Re: [zfs-discuss] Missing zpool devices, what are the options

2007-11-14 Thread David Bustos
Quoth Mark Ashley on Mon, Nov 12, 2007 at 11:35:57AM +1100: > Is it possible to tell ZFS to forget those SE6140 LUNs ever belonged to the > zpool? I know that ZFS will have probably put some user data on them, but if > there is a possibility of recovering any of those zvols on the zpool > it'd rea

Re: [zfs-discuss] Parallel zfs destroy results in No more processes

2007-10-24 Thread David Bustos
Quoth Stuart Anderson on Sun, Oct 21, 2007 at 07:09:10PM -0700: > Running 102 parallel "zfs destroy -r" commands on an X4500 running S10U4 has > resulted in "No more processes" errors in existing login shells for several > minutes of time, but then fork() calls started working again. However, none

Re: [zfs-discuss] dfratime on zfs

2007-08-16 Thread David Bustos
Quoth Darren Dunham on Wed, Aug 15, 2007 at 12:50:33PM -0700: > But a traditional filesystem isn't going to write anything without a > request. ZFS is constantly updating the pool/uberblock status the way > things currently work. So even if you choose to defer the atime update > until much longer

Re: [zfs-discuss] dfratime on zfs

2007-08-15 Thread David Bustos
Quoth Darren J Moffat on Thu, Aug 09, 2007 at 10:32:02AM +0100: > Prompted by a recent /. article on atime vs realtime ranting by some > Linux kernel hackers (Linus included) I went back and looked at the > mount_ufs(1M) man page because I was sure that OpenSolaris had more than > just atime,noa

Re: [zfs-discuss] netbsd client can mount zfs snapshot dir but it never updates

2007-06-11 Thread David Bustos
Quoth Ed Ravin on Thu, Jun 07, 2007 at 09:57:52PM -0700: > My Solaris 10 box is exporting a ZFS filesystem over NFS. I'm > accessing the data with a NetBSD 3.1 client, which only supports NFS > 3. Everything works except when I look at the .zfs/snapshot > directory. The first time I list out the

Re: [zfs-discuss] Trying to understand zfs RAID-Z

2007-05-18 Thread David Bustos
Quoth Steven Sim on Thu, May 17, 2007 at 09:55:37AM +0800: >Gurus; >I am exceedingly impressed by the ZFS although it is my humble opinion >that Sun is not doing enough evangelizing for it. What else do you think we should be doing? David _

[zfs-discuss] zpool(1M): import -a?

2007-03-12 Thread David Bustos
My copies of zpool(1M) have three entries for zpool import: zpool import [-d dir] [-D] zpool import [-d dir] [-D] [-f] [-o opts] [-R root] pool | id [newpool] zpool import [-d dir] [-D] [-f] [-a] Shouldn't the last one be zpool import [-d dir] [-D] [-f] -a ? That is, if the

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: [security-discuss] Thoughts on ZFS Secure Delete - without using Crypto

2007-01-01 Thread David Bustos
Quoth Darren J Moffat on Thu, Dec 21, 2006 at 03:31:59PM +: > Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote: > >I like the idea, I really do, but it will be s expensive because of > >ZFS' COW model. Not only file removal or truncation will call bleaching, > >but every single file system modification... Heh, we

Re: [zfs-discuss] raidz DEGRADED state

2006-12-05 Thread David Bustos
Quoth Thomas Garner on Thu, Nov 30, 2006 at 06:41:15PM -0500: > I currently have a 400GB disk that is full of data on a linux system. > If I buy 2 more disks and put them into a raid-z'ed zfs under solaris, > is there a generally accepted way to build an degraded array with the > 2 disks, copy the

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS on production servers with SLA

2006-09-15 Thread David Bustos
Quoth Darren J Moffat on Fri, Sep 08, 2006 at 01:59:16PM +0100: > Nicolas Dorfsman wrote: > > Regarding "system partitions" (/var, /opt, all mirrored + alternate > > disk), what would be YOUR recommendations ? ZFS or not ? > > /var for now must be UFS since Solaris 10 doesn't not have ZF

Re: [zfs-discuss] howto reduce ?zfs introduced? noise

2006-07-14 Thread David Bustos
Quoth Thomas Maier-Komor on Thu, Jul 13, 2006 at 04:19:11AM -0700: > after switching over to zfs from ufs for my ~/ at home, I am a little > bit disturbed by the noise the disks are making. To be more precise, > I always have thunderbird and firefox running on my desktop and either > or both seem t

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs list - column width

2006-07-10 Thread David Bustos
Quoth [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Mon, Jul 10, 2006 at 10:33:44AM +0200: ... > I would like to customise column width to have nicer view of the hierarchy. > Wouldn't be good to have some sort of configuration file in which I could set > up the column > width ? No. You want zfs to keep the columns align