Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS - how to determine which physical drive to replace

2009-12-12 Thread Ed Plese
ot;.. einee menee minee moe > P As suggested at http://opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?messageID=416264, you can try viewing the disk serial numbers with cfgadm: cfgadm -al -s "select=type(disk),cols=ap_id:info" You may need to power down the system to view the serial numbers p

Re: [zfs-discuss] Accidentally added disk instead of attaching

2009-12-07 Thread Ed Plese
On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 4:32 PM, Ed Plese wrote: > Would it be beneficial to have a command line option to zpool that > would only "preview" or do a "dry-run" through the changes, but > instead just display what the pool would look like after the operation > an

Re: [zfs-discuss] Accidentally added disk instead of attaching

2009-12-07 Thread Ed Plese
es, getting in the habit of always using an option like this might be a good way to ensure the change is really what is desired. Some information that might be nice to see would be the before and after versions of "zpool list", the "zpool status", and what command could be run to rev

Re: [zfs-discuss] Pool resize

2009-12-07 Thread Ed Plese
- > > It should be ~ 3.8-3.9 TB, right? An autoexpand property was added a few months ago for zpools. This needs to be turned on to enable the automatic vdev expansion. For example, # zpool set autoexpand=on bigpool Ed Plese ___ zfs-disc

Re: [zfs-discuss] Comstar thin provisioning space reclamation

2009-11-17 Thread Ed Plese
You can reclaim this space with the SDelete utility from Microsoft. With the -c option it will zero any free space on the volume. For example: C:\>sdelete -c C: I've tested this with xVM and with compression enabled for the zvol, but it worked very well. Ed Plese On Tue, Nov 17, 20

Re: [zfs-discuss] Manual drive failure?

2009-11-11 Thread Ed Plese
pares or cache dev- ices. -tTemporary. Upon reboot, the specified physical device reverts to its previous state. Ed Plese On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 12:15 PM, Tim Cook wrote: > So, I've done a bit of research and RTFM, and haven't found an

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS scalability in terms of file system count (or lack thereof) in S10U6

2008-10-19 Thread Ed Plese
executing. With ~3500 filesystems on S10U3 the boot time for our X4500 was around 40 minutes. Any idea what your boot time is like with that many filesystems on the newer releases? Ed Plese ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.o

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS with Samba and the "previous versions"-tab under Windows explorer

2008-08-10 Thread Ed Plese
en the ZFS filesystem is a subdirectory of the Samba share. In addition, make sure that there are actually changes between the snapshots. If there aren't any then the Previous Versions tab may not appear. Ed Plese ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] enterprise scale redundant Solaris 10/ZFS server providing NFSv4/CIFS

2007-09-21 Thread Ed Plese
atic > API. While it won't help you in your case since your users access the files using protocols other than CIFS, if you use only CIFS it's possible to configure Samba to automatically create a user's home directory the first time the user connects to the server. This is done usin

Re: [zfs-discuss] Zones on large ZFS filesystems

2007-03-29 Thread Ed Plese
turns EOVERFLOW which probably isn't a good thing. > Is there a solution here but to move the zone root to a smaller disk? Set a quota (10G should work just fine) on the filesystem and then perform the zone install. Afterwards remove the quota. Ed Plese ___

Re: [zfs-discuss] Samba ACLs en ZFS

2007-02-21 Thread Ed Plese
e of that, any file permissions or ACLs are respected even if Samba doesn't have support for the ACLs. The main thing that Samba support for ZFS ACLs will bring is the ability to view and set the ACLs from a Windows client and in particular through the normal Windows

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: Thumper Origins Q

2007-01-24 Thread Ed Plese
> > http://www.sun.com/emrkt/startupessentials/ > > For an idea on the levels of discounts see > http://kalsey.com/2006/11/sun_startup_essentials_pricing/ In addition, here are Sun's promotions for educational institutions: http://www.sun.com/products-n-solutions/edu/promot

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: ZFS with Samba Shadow Copy

2006-12-15 Thread Ed Plese
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[zfs-discuss] ZFS with Samba Shadow Copy

2006-12-15 Thread Ed Plese
to restore files from their snapshots. See http://www.edplese.com/samba-with-zfs.html (at the bottom of the page) for more info. Ed Plese ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: Mirrored Raidz

2006-10-25 Thread Ed Plese
ing 2 disks from each JBOD enclosure. This would give you the ability to sustain the simultaneous failure of an entire enclosure and at least one (though sometimes multiple) disk failure in the working enclosure. This would also be a pure ZFS solution. Ed Plese

Re: [zfs-discuss] A versioning FS

2006-10-06 Thread Ed Plese
is to a single command. Taking individual snapshots of each filesystem can take a decent amount of time, but I was under the impression that recursive snapshots would be much faster due to the snapshots being committed in a single transaction. Is this not correct? Ed Plese _

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: mkdir == zfs create

2006-09-28 Thread Ed Plese
On Thu, Sep 28, 2006 at 12:40:17PM -0500, Ed Plese wrote: > This can be elaborated on to do neat things like create a ZFS clone when > a client connects and then destroy the clone when the client > disconnects (via "root postexec"). This could possibly be useful for > the sh

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: mkdir == zfs create

2006-09-28 Thread Ed Plese
airly simple VFS module for Samba that would replace every mkdir call with a call to "zfs create". This method is a bit more involved than the above method since the VFS modules are coded in C, but it's definitely a possibility. Ed Plese

Re: [zfs-discuss] Apple Time Machine

2006-08-07 Thread Ed Plese
On Mon, Aug 07, 2006 at 02:36:27PM -0500, Ed Plese wrote: > A quick Google search turned up the following URL which has some > screenshots to illustrate what the Shadow Copy Client looks like. Oops.. forgot the URL: http://www.petri.co.il/how_to_use_the_shadow_copy_client.htm Ed

Re: [zfs-discuss] Apple Time Machine

2006-08-07 Thread Ed Plese
h turned up the following URL which has some screenshots to illustrate what the Shadow Copy Client looks like. The default shadow copy VFS module for Samba doesn't work very well with ZFS but after some modifications it provides very good integration of ZFS with Windows Explorer. If anyone is

Re: [zfs-discuss] Quotas and Snapshots

2006-06-14 Thread Ed Plese
Thanks, that's exactly what I was looking for. Ed Plese On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 10:09:35AM -0700, Eric Schrock wrote: > No, but this is a known issue. See: > > 6431277 want filesystem-only quotas > > - Eric > > On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 11:58:25AM -0500, Ed Plese wro

[zfs-discuss] Quotas and Snapshots

2006-06-14 Thread Ed Plese
h seems to defeat the purpose of the quotas), or destroy all of their snapshots (which seems to defeat the purpose of using the snapshots for any sort of backup mechanism). Is there any way to work around this with the quota and snapshot mechanisms built into ZFS? Thanks,