[zfs-discuss] ZFS in front of MD3000i

2011-10-24 Thread Ray Van Dolson
We're setting up ZFS in front of an MD3000i (and attached MD1000 expansion trays). The rule of thumb is to let ZFS manage all of the disks, so we wanted to expose each MD3000i spindle via a JBOD mode of some sort. Unfortunately, it doesn't look like the MD3000i this (though this[1] post seems to

Re: [zfs-discuss] File contents changed with no ZFS error

2011-10-24 Thread Robert Watzlavick
On Oct 24, 2011, at 9:42, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: > > I would suggest finding a way to connect the external disks directly to the > ZFS server, and start using zfs send instead. > Since these were my offsite backups I was using Truecrypt which drove the use of ext3 and Linux. Also I wanted

Re: [zfs-discuss] File contents changed with no ZFS error

2011-10-24 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
> From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- > boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Robert Watzlavick > > I have two external USB hard drives > that I use to back up the contents of the ZFS raidz on alternating > months. The USB hard drives use EXT3 so they are connected to a

Re: [zfs-discuss] FS Reliability WAS: about btrfs and zfs

2011-10-24 Thread Paul Kraus
On Sat, Oct 22, 2011 at 12:36 AM, Paul Kraus wrote: > Recently someone posted to this list of that _exact_ situation, they loaded > an OS to a pair of drives while a pair of different drives containing an OS > were still attached. The zpool on the first pair ended up not being able to > be import

Re: [zfs-discuss] File contents changed with no ZFS error

2011-10-24 Thread Paul Kraus
On Sat, Oct 22, 2011 at 12:27 PM, Robert Watzlavick wrote: > What failure scenario could have caused this?  The file was obviously > initially good on the raidz because it got backed up to the USB drive and > that matches the "good" version from the web. I ran into a similar "failure" with a

Re: [zfs-discuss] File contents changed with no ZFS error

2011-10-24 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
> From: Robert Watzlavick [mailto:rob...@watzlavick.com] > Sent: Sunday, October 23, 2011 4:36 PM > > Now on to find out why the 3 Acronis Backup files got modified. This is > good news so far... I expect you'll find the same thing for Acronis. Acronis updates those individual files to make the

Re: [zfs-discuss] Alternatives to NFS for sharing ZFS

2011-10-24 Thread Jim Klimov
2011-10-24 12:49, Humberto N. Castejon Martinez пишет: Hi, I would like to share my ZFS filesystem over the network and make it in addition fault tolerant. I am out after performance and fault tolerance, but I do not want to miss the advantages of deduplication, cloning and snapshoting offere

Re: [zfs-discuss] File contents changed with no ZFS error

2011-10-24 Thread Garrett D'Amore
You're using an *old* version of both OpenSolaris and zpool. There have been a few corruption bugs fixed since then. I'd recommend updating. - Garrett On Oct 22, 2011, at 9:27 AM, Robert Watzlavick wrote: > I've noticed something strange over the past few months with four files on my

[zfs-discuss] Alternatives to NFS for sharing ZFS

2011-10-24 Thread Humberto N. Castejon Martinez
Hi, I would like to share my ZFS filesystem over the network and make it in addition fault tolerant. I am out after performance and fault tolerance, but I do not want to miss the advantages of deduplication, cloning and snapshoting offered by ZFS. I have read something about Lustre being integrate