Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS snapshots & rsync --delete

2009-10-18 Thread Richard Elling
On Oct 18, 2009, at 11:23 AM, Sander Smeenk wrote: Quoting Chris Kirby (chris.ki...@sun.com): If you have a snapshot named "p...@snap", this: # rmdir /pool/.zfs/snapshot/snap is equivalent to this: # zfs destroy p...@snap Similarly, this: # mkdir /pool/.zfs/snapshot/snap is equivalent to this

Re: [zfs-discuss] fishworks on x4275?

2009-10-18 Thread Trevor Pretty
Frank I've been looking into:-  http://www.nexenta.com/corp/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogsection&id=4&Itemid=128 Only played with a VM so far on my laptop, but it does seem to be an alternative to the Sun product if you don't want to buy a S7000. IMHO: Sun are missing a great opport

Re: [zfs-discuss] iscsi/comstar performance

2009-10-18 Thread Frank Middleton
On 10/13/09 18:35, Albert Chin wrote: Maybe this will help: http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/storage-discuss/2009-September/007118.html Well, it does seem to explain the scrub problem. I think it might also explain the slow boot and startup problem - the VM only has 564M available, an

[zfs-discuss] zpool wont get back online

2009-10-18 Thread Jonas Nordin
hi, After a shutdown my zpool wont go online again, zpool status showed that only one of five hard drives is online. I tried to export the pool and get it back in hope of a fix but with no change. I have replaced the sata cables and even replaced the motherboard but it's always showes the same

[zfs-discuss] zpool wont get back online

2009-10-18 Thread Jonas Nordin
hi, After a shutdown my zpool wont go online again, zpool status showed that only one of five hard drives is online. I tried to export the pool and get it back in hope of a fix but with no change. I have replaced the sata cables and even replaced the motherboard but it's always showes the same

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS snapshots & rsync --delete

2009-10-18 Thread Sander Smeenk
Quoting Chris Kirby (chris.ki...@sun.com): > If you have a snapshot named "p...@snap", this: > # rmdir /pool/.zfs/snapshot/snap > is equivalent to this: > # zfs destroy p...@snap > > Similarly, this: > # mkdir /pool/.zfs/snapshot/snap > is equivalent to this: > # zfs snapshot p...@snap > > This ca

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS snapshots & rsync --delete

2009-10-18 Thread Chris Kirby
On Oct 18, 2009, at 11:37 AM, Sander Smeenk wrote: I tried to indicate that it's strange that rmdir works on the snapshot directory while files inside snapshots are immutable. This, to me, is a bug. If you have a snapshot named "p...@snap", this: # rmdir /pool/.zfs/snapshot/snap is equivale

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS snapshots & rsync --delete

2009-10-18 Thread Sander Smeenk
Quoting dick hoogendijk (d...@nagual.nl): > > Well, thats what i would expect too. It seems strange that you can't > > edit or remove singular files from snapshots [...] > That would make the snapshot not a snapshot anymore. There would be > differences.. I'm well aware of that. You're replying t

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS snapshots & rsync --delete

2009-10-18 Thread dick hoogendijk
On Sun, 2009-10-18 at 18:12 +0200, Sander Smeenk wrote: > Well, thats what i would expect too. It seems strange that you can't > edit or remove singular files from snapshots [...] That would make the snapshot not a snapshot anymore. There would be differences.. __

[zfs-discuss] The ZFS FAQ needs an update

2009-10-18 Thread Sriram Narayanan
All: Given that the latest S10 update includes user quotas, the FAQ here [1] may need an update -- Sriram [1] http://opensolaris.org/os/community/zfs/faq/#zfsquotas ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/ma

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS snapshots & rsync --delete

2009-10-18 Thread Sander Smeenk
Quoting A Darren Dunham (ddun...@taos.com): > > i noticed rsync -removes- snapshots even though i am not able to do > > so myself, even as root, with plain /bin/rm. > I never liked this interface. I want snapshots to be immutable to > operations within the filesystem itself. Well, thats what i w

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS mirror resilver process

2009-10-18 Thread Toby Thain
On 18-Oct-09, at 6:41 AM, Adam Mellor wrote: I Too have seen this problem. I had done a zfs send from my main pool "terra" (6 disk raidz on seagate 1TB drives) to a mirror pair of WD Green 1TB drives. ZFS send was successful, however i noticed the pool was degraded after a while (~1 week)

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS mirror resilver process

2009-10-18 Thread Adam Mellor
I Too have seen this problem. I had done a zfs send from my main pool "terra" (6 disk raidz on seagate 1TB drives) to a mirror pair of WD Green 1TB drives. ZFS send was successful, however i noticed the pool was degraded after a while (~1 week) with one of the mirror disks constantly re-silverin