Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS - how to determine which physical drive to replace

2009-12-12 Thread Ed Plese
at http://opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?messageID=416264, you can try viewing the disk serial numbers with cfgadm: cfgadm -al -s select=type(disk),cols=ap_id:info You may need to power down the system to view the serial numbers printed on the disks to match them up, but it beats guessing. Ed

Re: [zfs-discuss] Pool resize

2009-12-07 Thread Ed Plese
? An autoexpand property was added a few months ago for zpools. This needs to be turned on to enable the automatic vdev expansion. For example, # zpool set autoexpand=on bigpool Ed Plese ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http

Re: [zfs-discuss] Accidentally added disk instead of attaching

2009-12-07 Thread Ed Plese
that might be nice to see would be the before and after versions of zpool list, the zpool status, and what command could be run to reverse the change, or a warning if the change is irreversible like the case with zpool add. Ed Plese ___ zfs-discuss mailing

Re: [zfs-discuss] Accidentally added disk instead of attaching

2009-12-07 Thread Ed Plese
On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 4:32 PM, Ed Plese e...@edplese.com wrote: Would it be beneficial to have a command line option to zpool that would only preview or do a dry-run through the changes, but instead just display what the pool would look like after the operation and leave the pool unchanged

Re: [zfs-discuss] Comstar thin provisioning space reclamation

2009-11-17 Thread Ed Plese
You can reclaim this space with the SDelete utility from Microsoft. With the -c option it will zero any free space on the volume. For example: C:\sdelete -c C: I've tested this with xVM and with compression enabled for the zvol, but it worked very well. Ed Plese On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 12

Re: [zfs-discuss] Manual drive failure?

2009-11-11 Thread Ed Plese
or cache dev- ices. -tTemporary. Upon reboot, the specified physical device reverts to its previous state. Ed Plese On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 12:15 PM, Tim Cook t...@cook.ms wrote: So, I've done a bit of research and RTFM, and haven't found an answer

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS scalability in terms of file system count (or lack thereof) in S10U6

2008-10-19 Thread Ed Plese
on S10U3 the boot time for our X4500 was around 40 minutes. Any idea what your boot time is like with that many filesystems on the newer releases? Ed Plese ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS with Samba and the previous versions-tab under Windows explorer

2008-08-10 Thread Ed Plese
that there are actually changes between the snapshots. If there aren't any then the Previous Versions tab may not appear. Ed Plese ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] enterprise scale redundant Solaris 10/ZFS server providing NFSv4/CIFS

2007-09-21 Thread Ed Plese
the root preexec share option in smb.conf and an example is provided at the above URL. Ed Plese ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Zones on large ZFS filesystems

2007-03-29 Thread Ed Plese
root to a smaller disk? Set a quota (10G should work just fine) on the filesystem and then perform the zone install. Afterwards remove the quota. Ed Plese ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman

Re: [zfs-discuss] Samba ACLs en ZFS

2007-02-21 Thread Ed Plese
permissions or ACLs are respected even if Samba doesn't have support for the ACLs. The main thing that Samba support for ZFS ACLs will bring is the ability to view and set the ACLs from a Windows client and in particular through the normal Windows ACL GUI. Ed Plese

[zfs-discuss] ZFS with Samba Shadow Copy

2006-12-15 Thread Ed Plese
files from their snapshots. See http://www.edplese.com/samba-with-zfs.html (at the bottom of the page) for more info. Ed Plese ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: ZFS with Samba Shadow Copy

2006-12-15 Thread Ed Plese
as well. Now if we can just get Samba+ZFS acls, we would really be rocking. From this thread it sounds like they have already been added to Samba, or at least they are very close to having them working: http://archives.free.net.ph/thread/20061207.100738.a8abc689.en.html#20061207.100738.a8abc689 Ed

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: Mirrored Raidz

2006-10-25 Thread Ed Plese
give you the ability to sustain the simultaneous failure of an entire enclosure and at least one (though sometimes multiple) disk failure in the working enclosure. This would also be a pure ZFS solution. Ed Plese ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs

Re: [zfs-discuss] A versioning FS

2006-10-06 Thread Ed Plese
snapshots of each filesystem can take a decent amount of time, but I was under the impression that recursive snapshots would be much faster due to the snapshots being committed in a single transaction. Is this not correct? Ed Plese ___ zfs-discuss mailing

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: mkdir == zfs create

2006-09-28 Thread Ed Plese
with a call to zfs create. This method is a bit more involved than the above method since the VFS modules are coded in C, but it's definitely a possibility. Ed Plese ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org

Re: [zfs-discuss] Apple Time Machine

2006-08-07 Thread Ed Plese
what the Shadow Copy Client looks like. The default shadow copy VFS module for Samba doesn't work very well with ZFS but after some modifications it provides very good integration of ZFS with Windows Explorer. If anyone is interested I can post the Samba patch to the list. Ed Plese

Re: [zfs-discuss] Apple Time Machine

2006-08-07 Thread Ed Plese
On Mon, Aug 07, 2006 at 02:36:27PM -0500, Ed Plese wrote: A quick Google search turned up the following URL which has some screenshots to illustrate what the Shadow Copy Client looks like. Oops.. forgot the URL: http://www.petri.co.il/how_to_use_the_shadow_copy_client.htm Ed Plese