Re: [zfs-discuss] maczfs / ZEVO

2013-02-17 Thread Erik Ableson
On 17 févr. 2013, at 15:15, "Edward Ned Harvey (opensolarisisdeadlongliveopensolaris)" wrote: >> From: Tim Cook [mailto:t...@cook.ms] >> Sent: Friday, February 15, 2013 11:14 AM >> >> I have a few coworkers using it. No horror stories and it's been in use >> about 6 >> months now. If ther

Re: [zfs-discuss] maczfs / ZEVO

2013-02-15 Thread Erik Ableson
I've been using it happily since before the Greenbytes purchase. You're currently limited to pool version 28. I generally use it with external USB drives (single disk pools), but I have tested file based RAIDZ pools which worked fine. The only caveat I will note, particularly for working with V

Re: [zfs-discuss] all in one server

2012-09-18 Thread Erik Ableson
On 18 sept. 2012, at 16:40, Dan Swartzendruber wrote: > On 9/18/2012 10:31 AM, Eugen Leitl wrote: >> I'm currently thinking about rolling a variant of >> >> http://www.napp-it.org/napp-it/all-in-one/index_en.html >> >> with remote backup (via snapshot and send) to 2-3 >> other (HP N40L-based)

Re: [zfs-discuss] Incremental send/recv interoperability

2011-02-15 Thread Erik ABLESON
Doh - 2008.11 On 15 févr. 2011, at 11:18, Erik ABLESON wrote: > I have an older machine running 2009.11 with a zpool at version 14. I have a > new machine running Solaris Express 11 with the zpool at version 31. ___ zfs-discuss mailing li

[zfs-discuss] Incremental send/recv interoperability

2011-02-15 Thread Erik ABLESON
Just wondering if an expert can chime in on this one. I have an older machine running 2009.11 with a zpool at version 14. I have a new machine running Solaris Express 11 with the zpool at version 31. I can use zfs send/recv to send a filesystem from the older machine to the new one without any

Re: [zfs-discuss] How to avoid striping ?

2010-11-01 Thread Erik Ableson
Le 18 oct. 2010 à 08:44, "Habony, Zsolt" a écrit : > Hi, > >I have seen a similar question on this list in the archive but > haven’t seen the answer. > > Can I avoid striping across top level vdevs ? > > > >If I use a zpool which is one LUN from the SAN, and

Re: [zfs-discuss] Mac OS X clients with ZFS server

2010-09-28 Thread Erik Ableson
The only tweak needed was making sure that I used the FQDN of the client machines (with appropriate reverse lookups in my DNS) for the sharenfs properties. Envoyé de mon iPhone Le 16 sept. 2010 à 17:15, Rich Teer a écrit : > On Thu, 16 Sep 2010, Erik Ableson wrote: > >> OpenSo

Re: [zfs-discuss] Mac OS X clients with ZFS server

2010-09-28 Thread Erik Ableson
Le 16 sept. 2010 à 16:18, Rich Teer a écrit : > On Thu, 16 Sep 2010, erik.ableson wrote: > >> And for reference, I have a number of 10.6 clients using NFS for >> sharing Fusion virtual machines, iTunes library, iPhoto libraries etc. >> without any issues. > > Excellent; what OS is your NFS ser

Re: [zfs-discuss] Snapshots and Data Loss

2010-04-13 Thread Erik Ableson
take a VM snapshot, followed by the filesystem snapshot, then deleting the VM snashot. ZFS snapshots are very reliable but it's scope is limited to the disks that it manages so if there's unflushed data living at a higher level, ZFS won't be aware of it. Cordialement, Erik

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs send/receive - actual performance

2010-03-26 Thread Erik Ableson
On 25 mars 2010, at 22:00, Bruno Sousa wrote: Hi, Indeed the 3 disks per vdev (raidz2) seems a bad idea...but it's the system i have now. Regarding the performance...let's assume that a bonnie++ benchmark could go to 200 mg/s in. The possibility of getting the same values (or near) in a

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS/OSOL/Firewire...

2010-03-19 Thread Erik Ableson
Funny, I thought the same thing up until a couple of years ago when I thought Apple should have bought Sun :-) Cordialement, Erik Ableson +33.6.80.83.58.28 Envoyé depuis mon iPhone On 19 mars 2010, at 09:41, Khyron wrote: Of course, I'm the only person I know who said that Sun s

Re: [zfs-discuss] Can we get some documentation on iSCSI sharing after comstar took over?

2010-03-16 Thread Erik Ableson
Certainly! I just whipped that up since I was testing out a pile of clients with different volumes and got tired of going through all the steps so anything to make it more complete would be useful. Cordialement, Erik Ableson +33.6.80.83.58.28 Envoyé depuis mon iPhone On 17 mars 2010, at

Re: [zfs-discuss] Moving Storage to opensolaris+zfs. What about backup?

2010-03-03 Thread Erik Ableson
Comments inline : On Wednesday, March 03, 2010, at 06:35PM, "Svein Skogen" wrote: > >However trying to wrap my head around solaris and backups (I'm used to >FreeBSD) is now leaving me with a nasty headache, and still no closer to a >real solution. I need something that on regular intervals pu

Re: [zfs-discuss] file concatenation with ZFS copy-on-write

2009-12-03 Thread Erik Ableson
variable sized text files. Cordialement, Erik Ableson ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] RAID-Z and virtualization

2009-11-08 Thread Erik Ableson
allocating resources instead of a general purpose OS with a Virtualisation application. Cordialement, Erik Ableson On 8 nov. 2009, at 19:43, Tim Cook wrote: On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 12:39 PM, Joe Auty wrote: Erik Ableson wrote: Uhhh - for an unmanaged server you can use ESXi for free

Re: [zfs-discuss] RAID-Z and virtualization

2009-11-08 Thread Erik Ableson
Uhhh - for an unmanaged server you can use ESXi for free. Identical server functionality, just requires licenses if you need multiserver features (ie vMotion) Cordialement, Erik Ableson On 8 nov. 2009, at 19:12, Tim Cook wrote: On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 11:48 AM, Joe Auty wrote: Tim

Re: [zfs-discuss] Borked zpool, missing slog/zil

2009-09-27 Thread Erik Ableson
asize=938999808 is_log=1 DTL=51 Is there any way that I can attach this slog to the zpool while it's offline? Erik On 27 sept. 2009, at 02:23, David Turnbull wrote: > I believe this is relevant: http://github.com/pjjw/logfix > Saved my array last year, l

Re: [zfs-discuss] Borked zpool, missing slog/zil

2009-09-27 Thread Erik Ableson
Hmmm - I've got a fairly old copy of the zpool cache file (circa July), but nothing structural has changed in pool since that date. What other data is held in that file? There have been some filesystem changes, but nothing critical is in the newer filesystems. Any particular procedure required

[zfs-discuss] Borked zpool, missing slog/zil

2009-09-26 Thread Erik Ableson
Hmmm - this is an annoying one. I'm currently running an OpenSolaris install (2008.11 upgraded to 2009.06) : SunOS shemhazai 5.11 snv_111b i86pc i386 i86pc Solaris with a zpool made up of one radiz vdev and a small ramdisk based zil. I usually swap out the zil for a file-based copy when I need

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS for iSCSI based SAN

2009-06-24 Thread Erik Ableson
t might be useful for L2ARC (using iSCSI for VMs, NFS for templates and iso images) Cordialement, Erik Ableson +33.6.80.83.58.28 Envoyé depuis mon iPhone On 24 juin 2009, at 18:56, milosz wrote: Within the thread there are instructions for using iometer to load test your storage. You should tes

Re: [zfs-discuss] Best controller card for 8 SATA drives ?

2009-06-23 Thread Erik Ableson
ives. Cordialement, Erik Ableson +33.6.80.83.58.28 Envoyé depuis mon iPhone On 23 juin 2009, at 21:18, Henrik Johansen wrote: Kyle McDonald wrote: Erik Ableson wrote: Just a side note on the PERC labelled cards: they don't have a JBOD mode so you _have_ to use hardware RAID. This may or

Re: [zfs-discuss] Best controller card for 8 SATA drives ?

2009-06-23 Thread Erik Ableson
reate broken RAID 1 volumes which is not ideal. Cordialement, Erik Ableson +33.6.80.83.58.28 Envoyé depuis mon iPhone On 23 juin 2009, at 04:33, "Eric D. Mudama" wrote: On Mon, Jun 22 at 15:46, Miles Nordin wrote: "edm" == Eric D Mudama writes: edm> We bought a De

Re: [zfs-discuss] 7110 questions

2009-06-18 Thread Erik Ableson
looking at all of the tweaks that have been applied to the networking setup on the Xen side first. Cordialement, Erik Ableson +33.6.80.83.58.28 Envoyé depuis mon iPhone On 18 juin 2009, at 21:06, lawrence ho wrote: We have a 7110 on try and buy program. We tried using the 7110 with XEN Ser