Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs boot - U6 kernel patch breaks sparc boot

2008-11-17 Thread Jens Elkner
On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 09:27:32AM -0800, Ed Clark wrote: Hi Ed, > > > 1. a copy of the 137137-09 patchadd log if you have > > http://iws.cs.uni-magdeburg.de/~elkner/137137-09/ > thanks for info - what you provided here is the patch pkg installation log, Yes, actually the only one, I have/coul

Re: [zfs-discuss] Fwd: [osol-announce] IMPT: Do not use SXCE Build 102

2008-11-17 Thread Gary Mills
On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 07:27:50AM +0200, Johan Hartzenberg wrote: > >Thank you for the details. A few more questions: Does booting into >build 102 do I zpool online on the root pool? And the above disable -t >is "temporary" till the next reboot - any specific reason for doing it >

Re: [zfs-discuss] Storage 7000

2008-11-17 Thread Daryl Doami
Just to clarify that last answer, we are planning on releasing SSDs for many of our existing systems and storage. They may be a little different than what's used in the 7000, but they're intended for the same purpose. Your sales rep should be able to give you a better idea of when, but they'r

Re: [zfs-discuss] Fwd: [osol-announce] IMPT: Do not use SXCE Build 102

2008-11-17 Thread george white
Does this affect a fresh install into a single, full disk pool? I just did this with nv102 on my laptop. So far, it seems to be working ... Unfortunately, this would be a pain to unwind. Is there a quick fix binary patch available? The only thing that appears to have broken is resume. Could t

Re: [zfs-discuss] Kernel Panic

2008-11-17 Thread Chris Gerhard
Richard Elling wrote: Chris Gerhard wrote: My home server running snv_94 is tipping with the same assertion when someone list a particular file: Failed assertions indicate software bugs. Please file one. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assertion_(computing) A colleague pointed out that it i

Re: [zfs-discuss] Storage 7000

2008-11-17 Thread Adam Leventhal
> Would be interesting to hear more about how Fishworks differs from > Opensolaris, what build it is based on, what package mechanism you are > using (IPS already?), and other differences... I'm sure these details will be examined in the coming weeks on the blogs of members of the Fishworks team

Re: [zfs-discuss] Storage 7000

2008-11-17 Thread Mika Borner
Adam Leventhal wrote: > Yes. The Sun Storage 7000 Series uses the same ZFS that's in OpenSolaris > today. A pool created on the appliance could potentially be imported on an > OpenSolaris system; that is, of course, not explicitly supported in the > service contract. > Would be interesting to he

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS space efficiency when copying files from another source

2008-11-17 Thread Tim
On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 3:33 PM, Will Murnane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 20:54, BJ Quinn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 1. Dedup is what I really want, but it's not implemented yet. > Yes, as I read it. greenBytes [1] claims to have dedup on their > system; you might inv

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS space efficiency when copying files from another source

2008-11-17 Thread Will Murnane
On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 20:54, BJ Quinn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 1. Dedup is what I really want, but it's not implemented yet. Yes, as I read it. greenBytes [1] claims to have dedup on their system; you might investigate them if you decide rsync won't work for your application. > 2. The onl

Re: [zfs-discuss] Storage 7000

2008-11-17 Thread Tim
On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 2:36 PM, Eric Schrock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 01:38:29PM -0600, Tim wrote: > > > > And this passage: > > "If there is a broken or missing disk, we don't let you proceed without > > explicit confirmation. The reason we do this is that once the st

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS space efficiency when copying files from another source

2008-11-17 Thread BJ Quinn
Thank you both for your responses. Let me see if I understand correctly - 1. Dedup is what I really want, but it's not implemented yet. 2. The only other way to accomplish this sort of thing is rsync (in other words, don't overwrite the block in the first place if it's not different), and i

Re: [zfs-discuss] Storage 7000

2008-11-17 Thread Eric Schrock
On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 01:38:29PM -0600, Tim wrote: > > And this passage: > "If there is a broken or missing disk, we don't let you proceed without > explicit confirmation. The reason we do this is that once the storage pool > is configured, there is no way to add those disks to the pool without >

Re: [zfs-discuss] Kernel Panic

2008-11-17 Thread Richard Elling
Chris Gerhard wrote: > My home server running snv_94 is tipping with the same assertion when someone > list a particular file: > Failed assertions indicate software bugs. Please file one. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assertion_(computing) -- richard > ::status > Loading modules: [ unix genu

Re: [zfs-discuss] Storage 7000

2008-11-17 Thread Tim
On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 1:14 PM, Eric Schrock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Yes, we support adding whole or half JBODs. We do not support adding > individual disks or arbitrarily populated JBODs. If you want the > ability to survive JBOD failure ("NSPF" in our storage config terms), > you mus

[zfs-discuss] Solved: grub prompt after aborted ufs to zfs live upgrade

2008-11-17 Thread Robert Buick
Thanks to Iain Curtain. 1. boot into single user mode from dvd, then su. 2. mount the rootpool as r/w on /a when prompted 3. run: installgrub /boot/grub/stage1 /boot/grub/stage2 /dev/rdsk/c0d0s0 4. reboot -- This message posted from opensolaris.org __

Re: [zfs-discuss] Storage 7000

2008-11-17 Thread Eric Schrock
On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 01:07:12PM -0600, Tim wrote: > > So that leads me to my second question then: If I buy a 7410 with a single > JBOD attached, can I easily attach a second JBOD and grow the pool? It > would seem the logical answer is "yes", since growing the pool would just > require addin

Re: [zfs-discuss] Storage 7000

2008-11-17 Thread Casper . Dik
>I'm not sure if this is the right place for the question or not, but I'll >throw it out there anyways. Does anyone know, if you create your pool(s) >with a system running fishworks, can that pool later be imported by a >standard solaris system? IE: If for some reason the head running fishworks

Re: [zfs-discuss] Storage 7000

2008-11-17 Thread Tim
On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 12:48 PM, Eric Schrock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yes, the on-disk format is compatible. You cannot, however, do the > reverse. Importing arbitrary Solaris pools (or former Fishworks pools) > into the Fishworks environment is not supported. While the on-disk > format i

Re: [zfs-discuss] Storage 7000

2008-11-17 Thread Eric Schrock
On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 12:35:38PM -0600, Tim wrote: > I'm not sure if this is the right place for the question or not, but I'll > throw it out there anyways. Does anyone know, if you create your pool(s) > with a system running fishworks, can that pool later be imported by a > standard solaris sys

Re: [zfs-discuss] Storage 7000

2008-11-17 Thread Adam Leventhal
On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 12:35:38PM -0600, Tim wrote: > I'm not sure if this is the right place for the question or not, but I'll > throw it out there anyways. Does anyone know, if you create your pool(s) > with a system running fishworks, can that pool later be imported by a > standard solaris sys

Re: [zfs-discuss] proper or best zpool command to use to resurrected a disk that has been temporarily disconnected

2008-11-17 Thread Miles Nordin
> "ah" == Andrew Hisgen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: ah> (If it helps for concreteness, let us say that the disk is ah> implemented as an iSCSI target for me, iSCSI targets do come back online automatically. then, they don't resilver, or don't resilver enough. If they were gone for t

[zfs-discuss] zpool errors - ZFS-8000-8A

2008-11-17 Thread Chris Cosby
One of my zpools (sol-10-u4-ga-sparc) has experienced some permanent errors. At this point, I don't care about the contents of the files in question, I merely want to cleanup the zpool. zpool clear doesn't seem to do anything at all. Any suggestions? # zpool status -v ccm01 pool: ccm01 state: O

[zfs-discuss] Storage 7000

2008-11-17 Thread Tim
I'm not sure if this is the right place for the question or not, but I'll throw it out there anyways. Does anyone know, if you create your pool(s) with a system running fishworks, can that pool later be imported by a standard solaris system? IE: If for some reason the head running fishworks were

[zfs-discuss] proper or best zpool command to use to resurrected a disk that has been temporarily disconnected

2008-11-17 Thread Andrew Hisgen
Consider the following scenario. A disk that is part of a zfs zpool and is also part of a mirror in that zpool becomes disconnected. Imagine that the disconnection last minutes or hours or days. Then imagine that the disk becomes reconnected, but, in a manner where hot-plug event does not cause

[zfs-discuss] Another ZFS panic apparently caused by an interrupted recieve

2008-11-17 Thread Ian Collins
I'll have to dig deeper, but I believe this panic was caused by the controlling terminal of an incremental receive via ssh exiting. The system is Solaris 10 Update 5. Nov 17 18:44:07 antaeus unix: [ID 10 kern.notice] Nov 17 18:44:07 antaeus genunix: [ID 802836 kern.notice] fe80019f7b50 ff

Re: [zfs-discuss] slice overlap error when creating pools

2008-11-17 Thread Vincent Boisard
So it's safe to use the pool after forcing its creation. Good. i was surprised to see it working properly in snv77 but not in snv101. Thank you, Vincent ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listin

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS space efficiency when copying files from another source

2008-11-17 Thread Will Murnane
On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 11:51, BJ Quinn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I believe rsync can do this, but some of the servers in question are Windows > servers and rsync/cygwin might not be an option. I'd check to make sure rsync has the correct behavior first, but there is a Windows-based rsync daemo

Re: [zfs-discuss] how to rebuild zfs root grub

2008-11-17 Thread Iain Curtain
Wow it was actually just a simple process: 1. boot into single user mode from dvd - the only copy I did have was a build 80 version, which was no good as I had recently upgraded the pools and it didn't recongise the rootpool (no real surprise there). so i needed to download and burn the latest

Re: [zfs-discuss] slice overlap error when creating pools

2008-11-17 Thread Mark J Musante
On Mon, 17 Nov 2008, Vincent Boisard wrote: > #zpool create pool1 c1d1s0 > invalid vdev specification > use '-f' to override the following errors: > /dev/dsk/c1d1s0 overlaps with /dev/dsk/c1d1s2 That's CR 6419310. Regards, markm ___ zfs-discuss mailin

Re: [zfs-discuss] slice overlap error when creating pools

2008-11-17 Thread Peter Schow
On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 06:33:46PM +0100, Vincent Boisard wrote: > Hi, > > As I was experimenting with snv101, I discovers that every attempt to create > a zpool gives this error: > > #zpool create pool1 c1d1s0 > invalid vdev specification > use '-f' to override the following errors: > /dev/dsk/c

[zfs-discuss] slice overlap error when creating pools

2008-11-17 Thread Vincent Boisard
Hi, As I was experimenting with snv101, I discovers that every attempt to create a zpool gives this error: #zpool create pool1 c1d1s0 invalid vdev specification use '-f' to override the following errors: /dev/dsk/c1d1s0 overlaps with /dev/dsk/c1d1s2 I am testing with vmware, so I used the same v

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS space efficiency when copying files from another source

2008-11-17 Thread Mertol Ozyoney
I think what you define IS dedup. You can search the archieves for dedup. Best regards Mertol Sent from a mobile device Mertol Ozyoney On 17.Kas.2008, at 18:51, BJ Quinn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We're considering using an OpenSolaris server as a backup server. > Some of the servers to

[zfs-discuss] ZFS Root Pool mount point

2008-11-17 Thread Vincent Boisard
Hi, is it safe to change the root pool mount point from /rpool to , let's say, /zpools/rpool. I'd like to have all my pools under one dir so that / stays clean. Thank you in advance, Vincent ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http

[zfs-discuss] ZFS space efficiency when copying files from another source

2008-11-17 Thread BJ Quinn
We're considering using an OpenSolaris server as a backup server. Some of the servers to be backed up would be Linux and Windows servers, and potentially Windows desktops as well. What I had imagined was that we could copy files over to the ZFS-based server nightly, take a snapshot, and only t

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS + OpenSolaris for home NAS?

2008-11-17 Thread Blake
IIRC, the 32-bit reference you see is only for the installer, which doesn't need to be 64-bit. The installer does detect 64-bit hardware during the install, and behaves accordingly. Blake On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 5:56 PM, Peter Bridge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just as a follow up. I went ahe

Re: [zfs-discuss] how to rebuild zfs root grub

2008-11-17 Thread Malachi de Ælfweald
The only time I have done it, I used installgrub to do it. Malachi On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 8:27 AM, Iain Curtain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I decided after upgrading to zfs boot to remove my old ufs slice, however > that had all the boot info on it. Any tips on how to re-create my grub and >

[zfs-discuss] how to rebuild zfs root grub

2008-11-17 Thread Iain Curtain
I decided after upgrading to zfs boot to remove my old ufs slice, however that had all the boot info on it. Any tips on how to re-create my grub and get working again? I presume the same steps as ufs, boot into single user, mount and recreate with installgrub command? Any tips gratefully rece

Re: [zfs-discuss] [fm-discuss] fmd wakeup disks in zpool

2008-11-17 Thread David Zhang
Tarik, thank you. I did some tests and that's the solution.. regards, Tobias Exner Tarik Soydan - Sun BOS Software schrieb: On 11/14/08 04:29, Tobias Exner wrote: Hi experts, I need a little help from your site to understand what's going on. I've got a SUN X4540 Thumper and se

Re: [zfs-discuss] [fm-discuss] fmd wakeup disks in zpool

2008-11-17 Thread Tobias Exner
Tarik, thank you. I did some tests and that's the solution.. regards, Tobias Exner Tarik Soydan - Sun BOS Software schrieb: > On 11/14/08 04:29, Tobias Exner wrote: >> Hi experts, >> >> I need a little help from your site to understand what's going on. >> >> >> I've got a SUN X4540 Thumper an

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs boot - U6 kernel patch breaks sparc boot

2008-11-17 Thread Ed Clark
hi, > We noticed following postpatch error while installing > patch 137137-09 on systems with STMS enabled (MPxIO) > and fiber channels systems disks: > > > Patch 137137-09 has been successfully installed. > See > /var/run/.patchSafeMode/root/var/sadm/patch/137137-09/ > log for details > Exe

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs boot - U6 kernel patch breaks sparc boot

2008-11-17 Thread Dominique Frise
We noticed following postpatch error while installing patch 137137-09 on systems with STMS enabled (MPxIO) and fiber channels systems disks: Patch 137137-09 has been successfully installed. See /var/run/.patchSafeMode/root/var/sadm/patch/137137-09/log for details Executing postpatch script..