Re: [zfs-discuss] best migration path from Solaris 10

2011-03-18 Thread David Magda
On Mar 18, 2011, at 21:16, Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk wrote: >> I think we all feel the same pain with Oracle's purchase of Sun. >> >> FreeBSD that has commercial support for ZFS maybe? > > Fbsd currently has a very old zpool version, not suitable for running with > SLOGs, since if you lose it, you m

Re: [zfs-discuss] best migration path from Solaris 10

2011-03-18 Thread Michael DeMan
ZFSv28 is in HEAD now and will be out in 8.3. ZFS + HAST in 9.x means being able to cluster off different hardware. In regards to OpenSolaris and Indiana - can somebody clarify the relationship there? It was clear with OpenSolaris that the latest/greatest ZFS would always be available since it

Re: [zfs-discuss] best migration path from Solaris 10

2011-03-18 Thread Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk
> I think we all feel the same pain with Oracle's purchase of Sun. > > FreeBSD that has commercial support for ZFS maybe? Fbsd currently has a very old zpool version, not suitable for running with SLOGs, since if you lose it, you may lose the pool, which isn't very amusing... Vennlige hilsener

Re: [zfs-discuss] [OpenIndiana-discuss] best migration path from Solaris 10

2011-03-18 Thread Michael DeMan
Hi David, Caught your note about bonnie, actually do some testing myself over the weekend. All on older hardware for fun - dual opteron 285 with 16GB RAM. Disk systems is off a pair of SuperMicro SATA cards, with a combination of WD enterprise and Seagate ES 1TB drives. No ZIL, no L2ARC, no t

Re: [zfs-discuss] best migration path from Solaris 10

2011-03-18 Thread Michael DeMan
I think we all feel the same pain with Oracle's purchase of Sun. FreeBSD that has commercial support for ZFS maybe? Not here quite yet, but it is something being looked at by an F500 that I am currently on contract with. www.freenas.org, www.ixsystems.com. Not saying this would be the right so

Re: [zfs-discuss] best migration path from Solaris 10

2011-03-18 Thread Garrett D'Amore
Thanks for thinking about us, Paul. A few quick thoughts: a) Nexenta Core Platform is a bare-bones OS. No GUI, in other words (no X11.) It might well suit you. b) NCP 3 will not have an upgrade path to NCP 4. Its simply too much change in the underlying packaging. c) NCP 4 is still 5-6 month

Re: [zfs-discuss] best migration path from Solaris 10

2011-03-18 Thread Toby Thain
On 18/03/11 5:56 PM, Paul B. Henson wrote: > We've been running Solaris 10 for the past couple of years, primarily to > leverage zfs to provide storage for about 40,000 faculty, staff, and > students ... and at this point want to start reevaluating our best > migration option to move forward from S

Re: [zfs-discuss] [OpenIndiana-discuss] best migration path from Solaris 10

2011-03-18 Thread David Brodbeck
I'm in a similar position, so I'll be curious what kinds of responses you get. I can give you a thumbnail sketch of what I've looked at so far: I evaluated FreeBSD, and ruled it out because I need NFSv4, and FreeBSD's NFSv4 support is still in an early stage. The NFS stability and performance ju

[zfs-discuss] best migration path from Solaris 10

2011-03-18 Thread Paul B. Henson
We've been running Solaris 10 for the past couple of years, primarily to leverage zfs to provide storage for about 40,000 faculty, staff, and students as well as about 1000 groups. Access is provided via NFSv4, CIFS (by samba), and http/https (including a local module allowing filesystem acl's

Re: [zfs-discuss] Solaris panic

2011-03-18 Thread Karl Wagner
Please ignore. This was sent from the wrong account, and another copy was sent from the correct one. Sorry > -Original Message- > From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- > boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Karl Wagner > Sent: 17 March 2011 15:44 > To: zfs-discus

[zfs-discuss] Solaris panic

2011-03-18 Thread Karl Wagner
Hi all I have only just seen this, and thought someone may be able to help. On heavy IO activity, my Solaris 11 Express box hosting a ZFS data pool crashes. It seems to show page faults in several things, including nfsd, sched, zpool-tank and automountd. I get the following in the logs: Mar 17

Re: [zfs-discuss] dual protocal on one file system?

2011-03-18 Thread David Magda
On Fri, March 18, 2011 08:28, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: > From: David Magda [mailto:dma...@ee.ryerson.ca] >> #2 is fixed in OpenSolaris as of snv_129: >> >> The new limit is 1024--the same maximum number of groups as Windows >> supports. Unlikely that it will be back ported to Solaris 10 though (it

Re: [zfs-discuss] dual protocal on one file system?

2011-03-18 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
> From: David Magda [mailto:dma...@ee.ryerson.ca] > > >> 2. Unix / Solaris limitation of 16 / 32 group membership > >> > > I don't think you're going to eliminate #2. > > #2 is fixed in OpenSolaris as of snv_129: > > The new limit is 1024--the same maximum number of groups as Windows > supports.