Re: [zfs-discuss] "ZFS, Smashing Baby" a fake???

2008-11-28 Thread Miles Nordin
> "es" == Eric Schrock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: es> Are you running your experiments on build 101 or later? no. aside from that quick one for copies=2 im pretty bad about running well-designed experiments. and I do have old builds. I need to buy more hardware. It's hard to know how

Re: [zfs-discuss] cpio silently not copying files > 2GB -- seriously!?

2008-11-28 Thread Joerg Schilling
dick hoogendijk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > And in the meantime the solution to the broken cpio command like this: > > cd /backup > find . -depth -print | cpio -pdmvu /pool > > What would be the correct pax syntax? star fs=128m -copy -p -U -sparse -C /backup . /pool Jörg -- EMail:[EMAIL PROT

Re: [zfs-discuss] cpio silently not copying files > 2GB -- seriously!?

2008-11-28 Thread Joerg Schilling
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I've upped the priority, accepted the bug and moved it to the proper > category (utility/archiver). > > I've run cpio from all builds which changed cpio and the first > broken build is snv_81. At this time, 30% of the code have been changed. This was a real big change.

Re: [zfs-discuss] Best practice for swap and root pool

2008-11-28 Thread Chris Ridd
On 28 Nov 2008, at 00:07, Peter Brouwer, Principal Storage Architect wrote: > > > dick hoogendijk wrote: >> >> On Thu, 27 Nov 2008 12:58:20 + >> Chris Ridd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> >>> I'm not 100% convinced it'll boot if half the mirror's not there, >>> >> Believe me, it will (been

Re: [zfs-discuss] cpio silently not copying files > 2GB -- seriously!?

2008-11-28 Thread dick hoogendijk
On Fri, 28 Nov 2008 17:36:22 +0100 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >>Absolutely weird; the "cpio -p" doesn't use any intermediate archive > >>format and it should be able to copy files of any size. > > > >It works in Solaris 10u5 so it's broken later (Nevada?) at some > >point in time... > > I've uppe

Re: [zfs-discuss] cpio silently not copying files > 2GB -- seriously!?

2008-11-28 Thread Casper . Dik
> > >>Absolutely weird; the "cpio -p" doesn't use any intermediate archive >>format and it should be able to copy files of any size. > > >It works in Solaris 10u5 so it's broken later (Nevada?) at some point in >time... I've upped the priority, accepted the bug and moved it to the proper categ

Re: [zfs-discuss] Availability: ZFS needs to handle disk removal / driver failure better

2008-11-28 Thread Richard Elling
Ross Smith wrote: > On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 5:05 AM, Richard Elling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Ross wrote: >> >>> Well, you're not alone in wanting to use ZFS and iSCSI like that, and in >>> fact my change request suggested that this is exactly one of the things that >>> could be addre

Re: [zfs-discuss] cpio silently not copying files > 2GB -- seriously!?

2008-11-28 Thread Casper . Dik
>Absolutely weird; the "cpio -p" doesn't use any intermediate archive >format and it should be able to copy files of any size. It works in Solaris 10u5 so it's broken later (Nevada?) at some point in time... Casper ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs

Re: [zfs-discuss] 2008.11 rc2 weird zpool import behaviour

2008-11-28 Thread Peter Dennis - Sustaining Engineer
Udo Grabowski wrote: > Ok, your procedure differs slightly from what I've done: > zfs import -f rpool > zfs set mountpoint=/a rpool/ROOT/opensolaris > ls -l /a > > Setting mountpoint AND explicitly mounting indeed gives the files back ! > > I didn't mount it explicitly after setting mountpoint

Re: [zfs-discuss] cpio silently not copying files > 2GB -- seriously!?

2008-11-28 Thread Casper . Dik
>cd /backup >find . -depth -print | cpio -pdmvu /pool ><...lots of files listed> > blocks copied > >I've filed a bug report on it now. > >The limit is 4GB, not 2 as I believed last night. It's simple to=20 >reproduce: > >mkdir test >mkfile 4200m bigfile >echo bigfile | cpio -pdmvu test/ >echo $? >

Re: [zfs-discuss] cpio silently not copying files > 2GB -- seriously!?

2008-11-28 Thread Håkan Olsson
On Fri, 28 Nov 2008, Joerg Schilling wrote: Håkan Olsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I was just restoring a bunch of files from backup using find|cpio when I noticed that cpio does not copy files >2GB properly. The resulting files were "oddly" sized ( % 2GB, perhaps?). Even more alarming, cpio

Re: [zfs-discuss] 2008.11 rc2 weird zpool import behaviour

2008-11-28 Thread Udo Grabowski
Ok, your procedure differs slightly from what I've done: zfs import -f rpool zfs set mountpoint=/a rpool/ROOT/opensolaris ls -l /a Setting mountpoint AND explicitly mounting indeed gives the files back ! I didn't mount it explicitly after setting mountpoint to /a, since it used to be mounted auto

Re: [zfs-discuss] cpio silently not copying files > 2GB -- seriously!?

2008-11-28 Thread Joerg Schilling
Håkan Olsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I was just restoring a bunch of files from backup using find|cpio when I > noticed that cpio does not copy files >2GB properly. The resulting files > were "oddly" sized ( % 2GB, perhaps?). > > Even more alarming, cpio did not warn in any way about not co