Re: [zfs-discuss] Comstar production-ready?

Stephen Nelson-Smith wrote: Hi, I recommended a ZFS-based archive solution to a client needing to have a network-based archive of 15TB of data in a remote datacentre. I based this on an X2200 + J4400, Solaris 10 + rsync. This was enthusiastically received, to the extent that the client is no

Re: [zfs-discuss] Comstar production-ready?

Hi Stephen, NexentaStor v1.1.5+ could be an alternative, I think. And it includes new cool COMSTAR integration, i.e. ZFS shareiscsi property actually implements COMSTAR iSCSI target "share" functionality not available in SXCE. http://www.nexenta.com/nexentastor-relnotes On Wed, 2009-03-04 at 07:

Re: [zfs-discuss] Comstar production-ready?

On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 2:07 PM, Stephen Nelson-Smith wrote: > As I see it, if they want to benefit from ZFS at the storage layer, > the obvious solution would be a NAS system, such as a 7210, or > something buillt from a JBOD and a head node that does something > similar.  The 7210 is out of budge

[zfs-discuss] Comstar production-ready?

Hi, I recommended a ZFS-based archive solution to a client needing to have a network-based archive of 15TB of data in a remote datacentre. I based this on an X2200 + J4400, Solaris 10 + rsync. This was enthusiastically received, to the extent that the client is now requesting that their live sys

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs list extentions related to pNFS

Lisa, On Mon, Mar 02, 2009 at 09:58:08PM -0700, Lisa Week wrote: > Should the pNFS datasets show up in the default "zfs list" output? Just > as with ZFS file systems and ZVOLs, the number of pNFS datasets that > exist on a data server will vary depending on the configuration. I think they shou

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs with PERC 6/i card?

Julius Roberts wrote: I would like to hear if anyone is using ZFS with this card and how you set it up, and what, if any, issues you've had with that set up. However I would expect that if you could present 8 raid0 luns to the host then that should be at least a decent config to start using for

Re: [zfs-discuss] Oracle database on zfs

On Mar 3, 2009, at 20:51, Richard Elling wrote: This seems unusual, unless the EMC is mismatched wrt how they may have implemented cache flush. The issues around this are described in the Evil Tuning Guide http://www.solarisinternals.com/wiki/index.php/ZFS_Evil_Tuning_Guide#Cache_Flushes

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs related google summer of code ideas - your vote

That's what I thought you meant, and I got excited thinking that you were talking about OpenSolaris :) I'll see about getting the new packages and trying them out. On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 8:36 PM, Richard Elling wrote: > Blake wrote: > >> When I go here: >> >> http://opensolaris.org/os/project/i

Re: [zfs-discuss] Oracle database on zfs

Vahid Moghaddasi wrote: Hi, I am wondering if there is a guideline on how to configure ZFS on a server with Oracle database? Start with the Best Practices Guide http://www.solarisinternals.com/wiki/index.php/ZFS_Best_Practices_Guide We are experiencing some slowness on writes to ZFS filesys

[zfs-discuss] Oracle database on zfs

Hi, I am wondering if there is a guideline on how to configure ZFS on a server with Oracle database? We are experiencing some slowness on writes to ZFS filesystem. It take about 530ms to write a 2k data. We are running Solaris 10 u5 127127-11 and the back-end storage is a RAID5 EMC EMX. This is a

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs related google summer of code ideas - your vote

Blake wrote: When I go here: http://opensolaris.org/os/project/isns/bui I get an error. Â Where are you getting BUI from? The BUI is in webconsole which is available on your local machine at port 6789 https://localhost:6798 If you want to access it remotely, you'll need to change the conf

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs related google summer of code ideas - your vote

On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 3:35 PM, "C. Bergström" wrote: > > For reasons which I don't care about Sun may not apply to be a gsoc > organization this year. However, I'm not discouraged from trying to propose > some exciting zfs related ideas. On/off list feel free to send your vote, > let me know if

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs related google summer of code ideas - your vote

10) Did I miss something.. Somehow, what I posted on the web forum didn't make it to the mailing list digest... How about implementing dedup? This has been listed as an RFE for almost a year, http://bugs.opensolaris.org/view_bug.do?bug_id=6677093 and discussed here, http://www.opensolar

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs related google summer of code ideas - your vote

When I go here: http://opensolaris.org/os/project/isns/bui I get an error. Where are you getting BUI from? On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 5:16 PM, Richard Elling wrote: > > > FWIW, I just took at look at the BUI in b108 and it seems to have > garnered some love since the last time I looked at it (a yea

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs with PERC 6/i card?

>> I would like to hear if anyone is using ZFS with this card and how you set >> it up, and what, if any, issues you've had with that set up. > > However I would expect that if you could present 8 raid0 luns to > the host then that should be at least a decent config to start > using for ZFS. I can

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs with PERC 6/i card?

On Tue, 03 Mar 2009 09:50:51 -0800 Kristin Amundsen wrote: > I am trying to set up OpenSolaris on a Dell 2950 III that has 8 SAS drives > connected to a PERC 6/i card. I am wondering what the best way to configure > the RAID in the BIOS for ZFS. > > Part of the problem is there seems to be some

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs related google summer of code ideas - your vote

On Tue, Mar 03, 2009 at 11:35:40PM +0200, "C. Bergström" wrote: > 7) vdev evacuation as an upgrade path (which may depend or take > advantage of zfs resize/shrink code) IIRC Matt Ahrens has said on this list that vdev evacuation/pool shrinking is being worked. So (7) would be duplication of ef

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs related google summer of code ideas - your vote

C. Bergström wrote: For reasons which I don't care about Sun may not apply to be a gsoc organization this year. However, I'm not discouraged from trying to propose some exciting zfs related ideas. On/off list feel free to send your vote, let me know if you can mentor or if you know a compan

[zfs-discuss] zfs related google summer of code ideas - your vote

For reasons which I don't care about Sun may not apply to be a gsoc organization this year. However, I'm not discouraged from trying to propose some exciting zfs related ideas. On/off list feel free to send your vote, let me know if you can mentor or if you know a company that could use it.

Re: [zfs-discuss] Can VirtualBox run a 64 bit guests on 32 bit host

On Tue, 3 Mar 2009, Miles Nordin wrote: I would like 64-bit hardware with ECC, 8GB RAM, and a good Ethernet chip, that can run both Linux and Solaris. I do not plan to use the onboard SATA. So far I'm having nasty problems with an nForce 750a board from asus (M3N72-D) under Linux. Did you ac

Re: [zfs-discuss] GSoC 09 zfs ideas?

Greg Mason wrote: Just my $0.02, but would pool shrinking be the same as vdev evacuation? Yes. basically, what I'm thinking is: zpool remove mypool Allow time for ZFS to vacate the vdev(s), and then light up the "OK to remove" light on each evacuated disk. That's the goal. --matt _

Re: [zfs-discuss] Can VirtualBox run a 64 bit guests on 32 bit host

> "hp" == Harry Putnam writes: hp> I'm thinking of turning to Asus again and making sure there is hp> onboard SATA with at least 4 prts and preferebly 6. I would like 64-bit hardware with ECC, 8GB RAM, and a good Ethernet chip, that can run both Linux and Solaris. I do not plan to u

Re: [zfs-discuss] GSoC 09 zfs ideas?

Just my $0.02, but would pool shrinking be the same as vdev evacuation? I'm quite interested in vdev evacuation as an upgrade path for multi-disk pools. This would be yet another reason to for folks to use ZFS at home (you only have to buy cheap disks), but it would also be a good to have that

[zfs-discuss] zfs with PERC 6/i card?

I am trying to set up OpenSolaris on a Dell 2950 III that has 8 SAS drives connected to a PERC 6/i card. I am wondering what the best way to configure the RAID in the BIOS for ZFS. Part of the problem is there seems to be some confusion inside Dell as to what can be done with the card. Their tec

Re: [zfs-discuss] GSoC 09 zfs ideas?

George Wilson wrote: Along these lines you can envision a restore tool that is capable of reading multiple 'zfs send' streams to construct the various versions of files which are available. In addition, it would be nice if the tool could read in the streams and then make it easy to traverse and

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs list extentions related to pNFS

Yes. -- richard Lisa Week wrote: Hi, I am soliciting input from the ZFS engineers and/or ZFS users on an extension to "zfs list". Thanks in advance for your feedback. Quick Background: The pNFS project (http://opensolaris.org/os/project/nfsv41/)

Re: [zfs-discuss] GSoC 09 zfs ideas?

Richard Elling wrote: David Magda wrote: On Feb 27, 2009, at 18:23, C. Bergström wrote: Blake wrote: Care to share any of those in advance? It might be cool to see input from listees and generally get some wheels turning... raidz boot support in grub 2 is pretty high on my list to be hone

Re: [zfs-discuss] GSoC 09 zfs ideas?

Matthew Ahrens wrote: Blake wrote: zfs send is great for moving a filesystem with lots of tiny files, since it just handles the blocks :) I'd like to see: pool-shrinking (and an option to shrink disk A when i want disk B to become a mirror, but A is a few blocks bigger) I'm working on it.

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS volume corrupted?

On 3. mars. 2009, at 14.51, Sanjeev wrote: Thank you for your reply. Lars-Gunnar, On Tue, Mar 03, 2009 at 11:18:27AM +0100, Lars-Gunnar Persson wrote: -bash-3.00$ zfs list -o name,type,used,avail,ratio,compression,reserv,volsize Data/ subversion1 NAMETYPE USED AVAIL RAT

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS volume corrupted?

Lars-Gunnar, On Tue, Mar 03, 2009 at 11:18:27AM +0100, Lars-Gunnar Persson wrote: > -bash-3.00$ zfs list -o > name,type,used,avail,ratio,compression,reserv,volsize Data/subversion1 > NAMETYPE USED AVAIL RATIO COMPRESS RESERV VOLSIZE > Data/subversion1 volume 22.5K 51

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS volume corrupted?

And then the zdb process ends with: Traversing all blocks to verify checksums and verify nothing leaked ... out of memory -- generating core dump Abort (core dumped) hmm, what does that mean?? I also ran these commands: -bash-3.00$ sudo fmstat module ev_recv ev_acpt wait svc_t %

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS volume corrupted?

I run a new command now zdb. Here is the current output: -bash-3.00$ sudo zdb Data version=4 name='Data' state=0 txg=9806565 pool_guid=6808539022472427249 vdev_tree type='root' id=0 guid=6808539022472427249 children[0] type='

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS volume corrupted?

Thank you for your long reply. I don't believe that will help me get my ZFS volume back though, From my last reply to this list I confirm that I do understand what the AVAIL column is reporting when running the zfs list command. hmm, still confused ... Regards, Lars-Gunnar Persson On 3.

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS volume corrupted?

Hi, The reason zfs is saying that the available is larger is because in Zfs the size of the pool is always available to the all the zfs filesystems that reside in the pool. Setting a reservation will gaurntee that the reservation size is "reserved" for the filesystem/volume but you can change tha

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS volume corrupted?

I thought a ZFS file system wouldn't destroy a ZFS volume? Hmm, I'm not sure what to do now ... First of all, this zfs volume Data/subversion1 has been working for a year and suddenly after a reboot of the Solaris server, running of the zpool export and zpool import command, I get problems

[zfs-discuss] zfs-crypto on OpenSolaris 2009.06?

A lot of people ask me about crypto layer over ZFS and the future integration in OpenSolaris (I read around snv_111), it may be ready for the next stable release (2009.06)? Thanks and sorry for the cross-post! -- Luca Morettoni Web and BLOG @ http://www.morettoni.net/ | OpenSolaris SCA #OS0344

Re: [zfs-discuss] Concat'ed pool vs. striped pool

But, if mypool was a concatenation, things would get written onto the c0t1d0 first, and if any one of the subsequent disks were to fail, I should be able to recover everything off of mypool, as long as I have not filled up c0t1d0, since things were written sequentially, rather than across all