Re: [zfs-discuss] Question - does a snapshot of root include child

2007-12-21 Thread Ross
Looking into this further, it looks like this be available in build 77, with zfs snapshot -r a new zfs send -r feature: http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?messageID=163689 http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/arc/caselog/2007/574/

Re: [zfs-discuss] Question - does a snapshot of root include child

2007-12-21 Thread Ross
Flexible is right. I knew Unix / Linux traditionally make it possible to do a lot from the command line, but having never used them I'd just assumed they were basically very similar to windows, but with a whole load of extra overhead because of all the commands you had to learn. But after

[zfs-discuss] Odd behavior of NFS of ZFS versus UFS

2007-12-21 Thread Matthew C Aycock
I have a test cluster running HA-NFS that shares both ufs and zfs based file systems. However, the behavior that I am seeing is a little perplexing. The Setup: I have Sun Cluster 3.2 on a pair of SunBlade 1000's connecting to two T3B partner groups through a QLogic switch. All four bricks of

Re: [zfs-discuss] 3510 Array and ZFS/Zones

2007-12-21 Thread Enda O'Connor ( Sun Micro Systems Ireland)
Richard Elling wrote: Morris Hooten wrote: I looked through the solarsinternals zfs best practices and not completly sure of the best scenario. ok, perhaps we should add some clarifications... I have a Solaris 10 6/06 Generic_125100-10 box with attached 3510 array and would like to

Re: [zfs-discuss] [zones-discuss] 3510 Array and ZFS/Zones

2007-12-21 Thread Enda O'Connor ( Sun Micro Systems Ireland)
Mangan wrote: Is this a release that can be downloaded from the website and will work on SPARC systems. The write up says it is for VMware. Am I missing something? Use Solaris 10 9/07. It has more than a year's worth of improvements and enhancements to Solaris. -- richard

Re: [zfs-discuss] [zones-discuss] 3510 Array and ZFS/Zones

2007-12-21 Thread Enda O'Connor ( Sun Micro Systems Ireland)
Mangan wrote: The 9/07 release appears to be for X86 only. The 8/07 release appears to be for Sparc or X86. The 9/07 release is also titled Express Developers Edition 9/07. Apparently not a release I can use. Thanks for the quick feedback. ok my mistake, getting confused by release

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs boot on Sparc?

2007-12-21 Thread Paul
Yes. No more fsck any-more, no more fsck any-more.. dudidelu... (the stranglers) What can early adaptors do to prepare their systems? Where are the docs? In the meantime, can I boot an UFS miniroot (from install DVD/CD) and then switch the running system to zfs root without beeing limited to a

Re: [zfs-discuss] aoc-sat2-mv8

2007-12-21 Thread Kent
Kent Watsen wrote: I've already ordered more cables for the aoc-sat2-mv8 and will report which ones work when I get them I've tried the following four cables: 1. CBL-SFF8087OCR-05M from http://store.3ware.com http://store.3ware.com/status.cfm?confirmation=200712172508AMC821 2.

Re: [zfs-discuss] [zones-discuss] 3510 Array and ZFS/Zones

2007-12-21 Thread Richard Elling
Enda O'Connor ( Sun Micro Systems Ireland) wrote: Mangan wrote: The 9/07 release appears to be for X86 only. The 8/07 release appears to be for Sparc or X86. The 9/07 release is also titled Express Developers Edition 9/07. Apparently not a release I can use. Thanks for the quick

Re: [zfs-discuss] Question - does a snapshot of root include child

2007-12-21 Thread Richard Elling
Ross wrote: Flexible is right. I knew Unix / Linux traditionally make it possible to do a lot from the command line, but having never used them I'd just assumed they were basically very similar to windows, but with a whole load of extra overhead because of all the commands you had to

Re: [zfs-discuss] Odd behavior of NFS of ZFS versus UFS

2007-12-21 Thread Richard Elling
Matthew C Aycock wrote: I have a test cluster running HA-NFS that shares both ufs and zfs based file systems. However, the behavior that I am seeing is a little perplexing. Since this is a purely synchronous test, suspect the ZIL.

Re: [zfs-discuss] Question - does a snapshot of root include child

2007-12-21 Thread Robin Bowes
Ross wrote: It's so far taken about a day to work out ZFS, Samba (and SWAT), vi, bash and SSH. Try b78 - it's got the new native CIFS (SMB) server. And it's integrated with zfs, so you can create a windows-accessible share as easily as: zfs create -o sharesmb=name=sharename poolname/zfsname

Re: [zfs-discuss] iSCSI initiator BUG

2007-12-21 Thread roland
i have a difficulty in understanding: you tell that the device get`s lost whenver the I/O error occurs. you tell that you cannot use ext3 or xfs, but reiser. with reiser, the device doesn`t get lost on I/O error ? that`s very weird. what`s your distro/kernel version ? This message posted