Re: [zfs-discuss] Remove disk from ZFS Pool

2009-08-05 Thread Andre van Eyssen
On Wed, 5 Aug 2009, Ketan wrote: How can we remove disk from zfs pool, i want to remove disk c0d3 [snip] Currently, you can't remove a vdev without destroying the pool. -- Andre van Eyssen. mail: an...@purplecow.org jabber: an...@interact.purplecow.org purplecow.org: UNIX fo

Re: [zfs-discuss] Zfs deduplication

2009-08-03 Thread Andre van Eyssen
obviously attended, but it takes time to get get video and documentation out the door. You can already watch their participation in the ZFS panel online: http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/1810931 -- Andre van Eyssen. mail: an...@purplecow.org jabber: an...@interact.purplecow.org purplecow.org

Re: [zfs-discuss] feature proposal

2009-07-29 Thread Andre van Eyssen
the lack of recognisable device path, though. -- Andre van Eyssen. mail: an...@purplecow.org jabber: an...@interact.purplecow.org purplecow.org: UNIX for the masses http://www2.purplecow.org purplecow.org: PCOWpix http://pix.purplecow.org __

Re: [zfs-discuss] feature proposal

2009-07-29 Thread Andre van Eyssen
y complex - compounded by the fact that many programs that create or remove directories do so directly - not by calling externals that would be ZFS aware. -- Andre van Eyssen. mail: an...@purplecow.org jabber: an...@interact.purplecow.org purplecow.org: UNIX for the masses http://www2.pu

Re: [zfs-discuss] feature proposal

2009-07-29 Thread Andre van Eyssen
On Wed, 29 Jul 2009, David Magda wrote: Which makes me wonder: is there a programmatic way to determine if a path is on ZFS? statvfs(2) -- Andre van Eyssen. mail: an...@purplecow.org jabber: an...@interact.purplecow.org purplecow.org: UNIX for the masses http://www2.purplecow.org

Re: [zfs-discuss] feature proposal

2009-07-29 Thread Andre van Eyssen
m that might want to create a directory, or major surgery to the kernel. The former is unworkable, the latter .. scary. -- Andre van Eyssen. mail: an...@purplecow.org jabber: an...@interact.purplecow.org purplecow.org: UNIX for the masses http://www2.purplecow.org purplecow.org: PCOW

Re: [zfs-discuss] Another user looses his pool (10TB) in this case and 40 days work

2009-07-19 Thread Andre van Eyssen
ice before reinstalling those machines. Andre. -- Andre van Eyssen. mail: an...@purplecow.org jabber: an...@interact.purplecow.org purplecow.org: UNIX for the masses http://www2.purplecow.org purplecow.org: PCOWpix http://pix.purplecow.org _

Re: [zfs-discuss] deduplication

2009-07-12 Thread Andre van Eyssen
s would be wide out in the open. -- Andre van Eyssen. mail: an...@purplecow.org jabber: an...@interact.purplecow.org purplecow.org: UNIX for the masses http://www2.purplecow.org purplecow.org: PCOWpix http://pix.purplecow.org ___ z

Re: [zfs-discuss] deduplication

2009-07-12 Thread Andre van Eyssen
nably quiet until the announcement. I'm just glad I was at the conference where Amber Road was announced and will be attending KCA! -- Andre van Eyssen. mail: an...@purplecow.org jabber: an...@interact.purplecow.org purplecow.org: UNIX for the masses http://www2.purplecow.org pur

Re: [zfs-discuss] Why is Solaris 10 ZFS performance so terrible?

2009-07-06 Thread Andre van Eyssen
Microsoft products. If you change platform every time you get two bugs in a product, you must cycle platforms on a pretty regular basis! -- Andre van Eyssen. mail: an...@purplecow.org jabber: an...@interact.purplecow.org purplecow.org: UNIX for the masses http://www2.purplecow.org

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS, power failures, and UPSes

2009-07-01 Thread Andre van Eyssen
On Thu, 2 Jul 2009, Ian Collins wrote: 5+ is typical for telco use. Aah, but we start getting into rooms full of giant 2V wet lead acid cells and giant busbars the size of railway tracks. -- Andre van Eyssen. mail: an...@purplecow.org jabber: an...@interact.purplecow.org

Re: [zfs-discuss] Any news on deduplication?

2009-06-30 Thread Andre van Eyssen
On Tue, 30 Jun 2009, MC wrote: Any news on the ZFS deduplication work being done? I hear Jeff Bonwick might speak about it this month. Yes, it is definately on the agenda for Kernel Conference Australia (http://www.kernelconference.net) - you should come along! -- Andre van Eyssen. mail

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS, power failures, and UPSes

2009-06-30 Thread Andre van Eyssen
some funny stories about the day a loose screw on one floor took out a house UPS and 100+ hosts and NEs with it. Andre. -- Andre van Eyssen. mail: an...@purplecow.org jabber: an...@interact.purplecow.org purplecow.org: UNIX for the masses http://www2.purplecow.org purp

Re: [zfs-discuss] SPARC SATA, please.

2009-06-23 Thread Andre van Eyssen
on those disks, so they've probably spun down twice since installion - for two other hardware upgrades. -- Andre van Eyssen. mail: an...@purplecow.org jabber: an...@interact.purplecow.org purplecow.org: UNIX for the masses http://www2.purplecow.org purplecow.org: PCOW

Re: [zfs-discuss] SPARC SATA, please.

2009-06-22 Thread Andre van Eyssen
h you using the itmpt driver or lsiutils ;-) -- Andre van Eyssen. mail: an...@purplecow.org jabber: an...@interact.purplecow.org purplecow.org: UNIX for the masses http://www2.purplecow.org purplecow.org: PCOWpix http://pix.purplecow.org

Re: [zfs-discuss] Best controller card for 8 SATA drives ?

2009-06-21 Thread Andre van Eyssen
ed to use lsiutil to fiddle the target mappings Andre. -- Andre van Eyssen. mail: an...@purplecow.org jabber: an...@interact.purplecow.org purplecow.org: UNIX for the masses http://www2.purplecow.org purplecow.org: PCOWpix http://pix.purplecow.org ___

Re: [zfs-discuss] how to destroy a pool by id?

2009-06-20 Thread Andre van Eyssen
back??! b) I was able to recover my data from -really_dead - can we have -ultra-nuke please? -- Andre van Eyssen. mail: an...@purplecow.org jabber: an...@interact.purplecow.org purplecow.org: UNIX for the masses http://www2.purplecow.org purplecow.org: PCOWpix http

Re: [zfs-discuss] What can I do to shorten the long awkward names of snapshots?

2009-04-15 Thread Andre van Eyssen
On Wed, 15 Apr 2009, Harry Putnam wrote: Would become: a:freq-041509_1630 Can I suggest perhaps something inspired by the old convention for DNS serials, along the lines of fmmddtt? Like: a:f200904151630 This makes things easier to sort and lines up in a tidy manner. -- Andre van

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Panic

2009-04-09 Thread Andre van Eyssen
sks. The five minutes to do it properly is a good investment compared to much longer downtime from a fault condition arising from careless manhandling of hardware. -- Andre van Eyssen. mail: an...@purplecow.org jabber: an...@interact.purplecow.org purplecow.org: UNIX for the masse

Re: [zfs-discuss] j4200 drive carriers

2009-02-01 Thread Andre van Eyssen
ready Sun somehow no longer lists memory for > it (huh?). If your trusty Sun partner couldn't supply you with memory for an Ultra-40, I'd take that as a sign to find a new partner. EOSL products vanish from websites but parts can still be ordered for them. -- Andre van Eyssen.

Re: [zfs-discuss] j4200 drive carriers

2009-02-01 Thread Andre van Eyssen
; were less commonly available, I've seen a home user make sleds out of wood that did the job. Now, I'm looking forward to seeing the first Sun JBOD loaded up with CNC-milled mahogany sleds. It'll look great. -- Andre van Eyssen. mail: an...@purplecow.org jabber: an...@i