Re: [zfs-discuss] Opensolaris with J4400 - Experiences

2009-12-14 Thread Trevor Pretty
ry rusty admin. like me found it very easy.   Note: There may be patches for the 500GB SATA disks I don'y know, fortunatly that's not what I've sold - Phew!!   TTFN Trevor           Trevor Pretty wrote: Karl Don't you just use stmsboot? http://docs.sun.

Re: [zfs-discuss] Opensolaris with J4400 - Experiences

2009-12-09 Thread Trevor Pretty
A disks I don'y know, fortunatly that's not what I've sold - Phew!! TTFN Trevor From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Trevor Pretty [trevor_pre...@eagle.co.nz] Sent: Monday, 30 November 2009 2:48 p

Re: [zfs-discuss] Petabytes on a budget - blog

2009-12-03 Thread Trevor Pretty
s the customer progresses. >Interesting blog: >http://blog.backblaze.com/2009/09/01/petabytes-on-a-budget-how-to-build-cheap-cloud-storage/ > -- Trevor Pretty | Technical Account Manager | T: +64 9 639 0652 | M: +64 21 666 161 Eagle Technology Group Ltd. Gate D, Alexandra P

Re: [zfs-discuss] Opensolaris with J4400 - Experiences

2009-11-29 Thread Trevor Pretty
Karl Don't you just use stmsboot? http://docs.sun.com/source/820-3223-14/SASMultipath.html#50511899_pgfId-1046940 Bruno Next week I'm playing with a M3000 and a J4200 in the local NZ distributor's  lab. I had planned to just use the latest version of S10, but if I get the time I might play

[zfs-discuss] flar and tar the best way to backup S10 ZFS only?

2009-11-23 Thread Trevor Pretty
backups on-line for quite some time. Discuss :-) -- Trevor Pretty | Technical Account Manager | T: +64 9 639 0652 | M: +64 21 666 161 Eagle Technology Group Ltd. Gate D, Alexandra Park, Greenlane West, Epsom Private Bag 93211, Parnell, Auckland www.eagle.co.nz  This email is confidential

Re: [zfs-discuss] X45xx storage vs 7xxx Unified storage

2009-11-23 Thread Trevor Pretty
Len Zaifman wrote: Under these circumstances what advantage would a 7310 cluster over 2 X4540s backing each other up and splitting the load? FISH!  My wife could drive a 7310 :-) www.eagle.co.nz  This email is confidential and may be legally privileged. If received in error plea

Re: [zfs-discuss] Solaris10 10/09 ZFS shared via CIFS?

2009-11-22 Thread Trevor Pretty
Thanks old friend I was surprised to read in the S10 zfs man page that there was the option sharesmb=on.  I though I had missed the CIFs server making S10 whilst I was not looking, but I was quickly coming to the conclusion that the CIFs stuff was just not there, despite being tantalised by t

Re: [zfs-discuss] Solaris10 10/09 ZFS shared via CIFS?

2009-11-22 Thread Trevor Pretty
rited from pool-0/local/trevors_stuff 7000# cd /var/ak/shares/web/export/tlp/.zfs 7000# ls shares/ trevors_stuff_tlp It also has sharemgr which seems to be missing in S10. Trevor Pretty wrote: Team I'm missing something? First off I normally play around with OpenSolaris & it's b

Re: [zfs-discuss] Solaris10 10/09 ZFS shared via CIFS?

2009-11-22 Thread Trevor Pretty
Tim Cook wrote: On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 4:18 PM, Trevor Pretty <trevor_pre...@eagle.co.nz> wrote: Team I'm missing something?  First off I normally play around with OpenSolaris & it's been a while since I played with Solaris 10. I'm doing all this v

[zfs-discuss] Solaris10 10/09 ZFS shared via CIFS?

2009-11-22 Thread Trevor Pretty
Team I'm missing something? First off I normally play around with OpenSolaris & it's been a while since I played with Solaris 10. I'm doing all this via VirtualBox (Vista host) and I've set-up the network (I believe) as I can ping, ssh and telnet from Vista into the S10 virtual machine 192.

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs eradication

2009-11-10 Thread Trevor Pretty
Excuse me for mentioning it but why not just use the format command? format(1M) analyze Run read, write, compare tests, and data purge. The data purge function implements the National Computer Security Center Guide to Understanding Data Remnance (NCSC-TG-025 version 2) Overwriting

Re: [zfs-discuss] (home NAS) zfs and spinning down of drives

2009-11-04 Thread Trevor Pretty
Kim You've been able to spin down drives since about Solaris 8. http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/features/articles/disk_power_saving.jsp Jim Klimov wrote: Hello all. Like many others, I've come close to making a home NAS server based on ZFS and OpenSolaris. While this is not an enterpr

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs mount error

2009-11-03 Thread Trevor Pretty
Ramin I don't know but.. Is the error not from mount and it's /export/home that can't be created? "mount '/export/home': failed to create mountpoint." Have you tried  mounting 'rpool/export' somewhere else, ike .mnt? Ramin Moazeni wrote: Hello A customer recently had a power outag

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs on multiple machines

2009-11-03 Thread Trevor Pretty
Miha If you do want multi-reader, multi-writer block access (and not use iSCSI) then QFS is what you want. http://www.sun.com/storage/management_software/data_management/qfs/features.xml You can use ZFS pools are lumps of disk under SAM-QFS:- https://blogs.communication.utexas.edu/groups/te

Re: [zfs-discuss] dedupe is in

2009-11-03 Thread Trevor Pretty
Darren J Moffat wrote: Orvar Korvar wrote: I was under the impression that you can create a new zfs dataset and turn on the dedup functionality, and copy your data to it. Or am I wrong? you don't even have to create a new dataset just do: # zfs set dedup=on But l

[zfs-discuss] RBAC GUI (was Re: automate zpool scrub)

2009-11-01 Thread Trevor Pretty
What "root user" would that be then? "root" is just a role by default in OpenSolaris. Now sit down the next bit will come as a shock.     Go to Systems -> Administration -> User and Groups     Select a user and click the properties button that un-greys     You can give the user profiles a

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

2009-10-27 Thread Trevor Pretty
Bruno Sousa wrote: Hi, I can agree that the software is the one that really has the added value, but to my opinion allowing a stack like Fishworks to run outside the Sun Unified Storage would lead to lower price per unit(Fishwork license) but maybe increase revenue. Why an increase

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs inotify?

2009-10-26 Thread Trevor Pretty
Paul Being a script hacker like you the only kludge I can think of. A script that does something like ls > /tmp/foo sleep ls /tmp/foo.new diff /tmp/foo /tmp/foo.new > /tmp/files_that_have_changed mv /tmp/foo.new /tmp/foo Or you might be able to knock something up with bart nd zfs snapshots

Re: [zfs-discuss] Disk locating in OpenSolaris/Solaris 10

2009-10-21 Thread Trevor Pretty
have a look at this thread:- http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/zfs-discuss/2009-September/032349.html we discussed this a while back. SHOUJIN WANG wrote: Hi there, What I am tring to do is: Build a NAS storage server based on the following hardware architecture: Server-->SAS HBA--->

Re: [zfs-discuss] Slow reads with ZFS+NFS

2009-10-20 Thread Trevor Pretty
No it concerns the difference between reads and writes. The write performance may be being over stated! Ross Walker wrote: But this is concerning reads not writes. -Ross On Oct 20, 2009, at 4:43 PM, Trevor Pretty <trevor_pre...@eagle.co.nz>

Re: [zfs-discuss] Sun Flash Accelerator F20

2009-10-20 Thread Trevor Pretty
Richard Elling wrote: I think where we stand today, the higher-level systems questions of redundancy tend to work against builtin cards like the F20. These sorts of cards have been available in one form or another for more than 20 years, and yet they still have limited market share -- no

Re: [zfs-discuss] Slow reads with ZFS+NFS

2009-10-20 Thread Trevor Pretty
Gary Where you measuring the Linux NFS write performance? It's well know that Linux can use NFS in a very "unsafe" mode and report the write complete when it is not all the way to safe storage. This is often reported as Solaris has slow NFS write performance. This link does not mention NFS v4

Re: [zfs-discuss] fishworks on x4275?

2009-10-18 Thread Trevor Pretty
un are missing a great opportunity not offering a reasonable upgrade path from an X**** to an S7000. Trevor Pretty | Technical Account Manager | T: +64 9 639 0652 | M: +64 21 666 161 Eagle Technology Group Ltd. Gate D, Alexandra Park, Greenlane West, Epsom Private Bag 93211, Parnell, Auckland

Re: [zfs-discuss] Interesting performance comparison

2009-10-15 Thread Trevor Pretty
Sorry: Pointless and a waste of time until we get some detail! http://fsbench.filesystems.org/papers/cheating.pdf Cyril Plisko wrote: Hello ! There is an interesting performance comparison of three popular operating systems [1], I thought it could be of interest for people hang

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS disk failure question

2009-10-14 Thread Trevor Pretty
Cindy How does the SS7000 do it? Today I demoed pulling a disk and the spare just automatically became part of the pool. After it was re-silvered I then pulled three more (latest Q3 version with triple RAID-Z). I then plugged all the drives back in (different slots) and everything was back t

Re: [zfs-discuss] .zfs snapshots on subdirectories?

2009-10-04 Thread Trevor Pretty
OOPS just spotted you said you don't want a FS for each sub-dir :-) Trevor Pretty wrote: Edward If you look at the man page:- snapshot A read-only version of a file system or volume at a given point in time. It is specified as filesys...@name or vol...

Re: [zfs-discuss] .zfs snapshots on subdirectories?

2009-10-04 Thread Trevor Pretty
Edward If you look at the man page:- snapshot A read-only version of a file system or volume at a given point in time. It is specified as filesys...@name or vol...@name. I think you've taken volume snapshots. I believe you need to make file system snapshots and each users/use

Re: [zfs-discuss] KCA ZFS keynote available

2009-09-29 Thread Trevor Pretty
It think James said there was audio problems and that's why it took so long to get published. Cyril Plisko wrote: On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 11:12 PM, Henrik Johansson wrote: Hello everybody, The KCA ZFS keynote by Jeff and Bill seems to be available online now: http://blogs.sun.co

Re: [zfs-discuss] [ZFS-discuss] RAIDZ drive "removed" status

2009-09-29 Thread Trevor Pretty
David That depends on the hardware layout. If you don't know and you say the data is still somewhere else You could. Pull a disk out and see what happens to the pool the one you pulled will be highlighted as the pool looses all it's replicas (clear "should" fix when you plug it back in.)

Re: [zfs-discuss] True in U4? "Tar and cpio...save and restore ZFS File attributes and ACLs"

2009-09-29 Thread Trevor Pretty
Ray Use this link it's worth it's weight in gold. The goolge search engine is so much better than what's available at doc.sun.com http://www.google.com/custom?hl=en&client=google-coop&cof=S%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.sun.com%3BCX%3ASun%2520Documentation%3BL%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Flogos.sun.com%2Ftry%2Fimg%2F

Re: [zfs-discuss] [ZFS-discuss] RAIDZ drive "removed" status

2009-09-29 Thread Trevor Pretty
David The disk is broken! Unlike other file systems which would silently loose your data ZFS has decide that this particular disk has "persistent errors" action: Replace the faulted device, or use 'zpool clear' to mark the device repaired. ^^ It's clear you are unsuccessful at repairing

Re: [zfs-discuss] Would ZFS work for a high-bandwidth video SAN?

2009-09-29 Thread Trevor Pretty
Or just "try and buy" the machines from Sun for ZERO DOLLARS!!!  Like Erik said.. "Both the Thor and 7110 are available for Try-and-Buy. Get them and test them against your workload - it's the only way to be sure (to paraphrase Ripley)." Marc Bevand wrote: Richard Connamacher in

Re: [zfs-discuss] OS install question

2009-09-27 Thread Trevor Pretty
Ron That should work it's no real different to SVM. BTW: I did you mean? mirrored root on c1t0d0s0/c2t0d0s0 mirrored app  on c1t1d0s0/c2t1d0s0 RaidZ accross c1t0d0s7/c1t1d0s7/c2t0d0s7/c2t1d0s7 I would then make slices 0 and 7 the same on all disks using fmthard (BTW:I would not use 7, I wou

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs vbox and shared folders

2009-09-27 Thread Trevor Pretty
Dick I'm 99$ sure I use to do this when I had OpenSolaris as my base OS to an XP guest (no NFS client - Bob) for my $HOME Now I use Vista as my base OS because I now work in an MS environment, so sorry can't check. You having problems? BTW: Thank goodness for VirtualBox when I want to do rea

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS pool replace single disk with raidz

2009-09-27 Thread Trevor Pretty
in any raidz $ pfexec zpool replace rtank c5d0 raidz c3t6d0 c3t7d0 c3t8d0 c3t9d0 c3t10d0 c3t11d0 too many arguments $ zpool upgrade -v This system is currently running ZFS pool version 18. Is what I am trying to do possible? If so what am I doing wrong? Thanks. -- Trevor Pretty | Tech

Re: [zfs-discuss] Sun Flash Accelerator F20

2009-09-24 Thread Trevor Pretty
Oracle use Linux :-( But on the positive note have a look at this:-  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmrxN3GWHpM It's Ed Zander talking to Larry and asking some great questions. 29:45 Ed asks what parts of Sun are you going to keep - all of it! 45:00 Larry's rant on Cloud Computing   

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs bug

2009-09-22 Thread Trevor Pretty
Of course I meant 2009.06   :-) Trevor Pretty wrote: BTW Reading your bug. I assumed you meant? zfs set mountpoint=/home/pool tank ln -s /dev/null /home/pool I then tried on OpenSolaris 2008.11 r...@norton:~# zfs set mountpoint= r...@norton:~# zfs set mountpoint

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs bug

2009-09-22 Thread Trevor Pretty
/pool rm: cannot remove `/home/pool': No such file or directory r...@norton:~# ln -s /dev/null /home/pool r...@norton:~# zpool import -f tank cannot mount 'tank': Not a directory r...@norton:~# So looks fixed to me. Trevor Pretty wrote: Jeremy You sure? http://bugs.

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs bug

2009-09-22 Thread Trevor Pretty
Jeremy You sure? http://bugs.opensolaris.org/view_bug.do%3Bjsessionid=32d28f683e21e4b5c35832c2e707?bug_id=6883885 BTW:  I only found this by hunting for one of my bugs  6428437 and changing the URL!  I think the searching is broken - but using bugster has always been a black art even when

Re: [zfs-discuss] What does 128-bit mean

2009-09-22 Thread Trevor Pretty
http://blogs.sun.com/bonwick/entry/128_bit_storage_are_you Trevor Pretty wrote: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZFS Shu Wu wrote: Hi pals, I'm now looking into zfs source and have been puzzled about 128-bit. It's announced that ZFS is an 128-bit file system. But what do

Re: [zfs-discuss] What does 128-bit mean

2009-09-22 Thread Trevor Pretty
27;zp_size' (in 'struct znode_phys'), the file size in bytes, is defined as uint64_t. So I guess 128-bit may be the bit width of the zpool pointer, but where is it defined? Regards, Wu Shu -- Trevor Pretty | Technical Account Manager | +64 9 639 0652 | +64 21 666 161 Eagle

Re: [zfs-discuss] Which kind of ACLs does tmpfs support ?

2009-09-15 Thread Trevor Pretty
Hi! Does anyone know out-of-the-head whether tmpfs supports ACLs - and if "yes" - which type(s) of ACLs (e.g. NFSv4/ZFS, old POSIX draft ACLs etc.) are supported by tmpfs ? ---- Bye, Roland -- Trevor Pretty | Technical Account Manager | +64 9 639 0652 | +64 21 66

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs not sharing nfs shares on OSOl 2009.06?

2009-09-15 Thread Trevor Pretty
zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss -- Trevor Pretty | Technical Account Manager | +64 9 639 0652 | +64 21 666 161 Eagle Technology Group Ltd. Gate D, Alexandra Park, Greenlane West, Epsom Private Bag 93211, Parn

Re: [zfs-discuss] Read about ZFS backup - Still confused

2009-09-03 Thread Trevor Pretty
Cork To answer your question just use tar for everything. It's about the best we've got. :-( When the disk turns into a doorstop re-install OpenSolaris/Solaris and then tar back all your data. I keep a complete list of EVER change I make on any OS (including the Redmond one) so I can re-creat

[zfs-discuss] 7110: Would it self upgrade the system zpool?

2009-09-02 Thread Trevor Pretty
Just Curious The 7110 I've on loan has an old zpool. I *assume* because it's been upgraded and it gives me the ability to downgrade. Anybody know if I delete the old version of Amber Road whether the pool would then upgrade (I don't want to do it as I want to show the up/downgrade feature)

Re: [zfs-discuss] Petabytes on a budget - blog

2009-09-02 Thread Trevor Pretty
laris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss -- Trevor Pretty | +64 9 639 0652 | +64 21 666 161 Eagle Technology Group Ltd. Gate D, Alexandra Park, Greenlane West, Epsom Private Bag 93211, Parnell, Auckland www.eagle.co.nz  This email is confidential and may be legally privileged. If received in error

Re: [zfs-discuss] Status/priority of 6761786

2009-08-27 Thread Trevor Pretty
you to see this data? :- http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/reports.cgi (Old Charts is interesting) Trevor Trevor Pretty wrote: Dave Yep that's an RFE. (Request For Enchantment) that's how things are reported to engineers to fix things inside Sun.  If it's an honest to goodness CR =

Re: [zfs-discuss] live upgrade with lots of zfs filesystems

2009-08-27 Thread Trevor Pretty
Paul You need to exclude all the file system that are not the "OS" My S10 Virtual machine is not booted but you can put all the "excluded" file systems in a file and use   -f   from memory. You use to have to do this if there was a DVD in the drive otherwise /cdrom got copied to the new boot

Re: [zfs-discuss] Status/priority of 6761786

2009-08-27 Thread Trevor Pretty
Dave Yep that's an RFE. (Request For Enchantment) that's how things are reported to engineers to fix things inside Sun.  If it's an honest to goodness CR = bug (However it normally need a real support paying customer to have a problem to go from RFE to CR) the "responsible engineer" evaluates

Re: [zfs-discuss] How to remove [alternate] cylinders from slice 9?

2009-08-20 Thread Trevor Pretty
Jeff old mate I assume you used format -e? Have you tried swapping the label back to SMI and then back to EFI? Trevor Jeff Victor wrote: I am trying to mirror an existing zpool on OpenSolaris 2009.06. I think I need to delete two alternate cylinders... The existing disk in the pool (c

Re: [zfs-discuss] Help: Advice for a NAS

2009-08-10 Thread Trevor Pretty
Lets not forget despite the fact us lunatic fringe use OpenSolaris on anything we can get our hands on. Sun Microsystems use Solaris to run mission critical environments and adding disk in "chunks" like you have to do in ZFS to a commercial organisation is no big deal. The data is worth far mo

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs send/recv syntax

2009-07-28 Thread Trevor Pretty
Try send/receive to the same host  (ssh localhost). I used this when trying send/receive as it removes ssh between hosts "problems" The on disk format of ZFS has changed there is something about it in the man pages from memory so I don't think you can go S10 -> OpenSolaris without doing an up

Re: [zfs-discuss] Help with setting up ZFS

2009-07-27 Thread Trevor Pretty
h /backup_pool/sapdata1 echo "" echo "Notice the backup is not compressed!" echo "" press_return do_command ls -alR /backup_pool/sapdata1 | more Brian wrote: Thank you, Ill definitely implement a script to scrub the system, and have the system email me if there is a pr

[zfs-discuss] Niagara and ZFS compression?

2006-08-20 Thread trevor pretty
ssion? -- ====== Trevor PrettyMob: +64 21 666 161 Systems Engineer & OS Ambassador DDI: +64 9 976 6802 Sun Microsystems (NZ) Ltd. Fax: +64 9 976 6877 Level 5, 10 Viaduct Harbour Ave, PO Box 5766, Auckland, Ne

[zfs-discuss] persistent errors - which file?

2006-07-27 Thread trevor pretty
I've a non-mirrored zfs file systems which shows the status below. I saw the thread in the archives about working this out but it looks like ZFS messages have changed. How do I find out what file(s) this is? [EMAIL PROTECTED]:] uname -a SunOS nevada 5.11 snv_38 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-5_10 [EMAI