Re: [zfs-discuss] About "/usr/sbin/zfs" and ksh93/libshell.so ...

2006-05-08 Thread Boyd Adamson
On 09/05/2006, at 12:21 PM, Roland Mainz wrote: Is there any interest to turn the "zfs" utility (to clarify: This is about a change in the "zfs" utility itself, not about any "language bindings" etc.) from it's (currently) "homegrown" command-line parsing code over to ksh93/libshell.so (this has

[zfs-discuss] Trying to replicate ZFS self-heal demo and not seeing fixed error

2006-05-08 Thread Yusuf Goolamabbas
Hi, I am using Solaris Express 04/06 (snv_36) and tried to do the same tasks as in Dan Price's Self Healing screencast bash-3.00# zpool status pool: tank state: ONLINE scrub: none requested config: NAME STATE READ WRITE CKSUM tank ONLINE 0 0 0

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: [dtrace-discuss] Re: [nfs-discuss] Script to trace NFSv3 client operations

2006-05-08 Thread Joe Little
I was asked to also snoop the iscsi end of things, trying to find something different between the two. iscsi being relatively opaque, it was easiest to find differences in the patterns. In the local copy to RAIDZ example, the iscsi link would show packets of 1514 in length in series of 5-10, with

[zfs-discuss] About "/usr/sbin/zfs" and ksh93/libshell.so ...

2006-05-08 Thread Roland Mainz
Hi! Is there any interest to turn the "zfs" utility (to clarify: This is about a change in the "zfs" utility itself, not about any "language bindings" etc.) from it's (currently) "homegrown" command-line parsing code over to ksh93/libshell.so (this has been proposed by Amersham/GE Healthcar

Re: [zfs-discuss] Remote Mirror?

2006-05-08 Thread Richard Elling
On Tue, 2006-05-09 at 00:49 +0200, Patrick wrote: > > In my experience, the approach and solution for "remote mirroring" > > really depends on two things: > > 1. are you doing disaster recovery, versus mirroring diversity? > > I'm not actually sure, i'm currently mirroring from the one dis

Re: [zfs-discuss] Remote Mirror?

2006-05-08 Thread Eric Schrock
On Mon, May 08, 2006 at 02:27:05PM +0200, Patrick wrote: > Hi there, > > I've got a question, that i'm sure's been addressed somewhere, so > sorry if i'm asking the same question twice, but here goes: > > I've currently got two linux machines running drbd ( remote device > mirror ) and it's worki

Re: [zfs-discuss] Remote Mirror?

2006-05-08 Thread Patrick
Hello. Howdy! :) Well, this can be a pretty deep topic for a monday morning :-) Well, monday evening for some of us ;) In my experience, the approach and solution for "remote mirroring" really depends on two things: 1. are you doing disaster recovery, versus mirroring diversity?

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Snapshot management proposal idea (was: Properties of ZFS snapshots I'd like to see...)

2006-05-08 Thread Nicolas Williams
On Mon, May 08, 2006 at 10:23:44PM +0100, Tim Foster wrote: > This could be easily implemented via a set of SMF instances which > create/destroy cron jobs which would themselves call a simple script > responsible for taking the snapshots. There was talk a while back about an extended cron service

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Snapshot management proposal idea (was: Properties of ZFS snapshots I'd like to see...)

2006-05-08 Thread Sean McGrath - Sun Microsystems Ireland
Tim Foster stated: < Hey Constantin, < < On Mon, 2006-05-08 at 11:37 +0200, Constantin Gonzalez wrote: < > I took the liberty of renaming the thread to $SUBJECT because I think that what < > we really are looking for is an ability for ZFS to automatically manage snapshot < > after they have bee

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Snapshot management proposal idea (was: Properties of ZFS snapshots I'd like to see...)

2006-05-08 Thread Tim Foster
Hey Constantin, On Mon, 2006-05-08 at 11:37 +0200, Constantin Gonzalez wrote: > I took the liberty of renaming the thread to $SUBJECT because I think that > what > we really are looking for is an ability for ZFS to automatically manage > snapshot > after they have been created. Wow, nice summa

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: [dtrace-discuss] Re: [nfs-discuss] Script to trace NFSv3 client operations

2006-05-08 Thread Nicolas Williams
On Fri, May 05, 2006 at 11:55:17PM -0500, Spencer Shepler wrote: > On Fri, Joe Little wrote: > > Thanks. I'm playing with it now, trying to get the most succinct test. > > This is one thing that bothers me: Regardless of the backend, it > > appears that a delete of a large tree (say the linux kerne

Re: [zfs-discuss] Remote Mirror?

2006-05-08 Thread Richard Elling
On Mon, 2006-05-08 at 14:27 +0200, Patrick wrote: > Hi there, Hello. > I've got a question, that i'm sure's been addressed somewhere, so > sorry if i'm asking the same question twice, but here goes: > > I've currently got two linux machines running drbd ( remote device > mirror ) and it's workin

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Snapshot management proposal idea (was: Properties of ZFS snapshots I'd like to see...)

2006-05-08 Thread Al Hopper
On Mon, 8 May 2006, Bill Sommerfeld wrote: > I think there may be a middle ground here -- provide some relatively > simple policy-independent mechanisms in the filesystem to allow admins > to implement the snapshot/backup management policy of their choice. > > I can think of a couple mechanisms wh

[zfs-discuss] Remote Mirror?

2006-05-08 Thread Patrick
Hi there, I've got a question, that i'm sure's been addressed somewhere, so sorry if i'm asking the same question twice, but here goes: I've currently got two linux machines running drbd ( remote device mirror ) and it's working perfectly, but i'd love to use ZFS (* i ZFS *) but alas, i don't s

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Snapshot management proposal idea (was: Properties of ZFS snapshots I'd like to see...)

2006-05-08 Thread Bill Sommerfeld
I think there may be a middle ground here -- provide some relatively simple policy-independent mechanisms in the filesystem to allow admins to implement the snapshot/backup management policy of their choice. I can think of a couple mechanisms which would help: - additional admin-defined filesyst

[zfs-discuss] ZFS Snapshot management proposal idea (was: Properties of ZFS snapshots I'd like to see...)

2006-05-08 Thread Constantin Gonzalez
Hi, thank you for the excellent comments, thoughts and ideas on the "Properties of ZFS snapshots I'd like to see..." thread. I took the liberty of renaming the thread to $SUBJECT because I think that what we really are looking for is an ability for ZFS to automatically manage snapshot after they