Re: [zfs-discuss] Disk Concatenation

2008-09-23 Thread Aaron Blew
I actually ran into a situation where I needed to concatenate LUNs last week. In my case, the Sun 2540 storage arrays don't yet have the ability to create LUNs over 2TB, so to use all the storage within the array on one host efficiently, I created two LUNs per RAID group, for a total of 4 LUNs. T

Re: [zfs-discuss] Disk Concatenation

2008-09-23 Thread Robert Milkowski
Hello Aaron, Tuesday, September 23, 2008, 8:24:36 AM, you wrote: > I actually ran into a situation where I needed to concatenate LUNs last week.  In my case, the Sun 2540 storage arrays don't yet have the ability to create LUNs over 2TB, so to use all the storage within the array on one

Re: [zfs-discuss] Problem: ZFS export drive

2008-09-23 Thread Marcelo Leal
What was the configuration of that pool? It was a mirror, raidz, or just stripe? If was just stripe, and you loose one, you got problems... Leal. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http:

Re: [zfs-discuss] unable to share

2008-09-23 Thread Srinivas Chadalavada
Hi Michael, Sorry, Here is the info. Main thing I noticed is not able to start the nfs server. ech3-mes01.prod:schadala[561] ~ $ svcs -a |grep nfs disabled 19:43:31 svc:/network/nfs/server:default online 19:11:49 svc:/network/nfs/cbd:default online 19:11:49 svc:/netwo

Re: [zfs-discuss] Problem: ZFS export drive

2008-09-23 Thread Steve
Leal, Yes, it was stripe, so I have problems. There is really nothing I can do at this point, but luckily I've backed up my important data elsewhere, but it'll take awhile to get some of my other non-critical information back. Oh well, you win some, you lose some. It's all a learning experie

Re: [zfs-discuss] Disk Concatenation

2008-09-23 Thread A Darren Dunham
On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 08:56:39AM +0200, Nils Goroll wrote: >> That case appears to be about trying to get a raidz sized properly >> against disks of different sizes. I don't see a similar issue for >> someone preferring a concat over a stripe. > > I don't quite understand your comment. > > The q

[zfs-discuss] resilver being killed by 'zpool status' when root

2008-09-23 Thread Blake Irvin
is there a bug for the behavior noted in the subject line of this post? running 'zpool status' or 'zpool status -xv' during a resilver as a non-privileged user has no adverse effect, but if i do the same as root, the resilver restarts. while i'm not running opensolaris here, i feel this is a go

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS on Hitachi SAN, pool recovery

2008-09-23 Thread Vincent Fox
Just make SURE the other host is actually truly DEAD! If for some reason it's simply wedged, or you have lost console access but the hostA is still "live", then you can end up with 2 systems having access to same ZFS pool. I have done this in test, 2 hosts accessing same pool, and the result is

Re: [zfs-discuss] Greenbytes/Cypress

2008-09-23 Thread Jens Elkner
On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 01:04:34PM -0500, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > On Tue, 23 Sep 2008, Eric Schrock wrote: > > http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=73740&tstart=0 > > I must apologize for anoying everyone. When Richard Elling posted the > GreenBytes link without saying what it w

Re: [zfs-discuss] Greenbytes/Cypress

2008-09-23 Thread Brent Jones
On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 10:25 AM, Bob Friesenhahn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Today while reading EE Times I read an article about a startup company > named Greenbytes which will be offering a system called Cypress which > supports deduplication and arrangement of data to minimize power > consumpt

Re: [zfs-discuss] Greenbytes/Cypress

2008-09-23 Thread Eric Schrock
See: http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=73740&tstart=0 On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 12:25:59PM -0500, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > Today while reading EE Times I read an article about a startup company > named Greenbytes which will be offering a system called Cypress which > supports d

[zfs-discuss] Greenbytes/Cypress

2008-09-23 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
Today while reading EE Times I read an article about a startup company named Greenbytes which will be offering a system called Cypress which supports deduplication and arrangement of data to minimize power consumption. It seems that deduplication is at the file level. The product is initially

Re: [zfs-discuss] Greenbytes/Cypress

2008-09-23 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Tue, 23 Sep 2008, Eric Schrock wrote: > See: > > http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=73740&tstart=0 I must apologize for anoying everyone. When Richard Elling posted the GreenBytes link without saying what it was I completely ignored it. I assumed that it would be Windows-c

Re: [zfs-discuss] Greenbytes/Cypress

2008-09-23 Thread C. Bergström
Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > Today while reading EE Times I read an article about a startup company > named Greenbytes which will be offering a system called Cypress which > supports deduplication and arrangement of data to minimize power > consumption. It seems that deduplication is at the file le

Re: [zfs-discuss] Greenbytes/Cypress

2008-09-23 Thread Victor Latushkin
On 23.09.08 21:25, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > Today while reading EE Times I read an article about a startup company > named Greenbytes which will be offering a system called Cypress which > supports deduplication and arrangement of data to minimize power > consumption. It seems that deduplicatio

Re: [zfs-discuss] Greenbytes/Cypress

2008-09-23 Thread Richard Elling
Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > On Tue, 23 Sep 2008, Eric Schrock wrote: > > >> See: >> >> http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=73740&tstart=0 >> > > I must apologize for anoying everyone. When Richard Elling posted the > GreenBytes link without saying what it was I completely ig

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS on Hitachi SAN, pool recovery

2008-09-23 Thread Tim Haley
Vincent Fox wrote: > Just make SURE the other host is actually truly DEAD! > > If for some reason it's simply wedged, or you have lost console access but > the hostA is still "live", then you can end up with 2 systems having access > to same ZFS pool. > > I have done this in test, 2 hosts acces

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS on Hitachi SAN, pool recovery

2008-09-23 Thread Richard Elling
Tim Haley wrote: > Vincent Fox wrote: > >> Just make SURE the other host is actually truly DEAD! >> >> If for some reason it's simply wedged, or you have lost console access but >> the hostA is still "live", then you can end up with 2 systems having access >> to same ZFS pool. >> >> I have don

Re: [zfs-discuss] Greenbytes/Cypress

2008-09-23 Thread Kyle McDonald
Richard Elling wrote: > Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > >> On Tue, 23 Sep 2008, Eric Schrock wrote: >> >> >> >>> See: >>> >>> http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=73740&tstart=0 >>> >>> >> I must apologize for anoying everyone. When Richard Elling posted the >> Gre

Re: [zfs-discuss] Greenbytes/Cypress

2008-09-23 Thread Keith Bierman
On Sep 23, 2008, at 12:48 PM, Richard Elling wrote: > > So you admit that you didn't grok it? :-) > Dude poured in a big bag of gumballs, but they were de-duped, > so the gumball machine only had a few gumballs. > When my data is deduped that's a GoodThing (other than my unanswered query to th

Re: [zfs-discuss] resilver being killed by 'zpool status' when root

2008-09-23 Thread Miles Nordin
> "bi" == Blake Irvin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: bi> running 'zpool status' or 'zpool status -xv' bi> during a resilver as a non-privileged user has no adverse bi> effect, but if i do the same as root, the resilver restarts. I have this in my ZFS bug notes: From: Thomas Bleek <[

[zfs-discuss] ZFS with Fusion-IO?

2008-09-23 Thread Jignesh K. Shah
http://www.fusionio.com/Products.aspx Looks like a cool SSD to go with ZFS Has anybody tried ZFS with Fusion-IO storage? For that matter even with Solaris? -Jignesh -- Jignesh Shah http://blogs.sun.com/jkshah Sun Microsystems,Inc http://sun.com/postgresql

[zfs-discuss] zfs allow interaction with file system privileges

2008-09-23 Thread Paul B. Henson
So I've been playing with SXCE in anticipation of the release of S10U6 (which last I heard has been delayed until sometime in October :( ) seeing how I might integrate our identity management system and ZFS provisioning using a minimum privileges service account. I need to be able to create files

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS with Fusion-IO?

2008-09-23 Thread Bryan Wagoner
Last time I played with one of those, the problem was that it didn't have any drivers for Solaris. It's a PCIE device unlike something like the gigabyte I-Ram or Intel SSD or something. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs allow interaction with file system privileges

2008-09-23 Thread Darren J Moffat
Paul B. Henson wrote: > What would be the best way to allow the service account to chown the newly > created ZFS filesystem to the appropriate user? Right now I'm tentatively > thinking of making a small suid root binary only executable by the service > account which would take a username and chown