[zfs-discuss] Deadlock with snv_80+

2007-12-27 Thread Mike Gerdts
I've experienced a hang (cannot re-establish lost VNC session, ssh as me, console login as root) on an snv_80+ system. CTEact tells me: Searching for mutex deadlocks: ### MUTEX ### thread 2a102765ca0 is waiting for mutex 0x3000466e5c8 mutex is owned by thread 2a

Re: [zfs-discuss] rename(2) (mv(1)) between ZFS filesystems in the

2007-12-27 Thread MC
> such a minor "feature" I don't think copying files is a minor feature. Doubly so since the words I've read from Sun suggest that ZFS "file systems" (or "data sets" or whatever they are called now) can be used in the way directories on a normal file system are used. This message posted f

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS File system related

2007-12-27 Thread Richard Elling
sudarshan sridhar wrote: > Hi, > > How zfs does the fiile/directory traversel by reading each dnode > DIRECTORY entry? > > How the creation/deletion of a file works. > > Could anybody please explain related information along with > datastructures. More internal details would be a great he

Re: [zfs-discuss] rename(2) (mv(1)) between ZFS filesystems in the same zpool

2007-12-27 Thread Darren Reed
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Thu, 27 Dec 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> >>> >>> I would guess that this is caused by different st_dev values in the new >>> filesystem. In such a case, mv copies the files instead of renaming >>> them. >> >> >> No, it's because they are different filesystems a

[zfs-discuss] separate zil removal

2007-12-27 Thread Bill Moloney
when I remove a separate zil disk from a pool, the pool continues to function, logging synchronous writes to the disks in the pool. Status shows that the log disk has been removed, and everything seems to work fine until I export the pool. After the pool has been exported (long after the log di

Re: [zfs-discuss] rename(2) (mv(1)) between ZFS filesystems in the same zpool

2007-12-27 Thread Frank . Hofmann
On Thu, 27 Dec 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> >> I would guess that this is caused by different st_dev values in the new >> filesystem. In such a case, mv copies the files instead of renaming them. > > > No, it's because they are different filesystems and the data needs to be > copied; zfs do

Re: [zfs-discuss] rename(2) (mv(1)) between ZFS filesystems in the same zpool

2007-12-27 Thread Casper . Dik
> >I would guess that this is caused by different st_dev values in the new >filesystem. In such a case, mv copies the files instead of renaming them. No, it's because they are different filesystems and the data needs to be copied; zfs doesn't allow data movement between filesystems within a poo

Re: [zfs-discuss] rename(2) (mv(1)) between ZFS filesystems in the same zpool

2007-12-27 Thread Joerg Schilling
Darren Reed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Having just done a largish mv from one ZFS filesystem to another ZFS > filesystem in the same zpool, I was somewhat surprised at how long it > took - I was expecting it to be near instant like it would be within the > same filesystem. I would guess that th