Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Diagnosis help needed

2012-06-26 Thread Ray Arachelian
On 06/25/2012 05:20 PM, Martin Frost wrote: > > My guess is that since all the pools are by default set to have failmode > > set to "wait" on failure, it'll wait forever. > > > > Now, changing it to "continue" which will return an error, but it could > > lead to worse behavior in some cases.

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Problem/Question on mount lofs:

2012-06-26 Thread Armin Maier
Hello anybody! I've got a problem centraly sharing ZFS filesystems. What i want is to create zfs filesystems for different Usergroups and i want to share them in a central location. The idea was to create a "/mountbase" directory and share it with "sharemgr" (this is working and i can access t

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Problem/Question on mount lofs:

2012-06-26 Thread Udo Grabowski (IMK)
Simply use the mountpoint property of the zfs filesystem to set the mountpoint to /mountbase/zfsfilesys1, then set the sharenfs or sharesmb property of the filesystem to export them. You may also look at the casesensitivity property for the smb shares. There's no need to use the sharemgr for this

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Garrett D'Amore on using SATA drives in a SAS system

2012-06-26 Thread Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk
Hi all Seems Garrett D'Amore from Nexenta has a few things to say about using SATA drives in SAS systems http://gdamore.blogspot.no/2010/08/why-sas-sata-is-not-such-great-idea.html The digest is "Just don't do it"… Vennlige hilsener / Best regards roy -- Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk (+47) 98013356 r.

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] [!! SPAM] Re: Problem/Question on mount lofs:

2012-06-26 Thread Armin Maier
Hello Udo, i know that mountpoints can be changed and sharing is possible for a zfs filesystem, but that is not what i want, in your scenario there is a share for each filesystem, i want to have 1 share on the server trough wich i can see and browse all zfs filesystems. Please correct me if i h

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Garrett D'Amore on using SATA drives in a SASsystem

2012-06-26 Thread Dan Swartzendruber
Keep in mind this is almost 2 yrs old, though. I seem to recall a thread here or there that has pinned the SATA toxicity issues to an mpt driver bug or somesuch? -Original Message- From: Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk [mailto:r...@karlsbakk.net] Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2012 9:02 AM To: Discussion

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] [!! SPAM] Re: Problem/Question on mount lofs:

2012-06-26 Thread Udo Grabowski (IMK)
On 26/06/2012 15:24, Armin Maier wrote: zfs umount /zfspool/zfsfilesys1 mkdir /mountbase/zfsfilesys1 zfs set mountpoint=/mountbase/zfsfilesys1 /zfspool/zfsfilesys1 zfs mount /zfspool/zfsfilesys1 That worked, but i still cannot access the "zfsfilesys1" folder over the network, the folder disappea

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] [!! SPAM] Re: Problem/Question on mount lofs:

2012-06-26 Thread Udo Grabowski (IMK)
On 26/06/2012 15:24, Armin Maier wrote: zfs umount /zfspool/zfsfilesys1 mkdir /mountbase/zfsfilesys1 zfs set mountpoint=/mountbase/zfsfilesys1 /zfspool/zfsfilesys1 zfs mount /zfspool/zfsfilesys1 And no need to mkdir /mountbase/zfsfilesys1, this is also managed by zfs set mountpoint= -- Dr.Udo

[OpenIndiana-discuss] IP-dedicated zone (OI b151a4) is not ping-able in virtualbox

2012-06-26 Thread WarGrey [战斗暴龙]
Hi, all. I installed OpenIndiana b151 in virtualbox on MacOSX, there is a zone with dedicated ip over e1000g1 which connecting to a host-only virtual NIC. Everything was okay before updating to b151a4. I could access it everywhere, host OS, global zone, or any other VMs whose NICs are in the same

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Garrett D'Amore on using SATA drives in a SASsystem

2012-06-26 Thread Richard Elling
On Jun 26, 2012, at 6:29 AM, Dan Swartzendruber wrote: > Keep in mind this is almost 2 yrs old, though. I seem to recall a thread > here or there that has pinned the SATA toxicity issues to an mpt driver bug > or somesuch? Not really. Search for other OSes and their tales of woe. In some cases,

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Garrett D'Amore on using SATA drives in a SASsystem

2012-06-26 Thread Dan Swartzendruber
On 6/26/2012 1:15 PM, Richard Elling wrote: On Jun 26, 2012, at 6:29 AM, Dan Swartzendruber wrote: Keep in mind this is almost 2 yrs old, though. I seem to recall a thread here or there that has pinned the SATA toxicity issues to an mpt driver bug or somesuch? Not really. Search for

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Options for a root filesystem

2012-06-26 Thread Jim Klimov
2012-06-26 4:55, Vishwas Durai пишет: Hello all, I'm wondering what options are available for root filesystem in OI? By default, install uses ZFS and creates a rpool. But If I'm a ZFS hacker and made some changes to some core structures, how does one go about debugging that? Is dropping to kmdb

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Problem/Question on mount lofs:

2012-06-26 Thread Jim Klimov
On 26/06/2012 14:44, Armin Maier wrote: Hello anybody! I've got a problem centraly sharing ZFS filesystems. What i want is to create zfs filesystems for different Usergroups and i want to share them in a central location. The idea was to create a "/mountbase" directory and share it with "sharemg

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] IP-dedicated zone (OI b151a4) is not ping-able in virtualbox

2012-06-26 Thread Jeppe Toustrup
On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 6:23 PM, WarGrey[战斗暴龙] wrote: > I installed OpenIndiana b151 in virtualbox on MacOSX, there is a zone with > dedicated ip over e1000g1 which connecting to a host-only virtual NIC. > Everything was okay before updating to b151a4. I could access it > everywhere, host OS, glob

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] IP-dedicated zone (OI b151a4) is not ping-able in virtualbox

2012-06-26 Thread Kees Nuyt
On Tue, 26 Jun 2012 20:04:51 +0200, you wrote: >On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 6:23 PM, WarGrey[] >wrote: >> I installed OpenIndiana b151 in virtualbox on MacOSX, there is a zone with >> dedicated ip over e1000g1 which connecting to a host-only virtual NIC. >> Everything was okay before updatin

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Garrett D'Amore on using SATA drives in a SAS system

2012-06-26 Thread Sašo Kiselkov
On 06/26/2012 03:01 PM, Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk wrote: > Hi all > > Seems Garrett D'Amore from Nexenta has a few things to say about using SATA > drives in SAS systems > > http://gdamore.blogspot.no/2010/08/why-sas-sata-is-not-such-great-idea.html > > The digest is "Just don't do it"… Couldn't ag

[OpenIndiana-discuss] bmc-watchdog SMF dependencies

2012-06-26 Thread Jim Klimov
Hello all, I've got a new small matter for generic discussion: Some of my systems have hardware watchdogs, either on motherboards features or in IPMI addons. A small intro for newcomers: Watchdogs include a timer that can be started by BIOS or a watchdog driver in the OS, and the driver shou

[OpenIndiana-discuss] "shareiscsi" and COMSTAR

2012-06-26 Thread Jim Klimov
Hello all, I am revising an older OpenSolaris file-server before an upgrade to OI, and this server uses COMSTAR to publish some zvols via iSCSI. As I revised the procedure used to set it up originally, I remember that the initial OpenSolaris iSCSI stack performed poorer, but only it was integra

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] bmc-watchdog SMF dependencies

2012-06-26 Thread Rennie Allen
I don't see what is wrong with option #1. Just leave the watchdog running until the kernel shuts down the computer. There is no reason the watchdog should ever stop (that way it offers protection continuously until the system is otherwise shut off). On 6/26/12 1:26 PM, "Jim Klimov" wrote: >He

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] bmc-watchdog SMF dependencies

2012-06-26 Thread Jim Klimov
2012-06-27 0:54, Rennie Allen пишет: I don't see what is wrong with option #1. Just leave the watchdog running until the kernel shuts down the computer. There is no reason the watchdog should ever stop (that way it offers protection continuously until the system is otherwise shut off). Well, t

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Garrett D'Amore on using SATA drives in a SASsystem

2012-06-26 Thread Richard Elling
On Jun 26, 2012, at 10:36 AM, Dan Swartzendruber wrote: > On 6/26/2012 1:15 PM, Richard Elling wrote: >> On Jun 26, 2012, at 6:29 AM, Dan Swartzendruber wrote: >> >> >>> Keep in mind this is almost 2 yrs old, though. I seem to recall a thread >>> here or there that has pinned the SATA toxicity

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Options for a root filesystem

2012-06-26 Thread Jay Heyl
On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 5:55 PM, Vishwas Durai wrote: > Hello all, > I'm wondering what options are available for root filesystem in OI? By > default, install uses ZFS and creates a rpool. But If I'm a ZFS hacker > and made some changes to some core structures, how does one go about > debugging

[OpenIndiana-discuss] ZFS and AVS guru

2012-06-26 Thread John T. Bittner
I am working on setting up 2 SAN to replicate via AVS. I think I get the idea of how to set this up but have a few questions. The 2 sans I build have 15 drives SAS drives + 2 Cache SSD's and 2 Log SSD's. The question I have is do you replicate the SSD's ? Do you need a bitmap for all the drives o

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] "shareiscsi" and COMSTAR

2012-06-26 Thread Mike La Spina
Hi Jim, >1) Is COMSTAR still not-integrated with shareiscsi ZFS attributes? >Or can the pool use the attribute, and the correct (new COMSTAR) >iSCSI target daemon will fire up? COMSTAR is not integrated with ZFS and it will ignore the ZFS props. What is the release of the old host OS? I s

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] IP-dedicated zone (OI b151a4) is not ping-able in virtualbox

2012-06-26 Thread WarGrey Ju
Okay, thanks for your replies. But this workaround is not very good, since the topology of my virtual network has been changed both on physically and logically. I want to know when will they get together well? the previous versions are okay. Before that, I will not use zones any more to deploy my

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Options for a root filesystem

2012-06-26 Thread Rennie Allen
+1 what Jay says. Also, I don't think that dropping to mdb is all that painful. It is one of the best debuggers around. On 6/26/12 4:09 PM, "Jay Heyl" wrote: >On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 5:55 PM, Vishwas Durai >wrote: > >> Hello all, >> I'm wondering what options are available for root filesyste

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Problem/Question on mount lofs:

2012-06-26 Thread Gordon Ross
On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 1:53 PM, Jim Klimov wrote: >> On 26/06/2012 14:44, Armin Maier wrote: >>> >>> Hello anybody! >>> I've got a problem centraly sharing ZFS filesystems. >>> What i want is to create zfs filesystems for different Usergroups and >>> i want to share them in a central location. [.

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] bmc-watchdog SMF dependencies

2012-06-26 Thread Gordon Ross
On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 4:26 PM, Jim Klimov wrote: > Hello all, I've got a new small matter for generic discussion: >  Now, in OpenSolaris (and portable to OI) there is a bmc-watchdog > package for some proprietary hardware implementations, as well as > a newly ported open-source driver is brewin