Re: [zfs-discuss] Problem with RAID-Z in builds snv_120 - snv_123

2009-09-03 Thread Jeff Victor
Roman Naumenko wrote: Hey folk, The are two problems with RAID-Z in builds snv_120 through snv_123 that will both be resolved in build snv_124. The problems are as follows: Thanks for letting us know. Is there is a way to get promt updates on such issues for Opensolaris? (except like rea

Re: [zfs-discuss] snv_110 -> snv_121 produces checksum errors on Raid-Z pool

2009-09-02 Thread Jeff Victor
Bob Friesenhahn wrote: On Wed, 2 Sep 2009, Frank Middleton wrote: On 09/02/09 12:31 PM, Richard Elling wrote: I believe this is a different problem. Adam, was this introduced in b120? Doubtless you are correct as usual. However, if this is a new problem, how did it get through Sun's legendary

Re: [zfs-discuss] How to remove [alternate] cylinders from slice 9?

2009-08-21 Thread Jeff Victor
ew . Trevor Pretty wrote: Jeff old mate I assume you used format -e? Have you tried swapping the label back to SMI and then back to EFI? Trevor Jeff Victor wrote: I am trying to mirror an existing zpool on OpenSolaris 2009.06. I think I need to delete two alternate cylinders... The exist

[zfs-discuss] How to remove [alternate] cylinders from slice 9?

2009-08-20 Thread Jeff Victor
I am trying to mirror an existing zpool on OpenSolaris 2009.06. I think I need to delete two alternate cylinders... The existing disk in the pool (c7d0s0): Part TagFlag Cylinders SizeBlocks 0 rootwm 1 - 19453 149.02GB(19453/0/0) 3125124

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: suggestion: directory promotion to filesystem

2007-02-23 Thread Jeff Victor
Matthew Ahrens wrote: Adrian Saul wrote: Any idea on the timeline or future of "zfs split" ? It isn't a priority for now. For Sun, for the ZFS community, or both? ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: ZFS panics system during boot, after 11/06 upgrade

2007-01-29 Thread Jeff Victor
, zio_buf_#'): namespace_collision Jeff Victor wrote: Jim Walker wrote: There are ZFS file systems. There are no zones. Any help would be greatly appreciated, this is my everyday computer. Take a look at page 167 of the admin guide: http://opensolaris.org/os/community/zfs/docs/zfsadmin.pdf You

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: ZFS panics system during boot, after 11/06 upgrade

2007-01-29 Thread Jeff Victor
Jim Walker wrote: There are ZFS file systems. There are no zones. Any help would be greatly appreciated, this is my everyday computer. Take a look at page 167 of the admin guide: http://opensolaris.org/os/community/zfs/docs/zfsadmin.pdf You need to delete /etc/zfs/zpool.cache. And, use

[zfs-discuss] ZFS panics system during boot, after 11/06 upgrade

2007-01-29 Thread Jeff Victor
Hi, I'm looking for assistance troubleshooting an x86 laptop that I upgraded from Solaris 10 6/06 to 11/06 using standard upgrade. The upgrade went smoothly, but all attempts to boot it since then have failed. Every time, it panics, leaving a partial stack trace on the screen for a few seco

Re: [zfs-discuss] How to get new ZFS Solaris 10 U3 features going from Solaris 10 U2

2006-12-15 Thread Jeff Victor
Richard Lowe wrote: Jeff Victor wrote: Robert Milkowski wrote: Hello Jeff, Friday, December 15, 2006, 9:36:48 PM, you wrote: JV> David Smith wrote: We currently have a couple of servers at Solaris 10 U2, and we would like to get to Solaris 10 U3 for the new zfs features. Can this

Re: [zfs-discuss] How to get new ZFS Solaris 10 U3 features going from Solaris 10 U2

2006-12-15 Thread Jeff Victor
tly integrated. -- ------ Jeff VICTOR Sun Microsystemsjeff.victor @ sun.com OS AmbassadorSr. Technical Specialist Solaris 10 Zones FAQ:http://www.opensolaris.org/os/commu

Re: [zfs-discuss] How to get new ZFS Solaris 10 U3 features going from Solaris 10 U2

2006-12-15 Thread Jeff Victor
-- Jeff VICTOR Sun Microsystemsjeff.victor @ sun.com OS AmbassadorSr. Technical Specialist Solaris 10 Zones FAQ:http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/zones/faq

Re: [zfs-discuss] Uber block corruption?

2006-12-11 Thread Jeff Victor
was wondering if someone here could enlighten me? -- ------ Jeff VICTOR Sun Microsystemsjeff.victor @ sun.com OS AmbassadorSr. Technical Specialist Solaris 10 Zones FAQ:http://www.ope

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: Production ZFS Server Death (06/06)

2006-12-02 Thread Jeff Victor
configured with redundancy, it would have fared at least as well as the RAID system. Without redundancy, neither of them can magically reconstruct data. The RAID system would simply be an AID system. -- Jeff VICTOR

[zfs-discuss] zfs receive into zone?

2006-11-03 Thread Jeff Victor
ill either of those work? ------ Jeff VICTOR Sun Microsystemsjeff.victor @ sun.com OS AmbassadorSr. Technical Specialist Solaris 10 Zones FAQ:http://www.opensolaris.o

Re: [zfs-discuss] Current status of a ZFS root

2006-10-28 Thread Jeff Victor
y Sun? I can't wait. ;) You're not alone. :-) ------ Jeff VICTOR Sun Microsystemsjeff.victor @ sun.com OS AmbassadorSr. Technical Specialist Solaris 10 Zones F

Re: [nfs-discuss] Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: NFS Performance and Tar

2006-10-13 Thread Jeff Victor
s" like vi? It seems to me that you are talking about Solaris, and Joerg is talking about vi (and other applications). ------ Jeff VICTOR Sun Microsystemsjeff.victor @ sun.com OS Ambassado

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs and zones

2006-10-13 Thread Jeff Victor
and soft partitions, but you wouldn't get all of the ZFS magic. :-) 3. Also, at a later date to increase the zfs partitions used for zones as and when required. Yes. ------ Jeff VICTOR Sun Microsystems

Re: [zfs-discuss] Filesystem structure

2006-09-19 Thread Jeff Victor
are prohibited until we have zfsboot. Without zfsboot we can't get zfs /. Or has the state of play changed so that we can boot off a zfs partition? Not yet. ------ Jeff VICTOR Sun Microsystemsjeff

Re: [zfs-discuss] Loss of compression with send/receive

2006-09-13 Thread Jeff Victor
ror.) Is there some way around this? Patch? RFE? ------ Jeff VICTOR Sun Microsystemsjeff.victor @ sun.com OS AmbassadorSr. Technical Specialist Solaris 10 Zones FAQ:

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: Re: Re: Re: Proposal: multiple copies of user data

2006-09-12 Thread Jeff Victor
, etc)? I thought we understood this pretty well, and that the answer was extremely small. -- Jeff VICTOR Sun Microsystemsjeff.victor @ sun.com OS AmbassadorSr. Technical Specialist

Re: [zfs-discuss] Proposal: multiple copies of user data

2006-09-12 Thread Jeff Victor
__ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss -- -- Jeff VICTOR Sun Microsystemsjeff.victor @ sun.com OS A

Re: [zfs-discuss] Question on Zones and memory usage (65120349)

2006-08-12 Thread Jeff Victor
instances. For example, less RAM is used by sparse-root zones because multiple instances of a program (e.g. /bin/ls) share common memory pages. LDOMs (and other multi-OS-instance solutions) cannot do that. ------ Jeff VICTOR

Re: [zfs-discuss] Question on Zones and memory usage (65120349)

2006-08-11 Thread Jeff Victor
-discuss -- ------ Jeff VICTOR Sun Microsystemsjeff.victor @ sun.com OS AmbassadorSr. Technical Specialist Solaris 10 Zones FAQ:http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/z

Re: [zfs-discuss] Question on Zones and memory usage (65120349)

2006-08-11 Thread Jeff Victor
of memory to certain zones — rcapd ?? Yes. ------ Jeff VICTOR Sun Microsystemsjeff.victor @ sun.com OS AmbassadorSr. Technical Specialist Solaris 10 Zones FAQ:http:/

Re: [zfs-discuss] Proposal: 'canmount' option

2006-08-10 Thread Jeff Victor
. "Now create a container" "zoncfg -z..." "No, the *other* kind of container." Thesaurus.com suggests over 50 synonyms for the word 'container.' Hopefully one of them will be appropriate for ZFS. -----

Re: [zfs-discuss] sharing a storage array

2006-07-28 Thread Jeff Victor
Richard Elling wrote: Danger Will Robinson... Jeff Victor wrote: Jeff Bonwick wrote: Multiple hosts writing to the same pool won't work, but you could indeed have two pools, one for each host, in a dual active-passive arrangement. That is, you dual-attach the storage with host A talki

Re: [zfs-discuss] sharing a storage array

2006-07-28 Thread Jeff Victor
to one pool or the other, or can disks be divided into partitions before pool assignment? -- ------ Jeff VICTOR Sun Microsystemsjeff.victor @ sun.com OS AmbassadorSr. Technical Specialist Solar

Re: [zfs-discuss] Enabling compression/encryption on a populated filesystem

2006-07-16 Thread Jeff Victor
e possible (though potentially time-consuming) to determine which files are encrypted, and which are not. ------ Jeff VICTOR Sun Microsystemsjeff.victor @ sun.com OS Ambassador

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs list - column width

2006-07-10 Thread Jeff Victor
Darren J Moffat wrote: Jeff Victor wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: bash-3.00# zfs list NAME USED AVAIL REFER MOUNTPOINT dns-pool 136K 43.1G 25.5K /dns-pool dns-pool/zones 50K 43.1G 25.5K /dns-pool/zones dns-pool/zones/dns1 24.5K 43.1G

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs list - column width

2006-07-10 Thread Jeff Victor
t data before displaying them. Perhaps this should be left entirely under user control using the method that "ps -o format" uses. Why reinvent the wheel? ------ Jeff VICTOR Sun Microsystems

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: what to put on zfs

2006-07-03 Thread Jeff Victor
which they are located. -- ------ Jeff VICTOR Sun Microsystemsjeff.victor @ sun.com OS AmbassadorSr. Technical Specialist Solaris 10 Zones FAQ:http://www.opensolaris.org/os/comm

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS and Storage

2006-06-29 Thread Jeff Victor
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 09:30:25AM -0400, Jeff Victor wrote: For example, if ZFS is mirroring a pool across two different storage arrays, a firmware error in one of them will cause problems that ZFS will detect when it tries to read the data. Further, ZFS would be

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS and Storage

2006-06-28 Thread Jeff Victor
ability after catastophes (as Richard E described) but ZFS can help with many firmware problems. -- ------ Jeff VICTOR Sun Microsystemsjeff.victor @ sun.com OS AmbassadorSr. Technical Specia

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: ZFS and Storage

2006-06-27 Thread Jeff Victor
chieve some data protection in fast special-purpose hardware. Just my $.02. -- ------ Jeff VICTOR Sun Microsystemsjeff.victor @ sun.com OS AmbassadorSr. Technical Specialist Solaris 10 Zon

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS and Storage

2006-06-27 Thread Jeff Victor
cuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss -- ------ Jeff VICTOR Sun Microsystemsjeff.victor @ sun.com OS AmbassadorSr. Techn

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: ZFS and Storage

2006-06-27 Thread Jeff Victor
tect that because all it knows about are blocks. -- ------ Jeff VICTOR Sun Microsystemsjeff.victor @ sun.com OS AmbassadorSr. Technical Specialist Solaris 10 Zones FAQ:http://www.opensola

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: ZFS Wiki?

2006-06-26 Thread Jeff Victor
binations of ZFS settings? (There aren't many settings, but there are a few.) Will people learn that there are limitations to ZFS that are not documented? Wouldn't a wiki be useful as a central repository of such knowledge? ----

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: Re: ZFS Wiki?

2006-06-26 Thread Jeff Victor
rg http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss -- ------ Jeff VICTOR Sun Microsystemsjeff.victor @ sun.com OS AmbassadorSr. Technical Specialist Solaris 10 Zon

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Wiki?

2006-06-25 Thread Jeff Victor
Thoughts? -Nate -- ------ Jeff VICTOR Sun Microsystemsjeff.victor @ sun.com OS AmbassadorSr. Technical Specialist Solaris 10 Zones FAQ:http://www.opensolaris.org/os/c

Re: [zfs-discuss] Backup/Restore of ZFS Properties

2006-05-29 Thread Jeff Victor
Yes, a trivial wrapper could: 1. Store all property values in a file in the fs 2. zfs send... 3. zfs receive... 4. Set all the properties stored in that file Franz Haberhauer wrote: Jeff Victor wrote: An earlier response from Matt Ahrens, to a similar question: > 'zfs backup/resto

Re: [zfs-discuss] Backup/Restore of ZFS Properties

2006-05-29 Thread Jeff Victor
quota, reservation, compression, exported shares etc.)? Do backup/restore mechanisms (zfs send/receive, Networker/NetBackup/TSM, *tar etc.) handle (save/restore) them automagically or are there additional procedures needed? Thanks, Franz -- ------

Re: [zfs-discuss] Snapshot / Rollback at a file level

2006-05-24 Thread Jeff Victor
ve pretty large files. It would be nice to just reattach that file. Is this reasonable? -- ------ Jeff VICTOR Sun Microsystemsjeff.victor @ sun.com OS AmbassadorSr. Technical Specialist S

Re: [zfs-discuss] Misc questions

2006-05-24 Thread Jeff Victor
Matthew Ahrens wrote: On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 02:34:30PM -0700, Jeff Victor wrote: * When you share a ZFS fs via NFS, what happens to files and filesystems that exceed the limits of NFS? What limits do you have in mind? I'm not an NFS expert, but I think that NFSv4 (and probab

[zfs-discuss] Misc questions

2006-05-23 Thread Jeff Victor
Some miscellaneous questions: * When you share a ZFS fs via NFS, what happens to files and filesystems that exceed the limits of NFS? * Is there a recommendation or some guidelines to help answer the question "how full should a pool be before deciding it's time add disk space to a pool?" * Mig