Re: [zfs-discuss] Boot error

2009-08-28 Thread Cindy . Swearingen
but nothing showed up. Thanks for the ideas, though. Maybe your other sources might have something? - Original Message From: Cindy Swearingen cindy.swearin...@sun.com To: Grant Lowe gl...@sbcglobal.net Cc: zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org Sent: Thursday, August 27, 2009 6:24:00 PM Subject

Re: [zfs-discuss] Boot error

2009-08-27 Thread Cindy Swearingen
Hi Grant, I don't have all my usual resources at the moment, but I would boot from alternate media and use the format utility to check the partitioning on newly added disk, and look for something like overlapping partitions. Or, possibly, a mismatch between the actual root slice and the one

Re: [zfs-discuss] Nautilus Access List Tab

2009-08-21 Thread Cindy . Swearingen
Hi Chris, You might repost this query on desktop-discuss to find out the status of the Access List tab. Last I heard, it was being reworked. Cindy On 08/21/09 10:14, Chris wrote: How do I get this in OpenSolaris 2009.06? http://www.alobbs.com/albums/albun26/ZFS_acl_dialog1.jpg thanks.

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs root, jumpstart and flash archives

2009-08-20 Thread Cindy . Swearingen
again which is a good thing. Is there further documentation on this yet? I just asked Cindy Swearingen, the tech writer for ZFS, about this and sadly, it appears that there isn't any documentation for this available outside of Sun yet. The documentation for using flash archives to set up

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs root, jumpstart and flash archives

2009-08-20 Thread Cindy . Swearingen
. Is there further documentation on this yet? I just asked Cindy Swearingen, the tech writer for ZFS, about this and sadly, it appears that there isn't any documentation for this available outside of Sun yet. The documentation for using flash archives to set up systems with zfs roots won't

Re: [zfs-discuss] Shrinking a zpool?

2009-08-07 Thread Cindy . Swearingen
Hey Richard, I believe 6844090 would be a candidate for an s10 backport. The behavior of 6844090 worked nicely when I replaced a disk of the same physical size even though the disks were not identical. Another flexible storage feature is George's autoexpand property (Nevada build 117), where

Re: [zfs-discuss] Replacing faulty disk in ZFS pool

2009-08-06 Thread Cindy . Swearingen
Hi Andreas, Good job for using a mirrored configuration. :-) Your various approaches would work. My only comment about #2 is that it might take some time for the spare to kick in for the faulted disk. Both 1 and 2 would take a bit more time than just replacing the faulted disk with a spare

Re: [zfs-discuss] Replacing faulty disk in ZFS pool

2009-08-06 Thread Cindy . Swearingen
Andreas, More comments below. Cindy On 08/06/09 14:18, Andreas Höschler wrote: Hi Cindy, Good job for using a mirrored configuration. :-) Thanks! Your various approaches would work. My only comment about #2 is that it might take some time for the spare to kick in for the faulted

Re: [zfs-discuss] Replacing faulty disk in ZFS pool

2009-08-06 Thread Cindy . Swearingen
Andreas, I think you can still offline the faulted disk, c1t6d0. The difference between these two replacements: zpool replace tank c1t6d0 c1t15d0 zpool replace tank c1t6d0 Is that in the second case, you are telling ZFS that c1t6d0 has been physically replaced in the same location. This would

Re: [zfs-discuss] Sol10u7: can't zpool remove missing hot spare

2009-08-06 Thread Cindy . Swearingen
Hi Kyle, Except that in the case of spares, you can't replace them. You'll see a message like the one below. Cindy # zpool create pool mirror c1t0d0 c1t1d0 spare c1t5d0 # zpool status pool: pool state: ONLINE scrub: none requested config: NAMESTATE READ WRITE CKSUM

Re: [zfs-discuss] Replacing faulty disk in ZFS pool

2009-08-06 Thread Cindy . Swearingen
Dang. This is a bug we talked about recently that is fixed in Nevada and an upcoming Solaris 10 release. Okay, so you can't offline the faulted disk, but you were able to replace it and detach the spare. Cool beans... Cindy On 08/06/09 15:35, Andreas Höschler wrote: Hi Cindy, I think you

Re: [zfs-discuss] Sol10u7: can't zpool remove missing hot spare

2009-08-05 Thread Cindy . Swearingen
Hi Will, Since no workaround is provided in the CR, I don't know if importing on a more recent OpenSolaris release and trying to remove it will work. I will simulate this error, try this approach, and get back to you. Thanks, Cindy On 08/04/09 18:34, Will Murnane wrote: On Tue, Aug 4,

Re: [zfs-discuss] Sol10u7: can't zpool remove missing hot spare

2009-08-05 Thread Cindy . Swearingen
Hi Will, I simulated this issue on s10u7 and then imported the pool on a current Nevada release. The original issue remains, which is you can't remove a spare device that no longer exists. My sense is that the bug fix prevents the spare from getting messed up in the first place when the device

Re: [zfs-discuss] ?: SMI vs. EFI label and a disk's write cache

2009-08-05 Thread Cindy . Swearingen
Hi Steffen, Go with a mirrored root pool is my advice with all the disk space in s0 on each disk. Simple is best and redundant simple is even better. I'm no write cache expert, but a few simple tests on Solaris 10 5/09, show me that the write cache is enabled on a disk that is labeled with an

Re: [zfs-discuss] Shrinking a zpool?

2009-08-05 Thread Cindy . Swearingen
Brian, CR 4852783 was updated again this week so you might add yourself or your customer to continue to be updated. In the meantime, a reminder is that a mirrored ZFS configuration is flexible in that devices can be detached (as long as the redundancy is not compromised) or replaced as long as

Re: [zfs-discuss] Sol10u7: can't zpool remove missing hot spare

2009-08-04 Thread Cindy . Swearingen
Hi Will, It looks to me like you are running into this bug: http://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6664649 This is fixed in Nevada and a fix will also be available in an upcoming Solaris 10 release. This doesn't help you now, unfortunately. I don't think this ghost of a

Re: [zfs-discuss] how is size of Volume computed?

2009-08-03 Thread Cindy . Swearingen
Hi Andrew, The AVAIL column indicates the pool size, not the volsize in this example. In your case, the iscsi-pool/log_1_1 volume is 24 GB in size and the remaining pool space is 33.7G. The 33.7G reflects your pool space, not your volume size. The sizing is easier to see if you include the

Re: [zfs-discuss] how is size of Volume computed?

2009-08-03 Thread Cindy . Swearingen
Andrew, Take a look at your zpool list output, which identifies the size of your iscsi-pool pool. Regardless of how the volume size was determined, your remaining pool size is still 33GB and yes, some of it is used for metadata. cs On 08/03/09 11:26, andrew.r...@sun.com wrote: hi cindy, tnx

Re: [zfs-discuss] USF drive on S10u7

2009-07-28 Thread Cindy . Swearingen
Hi Dick, The Solaris 10 volume management service is volfs. If you attach the USB hard disk and run volcheck, the disk should be mounted under the /rmdisk directory. If the auto-mounting doesn't occur, you can disable volfs and mount it manually. You can read more about this feature here:

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs send/recv syntax

2009-07-28 Thread Cindy Swearingen
I apologize for replying in the middle of this thread, but I never saw the initial snapshot syntax of mypool2, which needs to be recursive (zfs snapshot -r mypo...@snap) to snapshot all the datasets in mypool2. Then, use zfs send -R to pick up and restore all the dataset properties. What was the

Re: [zfs-discuss] Subscribing broken?

2009-07-27 Thread Cindy . Swearingen
Tim, I sent your subscription problem to the OpenSolaris help list. We should hear back soon. Cindy On 07/27/09 16:15, Tim Cook wrote: So it is broken then... because I'm on week 4 now, no responses to this thread, and I'm still not getting any emails. Anyone from Sun still alive that can

Re: [zfs-discuss] Subscribing broken?

2009-07-27 Thread Cindy . Swearingen
Tim, If you could send me your email address privately, the OpenSolaris list folks have a better chance of resolving this problem. I promise I won't sell it to anyone. :-) Cindy On 07/27/09 16:25, cindy.swearin...@sun.com wrote: Tim, I sent your subscription problem to the OpenSolaris help

Re: [zfs-discuss] Can't offline a RAID-Z2 device: no valid replica

2009-07-27 Thread Cindy . Swearingen
Hi Laurent, I was able to reproduce on it on a Solaris 10 5/09 system. The problem is fixed in a current Nevada bits and also in the upcoming Solaris 10 release. The bug fix that integrated this change might be this one: http://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6328632 zpool

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Root Pool Recovery (from the FAQ)

2009-07-24 Thread Cindy . Swearingen
Hi Dick, I haven't see this problem when I've tested these steps. And its been awhile since I've seen the nobody:nobody problem, but it sounds like NFSMAPID didn't get set correctly. I think this question is asked during installation and generally is set to the default DNS domain name. The

Re: [zfs-discuss] When will shrink / evict be coming? With respect to drive upgrades ...

2009-07-22 Thread Cindy . Swearingen
Hi-- With 40+ drives, you might consider two pools any way. If you want to use a ZFS root pool, some like this: - Mirrored ZFS root pool (2 x 500 GB drives) - Mirrored ZFS non-root pool for everything else Mirrored pools are flexible and provide good performance. See this site for more tips:

Re: [zfs-discuss] Can't offline a RAID-Z2 device: no valid replica

2009-07-17 Thread Cindy . Swearingen
Hi Laurent, Yes, you should able to offline a faulty device in a redundant configuration as long as enough devices are available to keep the pool redundant. On my Solaris Nevada system (latest bits), injecting a fault into a disk in a RAID-Z configuration and then offlining a disk works as

Re: [zfs-discuss] Poor Man's Cluster using zpool export and zpool import

2009-07-08 Thread Cindy . Swearingen
Hi Shawn, I have no experience with this configuration, but you might review the information in this blog: http://blogs.sun.com/erickustarz/entry/poor_man_s_cluster_end ZFS is not a cluster file system and yes, possible data corruption issues exist. Eric mentions this in his blog. You might

Re: [zfs-discuss] possible to override/inherit mountpoint on received snapshots?

2009-07-07 Thread Cindy . Swearingen
FYI... The -u option is described in the ZFS admin guide and the ZFS troubleshooting wiki in the areas of restoring root pool snapshots. The -u option is described in the zfs.1m man page starting in the b115 release: http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/819-2240/zfs-1m Cindy Lori Alt wrote:

Re: [zfs-discuss] how to discover disks?

2009-07-06 Thread Cindy . Swearingen
Hi Hua-Ying, Some disks don't have target identifiers, like you c3d0 and c3d1 disks. To attach your c3d1 disk, you need to relabel it with an SMI label and provide a slice, s0, for example. See the steps here:

Re: [zfs-discuss] how to discover disks?

2009-07-06 Thread Cindy . Swearingen
Hua-Ying, The partition table *is* confusing so don't try to make sense of it. :-) Partition or slice 2 represents the entire disk, cylinders 0-24317. You created slice 0, which is cylinders 1-24316. Slice 8 is a reserved, legacy area for boot info on some x86 systems. You can ignore it. Looks

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS - SWAP and lucreate..

2009-06-29 Thread Cindy . Swearingen
Hi Patrick, To answer your original question, yes, you can create your root swap and dump volumes before you run the lucreate operation. LU won't change them if they are already created. Keep in mind that you'll need approximately 10 GBs of disk space for the ZFS root BE and the swap/dump

Re: [zfs-discuss] Backing up OS drive?

2009-06-26 Thread Cindy . Swearingen
Hi Tertius, I think you are saying that you have an OpenSolaris system with a one-disk root pool and a 6-way RAIDZ non-root pool. You could create root pool snapshots and send them over to the non-root pool or to a pool on another system. Then, consider purchasing another disk for a mirrored

Re: [zfs-discuss] Turn off the time slider on some zpools

2009-06-24 Thread Cindy . Swearingen
Hi Mykola, Yes, if you are speaking of the automatic TimeSlider snapshots, the snapshots are rotated. I think the threshold is 80% full disk space. Cheers, Cindy Mykola Maslov wrote: How to turn off the timeslider snapshots on certain file systems?

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS attributes for CIFS.

2009-06-22 Thread Cindy . Swearingen
Hi Kyle, The first thing to plan for is that the Solaris CIFS services are not available in the Solaris 10 release. You can use the property descriptions in this table to review the CIFS related features. Using your browser's find in page feature and searching on CIFS is probably the easiest

Re: [zfs-discuss] how to destroy a pool by id?

2009-06-20 Thread Cindy Swearingen
Hi Kent, This is what I do in similar situations: 1. Import the pool to be destroyed by using the ID. In your case, like this: # zpool import 3280066346390919920 If tank already exists you can also rename it: # zpool import 3280066346390919920 tank2 Then destroy it: # zpool destroy tank2 I

Re: [zfs-discuss] Server Cloning With ZFS?

2009-06-18 Thread Cindy . Swearingen
Hi Dave, Until the ZFS/flash support integrates into an upcoming Solaris 10 release, I don't think we have an easy way to clone a root pool/dataset from one system to another system because system specific info is still maintained. Your manual solution sounds plausible but probably won't work

Re: [zfs-discuss] space in use by snapshots

2009-06-17 Thread Cindy . Swearingen
Hi Roland, Current Solaris releases, SXCE (build 98) or OpenSolaris 2009.06, provide space accounting features to display space consumed by snapshots, descendent datasets, and so on. On my OSOL 2009.06 system with automatic snapshots running, I can see the space that is consumed by snapshots by

Re: [zfs-discuss] Checksum errors

2009-06-17 Thread Cindy . Swearingen
Hi UNIX admin, I would check fmdump -eV output to see if this error is isolated or persistent. If fmdump says this error is isolated, then you might just monitor the status. For example, if fmdump says that these errors occurred on 6/15 and you moved this system on that date or you know that

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs list -t snapshots

2009-06-15 Thread Cindy . Swearingen
Hi Harry, I use this stuff every day and I can't figure out the right syntax either. :-) Reviewing the zfs man page syntax, it looks like you should be able to use this syntax: # zfs list -t snapshot dataset But it doesn't work: # zfs list -t snapshot rpool/export cannot open 'rpool/export':

Re: [zfs-discuss] no pool_props for OpenSolaris 2009.06 with old SPARC hardware

2009-06-12 Thread Cindy . Swearingen
Hi Frank, The reason that ZFS let you create rpool with a EFI label is at this point, it doesn't know that this is a root pool. Its just a pool named rpool. The best solution is for us to provide a bootable EFI label. I see an old bug that says if you already have a pool with the same name

Re: [zfs-discuss] ata - sata quustion

2009-06-12 Thread Cindy . Swearingen
Hi Dick, I've rewritten the instructions for relabeling/repartitioning a disk that is intended for the root pool, here: http://www.solarisinternals.com/wiki/index.php/ZFS_Troubleshooting_Guide#Replacing.2FRelabeling_the_Root_Pool_Disk Generally, the format utility will show you the size of the

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS snapshots ignore everything in /export/....

2009-06-10 Thread Cindy . Swearingen
Hi Krenz, Can you provide your zfs list output and your snapshot syntax? See the output below from my Solaris 10 5/09 system. Snapshot syntax and behavior should similar to the Solaris 10 10/08 release. When you take a snapshot of the root pool you must use the -r option to recursively

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS: Re-Propragate inheritable ACL permissions

2009-06-10 Thread Cindy . Swearingen
Christo, We don't have an easy way to re-propagate ACL entries on existing files and directories. You might try using a combination of find and chmod, similar to the syntax below. Which Solaris release is this? We might be able to provide better hints if you can identify the release and the

Re: [zfs-discuss] [caiman-discuss] Can not delete swap on AI sparc

2009-06-08 Thread Cindy . Swearingen
Hi Richard, I ran into some quirks resizing swap last week. If you are seeing out of space when trying to remove a swap area, then a reboot clear this up. I think the bugs are already filed, but I would like to see your scenario as well. Can you restate your steps? Thanks, Cindy Jan

Re: [zfs-discuss] rpool mirroring

2009-06-05 Thread Cindy . Swearingen
Hi Frank, This bug was filed with bugster, but I see that the opensolaris bug database is currently unavailable. I sent a note about this problem. When a root cause is determined for 6844090, then we'll see whether this particular issue is a ZFS problem or a format/fdisk problem. In any case,

Re: [zfs-discuss] rpool mirroring

2009-06-04 Thread Cindy . Swearingen
Hi Noz, This problem was reported recently and this bug was filed: 6844090 zfs should be able to mirror to a smaller disk I believe slice 9 (alternates) is an older method for providing alternate disk blocks on x86 systems. Apparently, it can be removed by using the format -e command. I

Re: [zfs-discuss] Quick adding devices question

2009-05-29 Thread Cindy . Swearingen
Hi Rich, Yes, your zpool syntax is correct. I just tested what I think is your final configuration. Cindy # zpool create dpool c1t0d0 c1t1d0 c1t2d0 # zpool attach dpool c1t1d0 c1t3d0 # zpool attach dpool c1t0d0 c1t4d0 # zpool attach dpool c1t2d0 c1t5d0 # zpool status dpool pool: dpool

Re: [zfs-discuss] replicating a root pool

2009-05-21 Thread Cindy . Swearingen
Hi Ian, This procedure identifies the zfs send/receive syntax: http://www.solarisinternals.com/wiki/index.php/ZFS_Troubleshooting_Guide#Complete_Solaris_ZFS_Root_Pool_Recovery Cindy Ian Collins wrote: I'm trying to use zfs send/receive to replicate the root pool of a system and I can't think

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Path = ???

2009-05-19 Thread Cindy . Swearingen
Hi Howard, Which Solaris release is this? You shouldn't have to register the ZFS app, but other problems prevented the ZFS GUI tool from launching successfully in the Solaris 10 release. If you can provide the Solaris release info and specific error messages, I can try to get some answers.

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS in Solaris 10 update 7

2009-05-01 Thread Cindy Swearingen
Hi Ian, Other than bug fixes, the only notable feature in the Solaris 10 5/09 release is that Solaris Live Upgrade supports additional zones configurations. You can read about these configurations here: http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/819-5461/gigek?l=ena=view I hope someone else from the

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS delegation

2009-04-21 Thread Cindy . Swearingen
Hi Grant, We have predefined ACL sets, which integrated into build 99. With ZFS delegated permissions, you can create a permission set that can be re-used. See the example 9-2 here: http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/817-2271/gbchv?l=enq=permission+setsa=view zfs allow [-s] ... perm|@setname

Re: [zfs-discuss] How recoverable is an 'unrecoverable error'?

2009-04-15 Thread Cindy . Swearingen
Hi Uwe, You can use the fmdump feature to help determine whether these disk errors are persistent. Using fmdump -ev will provide a lot of detail but you can review how many disks errors have occurred and for how long. A brief description is provided here:

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS volume -- special circumstances and usage in non-global zones

2009-04-13 Thread Cindy . Swearingen
Hi Ravi, I think a previous bug prevented the use of volumes in non-global zones and the man page was not updated. This is a bug in the man page. I will fix this. I agree that this text here: http://docsview.sfbay.sun.com/app/docs/doc/819-5461/ftyxh?a=view A ZFS volume is a dataset that

Re: [zfs-discuss] Can this be done?

2009-04-08 Thread Cindy . Swearingen
Michael, You can't attach disks to an existing RAIDZ vdev, but you add another RAIDZ vdev. Also keep in mind that you can't detach disks from RAIDZ pools either. See the syntax below. Cindy # zpool create rzpool raidz2 c1t0d0 c1t1d0 c1t2d0 # zpool status pool: rzpool state: ONLINE

Re: [zfs-discuss] is zpool export/import | faster than rsync or cp

2009-04-01 Thread Cindy . Swearingen
Hi Harry, I was on vacation so am late to this discussion. For this part of your question: The zpool export/import feature is a pool-level operation for moving the pool, disks, and data to another system. For moving data from one pool to another pool, you would want to use zfs send/recv,

Re: [zfs-discuss] Size discrepancy (beyond expected amount?)

2009-03-20 Thread Cindy . Swearingen
Harry, Bob F. has give you some excellent advice about using mirrored configurations. I can answer your RAIDZ questions but your original configuration was for a root pool and non-root pool using 4 disks total. Start with two mirrored pools of two disks each. In the future, you will be able to

Re: [zfs-discuss] X4500 Thumper, config for boot disks?

2009-03-19 Thread Cindy . Swearingen
Hi Neal, This example needs to be updated with a ZFS root pool. It could also be that I mapped the wrong boot disks in this example. You can name the root pool what ever you want, rpool, mpool, mypool. In these examples, I was using rpool for RAIDZ pool and mpool for mirrored pool, not knowing

Re: [zfs-discuss] How do I mirror zfs rpool, x4500?

2009-03-17 Thread Cindy . Swearingen
Neal, You'll need to use the text-based initial install option. The steps for configuring a ZFS root pool during an initial install are covered here: http://opensolaris.org/os/community/zfs/docs/ Page 114: Example 4–1 Initial Installation of a Bootable ZFS Root File System Step 3, you'll be

Re: [zfs-discuss] At Wits End for ZFS Permission Settings

2009-02-28 Thread Cindy Swearingen
Hi Steven, I don't have access to my usual resources to test the ACL syntax but I think the root cause is that you don't have execute permission on the Not Started directory. Try the chmod syntax again but this time include execute:allow for admin on Not Sorted or add it like this: # chmod

Re: [zfs-discuss] Migrating to ZFS

2009-02-26 Thread Cindy . Swearingen
Hi Rafael, The information on that site looks very out-of-date. I will attempt to resolve this problem. Other than using Live Upgrade to migrate a UFS root file system to a ZFS root file system, you can use ufsdump and ufsrestore to migrate UFS data to ZFS file system. Other data migration

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS corruption

2009-02-10 Thread Cindy . Swearingen
Leonid, You could use the fmdump -eV command to look for problems with these disks. This command might generate a lot of output, but it should be clear if the root cause is a problem accessing these devices. I would also check /var/adm/messages for any driver-related messages. Cindy Leonid

Re: [zfs-discuss] Backup/Restore root pool : SPARC and x86/x64

2009-02-09 Thread Cindy . Swearingen
Hi Gordon, We are working toward making the root pool recovery process easier in the future, for everyone. In the meantime, this is awesome work. After I run through these steps myself, I would like to add this procedure to the ZFS t/s wiki. Thanks, Cindy Gordon Johnson wrote: I hope this

Re: [zfs-discuss] Adding a SDcard as zfs cache (L2ARC?) on a laptop?

2009-02-04 Thread Cindy . Swearingen
Jean-Paul, Our goofy disk formatting is tripping you... Put the disk space of c8t0d0 in c8t0d0s0 and try the zpool add syntax again. If you need help with the format syntax, let me know. This command syntax should have complained: pfexec zpool add rpool cache /dev/rdsk/c8t0d0 See the zpool

Re: [zfs-discuss] [indiana-discuss] Cannot Mirror RPOOL, Can't Label Disk to SMI

2009-02-04 Thread Cindy . Swearingen
Handojo, Use the format utility to put the disk space of c4d0 into c4d0s0 and try the zpool attach syntax again, like this: # zpool attach rpool c3d0s0 c4d0s0 Let the newly added disk resilver by monitoring with zpool status. Then, install the bootblocks on the newly added disk, like this: #

Re: [zfs-discuss] Adding a SDcard as zfs cache (L2ARC?) on a laptop?

2009-02-04 Thread Cindy . Swearingen
Jean-Paul, Regarding your comments here: Expected because s0 is defined as 0 bytes in the partition table I presume? Yes, you need to put the disk space into s0 by using the format utility. Use the modify option from format's partition menu is probably the easiest way. Email me directly if you

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS core contributor nominations

2009-02-03 Thread Cindy . Swearingen
. We should also add some new members to both Contributor and Core contributor levels. First the current list of Core contributors: Bill Moore (billm) Cindy Swearingen (cindys) Lori M. Alt (lalt) Mark Shellenbaum (marks) Mark Maybee (maybee) Matthew A. Ahrens (ahrens) Neil V. Perrin (perrin) Jeff

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS core contributor nominations

2009-02-02 Thread Cindy . Swearingen
at core contributor levels. We should also add some new members to both Contributor and Core contributor levels. First the current list of Core contributors: Bill Moore (billm) Cindy Swearingen (cindys) Lori M. Alt (lalt) Mark Shellenbaum (marks) Mark Maybee (maybee) Matthew A. Ahrens

Re: [zfs-discuss] Extended attributes in ZFS

2009-01-29 Thread Cindy . Swearingen
Hi Peter, Yes, ZFS supports extended attributes. The runat.1 and fsattr.5 man pages are good places to start. Cindy Peter Reiher wrote: Does ZFS currently support actual use of extended attributes? If so, where can I find some documentation that describes how to use them?

Re: [zfs-discuss] Add SSD drive as L2ARC(?) cache to existing ZFS raid?

2009-01-28 Thread Cindy . Swearingen
Orvar, In an existing RAIDZ configuration, you would add the cache device like this: # zpool add pool-name cache device-name Currently, cache devices are only supported in the OpenSolaris and SXCE releases. The important thing is determining whether the cache device would improve your

Re: [zfs-discuss] s10u6 ludelete issues with zones on zfs root

2009-01-16 Thread Cindy . Swearingen
Hi Amy, You can review the ZFS/LU/zones issues here: http://www.solarisinternals.com/wiki/index.php/ZFS_Troubleshooting_Guide#Live_Upgrade_with_Zones The entire Solaris 10 10/08 UFS to ZFS with zones migration is described here: http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/819-5461/zfsboot-1?a=view Let

[zfs-discuss] recent ZFS Admin Guide/troubleshooting wiki updates

2009-01-15 Thread Cindy . Swearingen
Hi everyone, Recent ZFS admin guide updates/troubleshooting wiki include the following updates. 1. Revised root pool recovery steps. The process has been changed slightly due to a recently uncovered zfs receive problem. You can create a recursive root pool snapshot as was previously

Re: [zfs-discuss] zpool export+import doesn't maintain snapshot

2009-01-14 Thread Cindy . Swearingen
Nico, If you want to enable snapshot display as in previous releases, then set this parameter on the pool: # zpool set listsnapshots=on pool-name Cind Nico Sabbi wrote: On Wednesday 14 January 2009 11:44:56 Peter Tribble wrote: On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 10:11 AM, Nico Sabbi

Re: [zfs-discuss] Possible to copy a zpool safely? rsync? zfs send?

2009-01-07 Thread Cindy . Swearingen
Orvar, Two choices are described below, where safety is the priority. I prefer the first one (A). Cindy A. Replace each 500GB disk in the existing pool with a 1 TB drive. Then, add the 5th 1TB drive as a spare. Depending on the Solaris release you are running, you might need to export/import

Re: [zfs-discuss] Possible to copy a zpool safely? rsync? zfs send?

2009-01-07 Thread Cindy . Swearingen
Hi Orvar, Option A effectively doubles your existing pool (500GB x 4--1TB x 4) *and* provides increased reliability. This is the difference between options A and B. I also like the convenience of just replacing the smaller disks with larger disks in the existing pool and not having to create a

Re: [zfs-discuss] Questions about OS 2008.11 partitioning scheme

2009-01-06 Thread Cindy . Swearingen
Alex, I think the root cause of your confusion is that the format utility and disk labels are very unfriendly and confusing. Partition 2 identifies the whole disk and on x86 systems, space is needed for boot-related information and is currently stored in partition 8. Neither of these partitions

Re: [zfs-discuss] Questions about OS 2008.11 partitioning scheme

2009-01-06 Thread Cindy . Swearingen
Hi Alex, The fact that you have to install the boot blocks manually on the second disk that you added with zpool attach is a bug! I should have mentioned this bug previously. If you had used the initial installation method to create a mirrored root pool, the boot blocks would have been applied

Re: [zfs-discuss] how to convert ZFS formated disk back to traditional Sun disk ?

2009-01-05 Thread Cindy . Swearingen
Jianhua, Use the format--label command, like the output below. Cindy # format -e c0t1d0 selecting c0t1d0 [disk formatted] FORMAT MENU: disk - select a disk type - select (define) a disk type partition - select (define) a partition table current

Re: [zfs-discuss] raidz with 5 disks

2008-12-19 Thread Cindy . Swearingen
Iman, Yes, you can do either of the following: o Select two disks for creating a mirrored root pool during an initial installation o Attach a second disk after the initial installation, like this: # zpool attach rpool old-disk new-disk In the attach disk scenario, you will also need to add the

Re: [zfs-discuss] raidz with 5 disks

2008-12-19 Thread Cindy . Swearingen
Iman, Sure, just select both disks during the install, like the screen below. If you don't see all the disks on the system during the initial install, then either their is an underlying configuration problem or you just need to scroll down to see all the disks. Cindy Select Disks On

Re: [zfs-discuss] zpool detach on non-mirrored drive

2008-12-18 Thread Cindy . Swearingen
Daniel, You can replace the disks in both of the supported root pool configurations: - single disk (non-redundant) root pool - mirrored (redundant) root pool I've tried both recently and I prefer attaching the replacement disk to the single-disk root pool and then detaching the old disk, using

Re: [zfs-discuss] Easiest way to replace a boot disk with a larger one?

2008-12-11 Thread Cindy . Swearingen
Hi Alex, Not exactly. Just hadn't thought of that specific example yet, but its a good one so I'll add it. In your case, ZFS might not see the expanded capacity of the larger disk automatically due to a recent bug. For non-root pools, the workaround to see the expanded space is to export and

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Installation Question

2008-12-11 Thread Cindy Swearingen
Michael, Sure. You can use Solaris 10 10/08 to initially install a ZFS root file system as long as you're not interested in migrating a UFS root file system to a ZFS root file system. But if you want to migrate your existing UFS root file system to a ZFS root file system, then you must perform

Re: [zfs-discuss] Backup/Restore root pool : SPARC and x86/x64

2008-11-12 Thread Cindy . Swearingen
Hi Marlanne, Excellent question and thank you for asking... We have a set of instructions for creating root pool snapshots and root pool recovery, here: http://www.solarisinternals.com/wiki/index.php/ZFS_Troubleshooting_Guide#ZFS_Root_Pool_Recovery The zfs send and recv options used in this

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs boot / root in Nevada build 101

2008-10-29 Thread Cindy . Swearingen
Hi Peter, You need to select the text-mode install option to select a ZFS root file system. Other ZFS root installation tips are described here: http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/817-2271/zfsboot-1?a=view I'll be attending Richard Elling's ZFS workshop at LISA08. Hope to see you. :-) Cindy

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs boot / root in Nevada build 101

2008-10-29 Thread Cindy . Swearingen
Good point and we've tried to document this issue all over the place and will continue to publicize this fact. With the new ZFS boot and install features, it is a good idea to read the docs first. Tell you friends. I will send out a set of s10 10/08 doc pointers as soon as they are available.

Re: [zfs-discuss] Boot from mirror

2008-10-27 Thread Cindy . Swearingen
Dick, Well, not at the same time. :-) If you are running a recent SXCE release and you have a mirrored ZFS root pool with two disks, for example, you can boot off either disk, as described in the ZFS Admin Guide, pages 81-85, here: http://opensolaris.org/os/community/zfs/docs/ If you create a

Re: [zfs-discuss] Disabling auto-snapshot by default.

2008-10-24 Thread Cindy . Swearingen
Chris, Tim Foster sent out this syntax previously: zfs set com.sun:auto-snapshot=false dataset Unless I'm misunderstanding your questions, try this for the dataset on the removable media device. Let me know if you have any issues. I'm tracking the auto snapshot experience... Cindy Chris

Re: [zfs-discuss] Root pool mirror wasn't automatically configured during install

2008-10-03 Thread Cindy . Swearingen
Hi Eric, Are you saying that you selected two-disks for a mirrored root pool during the initial install and because you changed the default rpool name, the pool was created with just one disk? I netinstalled build 96, selected two disks for the root pool mirror, backspaced over rpool with mypool

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS poor performance on Areca 1231ML

2008-09-29 Thread Cindy . Swearingen
Ross, No need to apologize... Many of us work hard to make sure good ZFS information is available so a big thanks for bringing this wiki page to our attention. Playing with UFS on ZFS is one thing but even inexperienced admins need to know this kind of configuration will provide poor

Re: [zfs-discuss] Explaining ZFS message in FMA

2008-09-04 Thread Cindy . Swearingen
Alain, I think you want to use fmdump -eV to display the extended device information. See the output below. Cindy class = ereport.fs.zfs.checksum ena = 0x3242b9cdeac00401 detector = (embedded nvlist) nvlist version: 0 version = 0x0

Re: [zfs-discuss] Setup idea

2008-08-19 Thread Cindy . Swearingen
Hi Ivan, If you are asking how you can make a ZFS root file system on a Solaris 10 system, then you'll need to wait a bit until that release is available. This features is currently provided in the SXCE, build 90 release, which provides similar support. You can read more about this support

Re: [zfs-discuss] more ZFS recovery

2008-08-07 Thread Cindy . Swearingen
Hi Richard, Yes, sure. We can add that scenario. What's been on my todo list is a ZFS troubleshooting wiki. I've been collecting issues. Let's talk soon. Cindy Richard Elling wrote: Tom Bird wrote: Richard Elling wrote: I see no evidence that the data is or is not correct. What we

Re: [zfs-discuss] Checksum error: which of my files have failed scrubbing?

2008-08-05 Thread Cindy . Swearingen
Soren, At this point, I'd like to know what fmdump -eV says about your disk so you can determine whether it should be replaced or not. Cindy soren wrote: soren wrote: ZFS has detected that my root filesystem has a small number of errors. Is there a way to tell which specific files have been

Re: [zfs-discuss] boot cdrom -w doesn't work

2008-07-31 Thread Cindy . Swearingen
Hi Ron, Try again by using this syntax: ok boot cdrom - text Make sure you have reviewed the ZFS boot/install chapter in the ZFS admin guide, here: http://opensolaris.org/os/community/zfs/docs/ Cindy Ron Halstead wrote: I have a Sun Blade 2500 running nv_88. I want to install nv_94 with a

Re: [zfs-discuss] Errors in ZFS/NFSv4 ACL Documentation

2008-07-31 Thread Cindy . Swearingen
Mark, I filed two bugs for these issues but they are not visible in the Opensolaris bug database yet: 6731639 More NFSv4 ACL changes for ls.1 (Nevada) 6731650 More NFSv4 ACL changes for acl.5 (Nevada) The current ls.1 man page can be displayed on docs.sun.com, here:

Re: [zfs-discuss] Errors in ZFS/NFSv4 ACL Documentation

2008-07-29 Thread Cindy . Swearingen
Mark, Thanks for your detailed review comments. I will check where the latest man pages are online and get back to you. In the meantime, I can file the bugs to get these issues fixed on your behalf. Thanks again, Cindy Marc Bevand wrote: I noticed some errors in ls(1), acl(5) and the ZFS

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS boot - upgrade from UFS swap slices

2008-07-24 Thread Cindy . Swearingen
Hi Alan, ZFS doesn't swap to a slice in build 92. In this build, a ZFS root environment requires separate ZFS volumes for swap and dump devices. The ZFS boot/install project and information trail starts here: http://opensolaris.org/os/community/zfs/boot/ Cindy Alan Burlison wrote: I'm

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS boot - upgrade from UFS swap slices

2008-07-24 Thread Cindy . Swearingen
Alan, Just make sure you use dumpadm to point to valid dump device and this setup should work fine. Please let us know if it doesn't. The ZFS strategy behind automatically creating separate swap and dump devices including the following: o Eliminates the need to create separate slices o Enables

Re: [zfs-discuss] Cannot attach mirror to SPARC zfs root pool

2008-07-23 Thread Cindy . Swearingen
Rainer, Sorry for your trouble. I'm updating the installboot example in the ZFS Admin Guide with the -F zfs syntax now. We'll fix the installboot man page as well. Mark, I don't have an x86 system to test right now, can you send me the correct installgrub syntax for booting a ZFS file system?

Re: [zfs-discuss] Formatting Problem of ZFS Adm Guide (pdf)

2008-07-21 Thread Cindy . Swearingen
For the record, the source of the ZFS Admin Guide is created with a SGML editor that is not Framemaker. I agree that the evince PDF display problems are with the font changes only. Cindy Akhilesh Mritunjai wrote: Welcome to font hell :-(. For many years, Sun documentation was written in the

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