Re: [zfs-discuss] zpool fragmentation issues?

2009-12-16 Thread Darren J Moffat
and if you didn't export the pool those would now all possibly be hot in the ARC. -- Darren J Moffat ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] new zpool-rpool process ?

2009-12-16 Thread Darren J Moffat
/2009/615/mail -- Darren J Moffat ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] dedup existing data

2009-12-16 Thread Darren J Moffat
and just do zfs send | zfs recv. Or do I have to completely move the data out of the pool and back in again? That is what zfs send and recv actually does. -- Darren J Moffat ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http

Re: [zfs-discuss] Single Instancing across the entire pool or only per filesystem

2009-12-16 Thread Darren J Moffat
Steven Sim wrote: Hello; Is the ZFS dedup single instancing across the entire pool or is it only single instance inside each filesystem and not across the entire pool? Opt in to it is per filesystem (dataset) but the deduplicates are searched for and matched pool wide. -- Darren J Moffat

Re: [zfs-discuss] DeDup and Compression - Reverse Order?

2009-12-16 Thread Darren J Moffat
/history/onnv/onnv-gate/usr/src/uts/common/fs/zfs/sha256.c Look at the date when that integrated 31st October 2005. In case you still doubt me look at the fix I just integrated today: http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/onnv-notify/2009-December/011090.html -- Darren J Moffat

Re: [zfs-discuss] DeDup and Compression - Reverse Order?

2009-12-15 Thread Darren J Moffat
is set to dedup=verify. Why ? Is it because you don't believe SHA256 (which is the default checksum used when dedup=on is specified) is strong enough ? -- Darren J Moffat ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http

Re: [zfs-discuss] Confusion regarding 'zfs send'

2009-12-11 Thread Darren J Moffat
canmount=noauto on the source. it's a bit ugly, since you'll get an outage if the source server reboots before you set it back. Or use the -u argument to 'zfs recv': -u File system that is associated with the received stream is not mounted. -- Darren J Moffat

Re: [zfs-discuss] Encryption

2009-12-10 Thread Darren J Moffat
J Moffat ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] will deduplication know about old blocks?

2009-12-10 Thread Darren J Moffat
the deduplication code is never run in that case. -- Darren J Moffat ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] will deduplication know about old blocks?

2009-12-10 Thread Darren J Moffat
the compression - and may actually use a compression algorithm that ZFS doesn't use (bzip2). -- Darren J Moffat ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

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

2009-12-10 Thread Darren J Moffat
Western Digital unfortunately. Are there some settings in ZFS that can be used to compensate for this? What is the problem you are trying to solve that makes you think you need this or a similar feature ? -- Darren J Moffat ___ zfs-discuss mailing list

Re: [zfs-discuss] file concatenation with ZFS copy-on-write

2009-12-03 Thread Darren J Moffat
now has. The reason dedup should help here is that after the 'cat' f15 will be made up of blocks that match the blocks of f1 f2 f3 f4 f5. Copy-on-write isn't what helps you here it is dedup. -- Darren J Moffat ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] file concatenation with ZFS copy-on-write

2009-12-03 Thread Darren J Moffat
Bob Friesenhahn wrote: On Thu, 3 Dec 2009, Darren J Moffat wrote: The answer to this is likely deduplication which ZFS now has. The reason dedup should help here is that after the 'cat' f15 will be made up of blocks that match the blocks of f1 f2 f3 f4 f5. Copy-on-write isn't what helps

Re: [zfs-discuss] file concatenation with ZFS copy-on-write

2009-12-03 Thread Darren J Moffat
and others where 1K is the upper bound of the file system. So I don't think you can say at all that Most files are 128K. -- Darren J Moffat ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] proposal partial/relative paths for zfs(1)

2009-11-26 Thread Darren J Moffat
draft (ASCII is fine) man page changes. Once there is consensus from the core ZFS developer team I'll submit it to ARC for you. -- Darren J Moffat ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: [zfs-discuss] Using local disk for cache on an iSCSI zvol...

2009-11-20 Thread Darren J Moffat
to is what is the access time/throughput of a single local 15k SCSI drive vs a GigE iSCSI volume? For the L2ARC it is worth at try - what have you got to loose since you can remove the cache device really easily. -- Darren J Moffat ___ zfs-discuss mailing

Re: [zfs-discuss] Setting default user/group quotas?

2009-11-19 Thread Darren J Moffat
think that would be great feature. -- Darren J Moffat ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS directory and file quota

2009-11-18 Thread Darren J Moffat
by restricting the number of files that can be created ? -- Darren J Moffat ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS directory and file quota

2009-11-18 Thread Darren J Moffat
account. Agree, creating ZFS per account would solve my problems, but I can't use nfsv4 , nor automounter, so I can't export thousand of filesystems right now. Or using per userquotas, eg: # zfs set userqu...@bob=1g rpool/mail # zfs set userqu...@jane=2g rpool/mail ... -- Darren J Moffat

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS directory and file quota

2009-11-18 Thread Darren J Moffat
Jozef Hamar wrote: Darren J Moffat wrote: Jozef Hamar wrote: Hi Darren, thanks for reply. E.g., I have mail quota implemented as per-directory quota. I know this can be solved in another way, but still, I would have to change many things in my system in order to make it work

Re: [zfs-discuss] X45xx storage vs 7xxx Unified storage

2009-11-18 Thread Darren J Moffat
/unified_storage/ -- Darren J Moffat ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS ZIL/log on SSD weirdness

2009-11-18 Thread Darren J Moffat
Scott Meilicke wrote: I second the use of zilstat - very useful, especially if you don't want to mess around with adding a log device and then having to destroy the pool if you don't want the log device any longer. log devices can be removed as of zpool version 19. -- Darren J Moffat

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Deduplication Replication

2009-11-16 Thread Darren J Moffat
Steven Sim wrote: Hello; Dedup on ZFS is an absolutely wonderful feature! Is there a way to conduct dedup replication across boxes from one dedup ZFS data set to another? Pass the '-D' argument to 'zfs send'. -- Darren J Moffat ___ zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs eradication

2009-11-12 Thread Darren J Moffat
Miles Nordin wrote: djm == Darren J Moffat darr...@opensolaris.org writes: encrypted blocks is much better, even though encrypted blocks may be subject to freeze-spray attack if the whole computer is compromised the idea of crypto deletion is to use many keys to encrypt

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs eradication

2009-11-11 Thread Darren J Moffat
juristictions if the data was always encrypted on disk then you don't need to write any patterns to erase the blocks. So ZFS Crypto can help there. -- Darren J Moffat ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs eradication

2009-11-11 Thread Darren J Moffat
then it is a completely separate and complementary feature to encryption. -- Darren J Moffat ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs eradication

2009-11-11 Thread Darren J Moffat
Bill Sommerfeld wrote: On Wed, 2009-11-11 at 10:29 -0800, Darren J Moffat wrote: Joerg Moellenkamp wrote: Hi, Well ... i think Darren should implement this as a part of zfs-crypto. Secure Delete on SSD looks like quite challenge, when wear leveling and bad block relocation kicks in ;) No I

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs eradication

2009-11-11 Thread Darren J Moffat
Bob Friesenhahn wrote: On Wed, 11 Nov 2009, Darren J Moffat wrote: note that eradication via overwrite makes no sense if the underlying storage uses copy-on-write, because there's no guarantee that the newly written block actually will overlay the freed block. Which is why this has

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS and least privilege

2009-11-06 Thread Darren J Moffat
the OpenSolaris Security web page: http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/view/Community+Group+security/library or directly at: http://www.sun.com/blueprints/0206/819-5507.pdf -- Darren J Moffat ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http

Re: [zfs-discuss] More Dedupe Questions...

2009-11-03 Thread Darren J Moffat
off between IO bandwidth and CPU/memory. Sometimes dedup will improve performance, since like compression it can reduce IO requirements, but depending on workload the CPU/memory overhead may or may not be worth it (same with compression). -- Darren J Moffat

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs on multiple machines

2009-11-03 Thread Darren J Moffat
pools can be used in a Sun Cluster configuration but will only imported into a single node of a Sun Cluster configuration at a time. -- Darren J Moffat ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: [zfs-discuss] dedupe is in

2009-11-03 Thread Darren J Moffat
Orvar Korvar wrote: I was under the impression that you can create a new zfs dataset and turn on the dedup functionality, and copy your data to it. Or am I wrong? you don't even have to create a new dataset just do: # zfs set dedup=on dataset -- Darren J Moffat

Re: [zfs-discuss] De-Dupe and iSCSI

2009-11-03 Thread Darren J Moffat
but how much benefit you will get from it, since it is block not file based, depends on what type of filesystem and/or application is on the iSCSI target. -- Darren J Moffat ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http

Re: [zfs-discuss] More Dedupe Questions...

2009-11-03 Thread Darren J Moffat
Kyle McDonald wrote: Hi Darren, More below... Darren J Moffat wrote: Tristan Ball wrote: Obviously sending it deduped is more efficient in terms of bandwidth and CPU time on the recv side, but it may also be more complicated to achieve? A stream can be deduped even if the on disk format

Re: [zfs-discuss] dedupe is in

2009-11-03 Thread Darren J Moffat
Trevor Pretty wrote: Darren J Moffat wrote: Orvar Korvar wrote: I was under the impression that you can create a new zfs dataset and turn on the dedup functionality, and copy your data to it. Or am I wrong? you don't even have to create a new dataset just do: # zfs set dedup

Re: [zfs-discuss] dedupe is in

2009-11-02 Thread Darren J Moffat
Mike Gerdts wrote: On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 7:20 AM, Jeff Bonwick jeff.bonw...@sun.com wrote: Terrific! Can't wait to read the man pages / blogs about how to use it... Just posted one: http://blogs.sun.com/bonwick/en_US/entry/zfs_dedup Enjoy, and let me know if you have any questions or

Re: [zfs-discuss] CR6894234 -- improved sgid directory compatibility with non-Solaris NFS clients

2009-10-30 Thread Darren J Moffat
| passthrough I'm not sure they will help you much but I was curious if you had looked at this area for help. -- Darren J Moffat ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs code and fishworks fork

2009-10-28 Thread Darren J Moffat
run on many of them (e.g., PowerPC- and ARM-based SoCs). Though AFAIK, ReadyNAS actually runs (ran?) on SPARC (Leon), but used Linux nonetheless. OpenSolaris is on its way to running on ARM. http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/view/Project+osarm/ -- Darren J Moffat

Re: [zfs-discuss] Best practices for zfs create?

2009-10-27 Thread Darren J Moffat
and memory resources to enable compression. On the other hand if it is full of source code or ASCII text enabling compression could potentially improved performance - depending on the read and write access patterns. -- Darren J Moffat ___ zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS port to Linux

2009-10-23 Thread Darren J Moffat
, but as long as that rule is adhered to there is no problem of legal issues. That is my personal understanding as well, however this is not legal advice and I am not qualified to (or even wish to) give it in any case. Good luck with the port. -- Darren J Moffat

Re: [zfs-discuss] iscsi share on different subnet?

2009-10-20 Thread Darren J Moffat
want to configure one or most host groups with stmfadm(1M). I'm not a COMSTAR expert so I suggest asking on storage-discuss if you need more help than that. -- Darren J Moffat ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Swap Doesn't Survive Reboot - OSOL-124

2009-10-15 Thread Darren J Moffat
. -- Darren J Moffat ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Swap Doesn't Survive Reboot - OSOL-124

2009-10-15 Thread Darren J Moffat
either side of the mirror you will get the same level of protection (maybe even better) and better performance by setting the property copies to 2 (eg 'zfs set copies=2 rpool'). -- Darren J Moffat ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [zfs-discuss] How to resize ZFS partion or add a new one?

2009-10-15 Thread Darren J Moffat
step 1 will fail). -- Darren J Moffat ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Swap Doesn't Survive Reboot - OSOL-124

2009-10-14 Thread Darren J Moffat
with that though is that today ZFS doesn't know that the ZVOLs are used for swap and doesn't actually care. -- Darren J Moffat ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs disk encryption

2009-10-13 Thread Darren J Moffat
builds recently. We also depend on the ZFS Fast System Attributes project and can't integrate until that has done so. When I can commit to more detailed dates I will do. -- Darren J Moffat ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs on FDE

2009-10-13 Thread Darren J Moffat
Mike DeMarco wrote: Any reason why ZFS would not work on a FDE (Full Data Encryption) Hard drive? None providing the drive is available to the OS by normal means. -- Darren J Moffat ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http

Re: [zfs-discuss] Find out file changes by comparing snapshots?

2009-10-02 Thread Darren J Moffat
/ as filesystems you could just use basic UNIX tools like find/diff etc. -- Darren J Moffat ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Best way to convert checksums

2009-10-01 Thread Darren J Moffat
:3b4d66984ac9d6b4 0 2048 1 ZFS plain file SHA256 uncompressed 57f1e8168c58e8cf:3b20be148f57852e:f72ee8e3358f:1bfae4ae0599577c -- Darren J Moffat ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs

Re: [zfs-discuss] Best way to convert checksums

2009-09-30 Thread Darren J Moffat
of the files are written ??? Set it on the afx01 dataset before you do the receive and it will be inherited. -- Darren J Moffat ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Best way to convert checksums

2009-09-30 Thread Darren J Moffat
, and the property is on the home zfs file system. doesn't mater if zfs01 is the top level dataset or not. Before you do the receive do this: zfs set checksum=sha256 zfs01 -- Darren J Moffat ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http

Re: [zfs-discuss] Fixing Wikipedia tmpfs article (was Re: Which directories must be part of rpool?)

2009-09-28 Thread Darren J Moffat
Joerg Schilling wrote: Just to prove my information: I invented fbk (which Sun now calls lofi) Sun does NOT call your fbk by the name lofi. Lofi is a completely different implementation of the same concept. -- Darren J Moffat ___ zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Checksum property change does not change pre-existing data - right?

2009-09-24 Thread Darren J Moffat
: Changing this property only affects newly-written data. Therefore, set this property at file system creation time by using the -o copies=N option. I've filed a man page bug 6885203 to have similar text added for checksum and compression. -- Darren J Moffat

Re: [zfs-discuss] You're Invited: OpenSolaris Security Summit

2009-09-24 Thread Darren J Moffat
and live demo of ZFS Crypto at this event. -- Darren J Moffat ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs copy performance

2009-09-24 Thread Darren J Moffat
? What was the exact command line used in all three cases ? How was the time measured ? Were you sending a lot of snapshots as well ? cp/cpio don't know anything about ZFS snapshots (and shouldn't). -- Darren J Moffat ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs

Re: [zfs-discuss] RAIDZ versus mirrroed

2009-09-17 Thread Darren J Moffat
) a SLOG (Separate Log device). Note also the recent addition of the logbias dataset property. -- Darren J Moffat ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] migrating from linux to solaris ZFS

2009-09-17 Thread Darren J Moffat
not (ie it needs to be a single disk-sized partion), I can try moving. I'm assuming if I add a partition, I can do something like: zpool replace datapool sda sda1 What kind of partition table is on the disks, is it EFI ? If not that might be part of the issue. -- Darren J Moffat

Re: [zfs-discuss] migrating from linux to solaris ZFS

2009-09-17 Thread Darren J Moffat
0 3 4 0 2 ActiveSolaris2 4 4559945596100 and on the other: 1 ActiveSolaris2 1 4559945599100 -- Darren J Moffat ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] migrating from linux to solaris ZFS

2009-09-17 Thread Darren J Moffat
it - but sounds like you don't. -- Darren J Moffat ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] [osol-discuss] Which kind of ACLs does tmpfssupport?

2009-09-16 Thread Darren J Moffat
...@opensolaris.org where the pkg experts will be happy to engage. -- Darren J Moffat ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs send older version?

2009-09-16 Thread Darren J Moffat
version it just isn't possible in some cases because, while you could choose to nolonger care about userquota not caring about create time only properties such as ut8only and normalization is a very difficult issue. -- Darren J Moffat ___ zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] De-duplication before SXCE EOL ?

2009-09-11 Thread Darren J Moffat
Andre Lue wrote: Can anyone answer if we will get zfs de-duplication before SXCE EOL? If possible also anser the same on encryption? Why do you care wither it happens before SXCE EOL or not ? -- Darren J Moffat ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs

Re: [zfs-discuss] Using ZFS iscsi disk as ZFS disk

2009-09-09 Thread Darren J Moffat
label that 'zpool add' was going to fail anyway like this: # zpool add rpool c4t600144F04AA7AA68d0 invalid vdev specification use '-f' to override the following errors: mismatched replication level: pool uses mirror and new vdev is disk -- Darren J Moffat

Re: [zfs-discuss] Can ZFS simply concatenate LUNs (eg no RAID0)?

2009-09-08 Thread Darren J Moffat
to rebalance as new writes come in. If that's correct, is there a way to avoid that and get ZFS to write sequentially on the LUNs that are part of myPool? Why do you want to do that ? What do you actually think it gives you, other than possibly *worse* performance ? -- Darren J Moffat

Re: [zfs-discuss] Can ZFS simply concatenate LUNs (eg no RAID0)?

2009-09-08 Thread Darren J Moffat
://www.solarisinternals.com/wiki/index.php/ZFS_for_Databases and after that if you still need performance help read this one (last!): http://www.solarisinternals.com/wiki/index.php/ZFS_Evil_Tuning_Guide don't jump straight to the ZFS_Evil_Tuning_Guide - seriously! -- Darren J Moffat

Re: [zfs-discuss] pkg image-update to snv 121 - shouldn't ZFS version be upgraded on /rpool

2009-09-01 Thread Darren J Moffat
no older BE's left that you may wish to boot into that don't support the pool version you will be running if you do the upgrade. -- Darren J Moffat ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: [zfs-discuss] Status/priority of 6761786

2009-08-28 Thread Darren J Moffat
That isn't acutally another bug but an implementation artefact of the multiple release support in Bugster. Bug numbers beginning with 2* aren't actually real bugs bug sub-CRs of the main one. -- Darren J Moffat ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Poor iSCSI performance [SEC=PERSONAL]

2009-08-25 Thread Darren J Moffat
Duncan Groenewald wrote: Is there an easy way to update to snv_118 ? I am using 2009.06 (snv_111). # pkg set-authority -O http://pkg.opensolaris.org/dev opensolaris.org # pkg image-update # init 6 -- Darren J Moffat ___ zfs-discuss mailing list

Re: [zfs-discuss] Poor iSCSI performance [SEC=PERSONAL]

2009-08-25 Thread Darren J Moffat
build if it does. -- Darren J Moffat ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS recompression

2009-08-25 Thread Darren J Moffat
. -- Darren J Moffat ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] About snapshots auto or cron based

2009-08-24 Thread Darren J Moffat
/source/xref/jds/zfs-snapshot/README.zfs-auto-snapshot.txt -- Darren J Moffat ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs send/receive and compression

2009-08-24 Thread Darren J Moffat
://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=681263 -- Darren J Moffat ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] incremental backup with zfs to file

2009-08-24 Thread Darren J Moffat
then. -- Darren J Moffat ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Crypto Updates [PSARC/2009/443 FastTrack timeout 08/24/2009]

2009-08-18 Thread Darren J Moffat
Garrett D'Amore wrote: Darren J Moffat wrote: Dataset rename restrictions --- On rename a dataset can non be moved out of its wrapping key hierarchy ie where it inherits the keysource property from. This is best explained by example: # zfs get -r keysource tank

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Crypto Updates [PSARC/2009/443 FastTrack timeout 08/24/2009]

2009-08-18 Thread Darren J Moffat
Crypto project directly but it will benefit if it is implemented. If you can and wish to help out please contact crypto-disc...@opensolaris.org -- Darren J Moffat ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman

[zfs-discuss] ZFS Crypto Updates [PSARC/2009/443 FastTrack timeout 08/24/2009]

2009-08-17 Thread Darren J Moffat
Template Version: @(#)sac_nextcase 1.68 02/23/09 SMI This information is Copyright 2009 Sun Microsystems 1. Introduction 1.1. Project/Component Working Name: ZFS Crypto Updates 1.2. Name of Document Author/Supplier: Author: Darren Moffat 1.3 Date of This Document:

Re: [zfs-discuss] unsetting/resetting ZFS properties

2009-08-13 Thread Darren J Moffat
if you have a hostname called inherit that is going to be very confusing for the share* properties. If there is an issue here I believe we should first trying and resolve it with documentation changes. -- Darren J Moffat ___ zfs-discuss mailing list

Re: [zfs-discuss] the antithesis of zfs

2009-08-13 Thread Darren J Moffat
integrates I hope to have time to look at a erase behind capability, this would be a per dataset property (or maybe even a per file attribute). -- Darren J Moffat ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman

Re: [zfs-discuss] raidz

2009-08-12 Thread Darren J Moffat
boot environments. Especially since the menu format of grub2 is different to the grub 0.97 that OpenSolaris currently uses. -- Darren J Moffat ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs

Re: [zfs-discuss] new logbias property

2009-08-11 Thread Darren J Moffat
the implementation and keeping the meaning. It is the intent that matters to the administrator not the implementation. -- Darren J Moffat ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] new logbias property

2009-08-11 Thread Darren J Moffat
' is much more intuitive :-) That would make sense though, eg: logdest=latency|throughput Which is why it is logbias, it isn't the destination of the log that is latency or throughput but the bias. -- Darren J Moffat ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs

Re: [zfs-discuss] pathnames in zfs(1M) arguments

2009-08-10 Thread Darren J Moffat
, that shouldn't be a problem. I'll gladly sponsor the ARC case for you if you are willing to code and test this ready for integration. -- Darren J Moffat ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman

Re: [zfs-discuss] Shrinking a zpool?

2009-08-06 Thread Darren J Moffat
into the kernel. -- Darren J Moffat ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Shrinking a zpool?

2009-08-06 Thread Darren J Moffat
in the SS7000 systems. -- Darren J Moffat ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] feature proposal

2009-07-30 Thread Darren J Moffat
things by: $ mkdir .zfs/snapshot/snap-name That already works if you have the snapshot delegation as that user. It even works over NFS and CIFS. -- Darren J Moffat ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org

Re: [zfs-discuss] feature proposal

2009-07-30 Thread Darren J Moffat
-- Darren J Moffat ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] feature proposal

2009-07-30 Thread Darren J Moffat
James Lever wrote: Hi Darryn, On 30/07/2009, at 6:33 PM, Darren J Moffat wrote: That already works if you have the snapshot delegation as that user. It even works over NFS and CIFS. Can you give us an example of how to correctly get this working? On the host that has the ZFS datasets (ie

Re: [zfs-discuss] feature proposal

2009-07-30 Thread Darren J Moffat
James Lever wrote: On 30/07/2009, at 11:32 PM, Darren J Moffat wrote: On the host that has the ZFS datasets (ie the NFS/CIFS server) you need to give the user the delegation to create snapshots and to mount them: # zfs allow -u james snapshot,mount,destroy tank/home/james Ahh

Re: [zfs-discuss] feature proposal

2009-07-29 Thread Darren J Moffat
can work unmodified and do the right thing when an administrator wants a policy of a separate fs per user But I am sure that there could be other interesting uses for this. A good use case. Another good one is shared build machine which is similar to the home dir case. -- Darren J Moffat

Re: [zfs-discuss] feature proposal

2009-07-29 Thread Darren J Moffat
a flag (-Z?) to useradd(1M) and usermod(1M) so that if base_dir is on ZFS, then the user's homedir is created as a new file system (assuming -m). Which makes me wonder: is there a programmatic way to determine if a path is on ZFS? st_fstype field of struct stat. -- Darren J Moffat

Re: [zfs-discuss] feature proposal

2009-07-29 Thread Darren J Moffat
(2) syscall. -- Darren J Moffat ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] feature proposal

2009-07-29 Thread Darren J Moffat
over NFS/CIFS but still useful). I have a prototype PAM module that uses the users login password as the ZFS dataset wrapping key and keeps that in sync with the users login password on password change. -- Darren J Moffat ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs

Re: [zfs-discuss] How to mirror an entire zfs pool to another pool

2009-07-28 Thread Darren J Moffat
the new filesystems. -- Darren J Moffat ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] How to mirror an entire zfs pool to another pool

2009-07-28 Thread Darren J Moffat
this: zpool export newpool zpool import newpool oldpool Sorry I'm being dense here, I think I sort of get it but I don't have the whole picture. You are very close, there is some more info in the zfs(1M) man page. -- Darren J Moffat ___ zfs

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Mirror cloning

2009-07-24 Thread Darren J Moffat
/boot pool. See 6849185 and 5097228. -- Darren J Moffat ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs mirroring question

2009-07-22 Thread Darren J Moffat
. In particular what type of disks these are and how they are attached, eg: IDE, SATA, SAS, USB, FC, iSCSI... I'm assuming since you said basic mirroring you don't have any hot spares configured that would have kicked in. -- Darren J Moffat ___ zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Encryption

2009-07-21 Thread Darren J Moffat
encryption=on tank c0t0d0s0 Even if you need to boot from a filesystem in the pool you *can* still have the swap ZVOL encrypted. -- Darren J Moffat ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs

Re: [zfs-discuss] first use send/receive... somewhat confused.

2009-07-13 Thread Darren J Moffat
more flexibility in that the source and destination filesystem types can be different or even not a filesystem! zfs send|recv and [g,s]tar exist for different purposes, but there are some overlapping use cases either either could do the job. -- Darren J Moffat

Re: [zfs-discuss] first use send/receive... somewhat confused.

2009-07-13 Thread Darren J Moffat
Joerg Schilling wrote: Darren J Moffat darr...@opensolaris.org wrote: use star from Jörg Schilling because its dead easy : star -copy -p -acl -sparse -dump -C old_dir . new_dir ... star doesn't (and shouldn't) create the destination ZFS filesystem like the zfs recv would. It also

Re: [zfs-discuss] Question about user/group quotas

2009-07-10 Thread Darren J Moffat
a support contract ? Do you actually have a support contract for OpenSolaris 2009.06 (if not then personally I'd say zero difference but I'm an OpenSolaris developer and I'm used to living on the latest builds). -- Darren J Moffat ___ zfs-discuss

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