Re: [zfs-discuss] snapshots send/recv

2010-05-23 Thread Brandon High
On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 9:08 PM, Thomas Burgess wonsl...@gmail.com wrote: ok, so forcing just basically makes it drop whatever changes were made Thats what i was wondering...this is what i expected If you're doing 'zfs send -i @first tank/foo/b...@second | zfs recv -F newtank/foo/bar' then 'zfs

Re: [zfs-discuss] HDD Serial numbers for ZFS

2010-05-23 Thread Andreas Iannou
prtconf -v is your friend. Example: Genius! I've got all my serial numbers now :) Cheers, Andre Date: Sat, 22 May 2010 17:44:21 +1000 From: j...@opensolaris.org To: andreas_wants_the_w...@hotmail.com CC: zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org Subject: Re: [zfs-discuss] HDD Serial numbers

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS no longer working with FC devices.

2010-05-23 Thread Demian Phillips
On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 11:33 AM, Bob Friesenhahn bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us wrote: On Fri, 21 May 2010, Demian Phillips wrote: For years I have been running a zpool using a Fibre Channel array with no problems. I would scrub every so often and dump huge amounts of data (tens or hundreds of

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS no longer working with FC devices.

2010-05-23 Thread Richard Elling
On May 23, 2010, at 6:01 AM, Demian Phillips wrote: On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 11:33 AM, Bob Friesenhahn bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us wrote: On Fri, 21 May 2010, Demian Phillips wrote: For years I have been running a zpool using a Fibre Channel array with no problems. I would scrub every so

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS no longer working with FC devices.

2010-05-23 Thread Torrey McMahon
On 5/23/2010 11:49 AM, Richard Elling wrote: FWIW, the A5100 went end-of-life (EOL) in 2001 and end-of-service-life (EOSL) in 2006. Personally, I hate them with a passion and would like to extend an offer to use my tractor to bury the beast:-). I'm sure I can get some others to help. Can I

Re: [zfs-discuss] Tank zpool has tanked out :(

2010-05-23 Thread Andreas Iannou
This worked perfecto! deleted the zpool.cache, rebooted lost all my zpools and just reimported them and tank came back to me! Thanks, Andre Date: Fri, 21 May 2010 19:06:41 -0700 Subject: Re: [zfs-discuss] Tank zpool has tanked out :( From: bh...@freaks.com To:

[zfs-discuss] zfs replace multiple drives

2010-05-23 Thread Andreas Iannou
Is it safe or possible to do a zpool replace for multiple drives at once? I think I have one of the troublesome WD Green drives as replacing it has taken 39hrs and only reslivered 58Gb, I have another two I'd like to replace but I'm wondering whether I should do that now as the other is being

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs replace multiple drives

2010-05-23 Thread Erik Trimble
On 5/23/2010 5:00 PM, Andreas Iannou wrote: Is it safe or possible to do a zpool replace for multiple drives at once? I think I have one of the troublesome WD Green drives as replacing it has taken 39hrs and only reslivered 58Gb, I have another two I'd like to replace but I'm wondering whether

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs replace multiple drives

2010-05-23 Thread Andreas Iannou
Also, I don't have a feel for how replacing more than 1 drives in a RaidZ[23] affects resilver performance. Thats okay Erik, you've provided the information I need. This is a RAIDZ zpool, I think I'll wait and see how it goes before moving on. I cried seeing 673hrs remaining at 7%

[zfs-discuss] iSCSI confusion

2010-05-23 Thread Chris Dunbar - Earthside, LLC
Hello, I think I know the answer to this, but not being an iSCSI expert I am hoping to be pleasantly surprised by your answers. I currently use ZFS plus NFS to host a shared VMFS store for my VMware ESX cluster. It's easy to set up and high availability works great since all the ESX hosts see

Re: [zfs-discuss] iSCSI confusion

2010-05-23 Thread Tim Cook
Yes, it requires a clustered filesystem to share out a single LUN to multiple hosts. Vmfs3, however bad of an implementation, is in fact a clustered filesystem. I highly doubt nfs is your problem though. I'd take nfs over iscsi and vmfs any day. On May 23, 2010 8:06 PM, Chris Dunbar -

Re: [zfs-discuss] iSCSI confusion

2010-05-23 Thread Richard Elling
On May 23, 2010, at 6:05 PM, Chris Dunbar - Earthside, LLC wrote: Hello, I think I know the answer to this, but not being an iSCSI expert I am hoping to be pleasantly surprised by your answers. I currently use ZFS plus NFS to host a shared VMFS store for my VMware ESX cluster. It's easy

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs replace multiple drives

2010-05-23 Thread Brandon High
On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 5:00 PM, Andreas Iannou andreas_wants_the_w...@hotmail.com wrote: Is it safe or possible to do a zpool replace for multiple drives at once? I think I have one of the troublesome WD Green drives as replacing it has taken 39hrs and only reslivered 58Gb, I have another two

[zfs-discuss] confused

2010-05-23 Thread Thomas Burgess
did this come out? http://cr.opensolaris.org/~gman/opensolaris-whats-new-2010-05/ i was googling trying to find info about the next release and ran across this Does this mean it's actually about to come out before the end of the month or is this something else?

Re: [zfs-discuss] confused

2010-05-23 Thread Thomas Burgess
never mindjust found more info on this...shoudl have held back from asking On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 1:26 AM, Thomas Burgess wonsl...@gmail.com wrote: did this come out? http://cr.opensolaris.org/~gman/opensolaris-whats-new-2010-05/ i was googling trying to find info about the next