Re: [zfs-discuss] cpio silently not copying files 2GB -- seriously!?

2008-11-28 Thread Joerg Schilling
Håkan Olsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was just restoring a bunch of files from backup using find|cpio when I noticed that cpio does not copy files 2GB properly. The resulting files were oddly sized (actual size % 2GB, perhaps?). Even more alarming, cpio did not warn in any way about not

Re: [zfs-discuss] 2008.11 rc2 weird zpool import behaviour

2008-11-28 Thread Udo Grabowski
Ok, your procedure differs slightly from what I've done: zfs import -f rpool zfs set mountpoint=/a rpool/ROOT/opensolaris ls -l /a Setting mountpoint AND explicitly mounting indeed gives the files back ! I didn't mount it explicitly after setting mountpoint to /a, since it used to be mounted

Re: [zfs-discuss] cpio silently not copying files 2GB -- seriously!?

2008-11-28 Thread Håkan Olsson
On Fri, 28 Nov 2008, Joerg Schilling wrote: Håkan Olsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was just restoring a bunch of files from backup using find|cpio when I noticed that cpio does not copy files 2GB properly. The resulting files were oddly sized (actual size % 2GB, perhaps?). Even more

Re: [zfs-discuss] cpio silently not copying files 2GB -- seriously!?

2008-11-28 Thread Casper . Dik
cd /backup find . -depth -print | cpio -pdmvu /pool ...lots of files listed huge number blocks copied I've filed a bug report on it now. The limit is 4GB, not 2 as I believed last night. It's simple to=20 reproduce: mkdir test mkfile 4200m bigfile echo bigfile | cpio -pdmvu test/ echo $? ls -l

Re: [zfs-discuss] 2008.11 rc2 weird zpool import behaviour

2008-11-28 Thread Peter Dennis - Sustaining Engineer
Udo Grabowski wrote: Ok, your procedure differs slightly from what I've done: zfs import -f rpool zfs set mountpoint=/a rpool/ROOT/opensolaris ls -l /a Setting mountpoint AND explicitly mounting indeed gives the files back ! I didn't mount it explicitly after setting mountpoint to /a,

Re: [zfs-discuss] cpio silently not copying files 2GB -- seriously!?

2008-11-28 Thread Casper . Dik
Absolutely weird; the cpio -p doesn't use any intermediate archive format and it should be able to copy files of any size. It works in Solaris 10u5 so it's broken later (Nevada?) at some point in time... Casper ___ zfs-discuss mailing list

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

2008-11-28 Thread Richard Elling
Ross Smith wrote: On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 5:05 AM, Richard Elling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ross wrote: Well, you're not alone in wanting to use ZFS and iSCSI like that, and in fact my change request suggested that this is exactly one of the things that could be addressed: The idea

Re: [zfs-discuss] cpio silently not copying files 2GB -- seriously!?

2008-11-28 Thread Casper . Dik
Absolutely weird; the cpio -p doesn't use any intermediate archive format and it should be able to copy files of any size. It works in Solaris 10u5 so it's broken later (Nevada?) at some point in time... I've upped the priority, accepted the bug and moved it to the proper category

Re: [zfs-discuss] cpio silently not copying files 2GB -- seriously!?

2008-11-28 Thread dick hoogendijk
On Fri, 28 Nov 2008 17:36:22 +0100 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Absolutely weird; the cpio -p doesn't use any intermediate archive format and it should be able to copy files of any size. It works in Solaris 10u5 so it's broken later (Nevada?) at some point in time... I've upped the priority,

Re: [zfs-discuss] Best practice for swap and root pool

2008-11-28 Thread Chris Ridd
On 28 Nov 2008, at 00:07, Peter Brouwer, Principal Storage Architect wrote: dick hoogendijk wrote: On Thu, 27 Nov 2008 12:58:20 + Chris Ridd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm not 100% convinced it'll boot if half the mirror's not there, Believe me, it will (been there done that). You

Re: [zfs-discuss] cpio silently not copying files 2GB -- seriously!?

2008-11-28 Thread Joerg Schilling
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've upped the priority, accepted the bug and moved it to the proper category (utility/archiver). I've run cpio from all builds which changed cpio and the first broken build is snv_81. At this time, 30% of the code have been changed. This was a real big change.

Re: [zfs-discuss] cpio silently not copying files 2GB -- seriously!?

2008-11-28 Thread Joerg Schilling
dick hoogendijk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And in the meantime the solution to the broken cpio command like this: cd /backup find . -depth -print | cpio -pdmvu /pool What would be the correct pax syntax? star fs=128m -copy -p -U -sparse -C /backup . /pool Jörg -- EMail:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS, Smashing Baby a fake???

2008-11-28 Thread Miles Nordin
es == Eric Schrock [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: es Are you running your experiments on build 101 or later? no. aside from that quick one for copies=2 im pretty bad about running well-designed experiments. and I do have old builds. I need to buy more hardware. It's hard to know how to get