Re: [zfs-discuss] Using zfs-auto-snapshot for automatic backups

2010-03-09 Thread Tim Foster
On Tue, 2010-03-09 at 18:02 +, Brandon High wrote: > The instance runs as zfssnap and the user *should* be able to change > values in smf, right? Yes - I think that's a bug - it looks like the SMF zfs/ propgroup should have value_authorization set as well. You can workaround this by doing: #

Re: [zfs-discuss] Using zfs-auto-snapshot for automatic backups

2010-03-08 Thread Tim Foster
I hit the wrong button when moderating the post to zfs-auto-snapshot@ mailing list. I'm forwarding the original mail from Brandon below. Summarising Brandon's questions: * how to best create SMF instances on an existing service * why are there permission errors when running a new instance creat

[zfs-discuss] [Fwd: [zfs-auto-snapshot] Heads up: SUNWzfs-auto-snapshot obsoletion in snv 128]

2009-11-17 Thread Tim Foster
Hi all, Just forwarding Niall's heads-up message about the impending removal of the existing zfs-auto-snapshot implementation in nv_128 I've not been involved in the rewrite, but what I've read about the new code, it'll be a lot more efficient than the old ksh-based code, and will fix many of the

[zfs-discuss] Collecting hardware configurations (was Re: White box server for OpenSolaris)

2009-09-25 Thread Tim Foster
On Fri, 2009-09-25 at 01:32 -0700, Erik Trimble wrote: > Go back and look through the archives for this list. We just had this > discussion last month. Let's not rehash it again, as it seems to get > redone way too often. You know, this seems like such a common question to the list, would we (t

Re: [zfs-discuss] Disappearing snapshots

2009-07-07 Thread Tim Foster
On Mon, 2009-07-06 at 10:00 +0200, Juergen Nickelsen wrote: > DL Consulting writes: > Do not use the snapshots made for the time slider feature. These are > under control of the auto-snapshot service for exactly the time > slider and not for anything else. - or you could use the auto-snapshot:

Re: [zfs-discuss] auto snapshots 0.12

2009-06-25 Thread Tim Foster
Hi Ross, On Thu, 2009-06-25 at 04:24 -0700, Ross wrote: > Thanks Tim, do you know which build this is going to appear in? I've actually no idea - SUNWzfs-auto-snapshot gets delivered by the Desktop consolidation, not me. I'm checking in with them to see what the story is. That said, it probably

[zfs-discuss] auto snapshots 0.12

2009-06-25 Thread Tim Foster
Hi all, Just a quick plug: the latest version of ZFS Automatic Snapshots SMF service hit the hg repository yesterday. If you're using 0.11 or older, it's well worth upgrading to get the few bugfixes (especially if you're using CIFs - we use '_' instead of ':' in snapshot names now) More at: http

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs auto-snapshot cleanup not cleaning up zvol snapshots

2009-06-09 Thread Tim Foster
Hi Victor, On Tue, 2009-06-09 at 08:35 -0700, Victor Kramer wrote: > Any news regarding this problem? > I could not find any workaround or fix for this problem. > Any ideas when this one might be fixed? 8683: time slider cleanup doesn't clean up ZFS volume snapshots. http://defect.opensolaris.org

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs send -R gets blocked by auto-snapshot service

2009-06-09 Thread Tim Foster
On Tue, 2009-06-09 at 06:52 -0700, Maurilio Longo wrote: > I really was trying to have a full copy of my pool onto a different > pc, so I think that I have to use -R otherwise I would loose all the > history (monthly and weekly and daily snapshots) of my data which is > valuable for me. Fair enou

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs send -R gets blocked by auto-snapshot service

2009-06-08 Thread Tim Foster
On Mon, 2009-06-08 at 05:38 -0700, Maurilio Longo wrote: > Now, from the error it seems that T1 needs all the snapshots which > were active at the time it was created, which is not what I would > expect from a snapshot. >From the man page, -R tries to replicate everything, including any existing

Re: [zfs-discuss] What can I do to shorten the long awkward names of snapshots?

2009-04-15 Thread Tim Foster
Hi Harry, On Wed, 2009-04-15 at 16:59 -0500, Harry Putnam wrote: > How can I make zfs give some shorter kind of names to the auto snapshots > it takes. > > I'd like to alter the date string and shorten like this: > > zfs-auto-snap:frequent-2009-04-15-16:30 > Would become: > a:freq-041509_16

Re: [zfs-discuss] [osol-help] dataset is busy error

2009-01-13 Thread Tim Foster
This is a known bug: http://bugs.opensolaris.org/view_bug.do?bug_id=6749498 - being a duplicate of an existing bug: http://bugs.opensolaris.org/view_bug.do?bug_id=6462803 cheers, tim On Mon, 2009-01-12 at 14:07 -0800, Robert Bauer wrote: > Time slider is not wo

Re: [zfs-discuss] Time Slider bug??

2009-01-11 Thread Tim Foster
Hi there, William Bauer wrote: > Interesting that the weekly snapshots run on Monday. Shows the > difference in thinking of when a week begins or ends. In the future, > it would be nice to have more control over the slider's settings, The core auto-snapshot service will have this support in nv_

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs list improvements?

2009-01-08 Thread Tim Foster
hi Rich, On Wed, 2009-01-07 at 10:51 -0500, Richard Morris - Sun Microsystems - Burlington United States wrote: > As you point out, the -c option is user friendly while the -depth (or > maybe -d) option is more general. There have been several requests for > the -c option. Would anyone prefer

Re: [zfs-discuss] Problem with time-slider

2008-12-29 Thread Tim Foster
Hi Charles, Charles wrote: > And for timf, I have red your pages, but I don't understand what to > do. In the bug report, the workaround is to unmount and mount the > filesystem, but I don't know how to do this with zfs. > > When I enter "zfs list" I get that: > > rpool/ROOT/opensolaris 8,96

Re: [zfs-discuss] Problem with time-slider

2008-12-29 Thread Tim Foster
Hi there, Charles wrote: > I'm a new user of OpenSolaris 2008.11, I switched from Linux to try > the time-slider, but now when I execute the time-slider I get this > message: > > http://img115.imageshack.us/my.php?image=capturefentresansnomfx9.png I wish we'd release-noted this particular proble

Re: [zfs-discuss] `zfs list` doesn't show my snapshot

2008-11-25 Thread Tim Foster
Paweł Tęcza wrote: > Dnia 2008-11-25, wto o godzinie 23:16 +0100, Paweł Tęcza pisze: > >> Also I'm very curious whether I can configure Time Slider to taking >> backup every 2 or 4 or 8 hours, for example. > > Or set the max number of snapshots? Yes you can (though not in the time-slider gui yet

Re: [zfs-discuss] TimeSlider and ZFS auto snapshot problem into indiana

2008-10-31 Thread Tim Foster
On Fri, 2008-10-31 at 13:02 +0100, Luca Morettoni wrote: > Warning - Invalid account: 'zfssnap' not allowed to execute cronjobs Does there exist an entry for zfssnap in /etc/passwd? This was added to nv_100 and works fine for SXCE: 6750041 Need zfssnap role account for LSARC/2008/571 I wonder i

Re: [zfs-discuss] Hotplug issues on USB removable media.

2008-10-28 Thread Tim Foster
Niall Power wrote: > Bueller? Anyone? Yeah, I'd love to know the answer too. The furthest I got into investigating this last time was: http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/zfs-discuss/2007-December/044787.html - does that help at all Niall? The context to Niall's question is to extend Time Sli

Re: [zfs-discuss] Disabling auto-snapshot by default.

2008-10-28 Thread Tim Foster
Chris Gerhard wrote: I'm not sure there's an easy way to please everyone to be honest :-/ I'm not sure you are right there. If there was an SMF property that you set to set the default behaviour and then you set it to true on something that looked like a laptop and false otherwise. Or you cou

Re: [zfs-discuss] Disabling auto-snapshot by default.

2008-10-24 Thread Tim Foster
Chris Gerhard wrote: > Not quite. I want to make the default for all pools imported or not to > not do this and then turn it on where it makes sense and won't do harm. Aah I see. That's the complete opposite of what the desktop folk wanted then - you want to opt-in, instead of opt-out. For de

Re: [zfs-discuss] Disabling auto-snapshot by default.

2008-10-24 Thread Tim Foster
Chris Gerhard wrote: > This could be my misunderstanding of the parts of this. When I disabled > the auto-snapshot resulted in timeslider being disabled too. Yep, time-slider depends on auto-snapshot. > So what does the timeslider service do? It's a service written by the desktop guys that adds

Re: [zfs-discuss] Disabling auto-snapshot by default.

2008-10-24 Thread Tim Foster
Hi Chris, Chris Gerhard wrote: > With auto-snapshot still on are all the snapshots taken as a single > transaction as they would be with a recursive snapshot? Yep, it uses "zfs snapshot -r" when it can, degrading to snapshots of the individual datasets it can't recursively snapshot and recursiv

Re: [zfs-discuss] Disabling auto-snapshot by default.

2008-10-24 Thread Tim Foster
Hi Chris, Chris Gerhard wrote: > How can you disable the auto-snapshot service[s] by default without > disabling the timeslider > as well which appears to be the case if you disable the smf services. Not sure I follow - time slider depends on the auto-snapshot service to take snapshots... (doe

Re: [zfs-discuss] add autocomplete feature for zpool, zfs command

2008-10-10 Thread Tim Foster
On Thu, 2008-10-09 at 22:40 -0700, Alex Peng wrote: > Is it fun to have autocomplete in zpool or zfs command? > > For instance - > > "zfs cr 'Tab key' " will become "zfs create" > "zfs clone 'Tab key' " will show me the available snapshots > "zfs set 'Tab key' " will show me the avail

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

2008-09-25 Thread Tim Foster
On Thu, 2008-09-25 at 10:19 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > That snap schedule seems reasonable to me. Relate to the cleanup part > of the doc linked, do you know the rational for killing off the most recent > (15 minute and hourly) snaps vs the oldest (monthly) first? It's a tough call (w

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

2008-09-25 Thread Tim Foster
On Thu, 2008-09-25 at 12:52 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > nobody is going to assume user's intentions. Just give us > snapshot-related property which we can set to on/off and everybody > can setup zfs according to his/her needs. Then that'll be there in nv_100. Enjoy! cheers,

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

2008-09-25 Thread Tim Foster
On Thu, 2008-09-25 at 12:07 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 11:43:51AM +0200, Nils Goroll wrote: > Storage Checkpoints in Veritas software has this feature (removing > the oldest checkpoint in case of 100% filesystem usage) by default. > Why not add such option to ZFS ?

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS automatic snapshots 0.11 Early Access

2008-08-27 Thread Tim Foster
On Wed, 2008-08-27 at 03:53 -0700, Ross wrote: > We're looking at autohome folders for windows users over CIFS, but I'm > wondering how that is going to affect our backup strategy. I was > hoping to be able to use your automatic snapshot service on these > servers, do you know how that service wou

[zfs-discuss] ZFS automatic snapshots 0.11 Early Access

2008-08-26 Thread Tim Foster
Hi all, I've just pushed some of the changes coming up in 0.11 hg clone ssh://[EMAIL PROTECTED]/hg/jds/zfs-snapshot I've got some commentary on the Early Access nature of this release at: http://blogs.sun.com/timf/entry/zfs_automatic_snapshots_0_11 Comments (and bug reports) welcome!

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

2008-08-08 Thread Tim Foster
On Wed, 2008-08-06 at 15:58 -0700, Rob wrote: > > The other changes that will appear in 0.11 (which is > > nearly done) are: > > Still looking forward to seeing .11 :) Wow, there's one user out there at least! Thanks! > Think we can expect a release soon? (or at least svn access so > that othe

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

2008-08-08 Thread Tim Foster
Hey Nils, On Sun, 2008-08-03 at 05:57 -0700, Nils Goroll wrote: > This does sound like a valid alternative solution for this requirement if you > want to avoid using "at", though this will involve additional complexity for > parsing timestamps of existing snapshots and calculating intervals, which

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

2008-07-31 Thread Tim Foster
Hey Nils, Nils Goroll wrote: but in cases where you're powering down a laptop overnight, you don't want to just take a load of snapshots after you power on for every missed cron job, you just want one This is precisely what the at solution is doing: As there is only one at job for each zfs sna

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

2008-07-30 Thread Tim Foster
Hey Nils & everyone Finally getting around to answering Nil's mail properly - only a month late! I thought I'd also let everyone else know what's been going on with the service, since 0.10 released in January this year. On Tue, 2008-06-24 at 14:40 -0700, Nils Goroll wrote: > first of all: Tim,

Re: [zfs-discuss] proposal partial/relative paths for zfs(1)

2008-07-10 Thread Tim Foster
On Thu, 2008-07-10 at 13:01 +0200, Mark Phalan wrote: > > Both of these would result in a new dataset cube/builds/darrenm/6724478 > > I find this annoying as well. Another way that would help (but is fairly > orthogonal to your suggestion) would be to write a completion module for > zsh/bash/whate

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

2008-06-26 Thread Tim Foster
Hey Nils, On Thu, 2008-06-26 at 09:37 -0700, Nils Goroll wrote: > I'll attach a new version zfs-auto-snapshot including some more > improvements, and probably some new bugs. Just to let you know that I *have* seen your mails on this and really appreciate getting the feedback, but I just haven't h

Re: [zfs-discuss] system backup and recovery

2008-06-05 Thread Tim Foster
Hi Joerg, On Thu, 2008-06-05 at 15:09 +0200, Joerg Schilling wrote: > Tim Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, 2008-06-05 at 13:47 +0200, Joerg Schilling wrote: > > > Isn't flar based on the outdated cpio? > > > > cpio was updated to support ZFS

Re: [zfs-discuss] system backup and recovery

2008-06-05 Thread Tim Foster
Hey Joerg, On Thu, 2008-06-05 at 13:47 +0200, Joerg Schilling wrote: > > How about flar ? > > http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/817-5668/flash-24?a=view > > [ I'm actually not sure if it's supported for zfs root though ] > > Isn't flar based on the outdated cpio? cpio was updated to support ZFS A

Re: [zfs-discuss] system backup and recovery

2008-06-05 Thread Tim Foster
On Thu, 2008-06-05 at 15:44 +0800, Aubrey Li wrote: > for windows we use ghost to backup system and recovery. > can we do similar thing for solaris by ZFS? How about flar ? http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/817-5668/flash-24?a=view [ I'm actually not sure if it's supported for zfs root though ]

Re: [zfs-discuss] zpool destroy core dumps with unavailable iscsi device

2008-02-07 Thread Tim Foster
get rid of this pool? Yep, here's one way: zpool export other pools on the system, then delete /etc/zfs/zpool.cache, reboot the machine then do a zpool import for each of the other pools you want to keep. cheers, tim -- Tim Foster, Sun Microsystems Inc, Sol

[zfs-discuss] Draft one-pager for zfs-auto-snapshots

2008-02-04 Thread Tim Foster
by me. [ just thought I'd ask ] cheers, tim -- Tim Foster, Sun Microsystems Inc, Solaris Engineering Ops http://blogs.sun.com/timf Template Version: @(#)onepager.txt 1.31 07/08/08 SMI [ timf note: this is still a Draft, last updated 02/04/2008 using the templ

[zfs-discuss] Updated ZFS Automatic Snapshot Service - version 0.10.

2008-01-22 Thread Tim Foster
al (and perhaps integrates more neatly with the rest of ZFS) ? Otherwise, should I start filling in an ARC one-pager template or is this sort of utility something that's better left to sysadmins to implement themselves, rather than baking it into the OS ? cheers,

Re: [zfs-discuss] Finding external USB disks

2007-12-13 Thread Tim Foster
nt "zfs recv" command to the pool provided by your backup device might be just what you're after. Perhaps this is a project for the Christmas holidays :-) cheers, tim -- Tim Foster, Sun Microsystems Inc, Solaris Engineering Ops http://blogs.sun

Re: [zfs-discuss] Auto backup and auto restore of ZFS via Firewire drive

2007-12-13 Thread Tim Foster
toring flat-files (which no archiver can currently read - the only way of getting at the contents is "zfs recv" to another zfs dataset) Hope this helps? cheers, tim [1] Yeah, I work in zfs-test, and haven't fully tested my own softwar

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS snapshot GUI

2007-11-22 Thread Tim Foster
ng to find a cleaner way than http://blogs.sun.com/timf/entry/zfs_on_your_desktop to tie the client and server sides together. cheers, tim -- Tim Foster, Sun Microsystems Inc, Solaris Engineering Ops http://blogs.sun.com/timf

Re: [zfs-discuss] [desktop-discuss] ZFS snapshot GUI

2007-11-20 Thread Tim Foster
ctory is being either backed up, and/or included in snapshots. cheers, tim -- Tim Foster, Sun Microsystems Inc, Solaris Engineering Ops http://blogs.sun.com/timf ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

[zfs-discuss] New versions of ZFS SMF services - snapshots & backups

2007-11-01 Thread Tim Foster
heers, tim -- Tim Foster, Sun Microsystems Inc, Solaris Engineering Ops http://blogs.sun.com/timf ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] How to have ZFS root with /usr on a separate datapool

2007-10-25 Thread Tim Foster
; Tested on b75a and b75a xVm should also work with b70, etc. > > kugutsumen > > You can find a patch for Tim's script here: > http://www.kugutsumen.com/showthread.php?t=1740 > > > This message posted from opensolaris.org > ____________

Re: [zfs-discuss] [osol-help] VFSTAB mounting for ProFTPD

2007-10-07 Thread Tim Foster
ache, since docs.sun.com seems a bit sluggish at the mo) http://64.233.183.104/search?q=cache:vPL5YJPV2GIJ:docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/819-5461/6n7ht6qs6%3Fa%3Dview+zfs+legacy+filesystems&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=2&client=firefox-a -- Tim Foster, Sun Microsystems I

[zfs-discuss] ZFS automatic backup service - simple backups to USB disks

2007-10-01 Thread Tim Foster
Hi all, I just posted some stuff about a simple ZFS automatic backup service to my blog: http://blogs.sun.com/timf/entry/zfs_automatic_backup_0_1 - all thoughts/comments (and bug reports!) welcome cheers, tim -- Tim Foster, Sun Microsystems Inc, Solaris

Re: [zfs-discuss] Automate Destroying Snapshot's

2007-09-13 Thread Tim Foster
_massacre and I've another one that will also do this for you: http://blogs.sun.com/timf/entry/zfs_automatic_snapshots_0_8 I'm sure there's other scripts floating around, which may be more suited to your requirements but these are a start at least. cheers,

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS boot process - where from ZFS knows which pools/datasets should be mounted after OS reboot?

2007-07-26 Thread Tim Foster
r we go on the zpool.cache file. If that file isn't present, you'll need to manually zpool import pools in order for the system to see them. cheers, tim -- Tim Foster, Sun Microsystems Inc, Solaris Engineering Ops http://blogs.sun.com/timf ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] snv_70 -> snv_66: ZPL_VERSION 2, File system version mismatch ....?

2007-07-20 Thread Tim Foster
hi Jürgen, On Fri, 2007-07-20 at 05:04 -0700, Jürgen Keil wrote: > How about a new feature for "zpool create" and "zfs create" to > allow creation of a zpool or zfs that is not using the newest > version but some older version Yep, that's there already - PSARC 2007/328 gives "zfs upgrade" and y

Re: [zfs-discuss] How to list pools that are not imported

2007-07-12 Thread Tim Foster
ool list does not seem to be listing those, "zpool import" should show the pools that are available for import - does this help ? cheers, tim -- Tim Foster, Sun Microsystems Inc, Solaris Engineering Ops http://blogs.sun.com/timf _

Re: [zfs-discuss] creating pool on slice which is mounted

2007-06-21 Thread Tim Foster
# zpool create pool c2t1d0s1 invalid vdev specification use '-f' to override the following errors: /dev/dsk/c2t1d0s1 contains a ufs filesystem. # zpool create -f pool c2t1d0s1 # -- Tim Foster, Sun Microsystems Inc, Solaris Engineering Ops http://blogs.sun.com/timf

Re: [zfs-discuss] Importing pool from readonly device? (as in ZFS fun!)

2007-06-14 Thread Tim Foster
changing the pool state nvpair in the vdev_label (if I'm not mistaken - section 1.3.3 in the on-disk format document covers this.) cheers, tim [1] http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/zfs/docs/ondiskformat0822.pdf -- Tim Foster, Sun Microsyste

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Boot manual setup in b65

2007-06-05 Thread Tim Foster
Hi Doug, On Tue, 2007-06-05 at 06:45 -0700, Douglas Atique wrote: > Hi, Tim. Thanks for your hints. No problem > Comments on each one follow (marked with "Doug:" and in blue). html mail :-/ > Tim Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There's a

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Boot manual setup in b65

2007-06-05 Thread Tim Foster
uggestions help ? cheers, tim -- Tim Foster, Sun Microsystems Inc, Solaris Engineering Ops http://blogs.sun.com/timf ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] /dev/random problem after moving to zfs boot:

2007-06-03 Thread Tim Foster
Hi Nicolas, Nicolas Linkert wrote: I have one thing happening now at boot which must have happened > during the migration to zfs boot. I get an error message about > /dev/random: "No randomness provider enabled for /dev/random. > Use cryptoadm to provide one." Does anyone know how to fix this?

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS boot: Now, how can I do a pseudo live upgrade?

2007-05-31 Thread Tim Foster
info/zfs-discuss> > ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org <mailto:zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org> http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Convert raidz

2007-04-03 Thread Tim Foster
On Tue, 2007-04-03 at 10:54 -0400, Luke Scharf wrote: > Tim Foster wrote: > > You can add a disk to a raidz configuration, but then that makes a pool > > containing 1 raidz + 1 additional disk in a dynamic stripe configuration > > (which ZFS will warn you about, since you

Re: [zfs-discuss] Convert raidz

2007-04-02 Thread Tim Foster
LINE 0 0 0 /tmp/1 ONLINE 0 0 0 /tmp/2 ONLINE 0 0 0 /tmp/3 ONLINE 0 0 0 /tmp/4ONLINE 0 0 0 errors: No known data errors # cheers, tim -- Tim Foster, Sun M

Re: [zfs-discuss] Live Upgrade with zfs root?

2007-03-31 Thread Tim Foster
Hi All, On Fri, 2007-03-30 at 19:33 +0100, Tim Foster wrote: (replying to myself, I know, I know) > Yep - I'll be working this weekend on updating the previous > "mountrootadm.sh" script that I wrote when the previous ZFS Mountroot > (ufs boot + a quick switcheroo to zfs

Re: [zfs-discuss] Live Upgrade with zfs root?

2007-03-30 Thread Tim Foster
zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss -- Tim Fost

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Boot support for the x86 platform

2007-03-29 Thread Tim Foster
Hi all, On Wed, 2007-03-28 at 14:23 -0700, Lin Ling wrote: > We will make the manual and netinstall instructions available to > non-SWAN folks shortly. > > Tim Foster also has a script to do the set up, wait for his blog. Just put that blog post up - you can find it at http://b

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: Re: update on zfs boot support

2007-03-11 Thread Tim Foster
available * ability to use free space on the root pool, making it available for other uses (by setting a reservation on the root filesystem, you can ensure that / always has sufficient available space) - am I missing any others ? cheers, tim -- Tim Foster, Sun Micros

Re: [zfs-discuss] recover user error

2007-03-06 Thread Tim Foster
he case where those blocks aren't referenced by a previous snapshot, in which case the data isn't unreferenced. hope this helps, cheers, tim -- Tim Foster, Sun Microsystems Inc, Solaris Engineering Ops

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs corruption -- odd inum?

2007-02-11 Thread Tim Foster
more useful in the future. Hope this helps ? cheers, tim -- Tim Foster, Sun Microsystems Inc, Solaris Engineering Ops http://blogs.sun.com/timf ___ zfs-discuss mailing

Re: [zfs-discuss] need Clarification on ZFS

2006-12-05 Thread Tim Foster
t_magic Matt has mentioned some additional features to zfs send/recv coming soon, including ways to send all incremental snapshots, send nested filesystem, and ways to preserve filesystem properties while sending. cheers, tim -- Tim Foster, Sun Microsystems Inc, Solari

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: ZFS on multi-volume

2006-12-05 Thread Tim Foster
eally want i/o throttling of send/recv operations as against "normal" pool operations - I don't know enough to suggest how this could be implemented (except via brutal pstop/prun hacks on the "zfs send" process whenever your pool exceeds some given IO threshold)

Re: [zfs-discuss] need Clarification on ZFS

2006-12-05 Thread Tim Foster
hysical disks, the better. cheers, tim -- Tim Foster, Sun Microsystems Inc, Solaris Engineering Ops http://blogs.sun.com/timf ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mai

Re: [zfs-discuss] raidz DEGRADED state

2006-11-30 Thread Tim Foster
c3t1d0 ONLINE 0 0 0 > c3t2d0 ONLINE 0 0 0 > c3t3d0 ONLINE 0 0 0 > c3t4d0 ONLINE 0 0 0 > c3t5d0 ONLINE 0 0 0 > c3t6d0 UNAVAIL 0 679

Re: [zfs-discuss] Is there zfs configuration ? where is it?

2006-11-17 Thread Tim Foster
t;, then remove the disk, replace with working hardware, and do "zpool online " This is pretty well covered in the ZFS Administration Guide at: http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/819-5461/6n7ht6qrt?a=view cheers, tim -- Tim Foster, Sun Microsyste

Re: [zfs-discuss] How to backup/clone all filesystems *and* snapshots in a zpool?

2006-11-16 Thread Tim Foster
nal.dat # zfs receive -d extra/restore < /tmp/extra-latest.dat cannot receive: most recent snapshot does not match incremental source Okay, restore that first, and we're okay. # zfs receive -d extra/restore < /tmp/extra-recent.dat # zfs receive -d extra/restore < /tmp/extra-latest

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: zpool snapshot fails on unmounted filesystem

2006-10-27 Thread Tim Foster
aluation. I'll also keep an eye out for those pools during testing. cheers, tim -- Tim Foster, Sun Microsystems Inc, Operating Platforms Group Engineering Operationshttp://blogs.sun.com/timf

Re: [zfs-discuss] zpool snapshot fails on unmounted filesystem

2006-10-25 Thread Tim Foster
d on: > $ uname -a > SunOS azalin 5.10 Generic_118833-24 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Blade-2500 I wasn't able to reproduce this on similar bits, nor on recent s10 bits (ultimately destined for s10_u3) or nevada bits. Do you have a consistently reproducible test case ? cheers,

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: Re: ZFS + rsync, backup on steroids.

2006-09-11 Thread Tim Foster
mes said :-) cheers, tim -- Tim Foster, Sun Microsystems Inc, Solaris Engineering Ops http://blogs.sun.com/timf ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: ZFS + rsync, backup on steroids.

2006-09-11 Thread Tim Foster
two machines ? Does "ssh -v" tell you any more ? cheers, tim -- Tim Foster, Sun Microsystems Inc, Solaris Engineering Ops http://blogs.sun.com/timf ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

[zfs-discuss] mountrootadm

2006-09-10 Thread Tim Foster
Boot comes along, but in the meantime it scratches an itch! cheers, tim -- Tim Foster, Sun Microsystems Inc, Solaris Engineering Ops http://blogs.sun.com/timf ___ zfs-discuss mailing lis

[zfs-discuss] ZFS automatic snapshots SMF service updated

2006-09-06 Thread Tim Foster
ssing about with in my free time - it's not an official ZFS project and may not be bullet-proof enough for production. It works for me, but bug reports would be appreciated ;-) cheers, tim Tim Foster, Sun Microsystems Inc, Solaris Engineering Ops http://blo

Re: [zfs-discuss] Find the difference between two snapshots

2006-08-31 Thread Tim Foster
was playing with too... cheers, tim -- Tim Foster, Sun Microsystems Inc, Operating Platforms Group Engineering Operationshttp://blogs.sun.com/timf ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Apple Time Machine

2006-08-08 Thread Tim Foster
ys are thrilled at the prospect DTrace on their platform. cheers, tim -- Tim Foster, Sun Microsystems Inc, Operating Platforms Group Engineering Operationshttp://blogs.sun.com/timf ___ zfs-discuss mailing l

Re: [zfs-discuss] Apple Time Machine

2006-08-07 Thread Tim Foster
said, the devil's in the details (I'm paraphrasing), but I'm only speculating here - don't have anything concrete. cheers, tim -- Tim Foster, Sun Microsystems Inc, Operating Platforms Group Engineering Operationshttp://blogs.

Re: [zfs-discuss] Apple Time Machine

2006-08-07 Thread Tim Foster
27;ll get your people to port iTunes to OpenSolaris for us[1] ?) cheers, tim [1] http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/timf?entry=zfs_on_osx -- Tim Foster, Sun Microsystems Inc, Operating Platforms Group Engineering Operationshttp://blogs.sun.com

Re: [zfs-discuss] legato support

2006-07-20 Thread Tim Foster
Och, sorry - a clarification might needed to my reply: Tim Foster wrote: Darren Dunham wrote: I meant, rather than taring it up, can you just pass the snapshot mount point to Networker as a saveset? Yup, in my brief testing, I was able to backup a snapdir using Networker. ... ** with the

Re: [zfs-discuss] legato support

2006-07-20 Thread Tim Foster
t; here, in which case, no I didn't run into any problems, but see the disclaimer above. Does Networker traditionally scan /etc/vfstab in any way ? If it doesn't then I'm guessing you shouldn't have any problems. cheers, tim -- Tim Foster, Sun

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS needs a viable backup mechanism

2006-07-07 Thread Tim Foster
ntents, not the exact configuration of the pool they once sat in (especially if I'm only doing the restore because I've found (the hard way) that I need a more reliable disk replication setup...) -- Tim Foster, Sun Microsystems Inc, Operating Platforms Group Engineering Op

Re: [zfs-discuss] x86 CPU Choice for ZFS

2006-07-06 Thread Tim Foster
the system for. I've got an old 733Mhz PentiumIII machine running the latest Nevada build, which happily runs ZFS -- it gets used as a simple backup via rsync server once a month or so, and happily manages ~180gb of data. cheers, tim -- Tim Foster, Sun

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs filesystem/path names args with leading /

2006-07-03 Thread Tim Foster
losed in parenthesis) from df instead. does this help ? cheers, tim -- Tim Foster, Sun Microsystems Inc, Operating Platforms Group Engineering Operationshttp://blogs.sun.com/timf ___ zfs-discus

Re: [zfs-discuss] New Feature Idea: ZFS Views ?

2006-06-07 Thread Tim Foster
dow. I was thinking that RFE 6425091 or 6370738 was what I was waiting for, but views would make this even easier to implement. cheers, tim [1] http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/timf?entry=zfs_on_your_desktop -- Tim Foster, Sun Microsystems Inc, Operating

Re: [zfs-discuss] user undo

2006-05-30 Thread Tim Foster
of stored > file depends on who's doing the deletion) Aah right, okay - those are reasons against my previous post about having an application register it's interest in getting undelete capability. Good points Eric! cheers, tim -- Tim Foster, S

Re: [zfs-discuss] user undo

2006-05-30 Thread Tim Foster
ifically (and explicitly) > > support RecycleBin in the design). > > > > > > > > You will notice that Windows does this. The Recycle Bin is usable from > > within Windows Explorer, but if you use "del" from a command prompt, it > > actually

[zfs-discuss] ZFS desktop integration demo

2006-05-23 Thread Tim Foster
Oh, and if you hadn't noticed, Alo also did some desktop integration work, concerning ACLs recently, at http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/alvaro#gnome_zfs_and_the_acl ] -- Tim Foster, Sun Microsystems Inc, Operating Platforms Group Engineering Operationshttp:

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: ZFS Web administration interface

2006-05-22 Thread Tim Foster
he console is running. Guess I need to work out how to use wcadmin now :-) cheers, tim -- Tim Foster, Sun Microsystems Inc, Operating Platforms Group Engineering Operationshttp://blogs.sun.com/timf ___ zfs

Re: [zfs-discuss] Borked zpool is now invulnerable

2006-05-18 Thread Tim Foster
cheers, tim -- Tim Foster, Sun Microsystems Inc, Operating Platforms Group Engineering Operationshttp://blogs.sun.com/timf ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailma

[zfs-discuss] Automatic snapshots prototype

2006-05-10 Thread Tim Foster
heers, tim -- Tim Foster, Sun Microsystems Inc, Operating Platforms Group Engineering Operationshttp://blogs.sun.com/timf ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Snapshot management proposal idea (was: Properties of ZFS snapshots I'd like to see...)

2006-05-08 Thread Tim Foster
Hey Constantin, On Mon, 2006-05-08 at 11:37 +0200, Constantin Gonzalez wrote: > I took the liberty of renaming the thread to $SUBJECT because I think that > what > we really are looking for is an ability for ZFS to automatically manage > snapshot > after they have been created. Wow, nice summa