Re: [zfs-discuss] Changing number of disks in a RAID-Z?

2006-10-16 Thread Darren Dunham
the same size). Shrinking the vdevs requires moving data. Once you move data, you've got to either invalidate the snapshots or update them. I think that will be one of the more difficult parts. -- Darren Dunham [EMAIL PROTECTED] Senior Technical

Re: [zfs-discuss] Where is the ZFS configuration data stored?

2006-10-14 Thread Darren Dunham
import a pool on two hosts at once definitely still applies. -- Darren Dunham [EMAIL PROTECTED] Senior Technical Consultant TAOShttp://www.taos.com/ Got some Dr Pepper? San Francisco, CA bay area

Re: [zfs-discuss] Where is the ZFS configuration data stored?

2006-10-13 Thread Darren Dunham
the pool. -- Darren Dunham [EMAIL PROTECTED] Senior Technical Consultant TAOShttp://www.taos.com/ Got some Dr Pepper? San Francisco, CA bay area This line left intentionally blank to confuse you

Re: [zfs-discuss] Where is the ZFS configuration data stored?

2006-10-12 Thread Darren Dunham
a given (full disk) pool, it could be scanned and imported anyway. I don't know if such a feature would be useful for the implementation of ZFS root or not. Either way it would have to wait for the hostid stuff to go in. -- Darren Dunham [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [zfs-discuss] What's going to make it into 11/06?

2006-10-05 Thread Darren Dunham
What about ZFS root?. And compatibility with Live Upgrade?. Any timetable estimation?. ZFS root has been previously announced as targeted for update 4. -- Darren Dunham [EMAIL PROTECTED] Senior Technical Consultant TAOShttp

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

2006-09-27 Thread Darren Dunham
of them was exported). I hope ZFS won't get too worried about them if I do this an they're not both imported (thinking about moving LUNs over from a test system that had been using the same pool name). -- Darren Dunham [EMAIL PROTECTED] Senior Technical

Re: [zfs-discuss] Newbie in ZFS

2006-09-22 Thread Darren Dunham
to some limitations in how ZFS and the sd driver communicates. That the sd driver will take a really long time to timeout each of what may be several I/Os to it. -- Darren Dunham [EMAIL PROTECTED] Senior Technical Consultant TAOShttp

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS and HDS ShadowImage

2006-09-18 Thread Darren Dunham
to this. Until very recently there was no general tool to help with this. The unsupported method of destroying volume information to create new unique volumes wasn't dangerous enough to keep people from using this technique. :-) ZFS is different enough that the techniques used on VxVM do not apply. -- Darren

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: Re: Comments on a ZFS multiple use of a pool,

2006-09-14 Thread Darren Dunham
no way to set a global default for these, so you have to remember it each time, making the SMF solution more attractive Perfect. (although I have to try it). In a cluster framework, the cluster can remember to do it each time, so that shouldn't be an issue. -- Darren Dunham

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: ZFS imported simultanously on 2 systems...

2006-09-14 Thread Darren Dunham
. Anything that does had better be making its own determination of which host owns the pool independently. -- Darren Dunham [EMAIL PROTECTED] Senior Technical Consultant TAOShttp://www.taos.com/ Got some Dr Pepper

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: Snapshots and backing store

2006-09-13 Thread Darren Dunham
and be a performance hit. Then you go and do the same thing with the other pools. Today this isn't possible because you cannot migrate data off of a VDEV to reclaim the storage. -- Darren Dunham [EMAIL PROTECTED] Senior Technical Consultant TAOS

Re: [zfs-discuss] Need input on implementing a ZFS layout

2006-09-06 Thread Darren Dunham
to do it easily. In the future, you may be able to expand the RAIDz device. (or if you could remove a VDEV from a pool, you could rotate through and remove each of the RAIDz devices followed by an addition of a new (8-column) RAIDz). -- Darren Dunham

Re: Re[2]: [zfs-discuss] ZFS + rsync, backup on steroids.

2006-08-30 Thread Darren Dunham
this as a completely new file, losing potential space savings from snapshots. -- Darren Dunham [EMAIL PROTECTED] Senior Technical Consultant TAOShttp://www.taos.com/ Got some Dr Pepper? San Francisco, CA bay area

Re: [zfs-discuss] Tape backup

2006-08-23 Thread Darren Dunham
-loadable library that wrapped acl(2)? Have it just hand off the same result except return 0 when the actual call was an error set to ENOSYS. Backups would still have to mess with either legacy mounts or explicit save set specification, but those are much easier tasks. -- Darren Dunham

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS performance using slices vs. entire disk?

2006-08-03 Thread Darren Dunham
(that would be zfs send or the like). -- Darren Dunham [EMAIL PROTECTED] Senior Technical Consultant TAOShttp://www.taos.com/ Got some Dr Pepper? San Francisco, CA bay area This line left

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: Clones and rm -rf

2006-08-03 Thread Darren Dunham
...) True. -- Darren Dunham [EMAIL PROTECTED] Senior Technical Consultant TAOShttp://www.taos.com/ Got some Dr Pepper? San Francisco, CA bay area This line left intentionally blank to confuse you

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS vs WAFL positioning

2006-07-27 Thread Darren Dunham
support'? -- Darren Dunham [EMAIL PROTECTED] Senior Technical Consultant TAOShttp://www.taos.com/ Got some Dr Pepper? San Francisco, CA bay area This line left intentionally blank to confuse you

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: Quotas and Snapshots

2006-07-25 Thread Darren Dunham
a business/management issue and not a technical issue to resolve. So pretend it's 500G. The suggestions still seem very valid to me. -- Darren Dunham [EMAIL PROTECTED] Senior Technical Consultant TAOShttp://www.taos.com/ Got some Dr

Re: [zfs-discuss] legato support

2006-07-20 Thread Darren Dunham
do you know if this is for 7.3 or will it work for 7.2 too?? we are still using 7.2 and have no plan to update to 7.3 yet... right now we doing snapshots and send to tar-tape, ugly... Do you have ACLs you need to maintain? Can you just specify a snapshot as a saveset directly? -- Darren

Re: [zfs-discuss] Can't remove corrupt file

2006-07-20 Thread Darren Dunham
the long term solution for this type of corruption? Will there be a 'fsck'-like utility that can find all valid items and make sure they're connected properly, or is something else possible? -- Darren Dunham [EMAIL PROTECTED] Senior Technical Consultant

Re: [zfs-discuss] Can't remove corrupt file

2006-07-20 Thread Darren Dunham
. -- Darren Dunham [EMAIL PROTECTED] Senior Technical Consultant TAOShttp://www.taos.com/ Got some Dr Pepper? San Francisco, CA bay area This line left intentionally blank to confuse you

Re: [zfs-discuss] Expanding raidz2

2006-07-13 Thread Darren Dunham
still misunderstanding. :-) -- Darren Dunham [EMAIL PROTECTED] Senior Technical Consultant TAOShttp://www.taos.com/ Got some Dr Pepper? San Francisco, CA bay area This line left intentionally blank

[zfs-discuss] Missing files after stress test

2006-05-17 Thread Darren Dunham
with the underlying scsi driver?) and more importantly why none of the data written after the snapshot was taken seems to be around any longer. Is the fact that the files were empty relevant? Thanks. -- Darren Dunham [EMAIL PROTECTED] Senior Technical Consultant

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS snapshot improvement

2006-05-10 Thread Darren Dunham
10 15:37 c -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 May 10 15:37 d -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 May 10 15:37 e # rmdir snap1 snap2 rmdir: directory snap2: Directory is a mount point or in use # zfs destroy zpool/[EMAIL PROTECTED] # -- Darren Dunham

Re: [zfs-discuss] Fragmentation

2006-05-10 Thread Darren Dunham
all over the place? How does this affect sequential read performance? Does ZFS' read- ahead mean that this isn't the problem it could be? That was discussed to some extent in this thread: http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?messageID=14997 -- Darren Dunham

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