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

2007-09-25 Thread James F. Hranicky
Paul B. Henson wrote: > But all quotas were set in a single flat text file. Anytime you added a new > quota, you needed to turn off quotas, then turn them back on, and quota > enforcement was disabled while it recalculated space utilization. I believe in later versions of the OS 'quota resize' di

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

2007-09-21 Thread James F. Hranicky
Paul B. Henson wrote: > On Thu, 20 Sep 2007, James F. Hranicky wrote: > >> This can be solved using an automounter as well. > > Well, I'd say more "kludged around" than "solved" ;), but again unless > you've used DFS it might not seem tha

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

2007-09-20 Thread James F. Hranicky
Paul B. Henson wrote: > One issue I have is that our previous filesystem, DFS, completely spoiled > me with its global namespace and location transparency. We had three fairly > large servers, with the content evenly dispersed among them, but from the > perspective of the client any user's files w

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: ZFS with raidz

2007-03-21 Thread James F. Hranicky
Richard Elling wrote: > I think this is a systems engineering problem, not just a ZFS problem. > Few have bothered to look at mount performance in the past because > most systems have only a few mounted file systems[1]. Since ZFS does > file system quotas instead of user quotas, now we have the si

Re: [zfs-discuss] UFS on zvol: volblocksize and maxcontig

2007-01-26 Thread James F. Hranicky
Brian H. Nelson wrote: > IMO, the quota-per-file-system approach seems inconvenient when you get > past a handful of file systems. Unless I'm really missing something, it > just seems like a nightmare to have to deal with such a ridiculous > number of file systems. Seconded -- is there any chance

Re: [zfs-discuss] Solaris-Supported cards with battery backup

2007-01-24 Thread James F. Hranicky
Robert Milkowski wrote: > Hello James, > > Wednesday, January 24, 2007, 3:20:14 PM, you wrote: > > JFH> Since we're talking about various hardware configs, does anyone know > JFH> which controllers with battery backup are supported on Solaris? If > JFH> we build a big ZFS box I'd like to be able

[zfs-discuss] Solaris-Supported cards with battery backup

2007-01-24 Thread James F. Hranicky
Since we're talking about various hardware configs, does anyone know which controllers with battery backup are supported on Solaris? If we build a big ZFS box I'd like to be able to turn on write caching on the drives but have them battery-backed in the event of a power loss. Are 3ware cards going

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: ZFS Storage Pool advice

2006-12-14 Thread James F. Hranicky
Anton B. Rang wrote: > The ZIL is a necessary part of ZFS. Just because the ZFS file structure will > be consistent after a system crash even with the ZIL disabled does not mean > that disabling it is safe! Is there a list of battery-backed RAID controllers supported by Solaris x86 somewhere? Doe

Re: [zfs-discuss] Kickstart hot spare attachment

2006-12-12 Thread James F. Hranicky
Eric Schrock wrote: > Hmmm, it means that we correctly noticed that the device had failed, but > for whatever reason the ZFS FMA agent didn't correctly replace the > drive. I am cleaning up the hot spare behavior as we speak so I will > try to reproduce this. Ok, great. >> Well, as long as I kn

Re: [zfs-discuss] Kickstart hot spare attachment

2006-12-12 Thread James F. Hranicky
Eric Schrock wrote: > On Tue, Dec 12, 2006 at 02:08:57PM -0500, James F. Hranicky wrote: >> Sure, but that's what I want to avoid. The FMA agent should do this by >> itself, but it's not, so I guess I'm just wondering why, or if there's >> a good way to ge

Re: [zfs-discuss] Netapp to Solaris/ZFS issues

2006-12-12 Thread James F. Hranicky
Jim Davis wrote: >> Have you tried using the automounter as suggested by the linux faq?: >> http://nfs.sourceforge.net/#section_b > > Yes. On our undergrad timesharing system (~1300 logins) we actually hit > that limit with a standard automounting scheme. So now we make static > mounts of the N

Re: [zfs-discuss] Kickstart hot spare attachment

2006-12-12 Thread James F. Hranicky
Eric Schrock wrote: > On Tue, Dec 12, 2006 at 07:53:32AM -0800, Jim Hranicky wrote: >> - I know I can attach it via the zpool commands, but is there a way to >> kickstart the attachment process if it fails to attach automatically upon >> disk failure? > > Yep. Just do a 'zpool replace zmir '. T

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs hot spare not automatically getting used

2006-11-27 Thread James F. Hranicky
[ Sorry, this bounced the first time so I subscribed to the list ] Sanjeev Bagewadi wrote: >Jim, >> >We did hit similar issue yesterday on build 50 and build 45 although the >node did not hang. >In one of the cases we saw that the hot spare was not of the same >size... can you check >if this true