Re: [zfs-discuss] Solaris License with ZFS USER quotas?

2009-09-28 Thread Enda O'Connor
oming within a month. /Tomas -- Enda O'Connor x19781 Software Product Engineering Patch System Test : Ireland : x19781/353-1-8199718 ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Solaris License with ZFS USER quotas?

2009-09-28 Thread Enda O'Connor
Hi So ship date is 19th October for Solaris 10 10/09 ( update 8 ). Enda Enda O'Connor wrote: Hi Yes Solaris 10/09 ( update 8 ) will contain 6501037 want user/group quotas on zfs it should be out within a few weeks. So if they have zpools already installed they can apply 141444-09/1414

Re: [zfs-discuss] Strange problem with liveupgrade on zfs (10u7 and u8)

2009-10-15 Thread Enda O'Connor
Hi This is 6884728 which is a regression from 6837400. the workaround is as you done, remove the lines from vfstab Enda Brian wrote: I am have a strange problem with liveupgrade of ZFS boot environment. I found a similar discussion on the zones-discuss, but, this happens for me on installs wi

Re: [zfs-discuss] s10u8: lots of fixes, any commentary?

2009-10-15 Thread Enda O'Connor
scuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss -- Enda O'Connor x19781 Software Product Engineering Pa

Re: [zfs-discuss] Strange problem with liveupgrade on zfs (10u7 and u8)

2009-10-21 Thread Enda O'Connor
yes - I don't see anything wrong with my /etc/vfstab. Until I get this resolved, I'm afraid to patch and use the new BE. -- Enda O'Connor x19781 Software Product Engineering Patch System Test : Ireland : x19781/353-1-8199718 ___

Re: [zfs-discuss] Strange problem with liveupgrade on zfs (10u7 and u8)

2009-10-21 Thread Enda O'Connor
Hi T his will boot ok in my opinion, not seeing any issues there. Enda Mark Horstman wrote: more input: # lumount foobar /mnt /mnt # cat /mnt/etc/vfstab # cat /mnt/etc/vfstab #live-upgrade: updated boot environment #device device mount FS fsckmount mount

Re: [zfs-discuss] Strange problem with liveupgrade on zfs (10u7 and u8)

2009-10-21 Thread Enda O'Connor
Mark Horstman wrote: Then why the warning on the lucreate. It hasn't done that in the past. this is from the vfstab processing code in ludo.c, in your case not causing any issue, but shall be fixed. Enda Mark On Oct 21, 2009, at 12:41 PM, "Enda O'Connor" wrote: Hi T

Re: [zfs-discuss] Strange problem with liveupgrade on zfs (10u7 and u8)

2009-10-21 Thread Enda O'Connor
On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 12:49 PM, Enda O'Connor <mailto:enda.ocon...@sun.com>> wrote: Mark Horstman wrote: Then why the warning on the lucreate. It hasn't done that in the past. this is from the vfstab processing code in ludo.c, in your case not

Re: [zfs-discuss] dedup question

2009-11-02 Thread Enda O'Connor
o, will we need to move our data around (send/recv or whatever your preferred method is) to take advantage of dedup? I was hoping the blockpointer rewrite code would allow an admin to simply turn on dedup and let ZFS process the pool, eliminating excess redundancy as it went. -- Enda O

Re: [zfs-discuss] dedupe is in

2009-11-02 Thread Enda O'Connor
James Lever wrote: On 03/11/2009, at 7:32 AM, Daniel Streicher wrote: But how can I "update" my current OpenSolaris (2009.06) or Solaris 10 (5/09) to use this. Or have I wait for a new stable release of Solaris 10 / OpenSolaris? For OpenSolaris, you change your repository and switch to the

Re: [zfs-discuss] zpool version

2009-12-04 Thread Enda O'Connor
dick hoogendijk wrote: OpenSolaris-b128a has zfs version 22 w/ deduplication. Do I need to update older pools to take advantage of this dedup or can I just create a new zfs filesystem with this option? it's pool wide, so a zpool upgrade is necessary, or else create a new pool. cheers Enda ___

Re: [zfs-discuss] Live Upgrade Solaris 10 UFS to ZFS boot pre-requisites?

2009-12-08 Thread Enda O'Connor
Hi the live upgrade info doc http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-61-206844-1 has all the relevant patch, if you are on u6 KU or higher ( you are on u8 ), then you can just migrate straight to zfs, so there is no need to upgrade to u8 ufs, in order to move to u8 zfs, the u6 KU d

Re: [zfs-discuss] Help, my zone's dataset has disappeared!

2010-02-26 Thread Enda O'Connor
On 26/02/2010 14:03, Jesse Reynolds wrote: Hello I have an amd64 server running OpenSolaris 2009-06. In December I created one container on this server named 'cpmail' with it's own zfs dataset and it's been running ever since. Until earlier this evening when the server did a kernel panic and

Re: [zfs-discuss] S10 version question

2011-09-30 Thread Enda O'Connor
On 29/09/2011 23:59, Rich Teer wrote: Hi all, Got a quick question: what are the latest zpool and zfs versions supported in Solaris 10 Update 10? TIA, root@pstx2200a # zfs upgrade -v The following filesystem versions are supported: VER DESCRIPTION --- -

Re: [zfs-discuss] patching a solaris server with zones on zfs file systems

2012-01-21 Thread Enda O'Connor
Hi Need more info here, what exactly is the root FS, ie zfs? what kernel rev is current ( uname -a ) is there a specific patch that is being installed. if so then Live upgrade is best bet, combined with perhaps recommended patch cluster. apply latest rev of 119254 and 121430 ( SPARC ) or ( 121

Re: [zfs-discuss] Server upgrade

2012-02-15 Thread Enda O'Connor
On 15/02/2012 17:16, David Dyer-Bennet wrote: While I'm not in need of upgrading my server at an emergency level, I'm starting to think about it -- to be prepared (and an upgrade could be triggered by a failure at this point; my server dates to 2006). I'm actually more concerned with software th

Re: [zfs-discuss] kernel panic during zfs import [UPDATE]

2012-04-17 Thread Enda O'Connor
On 17/04/2012 16:40, Carsten John wrote: Hello everybody, just to let you know what happened in the meantime: I was able to open a Service Request at Oracle. The issue is a known bug (Bug 6742788 : assertion panic at: zfs:zap_deref_leaf) The bug has bin fixed (according to Oracle support) sin

Re: [zfs-discuss] query re disk mirroring

2012-11-30 Thread Enda O'Connor
On 29/11/2012 14:51, Edward Ned Harvey (opensolarisisdeadlongliveopensolaris) wrote: 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

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS flash issue

2010-09-28 Thread Enda O'Connor
On 28/09/2010 10:20, Ketan wrote: I have created a solaris9 zfs root flash archive for sun4v environment which i 'm tryin to use for upgrading solaris10 u8 zfs root based server using live upgrade. one cannot use zfs flash archive with luupgrade, that is with zfs root a flash archive archvies

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS cache inconsistencies with Oracle

2010-10-15 Thread Enda O'Connor
Hi so to be absolutely clear in the same session, you ran an update, commit and select, and the select returned an earlier value than the committed update? Things like ALTER SESSION set ISOLATION_LEVEL = SERIALIZABLE; will cause a session to NOT see commits from other sessions, but in Oracle

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Prefetch Tuning

2010-12-09 Thread Enda O'Connor
Hi I'd certainly look at the sql being run, examine the explain plan and in particular SQL_TRACE, TIMED_STATISTICS, and TKPROF, these will really highlight issues. see following for autotrace which can generate explain plan etc. http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/B10500_01/server.920/a96533/a

Re: [zfs-discuss] not sure how to make filesystems

2011-05-31 Thread Enda O'Connor
On 29/05/2011 19:55, BIll Palin wrote: I'm migrating some filesystems from UFS to ZFS and I'm not sure how to create a couple of them. I want to migrate /, /var, /opt, /export/home and also want swap and /tmp. I don't care about any of the others. The first disk, and the one with the UFS fil

Re: [zfs-discuss] Cannot attach mirror to SPARC zfs root pool

2008-07-25 Thread Enda O'Connor
Boyd Adamson wrote: > "Enda O'Connor ( Sun Micro Systems Ireland)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > writes: > [..] >> meant to add that on x86 the following should do the trick ( again I'm open >> to correction ) >> >> installgrub /boot/grub/stage1

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS boot - upgrade from UFS & swap slices

2008-07-25 Thread Enda O'Connor
Alan Burlison wrote: > Lori Alt wrote: > >> It's hard to know what the "right" thing to do is from within >> the installation software. Does the user want to preserve >> as much of their current environment as possible? Or does >> the user want to move toward the new "standard" configuration >>

Re: [zfs-discuss] Can I trust ZFS?

2008-07-31 Thread Enda O'Connor
Ross wrote: > Hey folks, > > I guess this is an odd question to be asking here, but I could do with some > feedback from anybody who's actually using ZFS in anger. > > I'm about to go live with ZFS in our company on a new fileserver, but I have > some real concerns about whether I can really tr

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS boot mirror

2008-08-02 Thread Enda O'Connor
Malachi de Ælfweald wrote: > I just tried that, but the installgrub keeps failing: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# zpool status > pool: rpool > state: ONLINE > scrub: resilver completed after 0h1m with 0 errors on Sat Aug 2 > 01:44:55 2008 > config: > > NAME STATE READ WRITE CKSUM

Re: [zfs-discuss] marvell88sx patch

2008-08-14 Thread Enda O'Connor
Hi build 93 contains all the fixes in 138053-02 it would appear. Just to avoid confusion, patch 138053-02 is only relevant to the solaris 10 updates, and does not apply to the opensolaris variants. To get all the fixes for opensolaris, upgrade or install build 93. If on solaris 10, then sugges

Re: [zfs-discuss] What is the correct procedure to replace a non failed disk for another?

2008-09-03 Thread Enda O'Connor
Mark J. Musante wrote: > > On 3 Sep 2008, at 05:20, "F. Wessels" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> can anybody describe the correct procedure to replace a disk (in a >> working OK state) with a another disk without degrading my pool? > > This command ought to do the trick: > > zfs rep

Re: [zfs-discuss] Status of ZFS boot for sparc?

2008-09-04 Thread Enda O'Connor
Steve Goldberg wrote: > Hi Lori, > > is ZFS boot still planned for S10 update 6? > > Thanks, > > Steve > -- > This message posted from opensolaris.org > ___ > zfs-discuss mailing list > zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/

Re: [zfs-discuss] migrating ufs to zfs - cant boot system

2008-11-05 Thread Enda O'Connor
> File and args: > ERROR: /[EMAIL PROTECTED],60: Last Trap: Fast Data Access MMU Miss > > {1} ok boot disk1 > Boot device: /[EMAIL PROTECTED],60/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL PROTECTED],0 > File and args: > ERROR: /[EMAIL PROTECTED],60: Last Trap: Fast

Re: [zfs-discuss] migrating ufs to zfs - cant boot system

2008-11-05 Thread Enda O'Connor
Hi Krzys Also some info on the actual system ie what was it upgraded to u6 from and how. and an idea of how the filesystems are laid out, ie is usr seperate from / and so on ( maybe a df -k ). Don't appear to have any zones installed, just to confirm. Enda On 11/05/08 14:07, Enda O'Co

Re: [zfs-discuss] migrating ufs to zfs - cant boot system

2008-11-05 Thread Enda O'Connor
ulimit for coredumps after this, in order to not risk filling the system with coredumps in the case of some utility coredumping in a loop say. Enda On 11/05/08 13:46, Krzys wrote: > > On Wed, 5 Nov 2008, Enda O'Connor wrote: > >> On 11/05/08 13:02, Krzys wrote: >>> I

Re: [zfs-discuss] migrating ufs to zfs - cant boot system

2008-11-05 Thread Enda O'Connor
00 (0/0/0)0 > 6 unassignedwu 00 (0/0/0)0 > 7 unassignedwu 00 (0/0/0)0 > > format> > > > On Wed, 5 Nov 2008, Enda O'Connor wrote:

Re: [zfs-discuss] migrating ufs to zfs - cant boot system

2008-11-05 Thread Enda O'Connor
6gb as I am not using that much disk space > on it. But let me try this and it might be why I am getting this problem... > > > > On Wed, 5 Nov 2008, Enda O'Connor wrote: > >> Hi Krzys >> Also some info on the actual system >> ie what was it upgraded t

Re: [zfs-discuss] migrating ufs to zfs - cant boot system

2008-11-06 Thread Enda O'Connor
.vold.24950 > -rw--- 1 root root 4126301 Nov 5 19:22 core.vold.24978 > drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 81408 Nov 5 20:06 . > -rw--- 1 root root 31351099 Nov 5 20:06 core.cpio.6208 > > > > On Wed, 5 Nov 2008, Enda O'Connor wrote: > >>

Re: [zfs-discuss] migrating ufs to zfs - cant boot system

2008-11-06 Thread Enda O'Connor
alloc_unlocked+0x164 > %npc = 0xff2564d8 libc.so.1`_malloc_unlocked+0x128 >%sp = 0xffbfe5b0 >%fp = 0xffbfe610 > > %wim = 0x > %tbr = 0x > > > > > > > > On Thu, 6 Nov 2008, Enda O'Connor wrote: > >> Hi >>

Re: [zfs-discuss] Upgrading from a single disk.

2008-11-19 Thread Enda O'Connor
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Suppose I have a single ZFS pool on a single disk; > I want to upgrade the system to use two different, larger disks > and I want to mirror. > > Can I do something like: > > - I start with disk #0 > - add mirror on disk #1 > (resilver) > - repl

Re: [zfs-discuss] Upgrading from a single disk.

2008-11-19 Thread Enda O'Connor
Enda O'Connor wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Suppose I have a single ZFS pool on a single disk; >> I want to upgrade the system to use two different, larger disks >> and I want to mirror. >> >> Can I do something like: >> >> - I

Re: [zfs-discuss] HELP!!! Need to disable zfs

2008-11-25 Thread Enda O'Connor
Mike DeMarco wrote: > My root drive is ufs. I have corrupted my zpool which is on a different drive > than the root drive. > My system paniced and now it core dumps when it boots up and hits zfs start. > I have a alt root drive that can boot the system up with but how can I > disable zfs from s

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs boot - U6 kernel patch breaks sparc boot

2008-12-02 Thread Enda O'Connor
Vincent Fox wrote: > Reviving this thread. > > We have a Solaris 10u4 system recently patched with 137137-09. > Unfortunately the patch was applied from multi-user mode, I wonder if this > may have been original posters problem as well? Anyhow we are now stuck > with an unbootable system as well.

Re: [zfs-discuss] To separate /var or not separate /var, that is the question....

2008-12-11 Thread Enda O'Connor
Vincent Fox wrote: > Whether tis nobler. > > Just wondering if (excepting the existing zones thread) there are any > compelling arguments to keep /var as it's own filesystem for your typical > Solaris server. Web servers and the like. > > Or arguments against with zfs it's easy to set quo

Re: [zfs-discuss] Confused about prerequisites for ZFS to work

2009-02-19 Thread Enda O'Connor
ckage Enda ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss -- Enda O'Connor x19781 Software Product Engineering Patch System Test : Ireland : x19781/353-1-8199718 ___

Re: [zfs-discuss] Confused about prerequisites for ZFS to work

2009-02-19 Thread Enda O'Connor
http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss -- Enda O'Connor x19781 Software Product Engineering Patch System Test : Ireland : x197

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs root, jumpstart and flash archives

2009-07-08 Thread Enda O'Connor
Hi for sparc 119534-15 124630-26 for x86 119535-15 124631-27 higher rev's of these will also suffice. Note these need to be applied to the miniroot of the jumpstart image so that it can then install zfs flash archive. please read the README notes in these for more specific instructions, inc

Re: [zfs-discuss] Boot error

2009-08-28 Thread Enda O'Connor
-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss -- Enda O'Connor x19781 Soft

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS LDOMs Jumpstart virtual disk issue

2009-09-14 Thread Enda O'Connor
RB wrote: I have zfs on my base T5210 box installed with LDOMS (v.1.0.3). Every time I try to jumpstart my Guest machine, I get the following error. ERROR: One or more disks are found, but one of the following problems exists: - Hardware failure - The disk(s) available on this

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS flar image.

2009-09-14 Thread Enda O'Connor
RB wrote: Is it possible to create flar image of ZFS root filesystem to install it to other macines? yes but it needs solaris update 7 or later to install a zfs flar see http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/zfs/boot/flash/;jsessionid=AB24EEFB6955AD505F19A152CDEC84A8 isn't supported on ope

Re: [zfs-discuss] Sun Flash Accelerator F20

2009-09-24 Thread Enda O'Connor
Richard Elling wrote: On Sep 24, 2009, at 12:20 AM, James Andrewartha wrote: I'm surprised no-one else has posted about this - part of the Sun Oracle Exadata v2 is the Sun Flash Accelerator F20 PCIe card, with 48 or 96 GB of SLC, a built-in SAS controller and a super-capacitor for cache prote

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS ARC vs Oracle cache

2009-09-24 Thread Enda O'Connor
Richard Elling wrote: On Sep 24, 2009, at 10:30 AM, Javier Conde wrote: Hello, Given the following configuration: * Server with 12 SPARCVII CPUs and 96 GB of RAM * ZFS used as file system for Oracle data * Oracle 10.2.0.4 with 1.7TB of data and indexes * 1800 concurrents users with PeopleSof

Re: [zfs-discuss] 118855-36 & ZFS

2007-02-05 Thread Enda O'Connor
Robert Milkowski wrote: Hello Robert, Monday, February 5, 2007, 2:26:57 PM, you wrote: RM> Hello zfs-discuss, RM> I've patched U2 system to 118855-36. Several zfs related bugs id RM> should be covered between -19 and -36 like HotSpare support. RM> However despite -36 is installed 'zpool

Re: [zfs-discuss] 118855-36 & ZFS

2007-02-05 Thread Enda O'Connor
Robert Milkowski wrote: Hello Casper, Monday, February 5, 2007, 2:32:49 PM, you wrote: Hello zfs-discuss, I've patched U2 system to 118855-36. Several zfs related bugs id should be covered between -19 and -36 like HotSpare support. However despite -36 is installed 'zpool upgrade' still

Re: [zfs-discuss] 118855-36 & ZFS

2007-02-05 Thread Enda O'Connor
Hi 118855-36 is marked interactive and is not installable by automation, or at least should not be installed by smpatch. If you look in the patchpro.download.directory from "smpatch get" under the dir cache ( if I remember correctly ) you will see a current.zip ( possibly with a time stamp a

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: Re: update on zfs boot support

2007-03-12 Thread Enda O'Connor
Brian Hechinger wrote: On Sun, Mar 11, 2007 at 11:21:13AM -0700, Frank Cusack wrote: On March 11, 2007 6:05:13 PM + Tim Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: * ability to add disks to mirror the root filesystem at any time, should they become available Can't this be done with

Re: [zfs-discuss] tricking install tools with quota and reservation

2008-02-03 Thread Enda O'Connor
Christine Tran wrote: > Hi, > > I understands the upgrade issue surrounding the patching and upgrade > tools. Can I get around this with some trickery using quota and > reservation? I would quota and reserve for a pool/somezonepath some > capacity, say 10GB, and in this way allocate a fixed cap

Re: [zfs-discuss] Recommended Patches for ZFS

2008-02-29 Thread Enda O'Connor
David Jackson wrote: >> I'm looking for an authoritative list of the patches that should be >> applied for ZFS for the commercial version of Solaris. A >> centralized URL that is maintained would be ideal. Can someone >> reply back to me with one as I'm not a subscriber to the news list. >>

Re: [zfs-discuss] Patch 127729-07 not NFS patch!

2008-02-29 Thread Enda O'Connor
Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > The Sun Update Manager on my x86 Solaris 10 box describes this new > patch as "SunOS 5.10_x86 nfs fs patch" (note use of "nfs") but looking > at the problem descriptions this is quite clearly a big ZFS patch that > Solaris 10 users should pay attention to since it fixes

Re: [zfs-discuss] 'zfs create' hanging

2008-03-10 Thread Enda O'Connor
Paul Raines wrote: > On Sun, 9 Mar 2008, Marc Bevand wrote: > > >> Paul Raines nmr.mgh.harvard.edu> writes: >> >>> Mar 9 03:22:16 raidsrv03 sata: NOTICE: >>> /pci 0,0/pci1022,7458 1/pci11ab,11ab 1: >>> Mar 9 03:22:16 raidsrv03 port 6: device reset >>> [...] >>> >>> The above repeated

Re: [zfs-discuss] Solaris 10 x86 + ZFS / NFS server "cp" problem with AIX

2008-03-18 Thread Enda O'Connor
Michael Schuster wrote: > Sachin Palav wrote: > >> Friends, >> I have recently built a file server on x2200 with solaris x86 having zfs >> (version4) and running NFS version2 & samba. >> >> the AIX 5.2 & AIX 5.2 client give error while running command "cp -R >> as below: >> cp: 0653-440 dire

Re: [zfs-discuss] /var/sadm on zfs?

2008-06-01 Thread Enda O'Connor
Jim Litchfield at Sun wrote: > I think you'll find that any attempt to make zones (certainly whole root > ones) will fail after this. > right, zoneadm install actually copies in the global zones undo.z into the local zone, so that patchrm of an existing patch will work. haven't tried out what

Re: [zfs-discuss] is it possible to add a mirror device later?

2008-07-02 Thread Enda O'Connor
Hi Tommaso Have a look at the man page for zfs and the "attach" section in particular, it will do the job nicely. Enda Tommaso Boccali wrote: > Ciao, > the rot filesystem of my thumper is a ZFS with a single disk: > > bash-3.2# zpool status rpool > pool: rpool > state: ONLINE > scrub: no

Re: [zfs-discuss] Status of ZFS on Solaris 10

2008-07-07 Thread Enda O'Connor
Hi S10_u5 has version 4, latest in opensolaris is version 10 see http://opensolaris.org/os/community/zfs/version/10/ where n=version http://opensolaris.org/os/community/zfs/version/n/ so sub 4 for n to see version 4 changes, and so on up to 10. run zpool upgrade ( doesn't actually run an upgr

[zfs-discuss] query re disk mirroring

2012-11-29 Thread Enda o'Connor - Oracle Ireland - Software Engineer
Hi 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 is mirror-0 c3d0s0 c4d0s0 where c3d0s0 is served by one vds server, and c4d0s0 is served by another vds server. Now if for some reaso

Re: [zfs-discuss] Cannot attach mirror to SPARC zfs root pool

2008-07-24 Thread Enda O'Connor ( Sun Micro Systems Ireland)
Mike Gerdts wrote: > On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 11:36 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Rainer, >> >> Sorry for your trouble. >> >> I'm updating the installboot example in the ZFS Admin Guide with the >> -F zfs syntax now. We'll fix the installboot man page as well. > > Perhaps it also deserves a me

Re: [zfs-discuss] Cannot attach mirror to SPARC zfs root pool

2008-07-24 Thread Enda O'Connor ( Sun Micro Systems Ireland)
Enda O'Connor ( Sun Micro Systems Ireland) wrote: > Mike Gerdts wrote: >> On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 11:36 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Rainer, >>> >>> Sorry for your trouble. >>> >>> I'm updating the installboot exampl

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS boot - upgrade from UFS & swap slices

2008-07-24 Thread Enda O'Connor ( Sun Micro Systems Ireland)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Alan, > > Just make sure you use dumpadm to point to valid dump device and > this setup should work fine. Please let us know if it doesn't. > > The ZFS strategy behind automatically creating separate swap and > dump devices including the following: > > o Eliminates the

Re: [zfs-discuss] Can I trust ZFS?

2008-08-01 Thread Enda O'Connor ( Sun Micro Systems Ireland)
Dave wrote: > > > Enda O'Connor wrote: >> >> As for thumpers, once 138053-02 ( marvell88sx driver patch ) releases >> within the next two weeks ( assuming no issues found ), then the >> thumper platform running s10 updates will be up to date in terms

Re: [zfs-discuss] S10u6, zfs and zones

2008-08-05 Thread Enda O'Connor ( Sun Micro Systems Ireland)
dick hoogendijk wrote: > My server runs S10u5. All slices are UFS. I run a couple of sparse > zones on a seperate slice mounted on /zones. > > When S10u6 comes out booting of ZFS will become possible. That is great > news. However, will it be possible to have those zones I run now too? you can mig

Re: [zfs-discuss] Scripting zfs send / receive

2008-09-26 Thread Enda O'Connor ( Sun Micro Systems Ireland)
Hi Clive King has a nice blog entry showing this in action http://blogs.sun.com/clive/entry/replication_using_zfs with associated script at: http://blogs.sun.com/clive/resource/zfs_repl.ksh Which I think answers most of your questions. Enda Ross wrote: > Hey folks, > > Is anybody able to help a

Re: [zfs-discuss] 120473-05

2007-04-11 Thread Enda O'Connor ( Sun Micro Systems Ireland)
Robert Milkowski wrote: Hello zfs-discuss, In order to get IDR126199-01 I need to install 120473-05 first. I can get 120473-07 but everything more than -05 is marked as incompatible with IDR126199-01 so I do not want to force it. Local Sun's support has problems with getting 120473-05 a

Re: [zfs-discuss] 120473-05

2007-04-12 Thread Enda O'Connor ( Sun Micro Systems Ireland)
Robert Milkowski wrote: Hello Enda, Wednesday, April 11, 2007, 4:21:35 PM, you wrote: EOCSMSI> Robert Milkowski wrote: Hello zfs-discuss, In order to get IDR126199-01 I need to install 120473-05 first. I can get 120473-07 but everything more than -05 is marked as incompatible with IDR12

Re: [zfs-discuss] zpool versioning

2007-09-13 Thread Enda O'Connor ( Sun Micro Systems Ireland)
Paul Armor wrote: > Hi, > I was wondering if anyone would know if this is just an accounting-type > error with the recorded "version=" stored on disk, or if there > are/could-be any deeper issues with an "upgraded" zpool? > > I created a pool under a Sol10_x86_u3 install (11/06?), and zdb correc

Re: [zfs-discuss] safe zfs-level snapshots with a UFS-on-ZVOL filesystem?

2007-10-08 Thread Enda O'Connor ( Sun Micro Systems Ireland)
Dick Davies wrote: > I had some trouble installing a zone on ZFS with S10u4 > (bug in the postgres packages) that went away when I used a > ZVOL-backed UFS filesystem > for the zonepath. > Hi Out of interest what was the bug. Enda > I thought I'd push on with the experiment (in the hope Live Upg

Re: [zfs-discuss] Does Oracle support ZFS as a file system with Oracle RAC?

2007-12-18 Thread Enda O'Connor ( Sun Micro Systems Ireland)
David Runyon wrote: > Does anyone know this? > > David Runyon > Disk Sales Specialist > > Sun Microsystems, Inc. > 4040 Palm Drive > Santa Clara, CA 95054 US > Mobile 925 323-1211 > Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > Russ Lai wrote: >> Dave; >> Does ZFS support Oracle RAC? > __

Re: [zfs-discuss] 3510 Array and ZFS/Zones

2007-12-21 Thread Enda O'Connor ( Sun Micro Systems Ireland)
Richard Elling wrote: > Morris Hooten wrote: >> I looked through the solarsinternals zfs best practices and not >> completly sure >> of the best scenario. >> > > ok, perhaps we should add some clarifications... > >> I have a Solaris 10 6/06 Generic_125100-10 box with attached 3510 array >> and

Re: [zfs-discuss] [zones-discuss] 3510 Array and ZFS/Zones

2007-12-21 Thread Enda O'Connor ( Sun Micro Systems Ireland)
Mangan wrote: > Is this a release that can be downloaded from the website and will work on > SPARC systems. The write up says it is for VMware. Am I missing something? > > >> Use Solaris 10 9/07. It has more than a year's worth of improvements >> and enhancements to Solaris. >> -- richard > >

Re: [zfs-discuss] [zones-discuss] 3510 Array and ZFS/Zones

2007-12-21 Thread Enda O'Connor ( Sun Micro Systems Ireland)
my mistake, getting confused by release numbers, 9.07 was what Richard meant. Enda > When is the next release for Sparc due out? > > Paul > > > -Original Message- >> From: "Enda O'Connor ( Sun Micro Systems Ireland)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >&g

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs snapshot -r hangs

2008-04-16 Thread Enda O'Connor ( Sun Micro Systems Ireland)
Sam Nicholson wrote: Greetings, snv_79a AMD 64x2 in 64 bit kernel mode. I'm in the middle of migrating a large zfs set from a pair of 1TB mirrors to a 1.3TB RAIDz. I decided to use zfs send | zfs receive, so the first order of business was to snap the entire source filesystem. # zfs sna

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Version Correct

2008-05-20 Thread Enda O'Connor ( Sun Micro Systems Ireland)
Kenny wrote: > Back to the top > > Is there a patch upgrade for ZFS on Solaris 10? Where might I find it. it's the kernel patch, depending on how far back you are in the update's you might have to install m ultiple Kernel Patches. the latest one is 127127-11/127128-11 ( the u5 KU ) it dep

Re: [zfs-discuss] mirroring zfs slice

2008-06-17 Thread Enda O'Connor ( Sun Micro Systems Ireland)
Hi Use zpool attach from http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/819-2240/zpool-1m zpool attach [-f] pool device new_device Attaches new_device to an existing zpool device. The existing device cannot be part of a raidz configuration. If device is not currently part of a mirrored configuration,

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS/Install related question

2008-07-11 Thread Enda O'Connor ( Sun Micro Systems Ireland)
Andre wrote: > Hi there, > > I'm currently setting up a new system to my lab. 4 SATA drives would be > turned into the main file system (ZFS?) running on a soft raid (raid-z?). > > My main target is reliability, my experience with Linux SoftRaid was > catastrophic and the array could no be rest

[zfs-discuss] query re availability of zfs in S10

2006-06-20 Thread Enda o'Connor - Sun Microsystems Ireland - Software Engineer
Hi It is my understanding that zfs will be available to pre S10 update 2 customers via patches, ie customers on FCS could install the necessary zfs patches and thereby start using zfs. But there seems to be confusion in regards to whether this is supported or not. Some people say only zfs on

Re: [zfs-discuss] assertion failure when destroy zpool on tmpfs

2006-06-27 Thread Enda o'Connor - Sun Microsystems Ireland - Software Engineer
Hi Looks like same stack as 6413847, although it is pointed more towards hardware failure. the stack below is from 5.11 snv_38, but also seems to affect update 2 as per above bug. Enda Thomas Maier-Komor wrote: Hi, my colleage is just testing ZFS and created a zpool which had a backing s

[zfs-discuss] query re share and zfs

2006-07-04 Thread Enda o'Connor - Sun Microsystems Ireland - Software Engineer
Hi I was trying to overlay a pool onto an existing mount # cat /etc/release Solaris 10 6/06 s10s_u2wos_09a SPARC # df -k /export Filesystemkbytesused avail capacity Mounted on /dev/dsk/c1t0d0s320174761 3329

[zfs-discuss] Re: query re share and zfs

2006-07-04 Thread Enda o'Connor - Sun Microsystems Ireland - Software Engineer
Slight typo I had to run # zfs umount tank cannot unmount 'tank': not currently mounted # zfs umount /export/home1 # zfs umount /export/home # in order to get zpool destroy to run Enda Enda o'Connor - Sun Microsystems Ireland - Software Engineer wrote: Hi I was trying to

Re: [zfs-discuss] query re share and zfs

2006-07-05 Thread Enda o'Connor - Sun Microsystems Ireland - Software Engineer
;/export/home' was unavailable because of the 'zfs mount -O'. - Eric On Tue, Jul 04, 2006 at 04:10:34PM +0100, Enda o'Connor - Sun Microsystems Ireland - Software Engineer wrote: Hi I was trying to overlay a pool onto an existing mount # cat /etc/release

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: [Fwd: [zones-discuss] Zone boot problems after installing patches]

2006-08-04 Thread Enda o'Connor - Sun Microsystems Ireland - Software Engineer
Hi I guess the problem is that David is using smpatch (our automated patching system ) So in theory he is up to date on his patches ( he has since removed  122660-02  122658-02  122640-05 ) So when I install the following onto a system ( SPARC S10 FCS ) with two zones already running: 1

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: [Fwd: [zones-discuss] Zone boot problems after installing patches]

2006-08-04 Thread Enda o'Connor - Sun Microsystems Ireland - Software Engineer
Enda o'Connor - Sun Microsystems Ireland - Software Engineer wrote: Hi I guess the problem is that David is using smpatch (our automated patching system ) So in theory he is up to date on his patches ( he has since removed  122660-02  122658-02  1226

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: [Fwd: [zones-discuss] Zone boot problems after installing patches]

2006-08-04 Thread Enda o'Connor - Sun Microsystems Ireland - Software Engineer
Hi I logged CR 6457216 to track this for now. Enda Enda o'Connor - Sun Microsystems Ireland - Software Engineer wrote: Enda o'Connor - Sun Microsystems Ireland - Software Engineer wrote: Hi I guess the problem is that David is using sm