Re: [zfs-discuss] DMU interfaces

2007-03-05 Thread Sanjeev Bagewadi
Manoj, Welcome back on the alias :-) I don't think the interfaces are documented. However, refering to ZPL should be a good place to start. The ZPL code interacts with DMU and obviously it is using the DMU interfaces. However, I am not sure whether there is any gaurantee that they will not

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: Cluster File System Use Cases

2007-03-05 Thread Mike Gerdts
On 2/28/07, Dean Roehrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ASM was Storage-Tek's rebranding of SAM-QFS. SAM-QFS is already a shared (clustering) filesystem. You need to upgrade :) Look for "Shared QFS". ASM as Oracle states it is Automatic Storage Management. To the best of my knowledge, it share

[zfs-discuss] DMU interfaces

2007-03-05 Thread Manoj Joseph
Hi, I believe, ZFS, at least in the design ;) , provides APIs other than POSIX (for databases and other applications) to directly talk to the DMU. Are such interfaces ready/documented? If this is documented somewhere, could you point me to it? Regards, Manoj

Re: [zfs-discuss] Promise Ultra133TX2?

2007-03-05 Thread Luke Scharf
That did the trick! To zpool create I go. :-) Many thanks, -Luke James Blackburn wrote: I have one working under OpenSolaris x86. See: http://jimmery.blogspot.com/2007/01/promise-ide-ultra133-tx2-and.html & someone else: http://wiki.complexfission.com/twiki/bin/view/Main/OpenSolarisOS Cheers

Re: [zfs-discuss] old zfs pool and mounting

2007-03-05 Thread Robert Milkowski
Hello Michael, Monday, March 5, 2007, 11:36:57 PM, you wrote: ML> Hi, ML> I need to copy files from an old ZFS pool on an old hard drive to a new one on a new HD. ML> With UFS, you can just mount a partition from an old drive to copy files to a new drive. ML> What's the equivalent process to

[zfs-discuss] old zfs pool and mounting

2007-03-05 Thread Michael Lee
Hi, I need to copy files from an old ZFS pool on an old hard drive to a new one on a new HD. With UFS, you can just mount a partition from an old drive to copy files to a new drive. What's the equivalent process to do that with ZFS? Thanks. This message posted from opensolaris.org ___

Re: [zfs-discuss] Why number of NFS threads jumps to the max value?

2007-03-05 Thread Leon Koll
On 3/5/07, Spencer Shepler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Mar 5, 2007, at 11:17 AM, Leon Koll wrote: > On 3/5/07, Roch - PAE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Leon Koll writes: >> >> > On 3/5/07, Roch - PAE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > > >> > > Leon Koll writes: >> > > > On 2/28/07, Roch

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: Cluster File System Use Cases

2007-03-05 Thread Rayson Ho
I read this paper on Sunday. Seems interesting: The Architecture of PolyServe Matrix Server: Implementing a Symmetric Cluster File System http://www.polyserve.com/requestinfo_formq1.php?pdf=2 What interested me the most is that the metadata and lock are spread across all the nodes. I read the "

Re: [zfs-discuss] Why number of NFS threads jumps to the max value?

2007-03-05 Thread Spencer Shepler
On Mar 5, 2007, at 11:17 AM, Leon Koll wrote: On 3/5/07, Roch - PAE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Leon Koll writes: > On 3/5/07, Roch - PAE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Leon Koll writes: > > > On 2/28/07, Roch - PAE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > http://bugs

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs and iscsi: cannot open : I/O error

2007-03-05 Thread Rick McNeal
If you have questions about iSCSI, I would suggest sending them to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I read that mail list a little more often, so you'll get a quicker response. On Feb 26, 2007, at 8:39 AM, cedric briner wrote: >> devfsadm -i iscsi # to create the device on sf3 >> iscsiadm list target -Sv|

Re: [zfs-discuss] Why number of NFS threads jumps to the max value?

2007-03-05 Thread Leon Koll
On 3/5/07, Roch - PAE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Leon Koll writes: > On 3/5/07, Roch - PAE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Leon Koll writes: > > > On 2/28/07, Roch - PAE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > http://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6

Re: [zfs-discuss] Why number of NFS threads jumps to the max value?

2007-03-05 Thread Roch - PAE
Leon Koll writes: > On 3/5/07, Roch - PAE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Leon Koll writes: > > > On 2/28/07, Roch - PAE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > http://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6467988 > > > > > > > > NFSD threads are create

Re: [zfs-discuss] Why number of NFS threads jumps to the max value?

2007-03-05 Thread Leon Koll
On 3/5/07, Roch - PAE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Leon Koll writes: > On 2/28/07, Roch - PAE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > http://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6467988 > > > > NFSD threads are created on a demand spike (all of them > > waiting on I/O) b

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS stalling problem

2007-03-05 Thread Wade . Stuart
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 03/05/2007 03:56:28 AM: > one question, > is there a way to stop the default txg push behaviour (push at regular > timestep-- default is 5sec) but instead push them "on the fly"...I > would imagine this is better in the case of an application doing big > sequential

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: How to interrupt a zpool scrub?

2007-03-05 Thread Wade . Stuart
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 03/05/2007 04:18:44 AM: > How embarrassing is that? Pete kindly pointed me to the man page > where it clearly states that I should use "zpool scrub [-s] pool". - > s for "Stop scrubbing". Sorry folks, I just looked in the > Administration guide where I couldn't find

Re: [zfs-discuss] Why number of NFS threads jumps to the max value?

2007-03-05 Thread Roch - PAE
Leon Koll writes: > On 2/28/07, Roch - PAE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > http://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6467988 > > > > NFSD threads are created on a demand spike (all of them > > waiting on I/O) but thentend to stick around servicing > > mod

[zfs-discuss] Re: How to interrupt a zpool scrub?

2007-03-05 Thread Thomas Werschlein
How embarrassing is that? Pete kindly pointed me to the man page where it clearly states that I should use "zpool scrub [-s] pool". -s for "Stop scrubbing". Sorry folks, I just looked in the Administration guide where I couldn't find it. But I am sure it's in there, too. This message posted

[zfs-discuss] ZFS party - PANIC collection

2007-03-05 Thread Gino Ruopolo
Hi All, yesterday we done some tests with ZFS using a new server and a new JBOD going in production this week. Here is what we found: 1) Solaris seems unable to recognize as "disk" any fc disk already labeled by a storage processor. cfgadm reports them as "unknown". We had to start linux and

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS stalling problem

2007-03-05 Thread Selim Daoud
one question, is there a way to stop the default txg push behaviour (push at regular timestep-- default is 5sec) but instead push them "on the fly"...I would imagine this is better in the case of an application doing big sequential write (video streaming... ) s. On 3/5/07, Jeff Bonwick <[EMAIL P

Re: [zfs-discuss] How to interrupt a zpool scrub?

2007-03-05 Thread Peter Dennis - Solaris Sustaining Engineering
Hi Thomas, The man page for zpool has: zpool scrub [-s] pool ... Begins a scrub. The scrub examines all data in the specified pools to verify that it checksums correctly. For replicated (mirror or raidz) devices, ZFS automati- cally repairs any

[zfs-discuss] How to interrupt a zpool scrub?

2007-03-05 Thread Thomas Werschlein
Dear all Is there a way to stop a running scrub on a zfs pool? Same question applies to a running resilver. Both render our fileserver unusable due to massive CPU load so we'd like to postpone them. In the docs it says that resilvering and scrubbing survive a reboot, so I am not even sure if a

Re: [zfs-discuss] Promise Ultra133TX2?

2007-03-05 Thread James Blackburn
I have one working under OpenSolaris x86. See: http://jimmery.blogspot.com/2007/01/promise-ide-ultra133-tx2-and.html & someone else: http://wiki.complexfission.com/twiki/bin/view/Main/OpenSolarisOS Cheers, James On 5 Mar 2007, at 03:45, Luke Scharf wrote: Has anyone made the Promise Ultra133TX