[zfs-discuss] RFE: ISCSI alias when shareiscsi=on

2007-05-24 Thread cedric briner
. http://www.apps.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3721.html#sec-2 and the CLI could be something like: zfs set shareiscsi=on shareisicsiname= tank Ced. -- Cedric BRINER Geneva - Switzerland ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http

Re: [zfs-discuss] iscsitadm local_name in ZFS

2007-05-04 Thread cedric briner
cedric briner wrote: hello dear community, Is there a way to have a ``local_name'' as define in iscsitadm.1m when you shareiscsi a zvol. This way, it will give even easier way to identify an device through IQN. Ced. Okay no reply from you so... maybe I didn't m

[zfs-discuss] iscsitadm local_name in ZFS

2007-05-03 Thread cedric briner
hello dear community, Is there a way to have a ``local_name'' as define in iscsitadm.1m when you shareiscsi a zvol. This way, it will give even easier way to identify an device through IQN. Ced. -- Cedric BRINER Geneva - Switzerland _

Re: [zfs-discuss] Probability Failure & Calculator

2007-04-27 Thread cedric briner
Richard Elling wrote: cedric briner wrote: Hello ZFS community, I do not have a so strong love towards *probability*. And even less love when probability caracterize true, solid and tangible stuff that I've to administer. I start doing some math.. don't get scared : I'm no

[zfs-discuss] Probability Failure & Calculator

2007-04-27 Thread cedric briner
6 raidz 7 8 9 - ... and other things that I even not thought about Any thought Ced. -- Cedric BRINER Geneva - Switzerland ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] HowTo: UPS + ZFS & NFS + no fsync

2007-04-27 Thread cedric briner
nable end zil_enable is --in that case-- faster So why are you recommending me to disable the write cache ? -- Cedric BRINER Geneva - Switzerland ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] HowTo: UPS + ZFS & NFS + no fsync

2007-04-26 Thread cedric briner
just take ZFS and disable the ZIL ? thanks in advance for your clarifications Ced. P.-S. Does some of you know the best way to send an email containing many questions inside it ? Should I create a thread for each of them, the next time -- Cedric BRINER Geneva - Switzerland ___

Re: [zfs-discuss] HowTo: UPS + ZFS & NFS + no fsync

2007-04-26 Thread cedric briner
d my situation I mean, I want to have a cheap and reliable nfs service. Why should I buy expensive `Complex Storage with NVRAM' and not just buying a machine with 8 IDE HD's ? Ced. -- Cedric BRINER Geneva - Switzerland ___ zfs-dis

[zfs-discuss] HowTo: UPS + ZFS & NFS + no fsync

2007-04-26 Thread cedric briner
http://www.solarisinternals.com/wiki/index.php/ZFS_Best_Practices_Guide#ZFS_and_Complex_Storage_Considerations I wonder if there is a way to tell the OS to ignore the fsync flush commands since they are likely to survive a power outage. Ced. -- Cedric BRINER Geneva - Switze

Re: [zfs-discuss] XServe Raid & Complex Storage Considerations

2007-04-26 Thread cedric briner
the thing is really fast, and quite reliable. Not to mention the sexy blue lights that tell you its hummin' yeah right.. quite sexy ! -Andy Ced. * (a MiB is a mebibyte 2^20 ref: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mebibyte) -- Cedric BRINER Geneva - Switzerland

[zfs-discuss] XServe Raid & Complex Storage Considerations

2007-04-25 Thread cedric briner
Raid to ignore ``fsync'' requests ? After the announce that zfs will be included in Tiger, I'll be surprised that the Xserve Raid will not include such configuration. Ced. -- Cedric BRINER Geneva - Switzerland ___ zfs-discuss mail

[zfs-discuss] ISCSI + ZFS + NFS

2007-03-20 Thread cedric briner
rectly (without iscsi) to the node. I'm not able to do an zfs import on the IDE HD. I try to do a *loopback* iscsi without success :( . This is sad, because, I was thinking to move the z-node in the i-node. But I wont be able to do this due to the behaviour of iscsi. Ced.

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs and iscsi: cannot open : I/O error

2007-02-26 Thread cedric briner
nd that you have at least 2 iscsi's client which will consolidate this space with zfs. And suddenly, you can see with zpool that a disk is dead. So I have to be able to replace this disk and so for this, I have to know on which one of the 4 machine it resides and which disk it is.

[zfs-discuss] zfs and iscsi: cannot open : I/O error

2007-02-26 Thread cedric briner
. I've follow the advise of Roch:to try the different type of iscsi: disk|raw|tape but unfortunately the only type who accepts the: ``iscsitadm create target -b /dev/dsk/c0d0s5'' is the type disk which doesn't work. Any idea of what I could do to improve this. th