Re: [zfs-discuss] At what level does the zfs directory exist?

2010-06-16 Thread Thommy M . Malmström
From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Arne Jansen Don't host 50k filesystems on a single pool. It's more pain than it's worth. I assume Michael has reached this conclusion due to factors which are not necessary to

Re: [zfs-discuss] Compellant announces zNAS

2010-04-29 Thread Thommy M . Malmström
What operating system does it run? -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

[zfs-discuss] new disk but zfs/zpool commands hangs

2009-08-19 Thread Thommy M . Malmström
I bought a 1 TB external USB disk from Western Digital (1) and put it in my 2008.11 machine.The machine discovered the disk directly and I did a 'zpool create xpool c11t0d0´ command # zpool list NAME SIZE USED AVAILCAP HEALTH ALTROOT [...] xpool 928G81K 928G 0%

Re: [zfs-discuss] compression at zfs filesystem creation

2009-06-15 Thread Thommy M.
Bob Friesenhahn wrote: On Mon, 15 Jun 2009, Shannon Fiume wrote: I just installed 2009.06 and found that compression isn't enabled by default when filesystems are created. Does is make sense to have an RFE open for this? (I'll open one tonight if need be.) We keep telling people to turn on

[zfs-discuss] How to mount rpool and edit vfstab from LiveCD?

2009-01-04 Thread Thommy M . Malmström
My son (15 years old) has installed OpenSolaris 2008.11 on disk on his system and everything was OK until he made a newbie mistake and edited the /etc/vfstab file incorrectly, that now prevents him from booting. (Think he had done too much Linux...) It just hangs on the splash screen. My idea was

Re: [zfs-discuss] Best practice for ZFS on boot disk - use HW RAID? or ZFS Mirroring?

2008-11-19 Thread Thommy M. Malmström
Raymond Scott wrote: I'm very glad to see ZFS for boot available now. We have begun to use X4150 servers and had settled on using the built-in HW RAID for mirroring the drives in pairs. Two for Boot, two for data etc... Is it a good idea to first create a HW RAID mirror and then install

Re: [zfs-discuss] Subversion repository on ZFS

2008-08-28 Thread Thommy M. Malmström
Toby Thain wrote: On 27-Aug-08, at 5:47 PM, Ian Collins wrote: Tim writes: On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 3:29 PM, Ian Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone have any tuning tips for a Subversion repository on ZFS? The repository will mainly be storing binary (MS Office documents).

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS questions

2008-07-23 Thread Thommy M.
Richard Gilmore wrote: Hello Zfs Community, I am trying to locate if zfs has a compatible tool to Veritas's vxbench? Any ideas? I see a tool called vdbench that looks close, but it is not a Sun tool, does Sun recommend something to customers moving from Veritas to ZFS and like vxbench

Re: [zfs-discuss] kernel panic - was it zfs related?

2008-07-16 Thread Thommy M.
Michael Hale wrote: Around 9:45 this morning, our mailserver (SunOS 5.11 snv_91 i86pc i386 i86pc) rebooted. [...] dumping to /dev/zvol/dsk/rootpool/dump, offset 65536, content: kernel Is there a way to tell if ZFS caused the kernel panic? I notice that it says imapd: in the middle of

Re: [zfs-discuss] More USB Storage Issues

2008-06-05 Thread Thommy M. Malmström
Nathan Kroenert wrote: For what it's worth, I started playing with USB + flash + ZFS and was most unhappy for quite a while. I was suffering with things hanging, going slow or just going away and breaking, and thought I was witnessing something zfs was doing as I was trying to do mirror

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Hardware Check, OS X Compatibility, NEWBIE!!

2008-06-03 Thread Thommy M.
Darryl wrote: This thread really messed me up, posts dont follow a chronological order... so sorry for all the extra posts! That's what you get when you don't use working tools like usenet news. nntp for ever!!! ___ zfs-discuss mailing list

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS problems with USB Storage devices

2008-06-02 Thread Thommy M.
Paulo Soeiro wrote: Greetings, I was experimenting with zfs, and i made the following test, i shutdown the computer during a write operation in a mirrored usb storage filesystem. Here is my configuration NGS USB 2.0 Minihub 4 3 USB Silicom Power Storage Pens 1 GB each These are the

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS problems with USB Storage devices

2008-06-02 Thread Thommy M.
Justin Vassallo wrote: Thommy, If I read correctly your post stated that the pools did not automount on startup, not that they would go corrupt. It seems to me that Paulo is actually experiencing a corrupt fs Nah, I also had indications of corrupted data if you read my posts. But the data

Re: [zfs-discuss] NFS4-sharing-ZFS issues

2008-05-22 Thread Thommy M. Malmström
Bob Friesenhahn wrote: On Wed, 21 May 2008, Will Murnane wrote: So, my questions are: * Are there options I can set server- or client-side to make Solaris child mounts happen automatically (i.e., match the Linux behavior)? * Will this behave with automounts? What I'd like to do is list