Re: [zfs-discuss] FC HBA for openindiana

Yep i Need. 4 Gig with multipathing if possible. On Oct 19, 2012, at 10:34 PM, Tim Cook wrote: On Friday, October 19, 2012, Christof Haemmerle wrote: > hi there, > i need to connect some old raid subsystems to a opensolaris box via fibre > channel. can you recommend any FC HBA? > > thanx > __

Re: [zfs-discuss] FC HBA for openindiana

On Friday, October 19, 2012, Christof Haemmerle wrote: > hi there, > i need to connect some old raid subsystems to a opensolaris box via fibre > channel. can you recommend any FC HBA? > > thanx > __ > How old? If its 1gbit you'll need a 4gb or slower hba. Qlogic woul

[zfs-discuss] FC HBA for openindiana

hi there, i need to connect some old raid subsystems to a opensolaris box via fibre channel. can you recommend any FC HBA? thanx ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] vm server storage mirror

> Several times, I destroyed the pool and recreated it completely from > backup. zfs send and zfs receive both work fine. But strangely - when I > launch a VM, the IO grinds to a halt, and I'm forced to powercycle > (usually) the host. > A shot in the dark here, but perhaps one of the disks invo

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs send to older version

> From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- > boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Richard Elling > >> At some point, people will bitterly regret some "zpool upgrade" with no way >> back. > > uhm... and how is that different than anything else in the software world? No atte

Re: [zfs-discuss] vm server storage mirror

Yikes, I'm back at it again, and so frustrated. For about 2-3 weeks now, I had the iscsi mirror configuration in production, as previously described. Two disks on system 1 mirror against two disks on system 2, everything done via iscsi, so you could zpool export on machine 1, and then zpoo

Re: [zfs-discuss] [zfs] portable zfs send streams (preview webrev)

On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 1:46 PM, Arne Jansen wrote: > On 10/19/2012 09:58 PM, Matthew Ahrens wrote: > > Please don't bother changing libzfs (and proliferating the copypasta > > there) -- do it like lzc_send(). > > > > ok. It would be easier though if zfs_send would also already use the > new styl

Re: [zfs-discuss] [zfs] portable zfs send streams (preview webrev)

On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 3:46 PM, Arne Jansen wrote: > On 10/19/2012 09:58 PM, Matthew Ahrens wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 5:29 AM, Arne Jansen > > wrote: > > > > We have finished a beta version of the feature. A webrev for it > > can be found here: > > > >

Re: [zfs-discuss] [zfs] portable zfs send streams (preview webrev)

On 10/19/2012 09:58 PM, Matthew Ahrens wrote: > On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 5:29 AM, Arne Jansen > wrote: > > We have finished a beta version of the feature. A webrev for it > can be found here: > > http://cr.illumos.org/~webrev/sensille/fits-send/ > > It ad

Re: [zfs-discuss] [zfs] portable zfs send streams (preview webrev)

On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 5:29 AM, Arne Jansen wrote: > We have finished a beta version of the feature. A webrev for it > can be found here: > > http://cr.illumos.org/~webrev/sensille/fits-send/ > > It adds a command 'zfs fits-send'. The resulting streams can > currently only be received on btrfs,

Re: [zfs-discuss] Changing rpool device paths/drivers

On Oct 19, 2012, at 12:16 AM, James C. McPherson wrote: > On 19/10/12 04:50 PM, Jim Klimov wrote: >> Hello all, >> >> I have one more thought - or a question - about the current >> strangeness of rpool import: is it supported, or does it work, >> to have rpools on multipathed devices? >> >> If

Re: [zfs-discuss] looking for slides for basic zfs intro

On Oct 19, 2012, at 6:37 AM, Eugen Leitl wrote: > Hi, > > I would like to give a short talk at my organisation in order > to sell them on zfs in general, and on zfs-all-in-one and > zfs as remote backup (zfs send). Googling will find a few shorter presos. I have full-day presos on slideshare ht

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs send to older version

On Oct 19, 2012, at 1:04 AM, Michel Jansens wrote: >> On 10/18/12 21:09, Michel Jansens wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> I've been using a Solaris 10 update 9 machine for some time to replicate >>> filesystems from different servers through zfs send|ssh zfs receive. >>> This was done to store disaster r

Re: [zfs-discuss] [zfs] portable zfs send streams (preview webrev)

On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 11:23 AM, Arne Jansen wrote: > On 19.10.2012 11:16, Irek Szczesniak wrote: >> On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 2:29 PM, Arne Jansen wrote: >>> We have finished a beta version of the feature. A webrev for it >>> can be found here: >>> >>> http://cr.illumos.org/~webrev/sensille/fits-

[zfs-discuss] looking for slides for basic zfs intro

Hi, I would like to give a short talk at my organisation in order to sell them on zfs in general, and on zfs-all-in-one and zfs as remote backup (zfs send). Does anyone have a short set of presentation slides or maybe a short video I could pillage for that purpose? Thanks. -- Eugen ___

Re: [zfs-discuss] [zfs] portable zfs send streams (preview webrev)

On 19.10.2012 13:53, Joerg Schilling wrote: > Arne Jansen wrote: > >> On 19.10.2012 12:17, Joerg Schilling wrote: >>> Arne Jansen wrote: >>> > Is this an attempt to create a competition for TAR? Not really. We'd have preferred tar if it would have been powerful enough. It's mo

Re: [zfs-discuss] [zfs] portable zfs send streams (preview webrev)

Arne Jansen wrote: > On 19.10.2012 12:17, Joerg Schilling wrote: > > Arne Jansen wrote: > > > >>> Is this an attempt to create a competition for TAR? > >> > >> Not really. We'd have preferred tar if it would have been powerful enough. > >> It's more an alternative to rsync for incremental updat

Re: [zfs-discuss] Changing rpool device paths/drivers

On 19/10/12 09:27 PM, Edward Ned Harvey (opensolarisisdeadlongliveopensolaris) wrote: From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of James C. McPherson As far as I'm aware, having an rpool on multipathed devices is fine. Even a year ago, a

Re: [zfs-discuss] Changing rpool device paths/drivers

> From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- > boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of James C. McPherson > > As far as I'm aware, having an rpool on multipathed devices > is fine. Even a year ago, a new system I bought from Oracle came with multipath devices for all devices b

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs send to older version

> From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- > boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Ian Collins > > You have to create pools/filesystems with the older versions used by the > destination machine. Apparently "zpool create -d -o version=28" you might want to do on the new syst

Re: [zfs-discuss] [zfs] portable zfs send streams (preview webrev)

On 19.10.2012 12:17, Joerg Schilling wrote: > Arne Jansen wrote: > >>> Is this an attempt to create a competition for TAR? >> >> Not really. We'd have preferred tar if it would have been powerful enough. >> It's more an alternative to rsync for incremental updates. I really >> like the send/recei

Re: [zfs-discuss] [zfs] portable zfs send streams (preview webrev)

Arne Jansen wrote: > > Is this an attempt to create a competition for TAR? > > Not really. We'd have preferred tar if it would have been powerful enough. > It's more an alternative to rsync for incremental updates. I really > like the send/receive feature and want to make it available for cross-

Re: [zfs-discuss] [zfs] portable zfs send streams (preview webrev)

On 19.10.2012 11:16, Irek Szczesniak wrote: > On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 2:29 PM, Arne Jansen wrote: >> We have finished a beta version of the feature. A webrev for it >> can be found here: >> >> http://cr.illumos.org/~webrev/sensille/fits-send/ >> >> It adds a command 'zfs fits-send'. The resulting

Re: [zfs-discuss] [zfs] portable zfs send streams (preview webrev)

On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 2:29 PM, Arne Jansen wrote: > We have finished a beta version of the feature. A webrev for it > can be found here: > > http://cr.illumos.org/~webrev/sensille/fits-send/ > > It adds a command 'zfs fits-send'. The resulting streams can > currently only be received on btrfs, b

Re: [zfs-discuss] [zfs] portable zfs send streams (preview webrev)

On 19.10.2012 10:47, Joerg Schilling wrote: > Arne Jansen wrote: > >> On 10/18/2012 10:19 PM, Andrew Gabriel wrote: >>> Arne Jansen wrote: We have finished a beta version of the feature. >>> >>> What does FITS stand for? >> >> Filesystem Incremental Transport Stream >> (or Filesystem Indepen

Re: [zfs-discuss] [zfs] portable zfs send streams (preview webrev)

Arne Jansen wrote: > On 10/18/2012 10:19 PM, Andrew Gabriel wrote: > > Arne Jansen wrote: > >> We have finished a beta version of the feature. > > > > What does FITS stand for? > > Filesystem Incremental Transport Stream > (or Filesystem Independent Transport Stream) Is this an attempt to creat

Re: [zfs-discuss] Changing rpool device paths/drivers

Thanks, more Qs below ;) 2012-10-19 11:16, James C. McPherson wrote: if you run /usr/bin/strings over /etc/zfs/zpool.cache, you'll see that not only is the device path stored, but (more importantly) the devid. As an excerpt from my adventurous notebook, which only has an rpool on SAS, I see th

Re: [zfs-discuss] Changing rpool device paths/drivers

On 19/10/12 04:50 PM, Jim Klimov wrote: Hello all, I have one more thought - or a question - about the current strangeness of rpool import: is it supported, or does it work, to have rpools on multipathed devices? If yes (which I hope it is, but don't have a means to check) what sort of a string