Re: [zfs-discuss] zpool import is this safe to use -f option in this case ?

2010-11-17 Thread Phil Harman
+1 When I did my stuff (with a major bank) two years ago, my reasoning was that we (Sun, remember them?) had made huge capital out of the always consistent on disk claim, and that we could be expected to stand by and honour that promise. But because this was a big bank, I felt that due

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Crypto in Oracle Solaris 11 Express

2010-11-17 Thread Richard Elling
On Nov 16, 2010, at 2:03 PM, Rthoreau r7h0...@att.net wrote: Darren J Moffat darr...@opensolaris.org writes: On 11/15/10 19:36, David Magda wrote: Using ZFS encryption support can be as easy as this: # zfs create -o encryption=on tank/darren Enter passphrase for

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Crypto in Oracle Solaris 11 Express

2010-11-17 Thread Markus Kovero
Does Oracle support Solaris 11 Express in production systems? -- richard Yes, You need Premier support plan from Oracle for that. Afaik, sol11 express is production ready, and is going to be updated to real Solaris 11, and is supported even with non-oracle hardware if you have the money (and

Re: [zfs-discuss] Faster than 1G Ether... ESX to ZFS

2010-11-17 Thread Bruno Sousa
Hi all, Let me tell you all that the MC/S *does* make a difference...I had a windows fileserver using an ISCSI connection to a host running snv_134 with an average speed of 20-35 mb/s...After the upgrade to snv_151a (Solaris 11 express) this same fileserver got a performance boost and now has

Re: [zfs-discuss] zpool import is this safe to use -f option in this case ?

2010-11-17 Thread Tim Cook
On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 2:56 PM, Jim Dunham james.dun...@oracle.com wrote: Tim, On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 10:12 AM, Jim Dunham james.dun...@oracle.comwrote: sridhar, I have done the following (which is required for my case) Created a zpool (smpool) on a device/LUN from an array (IBM

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Crypto in Oracle Solaris 11 Express

2010-11-17 Thread Tim Cook
On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 7:34 PM, Richard Elling richard.ell...@gmail.comwrote: On Nov 16, 2010, at 2:03 PM, Rthoreau r7h0...@att.net wrote: I just think that some people might need that little extra nudge that a few graphs and test would provide. If it happens to also come with a few

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Crypto in Oracle Solaris 11 Express

2010-11-17 Thread Richard Elling
On Nov 17, 2010, at 1:57 AM, Tim Cook t...@cook.ms wrote: On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 7:34 PM, Richard Elling richard.ell...@gmail.com wrote: On Nov 16, 2010, at 2:03 PM, Rthoreau r7h0...@att.net wrote: I just think that some people might need that little extra nudge that a few graphs

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Crypto in Oracle Solaris 11 Express

2010-11-17 Thread Darren J Moffat
On 17/11/2010 10:17, Richard Elling wrote: I know there are far more apps without support for encryption than with it. And given the ever more stringent government regulations in the US, there are plenty of customers chomping at the bit for encryption at the storage array. I do not disagree.

Re: [zfs-discuss] zpool import is this safe to use -f option in this case ?

2010-11-17 Thread sridhar surampudi
Hi, My understanding is ZFS itself is a great file system by combining fs/vm with the numerous feature added to it. In the similar lines existing fs/vm and array snapshot are still in use and customers is requesting similar kind of support for zfs. So it would be very great help of getting

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Crypto in Oracle Solaris 11 Express

2010-11-17 Thread Erik Trimble
On 11/17/2010 2:33 AM, Darren J Moffat wrote: On 17/11/2010 10:17, Richard Elling wrote: I know there are far more apps without support for encryption than with it. And given the ever more stringent government regulations in the US, there are plenty of customers chomping at the bit for

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Crypto in Oracle Solaris 11 Express

2010-11-17 Thread Darren J Moffat
On 17/11/2010 11:41, Erik Trimble wrote: There is on one correct solution for where to do encryption just like there is on one correct way to write files onto persistent media. Choice is important and sometimes choosing more than one is the correct thing to do. I'm assuming you meant no the

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Crypto in Oracle Solaris 11 Express

2010-11-17 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Wed, 17 Nov 2010, Markus Kovero wrote: Does Oracle support Solaris 11 Express in production systems? -- richard Yes, You need Premier support plan from Oracle for that. Afaik, sol11 express is production ready, and is going to be updated to real Solaris 11, and is supported even with

Re: [zfs-discuss] New system, Help needed!

2010-11-17 Thread Frank
Thank you all for your help. Have a nice day! -- 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] ZFS Crypto in Oracle Solaris 11 Express

2010-11-17 Thread Darren J Moffat
On 17/11/2010 14:18, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: On Wed, 17 Nov 2010, Markus Kovero wrote: Does Oracle support Solaris 11 Express in production systems? -- richard Yes, You need Premier support plan from Oracle for that. Afaik, sol11 express is production ready, and is going to be updated to real

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Crypto in Oracle Solaris 11 Express

2010-11-17 Thread Peter Tribble
On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 2:18 PM, Bob Friesenhahn bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us wrote: Solaris 11 Express may be production ready but is Oracle Premier Support prepared to support it in production? Right there on the first page for S11 express on Oracle's web site it says fully tested and

Re: [zfs-discuss] zpool import is this safe to use -f option in this case ?

2010-11-17 Thread David Magda
On Tue, November 16, 2010 22:56, Jim Dunham wrote: Although ZFS is always on disk consistent, many applications are not filesystem consistent. To be filesystem consistent, an application by design must issue careful writes and/or synchronized filesystem operations. Not knowing this fact, or

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Crypto in Oracle Solaris 11 Express

2010-11-17 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Wed, 17 Nov 2010, Peter Tribble wrote: Solaris 11 Express may be production ready but is Oracle Premier Support prepared to support it in production? Right there on the first page for S11 express on Oracle's web site it says fully tested and supported, and it's reasonably clear that the

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Crypto in Oracle Solaris 11 Express

2010-11-17 Thread Kyle McDonald
The question that has occurred to me is: I *must* choose one of those support options for how long? I mean if I buy support for a machine for a year and put S11 Express in production on it, then I don't renew the support, am I now violating the license? That's bogus. I could be wrong but I

[zfs-discuss] Krzysztof Wianecki wants to stay in touch on LinkedIn

2010-11-17 Thread Krzysztof Wianecki
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Re: [zfs-discuss] Ideas for ghetto file server data reliability?

2010-11-17 Thread Miles Nordin
sl == Sigbjorn Lie sigbj...@nixtra.com writes: sl Do you need registered ECC, or will non-reg ECC do registered means the same thing as buffered. It has nothing to do with registering to some kind of authority---it's a register like the accumulators inside CPU's. The register allows more

Re: [zfs-discuss] Faster than 1G Ether... ESX to ZFS

2010-11-17 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 10:14:10AM +, Bruno Sousa wrote: Hi all, Let me tell you all that the MC/S *does* make a difference...I had a windows fileserver using an ISCSI connection to a host running snv_134 with an average speed of 20-35 mb/s...After the upgrade to snv_151a

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Crypto in Oracle Solaris 11 Express

2010-11-17 Thread Miles Nordin
djm == Darren J Moffat darr...@opensolaris.org writes: djm http://blogs.sun.com/darren/entry/introducing_zfs_crypto_in_oracle djm http://blogs.sun.com/darren/entry/assued_delete_with_zfs_dataset djm http://blogs.sun.com/darren/entry/compress_encrypt_checksum_deduplicate_with Is there

Re: [zfs-discuss] Faster than 1G Ether... ESX to ZFS

2010-11-17 Thread Ross Walker
On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 3:00 PM, Pasi Kärkkäinen pa...@iki.fi wrote: On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 10:14:10AM +, Bruno Sousa wrote:    Hi all,    Let me tell you all that the MC/S *does* make a difference...I had a    windows fileserver using an ISCSI connection to a host running snv_134    

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Crypto in Oracle Solaris 11 Express

2010-11-17 Thread zfs user
On 11/17/10 12:04 PM, Miles Nordin wrote: djm == Darren J Moffatdarr...@opensolaris.org writes: djm http://blogs.sun.com/darren/entry/introducing_zfs_crypto_in_oracle djm http://blogs.sun.com/darren/entry/assued_delete_with_zfs_dataset djm

[zfs-discuss] WarpDrive SLP-300

2010-11-17 Thread Fred Liu
http://www.lsi.com/channel/about_channel/whatsnew/warpdrive_slp300/index.html Good stuff for ZFS. Fred ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

[zfs-discuss] ZFS Crypto in Oracle Solaris 11 Express

2010-11-17 Thread grarpamp
One reason you may want to select aes-128-gcm rather than aes-128-ccm is that GCM is one of the modes for AES in NSA Suite B[3], but CCM is not. Are there symmetric algorithms other than AES that are of interest ? How might AES-XTS [1] be able to fit into the the ZFS picture? Additionally

Re: [zfs-discuss] WarpDrive SLP-300

2010-11-17 Thread Yuri Vorobyev
http://www.lsi.com/channel/about_channel/whatsnew/warpdrive_slp300/index.html I think drivers will be the problem. ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] WarpDrive SLP-300

2010-11-17 Thread James C. McPherson
On 18/11/10 01:49 PM, Fred Liu wrote: http://www.lsi.com/channel/about_channel/whatsnew/warpdrive_slp300/index.html Good stuff for ZFS. Looks a bit like the Sun/Oracle Flash Accelerator card, only with a 2nd generation SAS controller - which would probably use the mpt_sas(7d) driver. James

Re: [zfs-discuss] WarpDrive SLP-300

2010-11-17 Thread Fred Liu
Yeah, no driver issue. BTW, any new storage-controller-related drivers introduced in snv151a? LSI seems the only one who works very closely with Oracle/Sun. Thanks. Fred -Original Message- From: James C. McPherson [mailto:j...@opensolaris.org] Sent: 星期四, 十一月 18, 2010 12:36 To: Fred

Re: [zfs-discuss] WarpDrive SLP-300

2010-11-17 Thread James C. McPherson
On 18/11/10 03:05 PM, Fred Liu wrote: Yeah, no driver issue. BTW, any new storage-controller-related drivers introduced in snv151a? LSI seems the only one who works very closely with Oracle/Sun. You would have to have a look at what's in the repo, I'm not allowed to tell you :| James C.

Re: [zfs-discuss] WarpDrive SLP-300

2010-11-17 Thread Fred Liu
Sure. Gotcha! ^:^ -Original Message- From: James C. McPherson [mailto:j...@opensolaris.org] Sent: 星期四, 十一月 18, 2010 13:16 To: Fred Liu Cc: zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org Subject: Re: [zfs-discuss] WarpDrive SLP-300 On 18/11/10 03:05 PM, Fred Liu wrote: Yeah, no driver issue.

Re: [zfs-discuss] WarpDrive SLP-300

2010-11-17 Thread Rob Logan
BTW, any new storage-controller-related drivers introduced in snv151a? the 64bit driver in 147 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root sys 401200 Sep 14 08:44 mpt -rwxr-xr-x 1 root sys 398144 Sep 14 09:23 mpt_sas is a different size than 151a -rwxr-xr-x 1 root sys 400936 Nov 15