Re: [zfs-discuss] Oracle and ZFS

2008-06-24 Thread Darren J Moffat
Richard Elling wrote: Hacked non-COW zvol? Since COW occurs at the DMU layer, below ZPL or ZVol, I don't see how to bypass it. AFAIK, the trick to using ZVols for swap was to just fix some bugs in ZFS and rewrite the pertinent parts of the installer(s). Swap just uses a normal ZVOL, which

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs primarycache and secondarycache properties

2008-06-24 Thread Darren J Moffat
Darren Reed wrote: So I spent some time thinking about different directions you could build on this in the future, for example: 1) controlling the size of the ARC/L2ARC by controlling the cache size 2) specifying different backing storage for primary/secondary cache 3) having more than two

Re: [zfs-discuss] CIFS HA service with solaris 10 and SC 3.2

2008-06-24 Thread Ross
Samba's integration with ZFS wasn't that great last time I tested. I had all kinds of permission problems, mainly with inheritance. Windows deals with deny entries very differently to Unix and I kept finding my test accounts were denied access to new files folders. Also, while I'm no Samba

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS root finally here in SNV90

2008-06-24 Thread Gary Mills
On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 10:25:09PM -0500, Mike Gerdts wrote: Really it boils down to lots of file systems to hold the OS adds administrative complexity and rarely saves more work than it creates. Some of us want to use different mount options on /var than on /. That's why they need to be

[zfs-discuss] zfs send and recordsize

2008-06-24 Thread Peter Boros
Hi Everyone, I perform a snapshot and a zfs send on a filesystem with a recordsize of 16k, and redirect the output to a plain file. Later, I use cat sentfs | zfs receive otherpool/filesystem. In this case the new filesystem's recordsize will be the default 128k again. The other filesystem

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS root finally here in SNV90

2008-06-24 Thread Mike Gerdts
On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 7:24 AM, Gary Mills [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 10:25:09PM -0500, Mike Gerdts wrote: Really it boils down to lots of file systems to hold the OS adds administrative complexity and rarely saves more work than it creates. Some of us want to use

Re: [zfs-discuss] SMC Webconsole 3.1 and ZFS Administration 1.0 - stacktraces in snv_b89

2008-06-24 Thread Dan Reiland
It would seem that the ZFS Web UI lacks a few requisite classes to support the updates ZFS features in snv_b89+. This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org

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

2008-06-24 Thread jan damborsky
Hi Lori, Lori Alt wrote: Richard Elling wrote: Hi Jan, comments below... jan damborsky wrote: Hi folks, I am member of Solaris Install team and I am currently working on making Slim installer compliant with ZFS boot design specification:

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS root finally here in SNV90

2008-06-24 Thread Rich Teer
On Mon, 23 Jun 2008, Richard Elling wrote: A side question though, my friends who run Windows, Linux, or OSX don't seem to have this bias towards isolating /var. Is this a purely Solaris phenomenon? If so, how do we fix it? In addition to the other answers given, I think another reason why

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

2008-06-24 Thread Mike Gerdts
On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 11:58 AM, Lori Alt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The Caiman team can make their own decision here, but we decided to be more hard-nosed about disk space requirements in the legacy install. If the pool is too small to accommodate the recommended swap and dump zvols, then

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs mirror broken?

2008-06-24 Thread Mark J Musante
On Tue, 24 Jun 2008, Justin Vassallo wrote: # zfs list NAME USED AVAIL REFER MOUNTPOINT external 449G 427G 27.4K /external external/backup447G 427G 374G /external/backup # zoneadm -z anzan boot could not verify fs /backup: could not access

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs mirror broken?

2008-06-24 Thread Justin Vassallo
# zoneadm list -cp 0:global:running:/ -:anzan:installed:/zones/anzan That of any help? justin smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org

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

2008-06-24 Thread Lori Alt
Mike Gerdts wrote: On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 11:58 AM, Lori Alt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The Caiman team can make their own decision here, but we decided to be more hard-nosed about disk space requirements in the legacy install. If the pool is too small to accommodate the recommended swap

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

2008-06-24 Thread Richard Elling
jan damborsky wrote: Hi Lori, Lori Alt wrote: The Caiman team can make their own decision here, but we decided to be more hard-nosed about disk space requirements in the legacy install. If the pool is too small to accommodate the recommended swap and dump zvols, then maybe this system

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

2008-06-24 Thread Dave Miner
Lori Alt wrote: Mike Gerdts wrote: On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 11:58 AM, Lori Alt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The Caiman team can make their own decision here, but we decided to be more hard-nosed about disk space requirements in the legacy install. If the pool is too small to accommodate

Re: [zfs-discuss] Accessing zfs partitions on HDD from LiveCD

2008-06-24 Thread Benjamin Ellison
I have a similar problem -- my OS is borked-up-beyond-bootable (my bad, and I'm not used to doing snapshots for rollback yet) and I'm going to need to reinstall... but before I do that I wanted to double check and make sure that I would still be able to access my storage zpools (raidz on

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

2008-06-24 Thread Bill Sommerfeld
On Tue, 2008-06-24 at 09:41 -0700, Richard Elling wrote: IMHO, you can make dump optional, with no dump being default. Before Sommerfeld pounces on me (again :-)) actually, in the case of virtual machines, doing the dump *in* the virtual machine into preallocated virtual disk blocks is silly.

[zfs-discuss] Drivers for IBM ServeRAID 7k in Nevada?

2008-06-24 Thread Kyle McDonald
IBM's website says that Solaris 10u1 has them built in, Shouldn't that mean they are in sNV too? I'm booting off the network and off DVD, and just before the installer starts I get a message about 'no disks found.' Format does the same thing. What driver module should be used for the

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS root finally here in SNV90

2008-06-24 Thread Charles Soto
On 6/23/08 7:45 PM, Richard Elling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think the ability to have different policies for file systems is pure goodness -- though you pay for it on the backup/ restore side. And another reason why Automated Data Migration is the way to go. Backup and replication schemes

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

2008-06-24 Thread Dave Miner
Keith Bierman wrote: On Jun 24, 2008, at 11:01 AM, Dave Miner wrote: I doubt we'd have interest in providing more configurability in the interactive installer. As Richard sort of points out subsequently, most people wouldn't know what to do here, anyway, and the ones who do usually use

[zfs-discuss] meta data question

2008-06-24 Thread Weldon S Godfrey 3
Hello, 1st off, I am using ZFS under FreeBSD 7.0. Forgive me if this is the wrong place (I do plan to post to FreeBSD as well, but this seems to be more of a ZFS related question). I am using a 3ware 9690SA-8E and two IBM EXP3000 chasis. One issue is the 3ware card isn't hard setting the

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs mirror broken?

2008-06-24 Thread Justin Vassallo
Problem solved. I did a zfs mount followed by a zfs unmount, and then the zone booted fine. Thanks to William from the zones-discuss and Mark Musante, both from Sun. The more i work with zfs, the more confidence i get in it. justin smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs-auto-snapshot with at scheduling

2008-06-24 Thread Nils Goroll
and the tar file ... This message posted from opensolaris.org zfs-auto-snapshot-0.10_atjobs.tar.bz2 Description: BZip2 compressed data ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

[zfs-discuss] global zone snapshots

2008-06-24 Thread Anil Jangity
Is it possible to give access to the snapshots of a global zone (through lofs perhaps?) into a zone? I recall that you can't just delegate a snapshot dataset into a zone yet, but was wondering if there is some lofs magic I can do? Thanks ___

Re: [zfs-discuss] zpool i/o error

2008-06-24 Thread Victor Pajor
# zpool export zfs cannot open 'zfs': no such pool any command other than zpool import will give connot open 'zfs': no such pool I can't seem to find any useful information on this type of error. Did anyone have this kind of problem ? This message posted from opensolaris.org

[zfs-discuss] resilver running for 35 trillion years

2008-06-24 Thread Mike Gerdts
This is good for a chuckle. # zpool status pool: rpool state: ONLINE status: One or more devices is currently being resilvered. The pool will continue to function, possibly in a degraded state. action: Wait for the resilver to complete. scrub: resilver in progress for

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS root finally here in SNV90

2008-06-24 Thread Ian Collins
Brian Hechinger wrote: On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 04:35:30PM +1200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We can only hope that ZFS boot will consign this never ending layout argument to the dust of history. The layout of disks and filesystems will always be a personal preference and will never go

Re: [zfs-discuss] resilver running for 35 trillion years

2008-06-24 Thread Sanjeev Bagewadi
Mike, Indeed an interesting result :) ! This is a known problem with VirtualBox :) They have fixed it in the latest release -- snip -- #1639: Solaris Virtual box guest keeps getting its time reset after resuming VM from suspend