[zfs-discuss] Possible ZFS problem

2011-08-13 Thread andy thomas
but are there any other things I should take into consideration? It's not a major problem as the system is intended for storage and users are not supposed to go in and untar huge tarfiles on it as it's not a fast system ;-) Andy Andy Thomas, Time Domain Systems Tel: +44 (0

Re: [zfs-discuss] Possible ZFS problem

2011-08-13 Thread andy thomas
On Sat, 13 Aug 2011, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: On Sat, 13 Aug 2011, andy thomas wrote: However, one of our users recently put a 35 Gb tar.gz file on this server and uncompressed it to a 215 Gb tar file. But when he tried to untar it, after about 43 Gb had been extracted we noticed the disk usage

Re: [zfs-discuss] Possible ZFS problem

2011-08-13 Thread andy thomas
On Sat, 13 Aug 2011, Joerg Schilling wrote: andy thomas a...@time-domain.co.uk wrote: What 'tar' program were you using? Make sure to also try using the Solaris-provided tar rather than something like GNU tar. I was using GNU tar actually as the original archive was created on a Linux

[zfs-discuss] SUNWsmbs SUNWsmbskr for Sparc OSOL snv_134?

2011-12-18 Thread andy thomas
Does anyone know where I can still find the SUNWsmbs and SUNWsmbskr packages for the Sparc version of OpenSolaris? I wanted to experiment with ZFS/CIFS on my Sparc server but the ZFS share command fails with: zfs set sharesmb=on tank1/windows cannot share 'tank1/windows': smb

[zfs-discuss] Failing disk(s) or controller in ZFS pool?

2012-02-14 Thread andy thomas
RAIDz1 pools on this server but these are working fine. Andy - Andy Thomas, Time Domain Systems Tel: +44 (0)7866 556626 Fax: +44 (0)20 8372 2582 http://www.time-domain.co.uk ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Failing disk(s) or controller in ZFS pool?

2012-02-14 Thread andy thomas
On Tue, 14 Feb 2012, Richard Elling wrote: Hi Andy On Feb 14, 2012, at 10:37 AM, andy thomas wrote: On one of our servers, we have a RAIDz1 ZFS pool called 'maths2' consisting of 7 x 300 Gb disks which in turn contains a single ZFS filesystem called 'home'. Yesterday, using the 'ls

Re: [zfs-discuss] Server upgrade

2012-02-15 Thread andy thomas
On Wed, 15 Feb 2012, 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). One of my most vital servers is a Netra

Re: [zfs-discuss] Server upgrade

2012-02-16 Thread andy thomas
On Thu, 16 Feb 2012, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of andy thomas One of my most vital servers is a Netra 150 dating from 1997 - still going strong, crammed with 12 x 300 Gb disks and running Solaris 9

[zfs-discuss] Question about ZFS snapshots

2012-09-20 Thread andy thomas
I have a ZFS filseystem and create weekly snapshots over a period of 5 weeks called week01, week02, week03, week04 and week05 respectively. Ny question is: how do the snapshots relate to each other - does week03 contain the changes made since week02 or does it contain all the changes made

[zfs-discuss] ZFS best practice for FreeBSD?

2012-10-11 Thread andy thomas
According to a Sun document called something like 'ZFS best practice' I read some time ago, best practice was to use the entire disk for ZFS and not to partition or slice it in any way. Does this advice hold good for FreeBSD as well? I looked at a server earlier this week that was running

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS best practice for FreeBSD?

2012-10-12 Thread andy thomas
On Thu, 11 Oct 2012, Freddie Cash wrote: On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 2:47 PM, andy thomas a...@time-domain.co.uk wrote: According to a Sun document called something like 'ZFS best practice' I read some time ago, best practice was to use the entire disk for ZFS and not to partition or slice

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS best practice for FreeBSD?

2012-10-12 Thread andy thomas
On Thu, 11 Oct 2012, Richard Elling wrote: On Oct 11, 2012, at 2:58 PM, Phillip Wagstrom phillip.wagst...@gmail.com wrote: On Oct 11, 2012, at 4:47 PM, andy thomas wrote: According to a Sun document called something like 'ZFS best practice' I read some time ago, best practice was to use