Re: [zfs-discuss] How to make an extended LUN size known to ZFS and Solaris

2006-09-28 Thread James McPherson
On 9/29/06, Michael Phua - PTS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Our customer has an Sun Fire X4100 with Solaris 10 using ZFS and a HW RAID array (STK D280). He has extended a LUN on the storage array and want to make this new size known to ZFS and Solaris. Does anyone know if this can be done and how i

[zfs-discuss] How to make an extended LUN size known to ZFS and Solaris

2006-09-28 Thread Michael Phua - PTS
Hi, Our customer has an Sun Fire X4100 with Solaris 10 using ZFS and a HW RAID array (STK D280). He has extended a LUN on the storage array and want to make this new size known to ZFS and Solaris. Does anyone know if this can be done and how it can be done. Cheers! Warm regards. Michael Phua

Re: [zfs-discuss] mkdir == zfs create

2006-09-28 Thread Nicolas Williams
On Thu, Sep 28, 2006 at 05:36:16PM +0200, Robert Milkowski wrote: > Hello Chris, > > Thursday, September 28, 2006, 4:55:13 PM, you wrote: > > CG> I keep thinking that it would be useful to be able to define a > CG> zfs file system where all calls to mkdir resulted not just in a > CG> directory bu

Re: [zfs-discuss] Metaslab alignment on RAID-Z

2006-09-28 Thread Matthew Ahrens
Frank Cusack wrote: On September 27, 2006 11:27:16 AM -0700 Richard Elling - PAE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: In the interim, does it makes sense for a simple rule of thumb? For example, in the above case, I would not have the hole if I did any of the following: 1. add one disk 2. remove o

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: mkdir == zfs create

2006-09-28 Thread Nicolas Williams
On Fri, Sep 29, 2006 at 01:26:04AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >Please elaborate: "CIFS just requires the automount hack." > > > CIFS currently access the files through the local file system so > it can invoke the automouter and there can use "tricky maps". Well, Samba does. And it do

Re: [zfs-discuss] Metaslab alignment on RAID-Z

2006-09-28 Thread Frank Cusack
On September 27, 2006 11:27:16 AM -0700 Richard Elling - PAE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: In the interim, does it makes sense for a simple rule of thumb? For example, in the above case, I would not have the hole if I did any of the following: 1. add one disk 2. remove one disk

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: mkdir == zfs create

2006-09-28 Thread Casper . Dik
>Please elaborate: "CIFS just requires the automount hack." CIFS currently access the files through the local file system so it can invoke the automouter and there can use "tricky maps". Casper ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: mkdir == zfs create

2006-09-28 Thread Ed Plese
On Thu, Sep 28, 2006 at 12:40:17PM -0500, Ed Plese wrote: > This can be elaborated on to do neat things like create a ZFS clone when > a client connects and then destroy the clone when the client > disconnects (via "root postexec"). This could possibly be useful for > the shared build system that

[zfs-discuss] Re: Re: mkdir == zfs create

2006-09-28 Thread Ron Halstead
This works like a champ: smbclient -U foobar samba_server\\home Given a UNIX account foobar with a smbpasswd for the account, the zfs filesystem pool/home/foobar was created and smclient connected to it. Thank you. Ron Halstead This message posted from opensolaris.org _

Re: [zfs-discuss] jbod questions

2006-09-28 Thread Erik Trimble
On Thu, 2006-09-28 at 10:51 -0700, Richard Elling - PAE wrote: > Keith Clay wrote: > > We are in the process of purchasing new san/s that our mail server runs > > on (JES3). We have moved our mailstores to zfs and continue to have > > checksum errors -- they are corrected but this improves on th

Re: [zfs-discuss] jbod questions

2006-09-28 Thread Richard Elling - PAE
Keith Clay wrote: We are in the process of purchasing new san/s that our mail server runs on (JES3). We have moved our mailstores to zfs and continue to have checksum errors -- they are corrected but this improves on the ufs inode errors that require system shutdown and fsck. So, I am recomm

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: mkdir == zfs create

2006-09-28 Thread Ed Plese
On Thu, Sep 28, 2006 at 09:00:47AM -0700, Ron Halstead wrote: > Please elaborate: "CIFS just requires the automount hack." Samba's smb.conf supports a "root preexec" parameter that allows a program to be run when a share is connected to. For example, with a simple script, createhome.sh, like, #

Re: [zfs-discuss] Automounting ? (idea ?)

2006-09-28 Thread Nicolas Williams
On Wed, Sep 27, 2006 at 08:55:48AM -0600, Mark Maybee wrote: > Patrick wrote: > >So ... how about an automounter? Is this even possible? Does it exist ? > > *sigh*, one of the issues we recognized, when we introduced the new > cheap/fast file system creation, was that this new model would stress >

[zfs-discuss] Re: mkdir == zfs create

2006-09-28 Thread Ron Halstead
Please elaborate: "CIFS just requires the automount hack." Ron This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] mkdir == zfs create

2006-09-28 Thread Thomas Wagner
> > (And if you don't need it to work remotely automount could take care of it > > if you think "cd" should be sufficient reason to create a directory) > > Maybe on unmount empty filesystems could be destroyed. more general? If we have "events" like a library-call to "mkdir" or "change-dir" o

Re: [zfs-discuss] mkdir == zfs create

2006-09-28 Thread Robert Milkowski
Hello Chris, Thursday, September 28, 2006, 4:55:13 PM, you wrote: CG> I keep thinking that it would be useful to be able to define a CG> zfs file system where all calls to mkdir resulted not just in a CG> directory but in a file system. Clearly such a property would not CG> be inherited but in a

Re: [zfs-discuss] mkdir == zfs create

2006-09-28 Thread Nicolas Williams
On Thu, Sep 28, 2006 at 05:29:27PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >Any mkdir in a builds directory on a shared build machine. Would be > >very cool because then every user/project automatically gets a ZFS > >fileystems. > > > >Why map it to mkdir rather than using zfs create ? Because mkd

Re: [zfs-discuss] mkdir == zfs create

2006-09-28 Thread Casper . Dik
>Any mkdir in a builds directory on a shared build machine. Would be >very cool because then every user/project automatically gets a ZFS >fileystems. > >Why map it to mkdir rather than using zfs create ? Because mkdir means >it will work over NFS or CIFS. "NFS" will be fairly difficult becau

[zfs-discuss] jbod questions

2006-09-28 Thread Keith Clay
Folks, We are in the process of purchasing new san/s that our mail server runs on (JES3). We have moved our mailstores to zfs and continue to have checksum errors -- they are corrected but this improves on the ufs inode errors that require system shutdown and fsck. So, I am recommending

Re: [zfs-discuss] mkdir == zfs create

2006-09-28 Thread Chris Gerhard
Jeremy Teo wrote: I keep thinking that it would be useful to be able to define a zfs file system where all calls to mkdir resulted not just in a directory but in a file system. Clearly such a property would not be inherited but in a number of situations here it would be a really useful feature

Re: [zfs-discuss] mkdir == zfs create

2006-09-28 Thread Darren J Moffat
Jeremy Teo wrote: I keep thinking that it would be useful to be able to define a zfs file system where all calls to mkdir resulted not just in a directory but in a file system. Clearly such a property would not be inherited but in a number of situations here it would be a really useful feature

Re: [zfs-discuss] mkdir == zfs create

2006-09-28 Thread Jeremy Teo
I keep thinking that it would be useful to be able to define a zfs file system where all calls to mkdir resulted not just in a directory but in a file system. Clearly such a property would not be inherited but in a number of situations here it would be a really useful feature. Any example us

[zfs-discuss] mkdir == zfs create

2006-09-28 Thread Chris Gerhard
I keep thinking that it would be useful to be able to define a zfs file system where all calls to mkdir resulted not just in a directory but in a file system. Clearly such a property would not be inherited but in a number of situations here it would be a really useful feature. I can see there

[zfs-discuss] Question: vxvm/dmp or zfs/mpxio

2006-09-28 Thread Pierre Klovsjo
Hello experts, My client is thinking about changing one of their servers running Solaris 8 (NIS Hub to mention something) to a server running Solaris 10. The question that i have given is to check the differences or if you wish the status/stability of changing VXvm with DMP (Dynamic Multi Pathi

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: Metaslab alignment on RAID-Z

2006-09-28 Thread Roch
Gino Ruopolo writes: > Thank you Bill for your clear description. > > Now I have to find a way to justify myself with my head office that > after spending 100k+ in hw and migrating to "the most advanced OS" we > are running about 8 time slower :) > > Anyway I have a problem much more se

Re: [zfs-discuss] problem ZFS / NFS from FreeBSD nfsv3 client -- periodic NFS server not resp

2006-09-28 Thread Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC
On Sep 26, 2006, at 12:26 PM, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: On Sep 26, 2006, at 12:24 PM, Mike Kupfer wrote: "Chad" == Chad Leigh <-- Shire.Net LLC" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> writes: Chad> snoop does not show me the reply packets going back. What do I Chad> need to do to go both ways? I

[zfs-discuss] Re: Re: Metaslab alignment on RAID-Z

2006-09-28 Thread Gino Ruopolo
> > Even if we're using FSS, Solaris seems unable to > give a small amount of I/O resource to ZONEX's > activity ... > > > > I know that FSS doesn't deal with I/O but I think > Solaris should be smarter .. > > What about using ipqos (man ipqos)? I'm not referring to "network I/O" but "storage I/