Re: [zfs-discuss] [zones-discuss] Zones on shared storage - a warning

2010-02-23 Thread Frank Batschulat (Home)
update on this one: a workaround if you so will, or the more appropriate way to do this is apparently to use lofiadm(1M) to create a pseudo block device comprising the file hosted on NFS and use the created lofi device (eg. /dev/lofi/1) as the device for zpool create and all subsequent I/O (thi

Re: [zfs-discuss] [zones-discuss] Zones on shared storage - a warning

2010-01-09 Thread Frank Batschulat (Home)
On Fri, 08 Jan 2010 18:33:06 +0100, Mike Gerdts wrote: > I've written a dtrace script to get the checksums on Solaris 10. > Here's what I see with NFSv3 on Solaris 10. jfyi, I've reproduces it as well using a Solaris 10 Update 8 SB2000 sparc client and NFSv4. much like you I also get READ error

Re: [zfs-discuss] [zones-discuss] Zones on shared storage - a warning

2010-01-08 Thread Frank Batschulat (Home)
On Fri, 08 Jan 2010 13:55:13 +0100, Darren J Moffat wrote: > Frank Batschulat (Home) wrote: >> This just can't be an accident, there must be some coincidence and thus >> there's a good chance >> that these CHKSUM errors must have a common source, either in Z

Re: [zfs-discuss] [zones-discuss] Zones on shared storage - a warning

2010-01-08 Thread Frank Batschulat (Home)
On Wed, 23 Dec 2009 03:02:47 +0100, Mike Gerdts wrote: > I've been playing around with zones on NFS a bit and have run into > what looks to be a pretty bad snag - ZFS keeps seeing read and/or > checksum errors. This exists with S10u8 and OpenSolaris dev build > snv_129. This is likely a blocker

Re: [ufs-discuss] Re: [zfs-discuss] Differences between ZFS and UFS.

2007-01-02 Thread Frank Batschulat (Home)
On Sat, 30 Dec 2006 18:13:04 +0100, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I think removing the ability to use link(2) or unlink(2) on directories would hurt no-one and would make a few things easier. I'd be rather carful here, see the standards implications drafted in 4917742. The standard gives perm

[zfs-discuss] Re: [ufs-discuss] Differences between ZFS and UFS.

2006-12-30 Thread Frank Batschulat (Home)
On Sat, 30 Dec 2006 02:28:49 +0100, Pawel Jakub Dawidek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi. Here are some things my file system test suite discovered on Solaris ZFS and UFS. Bascially ZFS pass all my tests (about 3000). I see one problem with UFS and two differences: 1. link(2) manual page state

Re: [ufs-discuss] Re: [zfs-discuss] Differences between ZFS and UFS.

2006-12-30 Thread Frank Batschulat (Home)
On Sat, 30 Dec 2006 15:50:53 +0100, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Link with the target being a directory and the source a any file or only directories? And only as superuer? I'm sorry, I ment unlink(2) here. Ah, so symmetrical with link(2) to directories. unlink(2) doesn't always work and r

Re: [nfs-discuss] Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: NFS Performance and Tar

2006-10-09 Thread Frank Batschulat (Home)
On Tue, 10 Oct 2006 01:25:36 +0200, Roch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: You tell me ? We have 2 issues can we make 'tar x' over direct attach, safe (fsync) and posix compliant while staying close to current performance characteristics ? In other words do we have the