Re: [zfs-discuss] Questions from a windows admin - Samba, shares & quotas

2007-11-22 Thread Ross
Well, it looks like I've solved the question of whether you can auto-create the folders. There's a nice little samba script that you can add to the share to do it for you: >From http://www.edplese.com/samba-with-zfs.html Samba's root preexec share parameter can really come in handy when settin

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS + DB + "fragments"

2007-11-22 Thread can you guess?
> OK, I'll bite; it's not like I'm getting an answer to > my other question. Did I miss one somewhere? > > Bill, please explain why deciding what to do about > sequential scan > performance in ZFS is urgent? It's not so much that it's 'urgent' (anyone affected by it simply won't use ZFS) as t

Re: [zfs-discuss] Home Motherboard

2007-11-22 Thread James C. McPherson
mike wrote: > I actually have a related motherboard, chassis, dual power-supplies > and 12x400 gig drives already up on ebay too. If I recall Areca cards > are supported in OpenSolaris... At the moment you can download the Areca "arcmsr" driver from areca.com.tw, but I'm in the process of integrat

Re: [zfs-discuss] Home Motherboard

2007-11-22 Thread Nathan Kroenert
I was interested in that one till I read: One 240-pin DDR2 SDRAM Dual Inline Memory Module (DIMM) sockets Support for DDR2 667 MHz, DDR2 533 MHz and DDR2 400 MHz DIMMs (DDR 667 MHz validated to run at 533 MHz only) Support for up to 1 GB of system memory Boo!!! :) Nathan. Vincent Fox wrote: >

[zfs-discuss] Questions from a windows admin - Samba, shares & quotas

2007-11-22 Thread Ross
Hey folks, This may sound a little crazy, but I'm a long time windows admin planning on rolling out a Solaris server to act as our main filestore, and I could do with a bit of advice. The main reason for switching is so we can use snapshots. With Samba and Microsoft's Shadow Copy Client we ca

Re: [zfs-discuss] Home Motherboard

2007-11-22 Thread Rob Logan
> with 4 cores and 2-4G of ram. not sure 2G is enough... at least with 64bit there are no kernel space issues. 6 % echo '::memstat' | mdb -k Page SummaryPagesMB %Tot Kernel 692075

Re: [zfs-discuss] Home Motherboard

2007-11-22 Thread mike
I actually have a related motherboard, chassis, dual power-supplies and 12x400 gig drives already up on ebay too. If I recall Areca cards are supported in OpenSolaris... http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=300172982498 On 11/22/07, Jason P. Warr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If you

[zfs-discuss] ZFS & Lustre

2007-11-22 Thread Rayson Ho
First reported by a Sun blogger (http://blogs.sun.com/simons/), most of the HPC Consortium meeting in Reno presentations are now onlone: https://events-at-sun.com/hpcreno/presentations.html Some people on this list may be interested in this: "Lustre – CFS Update, Peter Braam, CEO, Cluster File Sys

Re: [zfs-discuss] Home Motherboard

2007-11-22 Thread Rob Logan
here is a simple layout for 6 disks toward "speed" : /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s1 - - swap- no - /dev/dsk/c0t1d0s1 - - swap- no - root/snv_77 - / zfs - no - z/snv_77/usr - /usr zfs - yes - z/snv_77/var -

Re: [zfs-discuss] cifs server?

2007-11-22 Thread Nicolas Williams
On Thu, Nov 22, 2007 at 10:27:18AM -0800, Tim Cook wrote: > So now that cifs has finally been released in b77, anyone happen to It hasn't been released. It was integrated into build 77. > have any documentation on setup. I know the initial share is The documentation will be available in the fi

Re: [zfs-discuss] cifs server?

2007-11-22 Thread Tim Cook
so apparently you need to use smbadm, but when I got to create the group: smbadm create wheel failed to create the group (NOT_SUPPORTED) This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.ope

[zfs-discuss] cifs server?

2007-11-22 Thread Tim Cook
So now that cifs has finally been released in b77, anyone happen to have any documentation on setup. I know the initial share is relatively simple... but what is the process after that for actually getting users authenticated? I see in the idmap service there's some configurations for authenti

Re: [zfs-discuss] Home Motherboard

2007-11-22 Thread Vincent Fox
The new Intel D201GLY2 looks quite good. Fanless 64-bit CPU, low-power consumption from what I have read. Awaiting first substantive review from SilentPCReview.com before ordering one. This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailin

Re: [zfs-discuss] Home Motherboard

2007-11-22 Thread Jason P. Warr
If you want a board that is a steal look at this one: http://www.ascendtech.us/itemdesc.asp?ic=MBTAS2882G3NR Tyan S2882, Dual Socket 940 Opteron, 8 DDR slots, 2 PCI-X 133 busses with 2 slots each, Dual Core support. $80. Pair is with a couple of Opteron 270's from ebay for $195: http://cgi.e

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS snapshot GUI

2007-11-22 Thread Tim Foster
hi there, On Thu, 2007-11-22 at 00:53 -0800, Ross wrote: > It should be possible to restore individual files rather than rolling > back the snapshot and I guess that's what was meant here. I think the > terminology in the original post may not be too clear. Yep, I agree. > However, my impressi

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS snapshot GUI

2007-11-22 Thread Russell Aspinwall
Hi, In respect of snapshots :- a) should the snapshot process it self be modified to allow restoring of individual files via zfs rollback b) should there be a zfs rollfile to selectively restore files from a snapshot c) should there be a zfs purge which would allow file(s) to be removed fro

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS snapshot GUI

2007-11-22 Thread Ross
Very good points Rang, I'm going to add to them with a few of my own. It should be possible to restore individual files rather than rolling back the snapshot and I guess that's what was meant here. I think the terminology in the original post may not be too clear. However, my impression readin