Re: [zfs-discuss] Encryption?

2010-07-12 Thread Nikola M
Freddie Cash wrote: You definitely want to do the ZFS bits from within FreeBSD. Why not using ZFS in OpenSolaris? At least it has most stable/tested implementation and also the newest one if needed? ___ zfs-discuss mailing list

Re: [zfs-discuss] SATA 6G controller for OSOL

2010-07-12 Thread Vladimir Kotal
Brandon High wrote: On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 2:40 AM, Vladimir Kotal vladimir.ko...@sun.com mailto:vladimir.ko...@sun.com wrote: Could you be more specific about the problems with 88SE9123, especially with SATA ? I am in the process of setting up a system with AD2SA6GPX1 HBA based on

[zfs-discuss] Zfs pool / iscsi lun with windows initiator.

2010-07-12 Thread unbounde
Hi friends, i have a problem. I have a file server which initiates large volumes with iscsi initiator. Problem is, zfs side it shows non aviable space, but i am %100 sure there is at least, 5 TB space. Problem is, because zfs pool shows as 0 aviable all iscsi connection got lost and all

Re: [zfs-discuss] Encryption?

2010-07-12 Thread Andriy Gapon
on 11/07/2010 14:21 Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk said the following: I'm planning on running FreeBSD in VirtualBox (with a Linux host) and giving it raw disk access to four drives, which I plan to configure as a

Re: [zfs-discuss] Encryption?

2010-07-12 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Freddie Cash ZFS-FUSE is horribly unstable, That may be true. I couldn't say. although that's more an indication of the stability of the storage stack on Linux. But this, I take

Re: [zfs-discuss] Legality and the future of zfs...

2010-07-12 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
From: David Magda [mailto:dma...@ee.ryerson.ca] On Jul 10, 2010, at 14:20, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: A few companies have already backed out of zfs as they cannot afford to go through a lawsuit. Or, in the case of Apple, who could definitely afford a lawsuit, but choose to avoid

Re: [zfs-discuss] Legality and the future of zfs...

2010-07-12 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
From: Tim Cook [mailto:t...@cook.ms] Because VSS isn't doing anything remotely close to what WAFL is doing when it takes snapshots. It may not do what you want it to do, but it's still copy on write, as evidenced by the fact that it takes instantaneous snapshots, and snapshots don't get

Re: [zfs-discuss] Legality and the future of zfs...

2010-07-12 Thread Tim Cook
On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 8:32 AM, Edward Ned Harvey solar...@nedharvey.comwrote: From: Tim Cook [mailto:t...@cook.ms] Because VSS isn't doing anything remotely close to what WAFL is doing when it takes snapshots. It may not do what you want it to do, but it's still copy on write, as

Re: [zfs-discuss] Legality and the future of zfs...

2010-07-12 Thread David Magda
On Mon, July 12, 2010 10:03, Tim Cook wrote: Everyone's SNAPSHOTS are copy on write BESIDES ZFS and WAFL's. The filesystem itself is copy-on-write for NetApp/Oracle, which is why there is no performance degradation when you take them. Per Microsoft: When a change to the original volume

Re: [zfs-discuss] Legality and the future of zfs...

2010-07-12 Thread Andrew Gabriel
Linder, Doug wrote: Out of sheer curiosity - and I'm not disagreeing with you, just wondering - how does ZFS make money for Oracle when they don't charge for it? Do you think it's such an important feature that it's a big factor in customers picking Solaris over other platforms? Yes, it

Re: [zfs-discuss] Legality and the future of zfs...

2010-07-12 Thread Garrett D'Amore
On Mon, 2010-07-12 at 17:05 +0100, Andrew Gabriel wrote: Linder, Doug wrote: Out of sheer curiosity - and I'm not disagreeing with you, just wondering - how does ZFS make money for Oracle when they don't charge for it? Do you think it's such an important feature that it's a big factor in

Re: [zfs-discuss] SATA 6G controller for OSOL

2010-07-12 Thread Matt Urbanowski
Well, it is good to hear that there likely isn't a patent problem with the SATA functionality of the card. Hopefully the filed bug will be addressed, and support added to the AHCI driver. On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 2:43 AM, Vladimir Kotal vladimir.ko...@sun.comwrote: Brandon High wrote: On

Re: [zfs-discuss] Legality and the future of zfs...

2010-07-12 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Mon, 12 Jul 2010, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: Precisely. A private license, with support and indemnification from Sun, would shield Apple from any lawsuit from Netapp. This sort of statement illustrates a lack of knowledge of how indemnification and patents work. The patent holder is not

[zfs-discuss] Recovering from an apparent ZFS Hang

2010-07-12 Thread Brian Leonard
Hi, I'm currently trying to work with a quad-bay USB drive enclosure. I've created a raidz pool as follows: bleon...@opensolaris:~# zpool status r5pool pool: r5pool state: ONLINE scrub: none requested config: NAME STATE READ WRITE CKSUM r5poolONLINE

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs send/recv hanging in 2009.06

2010-07-12 Thread BJ Quinn
I'm actually only running one at a time. It is recursive / incremental (and hundreds of GB), but it's only one at a time. Was there still problems in 2009.06 in that scenario? Does 2008.11 have these problems? 2008.05 didn't, and I'm considering moving back to that rather than using a

Re: [zfs-discuss] Recovering from an apparent ZFS Hang

2010-07-12 Thread Cindy Swearingen
Hi Brian, What are you trying to determine? How the pool behaves when a drive is yanked out? Its hard to tell how a pool will react with external USB drives. I think it will also depend on how the system handles a device removal. I created a similar raidz pool with non-USB devices, offlined a

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs send/recv hanging in 2009.06

2010-07-12 Thread BJ Quinn
Yeah, it's just that I don't think I'll be allowed to put up a dev version, but I would probably get away with putting up 2008.11 if it doesn't have the same problems with zfs send/recv. Does anyone know? -- This message posted from opensolaris.org

Re: [zfs-discuss] Encryption?

2010-07-12 Thread Brandon High
On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 10:00 AM, Garrett D'Amore garr...@nexenta.comwrote: Btw, if you want a commercially supported and maintained product, have you looked at NexentaStor? Regardless of what happens with OpenSolaris, we aren't going anywhere. (Full disclosure: I'm a Nexenta Systems

Re: [zfs-discuss] Encryption?

2010-07-12 Thread Garrett D'Amore
On Mon, 2010-07-12 at 12:55 -0700, Brandon High wrote: On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 10:00 AM, Garrett D'Amore garr...@nexenta.com wrote: Btw, if you want a commercially supported and maintained product, have you looked at NexentaStor? Regardless of what happens with

Re: [zfs-discuss] Encryption?

2010-07-12 Thread Michael Johnson
Garrett wrote: I don't know about ramifications (though I suspect that a broadening error scope would decrease ZFS' ability to isolate and work around problematic regions on the media), but one thing I do know. If you use FreeBSD disk encryption below ZFS, then you won't be able able to import

Re: [zfs-discuss] How to verify ecc for ram is active and enabled?

2010-07-12 Thread Alex Krasnov
From this output it appears as if Solaris, via the BIOS I presume, it looks like my BIOS thinks it doesn't have ECC RAM, even though all the memory modules are indeed ECC modules. Might be time to check (1) my current BIOS settings, even though I felt sure ECC was enabled in the BIOS

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs send/recv hanging in 2009.06

2010-07-12 Thread Ian Collins
On 07/13/10 06:48 AM, BJ Quinn wrote: Yeah, it's just that I don't think I'll be allowed to put up a dev version, but I would probably get away with putting up 2008.11 if it doesn't have the same problems with zfs send/recv. Does anyone know? That would be a silly thing to do. Your

[zfs-discuss] Need ZFS master!

2010-07-12 Thread john
Hello all. I am new...very new to opensolaris and I am having an issue and have no idea what is going wrong. So I have 5 drives in my machine. all 500gb. I installed open solaris on the first drive and rebooted. . Now what I want to do is ad a second drive so they are mirrored. How does one do

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs send/recv hanging in 2009.06

2010-07-12 Thread BJ Quinn
Actually my current servers are 2008.05, and I noticed the problems I was having with 2009.06 BEFORE I put those up as the new servers, so my pools are not too new to revert back to 2008.11, I'd actually be upgrading from 2008.05. I do not have paid support, but it's just not going to go over

Re: [zfs-discuss] Need ZFS master!

2010-07-12 Thread Cindy Swearingen
Hi John, Follow the steps in this section: http://www.solarisinternals.com/wiki/index.php/ZFS_Troubleshooting_Guide Replacing/Relabeling the Root Pool Disk If the disk is correctly labeled with an SMI label, then you can skip down to steps 5-8 of this procedure. Thanks, Cindy On 07/12/10

[zfs-discuss] How do I clean up corrupted files from zpool status -v?

2010-07-12 Thread Kris Kasner
Hi Folks.. I have a system that was inadvertently left unmirrored for root. We were able to add a mirror disk, resilver, and fix the corrupted files (nothing very interesting was corrupt, whew), but zpool status -v still shows errors.. Will this self correct when we replace the degraded

Re: [zfs-discuss] How do I clean up corrupted files from zpool status -v?

2010-07-12 Thread Garrett D'Amore
Hey Kris (glad to see someone from my QCOM days!): It should automatically clear itself when you replace the disk. Right now you're still degraded since you don't have full redundancy. - Garrett On Mon, 2010-07-12 at 16:10 -0700, Kris Kasner wrote: Hi Folks.. I have a system that

Re: [zfs-discuss] How do I clean up corrupted files from zpool status -v?

2010-07-12 Thread Ian Collins
On 07/13/10 11:10 AM, Kris Kasner wrote: Hi Folks.. I have a system that was inadvertently left unmirrored for root. We were able to add a mirror disk, resilver, and fix the corrupted files (nothing very interesting was corrupt, whew), but zpool status -v still shows errors.. Will this

Re: [zfs-discuss] How do I clean up corrupted files from zpool status -v?

2010-07-12 Thread Kris Kasner
Thanks for the reply.. I got derailed by a DBA while writing the email, I should have been more clear - I realize that the 'DEGRADED' states should resolve after I replace the disk, but what about the section that states: errors: Permanent errors have been detected in the following files:

[zfs-discuss] ZFS snapshot zvols/iscsi send backup

2010-07-12 Thread Gary Leong
I'm looking to use ZFS to export ISCSI volumes to a Windows/Linux client. Essentially, I'm looking to create two storage ZFS machines that I will export ISCSI targets from. Then from the client side, I will enable mirrorings. The two ZFS machines will be independent of each other. I had

Re: [zfs-discuss] Legality and the future of zfs...

2010-07-12 Thread Jens Elkner
On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 05:05:41PM +0100, Andrew Gabriel wrote: Linder, Doug wrote: Out of sheer curiosity - and I'm not disagreeing with you, just wondering - how does ZFS make money for Oracle when they don't charge for it? Do you think it's such an important feature that it's a big

[zfs-discuss] ZIL SSD failed

2010-07-12 Thread Dmitry Sorokin
I have/had Intel M25-E 32GB SSD drive as ZIL/cache device (2 GB ZIL slice0 and the rest is cache slice1) The SSD drive has failed and zpool is unavailable anymore. Is there any way to import the pool/recover data, even with some latest transactions lost? I've tried zdb -e -bcsvL pool name but

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS snapshot zvols/iscsi send backup

2010-07-12 Thread Ian Collins
On 07/13/10 12:26 PM, Gary Leong wrote: I'm looking to use ZFS to export ISCSI volumes to a Windows/Linux client. Essentially, I'm looking to create two storage ZFS machines that I will export ISCSI targets from. Then from the client side, I will enable mirrorings. The two ZFS machines