Re: [zfs-discuss] link in zpool upgrade -v broken

On 7 Jan 2010, at 23:52, Ian Collins wrote: > http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/zfs/version/ > > No longer exists. Is there a bug for this yet? I don't think so. But is where they've moved to. Cheers, Chris __

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Tutorial slides from USENIX LISA09 [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

0n Thu, Jan 07, 2010 at 10:49:50AM -0800, Richard Elling wrote: >I have posted my ZFS Tutorial slides from USENIX LISA09 on >slideshare.net. >http://richardelling.blogspot.com/2010/01/zfs-tutorial-at-usenix-lisa09-slides.html Is there a PDF available of this ? -Alex IMP

Re: [zfs-discuss] (Practical) limit on the number of snapshots?

Lutz Schumann writes: > When importing a pool with many snapshots (which happens during > reboot also) the import may take a long time (example: 1 > snapshots ~ 1-2 days). > > I've not tested the new release of Solaris (svn_125++) which fixes > this regarding this issue. So a test with osol 1

Re: [zfs-discuss] $100 SSD = >5x faster dedupe

Sorry to hijack the thread, but can you explain your setup? Sounds interesting, but need more info... Thanks! --Tiernan On Jan 7, 2010 11:56 PM, "Marty Scholes" wrote: Ian wrote: > Why did you set dedup=verify on the USB pool? Because that is my last-ditch copy of the data and MUST be correct.

Re: [zfs-discuss] link in zpool upgrade -v broken

Hi Ian, The link from the old version page to the new version page should be working. I'll check. The CR is 6898657. In the meantime, the version information can be reached from the right column from this page: http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/view/Community+Group+zfs/ Thanks, Cindy - Orig

Re: [zfs-discuss] Zones on shared storage - a warning

hey mike/cindy, i've gone ahead and filed a zfs rfe on this functionality: 6915127 need full support for zfs pools on files implmenting this rfe is a requirement for supporting encapsulated zones on shared storage. ed On Thu, Jan 07, 2010 at 03:26:17PM -0700, Cindy Swearingen wrote: > H

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS upgrade.

James Lever wrote: Is there a way to upgrade my current ZFS version. I show the version could be as high as 22. The version of Solaris you are running only suport ZFS versions up to version 15 as demonstrated by your zfs upgrade -v output. You probably need a newer version of Solaris, b

Re: [zfs-discuss] $100 SSD = >5x faster dedupe

Ian wrote: > Why did you set dedup=verify on the USB pool? Because that is my last-ditch copy of the data and MUST be correct. At the same time, I want to cram as much data as possible into the pool. If I ever go to the USB pool, something has already gone horribly wrong and I am desperate. I

[zfs-discuss] link in zpool upgrade -v broken

http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/zfs/version/ No longer exists. Is there a bug for this yet? -- Ian. ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS upgrade.

Hi John, On 08/01/2010, at 7:19 AM, john_dil...@blm.gov wrote: > Is there a way to upgrade my current ZFS version. I show the version could > be as high as 22. The version of Solaris you are running only suport ZFS versions up to version 15 as demonstrated by your zfs upgrade -v output. You pr

[zfs-discuss] ZFS upgrade.

Hello, Is there a way to upgrade my current ZFS version. I show the version could be as high as 22. I tried the command below. It seems that you can only upgrade by upgrade the OS release. [ilmcoso0vs056:root] / # zpool upgrade -V 16 tank invalid version '16' usage: upgrade up

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Web Administration?

hello you can try webadmin application napp-it. it's a s free and end-user configurable perl-cgi script to manage your nexenta (core), eon or opensolaris server via browser. (not only zfs, also user, network, iscsi..). it will support newest features of snv 129 like dedup, zfs3.. see http://ww

Re: [zfs-discuss] Zones on shared storage - a warning

Hi Mike, I can't really speak for how virtualization products are using files for pools, but we don't recommend creating pools on files, much less NFS-mounted files and then building zones on top. File-based pool configurations might be used for limited internal testing of some features, but our

Re: [zfs-discuss] Zones on shared storage - a warning

[removed zones-discuss after sending heads-up that the conversation will continue at zfs-discuss] On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 5:16 PM, Cindy Swearingen wrote: > Hi Mike, > > It is difficult to comment on the root cause of this failure since > the several interactions of these features are unknown. You

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Web Administration?

You could use NexetaStor (www.nexenta.com) which is a commercial storage appliance, however - it based on opensolaris, but it is not just a package to install. Also there is EONStor (www.genunix.org). -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zf

Re: [zfs-discuss] $100 SSD = >5x faster dedupe

Marty Scholes wrote: I did something similar, but with a SCSI drive. I keep a large external USB drive as a "last ditch" recovery pool which is synchronized hourly from the main pool. Kind of like a poor man's tape backup. When I enabled dedup=verify on the USB pool, the sync performance we

Re: [zfs-discuss] corrupted error after zpool scrub

On Jan 7, 2010, at 23:47, Cindy Swearingen wrote: Hi Gunther, Are these external USB disks? You could determine what disk problems caused the errors by using the fmdump -eV output. From your output, the scrub is still in progress so maybe these errors will clear up. Or, the objects no long

Re: [zfs-discuss] corrupted error after zpool scrub

Hi Gunther, Are these external USB disks? You could determine what disk problems caused the errors by using the fmdump -eV output. From your output, the scrub is still in progress so maybe these errors will clear up. Or, the objects no longer exist and a subsequent scrub will remove these entri

Re: [zfs-discuss] Disks and caches

On Jan 7, 2010, at 12:02 PM, Anil wrote: I *am* talking about situations where physical RAM is used up. So definitely the SSD could be touched quite a bit when used as a rpool - for pages in/out. In the cases where rpool does not serve user data (eg. home directories and databases are not i

Re: [zfs-discuss] Disks and caches

I *am* talking about situations where physical RAM is used up. So definitely the SSD could be touched quite a bit when used as a rpool - for pages in/out. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.o

Re: [zfs-discuss] Disks and caches

On Thu, 2010-01-07 at 11:07 -0800, Anil wrote: > There is talk about using those cheap disks for rpool. Isn't rpool > also prone to a lot of writes, specifically when the /tmp is in a SSD? Huh? By default, solaris uses tmpfs for /tmp, /var/run, and /etc/svc/volatile; writes to those filesystems w

Re: [zfs-discuss] Disks and caches

On Thu, 7 Jan 2010, Anil wrote: After spending some time reading up on this whole deal with SSD with "caches" and how they are prone to data losses during power failures, I need some clarifications... When you guys say "write cache", do you just really mean the on board cache (for both read A

[zfs-discuss] ZFS Web Administration?

I was wondering what the future holds for web-based administration of ZFS? In SXCE and prior versions of Solaris, the Sun Management Console or WebConsole is/was used to administer ZFS. However, the Webconsole packages are not part of Opensolaris, and SXCE is supposed to be discontinued at the

[zfs-discuss] corrupted error after zpool scrub

Hi, I got this: gue...@opensolaris:~$ pfexec zpool status -v pool: rpool state: ONLINE status: One or more devices has experienced an error resulting in data corruption. Applications may be affected. action: Restore the file in question if possible. Otherwise restore the ent

Re: [zfs-discuss] Disks and caches

Also... There is talk about using those cheap disks for rpool. Isn't rpool also prone to a lot of writes, specifically when the /tmp is in a SSD? What's the real reason to making those cheap SSD as a rpool rather than a L2ARC? Basically is everyone saying that SSD without NVRAM/capacitors/batt

[zfs-discuss] Disks and caches

After spending some time reading up on this whole deal with SSD with "caches" and how they are prone to data losses during power failures, I need some clarifications... When you guys say "write cache", do you just really mean the on board cache (for both read AND writes)? Or is there a separate

[zfs-discuss] ZFS Tutorial slides from USENIX LISA09

I have posted my ZFS Tutorial slides from USENIX LISA09 on slideshare.net. You will notice that there is no real material on dedup. The reason is that dedup was not yet released when the materials were created. Everything in the slides is publicly known information and, perhaps by chance,

Re: [zfs-discuss] rethinking RaidZ and Record size [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

On Jan 6, 2010, at 11:09 PM, Wilkinson, Alex wrote: 0n Wed, Jan 06, 2010 at 11:00:49PM -0800, Richard Elling wrote: On Jan 6, 2010, at 10:39 PM, Wilkinson, Alex wrote: 0n Wed, Jan 06, 2010 at 02:22:19PM -0800, Richard Elling wrote: Rather, ZFS works very nicely with "hardware RAID" sys

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS and LiveUpgrade

Make sure you have the latest LU patches installed. There were a lot of fixes put back in that area within the last six months or so. ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

[zfs-discuss] abusing zfs boot disk for fun and DR

I'm in the process of standing up a couple of t5440's, of which the config will eventually end up in another data center 6k miles from the original config, and I'm supposed to send disks to the data center and we'll start from there (yes, I know how to flar and jumpstart. When the boss says do som

Re: [zfs-discuss] opensolaris lightweight install

The OpenSolaris "Just enough OS" (JeOS) project has been working on making stripped down images available for virtual machines as well as automated installer profiles. See: http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/view/Project+jeos/WebHome for the project home page. Also, a frequently updated blog on the

Re: [zfs-discuss] Understanding SAS/SATA Backplanes and Connectivity

Thanks Will, I thought it might be an i2c interface port to the psu, but obviously much simpler. I'll probably use a small picaxe micro, since I have a few here & have used them before. I used them to 'translate' the replacement fans clock pulse to what the monitoring circuit needed in a few V2

[zfs-discuss] 40Gb SSD "boot" drive

With reference to the earlier Kingston part numbers: Desktop Bundle - SNV125-S2BD/40GB Bare drive - SNV125-S2/40GB It looks like Intel has begun to ship a similar (same ??) product as part number: SSDSA2MP040G2R5 model name: Intel X25-V (V = value) see: http://www.intel.com/cd/channel/reseller

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS write bursts cause short app stalls

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Just tried and didn't help :-(. Regards, - -- Saso Brent Jones wrote: > On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 2:40 PM, Saso Kiselkov wrote: >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> Buffering the writes in the OS would work for me as well - I've go