Re: [zfs-discuss] Please warn a home user against OpenSolaris under VirtualBox under WinXP ; )

2010-10-04 Thread Nils
Well at the risk of being repetetive too: "or another box". So yes I am considering it, but that is probably the option that requires less guidance in this thread. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@op

Re: [zfs-discuss] Please warn a home user against OpenSolaris under VirtualBox under WinXP ; )

2010-10-03 Thread Nils
OK, replying to myself after having played around a bit with both Unix under Billware and vice versa: 1) - Somehow the HDs turned into a "GPT Protective Partition", which XP cannot read. Googling a bit reveals that XP cannot read these (although a utility for destroying and reformatting is ava

Re: [zfs-discuss] Please warn a home user against OpenSolaris under VirtualBox under WinXP ; )

2010-09-23 Thread Nils
@ kebabber: > There was a guy doing that: Windows as host and > OpenSolaris as guest with raw access to his disks. He > lost his 12 TB data. It turned out that VirtualBox > dont honor the write flush flag (or something > similar). That story is in the link I provided, and as has been pointed out

[zfs-discuss] Please warn a home user against OpenSolaris under VirtualBox under WinXP ; )

2010-09-19 Thread Nils
Pardon in advance my n00b ignorance. (Yes I have googled a [i]lot[/i] before asking.) I am considering VirtualBoxing away one physical machine at home, and running WinXP as host (yes, as atrocious it may seem, explanation below [1]) and OpenSolaris guest as file server, with OpenSolaris (why?[2

[zfs-discuss] Stretched fishes? (fibre channel 7000 series)

2010-06-05 Thread Nils Goroll
n 1km)? Thanks, NIls ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] I/O errors after zfs promote back and forth

2010-01-08 Thread Nils Goroll
BTW, this was on snv_111b - sorry I forgot to mention. ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

[zfs-discuss] I/O errors after zfs promote back and forth

2010-01-08 Thread Nils Goroll
When trying to execute processes in them, I got exec failures like this one: # zlogin ZONE [Connected to zone 'ZONE' pts/2] zlogin: exec failure: I/O error Is this issue known to anyone already? Thank you, Nils ___ zfs-discuss mailing l

[zfs-discuss] ZFS filesystem size mismatch

2010-01-05 Thread Nils K . Schøyen
A ZFS file system reports 1007GB beeing used (df -h / zfs list). When doing a 'du -sh' on the filesystem root, I only get appr. 300GB which is the correct size. The file system became full during Christmas and I increased the quota from 1 to 1.5 to 2TB and then decreased to 1.5TB. No reservatio

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS dedup accounting & reservations

2009-11-03 Thread Nils Goroll
analogy in memory management (proper swap space reservation vs. the oom-killer). But I realize that talking about an "implicit expectation" to give some motivation for reservations probably lead to some misunderstanding. Sorry, Nils ___ z

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS dedup accounting & reservations

2009-11-03 Thread Nils Goroll
but I don't see how those should work with the currently implemented concept. Do we need something like a de-dup-reservation, which is substracted from the pool free space? Thank you for reading, Nils ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS dedup accounting & reservations

2009-11-03 Thread Nils Goroll
..@zfs-auto-snap:frequent-2009-11-03-22:04:46 rpool/test cannot create 'rpool/test': out of space I don't see how a similar guarantee could be given with de-dup. Nils ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS dedup accounting & reservations

2009-11-03 Thread Nils Goroll
a belittling term to express disagreement. I hope it doesn't derail the discussion. It certainly won't on my side. Thank you for the clarification. Thanks, Nils ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

[zfs-discuss] ZFS dedup accounting

2009-11-03 Thread Nils Goroll
obviously something that should be addressed. Would the idea I mentioned not address this issue as well? Thanks, Nils ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs code and fishworks "fork"

2009-10-27 Thread Nils Goroll
e that it's been put back into snv_125. At any rate, I think that the main selling point for 7xxxs is really the add on s/w and I believe that making the core technology openly available will strengthen the product rather than weakening it. Thank

Re: [zfs-discuss] STK 2540 and Ignore Cache Sync (ICS)

2009-10-14 Thread Nils Goroll
nfig, or are the two always the same". Anyway, this subtle detail might not make a difference in most scenarios. Nils ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] STK 2540 and Ignore Cache Sync (ICS)

2009-10-13 Thread Nils Goroll
t the nvsram settings which can be read with service -d -c read -q nvsram region=0xf2 host=0x00 do not necessarily reflect the current configuration and that the only way to make sure the controller is running with that configuration is to reset it. Nils

Re: [zfs-discuss] STK 2540 and Ignore Cache Sync (ICS)

2009-10-13 Thread Nils Goroll
Hi Bob and all, I should update this paper since the performance is now radically different and the StorageTek 2540 CAM configurables have changed. That would be great, I think you'd do the community (and Sun, probably) a big favor. Is this information still current for F/W 07.35.44.10 ?

[zfs-discuss] STK 2540 and Ignore Cache Sync (ICS)

2009-10-13 Thread Nils Goroll
ow if the controller has been booted since the nvsram potentially got modified? Thank you, Nils ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] lots of zil_clean threads

2009-09-22 Thread Nils Goroll
I should add that I have quite a lot of datasets: and maybe I should also add that I'm still running an old zpool version in order to keep the ability to boot snv_98: aggis:~$ zpool upgrade This system is currently running ZFS pool version 14. The following pools are out of date, and can b

Re: [zfs-discuss] lots of zil_clean threads

2009-09-22 Thread Nils Goroll
s: r...@haggis:~# zfs list -r -t filesystem | wc -l 49 r...@haggis:~# zfs list -r -t volume | wc -l 14 r...@haggis:~# zfs list -r -t snapshot | wc -l 6018 Nils ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensola

[zfs-discuss] lots of zil_clean threads

2009-09-21 Thread Nils Goroll
> ::threadlist!grep zil_clean| wc -l 1037 Thanks, Nils P.S.: Please don't spend too much time on this, for me, this question is really academic - but I'd be grateful for any good answers. ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensol

[zfs-discuss] zpool hanging after I/O error (usb) on all mirror components

2009-09-12 Thread Nils Goroll
f a better way than to hard reboot the machine. This happened on snv_111 running as an xvm dom0. My question is if anyone is interested in analyzing this. I'll provide some detail here and in case anyone is in interested, I could provide crash and core-dumps. Thank you, Nils -- Here&#x

[zfs-discuss] Resolved: zpool status showing wrong device name (similar to: ZFS confused about disk controller )

2009-08-04 Thread Nils Goroll
rpool ONLINE 0 0 0 c1t0d0s0 ONLINE 0 0 0 errors: No known data errors Nils ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

[zfs-discuss] zpool status showing wrong device name (similar to: ZFS confused about disk controller )

2009-08-02 Thread Nils Goroll
ead documenting a similar issue, but it did not contain a real solution: http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=77876 Does anyone have a clue how I can correct ZFS'es idea of my disks name? Thank you, Nils ___ zfs-discuss mail

Re: [zfs-discuss] NFS load balancing / was: ZFS, ESX , and NFS. oh my!

2009-07-08 Thread Nils Goroll
be successive in order to get optimal load distribution with the hashes I've seen in the field. That's a topic I'll probably revisit.. Nils ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Purpose of zfs_acl_split_ace

2009-06-24 Thread Nils Goroll
s always a good argument. Nils ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Purpose of zfs_acl_split_ace

2009-06-24 Thread Nils Goroll
s make any sense? Thank you, Nils ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

[zfs-discuss] Purpose of zfs_acl_split_ace

2009-06-24 Thread Nils Goroll
interpretation match the original intention, or are there any other or better reasons? It there a reason why inheritable ACEs are split always, even if the particular chmod call would not require splitting them? Thank you, Nils ___ zfs-discuss mailing

Re: [zfs-discuss] Need Help Invalidating Uberblock

2008-12-16 Thread Nils Goroll
Well done, Nathan, thank you taking on the additional effort to write it all up. ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS ACL/ACE issues with Samba - Access Denied

2008-11-27 Thread Nils Goroll
> If you run the id on the box, does it show the users > secondary groups? id never shows secondary groups. Use id -a Nils ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS ACL/ACE issues with Samba - Access Denied

2008-11-27 Thread Nils Goroll
ail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg97466.html Cheers, Nils ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] [osol-bugs] what's the story wtih bug #6592835?

2008-10-29 Thread Nils Goroll
entially rather than ZFS on disk structures), so I doubt if an improvement can be expected anytime soon. That said, the core developers on zfs-discuss will know more than me and might be willing to give more background on this. Nils ___ zfs-di

Re: [zfs-discuss] Weird ZFS recv / NFS export problem

2008-10-01 Thread Nils Goroll
nments unless you really need to, but this looks like a nfs client caching issue. Is this an nfsv3 or nfsv4 mount? What happens if you use one or the other? Please provide nfsstat -m output. Nils ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-disc

Re: [zfs-discuss] Automatic removal of old snapshots

2008-09-25 Thread Nils Goroll
that he would not want to hardcode any assumptions as to which snapshots one would want to delete first, and I think he is very right in doing so. Nils ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs-auto-snapshot default schedules

2008-09-25 Thread Nils Goroll
many snapshots as necessary to give the user a change to move a snapshot from a "finer class" to a "coarser class" to prevent snapshotted data from the time frame in question from expiring prematurely in case a "coarser" snapshot was not be taken. Nils __

Re: [zfs-discuss] Automatic removal of old snapshots

2008-09-25 Thread Nils Goroll
> Before re-inventing the wheel, does anyone have any nice shell script to do > this > kind of thing (to be executed from cron)? http://blogs.sun.com/timf/entry/zfs_automatic_snapshots_0_10 http://blogs.sun.com/timf/entry/zfs_automatic_snapshots_0_11 _

Re: [zfs-discuss] Disk Concatenation

2008-09-22 Thread Nils Goroll
/O on the same disks or I/Os being split up unnecessarily. All of this highly depends upon the configuration. Nils ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Disk Concatenation

2008-09-22 Thread Nils Goroll
See http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?messageID=271983񂙯 The case mentioned there is one where concatenation in zdevs would be useful. ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-di

Re: [zfs-discuss] RAIDZ read-optimized write?

2008-09-19 Thread Nils Goroll
ance for cache warmup times etc). In short, I consider this optimization approach worthwhile exploring, but I don't think I'll be able to do this myself. I would appreciate any pointers to background information regarding this question. Thank you, Nils ___

Re: [zfs-discuss] Procedure to follow after zpool upgrade on rpool

2008-09-19 Thread Nils Goroll
ritten in that format. There are other issues related to the fact that the GRUB zfs implementation is lightweight, for instance it cannot read a boot archive which is created with compression=gzip enabled on the filesystem (or at least it could not a couple of months ago, have not

Re: [zfs-discuss] Tool to figure out optimum ZFS recordsize for a Mail server Maildir tree?

2008-09-18 Thread Nils Goroll
Hi, > It is important to remember that ZFS is ideal for writing new files from > scratch. IIRC, maildir MTAs never overwrite mail files. But courier-imap does maintain some additional index files which will be overwritten and I guess other IMAP servers will probably do the same.

Re: [zfs-discuss] Procedure to follow after zpool upgrade on rpool

2008-09-18 Thread Nils Goroll
Not knowing of a better place to put this, I have created http://www.genunix.org/wiki/index.php/ZFS_rpool_Upgrade_and_GRUB Please make any corrections there. Thanks, Nils ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http

[zfs-discuss] Procedure to follow after zpool upgrade on rpool (was: zpool upgrade wrecked GRUB)

2008-09-18 Thread Nils Goroll
_grub * umount, export umount /mnt zpool export rpool At least this has worked for me. Would it be a good idea to put this into indiana release notes? Nils ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

[zfs-discuss] RAIDZ read-optimized write?

2008-09-18 Thread Nils Goroll
e full RAIDZ line only for the degraded RAID case. I think that this could make a big difference for write-once read many random access-type applications like DSS systems etc. Is this feasible at all? Nils ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zf

[zfs-discuss] typo: [storage-discuss] A few questions : RAID set width

2008-09-18 Thread Nils Goroll
> I Ben's argument, and the main point IMHO is how the RAID behaves in the ^ second ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] [storage-discuss] A few questions - small read I/O performance on RAIDZ

2008-09-18 Thread Nils Goroll
th a degraded RAID. What about for instance writing 16MB chunks and reading 8K random? Wouldn't RAIDZ access only the disks containing the 8K bits? Nils ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] [storage-discuss] A few questions : RAID set width

2008-09-18 Thread Nils Goroll
placing the failed disk, which is an argument for not using too large disks (see another thread on this list). Nils ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Problem w/ b95 + ZFS (version 11) - seeing fair number of errors on multiple machines

2008-08-26 Thread Nils Goroll
glitch: > have you tried mounting and re-mounting all filesystems which are not ^^^ unmounting ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mail

Re: [zfs-discuss] Problem w/ b95 + ZFS (version 11) - seeing fair number of errors on multiple machines

2008-08-26 Thread Nils Goroll
Hi David, have you tried mounting and re-mounting all filesystems which are not being mounted automatically? See other posts to zfs-discuss. Nils ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: [zfs-discuss] Can ZFS delete snapshots automatically?

2008-08-24 Thread Nils Goroll
zfs itself can't, but Tim Foster has written a nice script, integrated into SMF, which can be used to automatically create and delete snapshots at various intervals. see http://blogs.sun.com/timf/entry/zfs_automatic_snapshots_0_10 for the latest release and http://opensolaris.org/jive/thread.js

Re: [zfs-discuss] Possible to do a stripe vdev?

2008-08-22 Thread Nils Goroll
pool on your metadevices zpool create raidz /dev/md/dsk/d11 /dev/md/dsk/d12 /dev/md/dsk/d13 /dev/md/dsk/d14 /dev/md/dsk/d15 Again: I have never tried this, so please don't blame me if this doesn't work. Nils This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

[zfs-discuss] Oops: zpool detach from degraded mirror "only applicable to mirror ..

2008-08-15 Thread Nils Goroll
g taken Mathias' initial hint for what it was. By the way, I could finally scrub the pool, no problems remaining (except for the task to make it a real mirror). Thanks again, Nils This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mail

Re: [zfs-discuss] zpool detach from degraded mirror : why "only applicable to mirror ..

2008-08-15 Thread Nils Goroll
Matthias, that does not answer my question. The question is: Why can't I decide that I consciously want to destroy the (two way) mirror (and, yes, do away with any redundancy). Nils This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss ma

[zfs-discuss] zpool detach from degraded mirror : why "only applicable to mirror ..." ?

2008-08-15 Thread Nils Goroll
Hi, I thought that this question must have been answered already, but I have not found any explanations. I'm sorry in advance if this is redundant, but: Why exactly doesn't ZFS let me detach a device from a degraded mirror? haggis:~# zpool status pool: rmirror state: DEGRADED status: One or

[zfs-discuss] zfs-auto-snapshot: Use at ? SMF prop caching?

2008-08-03 Thread Nils Goroll
solution, how do you invalidate the cache if a property is being changed or deleted (this is trivial, but not yet implemented)? - Does your solution handle white space, quotes etc. in svcprop values properly (I think there is an issue regarding white space, but I have not tested it)?

[zfs-discuss] cron and roles (zfs-auto-snapshot 0.11 work)

2008-08-03 Thread Nils Goroll
My previous reply via email did not get linked to this post, so let me resend it: can roles run cron jobs ?), >>> No. You need a user who can take on the role. >> Darn, back to the drawing board. > I don't have all the context on this but Solaris RBAC roles *can* run cron > jobs. Roles don

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs-auto-snapshot 0.11 work (was Re: zfs-auto-snapshot with at schedul

2008-07-31 Thread Nils Goroll
You need a user who can take on the role. Thanks again, and keep up the good work (and please think again about the at-vanteges ;-) Nils This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

[zfs-discuss] zfs-auto-snapshot at jobs: fix for README exable

2008-06-29 Thread Nils Goroll
An example from the readme does not work and fails with: Error: Cant schedule at job: at midnight sun Change: --- README.zfs-auto-snapshot.txt.o Sun Jun 29 11:23:35 2008 +++ README.zfs-auto-snapshot.txtSun Jun 29 11:24:31 2008 @@ -171,7 +171,7 @@ 'setprop zfs/at_timespec = as

[zfs-discuss] How about an zfs-auto-snapshot project

2008-06-26 Thread Nils Goroll
And how about making this an official project? 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] Oops: zfs-auto-snapshot with at scheduling

2008-06-26 Thread Nils Goroll
due when) - added validation functions for various SMF properties Cheers, Nils This message posted from opensolaris.org zfs-auto-snapshot-0.10_atjobs2.tar.bz2 Description: BZip2 compressed data ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs-auto-snapshot with at scheduling

2008-06-24 Thread Nils Goroll
and the tar file ... This message posted from opensolaris.org zfs-auto-snapshot-0.10_atjobs.tar.bz2 Description: BZip2 compressed data ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

[zfs-discuss] zfs-auto-snapshot with at scheduling

2008-06-24 Thread Nils Goroll
t post files to Tims blog (or can I?). Tim, feel free to integrate my suggestions or not, I wont feel offended if you don't, but at any rate I am very happy that you maintain this tool. Thanks again, Nils This message posted from opensolaris.org ___

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs send/receive issue

2008-06-11 Thread Nils Goroll
see: http://bugs.opensolaris.org/view_bug.do?bug_id=6700597 This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Having to subscribe to post considered obnoxious (Re: [zfs-discuss] OSOL mailing list issues)

2006-05-13 Thread Nils Nieuwejaar
On Fri 05/12/06 at 13:46 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Fri, May 12, 2006 at 03:32:43PM -0500, Nicolas Williams wrote: > > Also, I'm getting tired of replying to some e-mail only to get a "post > > awaits moderator approval" reply. > > > > I understand why we do that for non-subscribers. > > >