[zfs-discuss] FROSUG February Meeting Announcement (2/22/2007)

2007-02-08 Thread Jim Walker
This month's FROSUG (Front Range OpenSolaris User Group) meeting is on Thursday, February 22, 2007. Our presentation is "ZFS as a Root File System" by Lori Alt. In addition, Jon Bowman will be giving an OpenSolaris Update, and we will also be doing an InstallFest. So, if you want help installing a

[zfs-discuss] Overview (rollup) of recent activity on zfs-discuss

2007-02-08 Thread Eric Boutilier
For background on what this is, see: http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/message.jspa?messageID=24416#24416 http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/message.jspa?messageID=25200#25200 = zfs-discuss 01/16 - 01/31 = Size of all threads during per

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS multi-threading

2007-02-08 Thread johansen-osdev
> Would the logic behind ZFS take full advantage of a heavily multicored > system, such as on the Sun Niagara platform? Would it utilize of the > 32 concurrent threads for generating its checksums? Has anyone > compared ZFS on a Sun Tx000, to that of a 2-4 thread x64 machine? Pete and I are workin

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: The ZFS MOS and how DNODES are stored

2007-02-08 Thread Matthew Ahrens
Bill Moloney wrote: Thanks for the input Darren, but I'm still confused about DNODE atomicity ... it's difficult to imagine that a change that is made anyplace in the zpool would require copy operations all the way back up to the uberblock This is in fact what happens. However, these changes

Re: Re[2]: [zfs-discuss] Peculiar behavior of snapshot after zfs receive

2007-02-08 Thread Wade . Stuart
> Hello Wade, > > Thursday, February 8, 2007, 8:00:40 PM, you wrote: > > > > > >> > >> TW> Am I using send/recv incorrectly or is there something else > >> going on here that > >> TW> I am missing? > >> > >> > >> It's a known bug. > >> > >> umount and rollback file system on host 2. You should

Re: [zfs-discuss] Peculiar behaviour of snapshot after zfs receive

2007-02-08 Thread eric kustarz
On Feb 8, 2007, at 10:53 AM, Robert Milkowski wrote: Hello Trevor, Thursday, February 8, 2007, 6:23:21 PM, you wrote: TW> I am seeing what I think is very peculiar behaviour of ZFS after sending a TW> full stream to a remote host - the upshot being that I can't send an TW> incremental st

Re[2]: [zfs-discuss] Peculiar behavior of snapshot after zfs receive

2007-02-08 Thread Robert Milkowski
Hello Wade, Thursday, February 8, 2007, 8:00:40 PM, you wrote: >> >> TW> Am I using send/recv incorrectly or is there something else >> going on here that >> TW> I am missing? >> >> >> It's a known bug. >> >> umount and rollback file system on host 2. You should see 0 used space >> on a snapsh

Re[2]: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Degraded Disks

2007-02-08 Thread Robert Milkowski
Hello Kory, Thursday, February 8, 2007, 12:33:13 AM, you wrote: KW> I run the ZFS command and get this below. How do you fix a degraded KW> disk? KW> zpool replace moodle c1t3d0 KW> invalid vdev specification KW> use '-f' to override the following errors: KW> /dev/dsk/c1t3d0s0 is part of acti

Re: [zfs-discuss] Peculiar behavior of snapshot after zfs receive

2007-02-08 Thread Wade . Stuart
> > TW> Am I using send/recv incorrectly or is there something else > going on here that > TW> I am missing? > > > It's a known bug. > > umount and rollback file system on host 2. You should see 0 used space > on a snapshot and then it should work. Bug ID? Is it related to atime changes? > >

Re: [zfs-discuss] Peculiar behaviour of snapshot after zfs receive

2007-02-08 Thread Robert Milkowski
Hello Trevor, Thursday, February 8, 2007, 6:23:21 PM, you wrote: TW> I am seeing what I think is very peculiar behaviour of ZFS after sending a TW> full stream to a remote host - the upshot being that I can't send an TW> incremental stream afterwards. TW> What I did was this: TW> host1 is Sola

Re: [zones-discuss] Re: [zfs-discuss] Downsides to zone roots on ZFS?

2007-02-08 Thread Casper . Dik
>Yes but one needs to be able to see that menu in order to select >the correct item first. A chicken-and-egg situation! But the console redirection setting in the BIOS should address that, right? Casper ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensol

Re: [zones-discuss] Re: [zfs-discuss] Downsides to zone roots on ZFS?

2007-02-08 Thread Rich Teer
On Thu, 8 Feb 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I thought there were a grub "use ttya" and "use ttyb" line on the DVD? Yes but one needs to be able to see that menu in order to select the correct item first. A chicken-and-egg situation! Not that it matters so much for this case now, as I've hook

Re: [zones-discuss] Re: [zfs-discuss] Downsides to zone roots on ZFS?

2007-02-08 Thread Casper . Dik
>That's how I usually use the console on the X4200. However, that >arrangement doesn't work when one wants to (re)install Solaris. >Unless there's a way of telling the installer to use the serial >console while booting from DVD, rather than using the GUI? I thought there were a grub "use ttya"

[zfs-discuss] update of zfs boot support

2007-02-08 Thread Lori Alt
We've gotten a lot of questions lately about when we'll have an updated version of support for booting from zfs. We are aiming at a new version of this going in to build 60. New instructions for setting up this configuration will be made available at the same time. If build 60 turns out not t

[zfs-discuss] Peculiar behaviour of snapshot after zfs receive

2007-02-08 Thread Trevor Watson
I am seeing what I think is very peculiar behaviour of ZFS after sending a full stream to a remote host - the upshot being that I can't send an incremental stream afterwards. What I did was this: host1 is Solaris 10 Update 2 SPARC host2 is Solaris 10 Update 2 x86 host1 # zfs snapshot work/[E

Re: [zones-discuss] Re: [zfs-discuss] Downsides to zone roots on ZFS?

2007-02-08 Thread Rich Teer
On Thu, 8 Feb 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >Many thanks for answering my question. Hopefully my noisy X4200 > >will be installed in the data centre tomorrow (Thursday); I had > >a set back today while fighting with the Remote Console feature > >of ILOM 1.1.1 (i.e., it doesn't work). :-( > >

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: Advice on a cheap home NAS machine using ZFS

2007-02-08 Thread Luke Scharf
Dave Sneddon wrote: Can anyone shed any light on whether the actual software side of this can be achieved? Can I share my entire ZFS pool as a "folder" or "network drive" so WinXP can read it? Will this be fast enough to read/write to at DV speeds (25mbit/s)? Once the pool is set up and I have it

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: ZFS on PC Based Hardware for NAS?

2007-02-08 Thread Richard Elling
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I believe there is a write limit (commonly 10 writes) on CF and similar storage devices, but I don't know for sure. Apart from that I think it's a good idea. James C. McPherson As a consequence, the /tmp, /var, and swap could eventually be moved to the ZFS hard driv

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: ZFS on PC Based Hardware for NAS?

2007-02-08 Thread Wade . Stuart
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 02/08/2007 10:23:19 AM: > > I believe there is a write limit (commonly 10 > > writes) on CF and > > similar storage devices, but I don't know for sure. > > Apart from that > > I think it's a good idea. > > > > > > James C. McPherson > > As a consequence, the /t

[zfs-discuss] Re: ZFS on PC Based Hardware for NAS?

2007-02-08 Thread Wes Williams
> I believe there is a write limit (commonly 10 > writes) on CF and > similar storage devices, but I don't know for sure. > Apart from that > I think it's a good idea. > > > James C. McPherson As a consequence, the /tmp, /var, and swap could eventually be moved to the ZFS hard drives to gre

Re: [zones-discuss] Re: [zfs-discuss] Downsides to zone roots on ZFS?

2007-02-08 Thread Jerry Jelinek
Ivan Buetler wrote: Jerry, Thank you for your response. See my zonecfg of the named NGZ here: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ # zonecfg -z named export create -b set zonepath=/zpool/zones/named set autoboot=true add inherit-pkg-dir set dir=/lib end add inherit-pkg-dir set dir=/platform end add inherit-pkg-d

[zfs-discuss] Re: NFS share problem with mac os x client

2007-02-08 Thread Wes Williams
> In short - make sure your UID on Mac is enough to > access the files on > nfs (as it would be if you would try to access those > files locally). > Or perhaps you tried from user with uid=0 in which > case it's mapped to > nobody user by default. > > -- > Best regards, > Robert Exactly as Rober

Re: [zones-discuss] Re: [zfs-discuss] Downsides to zone roots on ZFS?

2007-02-08 Thread Jerry Jelinek
Ivan Buetler wrote: Is this true for OpenSolaris? My experience: I was trying to upgrade from "SunOS 5.11 snv_28" to "SunOS 5.11 snv_54" where my NGZ zone roots were set to a zfs mount point like below: NAME USED AVAIL REFER MOUNTPOINT zpool 93.8G 40.1G26

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS multi-threading

2007-02-08 Thread Casper . Dik
>With the CPU overhead imposed in checksum of blocks by ZFS, on a large >sequential write test, the CPU was heavily loaded in a test that I ran. >By turning off the checksum, the CPU load was greatly reduced. >Obviously, this caused a tradeoff in reliability for CPU cycles. What hardware platform

[zfs-discuss] ZFS multi-threading

2007-02-08 Thread Reuven Kaswin
With the CPU overhead imposed in checksum of blocks by ZFS, on a large sequential write test, the CPU was heavily loaded in a test that I ran. By turning off the checksum, the CPU load was greatly reduced. Obviously, this caused a tradeoff in reliability for CPU cycles. Would the logic behind Z

[zfs-discuss] Panic with "really out of space."

2007-02-08 Thread Roshan Perera
Hi All, I have a problem with Global Zone crashing along with the rest of the zones when a ZFS partition goes to 100% with the following funny messge (really out of space..) :-) It didn't leave the lying or joking out of space message though:-) Feb 8 10:39:35 ss44bsdvgza01 ^Mpanic[cpu1]/t

Re: [zfs-discuss] NFS share problem with mac os x client

2007-02-08 Thread Dick Davies
OSX *loves* NFS - it's a lot faster than Samba - but you need a bit of extra work. You need a user on the other end with the right uid and gid (assuming you're using NFSv3 - you probably are). Have a look at : http://number9.hellooperator.net/articles/2007/01/12/zfs-for-linux-and-osx-and-window

[zfs-discuss] Re: zfs crashing

2007-02-08 Thread Gino Ruopolo
Same problem here after some patching :((( 42GB free in a 4.2TB zpool We can't upgrade to U3 without planning it. Is there any way to solve the problem?? remove latest patches? Our uptime with ZFS is going very low ... thanks Gino This message posted from opensolaris.org ___

[zfs-discuss] Re: NFS share problem with mac os x client

2007-02-08 Thread Sergey
The setup below works fine for me. macmini:~ jimb$ mount | grep jimb ride:/xraid2/home/jimb on /private/var/automount/home/jimb (nosuid, automounted) macmini:~ jimb$ nidump fstab / | grep jimb ride:/xraid2/home/jimb /home/jimb nfs rw,nosuid,tcp 0 0 NFS server: Solaris 10 11/06 x86_64 + patches,

Re: [zones-discuss] Re: [zfs-discuss] Downsides to zone roots on ZFS?

2007-02-08 Thread Casper . Dik
>Many thanks for answering my question. Hopefully my noisy X4200 >will be installed in the data centre tomorrow (Thursday); I had >a set back today while fighting with the Remote Console feature >of ILOM 1.1.1 (i.e., it doesn't work). :-( Just ssh into it and use the serial console from within