[zfs-discuss] Host based zfs config with Oracle's Unified Storage 7000 series

2011-01-03 Thread Shawn Joy
My question regarding the 7000 series storage is in more of the perspective of the HOST side ZFS config. It is my understanding that the 7000 storage displays a FC lun to the host. Yes, this LUN is a ZFS lun in the 7000 storage, however the host still sees this as only one LUN. If I configure a

[zfs-discuss] ZFS znapshot of zone that contains ufs SAN attached file systems

2011-01-03 Thread Shawn Joy
Hi All, If a zone root is on zfs but that zone also contains SAN attached UFS devices what is recorded in a zfs snapshot of the zone? Does the snapshot only contain the ZFS root info? How would one recover this complete zone? Thanks, Shawn -- This message posted from opensolaris.org __

Re: [zfs-discuss] Does ZFS work with SAN-attached devices?

2009-10-15 Thread Shawn Joy
Prior to this fix ZFS would panic the systems in order to avoid data corruption and loss of the zpool. Now the pool goes into a degraded or faulted state and one can "try" the zpool clear command to correct the issue. If this does not succeed a reboot is required. -- This message posted from

Re: [zfs-discuss] Does ZFS work with SAN-attached devices?

2009-10-14 Thread Shawn Joy
Just to put closure to this discussion about how CR 6565042 and 6322646 change how ZFS functions with in the below scenario. >ZFS no longer has the issue where loss of a single device (even >intermittently) causes pool corruption. That's been fixed. > >That is, there used to be an issue in this

Re: [zfs-discuss] Does ZFS work with SAN-attached devices?

2009-10-13 Thread Shawn Joy
>In life there are many things that we "should do" (but often don't). >There are always trade-offs. If you need your pool to be able to >operate with a device missing, then the pool needs to have sufficient >redundancy to keep working. If you want your pool to survive if a >disk gets crushed by a w

Re: [zfs-discuss] Does ZFS work with SAN-attached devices?

2009-10-11 Thread Shawn Joy
>I went back and dug through some of my email, and the issue showed up as >CR 6565042. > >That was fixed in b77 and s10 update 6. > >I looked at this CR, forgive me but I am not a ZFS engineer. Can you explain >in, >simple terms, how ZFS now reacts to this? If it does not panic how does >it insur

Re: [zfs-discuss] Does ZFS work with SAN-attached devices?

2009-10-11 Thread Shawn Joy
>I went back and dug through some of my email, and the issue showed up as >CR 6565042. > >That was fixed in b77 and s10 update 6. I looked at this CR, forgive me but I am not a ZFS engineer. Can you explain in, simple terms, how ZFS now reacts to this? If it does not panic how does it insure dat

Re: [zfs-discuss] Does ZFS work with SAN-attached devices?

2009-10-10 Thread Shawn Joy
or raid controllers failures on the hardware array? Does ZFS handle intermittent controller outages on the raid controllers the same as what UFS would? Thanks, Shawn Ian Collins wrote: Shawn Joy wrote: Hi All, Its been a while since I touched zfs. Is the below still the case with zfs and

Re: [zfs-discuss] Does ZFS work with SAN-attached devices?

2009-10-09 Thread Shawn Joy
>If you don't give ZFS any redundancy, you risk loosing you pool if there is >data corruption. Is this the same risk for data corruption as UFS on hardware based luns? If we present one LUN to ZFS and choose not to ZFS mirror or do a raidz pool of that LUN is ZFS able to handle disk or raid co

[zfs-discuss] Does ZFS work with SAN-attached devices?

2009-10-09 Thread Shawn Joy
Hi All, Its been a while since I touched zfs. Is the below still the case with zfs and hardware raid array? Do we still need to provide two luns from the hardware raid then zfs mirror those two luns? http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/zfs/faq/#hardwareraid Thanks, Shawn -- This message

Re: [zfs-discuss] "Poor Man's Cluster" using zpool export and zpool import

2009-07-08 Thread Shawn Joy
Thanks Cindy and Darren -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

[zfs-discuss] "Poor Man's Cluster" using zpool export and zpool import

2009-07-08 Thread Shawn Joy
Is it supported to use zpool export and zpool import to manage disk access between two nodes that have access to the same storage device. What issues exist if the host currently owning the zpool goes down? In this case will using zpool import -f work? Is there possible data corruption issues?

[zfs-discuss] ZFS boot and data on same disk - is this supported?

2008-12-18 Thread Shawn Joy
I have read the ZFS best practice guide located at http://www.solarisinternals.com/wiki/index.php/ZFS_Best_Practices_Guide However I have questions whether we support using slices for data on the same disk as we use for ZFS boot. What issues does this create if we have a disk failure in a mirro

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs boot Solaris 10/08 whole disk or slice

2008-12-18 Thread Shawn joy
If one chooses to do this what happens if you have a disk failure. >From the ZFS Best practices guide. The recovery process of replacing a failed disk is more complex when disks contain both ZFS and UFS file systems on slices. Shawn -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___

[zfs-discuss] zfs boot Solaris 10/08 whole disk or slice

2008-12-18 Thread Shawn joy
Hi All, I see from the zfs Best practices guide http://www.solarisinternals.com/wiki/index.php/ZFS_Best_Practices_Guide ZFS Root Pool Considerations * A root pool must be created with disk slices rather than whole disks. Allocate the entire disk capacity for the root pool to slice 0, for

Re: [zfs-discuss] mirror a slice

2007-12-13 Thread Shawn Joy
What are the commands? Everything I see is c1t0d0, c1t1d0. no slice just the completed disk. Robert Milkowski wrote: > Hello Shawn, > > Thursday, December 13, 2007, 3:46:09 PM, you wrote: > > SJ> Is it possible to bring one slice of a disk under zfs controller and > SJ> leave the other

[zfs-discuss] mirror a slice

2007-12-13 Thread Shawn Joy
Is it possible to bring one slice of a disk under zfs controller and leave the others as ufs? A customer is tryng to mirror one slice using zfs. Please respond to me directly and to the alias. Thanks, Shawn ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@op

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: Difference between ZFS and UFS with one LUN froma SAN

2006-12-22 Thread Shawn Joy
d pull cables all the time and have yet to see a zfs kernel panic. Is this something you've considered? I haven't seen the bug in question, but I definitely have not run into it when running mpxio. --Tim -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On

[zfs-discuss] Re: Difference between ZFS and UFS with one LUN from a SAN

2006-12-22 Thread Shawn Joy
OK, But lets get back to the original question. Does ZFS provide you with less features than UFS does on one LUN from a SAN (i.e is it less stable). >ZFS on the contrary checks every block it reads and is able to find the >mirror >or reconstruct the data in a raidz config. >Therefore ZFS uses o

[zfs-discuss] Difference between ZFS and UFS with one LUN from a SAN

2006-12-21 Thread Shawn Joy
All, I understand that ZFS gives you more error correction when using two LUNS from a SAN. But, does it provide you with less features than UFS does on one LUN from a SAN (i.e is it less stable). Thanks, Shawn This message posted from opensolaris.org