Re: [zfs-discuss] new install - when is zfs root offered? (snv_90)

2008-06-03 Thread A Darren Dunham
On Tue, Jun 03, 2008 at 05:56:44PM -0700, Richard L. Hamilton wrote: > How about SPARC - can it do zfs install+root yet, or if not, when? > Just got a couple of nice 1TB SAS drives, and I think I'd prefer to > have a mirrored pool where zfs owns the entire drives, if possible. > (I'd also eventuall

Re: [zfs-discuss] new install - when is zfs root offered? (snv_90)

2008-06-03 Thread Richard L. Hamilton
How about SPARC - can it do zfs install+root yet, or if not, when? Just got a couple of nice 1TB SAS drives, and I think I'd prefer to have a mirrored pool where zfs owns the entire drives, if possible. (I'd also eventually like to have multiple bootable zfs filesystems in that pool, corresponding

Re: [zfs-discuss] disk names?

2008-06-03 Thread James C. McPherson
Richard Elling wrote: > James C. McPherson wrote: >> Will Murnane wrote: >> >>> On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 4:35 PM, Benjamin Ellison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> My question: Where/how in the heck does one get a list of which devices are valid targets? >>> Run "format"

[zfs-discuss] bug id 6462690, SYNC_NV issue

2008-06-03 Thread Bill Sprouse
I'm pretty sure that this bug is fixed in Solaris 10U5, patch 127127-11 and 127128-11 (note: 6462690 sd driver should set SYNC_NV bit when issuing SYNCHRONIZE CACHE to SBC-2 devices). However, a test system with new 6140 arrays still seems to be suffering from lots of cache flushes. This is veri

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS problems with USB Storage devices

2008-06-03 Thread Bill McGonigle
On Jun 3, 2008, at 18:34, Paulo Soeiro wrote: > This test was done without the hub: FWIW, I bought 9 microSD's and 9 USB controller units for them from NewEgg to replicate the famous ZFS demo video, and I had problems getting them working with OpenSolaris (on VMWare on OSX, in this case). Af

Re: [zfs-discuss] [caiman-discuss] disk names?

2008-06-03 Thread Dave Miner
Richard Elling wrote: > James C. McPherson wrote: >> Will Murnane wrote: >> >>> On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 4:35 PM, Benjamin Ellison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> My question: Where/how in the heck does one get a list of which devices are valid targets? >>> Run "format"

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS problems with USB Storage devices

2008-06-03 Thread Paulo Soeiro
This test was done without the hub: On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 11:33 PM, Paulo Soeiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Did the same test again and here is the result: > > 1) > > zpool create myPool mirror c6t0d0p0 c7t0d0p0 > > 2) > > -bash-3.2# zfs create myPool/myfs > > -bash-3.2# zpool status > > pool:

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS problems with USB Storage devices

2008-06-03 Thread Paulo Soeiro
Did the same test again and here is the result: 1) zpool create myPool mirror c6t0d0p0 c7t0d0p0 2) -bash-3.2# zfs create myPool/myfs -bash-3.2# zpool status pool: myPool state: ONLINE scrub: none requested config: NAME STATE READ WRITE CKSUM myPool ONLINE 0 0 0 mirror ONLINE 0 0 0 c6t0

Re: [zfs-discuss] disk names?

2008-06-03 Thread Richard Elling
James C. McPherson wrote: > Will Murnane wrote: > >> On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 4:35 PM, Benjamin Ellison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> My question: Where/how in the heck does one get a list of which devices >>> are valid targets? >>> >> Run "format" and it'll list the devices that

Re: [zfs-discuss] Pause Solaris with ZFS compression busy by doing a cp?

2008-06-03 Thread roland
>Try running iostat in another ssh window, you'll see it can't even gather >stats every 5 seconds >(below is iostats every 5 seconds): >Tue May 27 09:26:41 2008 >Tue May 27 09:26:57 2008 >Tue May 27 09:27:34 2008 that should not happen! i`d call that a bug! how does vmstat behave with lzjb compr

Re: [zfs-discuss] disk names?

2008-06-03 Thread Rob
your "Type" "sata-port" will change to "disk" when you put a disk on it. like: 1 % cfgadm Ap_Id Type Receptacle Occupant Condition sata0/0::dsk/c2t0d0disk connectedconfigured ok sata0/1::dsk/c2t1d0cd/dvd connected

Re: [zfs-discuss] disk names?

2008-06-03 Thread Bill McGonigle
On Jun 3, 2008, at 16:50, Benjamin Ellison wrote: > "cfgadm" shows the following: > App_Id Type Receptacle Occupant Condition > sata0/0 sata-port empty unconfigured ok > sata0/1 sata-port empty unconfigured ok > sata0/2 sata-port empt

Re: [zfs-discuss] disk names?

2008-06-03 Thread James C. McPherson
Will Murnane wrote: > On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 4:35 PM, Benjamin Ellison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> My question: Where/how in the heck does one get a list of which devices are >> valid targets? > Run "format" and it'll list the devices that are available. If you > hot-plug a drive, you may need

Re: [zfs-discuss] disk names?

2008-06-03 Thread Benjamin Ellison
Thanks for the reply (Will's too - although I see it hasn't posted to the thread). "format" gets me a list of just my system drive. "devfsadm -c disk" just spins for a second, but doesn't change anything found under format. "cfgadm" shows the following: App_Id Type Receptacle

Re: [zfs-discuss] disk names?

2008-06-03 Thread Will Murnane
On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 4:35 PM, Benjamin Ellison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My question: Where/how in the heck does one get a list of which devices are > valid targets? Run "format" and it'll list the devices that are available. If you hot-plug a drive, you may need to run "devfsadm -c disk" f

Re: [zfs-discuss] disk names?

2008-06-03 Thread Bill McGonigle
On Jun 3, 2008, at 16:35, Benjamin Ellison wrote: > 've got 4 SATA drives in a hot-swap backplane hooked to my > motherboard... where do I look or what command should I use to > see what I should put after the "zpool create [poolname] raidz" bit? See if 'cfgadm' gives you a good list. You

[zfs-discuss] disk names?

2008-06-03 Thread Benjamin Ellison
Sorry for the newbie sounding post (well, I *am a zfs newb), but I've googled for a couple hours now and have yet to find a clear or specific answer... The zfs documentation indicates that it is very easy to make storage pools, using commands such as: zpool create tank raidz c1t0d0 c2t0d0 c3t0d0

Re: [zfs-discuss] Not automatically importing ZFS pools at boot

2008-06-03 Thread Chris Siebenmann
| On Nevada, use the 'cachefile' property. On S10 releases, use '-R /' | when creating/importing the pool. The drawback of '-R /' appears to be that it requires forcing the import after a system reboot *all* the time (unless you explicitly export the pool during reboot). - cks _

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Hardware Check, OS X Compatibility, NEWBIE!!

2008-06-03 Thread Richard Elling
Darryl wrote: > >From what i can understand (prtconf is gibberish to me :)), the other sys > >checks seem to recognize everything else, so seems to be all good with this > >board. > > Thank you for confirming this! > > ps. Not sure if this ok, but i came across a deal, i though i should pass >

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Hardware Check, OS X Compatibility, NEWBIE!!

2008-06-03 Thread Darryl
>From what i can understand (prtconf is gibberish to me :)), the other sys >checks seem to recognize everything else, so seems to be all good with this >board. Thank you for confirming this! ps. Not sure if this ok, but i came across a deal, i though i should pass on.. a 1 TB Samsung drive f

Re: [zfs-discuss] Not automatically importing ZFS pools at boot

2008-06-03 Thread eric kustarz
On Jun 3, 2008, at 11:16 AM, Chris Siebenmann wrote: > Is there any way to set ZFS on a system so that it will not > automatically import all of the ZFS pools it had active when it was > last > running? > > The problem with automatic importation is preventing disasters in a > failover situation

Re: [zfs-discuss] Not automatically importing ZFS pools at boot

2008-06-03 Thread Eric Schrock
On Nevada, use the 'cachefile' property. On S10 releases, use '-R /' when creating/importing the pool. - Eric On Tue, Jun 03, 2008 at 02:16:03PM -0400, Chris Siebenmann wrote: > Is there any way to set ZFS on a system so that it will not > automatically import all of the ZFS pools it had active

[zfs-discuss] Not automatically importing ZFS pools at boot

2008-06-03 Thread Chris Siebenmann
Is there any way to set ZFS on a system so that it will not automatically import all of the ZFS pools it had active when it was last running? The problem with automatic importation is preventing disasters in a failover situation. Assume that you have a SAN environment with the same disks visible

Re: [zfs-discuss] new install - when is zfs root offered? (snv_90)

2008-06-03 Thread Brandon High
On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 9:38 AM, Rich Teer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hmm, why's that? Also, is there an ETA for when ZFS root will be > offered in the GUI installer? (I recently installed Build 89 and > was surprised by the lack of ZFS pools after installation using > the GUI installer.) There

Re: [zfs-discuss] Shrinking a zpool?

2008-06-03 Thread Richard Elling
Nathan Galvin wrote: > When on leased equipment and previously using VxVM we were able to migrate > even a lowly UFS filesystems from one storage array to another storage array > via the evacuate process. I guess this makes us only the 3rd customer > waiting for this feature. > UFS cannot b

Re: [zfs-discuss] new install - when is zfs root offered? (snv_90)

2008-06-03 Thread Rich Teer
On Tue, 3 Jun 2008, Mark J Musante wrote: > On Tue, 3 Jun 2008, Gordon Ross wrote: > > > I'd really like to know: What are the conditions under which the > > installer will offer ZFS root? > > Only the text-based installer will offer it - not the GUI. Hmm, why's that? Also, is there an ETA fo

Re: [zfs-discuss] Shrinking a zpool?

2008-06-03 Thread Nathan Galvin
When on leased equipment and previously using VxVM we were able to migrate even a lowly UFS filesystems from one storage array to another storage array via the evacuate process. I guess this makes us only the 3rd customer waiting for this feature. It would be interesting to ask other users of

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Hardware Check, OS X Compatibility, NEWBIE!!

2008-06-03 Thread Volker A. Brandt
Hi Darryl! > VAB: Did you have any issues with this board, or was everything detected, i > believe reading in the HCL that the sound card was not detected... I did not have any issues. Here's what prtconf says about the sound: prtconf -vpc /dev/sound/0 pci1043,8249, instance #0 System so

[zfs-discuss] Bad results from importing a pool on two machines at once

2008-06-03 Thread Chris Siebenmann
As part of testing for our planned iSCSI + ZFS NFS server environment, I wanted to see what would happen if I imported a ZFS pool on two machines at once (as might happen someday in, for example, a failover scenario gone horribly wrong). What I expected was something between a pool with damage a

Re: [zfs-discuss] new install - when is zfs root offered? (snv_90)

2008-06-03 Thread Mark J Musante
On Tue, 3 Jun 2008, Gordon Ross wrote: > I'd really like to know: What are the conditions under which the > installer will offer ZFS root? Only the text-based installer will offer it - not the GUI. Regards, markm ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-disc

[zfs-discuss] new install - when is zfs root offered? (snv_90)

2008-06-03 Thread Gordon Ross
I'm trying a new install, creating a solaris partition in free space (p3) which follows Windows XP (p1) and Ubuntu Linux (p2). I want ZFS root, but the "interactive" installer (choice 1) on the snv_90 DVD does not offer me ZFS root. Anyone know why? or how to work-around the issue? When I did a ne

Re: [zfs-discuss] can anyone help me?

2008-06-03 Thread Hernan Freschi
no, weird situation. I unplugged the disks from the controller (I have them labeled) before upgrading to snv89. after the upgrade, the controller names changed. This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@openso

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Hardware Check, OS X Compatibility, NEWBIE!!

2008-06-03 Thread Darryl
> Darryl wrote: > > This thread really messed me up, posts dont follow > a chronological order... so sorry for all the extra > posts! > > That's what you get when you don't use working tools > like usenet news. > nntp for ever!!! > > ___ > zfs-discuss

[zfs-discuss] Cannot delete errored file

2008-06-03 Thread Ben Middleton
Hi, I can't seem to delete a file in my zpool that has permanent errors: zpool status -vx pool: rpool state: ONLINE status: One or more devices has experienced an error resulting in data corruption. Applications may be affected. action: Restore the file in question if possible. Other

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS panics solaris while switching a volume to read-only

2008-06-03 Thread Veltror
I am trying to get a commitment to get this fixed, if you have a server with a whole bunch of SAN attached disks and then use the internals for some sort of temp space if one of those el cheapo sas disks dies it takes down the whole lot, not good. This problem is enought o prevent a roll out of

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Hardware Check, OS X Compatibility, NEWBIE!!

2008-06-03 Thread Thommy M.
Darryl wrote: > This thread really messed me up, posts dont follow a chronological order... > so sorry for all the extra posts! That's what you get when you don't use working tools like usenet news. nntp for ever!!! ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-di

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Project Hardware

2008-06-03 Thread Volker A. Brandt
> Timely discussion. I too am trying to build a stable yet inexpensive storage > server for my home lab [...] > Other options are that I build a whitebox or buy a new PowerEdge or Sun > X2200 etc If this is really just a lab storage server then an X2100M2 will be enough. Just get the minimum spe