[zfs-discuss] Alternatives to increading the number of copies on a ZFS snapshot

2009-02-07 Thread Sriram Narayanan
How do I set the number of copies on a snapshot ? Based on the error message, I believe that I cannot do so. I already have a number of clones based on this snapshot, and would like the snapshot to have more copies now. For higher redundancy and peace of mind, what alternatives do

[zfs-discuss] A question on non-consecutive disk failures

2009-02-07 Thread Sriram Narayanan
From the presentation ZFS - The last word in filesystems, Page 22 In a multi-disk pool, ZFS survives any non-consecutive disk failures Questions: If I have a 3 disk RAIDZ with disks A, B and C, then: - if disk b fails, then will I be able to continue to read data if disks A and C are

Re: [zfs-discuss] Nested ZFS file systems are not visible over an NFS export

2009-02-07 Thread Sriram Narayanan
An update: I'm using VMWare ESX 3.5 and VMWare ESXi 3.5 as the NFS clients. I'm use zfs set sharenfs=on datapool/vmwarenfs to make that zfs file system accessible over NFS. -- Sriram On Sun, Feb 8, 2009 at 12:07 AM, Sriram Narayanan sriram...@gmail.com wrote: Hello: I have the following zfs

Re: [zfs-discuss] A question on non-consecutive disk failures

2009-02-08 Thread Sriram Narayanan
On Sun, Feb 8, 2009 at 1:56 AM, Peter Tribble peter.trib...@gmail.com wrote: snip/ No. That quote is part of the discussion of ditto blocks. See the following: http://blogs.sun.com/bill/entry/ditto_blocks_the_amazing_tape Thank you, Peter. -- Sriram

Re: [zfs-discuss] A question on non-consecutive disk failures

2009-02-08 Thread Sriram Narayanan
On Sun, Feb 8, 2009 at 1:29 AM, Frank Cusack fcus...@fcusack.com wrote: what mirror? there is no mirror. you have a raidz. you can have 1 disk failure. Thanks for the correction. I was thinking RAIDZ, but typed mirror. I have only RAIDZs on my servers. - if disks a and c fail, then I

[zfs-discuss] Pointer needed: blog post on integrating ZFS with the Linux kernel

2009-02-23 Thread Sriram Narayanan
Hello all: I recall that some time last year, somone from Sun had written a two part blog post calling for a technical discussion on the effort involved with making ZFS work on the Linux kernel. May I have a pointer to that blog post, please ? -- Ram

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs with PERC 6/i card?

2009-03-04 Thread Sriram Narayanan
On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 5:29 AM, Julius Roberts hooliowobb...@gmail.com wrote: I would like to hear if anyone is using ZFS with this card and how you set it up, and what, if any, issues you've had with that set up. However I would expect that if you could present 8 raid0 luns to the host then

Re: [zfs-discuss] How to make a ZFS pool with discs of the other machines of the LAN?

2009-03-06 Thread Sriram Narayanan
On Sat, Mar 7, 2009 at 11:05 AM, Thiago C. M. Cordeiro | World Web thiago.mart...@worldweb.com.br wrote: Hi!  Today I have ten computers with Xen and Linux, each with 2 discs of 500G in raid1, each node sees only its own raid1 volume, I do not have live motion of my virtual machines... and

Re: [zfs-discuss] How to make a ZFS pool with discs of the other machines of the LAN?

2009-03-06 Thread Sriram Narayanan
On Sat, Mar 7, 2009 at 11:23 AM, Sriram Narayanan sri...@belenix.org wrote: On Sat, Mar 7, 2009 at 11:05 AM, Thiago C. M. Cordeiro | World Web thiago.mart...@worldweb.com.br wrote: Hi!  Today I have ten computers with Xen and Linux, each with 2 discs of 500G in raid1, each node sees only

Re: [zfs-discuss] How to make a ZFS pool with discs of the other machines of the LAN?

2009-03-06 Thread Sriram Narayanan
On Sat, Mar 7, 2009 at 11:26 AM, Sriram Narayanan sri...@belenix.org wrote: On Sat, Mar 7, 2009 at 11:23 AM, Sriram Narayanan sri...@belenix.org wrote: snip/ I intend to experiment with iSCSI later when I free up some machines for such an experiment. My only tip for Linux based iSCSI

Re: [zfs-discuss] RePartition OS disk, give some to zpool

2009-03-06 Thread Sriram Narayanan
On Sat, Mar 7, 2009 at 8:27 AM, Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote: I'm still a little confused about the various versions but I guess since I installed from the official opensolaris 2008.11, which gave me 101b.  And then updated to dev (208) that would be Indiana right? That'd be build

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS on a SAN

2009-03-12 Thread Sriram Narayanan
On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 2:12 AM, Erik Trimble erik.trim...@sun.com wrote: snip/ On the SAN, create (2) LUNs - one for your primary data, and one for your snapshots/backups. On hostA, create a zpool on the primary data LUN (call it zpool A), and another zpool on the backup LUN (zpool B).  

Re: [zfs-discuss] cannot mount '/tank/home': directory is not empty

2009-06-09 Thread Sriram Narayanan
On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 2:14 AM, Arthur Bundono-re...@opensolaris.org wrote: i reread my post, it makes dizzy even me, right. the problem i have is this, i had a user x with home directory /export/home/x . some days before i upgraded from 101 to 111, and on nautilus i tried to make

Re: [zfs-discuss] cannot mount '/tank/home': directory is not empty

2009-06-10 Thread Sriram Narayanan
On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 4:35 AM, Arthur Bundono-re...@opensolaris.org wrote: I cant login as root anymore with su , as x user i cant execute almost anything as sys to do some maintenance , only in single mode at boot, After you log on as the use x (let's call this user arthur), see if you can

Re: [zfs-discuss] cannot mount '/tank/home': directory is not empty

2009-06-10 Thread Sriram Narayanan
On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 1:45 AM, Arthur Bundono-re...@opensolaris.org wrote: I want to thank you for your quick response. Regarding the learning curve, i really don't have enough time to go in deep of the things anymore, i just like the stability of the Solaris platform in general, and i

[zfs-discuss] Fwd: [ilugb] Does ZFS support Hole Punching/Discard

2009-09-07 Thread Sriram Narayanan
Folks: I gave a presentation last weekend on how one could use Zones, ZFS and Crossbow to recreate deployments scenarios on one's computer (to the extent possible). I've received the following question, and would like to ask the ZFS Community for answers. -- Sriram -- Forwarded

[zfs-discuss] A note on Apache using ZFS

2009-09-07 Thread Sriram Narayanan
http://www.scmagazineuk.com/Apache-publishes-detailed-report-about-security-breach-with-aims-to-prevent-a-recurrence/article/148282/ -- Sriram ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org

[zfs-discuss] The ZFS FAQ needs an update

2009-10-18 Thread Sriram Narayanan
All: Given that the latest S10 update includes user quotas, the FAQ here [1] may need an update -- Sriram [1] http://opensolaris.org/os/community/zfs/faq/#zfsquotas ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS storage server hardware

2009-11-20 Thread Sriram Narayanan
On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 3:24 AM, Bruno Sousa bso...@epinfante.com wrote: Hi Ian, I use the Supermicro SuperChassis 846E1-R710B, and i added the JBOD kit that has : Power Control Card SAS 846EL2/EL1 BP External Cascading Cable SAS 846EL1 BP 1-Port Internal Cascading Cable I don't do any

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS send | verify | receive

2009-12-04 Thread Sriram Narayanan
If feasible, you may want to generate MD5 sums on the streamed output and then use these for verification. -- Sriram On 12/5/09, Edward Ned Harvey sola...@nedharvey.com wrote: Depending of your version of OS, I think the following post from Richard Elling will be of great interest to you: -

Re: [zfs-discuss] How to destroy your system in funny way with ZFS

2009-12-27 Thread Sriram Narayanan
You could revert to the @install snapshot (via the livecd) and swe if that works for you. -- Sriram On 12/27/09, Tomas Bodzar bodz...@openbsd.cz wrote: So I booted from Live CD and then : zpool import pfexec zpool import -f rpool pfexec zfs set compression=off rpool pfexec zpool export

Re: [zfs-discuss] Can I destroy a Zpool without importing it?

2009-12-27 Thread Sriram Narayanan
opensolaris has a newer version of ZFS than Solaris. What you have is a pool that was not marked as exported for use on a different OS install. Simply force import the pool using zpool import -f -- Sriram On 12/27/09, Havard Kruger hva...@broadpark.no wrote: Hi, in the process of building a

Re: [zfs-discuss] Can I destroy a Zpool without importing it?

2009-12-27 Thread Sriram Narayanan
Also, if you don't care about the existing pool and want to create a new pool one the same devices, you can go ahead and do so. The format command will list the storage devices available to you. -- Sriram On 12/27/09, Sriram Narayanan sri...@belenix.org wrote: opensolaris has a newer version

Re: [zfs-discuss] OpenSolaris to Ubuntu

2009-12-29 Thread Sriram Narayanan
Each of these problems that you faced can be solved. Please ask for help on each of these via separate emails to osol-discuss and you'll get help. I say so because I'm moving my infrastructure to opensolaris for these services, among others. -- Sriram On 12/29/09, Duane Walker

Re: [zfs-discuss] is this pool recoverable?

2010-03-20 Thread Sriram Narayanan
On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 9:19 PM, Patrick Tiquet ptiq...@gmail.com wrote: Also, I tried to run zpool clear, but the system crashes and reboots. Please see if this link helps http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/817-2271/ghbxs?a=view -- Sriram - Belenix: www.belenix.org

Re: [zfs-discuss] is this pool recoverable?

2010-03-20 Thread Sriram Narayanan
On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 12:32 AM, Miles Nordin car...@ivy.net wrote: sn == Sriram Narayanan sri...@belenix.org writes:    sn http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/817-2271/ghbxs?a=view yeah, but he has no slog, and he says 'zpool clear' makes the system panic and reboot, so even from way over

Re: [zfs-discuss] using ZFS on new system

2010-11-05 Thread Sriram Narayanan
On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 6:41 PM, Chris Marquardt chris.marqua...@verizonwireless.com wrote: I just got a new system and want to use ZFS.  I want it look like it did on the old system.  I'm not a systems person and I did not setup the current system.  The guy who did no longer works here.  Can

Re: [zfs-discuss] Ideas for ghetto file server data reliability?

2010-11-15 Thread Sriram Narayanan
To add: Even if you have great faith in ZFS, a backup helps in dealing with the unknown. Consider: - multiple disk failures that you are somehow unable to respond to. - hardware failures (power supplies, motherboard, RAM). - damage to the building. - having to recreate everything elsewhere - even

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS for Linux?

2011-06-14 Thread Sriram Narayanan
There's also ZFS from KQInfotech. -- Sriram On 6/14/11, David Magda dma...@ee.ryerson.ca wrote: On Tue, June 14, 2011 08:15, Jim Klimov wrote: Hello, A college friend of mine is using Debian Linux on his desktop, and wondered if he could tap into ZFS goodness without adding another

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS for Linux?

2011-06-14 Thread Sriram Narayanan
I just learned from the Phoronix website that KQ Infotech has stopped working on ZFS for Linux, but that their github repo is still active. Also, zfsonlinux.org mentioned earlier on this mail thread is seeing active development. -- Sriram On 6/14/11, Sriram Narayanan sri...@belenix.org wrote

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs scripts

2011-09-09 Thread Sriram Narayanan
Plus, you'll need an character at the end of each command. -- Sriram On 9/9/11, Tomas Forsman st...@acc.umu.se wrote: On 09 September, 2011 - cephas maposah sent me these 0,4K bytes: i am trying to come up with a script that incorporates other scripts. eg zfs send pool/filesystem1@100911

Re: [zfs-discuss] bad seagate drive?

2011-09-11 Thread Sriram Narayanan
It'd be worth still reseating the SATA cables on the backplane like Krunal recommended. Once the resilvering completes, of course ;) -- Sriram On 9/12/11, Matt Harrison iwasinnamuk...@genestate.com wrote: On 11/09/2011 18:32, Krunal Desai wrote: On Sep 11, 2011, at 13:01 , Richard Elling

[zfs-discuss] Any recommendations on Perc H700 controller on Dell Rx10 ?

2012-03-10 Thread Sriram Narayanan
Hi folks: At work, I have an R510, and R610 and an R710 - all with the H700 PERC controller. Based on experiments, it seems like there is no way to bypass the PERC controller - it seems like one can only access the individual disks if they are set up in RAID0 each. This brings me to ask some

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs-discuss mailing list opensolaris EOL

2013-02-16 Thread Sriram Narayanan
On Sat, Feb 16, 2013 at 10:17 PM, Edward Ned Harvey (opensolarisisdeadlongliveopensolaris) opensolarisisdeadlongliveopensola...@nedharvey.com wrote: In the absence of any official response, I guess we just have to assume this list will be shut down, right? So I guess we just have to move to