[zfs-discuss] ZFS Inexpensive SATA Whitebox

2006-10-10 Thread clockwork
All, So I have started working with Solaris 10 at work a bit (I'm a Linux guy by trade) and I have a dying nfs box at home. So the long and short of it is as follows: I would like to setup a SATAII whitebox that uses ZFS as its filesystem. The box will probably be very lightly used, streaming m

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS file system create/export question

2006-10-10 Thread Boyd Adamson
Please don't crosspost On 10/10/2006, at 11:22 PM, Luke Schwab wrote: I am wandering HOW ZFS ensures that a storage pool isn't imported by two machines at one time? Does it stamp the disks the hostID or hostName? Below is a snipplet from the ZFS Admin Guide. It appears that this can be ove

Re: [zfs-discuss] zpool import fails

2006-10-10 Thread Jan Hendrik Mangold
On Oct 10, 2006, at 11:03 AM, Jan Hendrik Mangold wrote:While trouble shooting a full-disk scenario I booted from DVD after adding two new disks. Still under DVD boot I created a pool from those two disks and moved iso images I had downloaded to the zfs filesystem. Next I fixed my grub, exported th

Re: [zfs-discuss] zpool import fails

2006-10-10 Thread Jan Hendrik Mangold
On Oct 10, 2006, at 11:13 AM, Marion Hakanson wrote:[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: While trouble shooting a full-disk scenario I booted from DVD after   addingtwo new disks. Still under DVD boot I created a pool from   those two disksand moved iso images I had downloaded to the zfs   filesystem. Next I fi

Re: [zfs-discuss] zpool import fails

2006-10-10 Thread Marion Hakanson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > While trouble shooting a full-disk scenario I booted from DVD after adding > two new disks. Still under DVD boot I created a pool from those two disks > and moved iso images I had downloaded to the zfs filesystem. Next I fixed > my grub, exported the zpool and reboot

Re: [zfs-discuss] zpool import fails

2006-10-10 Thread Jan Hendrik Mangold
On Oct 10, 2006, at 11:03 AM, Jan Hendrik Mangold wrote:While trouble shooting a full-disk scenario I booted from DVD after adding two new disks. Still under DVD boot I created a pool from those two disks and moved iso images I had downloaded to the zfs filesystem. Next I fixed my grub, exported th

[zfs-discuss] zpool import fails

2006-10-10 Thread Jan Hendrik Mangold
While trouble shooting a full-disk scenario I booted from DVD after adding two new disks. Still under DVD boot I created a pool from those two disks and moved iso images I had downloaded to the zfs filesystem. Next I fixed my grub, exported the zpool and rebooted.Now zpool import comes up empty. Ha

Re: [zfs-discuss] vdev_cache read ahead

2006-10-10 Thread Matthew Ahrens
Jeremy Teo wrote: Hello, I'm having problems tracking down where the code for performing readahed in vdev_cache is. Could someone give me a clue to where it is? usr/src/uts/common/fs/zfs/vdev_cache.c FYI, we're in the process of re-evaluating the utility of the vdev_cache. We hope to be abl

[zfs-discuss] vdev_cache read ahead

2006-10-10 Thread Jeremy Teo
Hello, I'm having problems tracking down where the code for performing readahed in vdev_cache is. Could someone give me a clue to where it is? Thanks! -- Regards, Jeremy ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: Re: Metadata corrupted

2006-10-10 Thread Eric Schrock
On Mon, Oct 09, 2006 at 11:08:14PM -0700, Matthew Ahrens wrote: > Siegfried Nikolaivich wrote: > >>zdb -l /dev/dsk/c0t1d0 > > > >Sorry for posting again, but I think you might have meant > >/dev/dsk/c0t1d0s0 there. The only difference between the following > >outputs is the guid for each device. >

[zfs-discuss] Solaris 10 / ZFS file system major/minor number

2006-10-10 Thread Luke Schwab
Hi, In migrating from **VM to ZFS am I going to have an issue with Major/Minor numbers with NFS mounts? Take the following scenario. 1. NFS clients are connected to an active NFS server that has SAN shared storage between the active and standby nodes in a cluster. 2. The NFS clients are using t

[zfs-discuss] ZFS file system create/export question

2006-10-10 Thread Luke Schwab
Hi, I am wandering HOW ZFS ensures that a storage pool isn't imported by two machines at one time? Does it stamp the disks the hostID or hostName? Below is a snipplet from the ZFS Admin Guide. It appears that this can be overwritten with import -f. importing a pool that is currently in use b

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: A versioning FS

2006-10-10 Thread Bill Sommerfeld
On Fri, 2006-10-06 at 00:07 -0700, Richard L. Hamilton wrote: > Some people are making money on the concept, so I > suppose there are those who perceive benefits: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rational_ClearCase > > (I dimly remember DSEE on the Apollos; ...) I used both fairly extensively.