Re: [zfs-discuss] Where is the ZFS configuration data stored?

2006-10-11 Thread Matthew Ahrens
James McPherson wrote: On 10/12/06, Steve Goldberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Where is the ZFS configuration (zpools, mountpoints, filesystems, etc) data stored within Solaris? Is there something akin to vfstab or perhaps a database? Have a look at the contents of /etc/zfs for an in-filesyst

Re: [zfs-discuss] system hangs on POST after giving zfs a drive

2006-10-11 Thread Matthew Ahrens
John Sonnenschein wrote: I *just* figgured out this problem, looking for a potential solution (or at the very least some validation that i'm not crazy) Okay, so here's the deal. I've been using this terrible horrible no-good very bad hackup of a couple partitions spread across 3 drives as a zpoo

Re: [zfs-discuss] system hangs on POST after giving zfs a drive

2006-10-11 Thread Chris Csanady
On 10/11/06, John Sonnenschein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: As it turns out now, something about the drive is causing the machine to hang on POST. It boots fine if the drive isn't connected, and if I hot plug the drive after the machine boots, it works fine, but the computer simply will not boo

Re: [zfs-discuss] Solaris 10 / ZFS file system major/minor number

2006-10-11 Thread Sanjeev Bagewadi
Hi Darren, Coments inline Darren Dunham wrote: ZFS creates a unique FSID for every filesystem (called a object set in ZFS terminology). The unique id is saved (ondisk) as part of dsl_dataset_phys_t in ds_fsid_guid. And this id is a random number generated when the FS is created. This i

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: ZFS Inexpensive SATA Whitebox

2006-10-11 Thread Dale Ghent
On Oct 12, 2006, at 12:23 AM, Frank Cusack wrote: On October 11, 2006 11:14:59 PM -0400 Dale Ghent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Today, in 2006 - much different story. I even had Linux AND Solaris problems with my machine's MCP51 chipset when it first came out. Both forcedeth and nge croaked on i

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: ZFS Inexpensive SATA Whitebox

2006-10-11 Thread Frank Cusack
On October 11, 2006 11:14:59 PM -0400 Dale Ghent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Today, in 2006 - much different story. I even had Linux AND Solaris problems with my machine's MCP51 chipset when it first came out. Both forcedeth and nge croaked on it. Welcome to the bleeding edge. You're unfortunately

[zfs-discuss] system hangs on POST after giving zfs a drive

2006-10-11 Thread John Sonnenschein
I *just* figgured out this problem, looking for a potential solution (or at the very least some validation that i'm not crazy) Okay, so here's the deal. I've been using this terrible horrible no-good very bad hackup of a couple partitions spread across 3 drives as a zpool. I got sick of having

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: ZFS Inexpensive SATA Whitebox

2006-10-11 Thread David Dyer-Bennet
On 10/11/06, Dale Ghent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Oct 11, 2006, at 7:36 PM, David Dyer-Bennet wrote: > I've been running Linux since kernel 0.99pl13, I think it was, and > have had amazingly little trouble. Whereas I'm now sitting on $2k of > hardware that won't do what I wanted it to do un

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: ZFS Inexpensive SATA Whitebox

2006-10-11 Thread Dale Ghent
On Oct 11, 2006, at 7:36 PM, David Dyer-Bennet wrote: I've been running Linux since kernel 0.99pl13, I think it was, and have had amazingly little trouble. Whereas I'm now sitting on $2k of hardware that won't do what I wanted it to do under Solaris, so it's a bit of a hot-button issue for me r

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: ZFS Inexpensive SATA Whitebox

2006-10-11 Thread clockwork
Well thats probably because both windows and Linux were designed with the intel/x86/cheap crap market in mind. A more valid comparison would be OSX, since it is also designed to run on a somewhat specific set of hardware. Solaris will get there, but the open aspect of solaris on intel is still fair

Re: [zfs-discuss] Where is the ZFS configuration data stored?

2006-10-11 Thread James McPherson
On 10/12/06, Steve Goldberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Where is the ZFS configuration (zpools, mountpoints, filesystems, etc) data stored within Solaris? Is there something akin to vfstab or perhaps a database? Have a look at the contents of /etc/zfs for an in-filesystem artefact of zfs. Apar

[zfs-discuss] Where is the ZFS configuration data stored?

2006-10-11 Thread Steve Goldberg
Hi All, Where is the ZFS configuration (zpools, mountpoints, filesystems, etc) data stored within Solaris? Is there something akin to vfstab or perhaps a database? Thanks, Steve This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing lis

Re: [zfs-discuss] zpool misses the obvious?

2006-10-11 Thread James Litchfield
Artem Kachitchkine wrote: # fstyp c3t0d0s0 zfs s0? How is this disk labeled? From what I saw, when you put EFI label on a USB disk, the "whole disk" device is going to be d0 (without slice). What do these commands print: # fstyp /dev/dsk/c3t0d0 unknown_fstyp (no matches) # fdisk -W -

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: ZFS Inexpensive SATA Whitebox

2006-10-11 Thread David Dyer-Bennet
On 10/11/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The more I learn about Solaris hardware support, the more I see it as > a minefield. I've found this to be true for almost all open source platforms where you're trying to use something that hasn't been explicitly used and tested by t

Re: [zfs-discuss] zpool misses the obvious?

2006-10-11 Thread Artem Kachitchkine
# fstyp c3t0d0s0 zfs s0? How is this disk labeled? From what I saw, when you put EFI label on a USB disk, the "whole disk" device is going to be d0 (without slice). What do these commands print: # fstyp /dev/dsk/c3t0d0 # fdisk -W /dev/rdsk/c3t0d0 # fdisk -W /dev/rdsk/c3t0d0p0 -Artem. _

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: ZFS Inexpensive SATA Whitebox

2006-10-11 Thread Darren . Reed
David Dyer-Bennet wrote: On 10/11/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: There are tools around that can tell you if hardware is supported by Solaris. One such tool can be found at: http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/hcl/hcts/install_check.html Beware of this tool. It reports "Y" for bo

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: ZFS Inexpensive SATA Whitebox

2006-10-11 Thread David Dyer-Bennet
On 10/11/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: There are tools around that can tell you if hardware is supported by Solaris. One such tool can be found at: http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/hcl/hcts/install_check.html Beware of this tool. It reports "Y" for both 32-bit and 64-bit on the

[zfs-discuss] best dual HD install-- RAID vs ZFS?

2006-10-11 Thread Patrick
i'm replacing the stock HD in my vaio notebook with 2 100GB 7200 RPM hitachi-- yes it can hold 2 HDs. ;) i was thinking about doing some sort of striping setup to get even more performance, but i am hardly a storage expert, so i'm not sure if it is better to set them up to do sofware RAID or t

[zfs-discuss] Re: Re: Re: Metadata corrupted

2006-10-11 Thread Siegfried Nikolaivich
> On Mon, Oct 09, 2006 at 11:08:14PM -0700, Matthew > Ahrens wrote: > You may also want to try 'fmdump -eV' to get an idea > of what those > faults were. I am not sure how to interpret the results, maybe you can help me. It looks like the following with many more similar pages following: % fmdu

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: ZFS Inexpensive SATA Whitebox

2006-10-11 Thread Darren . Reed
Dick Davies wrote: On 11/10/06, Peter van Gemert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi There, You might want to check the HCL at http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/hcl to find out which hardware is supported by Solaris 10. Greetings, Peter I tried that myself - there really isn't very much on there. I

Re: [zfs-discuss] A versioning FS

2006-10-11 Thread Nicolas Williams
On Wed, Oct 11, 2006 at 08:24:13PM +0200, Joerg Schilling wrote: > Before we start defining the first offocial functionality for this Sun > feature, > we should define a mapping for Mac OS, FreeBSD and Linux. It may make sense, > to > define a sub directory for the attribute directory for keepi

Re: [zfs-discuss] A versioning FS

2006-10-11 Thread Joerg Schilling
Nicolas Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Oct 09, 2006 at 12:44:34PM +0200, Joerg Schilling wrote: > > Nicolas Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > You're arguing for treating FV as extended/named attributes :) > > > > > > I think that'd be the right thing to do, since we hav

[zfs-discuss] zpool misses the obvious?

2006-10-11 Thread James Litchfield
I have a zfs pool on a USB hard drive attached to my system. I had unplugged it and when I reconnect it, zpool import does not see the pool. # cd /dev/dsk # fstyp c3t0d0s0 zfs When I truss zpool import, it looks everywhere (seemingly) *but* c3t0d0s0 for the pool... The relevant portion... sta

Re: [zfs-discuss] Solaris 10 / ZFS file system major/minor number

2006-10-11 Thread Darren Dunham
> ZFS creates a unique FSID for every filesystem (called a object set in > ZFS terminology). > > The unique id is saved (ondisk) as part of dsl_dataset_phys_t in > ds_fsid_guid. > And this id is a random number generated when the FS is created. > > This id is used to populate the zfs_t structur

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Inexpensive SATA Whitebox

2006-10-11 Thread Dana H. Myers
Al Hopper wrote: > On Wed, 11 Oct 2006, Dana H. Myers wrote: > >> Al Hopper wrote: >> >>> Memory: DDR-400 - your choice but Kingston is always a safe bet. 2*512Mb >>> sticks for a starter, cost effective, system. 4*512Mb for a good long >>> term solution. >> Due to fan-out considerations, every

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Inexpensive SATA Whitebox

2006-10-11 Thread Al Hopper
On Wed, 11 Oct 2006, Dana H. Myers wrote: > Al Hopper wrote: > > > Memory: DDR-400 - your choice but Kingston is always a safe bet. 2*512Mb > > sticks for a starter, cost effective, system. 4*512Mb for a good long > > term solution. > > Due to fan-out considerations, every BIOS I've seen will ru

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Inexpensive SATA Whitebox

2006-10-11 Thread Dana H. Myers
Al Hopper wrote: > Memory: DDR-400 - your choice but Kingston is always a safe bet. 2*512Mb > sticks for a starter, cost effective, system. 4*512Mb for a good long > term solution. Due to fan-out considerations, every BIOS I've seen will run DDR400 memory at 333MHz when connected to more than 1

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: ZFS Inexpensive SATA Whitebox

2006-10-11 Thread Dale Ghent
On Oct 11, 2006, at 10:10 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So are there any pci-e SATA cards that are supported ? I was hoping to go with a sempron64. Using old-pci seems like a waste. Yes. I wrote up a little review of the SIIG SC-SAE412-S1 card which is a two port PCIe card based on the Sili

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: ZFS Inexpensive SATA Whitebox

2006-10-11 Thread Al Hopper
Followup - if you also want to also use the machine as a workstation: Graphics card (PCI Express): Pick a Nvidia based board to take advantage fo the excellent Solaris native driver[0]. The 7600GS has a great price/performance ratio. This ref [1] also mentions the 7600GT - altough I'm (almost)

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Inexpensive SATA Whitebox

2006-10-11 Thread Al Hopper
On Tue, 10 Oct 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > All, > So I have started working with Solaris 10 at work a bit (I'm a Linux > guy by trade) and I have a dying nfs box at home. So the long and short of > it is as follows: I would like to setup a SATAII whitebox that uses ZFS as > its filesystem

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: ZFS Inexpensive SATA Whitebox

2006-10-11 Thread clockwork
So are there any pci-e SATA cards that are supported ? I was hoping to go with a sempron64. Using old-pci seems like a waste.Regards.On 10/11/06, Dick Davies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:On 11/10/06, Peter van Gemert < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:> Hi There,>> You might want to check the HCL at http://w

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: ZFS Inexpensive SATA Whitebox

2006-10-11 Thread Dick Davies
On 11/10/06, Peter van Gemert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi There, You might want to check the HCL at http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/hcl to find out which hardware is supported by Solaris 10. Greetings, Peter I tried that myself - there really isn't very much on there. I can't believe Solaris r

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Inexpensive SATA Whitebox

2006-10-11 Thread Erik Trimble
Generally, I've found the way to go is to get a 4-port SATA PCI controller (something based on the Silicon Image stuff seems to be cheap, common, and supported), and then plunk it into any old PC you can find (or get off of eBay). The major caveat here is that I'd recommend trying to find a PC

Re: [zfs-discuss] Solaris 10 / ZFS file system major/minor number

2006-10-11 Thread Sanjeev Bagewadi
Hi Luke, Luke Schwab wrote: Hi, In migrating from **VM to ZFS am I going to have an issue with Major/Minor numbers with NFS mounts? Take the following scenario. 1. NFS clients are connected to an active NFS server that has SAN shared storage between the active and standby nodes in a cluster

[zfs-discuss] Re: ZFS Inexpensive SATA Whitebox

2006-10-11 Thread Peter van Gemert
Hi There, You might want to check the HCL at http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/hcl to find out which hardware is supported by Solaris 10. Greetings, Peter This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org h