[zfs-discuss] Migrating a pool

2007-03-26 Thread Constantin Gonzalez
Hi, soon it'll be time to migrate my patchwork pool onto a real pair of mirrored (albeit USB-based) external disks. Today I have about half a dozen filesystems in the old pool plus dozens of snapshots thanks to Tim Bray's excellent SMF snapshotting service. What is the most elegant way of migrat

Re: [zfs-discuss] 6410 expansion shelf

2007-03-26 Thread Frank Cusack
On March 27, 2007 1:43:01 PM +0800 Wee Yeh Tan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: As promised. I got my 6140 SATA delivered yesterday and I hooked it up to a T2000 on S10u3. The T2000 saw the disks straight away and is "working" for the last 1 hour. I'll be running some benchmarks on it. I'll probabl

Re: [zfs-discuss] 6410 expansion shelf

2007-03-26 Thread Louwtjie Burger
Pity the price of a JBOD is so close to a Controller unit... On 3/27/07, Wee Yeh Tan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 3/24/07, Frank Cusack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On March 23, 2007 5:38:20 PM +0800 Wee Yeh Tan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I should be able to reply to you next Tuesday -- my

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: Backup of ZFS Filesystem with ACL 4

2007-03-26 Thread Sami Ketola
Ayaz Anjum wrote: Hi ! I have currently an NFS server over ufs above 5 TB with alot of ACL which i was planning to migrate to zfs. But since backup of zfs with ACL is not possible, i am very upset for not being able to go ahead with replacing ufs with zfs. Backing up ZFS ACL:s is supported o

Re: [zfs-discuss] 6410 expansion shelf

2007-03-26 Thread Wee Yeh Tan
On 3/24/07, Frank Cusack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On March 23, 2007 5:38:20 PM +0800 Wee Yeh Tan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I should be able to reply to you next Tuesday -- my 6140 SATA > expansion tray is due to arrive. Meanwhile, what kind of problem do > you have with the 3511? Frank, A

[zfs-discuss] Re: Backup of ZFS Filesystem with ACL 4

2007-03-26 Thread Ayaz Anjum
Hi ! I have currently an NFS server over ufs above 5 TB with alot of ACL which i was planning to migrate to zfs. But since backup of zfs with ACL is not possible, i am very upset for not being able to go ahead with replacing ufs with zfs. Ayaz This message posted from opensolaris.org __

Re[2]: [zfs-discuss] Backup of ZFS Filesystem with ACL 4

2007-03-26 Thread Robert Milkowski
Hello Wade, Monday, March 26, 2007, 6:04:16 PM, you wrote: WSfc> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 03/26/2007 11:00:23 AM: >> Tomas Ögren wrote: >> > On 26 March, 2007 - Hans-Juergen Schnitzer sent me these 3,5K bytes: >> > >> >> I am sorry, we don't have oracle databases on zfs filesystems >> >> (

Re: [zfs-discuss] error-message from a nexsan-storage

2007-03-26 Thread Richard Elling
Claus Guttesen wrote: Hi. I have a nexsan atabeast with 2 raid-controllers each with 21 disks @ 400 GB. Each raid-controller has five raid-5 LUN's and one hotspare. The solaris is from 2006/11. I have created a single raidz2 tank from the ten LUN's. The raid-conroller is connected to a Dell P

Fw: [zfs-discuss] Re: Is there any performance problem with hard links in ZFS?

2007-03-26 Thread Wade . Stuart
- Forwarded by Wade Stuart/FALMSP/USA/NA/FALLON on 03/26/07 11:30 AM - Wade Stuart/FALMSP/USA/NA/FALLON wrote on 03/26/2007 11:02:08 AM: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 03/26/2007 10:58:07 AM: > > > i have tested links performance. and i have got such results: > > with hardlinks - no pr

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: Is there any performance problem with hard links in ZFS?

2007-03-26 Thread Frank Hofmann
On Mon, 26 Mar 2007, Viktor Turskyi wrote: i have tested links performance. and i have got such results: with hardlinks - no problems, reading of 5 files one million times takes 38 seconds in case with symlinks is another situation - reading of 5 files(through symlinks) one million tim

Re: [zfs-discuss] Backup of ZFS Filesystem with ACL 4

2007-03-26 Thread Wade . Stuart
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 03/26/2007 11:00:23 AM: > Tomas Ögren wrote: > > On 26 March, 2007 - Hans-Juergen Schnitzer sent me these 3,5K bytes: > > > >> I am sorry, we don't have oracle databases on zfs filesystems > >> (colleagues of mine are currently exploring RMAN to backup oracle > >> d

Re: [zfs-discuss] Backup of ZFS Filesystem with ACL 4

2007-03-26 Thread Hans-Juergen Schnitzer
Tomas Ögren wrote: On 26 March, 2007 - Hans-Juergen Schnitzer sent me these 3,5K bytes: I am sorry, we don't have oracle databases on zfs filesystems (colleagues of mine are currently exploring RMAN to backup oracle databases, that reside on a ufs filesystem, however). We are doing backups of

[zfs-discuss] Re: Is there any performance problem with hard links in ZFS?

2007-03-26 Thread Viktor Turskyi
i have tested links performance. and i have got such results: with hardlinks - no problems, reading of 5 files one million times takes 38 seconds in case with symlinks is another situation - reading of 5 files(through symlinks) one million times takes 3,5 minutes. Is this OK? Is it norma

[zfs-discuss] error-message from a nexsan-storage

2007-03-26 Thread Claus Guttesen
Hi. I have a nexsan atabeast with 2 raid-controllers each with 21 disks @ 400 GB. Each raid-controller has five raid-5 LUN's and one hotspare. The solaris is from 2006/11. I have created a single raidz2 tank from the ten LUN's. The raid-conroller is connected to a Dell PE 2650 with two qlogic 23

Re: [zfs-discuss] Backup of ZFS Filesystem with ACL 4

2007-03-26 Thread Julien Gabel
>> I am sorry, we don't have oracle databases on zfs filesystems >> (colleagues of mine are currently exploring RMAN to backup oracle >> databases, that reside on a ufs filesystem, however). >> >> We are doing backups of zfs storage pools with about 2000 filesystems >> (basically home directories).

Re: [zfs-discuss] Backup of ZFS Filesystem with ACL 4

2007-03-26 Thread Tomas Ögren
On 26 March, 2007 - Hans-Juergen Schnitzer sent me these 3,5K bytes: > I am sorry, we don't have oracle databases on zfs filesystems > (colleagues of mine are currently exploring RMAN to backup oracle > databases, that reside on a ufs filesystem, however). > > We are doing backups of zfs storage

Re: [zfs-discuss] Backup of ZFS Filesystem with ACL 4

2007-03-26 Thread Hans-Juergen Schnitzer
I am sorry, we don't have oracle databases on zfs filesystems (colleagues of mine are currently exploring RMAN to backup oracle databases, that reside on a ufs filesystem, however). We are doing backups of zfs storage pools with about 2000 filesystems (basically home directories). Some of the iss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Backup of ZFS Filesystem with ACL 4

2007-03-26 Thread Ayaz Anjum
HI Hans ! what is ur recommendation, for putting oracle database on zfs and backing up with tsm ? Have u tried any restores ? any issues other than ACL's thanks Ayaz Hans-Juergen Schnitzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 03/26/2007 12:01 PM To zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org cc

Re: [zfs-discuss] Backup of ZFS Filesystem with ACL 4

2007-03-26 Thread Hans-Juergen Schnitzer
Hi, we are using TSM to backup zfs. Currently, zfs is not supported at all and therefore you cannot backup zfs ACLs with TSM. TSM 5.5, which will probably be available at the end of the year, will have basic ZFS support (including backup and restore of ACLs). Hans Schnitzer Ayaz Anjum wrote:

Re: [zfs-discuss] missing features?Could/should zfs support a new ioctl, constrained if neede

2007-03-26 Thread Casper . Dik
>What is slow here is mounting all those FS at boot and >unmounting at shutdown. The most relevant project here in my >mind is : > > 6478980 zfs should support automount property > >which would give ZFS a mount on demand behavior. Fast boot/shutdown >and fewer mounted FS at any one time.

Re: [zfs-discuss] missing features?Could/should zfs support a new ioctl, constrained if neede

2007-03-26 Thread Roch - PAE
Richard L. Hamilton writes: > _FIOSATIME - why doesn't zfs support this (assuming I didn't just miss it)? > Might be handy for backups. > Are these syscall sufficent ? int utimes(const char *path, const struct timeval times[2]); int futimesat(int fildes, const char *path, const str