Re: [zfs-discuss] GUI to set ACLs

2012-02-01 Thread Linder, Doug
Achim Wolpers wrote: > I'm searching for a GUI tool to set ZFS (NFSv4) ACLs. I found some nautilus > add ons in the web but > they don't seen to work with nautilus shipped with OI. Any solution? I've been looking for something like this for ages, but as far as I know none exists. It certainly

Re: [zfs-discuss] about btrfs and zfs

2011-11-11 Thread Linder, Doug
Paul Kraus wrote: >> My main reasons for using zfs are pretty basic compared to some here > > What are they ? (the reasons for using ZFS) All technical reasons aside, I can tell you one huge reason I love ZFS, and it's one that is clearly being completely ignored by btrfs: ease of use. The zfs

[zfs-discuss] zpool replace

2011-08-15 Thread Doug Schwabauer
.  The     fault tolerance of the pool may be compromised if imported.    see: http://www.sun.com/msg/ZFS-8000-EY config:     xvm DEGRADED   mirror-0  DEGRADED     c0t4d0  FAULTED  corrupted data  

Re: [zfs-discuss] Replacement disks for Sun X4500

2011-07-15 Thread Doug
> Did your x4500 cope with 3TB disks without any > modifications? I heard the BIOS does not support >2TB > disks? We had no problems with our Sun X4500 supporting 3TB disks. (We bought a single 3TB drive to test on the system to make sure before buying 45 more!) Over the years, we have updated th

Re: [zfs-discuss] Replacement disks for Sun X4500

2011-07-08 Thread Doug
with Hitachi Deskstar drives (500G). They had a Sun sticker and S/N on them, but they also said "Deskstar" and had HDS7250 printed on them. As far as I could tell, these were not "enterprise" grade drives. -Doug -- This message posted from opensolaris.org

Re: [zfs-discuss] Best practice for boot partition layout in ZFS

2011-04-06 Thread Linder, Doug
ate partition then you risked making it too big or too small. But given the flexibility of ZFS, I think the question is really "is there any reason *not* to put /var on a separate ZFS filesystem?" Doug Linder -- Learn more about Merchant Link at www.merchantlink.com. THIS MESSAG

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS and standard backup programs

2011-03-23 Thread Linder, Doug
On 23/03/11 12:13 PM, Linder, Doug wrote: > OK, I know this is only tangentially related to ZFS, but we're > desperate and I thought someone might have a clue or idea of what kind > of thing to look for. Also, this issue is holding up widespread > adoption of ZFS at our shop.

[zfs-discuss] ZFS and standard backup programs

2011-03-23 Thread Linder, Doug
OK, I know this is only tangentially related to ZFS, but we're desperate and I thought someone might have a clue or idea of what kind of thing to look for. Also, this issue is holding up widespread adoption of ZFS at our shop. It's making the powers-that-be balk a little - understandably. If

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS ... open source moving forward?

2010-12-16 Thread Linder, Doug
Tim Cook wrote: >"Claiming you'd start paying for Solaris if they gave you ZFS for free in >Linux is absolutely ridiculous." *Start* paying? You clearly have NO idea what it costs to run Solaris in a production environment with support. For what we pay it seems like they should send us a Sol

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS ... open source moving forward?

2010-12-16 Thread Linder, Doug
> lalala.. > > http://zfsonlinux.org/ Very nice. So why isn't it in Fedora (for example)? I'll believe it when I see it in a big Linux distribution, supported like any other FS, and I can use it in production. Until then, it doesn't exist. -- Learn more about Merchant Link at www.merc

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS ... open source moving forward?

2010-12-16 Thread Linder, Doug
Joerg Schilling wrote: > The reason for not being able to use ZFS under Linux is not the license > used by ZFS but the missing will for integration. > > Several lawyers explained already why adding ZFS to the Linux would > just create a "collective work" that is permitted by the GPL. Folks, I ve

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS ... open source moving forward?

2010-12-16 Thread Linder, Doug
> I'm very happy it's not in linux since "linux" is > usually a low quality pile of crap cobbled together. If you're not > writing the code to zfs or btrfs then you don't get a vote and just > making noise on a public mailing list > > How about doing some work instead of just complaining about th

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS ... open source moving forward?

2010-12-16 Thread Linder, Doug
> > Why do you want them to "GPL" ZFS? In what way would that save you > annoyance? > > I actually think Doug was trying to say he wished Oracle would open the > development and make the source code open-sourced, not necessarily > GPL'd. Yes. I don't

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS ... open source moving forward?

2010-12-15 Thread Linder, Doug
them to lock it up as tight and proprietary as possible and charge everyone as much as they can, because what's important is The Last Penny On Earth. But I'm hoping I'm wrong and being overly pessimistic. Doug Linder -- Learn more about Merchant Link at www.merchantlink.co

Re: [zfs-discuss] SUNWzfsg missing in Solaris 11 express?

2010-11-30 Thread Linder, Doug
Craig Morgan wrote: > The GUI was a plug-in to Sun WebConsole which is/was a Solaris10 > feature ... I would expect some integration of that going forward, but > you'd have to check with Oracle on integration plans. It was a POS anyways, in my opinion. It was really tough to get working and did

Re: [zfs-discuss] What is the "1000 bit"?

2010-10-19 Thread Linder, Doug
Nicolas Williams [mailto:nicolas.willi...@oracle.com] wrote: > It's the sticky bit. Nowadays it's only useful on directories, and > really it's generally only used with 777 permissions. The chmod(1) Thanks. It doesn't seem harmful. But it does make me wonder why it's showing up on my newly-c

Re: [zfs-discuss] "zfs unmount" versus "umount"?

2010-09-30 Thread Linder, Doug
Michael Schuster [mailto:michael.schus...@oracle.com] wrote: > Mark, I think that wasn't the question, rather, "what's the difference > between 'zfs u[n]mount' and '/usr/bin/umount'?" Yes, that was the question. Sorry I wasn't more clear. Do

[zfs-discuss] "zfs unmount" versus "umount"?

2010-09-30 Thread Linder, Doug
Hi Folks, Is there any technical difference between using "zfs unmount" to unmount a ZFS filesystem versus the standard unix "umount" command? I always use "zfs unmount" but some of my colleagues still just use umount. Is there any reason to use one over th

[zfs-discuss] What is the "1000 bit"?

2010-09-14 Thread Linder, Doug
I recently created a test zpool (RAIDZ) on some iSCSI shares. I made a few test directories and files. When I do a listing, I see something I've never seen before: [r...@hostname anewdir] # ls -la total 6160 drwxr-xr-x 2 root other 4 Sep 14 14:16 . drwxr-xr-x 4 root root

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS development moving behind closed doors

2010-08-18 Thread Linder, Doug
ually the very freshest code available that day. I just meant to say that sometimes young OSS zealots people get overconfident and think anyone who doesn't always upgrade business systems to the bleeding edge is "stodgy," "behind the times," or "stuck in the pa

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS development moving behind closed doors

2010-08-18 Thread Linder, Doug
On Fri, Aug 13 at 19:06, Frank Cusack wrote: > OpenSolaris is for enthusiasts and great great folks like Nexenta. > Solaris lags so far behind it's not really an upgrade path. It's often hard for OSS-minded people to believe, but there are an awful lot of places that actively DO NOT want the la

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Group Quotas

2010-08-18 Thread Linder, Doug
a no-brainer. ZFS supports it natively, it supports all the wonderful extra capabilities that the ZFS ACLs allow, has stronger security, stateful protocol, and all kinds of other nifty stuff. Why do people seem to be clinging so rabidly to the old version? Is there some technical reason I

Re: [zfs-discuss] NFS performance?

2010-07-23 Thread Linder, Doug
x27;d still rather bypass it completely. I believe in the "Keep it simple, stupid" philosophy. I do realize that NFS is probably better for remote filesystems that have multiple simultaneous users, but we won't be doing that in this case. Any major arguments for/against one ov

Re: [zfs-discuss] carrying on [was: Legality and the future of zfs...]

2010-07-21 Thread Linder, Doug
t see Oracle dragging anyone into court and trying to sue for copying some command syntax. OK, of course I realize it wouldn't be that simple and that a fair amount of coding would be involved. But it would be interface and parsing code, not the heavy-duty black magic. More-junior developers

Re: [zfs-discuss] Legality and the future of zfs...

2010-07-15 Thread Linder, Doug
Bogdan Maryniuk wrote: > Or you want to let me tell you real stories how OEM hardware is > supported and how many emails/phonecalls it involves? One of the very > latest (just a week ago): Apple Support reported me that their > engineers in US has no green idea why Darwin kernel panics on their Y

Re: [zfs-discuss] Legality and the future of zfs...

2010-07-14 Thread Linder, Doug
Erik Trimble wrote: > OEM equipment has a whole bunch of different features that you can't > get via a build-it-yourself rig like Supermicro (even if you are having a > whitebox vendor assemble the Supermicro and not do it yourself). Not > just Sun equipment, but all OEM equipment is in a totall

Re: [zfs-discuss] Legality and the future of zfs...

2010-07-14 Thread Linder, Doug
Dave Pooser wrote: > I'm looking at a new web server for the company, and am considering > Solaris specifically because of ZFS. (Oracle's lousy sales model-- > specifically > the unwillingness to give a price for a Solaris support contract without my > having to send multiple emails to multiple a

Re: [zfs-discuss] Encryption?

2010-07-13 Thread Linder, Doug
While we're on the topic, has anyone used ZFS much with Vormetric's encryption product? Any feedback? Doug Linder -- Learn more about Merchant Link at www.merchantlink.com. THIS MESSAGE IS CONFIDENTIAL. This e-mail message and any attachments are proprietary and co

Re: [zfs-discuss] Legality and the future of zfs...

2010-07-12 Thread Linder, Doug
Erik Trimble wrote: > it does look like they'll win, I would bet huge chunks of money that > Oracle cross-licenses the patents or pays for a license, rather than > kill ZFS (it simply makes too much money for Oracle to abandon). Out of sheer curiosity - and I'm not disagreeing with you, just wond

Re: [zfs-discuss] Please trim posts

2010-06-18 Thread Linder, Doug
> People still use Outhouse? Really?! Next you'll be suggesting that > some people still put up with Internet Exploder... ;-) Those of us who are literally forced to use it aren't too happy. Nor am I happy with the giant stupid signature that gets tacked on that you all have to trim when you

Re: [zfs-discuss] Please trim posts

2010-06-18 Thread Linder, Doug
> Another thing that Gmail does that I find infuriating, is that it > mucks with the formatting. For some reason it, and to be fair, Outlook > as well, seem to think that they know how a message needs to be > formatted better than I do. Try doing inline quoting/response with Outlook, where you quo

[zfs-discuss] Sun X4500 disk drives

2010-05-12 Thread Doug
We have a 2006 Sun X4500 with Hitachi 500G disk drives. Its been running for over four years and just now fmadm & zpool reports a disk has failed. No data was lost (RAIDZ2 + hot spares worked as expected.) But, the server is out of warranty and we have no hardware support on it. I found the

Re: [zfs-discuss] Confusion over zpool and zfs versions

2009-12-18 Thread Doug
Cindy, Thanks for the info and fixing the web site. I'm still confused why there are two different things (zpool and zfs) that need to be upgraded. For example, is there any reason I would want to upgrade the zpool and NOT upgrade the zfs? Thanks, Doug -- This message posted

[zfs-discuss] Confusion over zpool and zfs versions

2009-12-17 Thread Doug
on 1" through "Version 4" But, following those links brings up the descriptions of the ZFS Pool versions 1-4, not the ZFS versions. Thanks again, Doug -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

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

2009-06-30 Thread Doug Baker - Sun UK - Support Engineer
__ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss -- Dr Doug Baker Sun Mi

Re: [zfs-discuss] Disks in each RAIDZ group

2009-01-20 Thread Doug
Probably Richard Elling's blog: http://blogs.sun.com/relling/entry/zfs_raid_recommendations_space_performance -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinf

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS over NFS, poor performance with many small files

2009-01-20 Thread Doug
Any recommendations for an SSD to work with an X4500 server? Will the SSDs used in the 7000 series servers work with X4500s or X4540s? -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.open

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Boot on SAN

2008-12-16 Thread Doug Baker - Sun UK - Support Engineer
d > args: > Fast Data Access MMU Miss > i can not get any information about this trouble. Do you > have any idea? > WBW, Stanislav The OBP installed on this system is ancient and could be the cause of the problems you are seeing. Patch 118323-01 h

[zfs-discuss] s10u6--will using disk slices for zfs logs improve nfs performance?

2008-11-13 Thread Doug
I've got an X4500/thumper that is mainly used as an NFS server. It has been discussed in the past that NFS performance with ZFS can be slow (when running "tar" to expand an archive with lots of files, for example.) My understanding is the reason that zfs/nfs is slow in this case is because it i

Re: [zfs-discuss] Thumper / X4500 marvell driver issues

2008-04-30 Thread Doug
When we installed the Marvell driver patch 125205-07 on our X4500 a few months ago and it started crashing, Sun support just told us to back out that patch. The system has been stable since then. We are still running Solaris 10 11/06 on that system. Is there an advantage to using 125205-07 an

[zfs-discuss] "reset" a disk?

2007-12-12 Thread Doug Schwabauer
s disk so I get the normal 0-7 partitions? I've already destroyed the pool. -Doug ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

[zfs-discuss] Re: ZFS RAID10

2006-08-08 Thread Doug Scott
Looks like somewhere between the CPU and your disks you have a limitation of <9500 ops/sec. How did you connect 32 disks to your v440? Doug > Hi. > > snv_44, v440 > lebench/varmail results for ZFS RAID10 with 6 disks > and 32 disks. > What is suprising is that the r

[zfs-discuss] Re: Re[2]: Re: 3510 HW RAID vs 3510 JBOD ZFS SOFTWARE RAID

2006-08-08 Thread Doug Scott
I dont think there is much chance of achieving anywhere near 350MB/s. That is a hell of a lot of IO/s for 6 disks+raid(5/Z)+shared fibre. While you can always get very good results from a single disk IO, your percentage gain is always decreasing the more disks you add to

[zfs-discuss] Re: Re: what to put on zfs

2006-07-03 Thread Doug Scott
> Doug Scott wrote: > >>It is likely that "best practice" will be to > separate > >>the root pool (that is, the pool where dataset are > >>allocated) > > > > On a system with plenty of disks it is a good idea. > I started > >

[zfs-discuss] Re: what to put on zfs

2006-07-03 Thread Doug Scott
ystem boundary gave me sufficent separation. Having separate pools made me have 2 partitions with fixed boundries, which limited ZFS's flexibility. Doug This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-disc

[zfs-discuss] Re: Supporting ~10K users on ZFS

2006-06-29 Thread Doug Scott
s forum?] Remove the quota from the loop, and before the loop do a zfs set quota=1024k testpool. This should be a more efficent Doug This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://m

[zfs-discuss] Re: ZFS root install

2006-06-29 Thread Doug Scott
My latest blog details the steps needed to access your zfs root filesystem from miniroot. It would probably be wise if you set this up before you need it :) http://solaristhings.blogspot.com Doug This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs

[zfs-discuss] ZFS root install

2006-06-27 Thread Doug Scott
small ufs partition for grub, and I detail how to use a zfs clone as a test root partition. Doug This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss