Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS loses configuration

2010-01-22 Thread Oyvind Syljuasen
You will have to uncomment the zpool import -a line in /mnt/eon0/.exec for this to automatically import your pools on startup. (took a while before I found this too...) Other than that, for me, EON is great! br, syljua -- This message posted from opensolaris.org

[zfs-discuss] Old quota tools

2010-01-22 Thread Martijn de Munnik
Hi List, Does anybody have scripts available which mimic the ufs quota tools on zfs. A tool I use relies on the old quota tools (quota, edquota, quotaon, quotaoff, repquota, quotacheck). I use zfs filesystem quota and reservation for /export/home/username filesystems. I would like the tool to

[zfs-discuss] etc on separate pool

2010-01-22 Thread Alexander
Is it possible to have /etc on separate zfs pool in OpenSolaris? The purpose is to have rw non-persistent main pool and rw persistent /etc... I've tried to make legacy etcpool/etc file system and mount it in /etc/vfstab... Is it possible to extend boot-archive in such a way that it include most

Re: [zfs-discuss] zones and other filesystems

2010-01-22 Thread Zoram Thanga
On 01/21/10 17:03, Thomas Burgess wrote: I'm pretty new to opensolaris. I come from FreeBSD. Naturally, after using FreeBSD forr awhile i've been big on the use of FreeBSD jails so i just had to try zones. I've figured out how to get zones running but now i'm stuck and need help. Is there

Re: [zfs-discuss] Dedup memory overhead

2010-01-22 Thread erik.ableson
On 21 janv. 2010, at 22:55, Daniel Carosone wrote: On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 05:04:51PM +0100, erik.ableson wrote: What I'm trying to get a handle on is how to estimate the memory overhead required for dedup on that amount of storage. We'd all appreciate better visibility of this. This

[zfs-discuss] ZFS raidz2 on Aberdeen SCSI DAS problems

2010-01-22 Thread Dragan
Hi, I'm trying to build OpenSolaris storage server but I'm expiriencing regular zpool corruptions after one or two days of operation. I would like if someone would comment on my hardware that I use in this setup, and give me some pointers how to troubleshoot this. Machine that Opensolaris is

Re: [zfs-discuss] etc on separate pool

2010-01-22 Thread Chris Ridd
On 22 Jan 2010, at 08:55, Alexander wrote: Is it possible to have /etc on separate zfs pool in OpenSolaris? The purpose is to have rw non-persistent main pool and rw persistent /etc... I've tried to make legacy etcpool/etc file system and mount it in /etc/vfstab... Is it possible to

Re: [zfs-discuss] etc on separate pool

2010-01-22 Thread Alexander
Is it possible to extend boot-archive in such a way that it include most of the files necessary for mounting /etc from separate pool? Have someone tried such configurations? What does the live CD do? I'm not sure that it is the same configuration, but maybe it is quite similar... LiveCD

Re: [zfs-discuss] 2gig file limit on ZFS?

2010-01-22 Thread Michelle Knight
On Thursday 21 Jan 2010 22:00:55 Daniel Carosone wrote: Best would be to plug the ext3 disk into something that can read it fully, and copy over the network. Linux, NetBSD, maybe newer opensolaris. Note that this could be running in a VM on the same box, if necessary. Yep, done. Ubuntu gave

Re: [zfs-discuss] Does OpenSolaris mpt driver support LSI 2008 controller

2010-01-22 Thread Moshe Vainer
http://lsi.com/storage_home/products_home/internal_raid/megaraid_sas/6gb_s_value_line/sas9260-8i/index.html 2009.06 didn't have the drivers integrated, so those aren't the open source ones. As i said, it is possible that 2010.03 will resolve this. But we do not put development releases in

Re: [zfs-discuss] Does OpenSolaris mpt driver support LSI 2008 controller

2010-01-22 Thread Moshe Vainer
I thought i made it very clear - mr_sas drivers from LSI website. No intention to bash anything, just a user experience. Sorry if that was misunderstood. From: Tim Cook [mailto:t...@cook.ms] Sent: Thursday, January 21, 2010 6:07 PM To: Moshe Vainer Cc: zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org Subject: Re:

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs zvol available space vs used space vs reserved space

2010-01-22 Thread younes naguib
Hi dan, Thanks for your reply. I'm not sure about that, as it shows different values for different zvol. # zfs list -o space NAME AVAIL USED USEDSNAP USEDDS USEDREFRESERV USEDCHILD tank 1.33T 27.2T 0 32.0K 0 27.2T

Re: [zfs-discuss] [ext3-discuss] 2gig file limit on ZFS?

2010-01-22 Thread Milan Jurik
Hi, it would be very good to know the version of driver used for ext3fs. From where and how was the driver installed? Best regards, Milan Richard Elling píše v čt 21. 01. 2010 v 12:08 -0800: CC'ed to ext3-disc...@opensolaris.org because this is an ext3 on Solaris issue. ZFS has no problem

[zfs-discuss] Remove ZFS Mount Points

2010-01-22 Thread Tony MacDoodle
Can I move the below mounts under / ? rpool/export/export rpool/export/home /export/home It was a result of the default install... Thaks ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs send/receive as backup - reliability?

2010-01-22 Thread Mike Gerdts
On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 11:28 AM, Richard Elling richard.ell...@gmail.com wrote: On Jan 21, 2010, at 3:55 AM, Julian Regel wrote: Until you try to pick one up and put it in a fire safe! Then you backup to tape from x4540 whatever data you need. In case of enterprise products you save on

Re: [zfs-discuss] Remove ZFS Mount Points

2010-01-22 Thread Mark J Musante
On Fri, 22 Jan 2010, Tony MacDoodle wrote: Can I move the below mounts under / ? rpool/export/export rpool/export/home /export/home Sure. Just copy the data out of the directory, do a zfs destroy on the two filesystems, and copy it back. For example: # mkdir /save # cp -r

[zfs-discuss] Removing large holey file does not free space 6792701 (still)

2010-01-22 Thread Henrik Johansson
Hello,I mentioned this problem a year ago here and filed 6792701 and I know it has been discussed since. It should have been fixed in snv_118, but I can still trigger the same problem. This is only triggered if the creation of a large file is aborted, for example by loss of power, crash or SIGINT

Re: [zfs-discuss] etc on separate pool

2010-01-22 Thread Cindy Swearingen
Hi Alexander, I'm not sure about the OpenSolaris release specifically, but for the SXCE and Solaris 10 releases, we provide this requirement: http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/817-2271/zfsboot-1?a=view * Solaris OS Components – All subdirectories of the root file system that are part of the OS

Re: [zfs-discuss] etc on separate pool

2010-01-22 Thread Lori Alt
On 01/22/10 01:55, Alexander wrote: Is it possible to have /etc on separate zfs pool in OpenSolaris? The purpose is to have rw non-persistent main pool and rw persistent /etc... I've tried to make legacy etcpool/etc file system and mount it in /etc/vfstab... Is it possible to extend

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs zvol available space vs used space vs reserved space

2010-01-22 Thread Cindy Swearingen
Younes, Including your zpool list output for tank would be helpful because zfs list includes the AVAILABLE pool space. Determining volume space is a bit trickier because volume size is set at creation time but the allocated size might not be consumed. I include a simple example below that might

[zfs-discuss] zero out block / sectors

2010-01-22 Thread John Hoogerdijk
Is there a way to zero out unused blocks in a pool? I'm looking for ways to shrink the size of an opensolaris virtualbox VM and using the compact subcommand will remove zero'd sectors. Thanks, John Hoogerdijk Sun Microsystems of Canada IMO Network Computer NC Ltd. 808 240 Graham Avenue

Re: [zfs-discuss] hard drive choice, TLER/ERC/CCTL

2010-01-22 Thread Miles Nordin
dc == Daniel Carosone d...@geek.com.au writes: w == Willy willy.m...@gmail.com writes: sb == Simon Breden sbre...@gmail.com writes: First of all, I've been so far assembling vdev stripes from different manufacturers, such that one manufacturer can have a bad batch or firmware bug killing all

Re: [zfs-discuss] zero out block / sectors

2010-01-22 Thread Darren J Moffat
John Hoogerdijk wrote: Is there a way to zero out unused blocks in a pool? I'm looking for ways to shrink the size of an opensolaris virtualbox VM and using the compact subcommand will remove zero'd sectors. Not yet, but this has been discussed here before. It is something I want to look

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Dedup Performance

2010-01-22 Thread Steve Radich, BitShop, Inc.
We're having to split data to multiple pools if we enable dedup, 1+ TB pools each (one 6x750gb is particularly bad). The timeouts cause COMSTAR / iSCSI to fail, Windows clients are dropping the persistent targets due to timeouts ( 15 seconds it seems). This is causing bigger problems.

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Dedup Performance

2010-01-22 Thread Steve Radich, BitShop, Inc.
I should note that trying zfs set primarycache=metadata tank1 took a few minutes. Seems changing what is cached in ram would be instant (we don't need to flush out from ram the data, just don't put it back in ram again). During this disk i/o seemed slow, could have been unrelated. -- This

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs send/receive as backup - reliability?

2010-01-22 Thread A Darren Dunham
On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 08:11:27AM +1300, Ian Collins wrote: True, but I wonder how viable its future is. One of my clients requires 17 LT04 types for a full backup, which cost more and takes up more space than the equivalent in removable hard drives. What kind of removable hard drives are

Re: [zfs-discuss] hard drive choice, TLER/ERC/CCTL

2010-01-22 Thread Simon Breden
Thanks for your reply Miles. I think I understand your points, but unfortunately my historical knowledge of the the need for TLER etc solutions is lacking. How I've understood it to be (as generic as possible, but possibly inaccurate as a result): 1. In simple non-RAID single drive 'desktop'

Re: [zfs-discuss] Best 1.5TB drives for consumer RAID?

2010-01-22 Thread Mirko
Well, I've purchased 5 Barracuda LP 1.5TB. They ran very queit, cool, 5 in a cage and the vibration are nearly zero. reliability ? Well every HDD is unreliable, every major brand at this time have problems, so go for the best bang for the bucks. In my country Seagate have the best RMA service,

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs send/receive as backup - reliability?

2010-01-22 Thread A Darren Dunham
On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 12:38:56AM +0100, Ragnar Sundblad wrote: On 21 jan 2010, at 00.20, Al Hopper wrote: I remember for about 5 years ago (before LT0-4 days) that streaming tape drives would go to great lengths to ensure that the drive kept streaming - because it took so much time to

Re: [zfs-discuss] Does OpenSolaris mpt driver support LSI 2008 controller

2010-01-22 Thread Simon Breden
OK, gotcha. Relating to my request for robustness feedback of the other driver, I was referring in fact to the mpt_sas driver that James says is used for the non-RAID LSI SAS2008-based cards like the SuperMicro AOC-USAS2-L8e (as opposed to the RAID-capable AOC-USAS2-L8i LSI SAS 9211-8i cards,

Re: [zfs-discuss] zero out block / sectors

2010-01-22 Thread Mike Gerdts
On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 1:00 PM, John Hoogerdijk john.hoogerd...@sun.com wrote: Is there a way to zero out unused blocks in a pool?  I'm looking for ways to shrink the size of an opensolaris virtualbox VM and using the compact subcommand will remove zero'd sectors. I've long suspected that you

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs send/receive as backup - reliability?

2010-01-22 Thread Ian Collins
A Darren Dunham wrote: On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 08:11:27AM +1300, Ian Collins wrote: True, but I wonder how viable its future is. One of my clients requires 17 LT04 types for a full backup, which cost more and takes up more space than the equivalent in removable hard drives. What kind