Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS and Veritas Cluster Server

2007-11-04 Thread Dominic Kay
See maybe http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/zfs-discuss/2007-April/039419.html cheers /d 2007/11/4, Nathan Dietsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Hello All, > > I am working with a customer on a solution where ZFS looks very > promising. The solution requires disaster recovery and the chosen > tech

Re: [zfs-discuss] Yager on ZFS

2007-11-04 Thread can you guess?
Having gotten a bit tired of the level of ZFS hype floating around these days (especially that which Jonathan has chosen to associate with his spin surrounding the fracas with NetApp), I chose to respond to that article yesterday. I did attempt to be fair and would appreciate feedback if anythi

Re: [zfs-discuss] MySQL benchmark

2007-11-04 Thread can you guess?
Robin Harris, a ZFS fanboy, mentioned this benchmark on his blog, and since I'm not a great fan of fanboys (though to some degree I *am* a fan of ZFS) I responded in some detail (several times, since he's not easily disabused of a misconception once he's latched onto it): http://storagemojo.com

Re: [zfs-discuss] SXDE vs Solaris 10u4 for a home file server

2007-11-04 Thread Dick Davies
On 04/11/2007, Ima <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm setting up a home file server, which will mainly just consist of a ZFS > pool and access with SAMBA. I'm not sure if I should use SXDE for this, or > Sol 10u4. Does SXDE offer any ZFS improvements over 10u4 for this purpose? I'd be inclined

[zfs-discuss] SXDE vs Solaris 10u4 for a home file server

2007-11-04 Thread Ima
Hi everyone, I think this post may be slightly off topic and I apologize, but I'm not sure where the best place to ask is. I'm setting up a home file server, which will mainly just consist of a ZFS pool and access with SAMBA. I'm not sure if I should use SXDE for this, or Sol 10u4. Does SXDE

Re: [zfs-discuss] HAMMER

2007-11-04 Thread Peter Tribble
On 10/16/07, Dave Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > does anyone actually *use* compression ? i'd like to see a poll on how many > people are using (or would use) compression on production systems that are > larger than your little department catch-all dumping ground server. We don't use comp

Re: [zfs-discuss] Status of Samba/ZFS integration

2007-11-04 Thread Mike Gerdts
On 11/3/07, Razvan Corneliu VILT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sounds like the right solution to my problem in it solves a few problems, but > I am rather curious about how it would integrate with a potential Samba > server running on the same system (in case someone needs a domain controller > a

Re: [zfs-discuss] Status of Samba/ZFS integration

2007-11-04 Thread David Magda
On Nov 4, 2007, at 00:42, MC wrote: > ZFS has a smb server on the way, but there has been no real public > information about it released. Here is a sample of its existence: > http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/arc/caselog/ > 2007/560/;jsessionid=F4061C9308088852992B7DE83CD9C1A3 There'

Re: [zfs-discuss] Status of Samba/ZFS integration

2007-11-04 Thread Mark Shellenbaum
Rayson Ho wrote: > Does anyone know whether the following (copied from Wikipedia) is true or > not?? > > "Solaris has a project called CIFS client for Solaris, based on the > Mac OS X smbfs." > > Rayson > Yes, that is true. http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/smbfs/ -Mark _

Re: [zfs-discuss] Status of Samba/ZFS integration

2007-11-04 Thread Rayson Ho
Does anyone know whether the following (copied from Wikipedia) is true or not?? "Solaris has a project called CIFS client for Solaris, based on the Mac OS X smbfs." Rayson On Nov 4, 2007 9:34 AM, Mark Shellenbaum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Razvan Corneliu VILT wrote: > > Sounds like the righ

Re: [zfs-discuss] How to clear an old ZFS fault?

2007-11-04 Thread Eric Schrock
Yes, it should be safe to do so. - Eric On Sun, Nov 04, 2007 at 08:21:26AM -0600, Gary Mills wrote: > The last two faults shown by `fmdump' are: > > TIME UUID SUNW-MSG-ID > ... > Apr 27 18:51:52.7736 0c4bc0d7-59ff-6707-b306-8458c0e1626f SUNOS

Re: [zfs-discuss] Status of Samba/ZFS integration

2007-11-04 Thread Mark Shellenbaum
Razvan Corneliu VILT wrote: > Sounds like the right solution to my problem in it solves a few problems, but > I am rather curious about how it would integrate with a potential Samba > server running on the same system (in case someone needs a domain controller > as well as a fileserver). > > 1

[zfs-discuss] How to clear an old ZFS fault?

2007-11-04 Thread Gary Mills
The last two faults shown by `fmdump' are: TIME UUID SUNW-MSG-ID ... Apr 27 18:51:52.7736 0c4bc0d7-59ff-6707-b306-8458c0e1626f SUNOS-8000-1L May 02 16:09:04.4966 e6c41816-5505-c31f-f9da-d81cdac50e21 ZFS-8000-CS We had an incident in May when

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS and Veritas Cluster Server

2007-11-04 Thread Rob Windsor
Nathan Dietsch wrote: > Hello All, > > I am working with a customer on a solution where ZFS looks very > promising. The solution requires disaster recovery and the chosen > technology for providing DR of services in this organisation is Veritas > Cluster Server. > Has anyone implemented ZFS wi

Re: [zfs-discuss] Force SATA1 on AOC-SAT2-MV8

2007-11-04 Thread Rob Windsor
Eric Haycraft wrote: > The drives (6 in total) are external (eSATA) ones, so they have their own > enclosure that I can't open without voiding the warranty... I destroyed one > enclosure trying out ways to get it to work and learned that there was no way > to open them up without wrecking the ca

Re: [zfs-discuss] Recommended many-port SATA controllers for budget ZFS

2007-11-04 Thread Peter Schuller
> Your best bet is to call Tech Support and not Sales. I've found LSI > tech support to be very responsive to individual customers. Thanks. I'll try them. I eventually noticed you could actually get the number to them under the "LSI offices" category of their find-your-contact web form system w

Re: [zfs-discuss] Recommended many-port SATA controllers for budget ZFS

2007-11-04 Thread Peter Schuller
> Marvell controllers work great with solaris. > > Supermicro AOC-SAT2-MV8 is what I currently use. I bought it on > recommendation from this list actually. I think I paid 110$ for mine. Yeah I have one of these; and they're nice. Problem is (1) they are PCI-X (thus not compatible with all PCI s

Re: [zfs-discuss] zpool.cache

2007-11-04 Thread Pawel Jakub Dawidek
On Sat, Nov 03, 2007 at 05:58:17PM -0700, Denis wrote: > I am not seeing this behavior. But I forgot to mention that Iam using > FreeBSD. Maybe pawel missed something. I implemented something similar to devids in FreeBSD, but not everything supports it currently, and some can't support it at all

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs corruption w/ sil3114 sata controllers

2007-11-04 Thread grant beattie
Ed Saipetch wrote: > To answer a number of questions: > > Regarding different controllers, I've tried 2 Syba Sil 3114 controllers > purchased about 4 months apart. I've tried 5.4.3 firmware with one and > 5.4.13 with another. Maybe Syba makes crappy Sil 3114 cards but it's the > same one that

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS very slow under xVM

2007-11-04 Thread Martin
Mitchell The problem seems to occur with various IO patterns. I first noticed it after using ZFS based storage for a disk image for a xVM/Xen virtual domain, and then, while tracking ti down, observed that either "cp" of a large .iso disk image would reproduce the problem, and more later, a s