Re: [zfs-discuss] An Academic Sysadmin's Lament for ZFS ?

2007-09-09 Thread Stephen Usher
Mike Gerdts wrote: On 9/8/07, Richard Elling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Changing the topic slightly, the strategic question is: why are you providing disk space to students? For most programming and productivity (e.g. word processing, etc.) people will likely be better suited by having

Re: [zfs-discuss] (politics) Sharks in the waters

2007-09-09 Thread Joerg Schilling
W. Wayne Liauh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/new/private/wofs.ps.gz Jörg Hi Jörg, This link doesn't work. If possible, could you make it as an attachment? Thanks. I see no reason why it should not work, it works for me. Could you give more information?

Re: [zfs-discuss] An Academic Sysadmin's Lament for ZFS ?

2007-09-09 Thread Casper . Dik
Mounts under /net are derived from the filesystems actually shared from the servers; the automount daemon uses the MOUNT protocol to determine this. If you're looking at a path not already seen, the information will be fresh, but that's where the good news ends. We don't refresh this

Re: [zfs-discuss] An Academic Sysadmin's Lament for ZFS ?

2007-09-09 Thread David Magda
On Sep 7, 2007, at 18:25, Stephen Usher wrote: (I still have many-many machines on Solaris 8) I can see it being at least a decade until all the machines we have being at a level to handle NFSv4. If you need to have a Solaris 8 environment, but want to minimize the number of machines

Re: [zfs-discuss] I/O freeze after a disk failure

2007-09-09 Thread Gino
Richard, thank you for your detailed reply. Unfortunately an other reason to stay with UFS in production .. IMHO, maturity is the primary reason to stick with UFS. To look at this through the maturity lens, UFS is the great grandfather living on life support (prune juice and

Re: [zfs-discuss] (politics) Sharks in the waters

2007-09-09 Thread W. Wayne Liauh
Thanks to Tatjana, I now have a new version (decoupled from our OpenSolaris book SBN: 978-3-540-29236-4) that includes 5 more images. http://opensolaris.in-berlin.de/pdf/WoFS.pdf Or http://cdrecord.berlios.de/new/private/WoFS.pdf Jörg -- EMail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (home) Jörg

Re: [zfs-discuss] An Academic Sysadmin's Lament for ZFS ?

2007-09-09 Thread Alec Muffett
Mounts under /net are derived from the filesystems actually shared from the servers; the automount daemon uses the MOUNT protocol to determine this. If you're looking at a path not already seen, the information will be fresh, but that's where the good news ends. I know that, yes, but why

[zfs-discuss] pool is full and cant delete files

2007-09-09 Thread Luke Vanderfluit
Hi. I have a pool that is full. 100% capacity. I tried to rm -f files as root. The files dont get removed. What can I do to remedy this? Help please! Kind regards. Luke. -- Luke Vanderfluit Analyst / Web Programmer e3Learning.com.au 08 8221 6422

Re: [zfs-discuss] pool is full and cant delete files

2007-09-09 Thread Blake
Do you have any snapshots present? If so, perhaps you can destroy one to free up space? Is the whole pool full, or are you talking about a filesystem that has reached it's quota limit? Blake On 9/9/07, Luke Vanderfluit [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi. I have a pool that is full. 100% capacity.

Re: [zfs-discuss] pool is full and cant delete files

2007-09-09 Thread Anton B. Rang
At least three alternatives -- 1. If you don't have the latest patches installed, apply them. There have been bugs in this area which have been fixed. 2. If you still can't remove files with the latest patches, and you have a service contract with Sun, open a service request to get help. 3.

Re: [zfs-discuss] pool is full and cant delete files

2007-09-09 Thread Luke Vanderfluit
Hi Guys. Thanks very much for your help. I deleted some snapshots to make space. After that I could delete other files. I'm going to have to add capacity to the pool soon. Thanks again (-: Kind regards. Luke. Anton B. Rang wrote: At least three alternatives -- 1. If you don't have the

Re: [zfs-discuss] pool is full and cant delete files

2007-09-09 Thread Nathan Kroenert
And if there is a rubbish file somewhere, I *think* you should be able to cat /dev/null thatfile Which would free up it's blocks. Assuming you don't have snapshots... ;) Nathan. Anton B. Rang wrote: At least three alternatives -- 1. If you don't have the latest patches installed, apply