Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Windows ACL issue with CIFS

2011-03-22 Thread Gordon Ross
2011/3/22 Joe Porter : > Hello all, > > I've installed a testbed OpenIndiana (SunOS openindiana 5.11 oi_147 > i86pc i386 i86pc) test box, and I'm trying to set up the CIFS so I can > dump some backup files onto it using robocopy. > > I'm having the same issues as http://mail.opensolaris.org/piperma

[OpenIndiana-discuss] OI boot problem

2011-03-22 Thread GUY WOOLLEY
Since last October I've had OI 147/148 running on a new home PC. A while ago I attempted to mirror it. All seemed good though I didn't fully check that the mirror booted (silly me etc. - this is a home PC). Then the worst happened and the new drive where OI was installed failed. So I'm left with

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Good benchmarking software?

2011-03-22 Thread Mehmet Erol Sanliturk
On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 3:14 PM, Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk wrote: > Hi all > > I've been doing some testing on a test box to try to generate good > performance reports. I've been trying bonnie++ and iozone, and while both > give me lots and lots of statistics and numbers, I can't find a good way to > v

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] [zfs-discuss] Good benchmarking software?

2011-03-22 Thread Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk
> depending on the data you have you could use gnuplot to visualize. > Normally an X for time and Y for the data show enough. > I did this once with CPU and Memory usage. > RRD is also a nice Tool to visualize (most OpenSource Tools use it) > but for me gnuplot was the easier way to do it. > If you

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] 3TB disks for tank zpool? Can only use 2 TB.

2011-03-22 Thread Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk
- Original Message - > On Tue, Mar 22 at 18:34, Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk wrote: > > I just finished replacing 7x3+1(spare) 2TB drives with Hitachi 3TB > > ones, and it works like a dream. Also, Hitachi 3TB drives have 512 > > byte sector size, only a larger LBA (don't remember how many bits). >

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] 3TB disks for tank zpool? Can only use 2 TB.

2011-03-22 Thread Eric D. Mudama
On Tue, Mar 22 at 18:34, Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk wrote: I just finished replacing 7x3+1(spare) 2TB drives with Hitachi 3TB ones, and it works like a dream. Also, Hitachi 3TB drives have 512 byte sector size, only a larger LBA (don't remember how many bits). What does this mean? Typically an LBA (

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Good benchmarking software?

2011-03-22 Thread Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk
Hi all I've been doing some testing on a test box to try to generate good performance reports. I've been trying bonnie++ and iozone, and while both give me lots and lots of statistics and numbers, I can't find a good way to visualize them. I see there are some spreadsheets avaliable for iozone,

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] 3TB disks for tank zpool? Can only use 2 TB.

2011-03-22 Thread Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk
> >I just finished replacing 7x3+1(spare) 2TB drives with Hitachi 3TB > >ones, and it works like a dream. Also, Hitachi 3TB drives have 512 > >byte sector size, >only a larger LBA (don't remember how many bits). > > What release are you using, I assume as you are on this mailing list > it could be

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] 3TB disks for tank zpool? Can only use 2 TB.

2011-03-22 Thread John McEntee
>> test being the single 3 TB disk pool. >> >> My google skills seem week on this problem, as I seem to be only able >> to >> find stuff about 4kb sectors and not being able to boot > 2TB yet. >> >> Can I use 3TB disks, if so how? > >I just finished replacing 7x3+1(spare) 2TB drives with Hitachi

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] 3TB disks for tank zpool? Can only use 2 TB.

2011-03-22 Thread Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk
> > test being the single 3 TB disk pool. > > > > My google skills seem week on this problem, as I seem to be only > > able > > to > > find stuff about 4kb sectors and not being able to boot > 2TB yet. > > > > Can I use 3TB disks, if so how? > > I just finished replacing 7x3+1(spare) 2TB drives wi

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] 3TB disks for tank zpool? Can only use 2 TB.

2011-03-22 Thread Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk
> test being the single 3 TB disk pool. > > My google skills seem week on this problem, as I seem to be only able > to > find stuff about 4kb sectors and not being able to boot > 2TB yet. > > Can I use 3TB disks, if so how? I just finished replacing 7x3+1(spare) 2TB drives with Hitachi 3TB ones,

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] 3TB disks for tank zpool? Can only use 2TB.

2011-03-22 Thread John McEntee
>in 2009.06 version, rpool can't larger than 2TB, but other zpool can. Do you mean the zpool size, or the Disk size in the zpool? If you mean the disk size in the zpool pool, have you got a link to back up the statement. One with a example of how to actually do as well would be great. ___

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] 3TB disks for tank zpool? Can only use 2 TB.

2011-03-22 Thread John McEntee
> I have not heard that any Solaris* can use disk/partition in zpool, > larger then 2TB. Maybe you can try partitioning disk with 2+1TB I can find various comments about 3TB boot disks are not going to work and hints that 3TB data disk should be fine. I could not find any posts saying 3TB don't wo

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] 3TB disks for tank zpool? Can only use 2 TB.

2011-03-22 Thread L'oiseau de mer
in 2009.06 version, rpool can't larger than 2TB, but other zpool can. 2011/3/23 Nikola M. > On 03/22/11 03:20 PM, John McEntee wrote: > > > http://wiki.openindiana.org/oi/SATA+-+Advanced+Format+and+4K+Sector+drives > > > > > > This only provides a small performance workaround for drives using 4K

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] 3TB disks for tank zpool? Can only use 2 TB.

2011-03-22 Thread Nikola M.
On 03/22/11 03:20 PM, John McEntee wrote: > http://wiki.openindiana.org/oi/SATA+-+Advanced+Format+and+4K+Sector+drives > > > This only provides a small performance workaround for drives using 4K > sectors internally but presenting 512b sectors. It does nothing to enable a > partition to be greater

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] 3TB disks for tank zpool? Can only use 2 TB.

2011-03-22 Thread John McEntee
http://wiki.openindiana.org/oi/SATA+-+Advanced+Format+and+4K+Sector+drives This only provides a small performance workaround for drives using 4K sectors internally but presenting 512b sectors. It does nothing to enable a partition to be greater than 2TB, which opensolaris puts on the disk when

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] [illumos-Developer] Unable to boot OpenIndiana on my dell studio 1450

2011-03-22 Thread Jonathan Adams
every so often I have to restart nwam, generally when I've been using a cable and want to switch to a misbehaving Wireless ... "svcadm restart physical:nwam" ... not pretty but it might fix it. On 22 March 2011 13:20, kunal ghosh wrote: > But when i connect the ethernet cable to my laptop, the nw

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] [illumos-Developer] Unable to boot OpenIndiana on my dell studio 1450

2011-03-22 Thread kunal ghosh
But when i connect the ethernet cable to my laptop, the nwam doesn't switch to automatic and fetch the IP from the router , so i do not get internet :( (I have notice nwam automatically switch to automatic and get an IP from my router in my desktop installation) Am i missing something ? On Tue, Ma

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] 3TB disks for tank zpool? Can only use 2 TB.

2011-03-22 Thread John McEntee
amd64 -Original Message- From: Toomas Soome [mailto:toomas.so...@mls.ee] Sent: 22 March 2011 12:27 To: Discussion list for OpenIndiana Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] 3TB disks for tank zpool? Can only use 2 TB. what does isainfo -k report? On 22.03.2011, at 14:24, John McEntee wro

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] 3TB disks for tank zpool? Can only use 2 TB.

2011-03-22 Thread Toomas Soome
what does isainfo -k report? On 22.03.2011, at 14:24, John McEntee wrote: > I am currently using opensolaris snv_134 have just bought some 3 TB disks to > upgrade a 8 disk mirror of 2 TB disks. I though this should just work as > opensolaris can use EFI partiton tables, but giving zfs the whole

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] [illumos-Developer] Unable to boot OpenIndiana on my dell studio 1450

2011-03-22 Thread ken mays
Kunal, Both device drivers (ethernet/wifi) are available to you for your laptop. So, you should have a fully working setup... ~ Ken Mays --- On Mon, 3/21/11, kunal ghosh wrote: > From: kunal ghosh > Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] [illumos-Developer] Unable to boot > OpenIndiana on my

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] 3TB disks for tank zpool? Can only use 2 TB.

2011-03-22 Thread John McEntee
I am currently using opensolaris snv_134 have just bought some 3 TB disks to upgrade a 8 disk mirror of 2 TB disks. I though this should just work as opensolaris can use EFI partiton tables, but giving zfs the whole unformatted disk results in the following partition table and pool size. /dev/dsk/