Re: [zfs-discuss] zvol access rights - chown zvol on reboot / startup / boot

2012-11-16 Thread Brian Wilson
property, so the SMF service doesn't constantly > scan all the filesystems and volumes for their zfs properties. It just checks > the conf file and knows instantly which ones need to be chown'd. > > ___ > zfs-discuss mailing list > zf

Re: [zfs-discuss] LUN expansion choices

2012-11-13 Thread Brian Wilson
ing list > zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss -- --  --- Brian Wilson, Solaris SE, UW-Madison DoIT Room 3114 CS&S 608

Re: [zfs-discuss] LUN sizes

2012-10-29 Thread Brian Wilson
First I'd like to note that contrary to the nomenclature there isn't any one "SAN" product that all operates the same. There are a number of different vendor provided solutions that use a FC SAN to deliver luns to hosts, and they each have their own limitations. Forgive my pedanticism please.

Re: [zfs-discuss] Scenario sanity check

2012-07-11 Thread Brian Wilson
On 07/ 9/12 04:36 PM, Ian Collins wrote: On 07/10/12 05:26 AM, Brian Wilson wrote: Yep, thanks, and to answer Ian with more detail on what TruCopy does. TruCopy mirrors between the two storage arrays, with software running on the arrays, and keeps a list of dirty/changed 'tracks'

Re: [zfs-discuss] Scenario sanity check

2012-07-09 Thread Brian Wilson
On 07/06/12, Richard Elling wrote: First things first, the panic is a bug. Please file one with your OS supplier.More below... Thanks! It helps that it recurred a second night in a row. On Jul 6, 2012, at 4:55 PM, Ian Collins wrote: > On 07/ 7/12 11:29 AM, Brian Wilson wr

Re: [zfs-discuss] Scenario sanity check

2012-07-06 Thread Brian Wilson
On 07/ 6/12 04:17 PM, Ian Collins wrote: On 07/ 7/12 08:34 AM, Brian Wilson wrote: Hello, I'd like a sanity check from people more knowledgeable than myself. I'm managing backups on a production system. Previously I was using another volume manager and filesystem on Solaris, and

[zfs-discuss] Scenario sanity check

2012-07-06 Thread Brian Wilson
uns go read-only, but I could be wrong. Anyway, am I off my rocker? This should work with ZFS, right? Thanks! Brian -- ------- Brian Wilson, Solaris SE, UW-Madison DoIT Room 3114 CS&S608-263-8047 brian

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS and zpool for NetApp FC LUNs

2012-05-16 Thread Brian Wilson
___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss -- ------- Brian Wilson, Solaris SE, UW-Madison DoIT Room 3114 CS&S608-263-8047 brian.wil

Re: [zfs-discuss] Poor relative performance of SAS over SATA drives

2011-10-27 Thread Brian Wilson
n straight sequential IO, where on something more random I would bet they won't perform as well as they do in this test. The tool I've seen used for that sort of testing is iozone - I'm sure there are others as well, and I can't attest what's better or worse. cheers, B

Re: [zfs-discuss] about btrfs and zfs

2011-10-19 Thread Brian Wilson
to fix it with. I was still happy to be using ZFS, as a filesystem without a scrub/scan of some sort wouldn't have even noticed in my experience - I suspect btrfs would have if it's scan works similarly. cheers, Brian ___ zfs-discuss ma

Re: [zfs-discuss] about btrfs and zfs

2011-10-18 Thread Brian Wilson
On 10/18/11 11:46 AM, Mark Sandrock wrote: On Oct 18, 2011, at 11:09 AM, Nico Williams wrote: On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 9:35 AM, Brian Wilson wrote: I just wanted to add something on fsck on ZFS - because for me that used to make ZFS 'not ready for prime-time' in 24x7 5+ 9s uptime en

Re: [zfs-discuss] about btrfs and zfs

2011-10-18 Thread Brian Wilson
oit.wisc.edu 'I try to save a life a day. Usually it's my own.' - John Crichton --- -- --- Brian Wilson, Solaris SE, UW-Madison DoIT Room 3114 CS&S608-263-80

Re: [zfs-discuss] Wrong rpool used after reinstall!

2011-08-05 Thread Brian Wilson
e all my drives available. I cannot move these drives to any other box because they are consumer drives and my servers all have ultras. Most modern boards will be boot from a live USB stick. -- ------- Brian Wilson,

Re: [zfs-discuss] Solaris 10U8, Sun Cluster, and SSD issues.

2010-06-01 Thread Brian Wilson
On Jun 1, 2010, at 2:43 PM, Steve D. Jost wrote: Definitely not a silly question. And no, we create the pool on node1 then set up the cluster resources. Once setup, sun cluster manages importing/exporting the pool into only the active cluster node. Sorry for the lack of clarity.. not

Re: [zfs-discuss] Solaris 10U8, Sun Cluster, and SSD issues.

2010-06-01 Thread Brian Wilson
Silly question - you're not trying to have the ZFS pool imported on both hosts at the same time, are you? Maybe I misread, had a hard time following the full description of what exact configuration caused the scsi resets. On Jun 1, 2010, at 2:22 PM, Steve Jost wrote: Hello All, We are

[zfs-discuss] What are the rollback tools?

2009-07-19 Thread Brian Wilson
It's clear from some threads on this list that it IS possible to roll back a zpool to a previous state, and I seem to even remember reading someone was working on a tool or tools in that direction. Is that correct, is it possible to manually roll back a zpool for crash recovery purposes, if yo

[zfs-discuss] ZFS on partitions

2009-01-13 Thread Brian Wilson
Does creating ZFS pools on multiple partitions on the same physical drive still run into the performance and other issues that putting pools in slices does? ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/lis

Re: [zfs-discuss] Separate /var

2008-12-02 Thread Brian Wilson
- Original Message - From: Lori Alt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tuesday, December 2, 2008 11:19 am Subject: Re: [zfs-discuss] Separate /var To: Gary Mills <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org > On 12/02/08 09:00, Gary Mills wrote: > > On Mon, Dec 01, 2008 at 04:45:16PM -0700

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS with Traditional SAN

2008-08-21 Thread Brian Wilson
- Original Message - From: Robert Milkowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thursday, August 21, 2008 5:47 am Subject: Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS with Traditional SAN To: Aaron Blew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org > Hello Aaron, > > > Wednesday, August 20, 2008, 7:11:01 PM, y

Re: [zfs-discuss] zpool with RAID-5 from intelligent storage arrays

2008-06-14 Thread Brian Wilson
- Original Message - From: Brian Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Saturday, June 14, 2008 12:12 pm Subject: Re: [zfs-discuss] zpool with RAID-5 from intelligent storage arrays To: Bob Friesenhahn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org > > On Sat, 14 Jun 2

Re: [zfs-discuss] zpool with RAID-5 from intelligent storage arrays

2008-06-14 Thread Brian Wilson
> On Sat, 14 Jun 2008, zfsmonk wrote: > > > Mentioned on > > > http://www.solarisinternals.com/wiki/index.php/ZFS_Best_Practices_Guide > > > is the following: "ZFS works well with storage based protected LUNs > > > (RAID-5 or mirrored LUNs from intelligent storage arrays). However, > >

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS and powerpath

2007-07-17 Thread Brian Wilson
On Jul 16, 2007, at 6:06 PM, Torrey McMahon wrote: Darren Dunham wrote: If it helps at all. We're having a similar problem. Any LUN's configured with their default owner to be SP B, don't get along with ZFS. We're running on a T2000, With Emulex cards and the ssd driver. MPXIO seems

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS and powerpath

2007-07-13 Thread Brian Wilson
my perspective being mostly a SAN noob it's all hearsay. -- Sean M. Alderman 513.204.2704 -Original Message- From: Brian Wilson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 13, 2007 1:58 PM To: Alderman, Sean Cc: Peter Tribble; zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org Subject: Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS and powerpath

2007-07-13 Thread Brian Wilson
Hmm. Odd. I've got PowerPath working fine with ZFS with both Symmetrix and Clariion back ends. PowerPath Version is 4.5.0, running on leadville qlogic drivers. Sparc hardware. (if it matters) I ran one our test databases on ZFS on the DMX via PowerPath for a couple months until we switc