Re: [zfs-discuss] import zpool error if use loop device as vdev

2007-09-18 Thread George Wilson
By default, 'zpool import' looks only in /dev/dsk. Since you are using /dev/lofi you will need to use 'zpool import -d /dev/lofi' to import your pool. Thanks, George sunnie wrote: > Hey, guys > I just do the test for use loop device as vdev for zpool > Procedures as followings: > 1) mkfi

[zfs-discuss] import zpool error if use loop device as vdev

2007-09-18 Thread sunnie
Hey, guys I just do the test for use loop device as vdev for zpool Procedures as followings: 1) mkfile -v 100m disk1 mkfile -v 100m disk2 2) lofiadm -a disk1 /dev/lofi lofiadm -a disk2 /dev/lofi 3) zpool create pool_1and2 /dev/lofi/1 and /dev/lofi/2 4) zpool export pool_1and

Re: [zfs-discuss] what patches are needed to enable zfs_nocacheflush

2007-09-18 Thread George Wilson
Bernhard, Here are the solaris 10 patches: 120011-14 - SunOS 5.10: kernel patch 120012-14 - SunOS 5.10_x86: kernel patch See http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=39951&tstart=0 for more info. Thanks, George Bernhard Holzer wrote: > Hi, > > this parameter (zfs_nocacheflush) is

[zfs-discuss] what patches are needed to enable zfs_nocacheflush

2007-09-18 Thread Bernhard Holzer
Hi, this parameter (zfs_nocacheflush) is now integrated into Solaris10/U4. Is it possible to "just install a few patches" to enable this. What patches are required? Thanks Bernhard -- Bernhard Holzer Sun Microsystems Ges.m.b.H. Wienerbergstraße 3/7 A-1100 Vienna, Austria Phone x60983/+43 1 60

[zfs-discuss] ZFS Solaris 10 Update 4 Patches

2007-09-18 Thread George Wilson
The latest ZFS patches for Solaris 10 are now available: 120011-14 - SunOS 5.10: kernel patch 120012-14 - SunOS 5.10_x86: kernel patch ZFS Pool Version available with patches = 4 These patches will provide access to all of the latest features and bug fixes: Features: PSARC 2006/288 zpool histo

Re: [zfs-discuss] System hang caused by a "bad" snapshot

2007-09-18 Thread George Wilson
Ben, Much of this code has been revamped as a result of: 6514331 in-memory delete queue is not needed Although this may not fix your issue it would be good to try this test with more recent bits. Thanks, George Ben Miller wrote: > Hate to re-open something from a year ago, but we just had th

Re: [zfs-discuss] zpool history not found

2007-09-18 Thread George Wilson
You need to install patch 120011-14. After you reboot you will be able to run 'zpool upgrade -a' to upgrade to the latest version. Thanks, George sunnie wrote: > Hey, guys > Since corrent zfs software only support ZFS pool version 3, how should I > do to upgrade the zfs software or package

Re: [zfs-discuss] zpool history not found

2007-09-18 Thread sunnie
Hey, guys Since corrent zfs software only support ZFS pool version 3, how should I do to upgrade the zfs software or package? PS. my current os: SUNOS 5.10 Generic_118833-33 sun4u sparc This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discu

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS panic when trying to import pool

2007-09-18 Thread Geoffroy Doucet
actually here is the first panic messages: Sep 13 23:33:22 netra2 unix: [ID 603766 kern.notice] assertion failed: dmu_read(os, smo->smo_object, offset, size, entry_map) == 0 (0x5 == 0x0), file: ../../common/fs/zfs/space_map.c, line: 307 Sep 13 23:33:22 netra2 unix: [ID 10 kern.notice] Sep 13

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Solaris 10u5 Proposed Changes

2007-09-18 Thread John Plocher
Many/most of these are available at http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/arc/caselog//CCC replacing /CCC with the case numbers below, as in http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/arc/caselog/2007/171 for the 2nd one below. I'm not sure why the first one (2007/142) isn't there - I'

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Solaris 10u5 Proposed Changes

2007-09-18 Thread Eric Schrock
http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/arc/caselog/ - Eric On Tue, Sep 18, 2007 at 09:39:51PM -0400, Kent Watsen wrote: > > How does one access the PSARC database to lookup the description of > these features? > > Sorry if this has been asked before! - I tried google before posting > this :

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS panic when trying to import pool

2007-09-18 Thread Jeff Bonwick
Basically, it is complaining that there aren't enough disks to read the pool metadata. This would suggest that in your 3-disk RAID-Z config, either two disks are missing, or one disk is missing *and* another disk is damaged -- due to prior failed writes, perhaps. (I know there's at least one disk

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Solaris 10u5 Proposed Changes

2007-09-18 Thread Kent Watsen
How does one access the PSARC database to lookup the description of these features? Sorry if this has been asked before! - I tried google before posting this :-[ Kent George Wilson wrote: > ZFS Fans, > > Here's a list of features that we are proposing for Solaris 10u5. Keep > in mind that

Re: [zfs-discuss] Possible ZFS Bug - Causes OpenSolaris Crash

2007-09-18 Thread eric kustarz
On Sep 18, 2007, at 6:25 AM, Jill Duff wrote: > Thanks for the feedback. I attempted to enter this bug into the > OpenSolaris > Bug Database yesterday, 9/17. However, it looks as if it has either > been > filtered out or I made an error during entry. I'm willing to re- > enter it if > that's

[zfs-discuss] ZFS panic when trying to import pool

2007-09-18 Thread Geoffroy Doucet
I have a raid-z zfs filesystem with 3 disks. The disk was starting have read and write errors. The disks was so bad that I started to have trans_err. The server lock up and the server was reset. Then now when trying to import the pool the system panic. I installed the last Recommend on my Solar

[zfs-discuss] ZFS Solaris 10u5 Proposed Changes

2007-09-18 Thread George Wilson
ZFS Fans, Here's a list of features that we are proposing for Solaris 10u5. Keep in mind that this is subject to change. Features: PSARC 2007/142 zfs rename -r PSARC 2007/171 ZFS Separate Intent Log PSARC 2007/197 ZFS hotplug PSARC 2007/199 zfs {create,clone,rename} -p PSARC 2007/283 FMA for ZFS

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs snapshot timestamp info

2007-09-18 Thread Tim Spriggs
I think they are listed in order with "zfs list". Fred Oliver wrote: > Along these lines, the creation time is provided to the nearest second. > It is possible to have two snapshots (of the same file system) with the > same time stamp. > > In this case, is there any way to determine which snap

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs snapshot timestamp info

2007-09-18 Thread Fred Oliver
Along these lines, the creation time is provided to the nearest second. It is possible to have two snapshots (of the same file system) with the same time stamp. In this case, is there any way to determine which snapshot was created earlier? This would be helpful to know in order to predict th

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs snapshot timestamp info

2007-09-18 Thread Eric Schrock
Or 'zfs list -t snapshot -o name,creation' - Eric On Tue, Sep 18, 2007 at 01:41:19PM -0700, Richard Elling wrote: > Try zpool history > -- richard > > Poulos, Joe wrote: > > > > > > Hello, > > > > > > > > Is there a way to find out what the timestamp is of a specific > > snapshot? Curr

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs snapshot timestamp info

2007-09-18 Thread Tim Spriggs
zfs get creation pool|filesystem|snapshot Poulos, Joe wrote: > > Hello, > > > > Is there a way to find out what the timestamp is of a specific > snapshot? Currently, I have a system with 5 snapshots, and would like > to know the timestamp as to when it was created. Thanks JOr > > This messa

Re: [zfs-discuss] Zfs log device (zil) ever coming to Sol10?

2007-09-18 Thread Neil Perrin
Matty wrote: > On 9/18/07, Neil Perrin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Separate log devices (slogs) didn't make it into S10U4 but will be in U5. > > This is awesome! Will the SYNC_NV support that was integrated this > week be added to update 5 as well? That would be super useful, > assuming the

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs snapshot timestamp info

2007-09-18 Thread Richard Elling
Try zpool history -- richard Poulos, Joe wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > Is there a way to find out what the timestamp is of a specific > snapshot? Currently, I have a system with 5 snapshots, and would like > to know the timestamp as to when it was created. Thanks JOr > > This message an

Re: [zfs-discuss] Zfs log device (zil) ever coming to Sol10?

2007-09-18 Thread Matty
On 9/18/07, Neil Perrin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Separate log devices (slogs) didn't make it into S10U4 but will be in U5. This is awesome! Will the SYNC_NV support that was integrated this week be added to update 5 as well? That would be super useful, assuming the major arrays vendors suppor

[zfs-discuss] zfs snapshot timestamp info

2007-09-18 Thread Poulos, Joe
Hello, Is there a way to find out what the timestamp is of a specific snapshot? Currently, I have a system with 5 snapshots, and would like to know the timestamp as to when it was created. Thanks JOr This message and its attachments may contain legally privileged or confidential informatio

[zfs-discuss] arcstat - a tool to print ARC statistics

2007-09-18 Thread Neelakanth Nadgir
I wrote a simple tool to print out the ARC statistics exported via kstat. Details at http://blogs.sun.com/realneel/entry/zfs_arc_statistics -neel -- --- Neelakanth Nadgir PAE Performance And Availability Eng ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@

Re: [zfs-discuss] System hang caused by a "bad" snapshot

2007-09-18 Thread Ben Miller
> > > Hello Matthew, > > > Tuesday, September 12, 2006, 7:57:45 PM, you > > wrote: > > > MA> Ben Miller wrote: > > > >> I had a strange ZFS problem this morning. > The > > entire system would > > >> hang when mounting the ZFS filesystems. After > > trial and error I > > >> determined that the

Re: [zfs-discuss] Zfs log device (zil) ever coming to Sol10?

2007-09-18 Thread Andy Lubel
On 9/18/07 2:26 PM, "Neil Perrin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Andy Lubel wrote: >> On 9/18/07 1:02 PM, "Bryan Cantrill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> Hey Andy, >>> >>> On Tue, Sep 18, 2007 at 12:59:02PM -0400, Andy Lubel wrote: I think we are very close to using zfs in our produc

[zfs-discuss] ZFS and encryption

2007-09-18 Thread Robert Milkowski
Hello zfs-discuss, I wonder if ZFS will be able to take any advantage of Niagara's built-in crypto? -- Best regards, Robert Milkowskimailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://milek.blogspot.com __

Re: [zfs-discuss] Zfs log device (zil) ever coming to Sol10?

2007-09-18 Thread Andy Lubel
On 9/18/07 1:02 PM, "Bryan Cantrill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hey Andy, > > On Tue, Sep 18, 2007 at 12:59:02PM -0400, Andy Lubel wrote: >> I think we are very close to using zfs in our production environment.. Now >> that I have snv_72 installed and my pools set up with NVRAM log devices

Re: [zfs-discuss] Zfs log device (zil) ever coming to Sol10?

2007-09-18 Thread Neil Perrin
Separate log devices (slogs) didn't make it into S10U4 but will be in U5. Andy Lubel wrote: > I think we are very close to using zfs in our production environment.. Now > that I have snv_72 installed and my pools set up with NVRAM log devices > things are hauling butt. > > I've been digging to f

Re: [zfs-discuss] Zfs log device (zil) ever coming to Sol10?

2007-09-18 Thread Cindy . Swearingen
The log device feature integrated into snv_68. You can read about them here: http://blogs.sun.com/perrin/entry/slog_blog_or_blogging_on And starting on page 18 of the ZFS Admin Guide, here: http://opensolaris.org/os/community/zfs/docs Albert Chin wrote: > On Tue, Sep 18, 2007 at 12:59:02PM -

Re: [zfs-discuss] Zfs log device (zil) ever coming to Sol10?

2007-09-18 Thread Albert Chin
On Tue, Sep 18, 2007 at 12:59:02PM -0400, Andy Lubel wrote: > I think we are very close to using zfs in our production environment.. Now > that I have snv_72 installed and my pools set up with NVRAM log devices > things are hauling butt. How did you get NVRAM log devices? -- albert chin ([EMAIL

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs and small files

2007-09-18 Thread Claus Guttesen
> > I have many small - mostly jpg - files where the original file is > > approx. 1 MB and the thumbnail generated is approx. 4 KB. The files > > are currently on vxfs. I have copied all files from one partition onto > > a zfs-ditto. The vxfs-partition occupies 401 GB and zfs 449 GB. Most > > files

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs and small files

2007-09-18 Thread Richard Elling
Claus Guttesen wrote: > I have many small - mostly jpg - files where the original file is > approx. 1 MB and the thumbnail generated is approx. 4 KB. The files > are currently on vxfs. I have copied all files from one partition onto > a zfs-ditto. The vxfs-partition occupies 401 GB and zfs 449 GB.

[zfs-discuss] Zfs log device (zil) ever coming to Sol10?

2007-09-18 Thread Andy Lubel
I think we are very close to using zfs in our production environment.. Now that I have snv_72 installed and my pools set up with NVRAM log devices things are hauling butt. I've been digging to find out whether this capability would be put into Solaris 10, does anyone know? If not, then I guess w

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs-discuss Digest, Vol 23, Issue 34

2007-09-18 Thread Russ Petruzzelli
Check out this webpage: http://www.wizy.org/wiki/ZFS_on_FUSE Tushar Pardeshi wrote: Hello, I am a final year computer engg student and I am planning to implement zfs on linux, I have gone through the articles posted on solaris . Please let me know about the feasibility of zfs to be imple

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs-discuss Digest, Vol 23, Issue 34

2007-09-18 Thread Tushar Pardeshi
Hello, I am a final year computer engg student and I am planning to implement zfs on linux, I have gone through the articles posted on solaris . Please let me know about the feasibility of zfs to be implemented on linux. waiting for valuable replies. thanks in advance. On 9/14/07, [EMAIL PROT

Re: [zfs-discuss] Bugs fixed in update 4?

2007-09-18 Thread Matty
On 9/18/07, Larry Wake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Matty wrote: > > George Wilson put together a list of ZFS enhancements and bug fixes > > that were integrated into Solaris 10 update 3, and I was curious if > > there was something similar for update 4? There have been a bunch of > > reliability a

Re: [zfs-discuss] Bugs fixed in update 4?

2007-09-18 Thread Larry Wake
Matty wrote: > George Wilson put together a list of ZFS enhancements and bug fixes > that were integrated into Solaris 10 update 3, and I was curious if > there was something similar for update 4? There have been a bunch of > reliability and performance enhancements to the ZFS code over the past >

[zfs-discuss] S10U4 ZFS Improvements / Bug Fixes

2007-09-18 Thread Prabahar Jeyaram
Attached is the list of ZFS improvements / bugs fixes in S10U4. -- Prabahar. 4894692 caching data in heap inflates crash dump 6269805 properties should be set via an nvlist. 6276925 option to sort 'zfs list' output 6281585 user defined properties 6341569 zio_alloc_blk() vdev distribution performs

Re: [zfs-discuss] PLOGI errors

2007-09-18 Thread Gino
> What lead you to the assumption it's ONLY those > switches? Just because the patch is ONLY for those > switches doesn't mean that the bug is only for them. > The reason you only see the patch for 3xxx and newer > is because the 2xxx was EOL before the patch was > released... > > FabOS is FabOS

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS panic in space_map.c line 125

2007-09-18 Thread Gino
> Tomas Ögren wrote: > > On 18 September, 2007 - Gino sent me these 0,3K > bytes: > > > >> Hello, > >> upgrade to snv_60 or later if you care about your > data :) > > > > If there are known serious data loss bug fixes that > have gone into > > snv60+, but not into s10u4, then I would like to > te

[zfs-discuss] Bugs fixed in update 4?

2007-09-18 Thread Matty
George Wilson put together a list of ZFS enhancements and bug fixes that were integrated into Solaris 10 update 3, and I was curious if there was something similar for update 4? There have been a bunch of reliability and performance enhancements to the ZFS code over the past few months, and I am cu

Re: [zfs-discuss] Possible ZFS Bug - Causes OpenSolaris Crash

2007-09-18 Thread Larry Liu
> I can provide the source code for my test app and one crash dump if anyone > needs it. Yesterday, the crash was reproduced using bonnie++, an open source > storage benchmark utility, although the crash is not as frequent as when > using my test app. > > Yes, it is appreciated if you could pro

Re: [zfs-discuss] Possible ZFS Bug - Causes OpenSolaris Crash

2007-09-18 Thread Jill Duff
Thanks for the feedback. I attempted to enter this bug into the OpenSolaris Bug Database yesterday, 9/17. However, it looks as if it has either been filtered out or I made an error during entry. I'm willing to re-enter it if that's helpful. I can provide the source code for my test app and one cra

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS panic in space_map.c line 125

2007-09-18 Thread Victor Latushkin
Tomas Ögren wrote: > On 18 September, 2007 - Gino sent me these 0,3K bytes: > >> Hello, >> upgrade to snv_60 or later if you care about your data :) > > If there are known serious data loss bug fixes that have gone into > snv60+, but not into s10u4, then I would like to tell Sun to "backport" > t

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS panic in space_map.c line 125

2007-09-18 Thread Tomas Ögren
On 18 September, 2007 - Gino sent me these 0,3K bytes: > Hello, > upgrade to snv_60 or later if you care about your data :) If there are known serious data loss bug fixes that have gone into snv60+, but not into s10u4, then I would like to tell Sun to "backport" those into s10u4 if they care abou

Re: [zfs-discuss] question about uberblock blkptr

2007-09-18 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Jim Mauro wrote: > > Hey Max - Check out the on-disk specification document at > http://opensolaris.org/os/community/zfs/docs/. > > Page 32 illustration shows the rootbp pointing to a dnode_phys_t > object (the first member of a objset_phys_t data structure). > > The source code indicates ub_rootbp

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS panic in space_map.c line 125

2007-09-18 Thread Gino
Hello, upgrade to snv_60 or later if you care about your data :) Gino This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] change uid/gid below 100

2007-09-18 Thread Darren J Moffat
Paul Kraus wrote: > On 9/17/07, Darren J Moffat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Why not use the already assigned webservd/webserved 80/80 uid/gid pair ? >> >> Note that ALL uid and gid values below 100 are explicitly reserved for >> use by the operating system itself and should not be used by end

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs and small files

2007-09-18 Thread Claus Guttesen
> Will a different volblocksize (during creation of the partition) make > better use of the available diskspace? Will (meta)data require less > space if compression is enabled? Just re-read the evil-tuning-guide and metadata is allready compressed (http://www.solarisinternals.com/wiki/index.php/ZF

[zfs-discuss] zfs and small files

2007-09-18 Thread Claus Guttesen
Hi. I have many small - mostly jpg - files where the original file is approx. 1 MB and the thumbnail generated is approx. 4 KB. The files are currently on vxfs. I have copied all files from one partition onto a zfs-ditto. The vxfs-partition occupies 401 GB and zfs 449 GB. Most files uploaded are i