Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS over multiple iSCSI targets

2008-09-06 Thread Miles Nordin
> "mp" == Matthew Plumb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: mp> how best to use the disk I have to ensure I have a safe backup mp> strategy? continue using rsync between a ZFS pool and an LVM2 pool. At the very least, have two ZFS pools. For ZFS over iSCSI, have some zpool-layer redundancy

Re: [zfs-discuss] Joshua P Martin is out of the office

2008-09-06 Thread Richard Elling
Yo Josh, when your confidentiality notice is more than 3x longer than your contribution to a discussion, you need to thump your corporate lawyers. -- richard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I will be out of the office starting 09/05/2008 and will not return until > 09/08/2008. > > I will respond to y

[zfs-discuss] Micro Memory NVRAM driver works; NFS writes and fast slogs

2008-09-06 Thread Kaya Bekiroğlu
On Sep 6, 2008, at 11:16 AM, Kaya Bekiroğlu wrote: > Thanks to Google Shopping I was able to order two of these cards from: > http://www.printsavings.com/01390371OP-discount-MICRO+MEMORY-MM5425--512MB-NVRAM-battery.aspx > > They appear to be in good working order, but unfortunately I am > unable

[zfs-discuss] ZFS over multiple iSCSI targets

2008-09-06 Thread Matthew Plumb
I currently use a Linux server w/ 8 disks (approx. 3Tb) as an NFS/SAMBA/netatalk fileserver. I have a matching Linux server as a backup, using nightly rsync jobs to keep the backup current. I use LVM, so replacing a disk is doable, but kind of a pain. Also, I really wanted to use encrypted disk

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZIL & NVRAM partitioning?

2008-09-06 Thread Tim
On Sat, Sep 6, 2008 at 5:55 PM, Albert Chin < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Sep 06, 2008 at 11:16:15AM -0700, Kaya Bekiroğlu wrote: > > > The big problem appears to be getting your hands on these cards. > > > Although I have the drivers now my first supplier let me down, and > > > while the

[zfs-discuss] Joshua P Martin is out of the office

2008-09-06 Thread Joshua . P . Martin
I will be out of the office starting 09/05/2008 and will not return until 09/08/2008. I will respond to your message when I return. CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This electronic message contains information which may be legally confidential and/or privileged and does not in any case represent a firm

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZIL & NVRAM partitioning?

2008-09-06 Thread Albert Chin
On Sat, Sep 06, 2008 at 11:16:15AM -0700, Kaya Bekiroğlu wrote: > > The big problem appears to be getting your hands on these cards. > > Although I have the drivers now my first supplier let me down, and > > while the second insists they have shipped the cards it's been three > > weeks now a

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZIL & NVRAM partitioning?

2008-09-06 Thread Kaya Bekiroğlu
> The big problem appears to be getting your hands on these cards. > Although I have the drivers now my first supplier let me down, and > while the second insists they have shipped the cards it's been three > weeks now and there's no sign of them. Thanks to Google Shopping I was able to ord

Re: [zfs-discuss] eWeek: corrupt file brought down FAA's antiquated IT system

2008-09-06 Thread Sean Sprague
Tim, > And let this be a lesson to all of you not to write code that is too > good. If you can't sell an "update" (patch) every 6 months, you'll be > out of business as well :D Updates are generally functionality enhancements, which may well be chargeable; whereas patches are problem-fixes; w

Re: [zfs-discuss] corrupt zfs stream? checksum mismatch

2008-09-06 Thread Richard Elling
Ross wrote: > Hey Richard, > > I've just seen that somebody else has been caught out by this. Do you think > it would be worth adding an RFE to add 'send to file' support to ZFS send? > No. Pipes are a foundation of UNIX and are much more flexible than a fixed file interface (as shown below.

Re: [zfs-discuss] Availability: ZFS needs to handle disk removal / driver failure better

2008-09-06 Thread Richard Elling
Ross wrote: > Hey folks, > > Well, there haven't been any more comments knocking holes in this idea, so > I'm wondering now if I should log this as an RFE? > go for it! > Is this something others would find useful? > Yes. But remember that this has a very limited scope. Basically it

Re: [zfs-discuss] [install-discuss] Will OpenSolaris and Nevada co-exist in peace on the same root zpool

2008-09-06 Thread Johan Hartzenberg
On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 2:06 PM, James Carlson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > Johan Hartzenberg writes: > > I am guessing the answer is YMMV depending on the differences in versions > > of, for example Firefox, Gnome, Thunderbird, etc, and based on how well > > these cope with settings that was change

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZIL & NVRAM partitioning?

2008-09-06 Thread Ross
There is an unsupported driver available though, I posted it to the forums a few months ago: http://opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?messageID=260281 The big problem appears to be getting your hands on these cards. Although I have the drivers now my first supplier let me down, and while the sec

Re: [zfs-discuss] Sun samba <-> ZFS ACLs

2008-09-06 Thread Sean McGrath
Paul B. Henson stated: < [snip] < < < I tried installing the Sun provided samba source code package to try to do < some debugging on my own, but it won't even compile, configure fails with: < < < checking for ldap_add_result_entry... no < configure: error: Active Directory support requires lda

Re: [zfs-discuss] resilver speed.

2008-09-06 Thread Ross
This might be a dumb question, but isn't that going to be a big problem on a busy pool? I'm planning to use ZFS as a sync NFS fileserver and I'm expecting a fair bit of traffic. Does that bug mean ZFS is going to have problems resilvering failed disks on my system? -- This message posted from

Re: [zfs-discuss] corrupt zfs stream? checksum mismatch

2008-09-06 Thread Ross
Hey Richard, I've just seen that somebody else has been caught out by this. Do you think it would be worth adding an RFE to add 'send to file' support to ZFS send? I'll be using data piped to file myself, and while I'm not worried about corruption myself, if ZFS send knows it's sending to a fi

Re: [zfs-discuss] SAS or SATA HBA with write cache

2008-09-06 Thread Ross
Hey Miles, Yes, you remembered right. If the zpool.cache file is there, Solaris will mount the pool fine on boot with or without the slog. So if you're running a slog, make sure you keep a backup of that file! I was told that work is being done to make zpool import work the same way so pools