Re: [zfs-discuss] Mount External USB cdrom on zfs

On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 9:49 AM, iman habibi wrote: > Dear support > when i connect my external usb dvdrom to the sparc machine which has > installed solaris 10u6 based zfs file system,,it return this error: > > bash-3.00# mount /dev/dsk/c1t0d0s0 /dvd/ > Jan 27 11:08:41 global ufs: NOTICE: mount:

Re: [zfs-discuss] Can I create ZPOOL with missing disks?

On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 5:18 PM, Jim Klimov wrote: > Usecase scenario: > > I have a single server (or home workstation) with 4 HDD bays, sold with 2 > drives. > Initially the system was set up with a ZFS mirror for data slices. Now we > got 2 > more drives and want to replace the mirror with a la

Re: [zfs-discuss] mirror rpool

On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 10:58 AM, mijenix wrote: > yes, that's the way zpool likes it > > I think I've to understand how (Open)Solaris create disks or how > the partition thing works under OSol. Do you know any guide or howto? > http://initialprogramload.blogspot.com/2008/07/how-solaris-disk-dev

Re: [zfs-discuss] OpenSolaris better Than Solaris10u6 with requards to ARECA Raid Card

There is an update in build 105, but it is only pertaining to the Raid Management tool: Issues Resolved: BUG/RFE:6776690Areca raid management util doesn't work on solaris Files Changed: update:usr/src/uts/intel/io/scsi/adapters/

Re: [zfs-discuss] separate home "partition"?

On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 11:51 AM, Johan Hartzenberg wrote: > > > I have this situation working and use my "shared" pool between Linux and > Solaris. Note: The shared pool needs to reside on a whole physical disk or > on a primary fdisk partition, Unless something cha

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS capable GRUB install from within Linux?

On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 8:28 PM, David Abrahams wrote: > > > FWIW, I managed to build a source merge of the solaris grub-0.97 (with > ZFS capability) and ubuntu's latest copy of grub-0.97 (with whatever > patches they've backported into it). The sources are available at > http://groups.google.co

Re: [zfs-discuss] separate home "partition"?

On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 6:25 PM, noz wrote: > > The above is very dangerous, if it > > will even work. The output of the zfs send is > > redirected to /tmp, which is a ramdisk. If you > > have enough space (RAM + Swap), it will work, but if > > there is a reboot or crash before the zfs receive >

Re: [zfs-discuss] separate home "partition"?

On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 9:55 AM, hardware technician wrote: > I want to create a separate home, shared, read/write zfs partition on a > tri-boot OpenSolaris, Ubuntu, and CentOS system. I have successfully > created and exported the zpools that I would like to use, in Ubuntu using > zfs-fuse. Howe

Re: [zfs-discuss] separate home "partition"?

On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 4:10 AM, noz wrote: > > Here's my solution: > (1) n...@holodeck:~# zpool create epool mirror c4t1d0 c4t2d0 c4t3d0 > > n...@holodeck:~# zfs list > NAME USED AVAIL REFER MOUNTPOINT > epool 69K 15.6G18K /epool > rpool

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Import Problem

On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 3:32 PM, Weldon S Godfrey 3 wrote: > > > > If memory serves me right, sometime around 12:34am, Michael McKnight told > me: > > > > > I have tried import -f, import -d, import -f -d ... nothing works. > > > > Did you try zpool export 1st? > He did say he was doing zpool re

Re: [zfs-discuss] separate home "partition"?

On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 1:12 AM, scott wrote: > thanks for the input. since i have no interest in multibooting (virtualbox > will suit my needs), i created a 10gb partition on my 500gb drive for > opensolaris and reserved the rest for files (130gb worth). > > after installing the os and fdisking

Re: [zfs-discuss] separate home "partition"?

On Sat, Dec 27, 2008 at 7:33 AM, scott wrote: > do you mean a pool on a SEPARATE partition? > -- > That is what I do. In particular, I have: fdisk partition 1 = Solaris partition type 0xbf = rpool = 40 GB fdisk partition 2 = MSDOS partition type = SHARED zpool = 190 GB fdisk partition 3 = 30 G

Re: [zfs-discuss] Possible to switch SATA ports?

On Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at 1:26 PM, Orvar Korvar < knatte_fnatte_tja...@yahoo.com> wrote: > Ok, so I could partition a drive into two parts, and treat each of the > partitions as one drive? And then I exchange one partition at a time with a > whole new drive? That sounds neat. I must format the drive

Re: [zfs-discuss] Possible to switch SATA ports?

On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 2:50 PM, Orvar Korvar < knatte_fnatte_tja...@yahoo.com> wrote: > I have a ZFS raid and wonder if it is possible to move the ZFS raid around > from SATA port to another? Ive heard that someone assembled the SATA > connections differently and the ZFS raid wouldnt work. > > Sa

Re: [zfs-discuss] How to create a basic new filesystem?

On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 8:00 PM, dick hoogendijk wrote: > On Sun, 21 Dec 2008 07:36:07 PST > Uwe Dippel wrote: > > > [i]If you want to add the entire Solaris partition to the zfs pool as > > a mirror, use zpool attach -f rpool c1d0s0 c2d0s2[/i] > > > > So my mistake in the first place (see first

Re: [zfs-discuss] How to create a basic new filesystem?

On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 12:13 PM, dick hoogendijk wrote: > On Sat, 20 Dec 2008 17:02:31 PST > Uwe Dippel wrote: > > > Now I modified the slice s0, so that is doesn't overlap with s2 (the > > whole disk) any longer: > > > > Part TagFlag Cylinders SizeBlocks > >

[zfs-discuss] Removing Disks from pools

Hello ZFS gurus and fellow fans. As we all know ZFS does not _yet_ support relayout of pools. I want to know whether there is any hope for this to become available in the near future? >From my outside view it sounds like it should be possible to set a flag to stop allocating new blocks from a sp

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS and aging

On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 2:46 PM, Thanos McAtos wrote: > > > My problems are 2: > > 1) I don't know how to properly age a file-system. As already said, I need > traces of a decade's workload to properly do this, and to the best of my > knowledge there is no easy way to do this automatically. > > 2

Re: [zfs-discuss] Need Help Invalidating Uberblock

On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 1:43 PM, wrote: > > > >When current uber-block A is detected to point to a corrupted on-disk > data, > >how would "zpool import" (or any other tool for that matter) quickly and > >safely know that, once it found an older uber-block "B" that it points to > a > >set of block

Re: [zfs-discuss] Need Help Invalidating Uberblock

On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 11:39 AM, Ross wrote: > I know Eric mentioned the possibility of zpool import doing more of this > kind of thing, and he said that it's current inability to do this will be > fixed, but I don't know if it's an official project, RFE or bug. Can > anybody shed some light on

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS and aging

On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 7:57 PM, Thanos McAtos wrote: > Hello all. > > I'm doing a course project to evaluate recovery time of RAID-Z. > > One of my tests is to examine the impact of aging on recovery speed. > > I've used PostMark to stress the file-system but I didn't observe any > noticeable sl

Re: [zfs-discuss] Split responsibility for data with ZFS

On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 10:10 PM, Miles Nordin wrote: > > > 0. The reports I read were not useless in the way some have stated, > because for example Mike sampled his own observations: [snip] > > I don't see when the single-LUN SAN corruption problems were fixed. I > think the supposed ``sil

Re: [zfs-discuss] Hardware Raid Vs ZFS implementation on Sun X4150/X4450

On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 6:37 PM, Aaron Blew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've done some basic testing with a X4150 machine using 6 disks in a RAID 5 > and RAID Z configuration. They perform very similarly, but RAIDZ definitely > has more system overhead. In many cases this won't be a big deal, bu

Re: [zfs-discuss] Fwd: [osol-announce] IMPT: Do not use SXCE Build 102

On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 11:44 PM, Jeff Bonwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > These are the conditions: > > (1) The bug is specific to the root pool. Other pools are unaffected. > (2) It is triggered by doing a 'zpool online' while I/O is in flight. > (3) Item (2) can be triggered by syseventd. > (

Re: [zfs-discuss] Best SXCE version for ZFS Home Server

On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 10:57 AM, Vincent Boisard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > > >> >> OTOH - if you don't know OpenSolaris well enough, you're better off >> either picking an earlier release that has proven to have very few >> relevant warts - usually based on a recommendation for other, more >> e

Re: [zfs-discuss] 10u6 any patches yet?

On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 8:15 PM, Vincent Fox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > Just wondering if anyone knows of a patch released for 10u6? > > I realize this is OT but want to test my new ability with ZFS root to do > lucreate, patch the alternate BE, and luactivate it. > Send me an explorer and I wil

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs (u)mount conundrum with non-existent mountpoint

On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 8:22 PM, Michael Schuster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > Mark J Musante wrote: > > > > Hi Michael, > > > > Did you try doing an export/import of tank? > > no - that would make it unavailable for use right? I don't think I can > (easily) do that during production hours. > Can y

Re: [zfs-discuss] Enabling load balance with zfs

On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 4:42 PM, Brian Hechinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If what the OP is looking for is redundant but not nessesarily exact copies > (he > only wants the last X days on the backup disk, for example) he may want to > consider > looking into SAM. > The OP described a soluti

Re: [zfs-discuss] Enabling load balance with zfs

On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 12:13 PM, Sergio Arroutbi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > My point is that I want to use the same directory in the recorder program. > > I get the streaming, and start writing the file in /mnt/streamingDirectory > > So I would like to record in the same way, just configuring (v

Re: [zfs-discuss] DNLC and ARC

DNLC seems to be independent. >From my laptop, which has only got ZFS file systems (Two ZPOOLs), the stats are: $ kstat -n dnlcstats module: unixinstance: 0 name: dnlcstats class:misc crtime 25.772681029 dir_a

Re: [zfs-discuss] Verify files' checksums

On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 6:49 PM, Marcus Sundman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Richard Elling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Marcus Sundman wrote: > > > How can I verify the checksums for a specific file? > > > > ZFS doesn't checksum files. > > AFAIK ZFS checksums all data, including the contents of

Re: [zfs-discuss] Verify files' checksums

On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 6:59 AM, Johan Hartzenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > > > On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 4:00 AM, Marcus Sundman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> How can I verify the checksums for a specific file? >> >> I have a feeling you are not

Re: [zfs-discuss] Verify files' checksums

On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 4:00 AM, Marcus Sundman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How can I verify the checksums for a specific file? > > I have a feeling you are not asking the question about ZFS hosted files specifically. If you downloaded a file, enter cksum filename To get the "CRC Check-Sum" Fo

Re: [zfs-discuss] zpool cross mount

On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 4:49 PM, Laurent Burnotte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > > => is there in zfs an automatic mechanism during solaris 10 boot that > prevent the import of pool B ( mounted /A/B ) before trying to import A > pool or do we have to legacy mount and file /etc/vfstab > This is fine

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs migration question

On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 2:35 AM, Dave Bevans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I have a customer with the following question... > > She's trying to combine 2 ZFS 460gb disks into one 900gb ZFS disk. If this > is possible how is this done? Is there any documentation on this that I can > provide

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS boot vs Linux fuse

Reboot to the grub menu Move to the failsafe kernel entry tap "e" to edit entry. go to the kernel entry and tap "e" again Append -kv to the end of the line Accept and tap "b" to boot the line. After some output you will be prompted to mount the root pool on /a - Enter y to accept. You will then g

Re: [zfs-discuss] am I "screwed"?

On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 10:25 PM, dick hoogendijk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > We have to dig deeper with kmdb. But before we do that, tell me please > what is an easy way to transfer the messages from the failsafe login on > the problematic machine to i.e. this S10u5 server. All former scre

Re: [zfs-discuss] Pros/Cons of multiple zpools?

On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 10:28 PM, Joseph Mocker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > If I add the second array to the pool, I could probably continue with the > same number of columns in the raidz, but the size of the strips would > increase. Would this effect performance somehow? >

Re: [zfs-discuss] Pros/Cons of multiple zpools?

On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 9:29 PM, Joseph Mocker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > Hello, > > I haven't seen this discussed before. Any pointers would be appreciated. > > I'm curious, if I have a set of disks in a system, is there any benefit > or disadvantage to breaking the disks int

Re: [zfs-discuss] Comments on green-bytes

Some people wrote: > > > covered code. Since Sun owns that code they would need to rattle the > > cage. Sun? Anyone have any talks with these guys yet? > > Isn't CDDL file based so they could implement all the new functionality in > > Wouldn't it be great if programmers could just focus on writ

Re: [zfs-discuss] [Fwd: Another ZFS question]

On Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 1:30 PM, jonathan sai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Would you mind helping me ask your tech guy whether there will be > repercussions when I try to run this command in view of the situation below: > # *zpool add -f zhome raidz c6t6006016056AC1A00C8FB7A6346F8DB11d0 > c6t60

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs resilvering

On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 7:03 PM, Richard Elling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > Mikael Kjerrman wrote: > > define a lot :-) > > > > We are doing about 7-8M per second which I don't think is a lot but > perhaps it is enough to screw up the estimates? Anyhow the resilvering > completed about 4386h earli

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs resilvering

On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 4:02 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Note the progress so far "0.04%." In my experience the time estimate has > no basis in reality until it's about 1% do or so. I think there is some > bookkeeping or something ZFS does at the start of a scrub or resilver that > throws

Re: [zfs-discuss] Slow zpool import with b98

On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 3:59 PM, Detlef [EMAIL PROTECTED] < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > With Nevada Build 98 I realize a slow zpool import of my pool which > holds my user and archive data on my laptop. > > The first time it was realized during the boot if Solaris tells me to > mount zfs filesyste

Re: [zfs-discuss] [install-discuss] Will OpenSolaris and Nevada co-exist in peace on the same root zpool

On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 2:06 PM, James Carlson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > Johan Hartzenberg writes: > > I am guessing the answer is YMMV depending on the differences in versions > > of, for example Firefox, Gnome, Thunderbird, etc, and based on how well > > these

[zfs-discuss] [install-discuss] Will OpenSolaris and Nevada co-exist in peace on the same root zpool

Well, I want to give OpenSolaris a try, but have not yet worked up the confidence to just try it. So a few questions: When I start the OpenSolaris installer, will it install into my existing root zpool? Which is called RPOOL. not rpool? Without destroying my existing Nevada installations? Or kill

Re: [zfs-discuss] Availability: ZFS needs to handle disk removal / driver failure better

On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 11:21 PM, Ian Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Miles Nordin writes: > > > suggested that unlike the SVM feature it should be automatic, because > > by so being it becomes useful as an availability tool rather than just > > performance optimisation. > > > So on a server

Re: [zfs-discuss] Moving a ZFS root to another target

You may also need to just boot to safe mode and manually import the root pool to mount on /a, then reboot as this updates the device path stored in the pool's on-disk meta-data. If you search for my posts you will find plenty discussions about my adventures with this. On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 7:54

[zfs-discuss] (no subject)

I believe it would be handy to be able to examine properties of a ZFS pool and all the data sets in it prior to importing the pool. In particular I would like to be able to do commands similar to "zfs list" and "zfs get ", for example to see where file systems will be mounted, whether they will be

Re: [zfs-discuss] How to zpool add a logical partition

On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 9:18 PM, Yi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I see docs talking about how to add a fdisk partition (or primary > partition) to a zfs pool. But I wonder if it's possible to add a logical > partition, which is inside the extended partition, to a pool. I'm on an X86 > syst

Re: [zfs-discuss] [install-discuss] lucreate into New ZFS pool

My upgrade has been completed - Comments interleaved below. On Fri, Aug 8, 2008 at 4:38 PM, Johan Hartzenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > Hello, > > Since I've got my disk partitioning sorted out now, I want to move my BE > from the old disk to the new disk. > >

Re: [zfs-discuss] Shared ZFS in Multi-boot?

On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 6:44 PM, Bob Netherton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > On Thu, 2008-08-07 at 09:16 -0700, Daniel Templeton wrote: > > Is there a way that I can add the disk to a ZFS pool and have > > the ZFS pool accessible to all of the OS instances? I poked through the > > docs and searched

[zfs-discuss] [install-discuss] lucreate into New ZFS pool

Hello, Since I've got my disk partitioning sorted out now, I want to move my BE from the old disk to the new disk. I created a new zpool, named RPOOL for distinction with the existing "rpool". I then did lucreate -p RPOOL -n new95 This completed without error, the log is at the bottom of this ma

[zfs-discuss] ZFS and disk partitioning

I am trying to upgrade my laptop hard drive, and want to use Live-upgrade. What I have done so far is: 1. Moved the old drive to an external enclosure 2. Made it bootable (At this point I had to overcome the first obstacle - due to ZFS storing the disk device path in the ZFS structure it refused

Re: [zfs-discuss] are these errors dangerous

On Sun, Aug 3, 2008 at 8:48 PM, Matt Harrison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > Miles Nordin wrote: > >> "mh" == Matt Harrison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > mh> I'm worried about is if the entire batch is failing slowly > > mh> and will all die at the same time. > > > Matt, can you

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS vs FAT

On Sun, Aug 3, 2008 at 9:31 AM, Rahul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can u site the differences b/w ZFS and FAT filesystems?? > Assuming you are serious, the technical bits can be found here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_file_systems But there is a bigger, fundamental difference bet

Re: [zfs-discuss] Diagnosing problems after botched upgrade - grub busted

On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 11:43 PM, Johan Hartzenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > [snip] > I could now just re-install and recover my data (I keep my data far away > from OS disks/pools), or I can try to fix grub. I hope to learn from this > process so my questions are: > >

Re: [zfs-discuss] 200805 Grub problems

Hello kugutsumen, Did you have any luck in resolving your problems? On Sun, Jun 8, 2008 at 10:53 AM, Kugutsumen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > I've just installed 2008.05 on a 500 gig disk... Install went fine... > > I attached an identically partitioned and labeled disk as soon as the > rpool was c

[zfs-discuss] Diagnosing problems after botched upgrade - grub busted

I tried to be clever and botched my upgrade. Now I don't get a grub menu, only an error like this: = Booting 'BE3 Solaris xVM' findroot (BE_BE3,1,a) Error 15: File not found Press any key to continue = I do not see a grub menu prior to this error, only

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Mirroring - Scenario

Sorry, but I'm stuck at 6540. There are so many options in how you would practically configure these that there is no way to give a sensible answer to your question. But the most basic questions are: Does the racks have power from separate PDUs? Are they in physically remote locations? Does you

Re: [zfs-discuss] raid or mirror

Hi Dick You want Mirroring. A Sun system with mirrored disks can be configured to not go down due to one disk failing. For this to be valid, you need to also make sure that the device used for SWAP is mirrored - you won't believe how many times I've seen this mistake being made. To be even MORE

Re: [zfs-discuss] ? SX:CE snv_91 - ZFS - raid and mirror - drive sizes don't add correc

On Sun, Jul 6, 2008 at 3:46 PM, Ross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > For your second one I'm less sure what's going on: > # zpool create temparray raidz c1t2d0 c1t4d0 raidz c1t3d0 c1t5d0 raidz > c1t6d0 c1t8d0 > > This creates three two disk raid-z sets and stripes the data across them. > The probl

Re: [zfs-discuss] is it possible to add a mirror device later?

On Sun, Jul 6, 2008 at 10:27 AM, Jeff Bonwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I would just swap the physical locations of the drives, so that the > second half of the mirror is in the right location to be bootable. > ZFS won't mind -- it tracks the disks by content, not by pathname. > Note that SATA

Re: [zfs-discuss] bug id 6343667

On Sat, Jul 5, 2008 at 9:34 PM, Robert Lawhead < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > About a month ago (Jun 2008), I received information indicating that a > putback fixing this problem was in the works and might appear as soon as > b92. Apparently this estimate was overly optimistic; Does anyone know >

Re: [zfs-discuss] Some basic questions about getting the best performance for database usage

On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 10:17 AM, Christiaan Willemsen < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The question is: how can we maximize IO by using the best possible > combination of hardware and ZFS RAID? > > Here are some generic concepts that still hold true: More disks can handle more IOs. Larger disks ca

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Performance Issue

On Feb 5, 2008 9:52 PM, William Fretts-Saxton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This may not be a ZFS issue, so please bear with me! > > I have 4 internal drives that I have striped/mirrored with ZFS and have an > application server which is reading/writing to hundreds of thousands of > files on it, th

Re: [zfs-discuss] OpenSolaris, ZFS and Hardware RAID, a recipe for success?

On Feb 10, 2008 9:06 AM, Jonathan Loran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Richard Elling wrote: > > Nick wrote: > > > Using the RAID cards capability for RAID6 sounds attractive? > > > > Assuming the card works well with Solaris, this sounds like a > reasonable solution. > > > > Careful her