Re: [zfs-discuss] Missing zpool devices, what are the options

2007-11-14 Thread David Bustos
Quoth Mark Ashley on Mon, Nov 12, 2007 at 11:35:57AM +1100: Is it possible to tell ZFS to forget those SE6140 LUNs ever belonged to the zpool? I know that ZFS will have probably put some user data on them, but if there is a possibility of recovering any of those zvols on the zpool it'd really

Re: [zfs-discuss] dfratime on zfs

2007-08-16 Thread David Bustos
Quoth Darren Dunham on Wed, Aug 15, 2007 at 12:50:33PM -0700: But a traditional filesystem isn't going to write anything without a request. ZFS is constantly updating the pool/uberblock status the way things currently work. So even if you choose to defer the atime update until much longer,

Re: [zfs-discuss] netbsd client can mount zfs snapshot dir but it never updates

2007-06-11 Thread David Bustos
Quoth Ed Ravin on Thu, Jun 07, 2007 at 09:57:52PM -0700: My Solaris 10 box is exporting a ZFS filesystem over NFS. I'm accessing the data with a NetBSD 3.1 client, which only supports NFS 3. Everything works except when I look at the .zfs/snapshot directory. The first time I list out the

Re: [zfs-discuss] Trying to understand zfs RAID-Z

2007-05-18 Thread David Bustos
Quoth Steven Sim on Thu, May 17, 2007 at 09:55:37AM +0800: Gurus; I am exceedingly impressed by the ZFS although it is my humble opinion that Sun is not doing enough evangelizing for it. What else do you think we should be doing? David ___

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: [security-discuss] Thoughts on ZFS Secure Delete - without using Crypto

2007-01-01 Thread David Bustos
Quoth Darren J Moffat on Thu, Dec 21, 2006 at 03:31:59PM +: Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote: I like the idea, I really do, but it will be s expensive because of ZFS' COW model. Not only file removal or truncation will call bleaching, but every single file system modification... Heh, well, if

Re: [zfs-discuss] raidz DEGRADED state

2006-12-05 Thread David Bustos
Quoth Thomas Garner on Thu, Nov 30, 2006 at 06:41:15PM -0500: I currently have a 400GB disk that is full of data on a linux system. If I buy 2 more disks and put them into a raid-z'ed zfs under solaris, is there a generally accepted way to build an degraded array with the 2 disks, copy the

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS on production servers with SLA

2006-09-15 Thread David Bustos
Quoth Darren J Moffat on Fri, Sep 08, 2006 at 01:59:16PM +0100: Nicolas Dorfsman wrote: Regarding system partitions (/var, /opt, all mirrored + alternate disk), what would be YOUR recommendations ? ZFS or not ? /var for now must be UFS since Solaris 10 doesn't not have ZFS root

Re: [zfs-discuss] howto reduce ?zfs introduced? noise

2006-07-14 Thread David Bustos
Quoth Thomas Maier-Komor on Thu, Jul 13, 2006 at 04:19:11AM -0700: after switching over to zfs from ufs for my ~/ at home, I am a little bit disturbed by the noise the disks are making. To be more precise, I always have thunderbird and firefox running on my desktop and either or both seem to