Re: [zfs-discuss] At what level does the "zfs" directory exist?

2010-06-16 Thread Thommy M . Malmström
> > From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org > [mailto:zfs-discuss- > > boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Arne Jansen > > > > Don't host 50k filesystems on a single pool. It's > more pain than it's > > worth. > > I assume Michael has reached this conclusion due to > factors which are not > n

Re: [zfs-discuss] Compellant announces zNAS

2010-04-28 Thread Thommy M . Malmström
What operating system does it run? -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

[zfs-discuss] new disk but zfs/zpool commands hangs

2009-08-19 Thread Thommy M . Malmström
I bought a 1 TB external USB disk from Western Digital (1) and put it in my 2008.11 machine.The machine discovered the disk directly and I did a 'zpool create xpool c11t0d0´ command # zpool list NAME SIZE USED AVAILCAP HEALTH ALTROOT [...] xpool 928G81K 928G 0% ONL

Re: [zfs-discuss] compression at zfs filesystem creation

2009-06-15 Thread Thommy M.
Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > On Mon, 15 Jun 2009, Shannon Fiume wrote: > >> I just installed 2009.06 and found that compression isn't enabled by >> default when filesystems are created. Does is make sense to have an >> RFE open for this? (I'll open one tonight if need be.) We keep telling >> people to

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS: unreliable for professional usage?

2009-02-11 Thread Thommy M . Malmström
> after working for 1 month with ZFS on 2 external USB > drives I have experienced, that the all new zfs > filesystem is the most unreliable FS I have ever > seen. Troll. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discu

[zfs-discuss] How to mount rpool and edit vfstab from LiveCD?

2009-01-04 Thread Thommy M . Malmström
My son (15 years old) has installed OpenSolaris 2008.11 on disk on his system and everything was OK until he made a newbie mistake and edited the /etc/vfstab file incorrectly, that now prevents him from booting. (Think he had done too much Linux...) It just hangs on the splash screen. My idea was

Re: [zfs-discuss] Best practice for ZFS on boot disk - use HW RAID? or ZFS Mirroring?

2008-11-19 Thread Thommy M. Malmström
Raymond Scott wrote: > I'm very glad to see ZFS for boot available now. We have begun to use > X4150 servers and had settled on using the built-in HW RAID for mirroring > the drives in pairs. Two for Boot, two for data etc... > > Is it a good idea to first create a HW RAID mirror and then instal

Re: [zfs-discuss] Inexpensive ZFS home server

2008-11-12 Thread Thommy M. Malmström
David Evans wrote: > For anyone looking for a cheap home ZFS server... > > Dell is having a sale on their PowerEdge SC440 for $199 (regular $598) > through 11/12/2008. > What date format is that in? We who are used to OpenSolaris are internationalized to write dates in big endian style like Y

Re: [zfs-discuss] Subversion repository on ZFS

2008-08-28 Thread Thommy M. Malmström
Toby Thain wrote: > On 27-Aug-08, at 5:47 PM, Ian Collins wrote: > >> Tim writes: >> >>> On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 3:29 PM, Ian Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>> wrote: >>> Does anyone have any tuning tips for a Subversion repository on ZFS? The repository will mainly be storing bi

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS questions

2008-07-23 Thread Thommy M.
Richard Gilmore wrote: > Hello Zfs Community, > > I am trying to locate if zfs has a compatible tool to Veritas's > vxbench? Any ideas? I see a tool called vdbench that looks close, but > it is not a Sun tool, does Sun recommend something to customers moving > from Veritas to ZFS and like vxb

Re: [zfs-discuss] kernel panic - was it zfs related?

2008-07-15 Thread Thommy M.
Michael Hale wrote: > Around 9:45 this morning, our mailserver (SunOS 5.11 snv_91 i86pc i386 > i86pc) rebooted. [...] > dumping to /dev/zvol/dsk/rootpool/dump, offset 65536, content: kernel > > Is there a way to tell if ZFS caused the kernel panic? I notice that > it says imapd: in the middle

Re: [zfs-discuss] More USB Storage Issues

2008-06-05 Thread Thommy M. Malmström
Nathan Kroenert wrote: > For what it's worth, I started playing with USB + flash + ZFS and was > most unhappy for quite a while. > > I was suffering with things hanging, going slow or just going away and > breaking, and thought I was witnessing something zfs was doing as I was > trying to do mi

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Hardware Check, OS X Compatibility, NEWBIE!!

2008-06-03 Thread Thommy M.
Darryl wrote: > This thread really messed me up, posts dont follow a chronological order... > so sorry for all the extra posts! That's what you get when you don't use working tools like usenet news. nntp for ever!!! ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-di

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS problems with USB Storage devices

2008-06-02 Thread Thommy M.
Justin Vassallo wrote: > Thommy, > > If I read correctly your post stated that the pools did not automount on > startup, not that they would go corrupt. It seems to me that Paulo is > actually experiencing a corrupt fs Nah, I also had indications of "corrupted data" if you read my posts. But the

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS problems with USB Storage devices

2008-06-02 Thread Thommy M.
Paulo Soeiro wrote: > Greetings, > > I was experimenting with zfs, and i made the following test, i shutdown > the computer during a write operation > in a mirrored usb storage filesystem. > > Here is my configuration > > NGS USB 2.0 Minihub 4 > 3 USB Silicom Power Storage Pens 1 GB each > > Th

Re: [zfs-discuss] NFS4-sharing-ZFS issues

2008-05-21 Thread Thommy M. Malmström
Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > On Wed, 21 May 2008, Will Murnane wrote: >> So, my questions are: >> * Are there options I can set server- or client-side to make Solaris >> child mounts happen automatically (i.e., match the Linux behavior)? >> * Will this behave with automounts? What I'd like to do is li