Re: [zfs-discuss] Oracle to no longer support ZFS on OpenSolaris?

2010-04-21 Thread Alan Hargreaves
ly enough. It seems the technology is finished, unless a credible fork is forthcoming. -- Alan Hargreaves | Principal Technical Support Engineer Solaris and Networking | Global Systems Support Email: alan.hargrea...@oracle.com Blog: alanhargreaves.wor

Re: [zfs-discuss] Can I create a mirror for a root rpool?

2011-12-15 Thread Alan Hargreaves
Title: signature You do it as you would any zpool. Mirroring is OK for the zpool. It's just things like raidz* and concats that are not. # zpool attach rpool device Note the use of attach. "add" will try to make a concat. Regards,

Re: [zfs-discuss] Is there an actual newsgroup for zfs-discuss?

2012-06-11 Thread Alan Hargreaves
Title: signature There is a ZFS Community on the Oracle Communities that was just kicked off this month - https://communities.oracle.com/portal/server.pt/community/oracle_solaris_zfs_file_system/526 Regards, Alan Hargreaves On 06/12/12 08:05, Tomas

Re: [zfs-discuss] Lots of metadata overhead on filesystems with 100M files

2009-06-16 Thread Alan Hargreaves
they don't benchmark the operations that are critical to business. Sure we can spend a lot of time examining the issue and then addressing it; but would it actually help address a real business concern, or just an "itch"? Regards, Alan Hargreaves Paisit Wongsongsarn wrote: Hi

[zfs-discuss] zfs panic installing a brandz zone

2006-09-14 Thread Alan Hargreaves
ped. The dereference looks like the first dereference in page_unlock(), which looks at pp->p_selock. I can spend a little time looking at it, but was wondering if anyone had seen this kind of panic previously? I have two identical crashdumps created in exactly the same way. alan. --

[zfs-discuss] Re: zfs panic installing a brandz zone

2006-09-14 Thread Alan Hargreaves
I know, bad form replying to myself, but I am wondering if it might be related to 6438702 error handling in zfs_getpage() can trigger "page not locked" Which is marked "fix in progress" with a target of the current build. alan. Alan Hargreaves wrote: Folks, be