Re: [zfs-discuss] a few questions - Oracle

2011-01-04 Thread Paul Gress
On 01/ 4/11 01:19 PM, webd...@gmail.com wrote: It is sad that such a lovely file system is now in Oracle's unresponsive hands. I hope someone builds another open file system just like it. I could never find anything like it to protect my data like it does.

Re: [zfs-discuss] rpool on ssd. endurance question.

2010-04-27 Thread Paul Gress
On 04/27/10 03:55 AM, Yuri Vorobyev wrote: If anybody uses SSD for rpool more than half-year, can you post SMART information about HostWrites attribute? I want to see how SSD wear for system disk purposes. I'd be happy to, exactly what commands shall I run? Hm. I'm experimenting with

Re: [zfs-discuss] rpool on ssd. endurance question.

2010-04-27 Thread Paul Gress
On 04/27/10 03:24 PM, Miles Nordin wrote: http://opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?messageID=473727 -- 'smartctl -d sat,12 ...' is the incantation to use on solaris for ahci OK, getting somewhere. I have a total of 3 SSD's in my laptop. Laptop is a Clevo D901C.

Re: [zfs-discuss] rpool on ssd. endurance question.

2010-04-26 Thread Paul Gress
On 04/26/10 11:54 PM, Yuri Vorobyev wrote: Hello. If anybody uses SSD for rpool more than half-year, can you post SMART information about HostWrites attribute? I want to see how SSD wear for system disk purposes. I'd be happy to, exactly what commands shall I run? Paul

Re: [zfs-discuss] Drive Identification

2010-01-24 Thread Paul Gress
On 01/24/10 04:10 AM, Lutz Schumann wrote: Is there a way (besides format and causing heavy I/O on the device in question) how to identify a drive. Is there some kind of SES (enclosure service) for this ?? (e.g. and now let the red led blink) Try /usr/bin/iostat -En

Re: [zfs-discuss] Clearing a directory with more than 60 million files

2010-01-05 Thread Paul Gress
On 01/ 5/10 05:34 AM, Mikko Lammi wrote: Hello, As a result of one badly designed application running loose for some time, we now seem to have over 60 million files in one directory. Good thing about ZFS is that it allows it without any issues. Unfortunatelly now that we need to get rid of them

Re: [zfs-discuss] How to resize ZFS partion or add a new one?

2009-10-14 Thread Paul Gress
Julio wrote: Hi, I have the following partions on my laptop, Inspiron 6000, from fdisk: 1 Other OS 011 12 0 2 EXT LBA 12 25612550 26 3 ActiveSolaris2 2562 97287167 74

Re: [zfs-discuss] USB hard to ZFS

2008-06-16 Thread Paul Gress
Since Volume Management has control and eject didn't work, just turning off Volume Management will do the trick. # svcadm disable volfs Now you can remove it safely. Paul ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org

[zfs-discuss] zfs boot, status anyone

2008-03-09 Thread Paul Gress
Hi, I just purchased a new laptop and would like to set it up to boot from ZFS. I read in newsgroups that it was predicted to be included into b83, but this apparently didn't happen. Is there any prediction when this may be available? Thanks, Paul

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS with Memory Sticks

2007-12-10 Thread Paul Gress
I did some work over the weekend. Still is having some trouble. # fdisk -E /dev/rdsk/c7t0d0s2 # zpool create Radical-Vol /dev/dsk/c7t0d0 invalid vdev specification use '-f' to override the following errors: /dev/dsk/c7t0d0s0 is part of exported or potentially active ZFS pool Radical-Vol.

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS with Memory Sticks

2007-12-05 Thread Paul Gress
Constantin Gonzalez wrote: Hi Paul, yes, ZFS is platform agnostic and I know it works in SANs. For the USB stick case, you may have run into labeling issues. Maybe Solaris SPARC did not recognize the x64 type label on the disk (which is strange, because it should...). Did you try making

[zfs-discuss] ZFS with Memory Sticks

2007-12-04 Thread Paul Gress
OK, I've been putting off this question for a while now, but it eating at me, so I can't hold off any more. I have a nice 8 gig memory stick I've formated with the ZFS file system. Works great on all my Solaris PC's, but refuses to work on my Sparc processor. So I've formated it on my