[zfs-discuss] Fwd: Replicating many home directories between hosts

2008-12-18 Thread Scott Williamson
On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 4:57 PM, Ian Collins wrote: > > Is anyone out there replicating a thousand or more ZFS filesystems between > hosts using zfs send/receive? I did this with about 2000 data sets on 2x x4500s with Solaris 10U5 that was patched. Most directories had just a copy of skel in th

[zfs-discuss] mismatched replication level question

2008-12-09 Thread Scott Williamson
When I attempt to create a 46 disk pool with 5 and 6 disk raidz vdevs, I get the following message: mismatched replication level: both 5-way and 6-way raidz vdevs are present mismatched replication level: both 6-way and 5-way raidz vdevs are present I expect this is correct.[1] But what does it

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS+NFS4 strange timestamps on file creation

2008-12-04 Thread Scott Williamson
On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 4:52 PM, Ed Spencer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yes, I've seen them on nfs filesystems on solaris10 using a Netapp nfs > server. > Here's a link to a solution that I just implemented on a solaris10 > server: > https://equoria.net/index.php/Value_too_large_for_defined_data_ty

[zfs-discuss] ZFS+NFS4 strange timestamps on file creation

2008-12-04 Thread Scott Williamson
Has anyone seen files created on a linux client with negative or zero creation timestamps on zfs+nfs exported datasets? ___ 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

2008-12-01 Thread Scott Williamson
Hi, On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 3:37 PM, Eric Hill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Any thoughts on how come Solaris/id isn't seeing the full group list for the > user? Do an ldapsearch and dump the attributes for the group. If it is using memberuid to list the members solaris should work, if you are usi

Re: [zfs-discuss] Is SUNWhd for Thumper only?

2008-12-01 Thread Scott Williamson
Try it and tell us if it works :) It might have hooks into the specific controller driver. On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 1:45 PM, Joe S <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I read Ben Rockwood's blog post about Thumpers and SMART > (http://cuddletech.com/blog/pivot/entry.php?id=993). Will the SUNWhd > package o

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

2008-11-27 Thread Scott Williamson
I have solaris 10 set to resolve user information from my directory (ldap). I only get primary group information, not secondary. We use edirectory via ldap and the attribute for group membersip is not the one that solaris looks for. If you run the id on the box, does it show the users secondary g

Re: [zfs-discuss] OpenStorage GUI

2008-11-13 Thread Scott Williamson
On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 7:35 AM, Ross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > PS. Adam, if it is possible to get this image working under ESX and > VirtualBox, it would be good if Sun could publish instructions for running > it under those systems. Or instructions on how to dd the boot disk bits to the

Re: [zfs-discuss] OpenStorage GUI

2008-11-12 Thread Scott Williamson
On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 12:52 PM, Adam Leventhal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Nov 11, 2008, at 9:38 AM, Bryan Cantrill wrote: > > Just to throw some ice-cold water on this: >> >> 1. It's highly unlikely that we will ever support the x4500 -- only the >> x4540 is a real possibility. >> >

Re: [zfs-discuss] OpenStorage GUI

2008-11-11 Thread Scott Williamson
We would be very interested in this. I have just gotten my thumpers (x4500) into preproduction testing as NFS NAS servers. Our real challenge has been lack of a management GUI so that long complex lists of commands do not need to be followed. I do not run my own apps on them, so I would be interes

[zfs-discuss] OpenStorage GUI

2008-11-11 Thread Scott Williamson
Hi, Is this softwareavailable for people who already have thumpers? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/

Re: [zfs-discuss] 'zfs recv' is very slow

2008-11-10 Thread Scott Williamson
6421958, the fix for which is scheduled to be included in Update 6. On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 12:24 PM, Scott Williamson < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have an open ticket to have these putback into Solaris 10. > > > On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 3:24 PM, Ian Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: [zfs-discuss] 'zfs recv' is very slow

2008-11-10 Thread Scott Williamson
I have an open ticket to have these putback into Solaris 10. On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 3:24 PM, Ian Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Brent Jones wrote: > > Theres been a couple threads about this now, tracked some bug > ID's/ticket: > > > > 6333409 > > 6418042 > I see these are fixed in build 10

Re: [zfs-discuss] Improving zfs send performance

2008-10-20 Thread Scott Williamson
On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 1:52 AM, Victor Latushkin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote > Indeed. For example, less than a week ago fix for the following two CRs > (along with some others) was put back into Solaris Nevada: > > 6333409 traversal code should be able to issue multiple reads in parallel > 6418042

Re: [zfs-discuss] Improving zfs send performance

2008-10-17 Thread Scott Williamson
On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 2:48 PM, Richard Elling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > Keep in mind that any changes required for Solaris 10 will first > be available in OpenSolaris, including any changes which may > have already been implemented. > For me (who uses SOL10) it is the only way I can get infor

Re: [zfs-discuss] Improving zfs send performance

2008-10-17 Thread Scott Williamson
Hi All, I have opened a ticket with sun support #66104157 regarding zfs send / receive and will let you know what I find out. Keep in mind that this is for Solaris 10 not opensolaris. ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.

Re: [zfs-discuss] Improving zfs send performance

2008-10-16 Thread Scott Williamson
So I am zfs sending ~450 datasets between thumpers running SOL10U5 via ssh, most are empty except maybe 10 that have a few GB of files. I see the following output on one that contained ~1GB of files in my send report: Output from zfs receive -v "received 1.07Gb stream in 30 seconds (36.4Mb/sec)"

Re: [zfs-discuss] Improving zfs send performance

2008-10-16 Thread Scott Williamson
Hi Carsten, You seem to be using dd for write testing. In my testing I noted that there was a large difference in write speed between using dd to write from /dev/zero and using other files. Writing from /dev/zero always seemed to be fast, reaching the maximum of ~200MB/s and using cp which would p

[zfs-discuss] Improving zfs send performance

2008-10-16 Thread Scott Williamson
On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 9:37 PM, Brent Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Scott, > > Can you tell us the configuration that you're using that is working for > you? > Were you using RaidZ, or RaidZ2? I'm wondering what the "sweetspot" is > to get a good compromise in vdevs and usable space/perform

Re: [zfs-discuss] Improving zfs send performance

2008-10-15 Thread Scott Williamson
Hi All, Just want to note that I had the same issue with zfs send + vdevs that had 11 drives in them on a X4500. Reducing the count of drives per zvol cleared this up. One vdev is IOPS limited to the speed of one drive in that vdev, according to this post

Re: [zfs-discuss] Segmentation fault / core dump with recursive

2008-10-10 Thread Scott Williamson
On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 6:56 PM, BJ Quinn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So, here's what I tried - first of all, I set the backup FS to readonly. > That resulted in the same error message. Strange, how could something have > changed since the last snapshot if I CONSCIOUSLY didn't change anything or

Re: [zfs-discuss] zpool imports are slow when importing multiple storage pools

2008-10-06 Thread Scott Williamson
Speaking of this, is there a list anywhere that details what we can expect to see for (zfs) updates in S10U6? On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 2:44 PM, Richard Elling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > Do you have a lot of snapshots? If so, CR 6612830 could be contributing. > Alas, many such fixes are not yet av