[zfs-discuss] Getting more out of x4500

I suspect there might be some defaults that are quite conservative, and I can probably get more performance out of the x4500. Using default Sun setup: load averages: 0.06, 0.05, 0.05 14:52:55 62 processes: 61 sleeping, 1 on cpu CPU states: 98.8% idle, 0.0% user, 1.2% kernel, 0.0% iowait

Re: [zfs-discuss] Best practices for ZFS plaiding

What you want to do should actually be pretty easy. On the thumper's, just do your normal raid-z/raid-z2, and export them to the solaris box. Then on the solaris box, you just create a zpool, and add the LUN's one at a time. No raid at all. The system should just stripe across all of the LUN's a

Re: [zfs-discuss] Trial x4500, zfs with NFS and quotas.

> > Could you described into more detail your config and share some > comments on it? Looks like its unique. How much detail do you want? Nothing special, there was just a chance to do something right (or perhaps more sane). Not that there is anything wrong with the legacy system, but keeping u

[zfs-discuss] Best practices for ZFS plaiding

Hello, I have a situation here at the office I would like some advice on. I have 6 Sun Fire x4550(Thumper) that I want to aggregate the storage and create a unified namespace for my client machines. My plan was to export the zpools from each thumper as an iscsi target to a Solaris machine and

Re: [zfs-discuss] Snapshots silently eating user quota

On Thu, 20 Mar 2008, Eric Schrock wrote: > This went back into snv_77 with: > > 6431277 want filesystem-only quotas > > It is available as the 'refquota' property. Any fresh news on when this might be available in Solaris 10? I'm working on a prototype of a file server for our campus, quota manag

Re: [zfs-discuss] Backup-ing up ZFS configurations

Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > On Tue, 25 Mar 2008, Robert Milkowski wrote: >> As I wrote before - it's not only about RAID config - what if you have >> hundreds of file systems, with some share{nfs|iscsi|cifs) enabled with >> specific parameters, then specific file system options, etc. > > Some zfs-re

Re: [zfs-discuss] Backup-ing up ZFS configurations

Sengor wrote: > Hi, > > I don't have a ZFS box handy right now, but perhaps Sun Explorer would > generate something about ZFS/zpools which details the overall configs. > Explorer 5.11 collects: zpool list zpool status -v zpool iostat -v zfs get -rHp all ${pool} If you think it

Re: [zfs-discuss] not able to create file greate than 2gb on zfs file system over NFS

Tim wrote: > What are you using to create the files? Is this x86/32bit solaris 9, or > 64bit sparc? to add to that: how *precisely* are you creating the files, and what is the error? Michael > > > > On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 11:13 AM, Sachin Palav > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [zfs-discuss] not able to create file greate than 2gb on zfs file system over NFS

What are you using to create the files? Is this x86/32bit solaris 9, or 64bit sparc? On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 11:13 AM, Sachin Palav <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello Team, > I have a file server running solaris 10 (X86), I have ZFS on the file > server and the file systems are exported using

[zfs-discuss] not able to create file greate than 2gb on zfs file system over NFS

Hello Team, I have a file server running solaris 10 (X86), I have ZFS on the file server and the file systems are exported using NFS. But my solaris 9 client (using automounter) is not able to create a file of size more than 2gb. please help urgently thanks Sachin Palav This message posted

Re: [zfs-discuss] Backup-ing up ZFS configurations

On Tue, 25 Mar 2008, Robert Milkowski wrote: > > As I wrote before - it's not only about RAID config - what if you have > hundreds of file systems, with some share{nfs|iscsi|cifs) enabled with > specific parameters, then specific file system options, etc. Some zfs-related "configuration" is done u

Re: [zfs-discuss] Trial x4500, zfs with NFS and quotas.

Hello Jorgen, Friday, March 21, 2008, 7:55:36 AM, you wrote: JL> We've gone live, and the x4500 is working out rather well. 170,000 JL> accounts so far, all with quota are working. JL> But one day we found our quotas file went from 30M to: JL> -rw--- 1 root root 137438953472 Ma

Re: [zfs-discuss] Backup-ing up ZFS configurations

On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 10:11 AM, Robert Milkowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello Cyril, > > Friday, March 21, 2008, 7:41:37 PM, you wrote: > > > CP> On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 8:53 PM, Mark A. Carlson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > >> > >> It's more than a handy feature. You either have to

Re: [zfs-discuss] Backup-ing up ZFS configurations

Hello Cyril, Friday, March 21, 2008, 7:41:37 PM, you wrote: CP> On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 8:53 PM, Mark A. Carlson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> It's more than a handy feature. You either have to write down all >> the ZFS configuration you do, or keep a separate log of it in order >> to resto