[zfs-discuss] Jumpstart ZFS on Sparc?

2008-02-22 Thread Vincent Fox
I recall reading that ZFS boot/root will be possible in NV_86 Sparc coming soon. Do we expect to be able to to define disk setup in the Jumpstart profile at that time? Or will that come later? This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discus

Re: [zfs-discuss] Preferred backup s/w

2008-02-22 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Fri, 22 Feb 2008, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > where it decided to remove the GNU tar I had installed there. Star > does not support traditional tar command line syntax so it can't be > used with existing scripts. Performance testing showed that it was no > more efficient than the 'gtar' which com

Re: [zfs-discuss] Preferred backup s/w

2008-02-22 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On advice of Joerg Schilling and not knowing what 'star' was, I decided to install it for testing. Star uses a very unorthodox build and install approach so the person building it has very little control over what it does. Unfortunately I made the mistake of installing it under /usr/local whe

Re: [zfs-discuss] Preferred backup s/w

2008-02-22 Thread Joerg Schilling
Kyle McDonald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Nicholas Brealey wrote: > > Jörg Schilling wrote: > > > > > >> If you like to still do incremental backups, I > >> recommend star. > >> > >> Jörg > >> > > > > Can star backup and restore ZFS ACLs and extended attributes? > > > > > Including the

Re: [zfs-discuss] Preferred backup s/w

2008-02-22 Thread Joerg Schilling
Nicholas Brealey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jörg Schilling wrote: > > > > > If you like to still do incremental backups, I > > recommend star. > > > > Jörg > > Can star backup and restore ZFS ACLs and extended attributes? If star did appear in Solaris before (see PSARC 480/2004), it most like

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS commands sudden slow down, cpu spiked

2008-02-22 Thread Max Holm
thanks. but when this happens, any ZFS command will take forever to complete not just 'zpool import' - but it might have been triggered by the import action.(?) By the way, the symptoms were first noticed not long after adding LUNs from a IBM DS8100 array. But no error messages or complains about

[zfs-discuss] Creating ZFS home filesystems from Linux

2008-02-22 Thread msl
Sometime ago i did post this: (http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/zfs-discuss/2006-October/035351.html) on ZFS discuss, and Darren J Moffat gave me the idea to use SSH to create the home directories on the solaris server. So, i did implement that solution, and did post the results in my blo

Re: [zfs-discuss] Preferred backup s/w

2008-02-22 Thread Kyle McDonald
Nicholas Brealey wrote: > Jörg Schilling wrote: > > >> If you like to still do incremental backups, I >> recommend star. >> >> Jörg >> > > Can star backup and restore ZFS ACLs and extended attributes? > > Including the new Windows ones that the CIFS server attaches?? -Kyle > Nick >

Re: [zfs-discuss] Preferred backup s/w

2008-02-22 Thread Nicholas Brealey
Jörg Schilling wrote: > > If you like to still do incremental backups, I > recommend star. > > Jörg Can star backup and restore ZFS ACLs and extended attributes? Nick This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discu

Re: [zfs-discuss] iscsi core dumps when under IO

2008-02-22 Thread Stephen Stogner
I tlooks like you are probalby right. from MDB this is what i'm getting: file: /usr/sbin/amd64/iscsitgtd initial argv: /usr/sbin/iscsitgtd threading model: multi-threaded status: process terminated by SIGABRT (Abort) panic message: Assertion failed: 0, file ../t10_sam.c, line 511 Would it be pos

Re: [zfs-discuss] iscsi core dumps when under IO

2008-02-22 Thread Jim Dunham
Stephen, > I am getting a strange issue when using zfs/iscsi shares out of it. > > when I have attached a a cent os 5 initiator to the zfs target it > works fine normally until i start doing heavy 100MB/s+ copies to a > seperate cfs/nfs export on the same zfs pool. > > the error I am getting i

Re: [zfs-discuss] Preferred backup s/w

2008-02-22 Thread Chris Linton-Ford
On Thu, 2008-02-21 at 21:00 +, Gavin Maltby wrote: > On 02/21/08 16:31, Rich Teer wrote: > > > What is the current preferred method for backing up ZFS data pools, > > preferably using free ($0.00) software, and assuming that access to > > individual files (a la ufsbackup/ufsrestore) is require