Re: [zfs-discuss] gaining access to var from a live cd

2011-11-29 Thread Francois Dion
back. Thanks for the pointers. "man zfs" did mention mountpoint as a valid option, not sure why it didnt work. as for mount -F zfs... it only works on legacy. On 11/29/11, Mike Gerdts wrote: > On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 4:40 PM, Francois Dion > wrote: >> It is on openindiana 151

Re: [zfs-discuss] gaining access to var from a live cd

2011-11-29 Thread Francois Dion
> On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 3:01 PM, Francois Dion > wrote: >> I've hit an interesting (not) problem. I need to remove a problematic >> ld.config file (due to an improper crle...) to boot my laptop. This is >> OI 151a, but fundamentally this is zfs, so i'm asking h

[zfs-discuss] gaining access to var from a live cd

2011-11-29 Thread Francois Dion
/mnt/rpool shows nothing. How do I access /var on my laptop's drive? Or as a matter of fact, everything that is in / beside export and boot? thanks, Francois ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailm

Re: [zfs-discuss] Couple of questions about ZFS on laptops

2011-11-09 Thread Francois Dion
red for my documents, which is plenty. Francois Sent from my iPad On Nov 8, 2011, at 12:05 PM, Jim Klimov wrote: > Hello all, > > I am thinking about a new laptop. I see that there are > a number of higher-performance models (incidenatlly, they > are also marketed as "gamer&quo

Re: [zfs-discuss] COW question

2011-05-10 Thread Francois Marcoux
fs-discuss > > The email thread and document below gives you information about that: http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?messageID=19264䭀 http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/zfs/docs/ondiskformatfinal.pdf Francois. _

Re: [zfs-discuss] physically removed a pool - how to I tell it to forget the pool?

2010-07-23 Thread Francois Napoleoni
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[zfs-discuss] never ending resilver

2010-07-05 Thread Francois
d but zpool status still displays "replacing" and according to scrub status, resilver seems to continue ? Any idea how to clarify this situation ? Thanks. -- Francois ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.

Re: [zfs-discuss] Any way to fix ZFS "sparse file bug" #6792701

2010-03-03 Thread Francois Napoleoni
:51, Francois Napoleoni wrote: From my experience with customer hitting this bug, installing the now obsolete IDR and rebooting was enoug hto get ride of these sparse file bug. F. Geoff Shipman wrote: The Solaris 10 Update 8 has the fix for 6792701 included. This is part of kernel patches

Re: [zfs-discuss] Any way to fix ZFS "sparse file bug" #6792701

2010-03-03 Thread Francois Napoleoni
10:51, Francois Napoleoni wrote: From my experience with customer hitting this bug, installing the now obsolete IDR and rebooting was enoug hto get ride of these sparse file bug. F. Geoff Shipman wrote: The Solaris 10 Update 8 has the fix for 6792701 included. This is part of kernel patches

Re: [zfs-discuss] Any way to fix ZFS "sparse file bug" #6792701

2010-03-03 Thread Francois Napoleoni
ng it and restoring is method to clear the space. With the later kernel the problem is avoided in the future. Geoff On Wed, 2010-03-03 at 10:14, Francois Napoleoni wrote: If you have a valid Solaris Support contract you can ask for the corresponding IDR to fix this issue. (Hi to Richard E. ..

Re: [zfs-discuss] Any way to fix ZFS "sparse file bug" #6792701

2010-03-03 Thread Francois Napoleoni
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Re: [zfs-discuss] Any way to fix ZFS "sparse file bug" #6792701

2010-03-03 Thread Francois Napoleoni
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Re: [zfs-discuss] Oops, ran zfs destroy after renaming a folder and deleted my file system.

2010-02-25 Thread Francois Dion
atasets etc. > befor I mess with the server again!...hmmm, actually, I just had a thought, I > will also create a playpool when I can try out things before using them on > the main pool. In that regard, you can use a file based zpool, no need to slice your disks that way. Francois _

[zfs-discuss] Autoreplace property not accounted ?

2010-02-05 Thread Francois
0 0 spares c1t18d0 INUSE currently in use c1t19d0 AVAIL errors: No known data errors Any idea why it has been done automatically ? solaris 10U8 Generic_141445-09 - zpool version 15 - zfs version 4 Thx for y

Re: [zfs-discuss] RAW Device on ZFS

2010-01-26 Thread Francois Napoleoni
list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss -- Francois Napoleoni / Sun Support Engineer mail : francois.napole...@sun.com phone : +33 (0)1 3403 1707 fax : +33 (0)1 3403 1114 ___ zfs-discuss mailing list

[zfs-discuss] ssd pool + ssd cache ?

2010-01-08 Thread Francois
Hi list, Experimental question ... Imagine a pool made of SSDs disks, is there any interest to add a SSD cache to it ? What real impact ? Thx. -- Francois ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman

Re: [zfs-discuss] Proper way to make bootable ZFS slice on SPARC?

2009-11-23 Thread Francois Napoleoni
after the format command and before the lucreate command and got that error once I ran lucreate. Thanks! -- Francois Napoleoni / Sun Support Engineer mail : francois.napole...@sun.com phone : +33 (0)1 3403 1707 fax : +33 (0)1 3403 1114 ___ zfs-discu

[zfs-discuss] Rebooting while Scrubing in snv_126

2009-11-10 Thread Francois Laagel
ince this was my primary system (no serial console though, so I can't really capture the essence of the drama :) ) I think rpool was version 19 but I'm not 100% positive here. Regards. Francois ___ zfs-discuss mailing li

Re: [zfs-discuss] zpool wont get back online

2009-10-19 Thread Francois Napoleoni
/p...@0,0/pci1043,8...@5,2/d...@1,0 I find the format a bit strange since it lists the capacity of the four missing zpool drives but not the hard drive that is online. Any take on how I can fix this or am I screwed? Jonas -- Francois Napoleoni / Sun Support Engineer mail : francois.napole...

Re: [zfs-discuss] Space has not been freed up!

2009-09-10 Thread Francois Napoleoni
t which are still being used by applications) Casper ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss -- Francois Napoleoni / Sun Support Engineer mail : francois.napole...@sun.com pho

Re: [zfs-discuss] *Almost* empty ZFS filesystem - 14GB?

2009-08-21 Thread Francois Napoleoni
ce A fix for this was integrated into build 118 -Mark ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss -- Francois Napoleoni / Sun Support Engineer mail : francois.napole...@sun

[zfs-discuss] zfs as a cache server

2009-04-09 Thread Francois
Hello list, What would be the best zpool configuration for a cache/proxy server (probably based on squid) ? In other words with which zpool configuration I could expect best reading performance ? (there'll be some writes too but much less). Thanks. -- Fra

Re: [zfs-discuss] Attaching a mirror to a mirror

2009-03-26 Thread Francois Napoleoni
Hi Matthew, Just attach disk3 to existing mirrored tlv Wait for resilvering to complete Dettach disk0 and disk1 This will leave you with only disk3 in your pool. You will loose ZFS redundancy fancy features (self healing, ...). # zpool create test mirror /export/disk0 /export/disk1 # zpool statu

[zfs-discuss] RE : rsync using 100% of a cp u

2008-12-02 Thread Francois Dion
>>"Francois Dion" wrote: >> Source is local to rsync, copying from a zfs file system, >> destination is remote over a dsl connection. Takes forever to just >> go through the unchanged files. Going the other way is not a >> problem, it takes a

[zfs-discuss] rsync using 100% of a cpu

2008-12-01 Thread Francois Dion
Source is local to rsync, copying from a zfs file system, destination is remote over a dsl connection. Takes forever to just go through the unchanged files. Going the other way is not a problem, it takes a fraction of the time. Anybody seen that? Suggestions? ___

Re: [zfs-discuss] Error: value too large for defined data type

2008-11-19 Thread Francois
Did you try ? : echo nfs_allow_preepoch_time/W1 | adb -wk -- Francois ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS on Fit-PC Slim?

2008-11-11 Thread Francois Dion
That's why I said Nexenta. It's text mode after the fact, from the get go, after the install and reboot. http://www.nexenta.org/os -Original Message- >> Nexenta and Belenix will also run on this machine >> with 512MB. Nexenta will probably be what you want if >> you are saying you are

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS on Fit-PC Slim?

2008-11-10 Thread Francois Dion
Solaris 10 U6 and Solaris Express Community Edition can both be installed in text mode. Nexenta and Belenix will also run on this machine with 512MB. Nexenta will probably be what you want if you are saying you are running ubuntu on this box. -Original Message- >>Fit-PC Slim uses Geo

[zfs-discuss] zfs version number

2008-11-06 Thread Francois Dion
://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/zfs/version/9/ But U6 is ZFS v 10. Thanks! Francois ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

[zfs-discuss] sata on sparc

2008-10-24 Thread Francois Dion
On this page: http://www.sun.com/io_technologies/sata/SATA0.html I see: -USB,SATA,IEEE1394 SIIG, Inc. USB 2.0 + FireWire + SATA Combo (SC-UNS012) Verified (Solaris 10) Indicating that if I install an SC-UNS012 in a Solaris 10 Sparc server I would get a few USB 2 ports, a few IEEE1394 ports bu

[zfs-discuss] ZFS pool not imported on boot on Solaris Xen PV DomU

2008-10-16 Thread Francois Goudal
Hi, I am trying a setup with a Linux Xen Dom0 on which runs an OpenSolaris 2008.05 DomU. I have 8 hard disk partitions that I exported to the DomU (they are visible as c4d[1-8]p0) I have created a raidz2 pool on these virtual disks. Now, if I shutdown the system and I start it again, the pool is

Re: [zfs-discuss] zpool with multiple mirrors question

2008-09-17 Thread Francois
s disks from different mirrors. > > This applies to SVM as well if you have a stripe of mirrors with a UFS > filesystem ontop of that you will have the same availability issue. > Thanks for precision :) -- Francois ___ zfs-discuss

[zfs-discuss] zpool with multiple mirrors question

2008-09-17 Thread Francois
. -- Francois ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

[zfs-discuss] modifying the zfs version, possible?

2008-06-27 Thread Francois Dion
I made the mistake of upgrading the zfs version on a usb drive I have, while on my laptop (Solaris SXDE 4) and I really needed to access this from a Solaris 10 U5 system. Is there any way around beside full backup and restore? ___ zfs-discuss mailing l

[zfs-discuss] problem with nfs share of zfs storage

2008-01-21 Thread Francois Dion
I have a need to stream video over nfs. video is stored on zfs. every 10 minutes or so, the video will freeze, and then 1 minute later it resumes. This doesn't happen from an nfs mount on ufs. zfs server is a 32 bit P4 box with 512MB, running nexenta in plain text mode, and nothing else, really. Tr

[zfs-discuss] Yager on ZFS

2007-10-24 Thread Francois Dion
ou haven't checked out ZFS yet, do, because it will eventually become ubiquitously implemented in IT. It is too brilliant not to be." Francois This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: ZFS Apple WWDC Keynote Absence

2007-06-12 Thread Francois Dion
to wav, burn an audio CD and archive that. After a while I had assumed I would be safe with a mirrored disk pair and a backup. bzzt. wrong. So much for plug and play. That was 2006. Enter ZFS. All my computers now run Solaris on the desktop. ZFS everywhere. Never again will I have to deal wit

Re: [zfs-discuss] update on zfs boot support

2007-03-08 Thread Francois Dion
at tabriz posted on her blog a while back, but I lost only a small amount of space on each drive by using a USB drive for the initial install and putting grub on its own. Performance is not earth shattering due to (I think) /var/tmp and /var/log. And it's old ZFS code. I

Re: [zfs-discuss] How zpool import command works ?

2007-02-26 Thread Francois Dion
ol at some point has a vdev. zfs import scans all devices that are seen by format or rmformat if there is a vdev. Francois ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

[zfs-discuss] ZFS mirrored laptop

2007-02-12 Thread Francois Dion
found some issues which i'll post later this week to this list. Francois ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS or UFS - what to do?

2007-01-26 Thread Francois Dion
Recommended config. The most reliable setup is a JBOD + zfs. But if you have cache, on your box, there might be some magic setup you have to do for that box, and I'm sure somebody on the list will help you with that. I dont have an Engenio. Francois __

Re: [zfs-discuss] COW question

2006-07-07 Thread Francois Marcoux
munity/zfs/docs/ondiskformatfinal.pdf Francois. ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss