[zfs-discuss] zpool list vs zfs list, size differs...

2009-02-07 Thread Johan Andersson
Hi, New to OpenSolaris and ZFS... Wondering about a size difference I see on my newly installed OpenSolaris system, Homebuilt AMD Phenom system with SATA3 disks... [code] jo...@krynn:~$ zpool list NAME SIZE USED AVAIL CAP HEALTH ALTROOT rpool 696G 7.67G 688G 1% ONLINE - zpool 2.72T 135K 2.72T

Re: [zfs-discuss] zpool list vs zfs list, size differs...

2009-02-07 Thread Johan Andersson
Tomas Ă–gren wrote: On 07 February, 2009 - Johan Andersson sent me these 1,5K bytes: Hi, New to OpenSolaris and ZFS... Wondering about a size difference I see on my newly installed OpenSolaris system, Homebuilt AMD Phenom system with SATA3 disks... [code] jo...@krynn:~$ zpool list NAME

Re: [zfs-discuss] Should I report this as a bug?

2009-02-07 Thread Kees Nuyt
On Wed, 04 Feb 2009 11:12:55 -0500, Kyle McDonald kmcdon...@egenera.com wrote: I jumpstarted my machine with sNV b106, and installed with ZFS root/boot. It left me at a shell prompt in the JumpStart environment, with my ZFS root on /a. I wanted to try out some things that I planned on scripting

Re: [zfs-discuss] Solved - a big THANKS to Victor Latushkin @ Sun / Moscow

2009-02-07 Thread Gino
FYI, I'm working on a workaround for broken devices. As you note, ome disks flat-out lie: you issue the synchronize-cache command, they say got it, boss, yet the data is still not on stable storage. Why do they do this? Because it performs better. Well, duh -- ou can make stuff

[zfs-discuss] Alternatives to increading the number of copies on a ZFS snapshot

2009-02-07 Thread Sriram Narayanan
How do I set the number of copies on a snapshot ? Based on the error message, I believe that I cannot do so. I already have a number of clones based on this snapshot, and would like the snapshot to have more copies now. For higher redundancy and peace of mind, what alternatives do

[zfs-discuss] A question on non-consecutive disk failures

2009-02-07 Thread Sriram Narayanan
From the presentation ZFS - The last word in filesystems, Page 22 In a multi-disk pool, ZFS survives any non-consecutive disk failures Questions: If I have a 3 disk RAIDZ with disks A, B and C, then: - if disk b fails, then will I be able to continue to read data if disks A and C are

Re: [zfs-discuss] Nested ZFS file systems are not visible over an NFS export

2009-02-07 Thread Sriram Narayanan
An update: I'm using VMWare ESX 3.5 and VMWare ESXi 3.5 as the NFS clients. I'm use zfs set sharenfs=on datapool/vmwarenfs to make that zfs file system accessible over NFS. -- Sriram On Sun, Feb 8, 2009 at 12:07 AM, Sriram Narayanan sriram...@gmail.com wrote: Hello: I have the following zfs

Re: [zfs-discuss] Alternatives to increading the number of copies on a ZFS snapshot

2009-02-07 Thread Mattias Pantzare
On Sat, Feb 7, 2009 at 19:33, Sriram Narayanan sri...@belenix.org wrote: How do I set the number of copies on a snapshot ? Based on the error message, I believe that I cannot do so. I already have a number of clones based on this snapshot, and would like the snapshot to have more copies

Re: [zfs-discuss] A question on non-consecutive disk failures

2009-02-07 Thread Frank Cusack
On February 8, 2009 12:04:22 AM +0530 Sriram Narayanan sri...@belenix.org wrote: From the presentation ZFS - The last word in filesystems, Page 22 In a multi-disk pool, ZFS survives any non-consecutive disk failures Questions: If I have a 3 disk RAIDZ with disks A, B and C, then: - if

Re: [zfs-discuss] A question on non-consecutive disk failures

2009-02-07 Thread Peter Tribble
On Sat, Feb 7, 2009 at 6:34 PM, Sriram Narayanan sri...@belenix.org wrote: From the presentation ZFS - The last word in filesystems, Page 22 In a multi-disk pool, ZFS survives any non-consecutive disk failures Questions: If I have a 3 disk RAIDZ with disks A, B and C, then: - if disk

Re: [zfs-discuss] [cifs-discuss] Permissions / ACL setting for top directory of CIFS export

2009-02-07 Thread David Dyer-Bennet
On Sat, February 7, 2009 14:32, Alan.M.Wright wrote: Also, does this end up taking up extra metadata space compared to not having to have an ACL entry for each file? No, ZFS only stores ACLs. It doesn't have or store a separate representation of the UNIX permissions bits. So I won't worry

Re: [zfs-discuss] [cifs-discuss] Permissions / ACL setting for top directory of CIFS export

2009-02-07 Thread Afshin Salek
David Dyer-Bennet wrote: On Sat, February 7, 2009 14:32, Alan.M.Wright wrote: Also, does this end up taking up extra metadata space compared to not having to have an ACL entry for each file? No, ZFS only stores ACLs. It doesn't have or store a separate representation of the UNIX permissions

Re: [zfs-discuss] Nested ZFS file systems are not visible over an NFS export

2009-02-07 Thread Richard Elling
This is not a ZFS question. It is an NFS question. For Solaris NFSv4 clients post-b77, they will follow the mounts, via a method called mirror mounts. For other NFS clients, the behaviour will be that which the developers implemented. Please consult the appropriate NFS client forum for your

[zfs-discuss] terabyte or terror-byte disk drives

2009-02-07 Thread Al Hopper
This is one of these Doctor - it hurts when I ... and the Doctor says then don't do that stories. Basically I installed a couple of 1Tb WD Black Caviar drives in a Sun x2200M2 1U server in a ZFS mirrored boot config - excellent drives - much faster than previous 7,200 RPM drives and the dual