Re: [zfs-discuss] This mailing list EOL???

2013-03-21 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (opensolarisisdeadlongliveopensolaris)
provide an invitation to the new list shortly. Thanks for your patience. Cindy On 03/20/13 15:05, Edward Ned Harvey (opensolarisisdeadlongliveopensolaris) wrote: I can't seem to find any factual indication that opensolaris.org<http://opensolaris.org> mailing lists are going away, and I

[zfs-discuss] This mailing list EOL???

2013-03-20 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (opensolarisisdeadlongliveopensolaris)
I can't seem to find any factual indication that opensolaris.org mailing lists are going away, and I can't even find the reference to whoever said it was EOL in a few weeks ... a few weeks ago. So ... are these mailing lists going bye-bye? ___ zfs-disc

Re: [zfs-discuss] What would be the best tutorial cum reference doc for ZFS

2013-03-19 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (opensolarisisdeadlongliveopensolaris)
> From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- > boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Hans J. Albertsson > > I'm looking for something that would make me afterwards understand what, > say, commands like zpool import ... or zfs send ... actually do, and > some idea as to why, so

Re: [zfs-discuss] partioned cache devices

2013-03-15 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (opensolarisisdeadlongliveopensolaris)
> From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- > boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Andrew Werchowiecki > > muslimwookie@Pyzee:~$ sudo zpool add aggr0 cache c25t10d1p2 > Password: > cannot open '/dev/dsk/c25t10d1p2': I/O error > muslimwookie@Pyzee:~$ > > I have two SSDs in th

Re: [zfs-discuss] maczfs / ZEVO

2013-02-18 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (opensolarisisdeadlongliveopensolaris)
> From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- > boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Edward Ned Harvey > > Tim, Simon, Volker, Chris, and Erik - How do you use it? > I am making the informed guess, that you're using it primarily on non- > laptops, which

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs-discuss mailing list & opensolaris EOL

2013-02-17 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (opensolarisisdeadlongliveopensolaris)
> From: Tim Cook [mailto:t...@cook.ms] > > We can agree to disagree. > > I think you're still operating under the auspices of Oracle wanting to have an > open discussion.  This is patently false.   I'm just going to respond to this by saying thank you, Cindy, Casper, Neil, and others, for all t

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs-discuss mailing list & opensolaris EOL

2013-02-17 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (opensolarisisdeadlongliveopensolaris)
> From: Tim Cook [mailto:t...@cook.ms] > > Why would I spend all that time and > energy participating in ANOTHER list controlled by Oracle, when they have > shown they have no qualms about eliminating it with basically 0 warning, at > their whim? >From an open source, community perspective, I und

Re: [zfs-discuss] maczfs / ZEVO

2013-02-17 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (opensolarisisdeadlongliveopensolaris)
> From: Tim Cook [mailto:t...@cook.ms] > Sent: Friday, February 15, 2013 11:14 AM > > I have a few coworkers using it.  No horror stories and it's been in use > about 6 > months now.  If there were any showstoppers I'm sure I'd have heard loud > complaints by now :) So, I have discovered a *coup

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs-discuss mailing list & opensolaris EOL

2013-02-17 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (opensolarisisdeadlongliveopensolaris)
> From: cindy swearingen [mailto:cindy.swearin...@gmail.com] > > This was new news to use too and we're just talking over some options > yesterday > afternoon so please give us a chance to regroup and provide some > alternatives. > > This list will be shutdown but we can start a new one on java.n

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs-discuss mailing list & opensolaris EOL

2013-02-16 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (opensolarisisdeadlongliveopensolaris)
> From: Bob Friesenhahn [mailto:bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us] > > Good for you. I am sure that Larry will be contacting you soon. hehehehehe... he knows better. ;-) > Previously Oracle announced and invited people to join their > discussion forums, which are web-based and virtually dead.

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs-discuss mailing list & opensolaris EOL

2013-02-16 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (opensolarisisdeadlongliveopensolaris)
> From: sriram...@gmail.com [mailto:sriram...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of > Sriram Narayanan > > Or, given that this is a weekend, we assume that someone within Oracle > would see this mail only on Monday morning Pacific Time, then send out > some mails within, and be able to respond in public only by

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs-discuss mailing list & opensolaris EOL

2013-02-16 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (opensolarisisdeadlongliveopensolaris)
> From: Tim Cook [mailto:t...@cook.ms] > > That would be the logical decision, yes.  Not to poke fun, but did you really > expect an official response after YEARS of nothing from Oracle?  This is the > same company that refused to release any Java patches until the DHS issued > a national warning

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs-discuss mailing list & opensolaris EOL

2013-02-16 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (opensolarisisdeadlongliveopensolaris)
Edward Ned Harvey (opensolarisisdeadlongliveopensolaris) Sent: Friday, February 15, 2013 11:00 AM To: zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org Subject: [zfs-discuss] zfs-discuss mailing list & opensolaris EOL So, I hear, in a couple weeks' time, opensolaris.org is shutting down. What does that mean

[zfs-discuss] maczfs / ZEVO

2013-02-15 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (opensolarisisdeadlongliveopensolaris)
Anybody using maczfs / ZEVO? Have good or bad things to say, in terms of reliability, performance, features? My main reason for asking is this: I have a mac, I use Time Machine, and I have VM's inside. Time Machine, while great in general, has the limitation of being unable to intelligently

[zfs-discuss] zfs-discuss mailing list & opensolaris EOL

2013-02-15 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (opensolarisisdeadlongliveopensolaris)
So, I hear, in a couple weeks' time, opensolaris.org is shutting down. What does that mean for this mailing list? Should we all be moving over to something at illumos or something? I'm going to encourage somebody in an official capacity at opensolaris to respond... I'm going to discourage uno

Re: [zfs-discuss] how to know available disk space

2013-02-08 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (opensolarisisdeadlongliveopensolaris)
> From: Pasi Kärkkäinen [mailto:pa...@iki.fi] > > What's the correct way of finding out what actually uses/reserves that 1023G > of FREE in the zpool? Maybe this isn't exactly what you need, but maybe: for fs in `zfs list -H -o name` ; do echo $fs ; zfs get reservation,refreservation,usedbyrefr

Re: [zfs-discuss] how to know available disk space

2013-02-06 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (opensolarisisdeadlongliveopensolaris)
> From: Gregg Wonderly [mailto:gregg...@gmail.com] > > This is one of the greatest annoyances of ZFS.  I don't really understand how, > a zvol's space can not be accurately enumerated from top to bottom of the > tree in 'df' output etc.  Why does a "zvol" divorce the space used from the > root of

[zfs-discuss] how to know available disk space

2013-02-06 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (opensolarisisdeadlongliveopensolaris)
I have a bunch of VM's, and some samba shares, etc, on a pool. I created the VM's using zvol's, specifically so they would have an appropriate refreservation and never run out of disk space, even with snapshots. Today, I ran out of disk space, and all the VM's died. So obviously it didn't wor

Re: [zfs-discuss] Scrub performance

2013-02-04 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (opensolarisisdeadlongliveopensolaris)
> From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- > boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Edward Ned Harvey > > I can tell you I've had terrible everything rates when I used dedup. So, the above comment isn't fair, really. The truth is here: http://mail.ope

Re: [zfs-discuss] Scrub performance

2013-02-04 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (opensolarisisdeadlongliveopensolaris)
> From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- > boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Koopmann, Jan-Peter > > all I can tell you is that I've had terrible scrub rates when I used dedup. I can tell you I've had terrible everything rates when I used dedup. > The > DDT was a bi

Re: [zfs-discuss] RFE: Un-dedup for unique blocks

2013-01-29 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (opensolarisisdeadlongliveopensolaris)
> From: Robert Milkowski [mailto:rmilkow...@task.gda.pl] > > That is one thing that always bothered me... so it is ok for others, like > Nexenta, to keep stuff closed and not in open, while if Oracle does it they > are bad? Oracle, like Nexenta, and my own company CleverTrove, and Microsoft, and

Re: [zfs-discuss] RFE: Un-dedup for unique blocks

2013-01-23 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (opensolarisisdeadlongliveopensolaris)
> From: Gary Mills [mailto:gary_mi...@fastmail.fm] > > > In solaris, I've never seen it swap out idle processes; I've only > > seen it use swap for the bad bad bad situation. I assume that's all > > it can do with swap. > > You would be wrong. Solaris uses swap space for paging. Paging out > u

Re: [zfs-discuss] RFE: Un-dedup for unique blocks

2013-01-22 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (opensolarisisdeadlongliveopensolaris)
> From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- > boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Nico Williams > > As for swap... really, you don't want to swap. If you're swapping you > have problems. For clarification, the above is true in Solaris and derivatives, but it's not unive

Re: [zfs-discuss] RFE: Un-dedup for unique blocks

2013-01-22 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (opensolarisisdeadlongliveopensolaris)
> From: Darren J Moffat [mailto:darr...@opensolaris.org] > > Support for SCSI UNMAP - both issuing it and honoring it when it is the > backing store of an iSCSI target. When I search for scsi unmap, I come up with all sorts of documentation that ... is ... like reading a medical journal when all

Re: [zfs-discuss] RFE: Un-dedup for unique blocks

2013-01-21 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (opensolarisisdeadlongliveopensolaris)
> From: Sašo Kiselkov [mailto:skiselkov...@gmail.com] > > as far as incompatibility among products, I've yet to come > across it I was talking about ... install solaris 11, and it's using a new version of zfs that's incompatible with anything else out there. And vice-versa. (Not sure if featu

Re: [zfs-discuss] RFE: Un-dedup for unique blocks

2013-01-21 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (opensolarisisdeadlongliveopensolaris)
> From: Richard Elling [mailto:richard.ell...@gmail.com] > > I disagree the ZFS is developmentally challenged. As an IT consultant, 8 years ago before I heard of ZFS, it was always easy to sell Ontap, as long as it fit into the budget. 5 years ago, whenever I told customers about ZFS, it was

Re: [zfs-discuss] RFE: Un-dedup for unique blocks

2013-01-20 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (opensolarisisdeadlongliveopensolaris)
> From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- > boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Nico Williams > > To decide if a block needs dedup one would first check the Bloom > filter, then if the block is in it, use the dedup code path, else the > non-dedup codepath and insert the bl

Re: [zfs-discuss] iSCSI access patterns and possible improvements?

2013-01-20 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (opensolarisisdeadlongliveopensolaris)
> From: Richard Elling [mailto:richard.ell...@gmail.com] > Sent: Saturday, January 19, 2013 5:39 PM > > the space allocation more closely resembles a variant > of mirroring, > like some vendors call "RAID-1E" Awesome, thank you. :-) ___ zfs-discuss m

Re: [zfs-discuss] RFE: Un-dedup for unique blocks

2013-01-20 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (opensolarisisdeadlongliveopensolaris)
> From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- > boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Nico Williams > > I've wanted a system where dedup applies only to blocks being written > that have a good chance of being dups of others. > > I think one way to do this would be to keep a sca

Re: [zfs-discuss] Resilver w/o errors vs. scrub with errors

2013-01-20 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (opensolarisisdeadlongliveopensolaris)
> From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- > boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Jim Klimov > > And regarding the "considerable activity" - AFAIK there is little way > for ZFS to reliably read and test "TXGs newer than X" My understanding is like this: When you make a sn

Re: [zfs-discuss] Resilver w/o errors vs. scrub with errors

2013-01-20 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (opensolarisisdeadlongliveopensolaris)
> From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- > boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Stephan Budach > > I am always experiencing chksum errors while scrubbing my zpool(s), but > I never experienced chksum errors while resilvering. Does anybody know > why that would be? When y

Re: [zfs-discuss] iSCSI access patterns and possible improvements?

2013-01-19 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (opensolarisisdeadlongliveopensolaris)
> From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- > boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Bob Friesenhahn > > If almost all of the I/Os are 4K, maybe your ZVOLs should use a > volblocksize of 4K? This seems like the most obvious improvement. Oh, I forgot to mention - The above log

Re: [zfs-discuss] poor CIFS and NFS performance

2012-12-31 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (opensolarisisdeadlongliveopensolaris)
> From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- > boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Eugen Leitl > > I have a pool of 8x ST31000340AS on an LSI 8-port adapter as > a raidz3 (no compression nor dedup) with reasonable bonnie++ > 1.03 values, e.g. 145 MByte/s Seq-Write @ 48% CPU

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs receive options (was S11 vs illumos zfs compatiblity)

2012-12-22 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (opensolarisisdeadlongliveopensolaris)
> From: Cindy Swearingen [mailto:cindy.swearin...@oracle.com] > > Which man page are you referring to? > > I see the zfs receive -o syntax in the S11 man page. Oh ... It's the latest openindiana. So I suppose it must be a new feature post-rev-28 in the non-open branch... But it's no big deal

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs receive options (was S11 vs illumos zfs compatiblity)

2012-12-21 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (opensolarisisdeadlongliveopensolaris)
> From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- > boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Edward Ned Harvey > > zfs send foo/bar@42 | zfs receive -o compression=on,sync=disabled biz/baz > > I have not yet tried this syntax. Because you mentioned it, I looked

[zfs-discuss] zfs receive options (was S11 vs illumos zfs compatiblity)

2012-12-21 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (opensolarisisdeadlongliveopensolaris)
> From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- > boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of bob netherton > > You can, with recv, override any property in the sending stream that can > be > set from the command line (ie, a writable). > > # zfs send repo/support@cpu-0412 | zfs recv

Re: [zfs-discuss] S11 vs illumos zfs compatiblity

2012-12-14 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (opensolarisisdeadlongliveopensolaris)
> From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- > boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Bob Netherton > > At this point, the only thing would be to use 11.1 to create a new pool at > 151's > version (-o version=) and top level dataset (-O version=). Recreate the file > system h

Re: [zfs-discuss] The format command crashes on 3TB disk but zpool create ok

2012-12-14 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (opensolarisisdeadlongliveopensolaris)
> From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- > boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of sol > > I added a 3TB Seagate disk (ST3000DM001) and ran the 'format' command but > it crashed and dumped core. > > However the zpool 'create' command managed to create a pool on the whole > d

Re: [zfs-discuss] any more efficient way to transfer snapshot between two hosts than ssh tunnel?

2012-12-14 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (opensolarisisdeadlongliveopensolaris)
> From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- > boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Fred Liu > > BTW, anyone played NDMP in solaris? Or is it feasible to transfer snapshot via > NDMP protocol? I've heard you could, but I've never done it. Sorry I'm not much help, except as

Re: [zfs-discuss] Remove disk

2012-12-07 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (opensolarisisdeadlongliveopensolaris)
> From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- > boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Freddie Cash > > On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 12:35 AM, Albert Shih wrote: >  Le 01/12/2012 ? 08:33:31-0700, Jan Owoc a ?crit > > > 2) replace the disks with larger ones one-by-one, waiting for a >

Re: [zfs-discuss] query re disk mirroring

2012-11-29 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (opensolarisisdeadlongliveopensolaris)
> From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- > boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Enda o'Connor - Oracle Ireland - > > Say I have an ldoms guest that is using zfs root pool that is mirrored, > and the two sides of the mirror are coming from two separate vds > servers, that i

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs on SunFire X2100M2 with hybrid pools

2012-11-29 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (opensolarisisdeadlongliveopensolaris)
> From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- > boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Jim Klimov > > this is > the part I am not certain about - it is roughly as cheap to READ the > gzip-9 datasets as it is to read lzjb (in terms of CPU decompression). Nope. I know LZJB is not

Re: [zfs-discuss] Question about degraded drive

2012-11-28 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (opensolarisisdeadlongliveopensolaris)
> From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- > boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Chris Dunbar - Earthside, LLC > > # zpool replace tank c11t4d0 > # zpool clear tank I would expect this to work, or detach/attach. You should scrub periodically, and ensure no errors after s

Re: [zfs-discuss] Question about degraded drive

2012-11-28 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (opensolarisisdeadlongliveopensolaris)
> From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- > boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Freddie Cash > > And you can try 'zpool online' on the failed drive to see if it comes back > online. Be cautious here - I have an anecdote, which might represent a trend in best practice, or

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs on SunFire X2100M2 with hybrid pools

2012-11-28 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (opensolarisisdeadlongliveopensolaris)
> From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- > boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Jim Klimov > > I really hope someone better versed in compression - like Saso - > would chime in to say whether gzip-9 vs. lzjb (or lz4) sucks in > terms of read-speeds from the pools. My HDD-b

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs on SunFire X2100M2 with hybrid pools

2012-11-27 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (opensolarisisdeadlongliveopensolaris)
> From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- > boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Eugen Leitl > > can I make e.g. LSI SAS3442E > directly do SSD caching (it says something about CacheCade, > but I'm not sure it's an OS-side driver thing), as it > is supposed to boost IOPS? U

Re: [zfs-discuss] Directory is not accessible

2012-11-26 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (opensolarisisdeadlongliveopensolaris)
> From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- > boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Sami Tuominen > > How can one remove a directory containing corrupt files or a corrupt file > itself? For me rm just gives input/output error. I was hoping to see somebody come up with an answ

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Appliance as a general-purpose server question

2012-11-23 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (opensolarisisdeadlongliveopensolaris)
> From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- > boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Jim Klimov > > I wonder if it would make weird sense to get the boxes, forfeit the > cool-looking Fishworks, and install Solaris/OI/Nexenta/whatever to > get the most flexibility and bang for

Re: [zfs-discuss] Woeful performance from an iSCSI pool

2012-11-22 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (opensolarisisdeadlongliveopensolaris)
> From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- > boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Ian Collins > > I look after a remote server that has two iSCSI pools. The volumes for > each pool are sparse volumes and a while back the target's storage > became full, causing weird and won

Re: [zfs-discuss] zvol wrapped in a vmdk by Virtual Box and double writes?

2012-11-21 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (opensolarisisdeadlongliveopensolaris)
> From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- > boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Jim Klimov > > As for ZIL - even if it is used with the in-pool variant, I don't > think your setup needs any extra steps to disable it (as Edward likes > to suggest), and most other setups don

Re: [zfs-discuss] zvol wrapped in a vmdk by Virtual Box and double writes?

2012-11-20 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (opensolarisisdeadlongliveopensolaris)
> From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- > boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Nathan Kroenert > > I chopped into a few slices - p0 (partition table), p1 128GB, p2 60gb. > > As part of my work, I have used it both as a RAW device (cxtxdxp1) and > wrapped partition 1 with

Re: [zfs-discuss] zvol access rights - chown zvol on reboot / startup / boot

2012-11-17 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (opensolarisisdeadlongliveopensolaris)
> From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- > boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Edward Ned Harvey > > An easier event to trigger is the starting of the virtualbox guest. Upon vbox > guest starting, check the service properties for that instance of vboxsvc,

Re: [zfs-discuss] Dedicated server running ESXi with no RAID card, ZFS for storage?

2012-11-17 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (opensolarisisdeadlongliveopensolaris)
> From: Edward Ned Harvey (opensolarisisdeadlongliveopensolaris) > > > Found quite a few posts on > > various > > forums of people complaining that RDP with external auth doesn't work (or > > not reliably), > > Actually, it does work, and it works

Re: [zfs-discuss] zvol access rights - chown zvol on reboot / startup / boot

2012-11-16 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (opensolarisisdeadlongliveopensolaris)
> From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- > boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Jim Klimov > > Well, as a simple stone-age solution (to simplify your SMF approach), > you can define custom attributes on dataset, zvols included. I think > a custom attr must include a colon

Re: [zfs-discuss] zvol access rights - chown zvol on reboot / startup / boot

2012-11-16 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (opensolarisisdeadlongliveopensolaris)
> From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- > boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Geoff Nordli > > Instead of using vdi, I use comstar targets and then use vbox built-in scsi > initiator. Based on my recent experiences, I am hesitant to use the iscsi ... I don't know if it

[zfs-discuss] zvol access rights - chown zvol on reboot / startup / boot

2012-11-15 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (opensolarisisdeadlongliveopensolaris)
When I google around for anyone else who cares and may have already solved the problem before I came along - it seems we're all doing the same thing for the same reason. If by any chance you are running VirtualBox on a solaris / opensolaris / openidiana / whatever ZFS host, you could of course

Re: [zfs-discuss] Dedicated server running ESXi with no RAID card, ZFS for storage?

2012-11-14 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (opensolarisisdeadlongliveopensolaris)
> From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- > boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Dan Swartzendruber > > Well, I think I give up for now. I spent quite a few hours over the last > couple of days trying to get gnome desktop working on bare-metal OI, > followed by virtualbox.

Re: [zfs-discuss] Dedicated server running ESXi with no RAID card, ZFS for storage?

2012-11-09 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (opensolarisisdeadlongliveopensolaris)
> From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- > boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Eugen Leitl > > On Thu, Nov 08, 2012 at 04:57:21AM +0000, Edward Ned Harvey > (opensolarisisdeadlongliveopensolaris) wrote: > > > Yes you can, with the help of Dell,

Re: [zfs-discuss] Dedicated server running ESXi with no RAID card, ZFS for storage?

2012-11-09 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (opensolarisisdeadlongliveopensolaris)
> From: Karl Wagner [mailto:k...@mouse-hole.com] > > If I was doing this now, I would probably use the ZFS aware OS bare metal, > but I still think I would use iSCSI to export the ZVols (mainly due to the > ability > to use it across a real network, hence allowing guests to be migrated simply) Y

Re: [zfs-discuss] Dedicated server running ESXi with no RAID card, ZFS for storage?

2012-11-09 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (opensolarisisdeadlongliveopensolaris)
> From: Dan Swartzendruber [mailto:dswa...@druber.com] > > I have to admit Ned's (what do I call you?)idea is interesting. I may give > it a try... Yup, officially Edward, most people call me Ned. I contributed to the OI VirtualBox instructions. See here: http://wiki.openindiana.org/oi/Virtual

Re: [zfs-discuss] Dedicated server running ESXi with no RAID card, ZFS for storage?

2012-11-08 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (opensolarisisdeadlongliveopensolaris)
> From: Dan Swartzendruber [mailto:dswa...@druber.com] > > Now you have me totally confused. How does your setup get data from the > guest to the OI box? If thru a wire, if it's gig-e, it's going to be > 1/3-1/2 the speed of the other way. If you're saying you use 10gig or > some-such, we're ta

Re: [zfs-discuss] Dedicated server running ESXi with no RAID card, ZFS for storage?

2012-11-08 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (opensolarisisdeadlongliveopensolaris)
> From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- > boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Karl Wagner > > I am just wondering why you export the ZFS system through NFS? > I have had much better results (albeit spending more time setting up) using > iSCSI. I found that performance wa

Re: [zfs-discuss] Dedicated server running ESXi with no RAID card, ZFS for storage?

2012-11-08 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (opensolarisisdeadlongliveopensolaris)
> From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- > boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Jim Klimov > > the VM running "a ZFS OS" enjoys PCI-pass-through, so it gets dedicated > hardware access to the HBA(s) and harddisks at raw speeds, with no > extra layers of lags in between.

Re: [zfs-discuss] Dedicated server running ESXi with no RAID card, ZFS for storage?

2012-11-07 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (opensolarisisdeadlongliveopensolaris)
> From: Edward Ned Harvey (opensolarisisdeadlongliveopensolaris) > > Stuff like that. I could go on, but it basically comes down to: With > openindiana, you can do a lot more than you can with ESXi. Because it's a > complete OS. You simply have more freedom, bett

Re: [zfs-discuss] Dedicated server running ESXi with no RAID card, ZFS for storage?

2012-11-07 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (opensolarisisdeadlongliveopensolaris)
> From: Dan Swartzendruber [mailto:dswa...@druber.com] > > I'm curious here. Your experience is 180 degrees opposite from mine. I > run an all in one in production and I get native disk performance, and > ESXi virtual disk I/O is faster than with a physical SAN/NAS for the NFS > datastore, since

Re: [zfs-discuss] Dedicated server running ESXi with no RAID card, ZFS for storage?

2012-11-07 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (opensolarisisdeadlongliveopensolaris)
> From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- > boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Tiernan OToole > > I have a Dedicated server in a data center in Germany, and it has 2 3TB > drives, > but only software RAID. I have got them to install VMWare ESXi and so far > everything is

Re: [zfs-discuss] Strange mount -a problem in Solaris 11.1

2012-11-01 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (opensolarisisdeadlongliveopensolaris)
> From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- > boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Ian Collins > > >> ioctl(3, ZFS_IOC_OBJECT_STATS, 0xF706BBB0) > >> > >> The system boots up fine in the original BE. The root (only) pool in a > >> single drive. > >> > >> Any ideas? > > devfs

Re: [zfs-discuss] Strange mount -a problem in Solaris 11.1

2012-10-31 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (opensolarisisdeadlongliveopensolaris)
> From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- > boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Ian Collins > > Have have a recently upgraded (to Solaris 11.1) test system that fails > to mount its filesystems on boot. > > Running zfs mount -a results in the odd error > > #zfs mount -a

Re: [zfs-discuss] Scrub and checksum permutations

2012-10-28 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (opensolarisisdeadlongliveopensolaris)
> From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- > boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Jim Klimov > > I tend to agree that parity calculations likely > are faster (even if not all parities are simple XORs - that would > be silly for double- or triple-parity sets which may use dif

Re: [zfs-discuss] Zpool LUN Sizes

2012-10-27 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (opensolarisisdeadlongliveopensolaris)
> From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- > boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Fajar A. Nugraha > > So my > suggestion is actually just present one huge 25TB LUN to zfs and let > the SAN handle redundancy. Oh - No Definitely let zfs handle the redundancy. Because Z

Re: [zfs-discuss] Zpool LUN Sizes

2012-10-27 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (opensolarisisdeadlongliveopensolaris)
> From: Edward Ned Harvey (opensolarisisdeadlongliveopensolaris) > > Performance is much better if you use mirrors instead of raid. (Sequential > performance is just as good either way, but sequential IO is unusual for most > use cases. Random IO is much better with mirrors, an

Re: [zfs-discuss] Scrub and checksum permutations

2012-10-25 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (opensolarisisdeadlongliveopensolaris)
> From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- > boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Jim Klimov > > Logically, yes - I agree this is what we expect to be done. > However, at least with the normal ZFS reading pipeline, reads > of redundant copies and parities only kick in if the

Re: [zfs-discuss] Scrub and checksum permutations

2012-10-25 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (opensolarisisdeadlongliveopensolaris)
> From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- > boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Karl Wagner > > I can only speak anecdotally, but I believe it does. > > Watching zpool iostat it does read all data on both disks in a mirrored > pair. > > Logically, it would not make sense

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs send to older version

2012-10-23 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (opensolarisisdeadlongliveopensolaris)
> From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- > boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Karl Wagner > > The only thing I think Oracle should have done differently is to allow > either a downgrade or creating a send stream in a lower version > (reformatting the data where necessary

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs send to older version

2012-10-23 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (opensolarisisdeadlongliveopensolaris)
> From: Richard Elling [mailto:richard.ell...@gmail.com] > > At some point, people will bitterly regret some "zpool upgrade" with no way > back. > > uhm... and how is that different than anything else in the software world? > > No attempt at backward compatibility, and no downgrade path, not eve

Re: [zfs-discuss] What is L2ARC write pattern?

2012-10-23 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (opensolarisisdeadlongliveopensolaris)
> From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- > boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Jim Klimov > >One idea I have is that a laptop which only has a single HDD slot, > often has SD/MMC cardreader slots. If populated with a card for L2ARC, > can it be expected to boost the l

Re: [zfs-discuss] What happens when you rm zpool.cache?

2012-10-22 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (opensolarisisdeadlongliveopensolaris)
> From: Jim Klimov [mailto:jimkli...@cos.ru] > Sent: Monday, October 22, 2012 7:26 AM > > Are you sure that the system with failed mounts came up NOT in a > read-only root moment, and that your removal of /etc/zfs/zpool.cache > did in fact happen (and that you did not then boot into an earlier > B

Re: [zfs-discuss] What happens when you rm zpool.cache?

2012-10-22 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (opensolarisisdeadlongliveopensolaris)
> From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- > boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Edward Ned Harvey > > If you rm /etc/zfs/zpool.cache and reboot... The system is smart enough (at > least in my case) to re-import rpool, and another pool, but it didn't f

Re: [zfs-discuss] What happens when you rm zpool.cache?

2012-10-22 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (opensolarisisdeadlongliveopensolaris)
> From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- > boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Gary Mills > > On Sun, Oct 21, 2012 at 11:40:31AM +0200, Bogdan Ćulibrk wrote: > >Follow up question regarding this: is there any way to disable > >automatic import of any non-rpool on

Re: [zfs-discuss] vm server storage mirror

2012-10-20 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (opensolarisisdeadlongliveopensolaris)
> From: Timothy Coalson [mailto:tsc...@mst.edu] > Sent: Friday, October 19, 2012 9:43 PM > > A shot in the dark here, but perhaps one of the disks involved is taking a > long > time to return from reads, but is returning eventually, so ZFS doesn't notice > the problem?  Watching 'iostat -x' for b

[zfs-discuss] What happens when you rm zpool.cache?

2012-10-20 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (opensolarisisdeadlongliveopensolaris)
If you rm /etc/zfs/zpool.cache and reboot... The system is smart enough (at least in my case) to re-import rpool, and another pool, but it didn't figure out to re-import some other pool. How does the system decide, in the absence of rpool.cache, which pools it's going to import at boot? __

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs send to older version

2012-10-19 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (opensolarisisdeadlongliveopensolaris)
> From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- > boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Richard Elling > >> At some point, people will bitterly regret some "zpool upgrade" with no way >> back. > > uhm... and how is that different than anything else in the software world? No atte

Re: [zfs-discuss] vm server storage mirror

2012-10-19 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (opensolarisisdeadlongliveopensolaris)
Yikes, I'm back at it again, and so frustrated. For about 2-3 weeks now, I had the iscsi mirror configuration in production, as previously described. Two disks on system 1 mirror against two disks on system 2, everything done via iscsi, so you could zpool export on machine 1, and then zpoo

Re: [zfs-discuss] Changing rpool device paths/drivers

2012-10-19 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (opensolarisisdeadlongliveopensolaris)
> From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- > boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of James C. McPherson > > As far as I'm aware, having an rpool on multipathed devices > is fine. Even a year ago, a new system I bought from Oracle came with multipath devices for all devices b

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs send to older version

2012-10-19 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (opensolarisisdeadlongliveopensolaris)
> From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- > boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Ian Collins > > You have to create pools/filesystems with the older versions used by the > destination machine. Apparently "zpool create -d -o version=28" you might want to do on the new syst

[zfs-discuss] openindiana-1 filesystem, time-slider, and snapshots

2012-10-16 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (opensolarisisdeadlongliveopensolaris)
Can anyone explain to me what the openindiana-1 filesystem is all about? I thought it was the "backup" copy of the openindiana filesystem, when you apply OS updates, but that doesn't seem to be the case... I have time-slider enabled for rpool/ROOT/openindiana. It has a daily snapshot (amongst

Re: [zfs-discuss] Fixing device names after disk shuffle

2012-10-14 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (opensolarisisdeadlongliveopensolaris)
> From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- > boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Paul van der Zwan > > What was c5t2 is now c7t1 and what was c4t1 is now c5t2. > Everything seems to be working fine, it's just a bit confusing. That ... Doesn't make any sense. Did you resh

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS best practice for FreeBSD?

2012-10-14 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (opensolarisisdeadlongliveopensolaris)
> From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- > boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Edward Ned Harvey > > A solid point. I don't. > > This doesn't mean you can't - it just means I don't. This response was kind of long-winded. So here

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS best practice for FreeBSD?

2012-10-14 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (opensolarisisdeadlongliveopensolaris)
> From: Ian Collins [mailto:i...@ianshome.com] > > On 10/13/12 02:12, Edward Ned Harvey > (opensolarisisdeadlongliveopensolaris) wrote: > > There are at least a couple of solid reasons *in favor* of partitioning. > > > > #1 It seems common, at least to me, that

Re: [zfs-discuss] Building an On-Site and Off-Size ZFS server, replication question

2012-10-12 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (opensolarisisdeadlongliveopensolaris)
Jim, I'm trying to contact you off-list, but it doesn't seem to be working. Can you please contact me off-list? ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS best practice for FreeBSD?

2012-10-12 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (opensolarisisdeadlongliveopensolaris)
> From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- > boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of andy thomas > > According to a Sun document called something like 'ZFS best practice' I > read some time ago, best practice was to use the entire disk for ZFS and > not to partition or slice it

Re: [zfs-discuss] Building an On-Site and Off-Size ZFS server, replication question

2012-10-12 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (opensolarisisdeadlongliveopensolaris)
> From: Richard Elling [mailto:richard.ell...@gmail.com] > > Pedantically, a pool can be made in a file, so it works the same... Pool can only be made in a file, by a system that is able to create a pool. Point is, his receiving system runs linux and doesn't have any zfs; his receiving system

Re: [zfs-discuss] Building an On-Site and Off-Size ZFS server, replication question

2012-10-11 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (opensolarisisdeadlongliveopensolaris)
> From: Richard Elling [mailto:richard.ell...@gmail.com] > > Read it again he asked, "On that note, is there a minimal user-mode zfs thing > that would allow > receiving a stream into an image file?"  Something like: > zfs send ... | ssh user@host "cat > file" He didn't say he wanted to cat

Re: [zfs-discuss] Directory is not accessible

2012-10-10 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (opensolarisisdeadlongliveopensolaris)
> From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- > boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Sami Tuominen > > Unfortunately there aren't any snapshots. > The version of zpool is 15. Is it safe to upgrade that? > Is zpool clear -F supported or of any use here? The only thing that will

Re: [zfs-discuss] Building an On-Site and Off-Size ZFS server, replication question

2012-10-10 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (opensolarisisdeadlongliveopensolaris)
> From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- > boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Richard Elling > > >> If the recipient system doesn't support "zfs receive," [...] > > > > On that note, is there a minimal user-mode zfs thing that would allow > > receiving a stream into an i

Re: [zfs-discuss] How many disk in one pool

2012-10-05 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (opensolarisisdeadlongliveopensolaris)
> From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- > boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Albert Shih > > I'm actually running ZFS under FreeBSD. I've a question about how many > disks I have in one pool. > > At this moment I'm running with one server (FreeBSD 9.0) with 4 MD1200 >

Re: [zfs-discuss] Building an On-Site and Off-Size ZFS server, replication question

2012-10-05 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (opensolarisisdeadlongliveopensolaris)
> From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- > boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Frank Cusack > > On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 3:17 AM, Ian Collins wrote: > I do have to suffer a slow, glitchy WAN to a remote server and rather than > send stream files, I broke the data on the re

Re: [zfs-discuss] vm server storage mirror

2012-10-05 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (opensolarisisdeadlongliveopensolaris)
> From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- > boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Edward Ned Harvey > > I must be missing something - I don't see anything above that indicates any > required vs optional dependencies. Ok, I see that now. (Thank

Re: [zfs-discuss] Building an On-Site and Off-Size ZFS server, replication question

2012-10-05 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (opensolarisisdeadlongliveopensolaris)
> From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- > boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Tiernan OToole > > I am in the process of planning a system which will have 2 ZFS servers, one on > site, one off site. The on site server will be used by workstations and > servers > in house

Re: [zfs-discuss] Making ZIL faster

2012-10-05 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (opensolarisisdeadlongliveopensolaris)
> From: Neil Perrin [mailto:neil.per...@oracle.com] > > In general - yes, but it really depends. Multiple synchronous writes of any > size > across multiple file systems will fan out across the log devices. That is > because there is a separate independent log chain for each file system. > > Also

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