[zfs-discuss] Is there inotify for ZFS?

2006-11-08 Thread LingBo Tang
Hi all, As inotify for Linux, is there same mechanism in Solaris for ZFS? I think this functionality is helpful for desktop search engine. I know one engineer of Sun is working on "file event monitor", which will provide some information of file events, but is not for search purpose because it m

Re: [zfs-discuss] OpenSolaris vs. Solaris 10 11/06 (S10u3) for NFS ZFS Server

2006-11-08 Thread Nathan Kroenert
For me, it came down to - Do I want to patch, or upgrade? My gateway to the internet is a solaris 10 box, patched whenever required. I like that as soon as a security patch is available, I can apply it and reboot. Simple. My laptop runs nevada. I upgrade from network / dvd when I see a new featur

Re: [zfs-discuss] Best Practices recommendation on x4200

2006-11-08 Thread Nathan Kroenert
On Thu, 2006-11-09 at 10:21, Richard Elling - PAE wrote: > > One way to populate > > an ABE is to mirror slices. However, you cannot mirror between a > > device that starts at cylinder 0 and one that does not. > > Where is this restriction documented? It doesn't make sense to me. > Maybe you h

Re: [zfs-discuss] Thoughts on patching + zfs root

2006-11-08 Thread Lori Alt
Torrey McMahon wrote: Jason King wrote: Anxiously anticipating the ability to boot off zfs, I know there's been some talk about leveraging some of the snapshotting/cloning features in conjunction with upgrades and patches. What I am really hoping for is the ability to clone /, patch the clon

Re: [zfs-discuss] Best Practices recommendation on x4200

2006-11-08 Thread Richard Elling - PAE
Mike Gerdts wrote: On 11/7/06, Richard Elling - PAE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > d10 mirror of c0t2d0s0 and c0t3d0s0swap (2+2GB, to match above) Also a waste, use a swap file. Add a dumpdev if you care about kernel dumps, no need to mirror a dumpdev. How do you figure that allocating

Re: [zfs-discuss] OpenSolaris vs. Solaris 10 11/06 (S10u3) for NFS ZFS Server

2006-11-08 Thread Mike Gerdts
On 11/8/06, Al Hopper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: In my case, the ability to clone a zone from a zfs snapshot did'nt make it! :( Yeah, but if you read the man page in the U3 beta, you would see that the man page changes made it over. Personally, I would have preferred the code instead of the ma

[zfs-discuss] Re: OpenSolaris vs. Solaris 10 11/06 (S10u3) for NFS

2006-11-08 Thread Wes Williams
> [ Hi Wes from [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] > > And the smart-ask answer is: > > By Definition: the OpenSolaris/Solaris Express > feature that is *your* > "must-have" feature, probably won't be in Update 3! > :) > Exactly, that's why I used quotes as I'm sure I'd be happy with S10u3, assuming ignorance

Re: [zfs-discuss] OpenSolaris vs. Solaris 10 11/06 (S10u3) for NFS ZFS Server

2006-11-08 Thread Al Hopper
On Wed, 8 Nov 2006, Wes Williams wrote: [ reformatted ... ] > I'm in the process of building a Solaris NFS server with ZFS and was > wondering if any gurus here have any comments as to choosing the > upcoming Solairs 10 11/06 [presumably] or OpenSolaris bXX/Solairs > Express for this use. Ev

Re: [zfs-discuss] Thoughts on patching + zfs root

2006-11-08 Thread Torrey McMahon
Jason King wrote: Anxiously anticipating the ability to boot off zfs, I know there's been some talk about leveraging some of the snapshotting/cloning features in conjunction with upgrades and patches. What I am really hoping for is the ability to clone /, patch the clone, then boot off the clo

[zfs-discuss] OpenSolaris vs. Solaris 10 11/06 (S10u3) for NFS ZFS Server

2006-11-08 Thread Wes Williams
I'm in the process of building a Solaris NFS server with ZFS and was wondering if any gurus here have any comments as to choosing the upcoming Solairs 10 11/06 [presumably] or OpenSolaris bXX/Solairs Express for this use. Even with my use of OpenSolaris I maintain a service contract to show my

[zfs-discuss] Thoughts on patching + zfs root

2006-11-08 Thread Jason King
Anxiously anticipating the ability to boot off zfs, I know there's been some talk about leveraging some of the snapshotting/cloning features in conjunction with upgrades and patches. What I am really hoping for is the ability to clone /, patch the clone, then boot off the clone (by doing a clon

Re[2]: [zfs-discuss] linux versus sol10

2006-11-08 Thread Robert Milkowski
Hello Matthew, Wednesday, November 8, 2006, 5:31:28 PM, you wrote: MA> Robert Milkowski wrote: >> PvdZ> This could be related to Linux trading reliability for speed by doing >> PvdZ> async metadata updates. >> PvdZ> If your system crashes before your metadata is flushed to disk your >> PvdZ> fi

Re: [zfs-discuss] linux versus sol10

2006-11-08 Thread Matthew Ahrens
Robert Milkowski wrote: PvdZ> This could be related to Linux trading reliability for speed by doing PvdZ> async metadata updates. PvdZ> If your system crashes before your metadata is flushed to disk your PvdZ> filesystem might be hosed and a restore PvdZ> from backups may be needed. you can a

Re: [zfs-discuss] linux versus sol10

2006-11-08 Thread Neil Perrin
Robert Milkowski wrote On 11/08/06 08:16,: Hello Paul, Wednesday, November 8, 2006, 3:23:35 PM, you wrote: PvdZ> On 7 Nov 2006, at 21:02, Michael Schuster wrote: listman wrote: hi, i found a comment comparing linux and solaris but wasn't sure which version of solaris was being referred.

Re: Re[2]: [zfs-discuss] linux versus sol10

2006-11-08 Thread Joerg Schilling
Paul van der Zwan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sure UFS and ZFS can be faster, but having fast, but possibly > dangerous, defaults > gives you nice benchmark figures ;-) > In real life I prefer the safe, but a bit slower, defaults, as should > anybody > who values his data. There is another p

Re: Re[2]: [zfs-discuss] linux versus sol10

2006-11-08 Thread Paul van der Zwan
On 8 Nov 2006, at 16:16, Robert Milkowski wrote: Hello Paul, Wednesday, November 8, 2006, 3:23:35 PM, you wrote: PvdZ> On 7 Nov 2006, at 21:02, Michael Schuster wrote: listman wrote: hi, i found a comment comparing linux and solaris but wasn't sure which version of solaris was being referr

Re[2]: [zfs-discuss] linux versus sol10

2006-11-08 Thread Robert Milkowski
Hello Paul, Wednesday, November 8, 2006, 3:23:35 PM, you wrote: PvdZ> On 7 Nov 2006, at 21:02, Michael Schuster wrote: >> listman wrote: >>> hi, i found a comment comparing linux and solaris but wasn't sure >>> which version of solaris was being referred. can the list confirm >>> that this i

Re: [zfs-discuss] linux versus sol10

2006-11-08 Thread Paul van der Zwan
On 7 Nov 2006, at 21:02, Michael Schuster wrote: listman wrote: hi, i found a comment comparing linux and solaris but wasn't sure which version of solaris was being referred. can the list confirm that this issue isn't a problem with solaris10/zfs?? "Linux also supports asynchronous director

Re: [zfs-discuss] I/O patterns during a "zpool replace": why write tothe disk being replaced?

2006-11-08 Thread Bill Sommerfeld
On Wed, 2006-11-08 at 01:54 -0800, Erblichs wrote: > > Bill Sommerfield, that's not how my name is spelled > > Are their any existing snaps? no. why do you think this would matter? > > Can you have any scripts that may be > removing aged files? no; there was essentially no

Re: [zfs-discuss] I/O patterns during a "zpool replace": why write tothe disk being replaced?

2006-11-08 Thread Erblichs
Bill Sommerfield, Are their any existing snaps? Can you have any scripts that may be removing aged files? Mitchell Erblich -- Bill Sommerfeld wrote: > > On a v40z running snv_51, I'm doing a "zpool replace z c1t4d0 c1t5d0". > > (so, w