Re: [zfs-discuss] virsh troubling zfs!?

2009-11-05 Thread Ralf Teckelmann
Good Evening, Thanks for your fast reply Gary. I think I didn't get the point in the right way so heres the second try :-) On Tue, Nov 03, 2009 at 11:39:28AM -0800, Ralf Teckelmann wrote: Hi and hello, I have a problem confusing me. I hope someone can help me with it. I followed a

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS + fsck

2009-11-05 Thread Tim Haley
Orvar Korvar wrote: Does this putback mean that I have to upgrade my zpool, or is it a zfs tool? If I missed upgrading my zpool I am smoked? The putback did not bump zpool or zfs versions. You shouldn't have to upgrade your pool. -tim ___

Re: [zfs-discuss] CR6894234 -- improved sgid directory compatibility with non-Solaris NFS clients

2009-11-05 Thread Miles Nordin
pbh == Paul B Henson hen...@acm.org writes: pbh I've got a cron job running every hour on the backend servers pbh crawling around and fixing permissions on new directories :(. To my view, if there's a problem it's first with the build system, second with NFS. You can fix Solaris to do

Re: [zfs-discuss] Basic question about striping and ZFS

2009-11-05 Thread Ilya
Hey Thanks for the slides but some things are still unclear. Slide 18 shows variably sizes extents but doesn't explain the process of full-on write. What I'm looking for is one example. I still don't understand how it works with variable sized extents. So if you have 2 stripe units on one

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS + fsck

2009-11-05 Thread Miles Nordin
csb == Craig S Bell cb...@standard.com writes: csb Two: If you lost data with another filesystem, you may have csb overlooked it and blamed the OS or the application, yeah, but with ZFS you often lose the whole pool in certain classes of repeatable real-world failures, like hotswap disks

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS + fsck

2009-11-05 Thread Miles Nordin
rm == Robert Milkowski mi...@task.gda.pl writes: rm Personally I don't blame Sun that implementing the CR took so rm long as it mostly affected home users with cheap hardware from rm BestBuy like sources no, many of the reports were FC SAN's. rm and even then it was relatively

[zfs-discuss] ZFS and least privilege

2009-11-05 Thread Marco van Wieringen
Hi, Am I right to assume ZFS currently doesn't support the least privilege model ? I'm trying to make bacula run as non root on zfs and be able to restore files a non-root with the correct least privilege modes but when I enable debugging with ppriv -D pid I get Nov 5 20:39:27 corona genunix:

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs usedbysnapshots is not equial to zfs list -t snapshot for a filesyste

2009-11-05 Thread Miles Nordin
rn == Roman Naumenko ro...@frontline.ca writes: rn The total space occupied by snapshots from the second print is rn far less than reported in the first (usedbysnapshots 161G) It will take me too much thinking to untangle this sentence, but maybe you can untangle mine: The space

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS + fsck

2009-11-05 Thread Robert Milkowski
Miles Nordin wrote: csb == Craig S Bell cb...@standard.com writes: csb Two: If you lost data with another filesystem, you may have csb overlooked it and blamed the OS or the application, yeah, but with ZFS you often lose the whole pool in certain classes of repeatable real-world failures,

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS + fsck

2009-11-05 Thread Robert Milkowski
Miles Nordin wrote: rm == Robert Milkowski mi...@task.gda.pl writes: rm Personally I don't blame Sun that implementing the CR took so rm long as it mostly affected home users with cheap hardware from rm BestBuy like sources no, many of the reports were FC SAN's.

Re: [zfs-discuss] heads up on SXCE build 125 (LU + mirrored root pools)

2009-11-05 Thread Chris Du
I think I finally see what you mean. # luactivate b126 System has findroot enabled GRUB ERROR: Unable to determine the configuration of the current boot environment b125. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS + fsck

2009-11-05 Thread Nigel Smith
Hi Robert I think you mean snv_128 not 126 :-) 6667683 need a way to rollback to an uberblock from a previous txg http://bugs.opensolaris.org/view_bug.do?bug_id=6667683 http://hg.genunix.org/onnv-gate.hg/rev/8aac17999e4d Regards Nigel Smith -- This message posted from opensolaris.org

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS + fsck

2009-11-05 Thread Tim Haley
Robert Milkowski wrote: Miles Nordin wrote: csb == Craig S Bell cb...@standard.com writes: csb Two: If you lost data with another filesystem, you may have csb overlooked it and blamed the OS or the application, yeah, but with ZFS you often lose the whole pool in certain classes of

[zfs-discuss] sparc + zfs + nfs + mac osX = fail ?

2009-11-05 Thread Peter Lees
hi folks, i'm seeing an odd problem wondered whether others had encountered it. when i try to write to a nevada NFS share from a mac os X (10.5) client via the mac's GUI, i get a permissions error - the file is 0 bytes, date set to jan 1, 1970, and perms set to 000. writing to the share via

Re: [zfs-discuss] heads up on SXCE build 125 (LU + mirrored root pools)

2009-11-05 Thread Rich Teer
On Thu, 5 Nov 2009, Chris Du wrote: I think I finally see what you mean. # luactivate b126 System has findroot enabled GRUB ERROR: Unable to determine the configuration of the current boot environment b125. Hmm. Does this mean that lupgrading from b121 to b126 will also fail, or is the

Re: [zfs-discuss] heads up on SXCE build 125 (LU + mirrored root pools)

2009-11-05 Thread Albert Chin
On Thu, Nov 05, 2009 at 01:01:54PM -0800, Chris Du wrote: I think I finally see what you mean. # luactivate b126 System has findroot enabled GRUB ERROR: Unable to determine the configuration of the current boot environment b125. A possible solution was posted in the thread:

Re: [zfs-discuss] heads up on SXCE build 125 (LU + mirrored root pools)

2009-11-05 Thread Cindy Swearingen
Hi Rich, In build 125, the device naming changed for redundant pools. LU doesn't understand the new device naming if you have a mirrored root pool. I believe an upgrade from 121 to 126 will be okay. Any LU operation on your build 126 system will likely fail unless you follow Casper's steps for

[zfs-discuss] Problem with memory recovery from arc cache

2009-11-05 Thread Peter Pickford
Hi All, Has anyone seen problems with the arc cache holding on to memory in memory pressure conditions? We have several Oracle DB servers running zfs for the root file systems and the databases on vxfs. An unexpected number of clients connected and cause a memory shortage such that some

Re: [zfs-discuss] CR6894234 -- improved sgid directory compatibility with non-Solaris NFS clients

2009-11-05 Thread Paul B. Henson
On Thu, 5 Nov 2009, Miles Nordin wrote: allowing the first local patch into your site? or you are running a closed-source release where you have to roll over and beg for support? We're running Solaris 10. It does seem like I spend an undue amount of time lately dealing with Sun support, I have

Re: [zfs-discuss] Basic question about striping and ZFS

2009-11-05 Thread Ilya
So then of what use is the parity? And how is the metadata used to reconstruct bad data? I understand obviously what the metadata contains but I don't get how ZFS traverses through a file system and USES the metadata to construct bad blocks. I understand that you write everything to separate

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS + fsck

2009-11-05 Thread Nigel Smith
Hi Gary I will let 'website-discuss' know about this problem. They normally fix issues like that. Those pages always seemed to just update automatically. I guess it's related to the website transition. Thanks Nigel Smith -- This message posted from opensolaris.org

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS + fsck

2009-11-05 Thread Dave Koelmeyer
Thanks for taking the time to write this - very useful info :) -- 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] sparc + zfs + nfs + mac osX = fail ?

2009-11-05 Thread Phil Harman
Ok, since we're doing weird, here's my experience ... MacOS X 10.5, amd64 snv_82, ZFS via NFS v3, iTunes 7-ish One ZFS filesystem with about 8000 mp3 files. One empty iTunes library. Drag and drop about 250 directories (containing the 800 files) into iTunes from NFS mounted volume. Select

Re: [zfs-discuss] heads up on SXCE build 125 (LU + mirrored root pools)

2009-11-05 Thread Kurt Schreiner
On Thu, Nov 05, 2009 at 03:39:56PM -0800, Rich Teer wrote: On Thu, 5 Nov 2009, Chris Du wrote: I think I finally see what you mean. # luactivate b126 System has findroot enabled GRUB ERROR: Unable to determine the configuration of the current boot environment b125. Hmm. Does

Re: [zfs-discuss] heads up on SXCE build 125 (LU + mirrored root pools)

2009-11-05 Thread Chris Du
I just finished the upgrade. detach one disk from the mirror, then luactivate b126 and init 6, after it reboots, attach the disk to the mirror again, all went smoothly. Thanks a lot. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing