[zfs-discuss] Checksum errors...

2006-12-28 Thread John
26208464760832-8464891904 Looks like I have possibly a single file that is corrupted. My question is how do I find the file. Is it as simple as doing a find command using -inum 2620? TIA, john This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs

[zfs-discuss] Re: Checksum errors...

2006-12-28 Thread John
corruption under VxFS hmmm. thanks! john This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

[zfs-discuss] Re: Re: Checksum errors...

2006-12-28 Thread John
Thanks for the reply! As it turns out I ran a parity check on the suspect 3511... sure enough it popped and error! So ZFS did detect the problem with the 3511... This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list

[zfs-discuss] Raidz and self-healing...

2007-01-12 Thread John
After watching the flash demo on self-healing I thought I would try the experiment myself. Instead of a mirror, i created a raidz pool made up of 9 disks. I copied a large file into the pool. Then, like in the demo, I corrupted one of the disks with a dd command. I did the digest... I did the

[zfs-discuss] Re: Raidz and self-healing...

2007-01-12 Thread John
Oops... my fault... I wasn't introducing enough corruption! My test file was not at the beginning of the disk! Sorry for the wasted bandwidth... This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org

[zfs-discuss] Stop a resilver

2007-06-05 Thread John
I'm in bit of a bind... I did a replace and the resilver has started properly. Unfortunately I need to now abort the replace. Is there way to do this? Can I do some thing like take the new device offline? thank This message posted from opensolaris.org

[zfs-discuss] Stopping a resilver?

2007-06-12 Thread John
NO WRITE activity i wonder if it is actually doing anything useful... I did try a scrub -s to see if that would stop it... no luck... any advise would be greatly appreciated! thanks! john This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss

[zfs-discuss] Re: Stopping a resilver?

2007-06-12 Thread John
Ok.. never mind... the resilver says it completed... kind of odd... 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 and IBM's TSM

2007-07-12 Thread John
Our main problem with TSM and ZFS is currently that there seems to be no efficient way to do a disaster restore when the backup resides on tape - due to the large number of filesystems/TSM filespaces. The graphical client (dsmj) does not work at all and with dsmc one has to start a

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS and IBM's TSM

2007-07-13 Thread John
John wrote: Our main problem with TSM and ZFS is currently that there seems to be no efficient way to do a disaster restore when the backup resides on tape - due to the large number of filesystems/TSM filespaces. The graphical client (dsmj) does not work at all and with dsmc one

[zfs-discuss] Status on shrinking zpool

2008-01-23 Thread John
This is one feature I've been hoping for... old threads and blogs talk about this feature possibly showing up by the end of 2007 just curious on what the status of this feature is... thanks, john This message posted from opensolaris.org

Re: [zfs-discuss] ? Removing a disk from a ZFS Storage Pool

2008-01-29 Thread John
I asked the question last week.. the reply i got from Matt was: It's still a high priority on our road map, just pushed back a bit. Our current goal is to integrate into OpenSolaris sometime this summer. --matt This message posted from opensolaris.org

Re: [zfs-discuss] shrinking a zpool - roadmap

2008-08-20 Thread John
WOW! This is quite a departure from what we've been told for the past 2 years... In fact if your comments are true that we'll never be able to shrink a ZFS pool, i will be, for lack of a better word, PISSED. Like others not being able to shrink is a feature that truly prevents us from

Re: [zfs-discuss] shrinking a zpool - roadmap

2008-08-20 Thread John
Our enterprise is about 300TB.. maybe a bit more... You are correct that most of the time we grow and not shrink... however, we are fairly dynamic and occasionally do shrink. DBA's have been known to be off on their space requirements/requests. There is also the human error factor. If someone

[zfs-discuss] Possible to do a stripe vdev?

2008-08-22 Thread John
I'm setting up a ZFS fileserver using a bunch of spare drives. I'd like some redundancy and to maximize disk usage, so my plan was to use raid-z. The problem is that the drives are considerably mismatched and I haven't found documentation (though I don't see why it shouldn't be possible) to

Re: [zfs-discuss] slow ls or slow zfs

2009-06-29 Thread John
On Mon, 29 Jun 2009, NightBird wrote: I checked the output of iostat. svc_t is between 5 and 50, depending on when data is flushed to the disk (CIFS write pattern). %b is between 10 and 50. %w is always 0. Example: devicer/sw/s kr/s kw/s wait actv svc_t %w %b sd27

[zfs-discuss] Metadata size

2009-07-24 Thread John
Hi, I am trying to understand in details how much metadata is being cached in ARC and L2ARC for my workload. Looking at 'kstat -n arcstats', I see: ARC Current Size: 19217 MB (size=19,644,754,928) ARC Metadata Size: 112MB (hdr_size=117,896,760) I am trying to understand what l2_hdr_size means?

[zfs-discuss] scrubing/resilvering - controller problem

2009-10-06 Thread John
Hi, We are running b118, with a LSI 3801 controller which is connected to 44 drives (yes it's a lot behind a single controller). We also use a pair of ssd connected to another controller for read cache. Everything works fine and we achieve acceptable performance for our needs. However, during

[zfs-discuss] ARC cache and ls query

2009-10-30 Thread John
Hi, On an idle server, when I do a recursive '/usr/bin/ls' on a folder, I see a lot of disk activity. This makes sense because the results (metadata/data) may not have been cached. When I do a second ls on the same folder right after the first one finished, I do see disk activity again. Can

Re: [zfs-discuss] ARC cache and ls query

2009-10-30 Thread John
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[zfs-discuss] ZFS iSCSI volume problems

2010-01-06 Thread John
I'm using snv_111 to host iSCSI for my backups. This went fine until I enabled compression on the volume. About halfway through a backup (~250gb done), Solaris loses its network connection with no errors logged (/var/adm/messages and /var/log/* with no entries for an hour preceding). After

[zfs-discuss] Unavailable device

2010-01-19 Thread John
I've got an LDOM that has raw disks exported through redundant service domains from a J4400. Actually, I've got seven of these LDOM's. On Friday, we had to power the rack down for UPS maintenance. We gracefully shutdown all the Solaris instances, waited about 15 min, then powered down the

Re: [zfs-discuss] Unavailable device

2010-01-19 Thread John
I was able to solve it, but it actually worried me more than anything. Basically, I had created the second pool using the mirror as a primary device. So three disks but two full disk root mirrors. Shouldn't zpool have detected an active pool and prevented this? The other LDOM was claiming a

Re: [zfs-discuss] Unavailable device

2010-01-20 Thread John
Unfortunately, since we got a new priority on the project, I had to scrap and recreate the pool, so I don't have any of the information anymore. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [zfs-discuss] x4500...need input and clarity on striped/mirrored configuration

2010-01-20 Thread John
Have you looked at using Oracle ASM instead of or with ZFS? Recent Sun docs concerning the F5100 seem to recommend a hybrid of both. If you don't go that route, generally you should separate redo logs from actual data so they don't compete for I/O, since a redo switch lagging hangs the

Re: [zfs-discuss] x4500...need input and clarity on striped/mirrored configuration

2010-01-21 Thread John
No. But, that's where the hybrid solution comes in. ASM would be used for the database files and ZFS for the redo/archive logs and undo. Corrupt blocks in the datafiles would be repaired with data from redo during a recovery, and ZFS should give you assurance that the redo didn't get corrupted.

Re: [zfs-discuss] Workaround for mpt timeouts in snv_127

2010-02-18 Thread John
For those who've been suffering this problem and who have non-Sun jbods, could you please let me know what model of jbod and cables (including length thereof) you have in your configuration. We are seeing the problem on both Sun and non-Sun hardware. On our Sun thumper x4540, we can

[zfs-discuss] dedup rollback taking a long time.

2010-03-16 Thread John
We currently have a opensolaris box running as a backup server, and to increase the redundancy I have started coping this to another server with 4 x 2TB in raidz and dedup. This was going fine taking about 10 hours to zfs send and receive each 70GB snaphot (no ZIL or cache setup), but on the

Re: [zfs-discuss] dedup rollback taking a long time.

2010-03-16 Thread John
I probably lied about snv_134 above. I am probably running snv_133 as I don't think 134 had come out when I started this. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [zfs-discuss] dedup rollback taking a long time.

2010-03-19 Thread John
cache 64 GB RAM (2GB system, 6GB ZFS, 48 DDT, yes, I know I can't seperate ZFS and DDT.) The second system will be more upgradeable/future proof, but do people think the performance would be similar? Thanks John -- This message posted from opensolaris.org

[zfs-discuss] casesensitivity mixed and CIFS

2010-04-14 Thread John
Hello, we set our ZFS filesystems to casesensitivity=mixed when we created them. However, CIFS access to these files is still case sensitive. Here is the configuration: # zfs get casesensitivity pool003/arch NAME PROPERTY VALUESOURCE pool003/arch casesensitivity

Re: [zfs-discuss] casesensitivity mixed and CIFS

2010-04-14 Thread John
No the filesystem was created with b103 or earlier. Just to add more details, the issue only occurred for the first direct access to the file. From a windows client that has never access the file, you can issue: dir \\filer\arch\myfolder\myfile.TXT and you will get file not found, if the file

Re: [zfs-discuss] casesensitivity mixed and CIFS

2010-04-15 Thread John
. To answer the other question, we are not using Samba :) From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of John Just to add more details, the issue only occurred for the first direct access to the file. From a windows client that has never

[zfs-discuss] Need ZFS master!

2010-07-12 Thread john
Hello all. I am new...very new to opensolaris and I am having an issue and have no idea what is going wrong. So I have 5 drives in my machine. all 500gb. I installed open solaris on the first drive and rebooted. . Now what I want to do is ad a second drive so they are mirrored. How does one do

Re: [zfs-discuss] VM's on ZFS - 7210

2010-08-27 Thread John
Wouldn't it be possible to saturate the SSD ZIL with enough backlogged sync writes? What I mean is, doesn't the ZIL eventually need to make it to the pool, and if the pool as a whole (spinning disks) can't keep up with 30+ vm's of write requests, couldn't you fill up the ZIL that way? --

[zfs-discuss] ZFS questions

2006-07-28 Thread John Cecere
Can someone explain to me what the 'volinit' and 'volfini' options to zfs do ? It's not obvious from the source code and these options are undocumented. Thanks, John -- John Cecere Sun Microsystems 732-302-3922 / [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ zfs-discuss

[zfs-discuss] Re: system hangs on POST after giving zfs a drive

2006-10-12 Thread John Sonnenschein
well, it's an SiS 960 board, and it appears my only option to turn off probing of the drives is to enable RAID mode (which makes them inacessable by the OS) what would be my next (cheapest) option, a proper SATA add-in card? I've heard good things about the silicon image 3132 based cards, but

[zfs-discuss] Best Practices recommendation on x4200

2006-11-07 Thread John Tracy
, however, is that the boot partition and root partitions have data redundancy. How would you setup this box? It's primary used as a development server, running a myriad of applications. Thank you- John This message posted from opensolaris.org

[zfs-discuss] df -e in ZFS

2006-11-09 Thread John Cui
file, the value is not my expectation. So I use a loop to produce empty files and watch the output of 'df -e'. After some long time, the number is 671, then 639, 641, 603, 605, 609, 397, 607... I check the number of files, yes, it increases steadily. Could you explain it? Thanks, -- John Cui

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: df -e in ZFS

2006-11-09 Thread John Cui
. This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss -- John Cui x82195 ___ zfs-discuss mailing

Re: [zfs-discuss] snv_51 hangs

2006-11-14 Thread John Cecere
-a (simultaneously, like L1-a on SPARC machines). Once you drop to kmdb, type: $systemdump This should dump core and reboot. This is all contingent on what caused the system to hang. You may or may not be able to get to kmdb. hth, John Chris Csanady wrote: I have experienced two hangs so far

[zfs-discuss] Need guidance on RAID 5, ZFS, and RAIDZ on home file server

2007-05-08 Thread John Smith
Hello all, Spent the last several hours perusing the ZFS forums and some of the blog entries regarding ZFS. I have a couple of questions and am open to any hints, tips, or things to watch out for on implementation of my home file server. I'm building a file server consisting of an Asus P5WD2

[zfs-discuss] Re: Need guidance on RAID 5, ZFS, and RAIDZ on home file server

2007-05-08 Thread John Smith
The original thought was 3 of the drives as storage, and one of the drives as parity. So that would yield around 1.4TB of useable storage. I hadn't given any thought to running 64 bit. This system is being built from the ground up. I guess in the back of my head I had assumed it would be 32

[zfs-discuss] Re: Need guidance on RAID 5, ZFS, and RAIDZ on home file server

2007-05-08 Thread John Smith
Sorry about that, the specific processor in question is the Pentium D 930 which supports 64 bit computing through the Extended Memory 64 Technology. It was my initial reaction to say I'd go with 32 bit computing because my general experience with 64-bit is Windows, Linux, and some FreeBSD.

[zfs-discuss] Re: Need guidance on RAID 5, ZFS, and RAIDZ on home file server

2007-05-09 Thread John Smith
Thanks for the continuing flow of information. I already have all of the equipment. I'm actually upgrading my main computer to a new Core 2 Duo setup which is why this hardware is going to the file server. I think I'm going to try a 64bit install using the four 500GB drives in a RAID-Z

[zfs-discuss] I seem to have backed myself into a corner - how do I migrate filesystems from one pool to another?

2007-05-25 Thread John Plocher
, -John ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs root: legacy mount or not?

2007-05-25 Thread John Plocher
the desired behavior? -John Eric Schrock wrote: This has been discussed many times in smf-discuss, for all types of login. Basically, there is no way to say console login for root only. ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http

Success: Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: I seem to have backed myself into a corner - how do I migrate filesyst

2007-06-01 Thread John Plocher
to be taking up several Mb of space, not to mention the ever increasing sluggishness of the command...) -John Oh, here's the script I used - it contains hardcoded zpool and zfs info, so it must be edited to match your specifics before it is used! It can be rerun safely; it only sends snapshots

Re: Success: Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: I seem to have backed myself into a corner - how do I migrate filesyst

2007-06-01 Thread John Plocher
] zfs destroy foo/[EMAIL PROTECTED] commands is (except for debugging zfs itself) a noop Looking at history.c, it doesn't look like there is an easy way to mark a set of messages as unwanted and compress the log without having to take the pool out of service first. Oh well... -John

Re: Success: Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: I seem to have backed myself into a corner - how do I migrate filesyst

2007-06-01 Thread John Plocher
zfs snapshot $snap and, after a couple of days (at 86 thousand minutes/day), the pool's history log seemed quite full (but not at capacity...) There were no clones to complicate things... -John ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org

[zfs-discuss] Where does the zpool info for it's label get saved, man page m. EFI label?

2007-06-06 Thread John Brewer
I reloaded my system on c0d0 messed up the rounding cyl, then when I reloaded the format command would only work on c0d1 and not c0d0, so then booted on the CD then redefined on c0d0 slice 3 - 7, to the original partition values. Where does the zpool info get saved, EFI label is mentioned in

Re: [zfs-discuss] Apple WWDC and ZFS

2007-06-12 Thread John Malone
http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=199903281 An Apple official on Monday said Sun Microsystems' open-source file system would not be in the next version of the Mac operating system, contradicting statements made last week by Sun's chief executive. John Graham

Re: [zfs-discuss] OT: extremely poor experience with Sun Download Manager

2007-06-14 Thread John Martinez
, for the sake of others who aren't familiar with Sun's practices, how does one do that? Go to Sunsolve? thanks, -john ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

[zfs-discuss] ZFS version 5 to version 6 fails to import or upgrade

2007-06-19 Thread John Brewer
How do you upgrade from version 5 to version 6, I had created this under snv_62 and it zpool called zones worked with snv_b63 and 10u4beta now under snv_b66 I get error and the upgrade option does not work: any ideas? bash-3.00# df / (/dev/dsk/c0d0s0 ): 6819012 blocks 765336

Re: [zfs-discuss] [arc-discuss] Take Three: PSARC 2007/171 ZFS Separate Intent Log

2007-07-09 Thread John Plocher
. once the case has been cleaned up and marked open, it will be mirrored onto OS.o within 24 hours. -John ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS and powerpath

2007-07-17 Thread John Martinez
in our environment. -john *Our SAN team runs things very conservatively. They consider new technologies to be things introduced one to two years ago. ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs

[zfs-discuss] ZFS Features when Using Enterprise Arrays

2007-08-03 Thread John . Karwoski
? Thanks, John ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Features when Using Enterprise Arrays

2007-08-03 Thread John Martinez
and a device experiences write errors, the machine will currently panic. Wow, this is certainly worse than the current VxVM/VxFS implementation. At least there I get I/O errors and disk groups get failed or disabled. -john ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs

[zfs-discuss] ZFS iSCSI Windows driver question

2007-09-03 Thread John Tracy
Manager. Should I be providing the Windows workstation specific drivers to use against this Solaris based iSCSI target, or am I going wrong elsewhere? Thank you- John Tracy This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Solaris 10u5 Proposed Changes

2007-09-18 Thread John Plocher
there - I'll check tomorrow... -John Kent Watsen wrote: How does one access the PSARC database to lookup the description of these features? Sorry if this has been asked before! - I tried google before posting this :-[ Kent George Wilson wrote: ZFS Fans, Here's a list of features

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Mountroot and Bootroot Comparison

2007-10-05 Thread John Plocher
as we are today with all all-in-one filesystem, so this makes sense as a first step. But, there needs to be the presumption that the next steps towards multiple pool support are possible without having to re-architect or re-design the whole zfs boot system. -John

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Mountroot and Bootroot Comparison

2007-10-05 Thread John Plocher
volume read/write. A scenerio with / on a pair of mirrored USB sticks, /usr on DVD media with with RAM-based cache and /var /export/home on a large wide striped/mirrored/raided pool of its own isn't too far fetched an idea. -John ___ zfs-discuss

[zfs-discuss] iSCSI target using ZFS filesystem as backing

2007-11-21 Thread John Tracy
(case #65684887). I'm getting very desperate to get this fixed, as this massive amount of storage was the only reason I got this M80... Any pointers would be greatly appreciated. Thanks- John Tracy This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs

Re: [zfs-discuss] iSCSI target using ZFS filesystem as backing

2007-11-26 Thread John Tracy
Thanks Jim- That was exactly the problem. Have a good Monday. -John 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] Nice chassis for ZFS server

2007-11-30 Thread John Martinez
On Nov 30, 2007, at 2:47 AM, MP wrote: I evaled one of these too. Worked great with ZFS. Was that with OpenSolaris and was that with or without the Intel RAID controller? Cheers. Solaris 10 8/07, it was with the built-in RAID controller. -john

[zfs-discuss] How can I install the CIFS service to a Core Group Solaris 10 install?

2007-12-12 Thread John Klimek
not at the server) How do I go about installing just the core CIFS service/software so I can share my ZFS file systems via CIFS? Thanks, John This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http

Re: [zfs-discuss] [osol-code] /usr/bin and /usr/xpg4/bin differences

2007-12-18 Thread John Plocher
will need to make the changes to both (and, possibly interact with the OpenSolaris ARC Community if your changes affect the architecture/interfaces of the commands). In the case of df, I'm not at all sure why the two commands are different. (I'm sure someone else will chime in and educate me :-) -John

Re: [zfs-discuss] De-duplication in ZFS

2008-01-21 Thread John Martinez
Great question. I've been wondering this myself over the past few weeks, as de-dup is becoming more popular a term in our IT department. -john On Jan 20, 2008, at 5:40 PM, Narayan Venkat wrote: Hi, Is de-duplication in ZFS an active project? If so, can somebody share details about how

Re: [zfs-discuss] iSCSI target using ZFS filesystem as backing

2008-02-08 Thread John Tracy
... yes, it really did grind to a halt, but tried for a good eight hours before dying!!!). Check out this thread I made back in Nov, and you'll see what I was experiencing: http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?messageID=178912ыла Hope it helps- John This message posted from

Re: [zfs-discuss] iSCSI target using ZFS filesystem as backing

2008-02-08 Thread John Tracy
it helps- John This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

[zfs-discuss] five megabytes per second with Microsoft iSCSI initiator (2.06)

2008-02-19 Thread John Tracy
to initiators running the MS iSCSI initiator? Thank you- John 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] five megabytes per second with

2008-02-21 Thread John Tracy
be able to bump the IO speed up more (at least as far as the network subsystem is concerned), I'd appreciate it. Thanks to all who replied to this thread. This is a great community. -John This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Notification of Important Improvements to ZFS

2008-05-17 Thread John Beck
community pages. -- John http://blogs.sun.com/jbeck ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

[zfs-discuss] Clone a disk, need to change pool_guid

2008-05-25 Thread John Smith
Hi folks, I use an iSCSI disk mounted onto a Solaris 10 server. I installed a ZFS file system into s2 of the disk. I exported the disk and cloned it on the iSCSI target. The clone is a perfect copy of the iSCSI LUN and therefore has the same zpool name and guid. My question is: is there

[zfs-discuss] ZFS conflict with MAID?

2008-06-06 Thread John Kunze
and cache syncing will tend to keep disks spinning that the MAID is trying to spin down. Of course, we like ZFS's large namespace and dynamic memory pool resizing ability. Is it possible to configure ZFS to maximize the benefits of MAID? -John

Re: [zfs-discuss] [caiman-discuss] swap dump on ZFS volume

2008-06-30 Thread John Levon
for the domain, which is readably directly in MDB. As a refinement you might want to only do this if a (suitable) place to crash dump isn't available. regards john ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman

Re: [zfs-discuss] install opensolaris on raidz

2008-07-18 Thread John Kotches
Andrew sez: ... RAIDZ arrays are not supported as root pools (at the moment). Cheers Andrew. I appreciate that this is quite a substantial work. Just off the top of my head, each member of the RAIDZ has to have the same boot block information, then as you bring the RAIDZ up you have

Re: [zfs-discuss] install opensolaris on raidz

2008-07-18 Thread John Kotches
Relling sez: In general, I agree. However, the data does not necessarily support this as a solution and there is a point of diminishing return. I sent a reply via e-mail to Richard as well; I basically said something along these lines... You missed my point though. It's nothing at all to

[zfs-discuss] Can't see files on client

2008-08-04 Thread John Stoneback
Created and shared zfs pool containing user file systems on Solaris server. Mount this on Solaris client. Can view user file systems on client but not user files. If I mount the user file systems on the client, then can see files. Both running Solaris 10. What is going wrong? Thanks This

[zfs-discuss] Thumper, ZFS and performance

2008-08-12 Thread John Malick
There is a thread quite similar to this but it did not provide a clear answer to the question which was worded a bit odd.. I have a Thumper and am trying to determine, for performance, which is the best ZFS configuration of the two shown below. Any issues other than performance that anyone may

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS hangs/freezes after disk failure,

2008-08-24 Thread John Sonnenschein
James isn't being a jerk because he hates your or anything... Look, yanking the drives like that can seriously damage the drives or your motherboard. Solaris doesn't let you do it and assumes that something's gone seriously wrong if you try it. That Linux ignores the behavior and lets you do

[zfs-discuss] ZFS + Alternate boot

2008-08-26 Thread John Cecere
this with Solaris 10. Thanks, John 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] xVM GRUB entry incorrect with ZFS root

2008-08-28 Thread John Levon
Solaris xVM from ZFS ? You need to add it to the next line ($module ...). This was a bug that's now fixed in the latest LU regards john ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

[zfs-discuss] ZFS dump and swap

2008-09-24 Thread John Cecere
The man page for dumpadm says this: A given ZFS volume cannot be configured for both the swap area and the dump device. And indeed when I try to use a zvol as both, I get: zvol cannot be used as a swap device and a dump device My question is, why not ? Thanks, John -- This message posted

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS dump and swap

2008-09-24 Thread John Cecere
Darren, Thanks for the explanation. Would you object if I opened a bug on the zfs man page to include what you've written here ? Thanks again, John Darren J Moffat wrote: John Cecere wrote: The man page for dumpadm says this: A given ZFS volume cannot be configured for both the swap area

[zfs-discuss] Solaris Compatibility on Foxconn or Gigabyte MB

2008-11-14 Thread John Doe
Hi guys. Read this thread, good info! I'm now considering getting one of the MBs recommended in the Tom's Hardware review, to which a URL was posted earlier. The article is here: http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/intel-e7200-g31,2039.html I would like to know if any of you can confirm

[zfs-discuss] cannot mount ZFS volume

2008-12-10 Thread John Smith
When I create a volume I am unable to mount it locally. I pretty sure it has something to do with the other volumes in the same ZFS pool being shared out as ISCSI luns. For some reason ZFS things the base volume is ISCSI. Is there a flag that I am missing? Thanks in advanced for the help.

Re: [zfs-discuss] cannot mount ZFS volume

2008-12-11 Thread John Smith
Ahhh...I missed the difference between a volume and a FS. That was it...thanks. -- 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] Split responsibility for data with ZFS

2008-12-16 Thread John Kaitschuck
Miles Nordin wrote: nw == Nicolas Williams nicolas.willi...@sun.com writes: nw You're not required to go with one-filesystem-per-user though! It was pitched as an architectural advantage, but never fully delivered, and worse, used to justify removing traditional Unix quotas.

[zfs-discuss] moving zfs root rpool between systems

2009-01-07 Thread John Arden
issue using UFS. I have also successfully moved zpool's from system to system, using zpool export zpool import. This is unique, at least to me as the root file system and the OS are in rpool. Is this possible? John ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs

[zfs-discuss] moving zfs root rpool between systems

2009-01-23 Thread John Arden
issue using UFS. I have also successfully moved zpool's from system to system, using zpool export zpool import. This is unique, at least to me as the root file system and the OS are in rpool. Is this possible? John ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs

[zfs-discuss] ZFS for NFS back end

2009-02-09 Thread John Welter
with the hardware we selected? 3) any other words of wisdom - we are just starting out with ZFS but do have some Solaris background. Thanks! John ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS for NFS back end

2009-02-09 Thread John Welter
a lot from the traffic. Thanks again. John -Original Message- From: Bob Friesenhahn [mailto:bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us] Sent: Monday, February 09, 2009 11:28 AM To: John Welter Cc: zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org Subject: Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS for NFS back end On Mon, 9 Feb 2009, John

[zfs-discuss] multi-protocol (cifs/nfs) access to same files - help please

2009-03-30 Thread John Keiffer
Hello, New here, and I'm not sure if this is the correct mailing list to post this question or not. Anyway, we are having some questions about multi-protocol (CIFS/NFS) access to the same files specifically when not using AD or LDAP. Summary: Accessing the same folder from CIFS or NFS when

[zfs-discuss] Dreadful lofi read performance on snv_111

2009-04-06 Thread John Levon
0.430159730 I see a couple of bugs about lofi performance like 6382683, but I'm not sure if this related, it seems to be a newer issue. Any ideas? regards john ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: [zfs-discuss] Dreadful lofi read performance on snv_111

2009-04-06 Thread John Levon
On Mon, Apr 06, 2009 at 04:46:12PM +0700, Fajar A. Nugraha wrote: On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 4:41 PM, John Levon john.le...@sun.com wrote: I see a couple of bugs about lofi performance like 6382683, but I'm not sure if this related, it seems to be a newer issue. Isn't it 6806627? http

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs reliability under xen

2009-05-22 Thread John Levon
as long as the ioctl and/or fsync are obeyed, things should be good. Hope that's clearer. regards john ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

[zfs-discuss] ZFS: Cannot Restore zvol

2009-06-06 Thread John Meyer
receive new filesystem stream: unable to restore to detination I know the data was backed up (vista.zfs is a 24G file), how do I get the contents of my zvol back? I'm using OpenSolaris 2009.06. Many thanks in advance, John John Meyer Principal Field Technologist North American

Re: [zfs-discuss] [cifs-discuss] [nfs-discuss] Why can't we write to files created in multi-protocol se

2009-07-02 Thread John Keiffer
@:wa A:g:GROUP@:rx D::EVERYONE@:waTC A::EVERYONE@:rxtncy bash-3.1$ nfs4_getfacl cifs.txt D::OWNER@:rwax A::OWNER@:TNCo D:g:GROUP@:rwax A:g:GROUP@: D::EVERYONE@:rwaxTC A::EVERYONE@:tncy This system can't do 'ls -V', so I'm having to use nfs4_getfacl instead (not as convienient). Thanks, John

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS write I/O stalls

2009-07-08 Thread John Wythe
that is about yet. -John -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

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