[OpenIndiana-discuss] not all snapshots showing in windows previous versions.

2015-01-30 Thread John McEntee
I have a openindiana server that is used as a windows share. Users can recover files themselves using the previous versions feature within windows. The snapshots used to be managed by timesliderd and when a previous versions was listed on a directory (folder) it would list all the snapshots.

[OpenIndiana-discuss] how to stop a zfs resilver

2014-06-05 Thread John McEntee
I have a production system so I should have tried this at the weekend but is it a 3 way mirror across 7 vdevs (is that the right term), see below. I started of the resilver yesterday, but it is have too much of a performance penalty on of the of VMWARE windows machines. I tried to reduce the

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] how to stop a zfs resilver

2014-06-05 Thread John McEntee
Have you checked: Yes https://www.google.nl/#q=zfs+resilver+priority+openindianasafe=off None of those told me how to stop it in the background http://broken.net/uncategorized/zfs-performance-tuning-for-scrubs-and-resilvers/ This is where I got echo zfs_resilver_delay/w8 | mdb -kw echo

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] how to stop a zfs resilver

2014-06-05 Thread John McEntee
: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] how to stop a zfs resilver On 05/06/2014 12:05, John McEntee wrote: I have a production system so I should have tried this at the weekend but is it a 3 way mirror across 7 vdevs (is that the right term), see below. I started of the resilver yesterday, but it is have

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] how to stop a zfs resilver

2014-06-05 Thread John McEntee
zfs remove c1t5000CCA225C03FC0d0 This works on only inactive hot spares, cache, top-level, or log devices can be removed I have done a zfs detach tank c1t5000CCA225C03FC0d0 but the pool is still trying to resilver even to a missing device ( I suppose I could pull it out, may try that on

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] how to stop a zfs resilver

2014-06-05 Thread John McEntee
This is what we use in /etc/system : set zfs:zfs_resilver_delay = 0 set zfs:zfs_scrub_delay = 0 set zfs:zfs_top_maxinflight = 128 set zfs:zfs_resilver_min_time_ms = 5000 Resilver went down from 14 days for a 2 TB disk to 7 hours. Currently the backups overnight have a higher load that

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Simple zfs vs zpool space question.

2014-04-14 Thread John McEntee
[mailto:mich...@edition-software.de] Sent: 11 April 2014 15:59 To: Discussion list for OpenIndiana Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Simple zfs vs zpool space question. On Fri, 11 Apr 2014, John McEntee wrote: I have a zpool (3way mirror and striped across 21 disks), tank, that the zfs and zpool

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Simple zfs vs zpool space question.

2014-04-11 Thread John McEntee
I have a zpool (3way mirror and striped across 21 disks), tank, that the zfs and zpool commands differ slightly. # zpool list tank NAME SIZE ALLOC FREECAP DEDUP HEALTH ALTROOT tank 19.0T 14.5T 4.51T76% 1.00x ONLINE - # zfs list tank NAME USED AVAIL REFER MOUNTPOINT

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Simple zfs vs zpool space question.

2014-04-11 Thread John McEntee
-5461/ghbxs/ Thanks John -Original Message- From: Michael Hase [mailto:mich...@edition-software.de] Sent: 11 April 2014 15:59 To: Discussion list for OpenIndiana Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Simple zfs vs zpool space question. On Fri, 11 Apr 2014, John McEntee wrote: I have

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] ZFS pool layout - request for opinion

2014-02-26 Thread John McEntee
My best servers have 24 hot swap bays in a 4 U case (DIY build) using 3 x 8 port LSI cards. 3 drives 3 way mirror across the 3 controllers ,2 x 256GB ssd one spinning rust, for rpool, early days of SSD and was worried about reliability. Only 20Gb or so of the ssds is for the rpool the rest is

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Cannot upgrade from 148 to 151a8

2013-10-29 Thread John McEntee
-update     ~ Ken Mays       On Sunday, October 27, 2013 5:58 AM, John McEntee jmcen...@stirling-dynamics.com wrote: Trying to upgrade from verison 148 to the latest I get the following error. WARNING: pkg(5) appears to be out of date, and should be updated before running image-update

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Cannot upgrade from 148 to 151a8

2013-10-27 Thread John McEntee
Trying to upgrade from verison 148 to the latest I get the following error. WARNING: pkg(5) appears to be out of date, and should be updated before running image-update. Please update pkg(5) using 'pfexec pkg install pkg:/package/pkg' and then retry the image-update. But if I update pkg from

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] idmapd errors on cifs in kernel.

2013-09-18 Thread John McEntee
quickly to another DC until it gets one of the correct ones. Very ugly but it has the desired effect and has solve my problems. John -Original Message- From: John McEntee [mailto:jmcen...@stirling-dynamics.com] Sent: 10 September 2013 10:23 To: Discussion list for OpenIndiana Subject: Re

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] kernel CIFS stopped working today

2013-09-17 Thread John McEntee
Check your /var/svc/log/system-idmap:default.log I had the problem where restarting the idmap service would work. Turns out my OI box could not find out what site it was at so would use any, but couldn't talk to the remote ones fast even giving your symptom. John -Original Message-

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] idmapd errors on cifs in kernel.

2013-09-10 Thread John McEntee
You AD server is probably being slow, so request threads calling it all get stuck. Um, you may be right, we have many sites (correctly setup in site and services), 2 DCs at head office with the openindiana fileserver, but the thread creation refused - 40 threads currently active occurs only

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] 10GigE adapters for OI151a or later

2012-08-20 Thread John McEntee
I use Intel's X520-DA2 fine on OI 148 with included driver. Haven't tested 151a yet. -Original Message- From: Rich [mailto:rerc...@acm.jhu.edu] Sent: 20 August 2012 16:57 To: Discussion list for OpenIndiana Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] 10GigE adapters for OI151a or later Intel's

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Access to ZFS viz CIFS from windows regularly hangs.

2012-08-02 Thread John McEntee
I have an update on my running CIFS and windows saga. Getting samba installed and joined to the domain is a challenge and a half, and is still not authenticating (trying on a test server). What I have done is stop using a dns alias to connect to the OpenIndiana server. So whereas before I was

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Access to ZFS viz CIFS from windows regularly hangs.

2012-07-06 Thread John McEntee
On my home network I observed that when I turned a Windows XP host off a Windows 7 host declared that it lost access to the Samba service hosted from a Solaris 10 system. It was then able to reconnect to the Samba service on that Solaris 10 system even though the Windows XP host remained turned

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Access to ZFS viz CIFS from windows regularly hangs.

2012-06-13 Thread John McEntee
The first thing to verify is your network and network interface. Run continuous traffic and see if there are any hickups. You can use /usr/sbin/ping for testing with larger packets. Also check the log files under /var/adm and /var/log. Also check output of 'fmadm -ev' and 'fmadm faulty'.

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Access to ZFS viz CIFS from windows regularly hangs.

2012-06-13 Thread John McEntee
I had similar issues before I enabled TLER, and disabled the head parking on my WD Green drives. A quick Google shows some evidence of similar features on the 3TB Hitachis. I chose Hitachi because I didn't think they had this feature. I would have thought ZFS would have reported errors and

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] BTRFS for OI, anyone?

2012-05-09 Thread John McEntee
I think BTRFS on openindiana would be a distraction and not worth the effort at this point in time. At home I and trialling ZFS on linux (need linux for mythtv) and it works well. I have not tried BTRFS but there a few things I really like about ZFS and openindiana. 1.) The kernel cifs server

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] auto-snapshot replicate problems

2012-03-26 Thread John McEntee
not to create zfs snapshots by own crontab entry? Best regards, Milan On 14.03.2012 12:38, John McEntee wrote: I have a problem trying to keep a second fileserver in sync with the primary one. I have a script (auto-replicate) that I have slightly altered that basically checks the latest

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Which mobo allows 24 GB ram and ECC

2011-12-04 Thread John McEntee
Hoping to save any more googling and pawing thru specs etc by letting someone that knows just name motherboards that allow 24 gb max ram and have option for ECC memory too. I've looked at quite a few asus boards which seem to have ECC option more or less by default (unlike most others). But

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] CIFS Alias/Multiple connections

2011-10-21 Thread John McEntee
The thread I saw on opensolaris is here http://opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=139077tstart=0 But the description is below. I can't speak to why you don't see this problem with build 134, but I believe it's covered by 7012679 Configurable bypass for vcnumber zero which is fixed in

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] CIFS Alias/Multiple connections

2011-10-20 Thread John McEntee
I saw a comment it was fixed in Opensolaris snv_161 (I think) but you can't get that. It seems to work for me in OI 148, but I haven't tested it extensively yet, but opening 2 windows on two different aliases work. John -Original Message- From: Jonathan Leafty

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] BAD WD drives - defective by design?

2011-08-29 Thread John McEntee
the WD drives have a what WD call TLER, that is a setting that defines how long the drive trys to read a bad sector before giving up at returning an error. The raid edition does this almost instantly and the RAID hardware / ZFS can then decide what to do. The non RAID edition retries for a

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] reboot/shutdown commands (Was: Re: OI boot problem)

2011-03-28 Thread John McEntee
-Original Message- From: Svein Skogen (Listmail account) Sent: 28 March 2011 16:57 How would this affect those of us so confused by variants of BSD/SysVR4, that we need to check uname to remember the correct syntax for this particular box? Now, who in their right mind would suggest

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] 3TB disks for tank zpool? Can only use 2 TB.

2011-03-22 Thread John McEntee
I am currently using opensolaris snv_134 have just bought some 3 TB disks to upgrade a 8 disk mirror of 2 TB disks. I though this should just work as opensolaris can use EFI partiton tables, but giving zfs the whole unformatted disk results in the following partition table and pool size.

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] 3TB disks for tank zpool? Can only use 2 TB.

2011-03-22 Thread John McEntee
amd64 -Original Message- From: Toomas Soome [mailto:toomas.so...@mls.ee] Sent: 22 March 2011 12:27 To: Discussion list for OpenIndiana Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] 3TB disks for tank zpool? Can only use 2 TB. what does isainfo -k report? On 22.03.2011, at 14:24, John McEntee

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] 3TB disks for tank zpool? Can only use 2 TB.

2011-03-22 Thread John McEntee
I have not heard that any Solaris* can use disk/partition in zpool, larger then 2TB. Maybe you can try partitioning disk with 2+1TB I can find various comments about 3TB boot disks are not going to work and hints that 3TB data disk should be fine. I could not find any posts saying 3TB don't