Re: [zfs-discuss] Best option for my home file server?

2007-10-01 Thread Tuomas Leikola
let A,B,C,D be the 250GB disks and X,Y the 500GB ones. my choise here would be raidz over (A+B),(C+D),X,Y means something like zpool create tank raidz (stripe A B) (stripe C D) X Y (how do you actually write that up as zpool commands?) ___ zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs panic on boot

2007-10-01 Thread Richard Elling
Marion Hakanson wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: >> Living on the edge... The T3 has a 2 year battery life (time is counted). >> When it decides the batteries are too old, it will shut down the nonvolatile >> write cache. You'll want to make sure you have fresh batteries soon. > > Hmm, doesn't th

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs panic on boot

2007-10-01 Thread Marion Hakanson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > Living on the edge... The T3 has a 2 year battery life (time is counted). > When it decides the batteries are too old, it will shut down the nonvolatile > write cache. You'll want to make sure you have fresh batteries soon. Hmm, doesn't the array put the cache into "writ

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs boot doesn't support /usr on a separate partition.

2007-10-01 Thread Jürgen Keil
> Should I bfu to the latest bits to fix this > problem or do I also need to install b72? bfu to b72 (or newer) should be OK, iff there really is a difference with shared library dependencies between b70 and b72. I'm not sure about b70; but b72 with just an empty /usr directory in the root files

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS gzip compression

2007-10-01 Thread Adam Leventhal
On Sat, Sep 29, 2007 at 05:03:29PM -0700, Scott wrote: > Thanks for the reply. I suppose my next question, then, is how > difficult would it be for me to apply a patch against U4 to gain the > gzip compression functionality in ZFS? I come from a FreeBSD > background, so I have no problems with co

Re: [zfs-discuss] Sun 6120 array again

2007-10-01 Thread Jonathan Edwards
SCSI based, but solid and cheap enclosures if you don't care about support: http://search.ebay.com/search/search.dll?satitle=Sun+D1000 On Oct 1, 2007, at 12:15, Andy Lubel wrote: > I gave up. > > The 6120 I just ended up not doing zfs. And for our 6130 since we > don't > have santricity or t

Re: [zfs-discuss] Sun 6120 array again

2007-10-01 Thread Andy Lubel
I gave up. The 6120 I just ended up not doing zfs. And for our 6130 since we don't have santricity or the sscs command to set it, I just decided to export each disk and create an array with zfs (and a RAMSAN zil), which made performance acceptable for us. I wish there was a firmware that just ma

Re: [zfs-discuss] Rule of Thumb for zfs server sizing with (192) 500 GB SATA disks?

2007-10-01 Thread Richard Elling
comment below... William Papolis wrote: > I checked this out at the Solaris internals link above, because I am also > interested in the best setup for ZFS. > > Assuming 500GB drives ... > > It turns out that the most cost effective option (meaning the least "lost" > drive space due to redundan

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs panic on boot

2007-10-01 Thread Gavin Maltby
On 10/01/07 17:01, Richard Elling wrote: T3 comment below... [cut] A scrub is only 20% complete, but has found no errors thus far. I check the T3 pair and no complaints there either - I did reboot them just for luck (last reboot was 2 years ago, apparently!). Living on the edge... The T3 has

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs panic on boot

2007-10-01 Thread Richard Elling
T3 comment below... Gavin Maltby wrote: > Hi, > > On 09/29/07 22:00, Gavin Maltby wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Our zfs nfs build server running snv_73 (pool created back before >> zfs integrated to ON) paniced I guess from zfs the first time >> and now panics on attempted boot every time as below. Is thi

[zfs-discuss] ZFS automatic backup service - simple backups to USB disks

2007-10-01 Thread Tim Foster
Hi all, I just posted some stuff about a simple ZFS automatic backup service to my blog: http://blogs.sun.com/timf/entry/zfs_automatic_backup_0_1 - all thoughts/comments (and bug reports!) welcome cheers, tim -- Tim Foster, Sun Microsystems Inc, Solaris Engineer

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs boot doesn't support /usr on a separate partition.

2007-10-01 Thread Kugutsumen
Thanks, you're my hero... Should I bfu to the latest bits to fix this problem or do I also need to install b72? On 01/10/2007, at 8:22 PM, Jürgen Keil wrote: >> I would like confirm that Solaris Express Developer Edition 09/07 >> b70, you can't have /usr on a separate zfs filesystem because of

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs boot doesn't support /usr on a separate partition.

2007-10-01 Thread Kugutsumen
On 01/10/2007, at 7:46 PM, James C. McPherson wrote: > Kugutsumen wrote: >> I would like confirm that Solaris Express Developer Edition 09/07 >> b70, you can't have /usr on a separate zfs filesystem because of >> broken dependencies. >> 1/ Part of the problem is that /sbin/zpool is linked t

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs boot doesn't support /usr on a separate partition.

2007-10-01 Thread Jürgen Keil
> I would like confirm that Solaris Express Developer Edition 09/07 > b70, you can't have /usr on a separate zfs filesystem because of > broken dependencies. > > 1/ Part of the problem is that /sbin/zpool is linked to > /usr/lib/libdiskmgt.so.1 Yep, in the past this happened on several occas

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs boot doesn't support /usr on a separate partition.

2007-10-01 Thread James C. McPherson
Kugutsumen wrote: > I would like confirm that Solaris Express Developer Edition 09/07 > b70, you can't have /usr on a separate zfs filesystem because of > broken dependencies. > 1/ Part of the problem is that /sbin/zpool is linked to /usr/lib/ > libdiskmgt.so.1 > 2/ There are probably other br

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS (and quota)

2007-10-01 Thread Pawel Jakub Dawidek
On Mon, Oct 01, 2007 at 12:57:05PM +0100, Robert Milkowski wrote: > Hello Neil, > > Thursday, September 27, 2007, 11:40:42 PM, you wrote: > > > NP> Roch - PAE wrote: > >> Pawel Jakub Dawidek writes: > >> > I'm CCing zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org, as this doesn't look like > >> > FreeBSD-specific

[zfs-discuss] zfs boot doesn't support /usr on a separate partition.

2007-10-01 Thread Kugutsumen
I would like confirm that Solaris Express Developer Edition 09/07 b70, you can't have /usr on a separate zfs filesystem because of broken dependencies. 1/ Part of the problem is that /sbin/zpool is linked to /usr/lib/ libdiskmgt.so.1 2/ There are probably other broken dependencies since I've

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS (and quota)

2007-10-01 Thread Robert Milkowski
Hello Neil, Thursday, September 27, 2007, 11:40:42 PM, you wrote: NP> Roch - PAE wrote: >> Pawel Jakub Dawidek writes: >> > I'm CCing zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org, as this doesn't look like >> > FreeBSD-specific problem. >> > >> > It looks there is a problem with block allocation(?) when we

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs panic on boot

2007-10-01 Thread Gavin Maltby
Hi, On 09/29/07 22:00, Gavin Maltby wrote: Hi, Our zfs nfs build server running snv_73 (pool created back before zfs integrated to ON) paniced I guess from zfs the first time and now panics on attempted boot every time as below. Is this a known issue and, more importantly (2TB of data in the p