Re: [zfs-discuss] Server upgrade

2012-02-17 Thread Paul B. Henson
option soon to be available is Illumian: http://www.illumian.org/ It's roughly the same as OpenIndiana but using Debian packaging rather than IPS. -- Paul B. Henson | (909) 979-6361 | http://www.csupomona.edu/~henson/ Operating Systems and Network Analyst | hen...@csupomona.e

Re: [zfs-discuss] S10 version question

2011-10-06 Thread Paul B. Henson
really shouldn't have been removed in the first place IMHO. -- Paul B. Henson | (909) 979-6361 | http://www.csupomona.edu/~henson/ Operating Systems and Network Analyst | hen...@csupomona.edu California State Polytechnic University | Pomona CA 91768 _

Re: [zfs-discuss] S10 version question

2011-10-05 Thread Paul B. Henson
re annoying is that U10 backports ngroups_max=1024 support, which I could *really* *really* use... -- Paul B. Henson | (909) 979-6361 | http://www.csupomona.edu/~henson/ Operating Systems and Network Analyst | hen...@csupomona.edu California State Polytechnic University | Pomona CA 91768 _

Re: [zfs-discuss] aclmode gone in S10u10?

2011-09-13 Thread Paul B. Henson
s from trying to poke legacy mode bits and don't use NFS, maybe you're ok. -- Paul B. Henson | (909) 979-6361 | http://www.csupomona.edu/~henson/ Operating Systems and Network Analyst | hen...@csupomona.edu California State Polytechnic University | Pomona CA 91768

Re: [zfs-discuss] aclmode gone in S10u10?

2011-09-13 Thread Paul B. Henson
beyond its usual painful all the way to unusable . -- Paul B. Henson | (909) 979-6361 | http://www.csupomona.edu/~henson/ Operating Systems and Network Analyst | hen...@csupomona.edu California State Polytechnic University | Pomona CA 91768

Re: [zfs-discuss] aclmode gone in S10u10?

2011-09-13 Thread Paul B. Henson
orage/solaris/downloads/index.html I just tried on a U9 and U10 box. On the U10 system, I did a simple 'chmod g+s' on a directory with an ACL, and wham, the ACL vanished. Same operation on U9, and the ACL is preserved. Meh, bogus :(. Thanks for the confirmation. -- Paul B. Henson |

Re: [zfs-discuss] aclmode gone in S10u10?

2011-09-13 Thread Paul B. Henson
w is support telling you to recover? Is it going to be one of those wipe and rebuild resolutions 8-/? Good luck... I imagine a pool upgraded to version 26 will no longer be compatible with other zfs implementations. -- Paul B. Henson | (909) 979-6361 | http://www.csupomona.edu

[zfs-discuss] aclmode gone in S10u10?

2011-09-12 Thread Paul B. Henson
not aclmode is gone in update 10? I didn't think they'd backport such a feature disabling change to Solaris 10, seems to not line up with the "long term stability and compatibility" that's supposed to be the benefit there... -- Paul B. Henson | (909) 979-6361 | htt

Re: [zfs-discuss] [illumos-Developer] revisiting aclmode options

2011-08-03 Thread Paul B. Henson
ly quite valuable for the functionality of the group@ entry. So I think the implementation of both a "discard" and "deny" aclmode would need to incorporate the ability to modify the parts of the mode bits that are not related to the ACL. -- Paul B. Henson | (909) 979-6361 | http:/

Re: [zfs-discuss] [illumos-Developer] revisiting aclmode options

2011-07-21 Thread Paul B. Henson
greatest possible access that might be allowed by the ACL, without any consideration of deny entries or group memberships. Is this description different than how the mode bits are currently derived when a ZFS acl is set on an object? -- Paul B. Henson | (909) 979-6361 | http://www.csupomo

Re: [zfs-discuss] revisiting aclmode options

2011-07-21 Thread Paul B. Henson
re an update to the NFS 4 ACL spec not very probable, particularly in the short term... -- Paul B. Henson | (909) 979-6361 | http://www.csupomona.edu/~henson/ Operating Systems and Network Analyst | hen...@csupomona.edu California State Polytechnic University

[zfs-discuss] revisiting aclmode options

2011-07-18 Thread Paul B. Henson
ather than a per file system level, but that would be considerably more difficult to achieve 8-/. If illumos would be willing to consider integrating a change like this, I would like to discuss the technical details and determine the best possible implementation. Thanks... -- Paul B.

Re: [zfs-discuss] best migration path from Solaris 10

2011-03-24 Thread Paul B. Henson
rs for ad-hoc projects like this mostly because I already have more work than I have engineers to perform the work. Oh, did I mention, we're hiring? :-) I wish you the best of luck in hiring sufficient engineers to be able to offer support for NCP or OpenIndiana :)... -- Paul B.

Re: [zfs-discuss] best migration path from Solaris 10

2011-03-21 Thread Paul B. Henson
pay somebody to make it happen. Thanks for the info... -- Paul B. Henson | (909) 979-6361 | http://www.csupomona.edu/~henson/ Operating Systems and Network Analyst | hen...@csupomona.edu California State Polytechnic University | Pomona CA 91768 __

Re: [zfs-discuss] best migration path from Solaris 10

2011-03-21 Thread Paul B. Henson
-leaked-on-solaris.html Hmm, I dunno that I'd take a quote from a leaked internal memo as gospel ;). For that matter, even if they flat out publicly announced it I can't say I'd trust them to actually follow through... -- Paul B. Henson | (909) 979-6361 | http://www.csupomona.edu/~

Re: [zfs-discuss] best migration path from Solaris 10

2011-03-21 Thread Paul B. Henson
handholding, the majority of our support calls end up being actual bugs or limitations in solaris. But if one of our file servers panics, doesn't import a pool when it boots, and crashes every time you try to import it by hand, it would be nice to have an engineer available :). Thanks...

[zfs-discuss] best migration path from Solaris 10

2011-03-18 Thread Paul B. Henson
uld probably be better to wait for 4 to come out. Sorry, I think I'm starting to ramble :). So, for those people with similar deployment needs as myself, with a large number of filesystems, a large population, and access via multiple protocols, what are you currently running? What do you

[zfs-discuss] ZFS ACL's broken over NFS

2010-12-06 Thread Paul B. Henson
dollars, so I guess I'll start with that number and see what they say. I doubt if the lawyers would let me, but if that scenario occurred I'd do my damndest to include "This notification brought to you courtesy of poor Oracle software security" in the letter ;)... -- Pau

[zfs-discuss] live upgrade with lots of zfs filesystems -- still broken

2010-10-19 Thread Paul B. Henson
grade to work in an environment with many file systems, I'd be happy to help; it would be nice to have shipped code that works without breaking out the hex editor ;). Thanks... -- Paul B. Henson | (909) 979-6361 | http://www.csupomona.edu/~henson/ Operating Systems and Network A

Re: [zfs-discuss] Migrating to an aclmode-less world

2010-10-07 Thread Paul B. Henson
e of a timely response from a 3rd party vendor whose application doesn't play nicely with ACLs? If only there was some way to keep applications from screwing up your ACLs with inappropriate uses of chmod... -- Paul B. Henson | (909) 979-6361 | http://www.csupomona.edu/~henson/ Opera

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs proerty aclmode gone in 147?

2010-09-28 Thread Paul B. Henson
d be willing to implement it myself if there was some reasonable likelihood it would be accepted, once the whole Illumos thing settles down I think I'll make that offer again and see what happens. -- Paul B. Henson | (909) 979-6361 | http://w

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs proerty aclmode gone in 147?

2010-09-28 Thread Paul B. Henson
we'll need a simple libc API for > editing ACLs). Yep. And a good first step towards an ACL world would be providing a way to keep chmod from destroying ACLs in the current world... -- Paul B. Henson | (909) 979-6361 | http://www.csupomona.edu/~henson/ Operating Systems and Ne

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs proerty aclmode gone in 147?

2010-09-28 Thread Paul B. Henson
nt to fix acl/chmod interaction, maybe one of the new OpenSolaris forks will do the right thing... -- Paul B. Henson | (909) 979-6361 | http://www.csupomona.edu/~henson/ Operating Systems and Network Analyst | hen...@csupomona.edu California State Polytechnic University

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS development moving behind closed doors

2010-08-19 Thread Paul B. Henson
kported to S10, particularly the in-kernel CIFS server... We were planning on migrating from S10 to OpenSolaris, and that was one of the major reasons. If OpenSolaris 3/2010 had actually been released, we might have even been there now... -- Paul B. Henson | (909) 979-6361 | http://www.csupomona.edu/~hen

Re: [zfs-discuss] Opensolaris is apparently dead

2010-08-14 Thread Paul B. Henson
ly would I want to do business with a company that lies to its customers? -- Paul B. Henson | (909) 979-6361 | http://www.csupomona.edu/~henson/ Operating Systems and Network Analyst | hen...@csupomona.edu California State Polytechnic University

Re: [zfs-discuss] Legality and the future of zfs...

2010-07-14 Thread Paul B. Henson
k from > the pool... Woo-hoo, the code already released won't be taken back ;). But considering virtually all zfs development has been and presumably will continue to be by Sun/Oracle employees, that code is going to get stale pretty quick if they stop contributing to it... -- Paul

Re: [zfs-discuss] Legality and the future of zfs...

2010-07-14 Thread Paul B. Henson
of my lack of desire to continue using it at work, and while we're not exactly a huge client we've dropped a decent penny or two in Sun's wallet over the years. Who knows, maybe Oracle will start to play ball before August 16th and the OpenSolaris Governing Board won&#x

Re: [zfs-discuss] One dataset per user?

2010-06-24 Thread Paul B. Henson
;m hoping someday they'll clean up the sharing implementation and make it a bit more scalable. I had a ticket open once and they pretty much said it would never happen for Solaris 10, but maybe sometime in the indefinite future for OpenSolaris... -- Paul B. Henson | (909) 979-6361

Re: [zfs-discuss] One dataset per user?

2010-06-22 Thread Paul B. Henson
7;ve got about 8k filesystems on an x4500, it takes about 2 hours for a full boot cycle which is kind of annoying. The majority of that time is taken up with NFS sharing, which currently scales very poorly :(. Thanks... -- Paul B. Henson | (909) 979-6361 | http://www.csupomona.edu/~henson/ Oper

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS, NFS, and ACLs ssues

2010-05-03 Thread Paul B. Henson
e same place, you can use a wildcard entry: * -rw,hard,intr hecate:/zp-ext/test/& -- Paul B. Henson | (909) 979-6361 | http://www.csupomona.edu/~henson/ Operating Systems and Network Analyst | hen...@csupomona.edu California State Polytechnic

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS, NFS, and ACLs ssues

2010-04-29 Thread Paul B. Henson
tem. Pending the availability of mirror mounts (http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/download/Project+nfs-namespace/files/mm-PRS-open.html) you need to mount each ZFS filesystem you're exporting via NFS separately. -- Paul B. Henson | (909) 979-6361 | http://www.csupomona.edu/~henson/

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS aclmode property

2010-03-08 Thread Paul B. Henson
On Sat, 6 Mar 2010, Paul B. Henson wrote: > If you have a Sun support contract, open a support call and ask to be added > to SR #72456444, which is the case I have open to try and get a better > solution to chmod/ACL interaction. CR#6933018 has been created for this issue; for any i

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS aclmode property

2010-03-06 Thread Paul B. Henson
response to his initial reply detailing his reasons he thought it was a bad idea, and he was conspicuously absent during the recent list free-for-all... As I've offered before, I'll implement it if they'll merge it... -- Paul B. Henson | (909) 979-6361 | http://www.csupom

Re: [zfs-discuss] Who is using ZFS ACL's in production?

2010-03-03 Thread Paul B. Henson
I have a definite fear that it'll end up impacting me, that "not > using it" won't be as clear an option as you think it will. Technology changes; it's a bad field to be in for the change adverse :). -- Paul B. Henson | (909) 979-6361 | http://www.csupomona.e

Re: [zfs-discuss] Who is using ZFS ACL's in production?

2010-03-03 Thread Paul B. Henson
ality that I need and will be valuable in my environment. You're arguing that someone else shouldn't be able to get the functionality they need because you won't be happy if it exists at all, even if no one forces you to use it. It seems that's an entirely different grade

Re: [zfs-discuss] Who is using ZFS ACL's in production?

2010-03-02 Thread Paul B. Henson
goal to be seeking. If you can offer alternative mechanisms within the current capability set that can achive that goal I'd love to hear them; but claims that I wouldn't have a problem if I didn't consider the current state of affairs to be a problem aren't particularly useful.

Re: [zfs-discuss] Who is using ZFS ACL's in production?

2010-03-02 Thread Paul B. Henson
problem. I'm not quite sure what your point is. If my car engine caught on fire every time I exceeded 50 mph, would you say that rather than taking it to the dealer to get fixed, I should simply never exceed 50 mph? > nice insult. It wasn't an insult, it was an obje

Re: [zfs-discuss] Who is using ZFS ACL's in production?

2010-03-02 Thread Paul B. Henson
would be per dataset. -- Paul B. Henson | (909) 979-6361 | http://www.csupomona.edu/~henson/ Operating Systems and Network Analyst | hen...@csupomona.edu California State Polytechnic University | Pomona CA 91768 ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-di

Re: [zfs-discuss] Who is using ZFS ACL's in production?

2010-03-02 Thread Paul B. Henson
nd it seems like an awful lot of initial investment just to be able to point to something and say "Boy, it sure would be cool if they accepted that into the code base" :(. -- Paul B. Henson | (909) 979-6361 | http://www.csupomona.edu/~henson/ Operating Systems and Network Analyst |

Re: [zfs-discuss] Who is using ZFS ACL's in production?

2010-03-02 Thread Paul B. Henson
poor > > stepchild and chained down with legacy semantics that make it exceedingly > > difficult to actually use ACL's for their intended purpose? > > I am certainly not advocating that. Good :). I am certainly not wedded to my proposal, if some other solution is proposed

Re: [zfs-discuss] Who is using ZFS ACL's in production?

2010-03-02 Thread Paul B. Henson
ndle the appearance of new mode_t bits correctly? I suspect that they > will, or at least that we'd condier it a bug if they didn't. Or we could > add a new file attribute. > > But given cheap datasets, why not settle for a suitable dataset property > as a starting point.

Re: [zfs-discuss] Who is using ZFS ACL's in production?

2010-03-02 Thread Paul B. Henson
rs, and both Linux and Solaris clients has been working great. And I don't really think a "bad client" should be able to crash the server; regardless of the client problems that's a server bug. -- Paul B. Henson | (909) 979-6361 | http://www.csupomona.edu/~henson/ Operatin

Re: [zfs-discuss] Who is using ZFS ACL's in production?

2010-03-02 Thread Paul B. Henson
rong thing to do; rather than trying to force together different security models, allow an option getting rid of the security model not desired, letting the other one "just work". -- Paul B. Henson | (909) 979-6361 | http://www.csupomona.edu/~henson/ Operating Systems a

Re: [zfs-discuss] Who is using ZFS ACL's in production?

2010-03-02 Thread Paul B. Henson
iving you of anything you currently have. I'm simply requesting an additional feature set that would be very useful for some deployments. I'm not really sure why people keep arguing about why it would not be good for their deployment, and considering such a reason it should not be implemented

Re: [zfs-discuss] Who is using ZFS ACL's in production?

2010-03-02 Thread Paul B. Henson
them correctly. I think we're just not on the same page on this; while I am not saying I'm on the right page, it does seem you need to do a little more reading up on how ACL's work. -- Paul B. Henson | (909) 979-6361 | http://www.csupomona.edu/~he

Re: [zfs-discuss] Who is using ZFS ACL's in production?

2010-03-01 Thread Paul B. Henson
Sv4 be a poor stepchild and chained down with legacy semantics that make it exceedingly difficult to actually use ACL's for their intended purpose? -- Paul B. Henson | (909) 979-6361 | http://www.csupomona.edu/~henson/ Operating Systems and Network Analyst | hen...@csupomona.edu Ca

Re: [zfs-discuss] Who is using ZFS ACL's in production?

2010-03-01 Thread Paul B. Henson
ke you're arguing I shouldn't try to fix ACL/chmod issues because ACL's are insecure because they have chmod issues 8-/. -- Paul B. Henson | (909) 979-6361 | http://www.csupomona.edu/~henson/ Operating Systems and Network Analyst | hen...@csupomona.edu California S

Re: [zfs-discuss] Large scale ZFS deployments out there (>200 disks)

2010-03-01 Thread Paul B. Henson
ilesystems per run about 50-60 minutes to shut down, and about the same to boot up, resulting in about a 2 hour boot cycle, which is kind of annoying. The lack of scalability is in the NFS sharing, it only takes ~5 minutes to mount all 8000. I hope someday they'll optimize that a bit...

Re: [zfs-discuss] Who is using ZFS ACL's in production?

2010-02-27 Thread Paul B. Henson
pulate them directly from perl, I'd write one (like I did for DFS ACL's back in the day -- http://www.csupomona.edu/~henson/archive/projects/DFS-Perl/) -- Paul B. Henson | (909) 979-6361 | http://www.csupomona.edu/~henson/ Operating Systems and Network Analyst | hen...@csupomona.edu Ca

Re: [zfs-discuss] Who is using ZFS ACL's in production?

2010-02-26 Thread Paul B. Henson
the security provided by mode bits is sufficient, so you configure aclmode so it works. Or the security provided by mode bits isn't sufficient, so you replace the app/script with one that understands ACLs. Using the published ACL API. man -s 2 acl ;). You can claim it might be a lot of w

Re: [zfs-discuss] Who is using ZFS ACL's in production?

2010-02-26 Thread Paul B. Henson
what I do. [...] > Okay, but the argument goes the other way just as well -- when I run > "chmod 6400 foobar", I want the permissions set that specific way, and I > don't want some magic background feature blocking me. Particulary if > "I" am a complex system o

Re: [zfs-discuss] Who is using ZFS ACL's in production?

2010-02-26 Thread Paul B. Henson
(other than a couple of ongoing unresolved scalability issues and this acl issue). But I can't agree with you more that an undesired chmod should not destroy carefully crafted acls. Now if I could only get a ZFS engineer to share that viewpoint :). -- Paul B. Henson | (909) 979-6361 | http://

Re: [zfs-discuss] Who is using ZFS ACL's in production?

2010-02-26 Thread Paul B. Henson
abeled as option (b). And I think you absolutely should be able to configure your fileserver to implement your preference. Why shouldn't I be able to configure my fileserver to implement mine :)? -- Paul B. Henson | (909) 979-6361 | http://www.csupomona.edu

Re: [zfs-discuss] cmod(2) vs. ACLs (Re: Who is using ZFS ACL's in production?)

2010-02-26 Thread Paul B. Henson
l thought -- implement a way to attach a custom chmod->ACL mapper to a zfs filesystem allowing some basic scripting language to specify what happens. Then everybody could make it do exactly what they want :). -- Paul B. Henson | (909) 979-6361 | http://www.csupomona.edu/~henson/ Operating S

Re: [zfs-discuss] Who is using ZFS ACL's in production?

2010-02-26 Thread Paul B. Henson
assthrough aclmode's (both examples of trying to apply rules to map mode bit changes to ACL's), leaving only discard. I actually agree with that -- if you're going to apply mode bit changes to an object with an ACL, you might as well just get rid of it. However, in addition to disca

Re: [zfs-discuss] Who is using ZFS ACL's in production?

2010-02-26 Thread Paul B. Henson
d be some form of option available such that if an application is not ACL aware, it flat out shouldn't be allowed to muck with permissions on an object with a non-trivial ACL. In such a mode, only ACL operations should be allowed to modify the permissions. They're really two separate sec

Re: [zfs-discuss] Who is using ZFS ACL's in production?

2010-02-26 Thread Paul B. Henson
:(. I've got an open case, SR#72456444, regarding chmod/ACL conflicts, if anybody would like to help it along :). Thanks... -- Paul B. Henson | (909) 979-6361 | http://www.csupomona.edu/~henson/ Operating Systems and Network Analyst | hen..

Re: [zfs-discuss] Who is using ZFS ACL's in production?

2010-02-26 Thread Paul B. Henson
ut I was unable to make it stop. We disabled unix extensions, and all of the dos attributes to mode bits mappings, but it would still screw up ACL's as things were copied or moved around. -- Paul B. Henson | (909) 979-6361 | http://www.csupomona.edu/~henson/ Operating Systems and Net

Re: [zfs-discuss] Who is using ZFS ACL's in production?

2010-02-26 Thread Paul B. Henson
ferent approach that would achieve the same goal, I'd love to hear about it. But I'm not sure how you could do that as long as the ACL is so easily mangled. Thanks... -- Paul B. Henson | (909) 979-6361 | http://www.csupomona.edu/~henson/ Operating Systems and Network Analy

Re: [zfs-discuss] Who is using ZFS ACL's in production?

2010-02-26 Thread Paul B. Henson
Are the files ever accessed via NFS or local shell? -- Paul B. Henson | (909) 979-6361 | http://www.csupomona.edu/~henson/ Operating Systems and Network Analyst | hen...@csupomona.edu California State Polytechnic University | Pomona CA 91768 _

Re: [zfs-discuss] Who is using ZFS ACL's in production?

2010-02-26 Thread Paul B. Henson
. So far it's been quite a struggle to deploy ACL's on an enterprise central file services platform with access via multiple protocols and have them actually be functional and reliable. I can see why the average consumer might give up. -- Paul B. Henson | (909) 979-6361 | htt

Re: [zfs-discuss] Who is using ZFS ACL's in production?

2010-02-26 Thread Paul B. Henson
't chmod something at some point. -- Paul B. Henson | (909) 979-6361 | http://www.csupomona.edu/~henson/ Operating Systems and Network Analyst | hen...@csupomona.edu California State Polytechnic University | Pomona CA 91768 ___ zfs-discuss mailing

Re: [zfs-discuss] Who is using ZFS ACL's in production?

2010-02-25 Thread Paul B. Henson
ongoing basis. That would be pretty kludgy :(, but better than sensitive data suddenly becoming world readable because somebody's favorite editor feels the need to chmod a file after creation to match the permissions it thinks it should have had based on the umask. Talk about a security def

[zfs-discuss] Who is using ZFS ACL's in production?

2010-02-25 Thread Paul B. Henson
rying to leverage them to allow a very large user population to have highly flexible control over access to their data. Anyone here that has a non-negligible ACL deployment that would be interested in discussing it? Thanks... -- Paul B. Henson | (909) 979-6361 | http://www.csupomona.edu/~

Re: [zfs-discuss] /usr/bin/chgrp destroys ACL's?

2010-02-11 Thread Paul B. Henson
ACL's on zfs, and only ever manipulate permissions with legacy chmod mode bits, I believe zfs will behave like ACL's don't exist. For what scenario is the existance of ACL's resulting in failure for use cases that don't apply them? -- Paul B. Henson | (909) 979-6361 |

Re: [zfs-discuss] /usr/bin/chgrp destroys ACL's?

2010-02-10 Thread Paul B. Henson
d the CIFS compatible NFSv4 ACL's provide great potential for cross platform interoperability, but despite being a pure acl filesystem I don't think there's any feasible way at this point to allow access via NFSv4 or local shell and not break acl's one way or another. -- Paul B

[zfs-discuss] /usr/bin/chgrp destroys ACL's?

2010-02-10 Thread Paul B. Henson
I need. But it's not really feasible to run around and tweak every little binary around (preload a shared library to stop chgrp from breaking ACL's too?), which is why I think it would be an excellent feature to let the underlying operating system deal with it -- hence aclmode igno

[zfs-discuss] alternative aclmode options -- ignore? deny?

2010-02-09 Thread Paul B. Henson
empt on a file/directory with a non-trivial acl fails with EPERM. You can already achieve acl-pure datasets under opensolaris if you only access them via cifs; why should nfs or local shell access not be able to have the same functionality? -- Paul B. Henson | (909) 979-6361 | http://w

Re: [zfs-discuss] x4500 failed disk, not sure if hot spare took over correctly

2010-01-11 Thread Paul B. Henson
has DTL entries, are you saying there's no way to tell if the current state of your pool could survive a device failure? If a resilver successfully completes, barring another device failure, doesn't that mean the pool is restored to full redundancy? I feel like I must be misunderstanding somet

Re: [zfs-discuss] x4500 failed disk, not sure if hot spare took over correctly

2010-01-11 Thread Paul B. Henson
ols it seems it would be valuable to be able to quickly distinguish these states from the short status. Thanks... -- Paul B. Henson | (909) 979-6361 | http://www.csupomona.edu/~henson/ Operating Systems and Network Analyst | hen...@csupomona.edu California State Polytechnic Univer

Re: [zfs-discuss] x4500 failed disk, not sure if hot spare took over correctly

2010-01-09 Thread Paul B. Henson
inition a hot spare is always DEGRADED. As long as > the spare itself is ONLINE it's fine. The spare shows as "INUSE", but I'm guessing that's fine too. > Hope that helps That was perfect, thank you very much for the review. Now I can not worry about it until Mond

[zfs-discuss] x4500 failed disk, not sure if hot spare took over correctly

2010-01-09 Thread Paul B. Henson
ul resilver status output, it seems like the spare might not have been added successfully. Thanks for any input you might provide... -- Paul B. Henson | (909) 979-6361 | http://www.csupomona.edu/~henson/ Operating Systems and Network Analyst | hen...@csupomona.edu California State Po

[zfs-discuss] CR#6850837 "libshare enhancements to address performance and scalability"

2009-12-09 Thread Paul B. Henson
what kind of improvements might be expected, and why it's not going to be feasible to backport that change to Solaris 10? Thanks... -- Paul B. Henson | (909) 979-6361 | http://www.csupomona.edu/~henson/ Operating Systems and Network Analyst | hen...@csupomona.edu California State P

Re: [zfs-discuss] CR6894234 -- improved sgid directory compatibility with non-Solaris NFS clients

2009-11-09 Thread Paul B. Henson
eally prefer they fix it themselves... > Also, since you know it's a NFS server issue now, have you tried asking > on nfs-discuss? Yup: http://opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?messageID=430745 No responses... -- Paul B. Henson | (909) 979-6361 | http://www.csupomona.edu/~he

Re: [zfs-discuss] CR6894234 -- improved sgid directory compatibility with non-Solaris NFS clients

2009-11-05 Thread Paul B. Henson
support engineer indicated it worked correctly for him on a Solaris 10 server under v3, and only v4 was broken. We set up a v3 test and verified that was the case, which we've now pointed out on the support ticket, and are hoping it will actually get fixed now. -- Paul B. Hen

Re: [zfs-discuss] CR6894234 -- improved sgid directory compatibility with non-Solaris NFS clients

2009-11-03 Thread Paul B. Henson
e them, "You should get Sun to fix their server". I'm trying to do that, but no luck so far ... -- Paul B. Henson | (909) 979-6361 | http://www.csupomona.edu/~henson/ Operating Systems and Network Analyst | hen...@csupomona.edu California State Polytechnic University | Pomo

Re: [zfs-discuss] CR6894234 -- improved sgid directory compatibility with non-Solaris NFS clients

2009-11-02 Thread Paul B. Henson
7;ve got a cron job running every hour on the backend servers crawling around and fixing permissions on new directories :(. You would have thought something like this would have been noticed in one of the NFS interoperability bake offs. -- Paul B. Henson | (909) 979-6361 | http://www.cs

Re: [zfs-discuss] CR6894234 -- improved sgid directory compatibility with non-Solaris NFS clients

2009-11-02 Thread Paul B. Henson
your considerable influence to try and improve interoperability ;)? Or perhaps put me in touch with someone in forward development, or someone in charge of attending NFS interoperability bakeoffs, that might be more interested in improvements? Thanks... -- Paul B. Henson | (909) 979-6361 | http://www.csupo

Re: [zfs-discuss] CR6894234 -- improved sgid directory compatibility with non-Solaris NFS clients

2009-10-30 Thread Paul B. Henson
has much choice, it's being told explicitly which group the new directory should be owned by. Thanks... -- Paul B. Henson | (909) 979-6361 | http://www.csupomona.edu/~henson/ Operating Systems and Network Analyst | hen...@csupomona.edu California State Polytechni

Re: [zfs-discuss] CR6894234 -- improved sgid directory compatibility with non-Solaris NFS clients

2009-10-29 Thread Paul B. Henson
be to respect the sgid bit semantics, and continue to hope I can convince the engineers in charge of this decision to agree. Thanks... -- Paul B. Henson | (909) 979-6361 | http://www.csupomona.edu/~henson/ Operating Systems and Network Analyst | hen...@csupomon

Re: [zfs-discuss] CR6894234 -- improved sgid directory compatibility with non-Solaris NFS clients

2009-10-29 Thread Paul B. Henson
e you for a link to it? Thanks much for any help you might provide in clarifying this issue, and if our understanding of the behavior turns out to be accurate, any help in getting a change committed to better respect the sgid bit :)... -- Paul B. Henson | (909) 979-6361 | http://www.c

[zfs-discuss] CR6894234 -- improved sgid directory compatibility with non-Solaris NFS clients

2009-10-29 Thread Paul B. Henson
t in improved interoperability and keeping true to the spirit of the sgid bit could take a look at this CR and weigh in on its final resolution, that would be greatly appreciated. -- Paul B. Henson | (909) 979-6361 | http://www.csupomona.edu/~henson/ Operating Systems and Network Analyst |

Re: [zfs-discuss] importing pool with missing/failed log device

2009-10-22 Thread Paul B. Henson
you please check bug number in question? Ack, my bad, too many open cases :(, sorry. The correct bug for the inquiry is CR 6707530. Thanks... -- Paul B. Henson | (909) 979-6361 | http://www.csupomona.edu/~henson/ Operating Systems and Network Analyst | hen...@csupomona.edu California

Re: [zfs-discuss] Setting up an SSD ZIL - Need A Reality Check

2009-10-21 Thread Paul B. Henson
7;d Intel X25-E, so I don't see how it could not be a good slog device. -- Paul B. Henson | (909) 979-6361 | http://www.csupomona.edu/~henson/ Operating Systems and Network Analyst | hen...@csupomona.edu California State Polytechnic University | Pomona CA 91768 _

[zfs-discuss] importing pool with missing/failed log device

2009-10-21 Thread Paul B. Henson
Any information appreciated, thanks... -- Paul B. Henson | (909) 979-6361 | http://www.csupomona.edu/~henson/ Operating Systems and Network Analyst | hen...@csupomona.edu California State Polytechnic University | Pomona CA 91768 ___ zfs-discuss ma

Re: [zfs-discuss] Liveupgrade'd to U8 and now can't boot previous U6 BE :(

2009-10-19 Thread Paul B. Henson
ong and only the new u8 BE > has the understanding of the new bootblocks. I restored the U6 grub, and sure enough, I was able to boot my U6 BE again. However, I was also still able to boot the U8 BE. Thanks much, I'll pass this info on to my open support ticket and see what they have to say.

[zfs-discuss] Liveupgrade'd to U8 and now can't boot previous U6 BE :(

2009-10-16 Thread Paul B. Henson
_archive title s10u8 failsafe findroot (BE_s10u8,0,a) bootfs ospool/ROOT/s10u8 kernel /boot/multiboot -s module /boot/amd64/x86.miniroot-safe #- s10u8 -- END LIVE UPGRADE Thanks for any help... -- Paul B. Henson | (909) 979-6361 | http://www.csupomona.edu/~henson/

Re: [zfs-discuss] Strange problem with liveupgrade on zfs (10u7 and u8)

2009-10-16 Thread Paul B. Henson
aven't had the time yet to physically visit the data center and plug a physical keyboard in to try to boot into failsafe to resolve it. -- Paul B. Henson | (909) 979-6361 | http://www.csupomona.edu/~henson/ Operating Systems and Network Analyst | hen...@csupomona.edu California State Polyt

Re: [zfs-discuss] s10u8: lots of fixes, any commentary?

2009-10-16 Thread Paul B. Henson
n find more details on that? -- Paul B. Henson | (909) 979-6361 | http://www.csupomona.edu/~henson/ Operating Systems and Network Analyst | hen...@csupomona.edu California State Polytechnic University | Pomona CA 91768 ___ zfs-discuss maili

Re: [zfs-discuss] Solaris 10 samba in AD mode broken when user in > 32 AD groups

2009-10-13 Thread Paul B. Henson
der that given the CIFS server in OpenSolaris runs in-kernel it's not subject to the same OS limitations as a user level process. Once Casper finishes his work and access via NFS is no longer limited to 32 groups that will be quite sweet... -- Paul B. Henson | (909) 979-6361 | http:

Re: [zfs-discuss] Solaris 10 samba in AD mode broken when user in > 32 AD groups

2009-10-13 Thread Paul B. Henson
e in a patch, and the incremental cost of adding in my simple fix must be negligible. -- Paul B. Henson | (909) 979-6361 | http://www.csupomona.edu/~henson/ Operating Systems and Network Analyst | hen...@csupomona.edu California State Polytechnic University | Pomona CA 91768

Re: [zfs-discuss] Solaris 10 samba in AD mode broken when user in > 32 AD groups

2009-10-13 Thread Paul B. Henson
&server_info->n_groups); + + if (server_info->n_groups == ngroups_max) break; } debug_nt_user_token(DBGC_AUTH, 10, server_info->ptok); -- Paul B. Henson | (909) 979-6361 | http://www.csupomona.edu/~henson/ Operating Systems and N

[zfs-discuss] Solaris 10 samba in AD mode broken when user in > 32 AD groups

2009-10-13 Thread Paul B. Henson
mehow convince the samba sustaining engineering group to fix it? Please? Thanks much... -- Paul B. Henson | (909) 979-6361 | http://www.csupomona.edu/~henson/ Operating Systems and Network Analyst | hen...@csupomona.edu California State Polytec

Re: [zfs-discuss] NFS sgid directory interoperability with Linux

2009-10-13 Thread Paul B. Henson
r rather than the parent directory group. -- Paul B. Henson | (909) 979-6361 | http://www.csupomona.edu/~henson/ Operating Systems and Network Analyst | hen...@csupomona.edu California State Polytechnic University | Pomona CA 91768 ___ zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] NFS sgid directory interoperability with Linux

2009-10-13 Thread Paul B. Henson
laris client, the nfs mkdir op explicitly specifies the group. Brian is going to follow up shortly with more technical detail. Thanks... -- Paul B. Henson | (909) 979-6361 | http://www.csupomona.edu/~henson/ Operating Systems and Network Analyst | hen...@csupomona.edu California State Polyte

Re: [zfs-discuss] NFS sgid directory interoperability with Linux

2009-10-12 Thread Paul B. Henson
the parent directory's group, while the Linux NFS client expects the server to enforce the sgid bit. -- Paul B. Henson | (909) 979-6361 | http://www.csupomona.edu/~henson/ Operating Systems and Network Analyst | hen...@csupomona.edu California State Polytechnic University | Pomona

[zfs-discuss] NFS sgid directory interoperability with Linux

2009-10-12 Thread Paul B. Henson
ing it. Is this functionality strictly defined anywhere, or is it implementation dependent? You'd think something like this would have turned up in an interoperability bake-off at some point. Thanks for any information... -- Paul B. Henson | (909) 979-6361 | http://www.csupomona.edu/~henson/ O

Re: [zfs-discuss] Intel X25-E SSD in x4500 followup

2009-09-15 Thread Paul B. Henson
other potential snag in my deployment plan, as I'd only have one SSD in each system. -- Paul B. Henson | (909) 979-6361 | http://www.csupomona.edu/~henson/ Operating Systems and Network Analyst | hen...@csupomona.edu California State Polytechnic Universit

Re: [zfs-discuss] Intel X25-E SSD in x4500 followup

2009-09-15 Thread Paul B. Henson
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Re: [zfs-discuss] Intel X25-E SSD in x4500 followup

2009-09-13 Thread Paul B. Henson
On Sun, 13 Sep 2009, Mike Gerdts wrote: > August 11 they released firmware revisions 8820, 8850, and 02G9, > depending on the drive model. Ooooh, cool, last time I checked they only had updates for the X25-M. Thanks for the pointer. ___ zfs-discuss mail

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