Re: [zfs-discuss] Best practice for boot partition layout in ZFS

2011-04-07 Thread sanjay nadkarni
On 04/ 6/11 01:05 PM, Richard Elling wrote: On Apr 6, 2011, at 12:01 PM, Linder, Doug wrote: Torrey Minton wrote: I'm sure someone has a really good reason to keep /var separated but those cases are fewer and far between than I saw 10 years ago. I agree that the causes and repercussions

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS send/receive to Solaris/FBSD/OpenIndiana/Nexenta VM guest?

2011-04-07 Thread Nikola M.
On 04/ 6/11 07:14 PM, Brandon High wrote: On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 12:38 PM, Joe Auty j...@netmusician.org mailto:j...@netmusician.org wrote: How about getting a little more crazy... What if this entire server temporarily hosting this data was a VM guest running ZFS? I don't

Re: [zfs-discuss] Assessing health/performance of individual drives in ZFS pool

2011-04-07 Thread Russ Price
On 04/05/2011 03:01 PM, Tomas Ögren wrote: On 05 April, 2011 - Joe Auty sent me these 5,9K bytes: Has this changed, or are there any other techniques I can use to check the health of an individual SATA drive in my pool short of what ZFS itself reports? Through scsi compat layer.. socker:~#

Re: [zfs-discuss] Assessing health/performance of individual drives in ZFS pool

2011-04-07 Thread Tomas Ögren
On 07 April, 2011 - Russ Price sent me these 0,7K bytes: On 04/05/2011 03:01 PM, Tomas Ögren wrote: On 05 April, 2011 - Joe Auty sent me these 5,9K bytes: Has this changed, or are there any other techniques I can use to check the health of an individual SATA drive in my pool short of what ZFS

[zfs-discuss] Update LDOM bootdisk (ZFS) from control domain

2011-04-07 Thread Arjun YK
Hello, I am trying to update files on LDOM boot disk from Control Domain, but I can't get it working fully. I have a setup that allows to quickly deploy LDOM guest domains. The Golden OS Image of guest domain boot disk is on a ZFS Volume. This ZFS Volume has been Snapshot and Cloned for the

[zfs-discuss] X4540 no next-gen product?

2011-04-07 Thread Chris Banal
While I understand everything at Oracle is top secret these days. Does anyone have any insight into a next-gen X4500 / X4540? Does some other Oracle / Sun partner make a comparable system that is fully supported by Oracle / Sun?

Re: [zfs-discuss] Assessing health/performance of individual drives in ZFS pool

2011-04-07 Thread Joe Auty
Tomas gren April 5, 2011 4:01 PM Through scsi compat layer.. socker:~# smartctl -a -d scsi /dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s0 smartctl 5.40 2010-10-16

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS send/receive to Solaris/FBSD/OpenIndiana/Nexenta VM guest?

2011-04-07 Thread Joe Auty
Thanks for all of this info guys, I'm still digesting it... My source computer is running Solaris 10 ZFS version 15. Does this mean that I'd be asking for trouble doing a zfs send back to this machine from any other ZFS machine running a version 15? I just want to

[zfs-discuss] ZFS on MIPS

2011-04-07 Thread Learner Study
Hello, I was thinking of moving (porting) ZFS into my linux environment (2.6.30sh kernel) on MIPS architecture i.e. instead of using native ext4/xfs file systems, I'd like to try out ZFS. I tried to google for it but couldn't find anything relevant. Has someone done this? Does it make sense? The

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS send/receive to Solaris/FBSD/OpenIndiana/Nexenta VM guest?

2011-04-07 Thread Brandon High
On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 4:01 PM, Joe Auty j...@netmusician.org wrote: My source computer is running Solaris 10 ZFS version 15. Does this mean that I'd be asking for trouble doing a zfs send back to this machine from any other ZFS machine running a version 15? I just want to make sure I

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS on MIPS

2011-04-07 Thread Toby Thain
On 07/04/11 7:53 PM, Learner Study wrote: Hello, I was thinking of moving (porting) ZFS into my linux environment (2.6.30sh kernel) on MIPS architecture i.e. instead of using native ext4/xfs file systems, I'd like to try out ZFS. I tried to google for it but couldn't find anything