Re: [zfs-discuss] ?: ZFS and POSIX

2006-10-20 Thread Mark Shellenbaum
Steffen Weiberle wrote: Customer asks whether ZFS is fully POSIX compliant, such as flock? ZFS is not currently fully POSIX compliant. Making ZFS fully POSIX compliant is still planned and we are currently addressing bugs in this area. Interfaces such as flock() should work just fine now.

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: [osol-discuss] Cloning a disk w/ ZFS in it

2006-10-20 Thread Richard Elling - PAE
Victor Latushkin wrote: It seems that if you clone disks bit for bit you'll end up with the same hostid for all boxes and this may be confusing. Geez, just spoof them to something different, if you must. -- richard ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-di

[zfs-discuss] ?: ZFS and POSIX

2006-10-20 Thread Steffen Weiberle
Customer asks whether ZFS is fully POSIX compliant, such as flock? Is this a function of ZFS, or does VFS deliver this? Thanks Steffen ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Mirrored Raidz

2006-10-20 Thread Matthew Ahrens
Richard Elling - PAE wrote: Anthony Miller wrote: Hi, I've search the forums and not found any answer to the following. I have 2 JBOD arrays each with 4 disks. I want to create create a raidz on one array and have it mirrored to the other array. Today, the top level raid sets are assembled

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: [osol-discuss] Cloning a disk w/ ZFS in it

2006-10-20 Thread Torrey McMahon
Victor Latushkin wrote: Darren J Moffat wrote: Asif Iqbal wrote: Hi I have a X2100 with two 74G disks. I build the OS on the first disk with slice0 root 10G ufs, slice1 2.5G swap, slice6 25MB ufs and slice7 62G zfs. What is the fastest way to clone it to the second disk. I have to build 10 of

Re: [zfs-discuss] ENOSPC : No space on file deletion

2006-10-20 Thread Darren Dunham
> Are you telling me that their is no way to access a single > file within the snapshot and remove it? That's correct. The way snapshots are implemented, you cannot modify their contents. If the file or some smaller set of potential files is known beforehand, perhaps you could put t

[zfs-discuss] Re: [osol-discuss] Cloning a disk w/ ZFS in it

2006-10-20 Thread Victor Latushkin
Darren J Moffat wrote: Asif Iqbal wrote: Hi I have a X2100 with two 74G disks. I build the OS on the first disk with slice0 root 10G ufs, slice1 2.5G swap, slice6 25MB ufs and slice7 62G zfs. What is the fastest way to clone it to the second disk. I have to build 10 of those in 2 days. Once I b

Re: [zfs-discuss] ENOSPC : No space on file deletion

2006-10-20 Thread Erblichs
Matthew, et al, You haven't identified a solution / workaround? Their is one "large" file within the FS and snapshot that has been backed up. They wish to remove this large file and the system is preventing this because of a additional reference fr

[zfs-discuss] Re: Mirrored Raidz

2006-10-20 Thread Jeb Campbell
Don't know if you are running current OpenSolaris or can wait for Solaris 10 11/06 (should be released in November). Either of those will contain raidz2 (which is like raid6 where you lose 2 disks). For max space with some redundancy, I would make one raidz2 vdev of all 8 disks. You will get

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: [osol-discuss] Cloning a disk w/ ZFS in it

2006-10-20 Thread Richard Elling - PAE
minor adjustments below... Darren J Moffat wrote: Asif Iqbal wrote: Hi I have a X2100 with two 74G disks. I build the OS on the first disk with slice0 root 10G ufs, slice1 2.5G swap, slice6 25MB ufs and slice7 62G zfs. What is the fastest way to clone it to the second disk. I have to build 10

Re: [zfs-discuss] Mirrored Raidz

2006-10-20 Thread Richard Elling - PAE
Frank Cusack wrote: On October 20, 2006 8:43:03 AM -0700 Ed Gould <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Oct 20, 2006, at 0:48, Torrey McMahon wrote: Anthony Miller wrote: I want to create create a raidz on one array and have it mirrored to the other array. Do you think this will get you more availab

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: ZFS, home and Linux

2006-10-20 Thread Darren J Moffat
Frank Cusack wrote: On October 20, 2006 12:00:26 PM +0100 Darren J Moffat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: msl wrote: Ok, thanks very much for your answer. I will look the automounter. But, about the pam module, how it would work? running on linux machine, and creating a zfs filesystem on a solaris s

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS and dual-pathed A5200

2006-10-20 Thread Richard Elling - PAE
Victor Latushkin wrote: The next natural question is Richard Elling - PAE wrote: Isn't this in a FAQ somewhere? IIRC, if ZFS finds a disk via two paths, then it will pick one. Will it (try to) failover to another one if picked one fails? No, not automatically. MPXIO provides automatic path

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS and dual-pathed A5200

2006-10-20 Thread Bill Sommerfeld
On Thu, 2006-10-19 at 08:09 +0800, Hong Wei Liam wrote: > I understand that ZFS leaves multipathing to MPXIO or the like. For a > combination of dual-path A5200 with QLGC2100 HBAs ... I'd actually not bother with multipathing A5200's for ZFS I have a pair of A5200's which I'm using with zfs. I

Re: [zfs-discuss] Mirrored Raidz

2006-10-20 Thread Frank Cusack
On October 20, 2006 8:43:03 AM -0700 Ed Gould <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Oct 20, 2006, at 0:48, Torrey McMahon wrote: Anthony Miller wrote: I want to create create a raidz on one array and have it mirrored to the other array. Do you think this will get you more availability compared to a s

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: ZFS, home and Linux

2006-10-20 Thread Frank Cusack
On October 20, 2006 12:00:26 PM +0100 Darren J Moffat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: msl wrote: Ok, thanks very much for your answer. I will look the automounter. But, about the pam module, how it would work? running on linux machine, and creating a zfs filesystem on a solaris server (via NFS)? Tha

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS and dual-pathed A5200

2006-10-20 Thread Victor Latushkin
The next natural question is Richard Elling - PAE wrote: Isn't this in a FAQ somewhere? IIRC, if ZFS finds a disk via two paths, then it will pick one. Will it (try to) failover to another one if picked one fails? Wbr, Victor -- richard Torrey McMahon wrote: Robert Milkowski wrote: This

Re: [zfs-discuss] Mirrored Raidz

2006-10-20 Thread Richard Elling - PAE
Anthony Miller wrote: Hi, I've search the forums and not found any answer to the following. I have 2 JBOD arrays each with 4 disks. I want to create create a raidz on one array and have it mirrored to the other array. Today, the top level raid sets are assembled using dynamic striping. The

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS and dual-pathed A5200

2006-10-20 Thread Richard Elling - PAE
Isn't this in a FAQ somewhere? IIRC, if ZFS finds a disk via two paths, then it will pick one. -- richard Torrey McMahon wrote: Robert Milkowski wrote: This of course does work. I guess the real question was what will happen if you now export your pool, then disable mpxio so you will see the

Re: [zfs-discuss] Mirrored Raidz

2006-10-20 Thread Ed Gould
On Oct 20, 2006, at 0:48, Torrey McMahon wrote: Anthony Miller wrote: I want to create create a raidz on one array and have it mirrored to the other array. Do you think this will get you more availability compared to a simple mirror? I'm curious as to why you would want to do this. This con

[zfs-discuss] Re: [osol-discuss] Cloning a disk w/ ZFS in it

2006-10-20 Thread Darren J Moffat
Asif Iqbal wrote: Hi I have a X2100 with two 74G disks. I build the OS on the first disk with slice0 root 10G ufs, slice1 2.5G swap, slice6 25MB ufs and slice7 62G zfs. What is the fastest way to clone it to the second disk. I have to build 10 of those in 2 days. Once I build the disks I slam th

[zfs-discuss] Cloning a disk w/ ZFS in it

2006-10-20 Thread Asif Iqbal
Hi I have a X2100 with two 74G disks. I build the OS on the first disk with slice0 root 10G ufs, slice1 2.5G swap, slice6 25MB ufs and slice7 62G zfs. What is the fastest way to clone it to the second disk. I have to build 10 of those in 2 days. Once I build the disks I slam them to the other X21

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: ZFS, home and Linux

2006-10-20 Thread Darren J Moffat
msl wrote: Ok, thanks very much for your answer. I will look the automounter. But, about the pam module, how it would work? running on linux machine, and creating a zfs filesystem on a solaris server (via NFS)? Thanks again. It wouldn't run on the Linux machine it would run on the Solaris mach

Re: [zfs-discuss] Mirrored Raidz

2006-10-20 Thread Torrey McMahon
Anthony Miller wrote: Hi, I've search the forums and not found any answer to the following. I have 2 JBOD arrays each with 4 disks. I want to create create a raidz on one array and have it mirrored to the other array. Do you think this will get you more availability compared to a simple mi