Re: Re[2]: [zfs-discuss] HowTo: UPS + ZFS NFS + no fsync

2007-04-27 Thread Roch - PAE
Robert Milkowski writes: Hello Wee, Thursday, April 26, 2007, 4:21:00 PM, you wrote: WYT On 4/26/07, cedric briner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: okay let'say that it is not. :) Imagine that I setup a box: - with Solaris - with many HDs (directly attached). - use ZFS as

Re: Re[2]: [zfs-discuss] HowTo: UPS + ZFS NFS + no fsync

2007-04-27 Thread Roch - PAE
Wee Yeh Tan writes: Robert, On 4/27/07, Robert Milkowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Wee, Thursday, April 26, 2007, 4:21:00 PM, you wrote: WYT On 4/26/07, cedric briner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: okay let'say that it is not. :) Imagine that I setup a box: -

Re: [zfs-discuss] cow performance penatly

2007-04-27 Thread Roch - PAE
Chad Mynhier writes: On 4/27/07, Erblichs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ming Zhang wrote: Hi All I wonder if any one have idea about the performance loss caused by COW in ZFS? If you have to read old data out before write it to some other place, it involve disk seek.

Re: [zfs-discuss] HowTo: UPS + ZFS NFS + no fsync

2007-04-27 Thread Roch - PAE
cedric briner writes: You might set zil_disable to 1 (_then_ mount the fs to be shared). But you're still exposed to OS crashes; those would still corrupt your nfs clients. Just to better understand ? (I know that I'm quite slow :( ) when you say _nfs clients_ are you specifically

[zfs-discuss] Probability Failure Calculator

2007-04-27 Thread cedric briner
Hello ZFS community, I do not have a so strong love towards *probability*. And even less love when probability caracterize true, solid and tangible stuff that I've to administer. I start doing some math.. don't get scared : I'm not going to show you the little scribbles that I've done.

[zfs-discuss] Re: Re: ZFS disables nfs/server on a host

2007-04-27 Thread Ben Miller
I just threw in a truss in the SMF script and rebooted the test system and it failed again. The truss output is at http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~bmiller/zfs.truss-Apr27-2007 thanks, Ben This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing

Re: [zfs-discuss] am I completely insane, or will this work?

2007-04-27 Thread Luke Scharf
Manoj Joseph wrote: Brian Hechinger wrote: After having set my desktop to install (to a pair of 140G SATA disks that zfs is mirroring) at work, I was trying to skip the dump slice since in this case, no, I don't really want it. ;) Don't underestimate the usefulness of a dump device. You

[zfs-discuss] Re: Samba and ZFS ACL Question

2007-04-27 Thread Jeb Campbell
Just so I'm clear: You are waiting on the release of Samba 3.0.25 which allows vfs_* modules for ACLS. Then you will release vfs_zfsacl.c for Samba 3.0.25+ which would allow ACLS to work? Also I would love to beta test if needed -- I've been running Samba 3.0.25 from subversion just to try

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: Re: ZFS disables nfs/server on a host

2007-04-27 Thread Dennis Clarke
On 4/27/07, Ben Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just threw in a truss in the SMF script and rebooted the test system and it failed again. The truss output is at http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~bmiller/zfs.truss-Apr27-2007 324:read(7, 0x000CA00C, 5120) = 0 324:

Re: [zfs-discuss] Probability Failure Calculator

2007-04-27 Thread Richard Elling
cedric briner wrote: Hello ZFS community, I do not have a so strong love towards *probability*. And even less love when probability caracterize true, solid and tangible stuff that I've to administer. I start doing some math.. don't get scared : I'm not going to show you the little scribbles

Re: [zfs-discuss] Probability Failure Calculator

2007-04-27 Thread cedric briner
Richard Elling wrote: cedric briner wrote: Hello ZFS community, I do not have a so strong love towards *probability*. And even less love when probability caracterize true, solid and tangible stuff that I've to administer. I start doing some math.. don't get scared : I'm not going to show

Re: [zfs-discuss] cow performance penatly

2007-04-27 Thread Ming Zhang
On Fri, 2007-04-27 at 11:01 +0200, Roch - PAE wrote: Chad Mynhier writes: On 4/27/07, Erblichs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ming Zhang wrote: Hi All I wonder if any one have idea about the performance loss caused by COW in ZFS? If you have to read old data out

[zfs-discuss] ARC, mmap, pagecache...

2007-04-27 Thread Manoj Joseph
Hi, I was wondering about the ARC and its interaction with the VM pagecache... When a file on a ZFS filesystem is mmaped, does the ARC cache get mapped to the process' virtual memory? Or is there another copy? -Manoj ___ zfs-discuss mailing list

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs boot image conversion kit is posted

2007-04-27 Thread Malachi de Ælfweald
For Brian, et al: Thank you very much. I burned the DVD, and did some minor tweaking to the profile, and it is up and running (now to just n00b admin troubleshooting) For everyone else who is new to this and trying it out, a couple things I noticed: 1. Don't waste your time trying to format the

Re: [zfs-discuss] Scrubbing a zpool built on LUNs

2007-04-27 Thread Darren Dunham
I'm building a system with two Apple RAIDs attached. I have hardware RAID5 configured so no RAIDZ or RAIDZ2, just a basic zpool pointing at the four LUNs representing the four RAID controllers. For on-going maintenance, will a zpool scrub be of any benefit? If some problem is causing data

Re[2]: [zfs-discuss] Scrubbing a zpool built on LUNs

2007-04-27 Thread Robert Milkowski
Hello Darren, Saturday, April 28, 2007, 1:03:00 AM, you wrote: DD Also, in-pool metadata should be redundant (via ditto blocks). Errors DD in such data can be detected and repaired during a scrub. DD Because of ditto blocks, the in-pool metadata is duplicated (or DD triplicated). Since you

[zfs-discuss] hostid/hostname now stored on the label

2007-04-27 Thread eric kustarz
In order to prevent the so-called poor man's cluster from corrupting your data, we now store the hostid and verify it upon importing a pool. Check it out at: http://blogs.sun.com/erickustarz/entry/poor_man_s_cluster_end This is bug: 6282725 hostname/hostid should be stored in the label

[zfs-discuss] What tags are supported on a zvol?

2007-04-27 Thread Brian Gupta
I assume that a zvol has a vtoc. What tags are supported? Thanks, Brian ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] What tags are supported on a zvol?

2007-04-27 Thread Darren Dunham
I assume that a zvol has a vtoc. What tags are supported? The VTOC on a solaris disk is managed by the disk driver. Since there's no disk driver managing the zvol, there's no VTOC (unless you put one one there yourself). Conceptually it's very similar to a SVM metadevice. How would you want

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs boot image conversion kit is posted

2007-04-27 Thread Brian Hechinger
On Fri, Apr 27, 2007 at 02:44:02PM -0700, Malachi de ??lfweald wrote: For Brian, et al: Thank you very much. I burned the DVD, and did some minor tweaking to the profile, and it is up and running (now to just n00b admin troubleshooting) For everyone else who is new to this and trying it out,

Re: [zfs-discuss] FYI: X4500 (aka thumper) sale

2007-04-27 Thread Brian Hechinger
On Mon, Apr 23, 2007 at 01:56:53PM -0700, Richard Elling wrote: FYI, Sun is having a big, 25th Anniversary sale. X4500s are half price -- 24 TBytes for $24k. ZFS runs really well on a X4500. http://www.sun.com/emrkt/25sale/index.jsp?intcmp=tfa5101 I appologize for those not in the US

Re: [zfs-discuss] FYI: X4500 (aka thumper) sale

2007-04-27 Thread Dennis Clarke
On 4/23/07, Richard Elling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: FYI, Sun is having a big, 25th Anniversary sale. X4500s are half price -- 24 TBytes for $24k. ZFS runs really well on a X4500. http://www.sun.com/emrkt/25sale/index.jsp?intcmp=tfa5101 I appologize for those not in the US or UK and

[zfs-discuss] Re: ZFS disables nfs/server on a host

2007-04-27 Thread oliver soell
I seem to be having nfs server issues myself, on a fresh install of b62 with a mirrored root pool. I try and I try but my nfs/server process always reverts to disabled. I unfortunately have no ufs slices to try out a basic nfs configuration. No matter how I try and share out a directory or