Re: [zfs-discuss] Not sure how to do this in zfs

2009-08-24 Thread Gregory Skelton
Thanks Robert, The older version of nfs that was exactly the problem. Nfs3 made the directorieslook like they were empty, while nfs4 displays the contents of each directory. Many Thanks! Gregory On Mon, 24 Aug 2009, Robert Thurlow wrote: Gregory Skelton wrote: > What are you using for

Re: [zfs-discuss] Not sure how to do this in zfs

2009-08-24 Thread Robert Thurlow
Gregory Skelton wrote: What are you using for a client? What version of NFS? We're using Red Hat Enterprise Linux(Centos) 5.3 for the clients, with nfs 3 You should try NFSv4 - Linux NFSv4 support came in with this "mirror mount" support. If its possible, I'd still like to mount the base

Re: [zfs-discuss] Not sure how to do this in zfs

2009-08-24 Thread Gregory Skelton
Hi, What are you using for a client? What version of NFS? We're using Red Hat Enterprise Linux(Centos) 5.3 for the clients, with nfs 3 NFSv4 in Solaris Nevada build 77 and later, or any OpenSolaris versions, will do this "mirror mounts" stuff automatically. Other than that, it's manual mo

Re: [zfs-discuss] Not sure how to do this in zfs

2009-08-24 Thread Robert Thurlow
Gregory Skelton wrote: Yes, that is exactly whats happening to us. I've tried to "share" the zfs inside the other zfs. Like so, but I'm still seeing an empty directory. What are you using for a client? What version of NFS? NFSv4 in Solaris Nevada build 77 and later, or any OpenSolaris versio

Re: [zfs-discuss] Not sure how to do this in zfs

2009-08-24 Thread Thomas Burgess
you could mount both, but you should talk to the nfs/zfs experts about the proper way. Theres more than one method of doing so. What i did was something like this: i had a ZFS share called /store and another at /store/Video i wanted to share them via nfs, so i mount /store on /mnt/store on my l

Re: [zfs-discuss] Not sure how to do this in zfs

2009-08-24 Thread Gregory Skelton
Hi Thomas, Yes, that is exactly whats happening to us. I've tried to "share" the zfs inside the other zfs. Like so, but I'm still seeing an empty directory. export1/dfazi sharenfs rw local So in our particular setup, we have the following: export1/dfazi

Re: [zfs-discuss] Not sure how to do this in zfs

2009-08-22 Thread Thomas Burgess
if you are talking about NFS, this is due to how ZFS file systems work. When you share a ZFS filesystem via NFS it will share everything IN that filesystem but if you have 2 filesystems, it will only share that second fs's mount point. what i mean is, if you have something like pool/filesystem an

Re: [zfs-discuss] Not sure how to do this in zfs

2009-08-21 Thread Gregory Skelton
Thanks for your reply Andrey, Unfortunately, I wasn't able to see the files in that directory from any of scenario's. It seems a zfs inside another zfs is causing the problem. Of course when I put just a directory inside the zfs, everything can be seen. Cheers, Greg On Fri, 21 Aug 2009, An

Re: [zfs-discuss] Not sure how to do this in zfs

2009-08-21 Thread Andrey V. Elsukov
Gregory Skelton wrote: I've tried changing all kinds of attributes for the zfs's, but I can't seem to find the right configuration. So I'm trying to move some zfs's under another, it looks like this: /pool/joe_user move to /pool/homes/joe_user You can do it in several ways: 1. Create a new F

[zfs-discuss] Not sure how to do this in zfs

2009-08-21 Thread Gregory Skelton
Hello all, I've tried changing all kinds of attributes for the zfs's, but I can't seem to find the right configuration. So I'm trying to move some zfs's under another, it looks like this: /pool/joe_user move to /pool/homes/joe_user I know I can do this with zfs rename, and everything is fine