Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS ZIL/log on SSD weirdness

2009-11-19 Thread mbr
Darren J Moffat wrote: Meilicke wrote: I second the use of zilstat - very useful, especially if you don't want to mess around with adding a log device and then having to destroy the pool if you don't want the log device any longer. log devices can be removed as of zpool version 19. no

[zfs-discuss] Setting default user/group quotas?

2009-11-19 Thread Constantin Gonzalez
Hi, first of all, many thanks to those who made user/group quotas possible. This is a huge improvement for many users of ZFS! While presenting on this new future at the Munich OpenSolaris User Group meeting yesterday, a question came up that I couldn't find an answer for: Can you set a default

Re: [zfs-discuss] Setting default user/group quotas?

2009-11-19 Thread Darren J Moffat
Constantin Gonzalez wrote: Imagine a system that needs to handle thousands of users. Setting quota individually for all of these users would quickly become unwieldly, in a similar manner to the unwieldliness that having a filesystem for each user presented. The main reason for not having a

Re: [zfs-discuss] Setting default user/group quotas?

2009-11-19 Thread Constantin Gonzalez
Hi, IMHO, it would be useful to have something like: zfs set userquota=5G tank/home ... I think that would be great feature. thanks. I just created CR 6902902 to track this. I hope it becomes viewable soon here: http://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6902902

[zfs-discuss] ZFS GUI - where is it?

2009-11-19 Thread Paul
Hi there, my first post (yay). I have done much googling and everywhere I look I see people saying just browse to https://localhost:6789 and it is there. Well its not, I am running 2009.06 (snv_111b) the current latest stable release I do believe? This is my first major foray into the world of

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS GUI - where is it?

2009-11-19 Thread Jacob Ritorto
You need Solaris for the zfs webconsole, not OpenSolaris. Paul wrote: Hi there, my first post (yay). I have done much googling and everywhere I look I see people saying just browse to https://localhost:6789 and it is there. Well its not, I am running 2009.06 (snv_111b) the current latest

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS GUI - where is it?

2009-11-19 Thread Alexander Mueller
Hello Paul, am Donnerstag, 19. November 2009 um 12:59 hat Paul u.a. in mid:1183443158.191258632003651.javamail.tweb...@sf-app1 geschrieben: I have seen some mention of the SXCE version but apparently support for this finished last month? The community wrote: Note that CD media is no longer

Re: [zfs-discuss] SNV_125 MPT warning in logfile

2009-11-19 Thread Jeroen Roodhart
How did your migration to ESXi go? Are you using it on the same hardware or did you just switch that server to an NFS server and run the VMs on another box? The latter, we run these VMs over NFS anyway and had ESXi boxes under test already. we were already separating data exports from VM

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS send / recv to a lower ZFS version

2009-11-19 Thread Richard Elling
On Nov 19, 2009, at 7:39 AM, Mart van Santen wrote: Hi, We are using multiple opensolaris 06/09 and solaris 10 servers. Currently we are 'dumping' (incremental)backups to a backup server. I wonder if anybody knows what happens when I send/recv a zfs volume from version 15 to a (backup)

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS space usage

2009-11-19 Thread Richard Elling
On Nov 18, 2009, at 8:54 PM, Duncan Bradey wrote: Richard, Thanks for this, this explains why I am seeing this. I am using snapshots as I am replicating the data to other servers (via zfs send/recieve) is there another way to prevent this behaviour and still use snapshots? Or do I need

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS GUI - where is it?

2009-11-19 Thread Orvar Korvar
Have you tried webmin? I think it allows to handle ZFS pools and such in a simple manner? -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS ZIL/log on SSD weirdness

2009-11-19 Thread Richard Elling
On Nov 19, 2009, at 10:28 AM, Dushyanth Harinath wrote: Thanks a lot. This clears many of the doubts I had. I was actually trying to improve the performance of our email storage. We are using dovecot as the LDA on a set of RHEL boxes and the email volume seems to be saturating the write

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS space usage

2009-11-19 Thread Duncan Bradey
Thanks Richard, I've set the refreservation down and this has freed up space, I'm now setting up a process to monitor and update the refreservation attribute on zfs volumes used so we can thin provision yet keep some storage (half the remaining volume size) available to ensure that these

Re: [zfs-discuss] Recovering FAULTED zpool

2009-11-19 Thread Peter Jeremy
On 2009-Nov-18 08:40:41 -0800, Orvar Korvar knatte_fnatte_tja...@yahoo.com wrote: There is a new PSARC in b126(?) that allows to rollback to latest functioning uber block. Maybe it can help you? It's in b128 and the feedback I've received suggests it will work. I've been trying to get the

[zfs-discuss] uneven usage between raidz2 devices in storage pool

2009-11-19 Thread Erin
We had an existing zfs storage pool comprised of 2 raidz2 devices (or arrays) and we just added a 3rd raidz2 device of equal size to the first two. While making use of the extra capacity is mindlessly simple, we also want to take advantage of the performance benefits. How do we spread the

Re: [zfs-discuss] Comstar thin provisioning space reclamation

2009-11-19 Thread Brent Jones
On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 4:09 PM, Brent Jones br...@servuhome.net wrote: On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 10:32 AM, Ed Plese e...@edplese.com wrote: You can reclaim this space with the SDelete utility from Microsoft. With the -c option it will zero any free space on the volume.  For example:

[zfs-discuss] zpool on fdisk partition

2009-11-19 Thread Hua
I am building a system on a small x86 system by using Solaris 10 10/09. The system disk is 1TB. As Solaris only take 6GB, I plan to allocate the rest to a zpool for data. I want to keep system and data as separated as possible, therefore I tried a. Create a 10G Solaris partition for install

Re: [zfs-discuss] zpool on fdisk partition

2009-11-19 Thread Andrew Gabriel
Hua wrote: I am building a system on a small x86 system by using Solaris 10 10/09. The system disk is 1TB. As Solaris only take 6GB, I plan to allocate the rest to a zpool for data. I want to keep system and data as separated as possible, therefore I tried a. Create a 10G Solaris partition

Re: [zfs-discuss] zpool on fdisk partition

2009-11-19 Thread Miles Nordin
h == Hua hua_...@hotmail.com writes: h b. Create a 10G Solaris partition for system and an other h type partition of 990G for data. h So far the zpool on top of a fdisk partition seems working h fine. But I don't think this is usual/normal way yeah