Re: [zfs-discuss] Mac OS X clients with ZFS server

2010-09-29 Thread Rich Teer
Hi all, Thanks to some clues from people on this list, I have finally resolved this issue! To summarise, I was having problems with timeouts when applications on my MacBook Pro tried to create new files on an NFS file system that was mounted from my server running snv_130 (writes to existing file

Re: [zfs-discuss] Mac OS X clients with ZFS server

2010-09-28 Thread Erik Ableson
The only tweak needed was making sure that I used the FQDN of the client machines (with appropriate reverse lookups in my DNS) for the sharenfs properties. Envoyé de mon iPhone Le 16 sept. 2010 à 17:15, Rich Teer a écrit : > On Thu, 16 Sep 2010, Erik Ableson wrote: > >> OpenSolaris snv129 >

Re: [zfs-discuss] Mac OS X clients with ZFS server

2010-09-28 Thread Erik Ableson
Le 16 sept. 2010 à 16:18, Rich Teer a écrit : > On Thu, 16 Sep 2010, erik.ableson wrote: > >> And for reference, I have a number of 10.6 clients using NFS for >> sharing Fusion virtual machines, iTunes library, iPhoto libraries etc. >> without any issues. > > Excellent; what OS is your NFS ser

Re: [zfs-discuss] Mac OS X clients with ZFS server

2010-09-16 Thread Mike Mackovitch
On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 08:15:53AM -0700, Rich Teer wrote: > On Thu, 16 Sep 2010, Erik Ableson wrote: > > > OpenSolaris snv129 > > Hmm, SXCE snv_130 here. Did you have to do any server-side tuning > (e.g., allowing remote connections), or did it just work out of the > box? I know that Sendmail

Re: [zfs-discuss] Mac OS X clients with ZFS server

2010-09-16 Thread Rich Teer
On Thu, 16 Sep 2010, Erik Ableson wrote: > OpenSolaris snv129 Hmm, SXCE snv_130 here. Did you have to do any server-side tuning (e.g., allowing remote connections), or did it just work out of the box? I know that Sendmail needs some gentle persuasion to accept remote connections out of the box;

Re: [zfs-discuss] Mac OS X clients with ZFS server

2010-09-16 Thread Rich Teer
On Thu, 16 Sep 2010, erik.ableson wrote: > And for reference, I have a number of 10.6 clients using NFS for > sharing Fusion virtual machines, iTunes library, iPhoto libraries etc. > without any issues. Excellent; what OS is your NFS server running? -- Rich Teer, Publisher Vinylphile Magazine

Re: [zfs-discuss] Mac OS X clients with ZFS server

2010-09-16 Thread erik.ableson
On 15 sept. 2010, at 22:04, Mike Mackovitch wrote: > On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 12:08:20PM -0700, Nabil wrote: >> any resolution to this issue? I'm experiencing the same annoying >> lockd thing with mac osx 10.6 clients. I am at pool ver 14, fs ver >> 3. Would somehow going back to the earlier 8/

Re: [zfs-discuss] Mac OS X clients with ZFS server

2010-09-15 Thread Mike Mackovitch
On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 12:08:20PM -0700, Nabil wrote: > any resolution to this issue? I'm experiencing the same annoying > lockd thing with mac osx 10.6 clients. I am at pool ver 14, fs ver > 3. Would somehow going back to the earlier 8/2 setup make things > better? As noted in the earlier thr

Re: [zfs-discuss] Mac OS X clients with ZFS server

2010-09-15 Thread Nabil
any resolution to this issue? I'm experiencing the same annoying lockd thing with mac osx 10.6 clients. I am at pool ver 14, fs ver 3. Would somehow going back to the earlier 8/2 setup make things better? -Nabil -- This message posted from opensolaris.org

Re: [zfs-discuss] Mac OS X clients with ZFS server

2010-04-25 Thread Chris Ridd
On 26 Apr 2010, at 06:02, Dave Pooser wrote: > On 4/25/10 6:07 PM, "Rich Teer" wrote: > >> Sounds fair enough! Let's move this to email; meanwhile, what's the >> packet sniffing incantation I need to use? On Solaris I'd use snoop, >> but I don't htink Mac OS comes with that! > > Use Wireshar

Re: [zfs-discuss] Mac OS X clients with ZFS server

2010-04-25 Thread Dave Pooser
On 4/25/10 6:11 PM, "Rich Teer" wrote: > I tried going to that URL, but got a 404 error... :-( What's the correct > one, please? -- Dave Pooser, ACSA Manager of Information Services Alford Media http://www.alfordmedia.com _

Re: [zfs-discuss] Mac OS X clients with ZFS server

2010-04-25 Thread Dave Pooser
On 4/25/10 6:07 PM, "Rich Teer" wrote: > Sounds fair enough! Let's move this to email; meanwhile, what's the > packet sniffing incantation I need to use? On Solaris I'd use snoop, > but I don't htink Mac OS comes with that! Use Wireshark (formerly Ethereal); works great for me. It does require

Re: [zfs-discuss] Mac OS X clients with ZFS server

2010-04-25 Thread Andrew Kener
The correct URL is: http://code.google.com/p/maczfs/ -Original Message- From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Rich Teer Sent: Sunday, April 25, 2010 7:11 PM To: Alex Blewitt Cc: ZFS discuss Subject: Re: [zfs-discuss] Mac OS X

Re: [zfs-discuss] Mac OS X clients with ZFS server

2010-04-25 Thread Rich Teer
On Fri, 23 Apr 2010, Alex Blewitt wrote: > > > For your information, the ZFS project lives (well, limps really) on > > > at http://code.google.com/p/mac-zfs. You can get ZFS for Snow Leopard > > > from there and we're working on moving forwards from the ancient pool > > > support to something more

Re: [zfs-discuss] Mac OS X clients with ZFS server

2010-04-25 Thread Rich Teer
On Thu, 22 Apr 2010, Mike Mackovitch wrote: > Oh, and the kernel.log should at least have the "lockd not responding" > messages in it. So, I presume you meant nothing *else* interesting. > > I think it's time to look at the packets... I'll double check later (my wife is currently using the lpat

Re: [zfs-discuss] Mac OS X clients with ZFS server

2010-04-23 Thread Alex Blewitt
On 22 Apr 2010, at 20:50, Rich Teer wrote: On Thu, 22 Apr 2010, Alex Blewitt wrote: Hi Alex, For your information, the ZFS project lives (well, limps really) on at http://code.google.com/p/mac-zfs. You can get ZFS for Snow Leopard from there and we're working on moving forwards from the anci

Re: [zfs-discuss] Mac OS X clients with ZFS server

2010-04-22 Thread Mike Mackovitch
On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 02:53:37PM -0700, Rich Teer wrote: > On Thu, 22 Apr 2010, Mike Mackovitch wrote: > > > I would also check /var/log/system.log and /var/log/kernel.log on the Mac to > > see if any other useful messages are getting logged. > > Ah, we're getting closer. The latter shows noth

Re: [zfs-discuss] Mac OS X clients with ZFS server

2010-04-22 Thread Rich Teer
On Thu, 22 Apr 2010, Mike Mackovitch wrote: > I would also check /var/log/system.log and /var/log/kernel.log on the Mac to > see if any other useful messages are getting logged. Ah, we're getting closer. The latter shows nothing interesting, but system.log has this line appended the minute I try

Re: [zfs-discuss] Mac OS X clients with ZFS server

2010-04-22 Thread Mike Mackovitch
On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 01:54:26PM -0700, Rich Teer wrote: > On Thu, 22 Apr 2010, Mike Mackovitch wrote: > > Hi Mike, > > > So, it looks like you need to investigate why the client isn't > > getting responses from the server's "lockd". > > > > This is usually caused by a firewall or NAT getting

Re: [zfs-discuss] Mac OS X clients with ZFS server

2010-04-22 Thread Rich Teer
On Thu, 22 Apr 2010, Mike Mackovitch wrote: Hi Mike, > So, it looks like you need to investigate why the client isn't > getting responses from the server's "lockd". > > This is usually caused by a firewall or NAT getting in the way. Great idea--I was indeed connected to my network using the Air

Re: [zfs-discuss] Mac OS X clients with ZFS server

2010-04-22 Thread Mike Mackovitch
On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 12:40:37PM -0700, Rich Teer wrote: > On Thu, 22 Apr 2010, Tomas Ögren wrote: > > > Copying via terminal (and cp) works. > > Interesting: if I copy a file *which has no extended attributes* using cp in > a terminal, it works fine. If I try to cp a file that has EA (to the

Re: [zfs-discuss] Mac OS X clients with ZFS server

2010-04-22 Thread Rich Teer
On Thu, 22 Apr 2010, Alex Blewitt wrote: Hi Alex, > For your information, the ZFS project lives (well, limps really) on > at http://code.google.com/p/mac-zfs. You can get ZFS for Snow Leopard > from there and we're working on moving forwards from the ancient pool > support to something more recen

Re: [zfs-discuss] Mac OS X clients with ZFS server

2010-04-22 Thread Rich Teer
On Thu, 22 Apr 2010, Tomas Ögren wrote: > Copying via terminal (and cp) works. Interesting: if I copy a file *which has no extended attributes* using cp in a terminal, it works fine. If I try to cp a file that has EA (to the same destination), it hangs. But I get this error message after a few

Re: [zfs-discuss] Mac OS X clients with ZFS server

2010-04-22 Thread Alex Blewitt
Rich, Shawn, > Of course, it probably doesn't help that Apple, in their infinite wisdom, > canned > native suport for ZFS in Snow Leopard (idiots). For your information, the ZFS project lives (well, limps really) on at http://code.google.com/p/mac-zfs. You can get ZFS for Snow Leopard from ther

Re: [zfs-discuss] Mac OS X clients with ZFS server

2010-04-22 Thread Tomas Ögren
On 22 April, 2010 - Rich Teer sent me these 1,1K bytes: > Hi all, > > I have a server running SXCE b130 and I use ZFS for all file systems. I > also have a couple of workstations running the same OS, and all is well. > But I also have a MacBook Pro laptop running Snow Leopard (OS X 10.6.3), > an

Re: [zfs-discuss] Mac OS X clients with ZFS server

2010-04-22 Thread Rich Teer
On Thu, 22 Apr 2010, Shawn Ferry wrote: > I haven't seen this behavior. However, all of my file systems used by my > Mac are pool version 8 fs ver 2. I don't know if that could be part of your > problem or not. Thanks for the info. I should have said that all the file systems I'm using were crea

Re: [zfs-discuss] Mac OS X clients with ZFS server

2010-04-22 Thread Shawn Ferry
On Apr 22, 2010, at 1:26 PM, Rich Teer wrote: > Hi all, > > I have a server running SXCE b130 and I use ZFS for all file systems. I > also have a couple of workstations running the same OS, and all is well. > But I also have a MacBook Pro laptop running Snow Leopard (OS X 10.6.3), > and I have

[zfs-discuss] Mac OS X clients with ZFS server

2010-04-22 Thread Rich Teer
Hi all, I have a server running SXCE b130 and I use ZFS for all file systems. I also have a couple of workstations running the same OS, and all is well. But I also have a MacBook Pro laptop running Snow Leopard (OS X 10.6.3), and I have troubles creating files on exported ZFS file systems. >From