Re: [zfs-discuss] Verify files' checksums

2008-10-25 Thread Marcus Sundman
Ian Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Marcus Sundman wrote: > > Are these I/O errors written to stdout or stderr or where? > > Yes, stderr. OK, good, thanks. > You will not be able top open the file. What?! Even if there are errors I want to still be able to read

Re: [zfs-discuss] Verify files' checksums

2008-10-25 Thread Marcus Sundman
Ian Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Marcus Sundman wrote: > > I couldn't see anything there describing either how to verify the > > checksums of individual files or why that would be impossible. > > If you can read the file, the checksum is OK. If it were n

Re: [zfs-discuss] Verify files' checksums

2008-10-25 Thread Marcus Sundman
"Scott Laird" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 1:57 PM, Marcus Sundman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > I don't want to scrub several TiB of data just to verify a 2 MiB > > file. I want to verify just the data of that file. (Well, I

Re: [zfs-discuss] Verify files' checksums

2008-10-25 Thread Marcus Sundman
"Johan Hartzenberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 6:49 PM, Marcus Sundman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > Richard Elling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Marcus Sundman wrote: > > > > How can I verify the checksum

Re: [zfs-discuss] Verify files' checksums

2008-10-25 Thread Marcus Sundman
Richard Elling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Marcus Sundman wrote: > > How can I verify the checksums for a specific file? > > ZFS doesn't checksum files. AFAIK ZFS checksums all data, including the contents of files. > So a file does not have a checksum to verify.

[zfs-discuss] Verify files' checksums

2008-10-24 Thread Marcus Sundman
How can I verify the checksums for a specific file? - Marcus ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] volname

2008-10-11 Thread Marcus Sundman
"James C. McPherson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Marcus Sundman wrote: > > [...] > blinder:jmcp $ for dev in `awk -F'"' '/sd/ {print > $2}' /etc/path_to_inst`; do prtconf -v /devices/$dev|egrep -i > "id1|dev.dsk.*s2" ; done >

Re: [zfs-discuss] volname

2008-10-11 Thread Marcus Sundman
"James C. McPherson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Marcus Sundman wrote: > > I couldn't figure out which controller got which numbers so I had > > to disconnect drives one by one > > I'm interested in what you did to figure out your drive > lo

Re: [zfs-discuss] volname

2008-10-11 Thread Marcus Sundman
A Darren Dunham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 03:19:49AM +0300, Marcus Sundman wrote: > > I've used format's "volname" command to give labels to my drives > > according to their physical location. I did quite a lot of work > >

[zfs-discuss] volname

2008-10-10 Thread Marcus Sundman
Hi I've used format's "volname" command to give labels to my drives according to their physical location. I did quite a lot of work labeling all my drives (I couldn't figure out which controller got which numbers so I had to disconnect drives one by one, and they're not hotpluggable => lot's of re

Re: [zfs-discuss] create raidz with 1 disk offline

2008-09-27 Thread Marcus Sundman
"Brandon High" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 4:02 PM, Marcus Sundman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > So, is it possible to create a 5 * 1 TB raidz with 4 disks (i.e., > > with one disk offline)? > > [...] > 1. Create a spars

[zfs-discuss] create raidz with 1 disk offline

2008-09-27 Thread Marcus Sundman
Hi, I'm about to convert my 3 * 1 TB raidz to a 5 * 1 TB raidz. Since raidz can't be grown like that I have to find some place to move the data to temporarily while I reformat the raidz. However, I'm short on disk space (which is why I'm adding 2 new disks). So, is it possible to create a 5 * 1 T

Re: [zfs-discuss] raidz in zfs questions

2008-03-18 Thread Marcus Sundman
> > 1. In zfs can you currently add more disks to an existing raidz? > > This is important to me as i slowly add disks to my system one at a > > time. > > No Is this being worked on? Is it even planned? (I've looked at a bunch of FAQs and searched some mailing lists but I can't find the answers s

Re: [zfs-discuss] path-name encodings

2008-03-05 Thread Marcus Sundman
"Anton B. Rang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Do you happen to know where programs in (Open)Solaris look when they > > want to know how to encode text to be used in a filename? Is it > > LC_CTYPE? > > In general, they don't. Command-line utilities just use the sequence > of bytes entered by the

Re: [zfs-discuss] raidz in zfs questions

2008-03-05 Thread Marcus Sundman
Chris Gilligan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2. in a raidz do all the disks have to be the same size? Related question: Does a raidz have to be either only full disks or only slices, or can it be mixed? E.g., can you do a 3-way raidz with 2 complete disks and one slice (of equal size as the disks)

Re: [zfs-discuss] path-name encodings

2008-03-05 Thread Marcus Sundman
Bart Smaalders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Marcus Sundman wrote: > > Bart Smaalders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> UTF8 is the answer here. If you care about anything more than > >> simple ascii and you work in more than a single locale/encoding, &g

Re: [zfs-discuss] path-name encodings

2008-03-04 Thread Marcus Sundman
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Joerg Schilling) wrote: > Marcus Sundman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Joerg Schilling) wrote: > > > [...] ISO-8859-1 (the low 8 bits of UNOICODE) [...] > > > > Unicode is not an encoding, but you probably mean "the l

Re: [zfs-discuss] path-name encodings

2008-03-04 Thread Marcus Sundman
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Joerg Schilling) wrote: > [...] ISO-8859-1 (the low 8 bits of UNOICODE) [...] Unicode is not an encoding, but you probably mean "the low 8 bits of UCS-2" or "the first 256 codepoints in Unicode" or somesuch. Regards, Marcus ___ zfs-

Re: [zfs-discuss] path-name encodings

2008-03-04 Thread Marcus Sundman
"Anton B. Rang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > OK, thanks. I still haven't got any answer to my original question, > > though. I.e., is there some way to know what text the > > filename is, or do I have to make a more or less wild guess what > > encoding the program that created the file used? > >

Re: [zfs-discuss] path-name encodings

2008-03-04 Thread Marcus Sundman
Bart Smaalders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Marcus Sundman wrote: > > Bart Smaalders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> I'm unable to find more info about this. E.g., what does "reject > >>> file names" mean in practice? E.g., if a pro

Re: [zfs-discuss] path-name encodings

2008-02-28 Thread Marcus Sundman
Bart Smaalders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm unable to find more info about this. E.g., what does "reject > > file names" mean in practice? E.g., if a program tries to create a > > file using an utf8-incompatible filename, what happens? Does the > > fopen() fail? Would this normally be a probl

[zfs-discuss] utf8only-property

2008-02-27 Thread Marcus Sundman
So, I set utf8only=on and try to create a file with a filename that is a byte array that can't be decoded to text using UTF-8. What's supposed to happen? Should fopen(), or whatever syscall 'touch' uses, fail? Should the syscall somehow escape utf8-incompatible bytes, or maybe replace them with ?s

Re: [zfs-discuss] Can ZFS be event-driven or not?

2008-02-27 Thread Marcus Sundman
"Wee Yeh Tan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 10:42 PM, Marcus Sundman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > Darren J Moffat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Marcus Sundman wrote: > > > > Nicolas Williams <[EMAIL

Re: [zfs-discuss] Can ZFS be event-driven or not?

2008-02-27 Thread Marcus Sundman
Darren J Moffat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Marcus Sundman wrote: > > Nicolas Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 05:54:29AM +0200, Marcus Sundman wrote: > >>> Nathan Kroenert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>&

Re: [zfs-discuss] path-name encodings

2008-02-27 Thread Marcus Sundman
Darren J Moffat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > See the description of the normalization and utf8only properties in > the zfs(1) man page. > > I think this might help you. > > normalization =none | formD | formKCf That's apparently only for comparisons, so I don't see how it's relevant. >

Re: [zfs-discuss] Can ZFS be event-driven or not?

2008-02-27 Thread Marcus Sundman
Nicolas Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 05:54:29AM +0200, Marcus Sundman wrote: > > Nathan Kroenert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Are you indicating that the filesystem know's or should know what > > > an applicat

Re: [zfs-discuss] path-name encodings

2008-02-27 Thread Marcus Sundman
"[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Marcus Sundman wrote: > > Are path-names text or raw data in zfs? I.e., is it possible to know > > what the name of a file/dir/whatever is, or do I have to make more > > or less wild guesses what encoding is u

Re: [zfs-discuss] Can ZFS be event-driven or not?

2008-02-26 Thread Marcus Sundman
Nathan Kroenert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Are you indicating that the filesystem know's or should know what an > application is doing?? Maybe "snapshot file whenever a write-filedescriptor is closed" or somesuch? - Marcus ___ zfs-discuss mailing li

[zfs-discuss] path-name encodings

2008-02-26 Thread Marcus Sundman
Are path-names text or raw data in zfs? I.e., is it possible to know what the name of a file/dir/whatever is, or do I have to make more or less wild guesses what encoding is used where? - Marcus ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org ht

Re: [zfs-discuss] missing files on copy

2008-01-29 Thread Marcus Sundman
Mark Ashley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It's simply a shell grokking issue, when you allow your (l)users to > self name your files then you will have spaces etc in the filename > (breaks shell arguments). In this case the '[E]' is breaking your > command line argument grokking. Can't be, because

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Home NAS - Configuration & Questions

2008-01-24 Thread Marcus Sundman
Tim Cook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm currently running the asus K8N-LR, and it works wonderfully. Thanks, but socket 939 is cold dead and buried. S939 CPUs are very expensive. DDR is over twice as expensive as DDR2. I can't tell if the motherboard is expensive or not because I just can't find

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Home NAS - Configuration & Questions

2008-01-24 Thread Marcus Sundman
Marcus Sundman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Richard Elling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > It may be less expensive to purchase a new motherboard with 6 SATA > > ports on it. > > Sure, but which one? I've been trying to find one for many, many > mo

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Home NAS - Configuration & Questions

2008-01-24 Thread Marcus Sundman
Richard Elling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Marcus Sundman wrote: > > Kava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> Can anyone recommend a cheap (but reliable) SATA PCI or PCIX card? > >> > > > > Why would you get a PCI-X card for

[zfs-discuss] Drives of different size

2008-01-24 Thread Marcus Sundman
Let's say I have two 300 GB drives and one 500 GB drive. Can I put a RAID-Z on the three drives and a separate partition on the last 200 GB of the 500 GB drive? - Marcus ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Home NAS - Configuration & Questions

2008-01-24 Thread Marcus Sundman
Kava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can anyone recommend a cheap (but reliable) SATA PCI or PCIX card? Why would you get a PCI-X card for a home NAS? I don't think I've ever seen a non-server motherboard with PCI-X. Are you sure you don't want a PCI-E card instead? Anyway, if someone is aware of so

[zfs-discuss] Re: Cheap ZFS homeserver.

2008-01-15 Thread Marcus Sundman
> So I was hoping that this board would work: [...]GA-M57SLI-S4 I've been looking at that very same board for the very same purpose. It has 2 gb nics, 6 sata ports, supports ECC memory and is passively cooled. And it's very cheap compared to most systems that people recommend for running OpenSolar