Re: [zfs-discuss] Nexsan SATABeast and ZFS

2009-03-09 Thread Kees Nuyt
On Mon, 9 Mar 2009 12:06:40 +0100, Lars-Gunnar Persson wrote: >1. On the external disk array, I not able to configure JBOD or RAID 0 >or 1 with just one disk. In some arrays it seems to be possible to configure separate disks by offering the array just one disk in one slot at a time, and, ver

Re: [zfs-discuss] How to unwind raidz1 or zpool

2009-03-09 Thread Harry Putnam
Will Murnane writes: >> After having a created zpool raidz1 from various parts of installed >> disks, is there a command available to quickly see the underlying >> architecture again? > Does "zpool status" do what you want? It sure does... sorry about the line noise. It wasn't obvious from the

[zfs-discuss] How to unwind raidz1 or zpool

2009-03-09 Thread Harry Putnam
[ Sorry to have inadvertantly hit send in earlier duplicate] I'm probably overlooking a lot of functionality in man zpool but as always its difficult to really understand the various cmds and properties when lacking real experience. After having created zpool raidz1 from various parts of installe

Re: [zfs-discuss] How to unwind raidz1 or zpool

2009-03-09 Thread Will Murnane
On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 18:48, Harry Putnam wrote: > I'm probably overlooking a lot of functionality in man zfs but as > always its difficult to really understand the various cmds and > properties when lacking real experience. > > After having a created zpool raidz1 from various parts of installed

[zfs-discuss] How to unwind raidz1 or zpool

2009-03-09 Thread Harry Putnam
I'm probably overlooking a lot of functionality in man zfs but as always its difficult to really understand the various cmds and properties when lacking real experience. After having a created zpool raidz1 from various parts of installed disks, is there a command available to quickly see the under

Re: [zfs-discuss] cannot mount '/export' directory is not empty

2009-03-09 Thread Jason King
On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 5:31 PM, Jan Hlodan wrote: > Hi Tomas, > > thanks for the answer. > Unfortunately, it didn't help much. > However I can mount all file systems, but system is broken - desktop > wont come up. > > "Could not update ICEauthority file /.ICEauthority > There is a problem with the

Re: [zfs-discuss] cannot mount '/export' directory is not empty

2009-03-09 Thread Jan Hlodan
Hi Tomas, thanks for the answer. Unfortunately, it didn't help much. However I can mount all file systems, but system is broken - desktop wont come up. "Could not update ICEauthority file /.ICEauthority There is a problem with the configuration serve. (/usr/lib/gconf-check-2-exited with status 25

Re: [zfs-discuss] Nexsan SATABeast and ZFS

2009-03-09 Thread Frank Cusack
On March 9, 2009 12:06:40 PM +0100 Lars-Gunnar Persson wrote: I'm trying to implement a Nexsan SATABeast ... 1. On the external disk array, I not able to configure JBOD or RAID 0 or 1 with just one disk. exactly why i didn't buy this product. ___ z

Re: [zfs-discuss] Is there a limit to snapshotting?

2009-03-09 Thread Richard Elling
mike wrote: Bear in mind I am not that comfortable with smf and manifests and Solaris userland and such... I wouldn't want to be messing up anything or not setting it up correctly. For the benefit of others who may be lurking, the policies are: svcintervalkeep

Re: [zfs-discuss] cannot mount '/export' directory is not empty

2009-03-09 Thread Tomas Ögren
On 09 March, 2009 - Jan Hlodan sent me these 1,7K bytes: > Hello, > > I am desperate. Today I realized that my OS 108 doesn't want to boot. > I have no idea what I screwed up. I upgraded on 108 last week without > any problems. > Here is where I'm stuck: > > Reading ZFS config: done. > Mounting

Re: [zfs-discuss] Is there a limit to snapshotting?

2009-03-09 Thread mike
Bear in mind I am not that comfortable with smf and manifests and Solaris userland and such... I wouldn't want to be messing up anything or not setting it up correctly. My little PHP script (yes, I use PHP for shell scripting) does a perfect job of what I need and I got a neat idea from Brad Stone

[zfs-discuss] cannot mount '/export' directory is not empty

2009-03-09 Thread Jan Hlodan
Hello, I am desperate. Today I realized that my OS 108 doesn't want to boot. I have no idea what I screwed up. I upgraded on 108 last week without any problems. Here is where I'm stuck: Reading ZFS config: done. Mounting ZFS filesystems: (1/17) cannot mount '/export': directory is not empty (17/1

Re: [zfs-discuss] Is there a limit to snapshotting?

2009-03-09 Thread Richard Elling
mike wrote: Well, I could just use the same script to create my daily snapshot to remove a snapshot with the same prefix, just different date (say, keep 30 days only or something) NB the autosnapshot feature (aka Time Slider Manager) already has this capability. My hope was to just keep a

Re: [zfs-discuss] Is there a limit to snapshotting?

2009-03-09 Thread mike
Well, I could just use the same script to create my daily snapshot to remove a snapshot with the same prefix, just different date (say, keep 30 days only or something) My hope was to just keep a running archive indefinitely. But I guess snapshots are only as good as needed, and I doubt I will real

Re: [zfs-discuss] How to make a ZFS pool with discs of the other machines of the LAN?

2009-03-09 Thread Thiago Martins
I'll drop AoE in favor of the iSCSI to export my 20 discs from Linux Debian Lenny to OpenSolaris 2008.11. Now, I believe this setup will be more compatible with OpenSolaris OS. Thanks! Thiago - "Thiago Martins" escreveu: > Sriram, > > - "Sriram Narayanan" escreveu: > > > On Sat, Ma

Re: [zfs-discuss] Is there a limit to snapshotting?

2009-03-09 Thread Richard Morris - Sun Microsystems - Burlington United States
On 03/08/09 23:16, Blake wrote: I think it's filesystems, not snapshots, that take a long time to enumerate. (If I'm wrong, somebody correct me :) The time needed to iterate through the same number of snapshots and filesystems should be about the same. However, whenever any of the ZFS filesys

Re: [zfs-discuss] Nexsan SATABeast and ZFS

2009-03-09 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Mon, 9 Mar 2009, Lars-Gunnar Persson wrote: 1. On the external disk array, I not able to configure JBOD or RAID 0 or 1 with just one disk. I can't find any options for my Solaris server to access the disk directly so I have to configure some raids on the SATABeast. I was thinking of stripi

Re: [zfs-discuss] Other zvols for swap and dump?

2009-03-09 Thread Darren J Moffat
casper@sun.com wrote: Can you use a different zvol for dump and swap rather than using the swap and dump zvol created by liveupgrade? Yes you can. Swap just uses a normal ZVOL. Dump uses a special one. When you run dumpadm to change/set the dump device to a zvol it will dumpify it so i

[zfs-discuss] Other zvols for swap and dump?

2009-03-09 Thread Casper . Dik
Can you use a different zvol for dump and swap rather than using the swap and dump zvol created by liveupgrade? Casper ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] zpool vs df

2009-03-09 Thread Lars-Gunnar Persson
This was enlightening! Thanks a lot and sorry for the noise. Lars-Gunnar Persson On 9. mars. 2009, at 14.27, Tim wrote: On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 7:07 AM, Lars-Gunnar Persson > wrote: I've a interesting situation. I've created two pool now and one pool named "Data" and another named "raid5".

Re: [zfs-discuss] zpool vs df

2009-03-09 Thread Lars-Gunnar Persson
Here is what zpool status reports: bash-3.00# zpool status pool: Data state: ONLINE scrub: none requested config: NAME STATE READ WRITE CKSUM Data ONLINE 0 0 0 c4t5000402001FC442Cd0 ONLINE 0 0

[zfs-discuss] ZFS GSoC ideas page rough draft

2009-03-09 Thread C.
Here's my rough draft of GSoC ideas http://www.osunix.org/docs/DOC-1022 Also want to thank everyone for their feedback. Please keep in mind that for creating a stronger application we only have a few days. We still need to : 1) Find more mentors. (Please add your name to the doc or confir

Re: [zfs-discuss] zpool vs df

2009-03-09 Thread Tomas Ögren
On 09 March, 2009 - Lars-Gunnar Persson sent me these 1,1K bytes: > I've a interesting situation. I've created two pool now and one pool > named "Data" and another named "raid5". Check the details here: > > bash-3.00# zpool list > NAMESIZEUSED AVAILCAP HEALTH A

[zfs-discuss] zpool vs df

2009-03-09 Thread Lars-Gunnar Persson
I've a interesting situation. I've created two pool now and one pool named "Data" and another named "raid5". Check the details here: bash-3.00# zpool list NAMESIZEUSED AVAILCAP HEALTH ALTROOT Data 10.7T 9.82T892G91% ONLINE - ra

[zfs-discuss] Nexsan SATABeast and ZFS

2009-03-09 Thread Lars-Gunnar Persson
I'm trying to implement a Nexsan SATABeast (an external disk array, read more: http://www.nexsan.com/satabeast.php, 14 disks available) with a Sun Fire X4100 M2 server running Solaris 10 u6 (connected via fiber) and have a couple of questions: (My motivation for this is the corrupted ZFS vo