thread Matt Harrison
dick hoogendijk wrote: On Mon, 22 Jun 2009 21:42:23 +0100 Matt Harrison iwasinnamuk...@genestate.com wrote: She's now desperate to get it back as she's realised there some important work stuff hidden away in there. Without snapshots you're lost. Ok, thanks. It was worth a shot. Guess

Re: [zfs-discuss] Narrow escape!

2009-06-22 Thread Simon Breden
Lucky one there Ross! Makes me glad I also upgraded to RAID-Z2 ;-) Simon -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] recovering fs's

2009-06-22 Thread Simon Breden
Hi Matt! As kim0 says, that s/w PhotoRec looks like it might work, if it can work with ZFS... would be interested to hear if it works. Good luck, Simon -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list

Re: [zfs-discuss] recovering fs's

2009-06-22 Thread Matt Harrison
Simon Breden wrote: Hi Matt! As kim0 says, that s/w PhotoRec looks like it might work, if it can work with ZFS... would be interested to hear if it works. Good luck, Simon I'll give it a go as soon as I get a chance. I've had a very quick look and ZFS isn't in the list of supported

Re: [zfs-discuss] core dump on zfs receive

2009-06-22 Thread Lori Alt
This is probably 6696858. The fix is known, but I don't know when it's expected to become available. I have asked the CR's responsible engineer to update it with when the fix is expected. Lori On 06/22/09 14:03, Charles Hedrick wrote: I'm trying to do a simple backup. I did zfs snapshot

Re: [zfs-discuss] Lots of metadata overhead on filesystems with 100M files

2009-06-22 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Mon, 22 Jun 2009, Thomas wrote: I have and raidz1 conisting 6 5400rpm drives on this zpool. I have stored some Media in a FS and in an other 200k files. Both FS are written not much. The Pool is 85% Full. Could this issue also the reason that if Iam playing(reading) some Media that the

Re: [zfs-discuss] SAN server

2009-06-22 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Mon, 22 Jun 2009, Greg wrote: a. a large raidz array or several raidz arrays b. a hardware raid 10 array for exchange 2007 and then raidz arrays for everything else. c. several hardware raid 10 arrays d. none of the above I think that you will find that ZFS's equivalent of RAID 10

Re: [zfs-discuss] Broken snapshot is a bit of a disaster

2009-06-22 Thread Chris
Did you ever find a solution to this? I have a similar problem, where my ZFS snapshot was sent through gzip out to a file. I tried to gzcat the file out to a new ZFS, but got the cannot receive new filesystem stream: invalid backup stream error. At that point I just ran gunzip on the file

Re: [zfs-discuss] Broken snapshot is a bit of a disaster

2009-06-22 Thread Daniel Carosone
Other details - the original ZFS was created at ZFS version 14 on SNV b105, trying to be restored to ZFS version 15 on SNV b114. Any help would be appreciated. The zfs send/recv format is not warranted to be compatible between revisions. I don't know, offhand, if that is the problem in

Re: [zfs-discuss] Speeding up resilver on x4500

2009-06-22 Thread Stuart Anderson
On Jun 21, 2009, at 10:21 PM, Nicholas Lee wrote: On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 4:24 PM, Stuart Anderson ander...@ligo.caltech.edu wrote: However, it is a bit disconcerting to have to run with reduced data protection for an entire week. While I am certainly not going back to UFS, it seems like

Re: [zfs-discuss] Speeding up resilver on x4500

2009-06-22 Thread Erik Trimble
All this discussion hasn't answered one thing for me: exactly _how_ does ZFS do resilvering? Both in the case of mirrors, and of RAIDZ[2] ? I've seen some mention that it goes in cronological order (which to me, means that the metadata must be read first) of file creation, and that only