Re: [zfs-discuss] can anyone help me?

2008-06-02 Thread Henrik Hjort
Hi Hernan, after looking at your posts my suggestion would be to try the OpenSolaris 2008.05 Live CD and to import your pool using the CD. That CD is nv86 + some extra fixes. You will have to use 'pfexec' when you are trying to import the pool. ( www.opensolaris.com ) I read this and I am not

Re: [zfs-discuss] SMC Webconsole 3.1 and ZFS Administration 1.0 - stacktraces in snv_b89

2008-06-02 Thread Jean-Paul Rivet
A further update. With B90 and UFS as root partition, the ZFS administration GUI worked fine. So I presented two additional disks and proceeded to create a zpool. The creation of the pool worked fine however the ZFS administration interface is now broken with the same error as in the original

Re: [zfs-discuss] SMC Webconsole 3.1 and ZFS Administration 1.0 - stacktraces in snv_b89

2008-06-02 Thread Jean-Paul Rivet
I checked - this system has a UFS root. When installed as snv_84 and then LU'd to snv_89, and when I fiddled with these packages from various other releases, it had the stacktrace instead of the ZFS admin GUI (or the well-known smcwebserver restart effect for the older packages). .

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 Project Hardware

2008-06-02 Thread Erik Trimble
Keith Bierman wrote: On May 30, 2008, at 6:59 PM, Erik Trimble wrote: The only drawback of the older Socket 940 Opterons is that they don't support the hardware VT extensions, so running a Windows guest under xVM on them isn't currently possible. From the VirtualBox manual,

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

2008-06-02 Thread Tim
On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 8:25 AM, Darryl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is my first post here, and i hope it is ok that i posted in this thread. I have been doing a bit of reading on the solaris platforms, and seem to be inclined to try out the open solaris os or solaris 10. My only worry is

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

2008-06-02 Thread Darryl
This is my first post here, and i hope it is ok that i posted in this thread. I have been doing a bit of reading on the solaris platforms, and seem to be inclined to try out the open solaris os or solaris 10. My only worry is that my lack of knowledge with the command line may make this

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

2008-06-02 Thread Will Murnane
On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 9:25 AM, Darryl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it possible to do iscsi over wifi, aside from speed limitations of the wireless, i wanted to format the drive in hfs format. It should be, it's just IP. But why not use CIFS to share it instead? It'd be more portable across

Re: [zfs-discuss] can anyone help me?

2008-06-02 Thread Hernan Freschi
Thanks for your answer, after looking at your posts my suggestion would be to try the OpenSolaris 2008.05 Live CD and to import your pool using the CD. That CD is nv86 + some extra fixes. I upgraded the snv85 to snv89 to see if it helped, but it didn't. I'll try to download the 2008.05 CD

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

2008-06-02 Thread Justin Vassallo
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 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Thommy M. Sent: 02

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

2008-06-02 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Mon, 2 Jun 2008, Darryl wrote: My end goal is to use this box, to store my media files. Connect it to my airport extreme router via gigabit ether, and depending on situation access data via wifi (smb share) or ether via router (iscsi), both on a Mac. Is it possible to do iscsi over

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Project Hardware

2008-06-02 Thread Keith Bierman
On Jun 2, 2008, at 3:24 AM 6/2/, Erik Trimble wrote: Keith Bierman wrote: On May 30, 2008, at 6:59 PM, Erik Trimble wrote: The only drawback of the older Socket 940 Opterons is that they don't support the hardware VT extensions, so running a Windows guest under xVM on them isn't

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

2008-06-02 Thread MC
Use froogle for price checking. I don't know what chipsets are supported by opensolaris, but if I were you I'd be looking hard at motherboards with as much integrated as possible. For instance, for less than $100 you can get a mini-atx motherboard with 6 SATA ports and onboard video. I found

Re: [zfs-discuss] What is a vdev?

2008-06-02 Thread Robert Petkus
As a side bar, since you cannot remove a vdev, you can really shot oneself in the foot if not careful (as I recently did). I had a X4500 system with (4) RAIDz2 vdevs in one pool. When adding a disk to the system, I forgot to add it as a spare and I was left with a stripe across the

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs equivalent of ufsdump and ufsrestore

2008-06-02 Thread Chris Siebenmann
| My impression is that the only real problem with incrementals from | ufsdump or star is that you would like to have a database that tells | you in which incremental a specific file with a specific time stamp | may be found. In our situation here, this is done by the overall backup system

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs equivalent of ufsdump and ufsrestore

2008-06-02 Thread Joerg Schilling
Chris Siebenmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | My impression is that the only real problem with incrementals from | ufsdump or star is that you would like to have a database that tells | you in which incremental a specific file with a specific time stamp | may be found. In our situation here,

Re: [zfs-discuss] /var/sadm on zfs?

2008-06-02 Thread Volker A. Brandt
On my heavily-patched Solaris 10U4 system, the size of /var (on UFS) has gotten way out of hand due to the remarkably large growth of /var/sadm. Can this directory tree be safely moved to a zfs filesystem? How much of /var can be moved to a zfs filesystem without causing boot or runtime

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

2008-06-02 Thread Brandon High
On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 6:25 AM, Darryl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: MB $134.99 ASUS M2N-SLI Deluxe AM2 NVIDIA nForce 570 SLI MCP ATX AMD Motherboard - Retail http://www.newegg.com/Product/...Item=N82E16813131013 [..] Video Card $19.99 ASUS EN6200LE/TC256/TD/64 GeForce 6200LE 256MB(64MB on Board)

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS sharing options for Windows

2008-06-02 Thread Tom Buskey
Justin, Thanks for the reply In the environment I currently work in, the powers that be are almost completely anti unix. Installing the nfs client on all machines would take a real good sales pitch. None the less I am still I've pro unix I'm against putting NFS on all the PC clients

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] ZFS Hardware Check, OS X Compatibility, NEWBIE!!

2008-06-02 Thread Darryl
AGHH thank you all for your responses! Took me a while to figure out this forum, as i was getting email responses and wasn't sure if i needed to reply here, so i apologize to those i emailed personally!! As advised by Brandon, the miniatx boards would have a lower power consumption, so i

[zfs-discuss] how to migrating from UFS in a short time.

2008-06-02 Thread wan_jm
In our system, we need to migrating from UFS in a short time. according to the ZFS_Best_Practices_Guide. before migration, we should unshared the UFS, and then umount the ZFS,and then do migration, which means during migration, the service on the machine should stop. but we can't afford the

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Project Hardware

2008-06-02 Thread Tom Buskey
(2) You want a 64-bit CPU. So that probably rules out your P4 machines, unless they were extremely late-model P4s with the EM64T features. Given that file-serving alone is relatively low-CPU, you can get away with practically any 64-bit capable CPU made in the last 4 years. Assuming

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

2008-06-02 Thread Brandon High
On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 11:53 AM, Darryl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have read that PSU's that come with cases are far from reliable? Is this truly the case? Inexpensive cases have inexpensive power supplies. Most of the Antec cases come with good power supplies. I have a Thermaltake Matrix

[zfs-discuss] install opensolaris on raidz

2008-06-02 Thread Alex
Hi, Using the opensolaris installer I've created a raidz array from two 500GB hdds, but the installer keeps seening two hdds, not the array I've just made. How do I install opensolaris on raidz array? Thanks! This message posted from opensolaris.org

Re: [zfs-discuss] install opensolaris on raidz

2008-06-02 Thread Richard Elling
Alex wrote: Hi, Using the opensolaris installer I've created a raidz array from two 500GB hdds, but the installer keeps seening two hdds, not the array I've just made. How do I install opensolaris on raidz array? You don't. Today, only simple or mirrored vdevs are usable for ZFS boot

[zfs-discuss] Moving pool to new controller?

2008-06-02 Thread Scott L. Burson
Hi, I'm running snv_86 on a Tyan S2882-D. This board has an onboard Sil3114 SATA controller which I have been using for my ZFS pool. Now I am trying to use Xen, and I am told that it doesn't work with IDE mode disk drivers; but the 3114 doesn't seem to have a native SATA mode (the BIOS just

Re: [zfs-discuss] Moving pool to new controller?

2008-06-02 Thread Tomas Ögren
On 02 June, 2008 - Scott L. Burson sent me these 0,8K bytes: Hi, I'm running snv_86 on a Tyan S2882-D. This board has an onboard Sil3114 SATA controller which I have been using for my ZFS pool. Now I am trying to use Xen, and I am told that it doesn't work with IDE mode disk drivers; but

Re: [zfs-discuss] install opensolaris on raidz

2008-06-02 Thread Tomas Ögren
On 02 June, 2008 - Richard Elling sent me these 0,5K bytes: Alex wrote: Hi, Using the opensolaris installer I've created a raidz array from two 500GB hdds, but the installer keeps seening two hdds, not the array I've just made. How do I install opensolaris on raidz array? You

Re: [zfs-discuss] Moving pool to new controller?

2008-06-02 Thread Scott L. Burson
zpool export blah move stuff zpool import blah Great, thanks, sorry for the FAQ :) Would still like advice on the 1420SA. -- Scott This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org

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

2008-06-02 Thread Luke Scharf
Brandon High wrote: Inexpensive cases have inexpensive power supplies. Most of the Antec cases come with good power supplies. I have a Thermaltake Matrix case that came with a PSU and it's been reliable for 2 years. I believe the case and PSU was about $100. I just picked up an Antec

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

2008-06-02 Thread Volker A. Brandt
Consider a motherboard based on the R690G/SB600 chipset or the nVidia 7050. The ASUS M2A-VM (690) is $70 and has on board video. I think only the sound is not supported. Likewise the nVidia ASUS M2N-VM (7050) is $70. I believe both have only 4 SATA ports, but that should be ok for your

Re: [zfs-discuss] Moving pool to new controller?

2008-06-02 Thread Scott L. Burson
Never mind, I see the 1420SA doesn't work. (Search Google for 1420sa solaris.) The Supermicro AOC-SAT2-MV8 seems to be the recommended choice. -- Scott This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list

Re: [zfs-discuss] Moving pool to new controller?

2008-06-02 Thread Brandon High
On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 2:17 PM, Scott L. Burson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Would still like advice on the 1420SA. It's been mentioned before. The 1420SA does not work. -B -- Brandon High [EMAIL PROTECTED] The good is the enemy of the best. - Nietzsche

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

2008-06-02 Thread Darryl
Sata Controller (26.99) http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816132008 Asus M2A-VM (79.99) http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131174 CPU $39.99 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819103199 Case $49.99

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

2008-06-02 Thread Brandon High
On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 3:21 PM, Darryl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sata Controller (26.99) http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816132008 You may need to flash the BIOS on this card to disable the RAID features. I think you can get the correct image from the Silicon Image website.

Re: [zfs-discuss] Create ZFS now, add mirror later

2008-06-02 Thread Boyd Adamson
Richard Elling [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: W. Wayne Liauh wrote: E. Mike Durbin wrote: Is there a way to to a create a zfs file system (e.g. zpool create boot /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s1) Then, (after vacating the old boot disk) add another device and make the zpool a mirror?

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

2008-06-02 Thread Darryl
I dont know what hapenned to the thread, i can only read up to the 6th post... But i have narrowed down my hardware for my build, and will commence purchasing it all slowly. Thank you to all that have assisted me! I am apologizing in advance, as i know when i have my equipment, i'll be

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

2008-06-02 Thread Darryl
This thread really messed me up, posts dont follow a chronological order... so sorry for all the extra posts! This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [zfs-discuss] Space used by the snapshot

2008-06-02 Thread Boyd Adamson
Silvio Armando Davi [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, I create a pool mirrored with 1gb of space. After I create a file system in that pool and put a file (file1) of 300MB it that file system. After that, I create a snapshot in the file system. With the zfs list command the space used by the

Re: [zfs-discuss] can anyone help me? [SOLVED]

2008-06-02 Thread Hernan Freschi
Well, finally managed to solve my issue, thanks to the invaluable help of Victor Latushkin, who I can't thank enough. I'll post a more detailed step-by-step record of what he and I did (well, all credit to him actually) to solve this. Actually, the problem is still there (destroying a huge

Re: [zfs-discuss] can anyone help me?

2008-06-02 Thread Marc Bevand
Hernan Freschi hjf at hjf.com.ar writes: Here's the output. Numbers may be a little off because I'm doing a nightly build and compressing a crashdump with bzip2 at the same time. Thanks. Your disks look healthy. But one question: why is c5t0/c5t1/c6t0/c6t1 when in another post you referred