I created a zpool called 'data' from 7 disks.
I created zfs filesystems on the zpool for each Xen vm
I can choose to recursively snapshot all 'data'
I can choose to snapshot the individual 'directories'
If you use mkdir, I don't believe you can snapshot/restore at that level
Malachi de
I had a similar issue on boot after upgrade in the past and it was due to
the large number of snapshots I had... don't know if that could be related
or not...
Malachi de Ælfweald
http://www.google.com/profiles/malachid
On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 8:59 AM, Andrew Jones andrewnjo...@gmail.comwrote
I did a fresh install a week ago. Because of Time Slider / auto-snapshot
being installed, I have 15 pages of snapshots.
Malachi
On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 8:53 AM, Paweł Tęcza [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Dnia 2008-11-23, nie o godzinie 13:41 +0530, Sanjeev Bagewadi pisze:
Thank your very much for
, Nov 25, 2008 at 1:24 PM, Paweł Tęcza [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Dnia 2008-11-25, wto o godzinie 10:16 -0800, Malachi de Ælfweald pisze:
I did a fresh install a week ago. Because of Time Slider /
auto-snapshot being installed, I have 15 pages of snapshots.
Malachi,
You only wrote that you
It used to. Although, with the Time Slider now, I agree that it shouldn't by
default
Malachi
On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 3:29 PM, Pawel Tecza [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Ahmed Kamal pisze:
zfs list -t snapshot ?
Hi Ahmed,
Thanks a lot for the hint! It works. I didn't know that I have so many
Sounds like you are having this problem:
http://malsserver.blogspot.com/2008/11/zfs-auto-snapshot-and-thus-time-slider.html
On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 5:47 PM, Victor Hooi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
heya,
I'm using OpenSolaris 2008.11 (101a), and trying to use the time-slider
functionality.
Personally, I did ZFS Mirroring for the boot and RAID-Z2 for the data.
The primary reason I did ZFS Mirroring instead of HW Mirroring for the boot
is that my motherboard did the hybrid hw raid and required reboot to fix it
in case of failure. With ZFS mirroring, it's hot swappable.
Malachi
On
Currently, you can mirror your boot but not raidz2 it. I'd recommend using 2
of the drives for a mirrored boot and the other 6 drives for raidz2. I used
2x Addonics AE5RCS35NSA to hold the drives to give me hot swappability.
Out of curiousity, is there any reason you are going with vmware rather
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On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 8:24 AM, gm_sjo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
2008/9/12 Malachi de Ælfweald:
Currently, you can mirror your boot but not raidz2 it. I'd recommend
using 2 of the drives for a mirrored boot and the other 6 drives for raidz2.
I used 2x Addonics AE5RCS35NSA
Take a look at my xVM/GRUB config:
http://malsserver.blogspot.com/2008/08/installing-xvm.html
On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 9:25 AM, Trevor Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote:
I just ran live-upgrade of my system from nv94/UFS to nv96/ZFS on x86.
nv96/ZFS boots okay. However, I can't boot the Solaris
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.
So I spent some time trying to get the 2nd slice up on the 2nd disk... I did
manage to finally get it on there by saving the partition table to
format.dat and reformatting the 2nd disk using it, but as soon as I did the
zpool attach, it wiped out the slice 2 again. I also tried the prtvtoc and
on the target side remain.
should work fine that way,
-- MikeE
--
*From:* Malachi de Ælfweald [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
*Sent:* Wednesday, August 06, 2008 12:11 AM
*To:* Ellis, Mike
*Subject:* Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS boot mirror
Hmmm. I tried c5t1d0 which gave
It looks like we finally got it working. The log of what Mike had me do to
fix it is
herehttp://malsserver.blogspot.com/2008/08/mirroring-resolved-correct-way.htmlin
case anyone else runs into this. Thanks to everyone who helped with
this.
Thanks again!
Mal
On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 9:40 PM,
I have to say, looking at that confuses me a little. How can the two disks
be mirrored when the partition tables don't match?
On Sun, Aug 3, 2008 at 6:00 AM, andrew [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
OK, I've put up some screenshots and a copy of my menu.lst to clarify my
setup:
I just tried that, but the installgrub keeps failing:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# zpool status
pool: rpool
state: ONLINE
scrub: resilver completed after 0h1m with 0 errors on Sat Aug 2 01:44:55
2008
config:
NAME STATE READ WRITE CKSUM
rpool ONLINE 0 0 0
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# installgrub /boot/grub/stage1 /boot/grub/stage2
/dev/rdsk/c5t1d0s2
raw device must be a root slice (not s2)
and trying rdsk with s0 gave same error as before
On Sat, Aug 2, 2008 at 2:02 AM, Enda O'Connor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Malachi de Ælfweald wrote:
I just tried
Have you verified that it will auto failover correctly if one is s0 and one
is s2?
On Sat, Aug 2, 2008 at 3:53 PM, andrew [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I ran into this as well. For some reason installgrub needs slice 2 to be
the special backup slice that covers the whole disk, as in Solaris. You
I had originally considered something similar, but... for ZFS snapshot
abilities, I am leaning more towards zfs-hosted NFS... Most of the other VMs
(FreeBSD, for example) can install onto NFS, it wouldn't actually be going
over the network, and it would allow file-level restore instead of
I am running the zfsboot from b62. So far, it has been recommended that I
not upgrade to a newer build.
Malachi
On 5/31/07, Mike Dotson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've been using the zfsbootkit to modify my jumpstart images. As far as
I know, the kit is the current process for zfs boot until
I'm actually wondering the same thing because I have b62 w/ the ZFS bits;
but need the snapshot's -r functionality.
Malachi
On 5/25/07, Constantin Gonzalez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
I'm a big fan of live upgrade. I'm also a big fan of ZFS boot. The latter
is
more important for me. And
A few of us used the same b62 boot images, with some having the boot loop
problems and some not. It seems it may have been related to the specific
profile used. Could you post the contents of your pfinstall profile?
Thanks,
Malachi
On 5/14/07, Steffen Weinreich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi
.
On 10/05/07, Malachi de Ælfweald [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I was thinking of setting up rotating snapshots... probably do
pool/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Is Tim's method (
http://blogs.sun.com/timf/entry/zfs_automatic_snapshots_0_8
) the current preferred plan?
--
Rasputin :: Jack of All Trades
That's a good catch - I had indeed changed mine to rootpool, but didn't
think the chosen name mattered.
On 5/1/07, Rob Logan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
sits there for a second, then boot loops and comes back to the grub
menu.
I noticed this too when I was playing... using
kernel$
The only big difference I see between what you did and what I did was I
didn't have the cluster line.
On reboot, mine said something like 'Solaris nv_b62'
Is it possible there were any errors while it was installing?
If it generates a log during install, maybe you can ftp it away before the
/BE1/export auto /export
metadb c1d0s7 size 8192 count 3
metadb c2d0s7 size 8192 count 3
As I said, might not be the best or even correct, but thanks to the patched
DVD, it is up and running :)
Malachi
On 4/25/07, Malachi de Ælfweald [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
That's awesome!
So, to clarify
Just an interesting side note networked based logging isn't always a bad
thing. I'll give you an example. My Netgear router will crash within 1/2
hour if I turn local logging on. However, it has no problems sending the
logs via syslog to another machine.
Just a thought.
Mal
On 4/26/07,
That's awesome!
So, to clarify... If I burn the b62_zfsboot.iso to a DVD and boot from it
with the intention of doing a fresh install
What are the correct steps to do the setup with a zfs mirrored boot? Follow
the installer? Follow the netinstall or Tom's instructions?
Thanks,
Malachi
On
Maybe so that it can grow rather than being tied to a specific piece of
hardware?
Malachi
On 4/25/07, Brian Gupta [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Yes, dump on ZVOL isn't currently supported, so a dump slice is still
needed.
Maybe a dumb question, but why would anyone ever want to dump to an
actual
I currently have b60 kinda installed (there, but still having some issues
learning my way around configuration). I am downloading b62 now in order to
try to switch to zfs mirrored root. I thought that I should make sure I know
what I am doing before I go forward, so here are a few questions...
As I don't have a jumpstart system either, I think this might be the best
approach for me as well... I can use the old b60 install to make the
modified b62.
Thanks,
Malachi
On 4/24/07, mario heimel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
hi brain,
in the following blueprint you will find the way to make
Hmmm... I definitely missed this one... I thought the documentation said
that using zpool attach would add a new drive to the existing raidz(2) and
then it would start resilvering...
Malachi
On 4/7/07, Eric Haycraft [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You cannot add 1 drive at a time to a raid-z or
corrected]
On April 8, 2007 1:43:48 PM -0700 Malachi de Ælfweald [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
On 4/7/07, Eric Haycraft [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You cannot add 1 drive at a time to a raid-z or raid-2z. You need to
add
the same number of disks that were used per stripe.. So, if you start
with 5 disks
not going to need that functionality right away, but
have to admit it was one of the reasons I have been touting ZFS to everyone.
Malachi
On 4/8/07, Erik Trimble [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Malachi de Ælfweald wrote:
Hmmm... I definitely missed this one... I thought the documentation
said that using
I was considering the same thing (but with 250GB drives)
and instead decided to start with 5*250GB
so that I could do raid-z2 instead
thinking that once you add one more drive
you'd rather have raidz2 than raidz
On 4/7/07, MC [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Two conflicting answers to the same
But even with b62, you won't be able to start with the zfs mirror right?
You'll have to do UFS then convert it?
Malachi
On 4/5/07, Darren Dunham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
a) possible to start from a raidz pool?
No. At this point raidz pool is not usable as a boot pool.
Is this possible
Yes, running Solaris as Dom0.
I will be letting each domain owner choose their own OS for their DomU.
I will also be running some unmodified DomU (like JNODE), which is why I
bought a system with AMD-V.
Malachi
On 3/29/07, Chris Beal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Robert Milkowski wrote:
Hello
I did `zpool create data raidz2 c3d0 c4d0 c5d0 c6d0 c7d0`
`zpool list` says data has 1.13T avaialble
`zfs list` says data has 680G available
Malachi
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zfs-discuss mailing list
zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org
to be a bug...
Malachi
On 3/29/07, Tomas Ögren [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 29 March, 2007 - Malachi de Ælfweald sent me these 1,1K bytes:
I did `zpool create data raidz2 c3d0 c4d0 c5d0 c6d0 c7d0`
`zpool list` says data has 1.13T avaialble
How much disk space exists in the pool.
`zfs list
Just to clarify,
If we wanted to do this with ZFS as the entire disk (where we currently have
UFS), would we copy everything over (the cpio bit) to an uninvolved
filesystem, then do the zpool on the disks that used to have UFS (and the
one we are mirroring to) -- thus destroying the original UFS
I was thinking of something similar. When we go to download the various bits
(iso-a.zip through iso-e.zip and the md5sums), it seems like there should
also be Release Notes on the list of files being downloaded. Similar to the
Java release notes, I would expect it to point out which bugs were
Sorry, thought I did reply-to-all.
On 3/28/07, Malachi de Ælfweald [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I think so.
I can access:
http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/on/flag-days/pages/2007032801/
I can not access:
http://www.fs.central/projects/zfsboot/zfsboot_manual_setup.html
Malachi
On 3/28/07
Should they also be put up on:
http://opensolaris.org/os/project/zfsboot/
On 3/28/07, Robert Milkowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello Richard,
Wednesday, March 28, 2007, 11:14:41 PM, you wrote:
RE Cyril Plisko wrote:
First of all I'd like to congratulate the ZFS boot team with the
Could I get your opinion then? I have just downloaded and burnt the b60
ISO. I was just getting ready to follow Tabriz and Tim's instructions from
last year in order to get the ZFS root boot. Seeing the Heads Up, it says
that the old mechanism will no longer work.
Should I:
a) install b60,
So would you say use the default layout (most of the extra space going into
/export/home)?
Malachi
On 3/28/07, Robert Milkowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello Nicholas,
Thursday, March 29, 2007, 12:15:31 AM, you wrote:
On 3/29/07, Malachi de Ælfweald [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote
Ok. Will install b60 with large / and a 2xMemory swap...
Will wait to specify the mirror until I go to do the ZFS
Got the ON instructions up, looking them over to see about BFU'ing
Malachi
On 3/28/07, Robert Milkowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello Malachi,
Thursday, March 29, 2007,
Why 2x(4G)? Hmmm. Good question. I guess I am just used to doing that for
FreeBSD. I do plan on running multiple Xen domU at the same time... Are you
thinking swap shouldn't be that big?
Don't BFU? I'm good with that :) I'd prefer to get to know Solaris before
screwing it up too much.
BTW: Is
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On 3/28/07, Robert Milkowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello Malachi,
Thursday, March 29, 2007, 1:36:46 AM, you wrote:
Why 2x(4G)? Hmmm. Good question. I guess I am just used to doing that for
FreeBSD. I do plan on running multiple Xen domU at the same time... Are you
/07, Malachi de Ælfweald [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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On 3/28/07, Robert Milkowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello Malachi,
Thursday, March 29, 2007, 1:36:46 AM, you wrote:
Why 2x(4G)? Hmmm. Good question. I guess I am just used to doing that
for FreeBSD. I do plan
Is that on slice 0? Mine is trying to do it on c1d0s0
On 3/28/07, Shawn Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 28/03/07, Malachi de Ælfweald [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In the BIOS, LBA is set to Auto (with only other option being Disabled)
Running in text mode, it says that the '/' partition has
) '/'
Malachi
On 3/28/07, Shawn Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 28/03/07, Malachi de Ælfweald [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Is that on slice 0? Mine is trying to do it on c1d0s0
Yes, c2d0s0 in my case.
--
Less is only more where more is no good. --Frank Lloyd Wright
Shawn Walker, Software and Systems
If I had had that a few months ago, I might have designed a completely
different system.
Great job!
Malachi
On 3/27/07, MC [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
o I've got a modified Solaris miniroot with ZFS
functionality which
takes up about 60 MB (The compressed image, which
GRUB uses, is less
A little background... Awhile back, a FreeBSD server (running 7 domains) I
had running for 3 years (without reboot) got hacked into over Christmas
break. They wiped everything, including most of the logs. I was able to
determine that they got in from one of the user accounts. As you could
I had thought about it, but from what I understand that limits the other VMs
to Solaris. I have a few different administrators that are going to be
running their own OSes (freebsd, linux, possibly windows), as well as some
development ones (like jnode). From what I was able to find, that means
I took a look at some Jumpstart instructions...
As a n00b to Solaris Administration, I think I am likely to screw that up at
the moment.
I know that with my FreeBSD system, I specified the RAID at the hardware
level then fdisk detected the volume as something I could install to...
Last time I
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