Re: [zfs-discuss] Plans for swapping to part of a pool

2007-07-16 Thread Darren J Moffat
Lori Alt wrote: >> Since it seems that we won't be swapping on ZVOLS I need to find out >> more how we will be providing swap and dump space in a root pool. >> > The current plan is to provide what we're calling (for lack of a > better term. I'm open to suggestions.) a "pseudo-zvol". It's > p

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs "no dataset available"

2007-07-16 Thread Kwang-Hyun Baek
Is there any way to fix this? I actually tried to destroy the pool and try to create a new one, but it doesn't let me. Whenever I try, I get the following error: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/crash# zpool create -f pool c0d0s5 internal error: No such process Abort (core dumped) After that zpool list

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs "no dataset available"

2007-07-16 Thread Mark J Musante
On Mon, 16 Jul 2007, Kwang-Hyun Baek wrote: > Is there any way to fix this? I actually tried to destroy the pool and > try to create a new one, but it doesn't let me. Whenever I try, I get > the following error: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/crash# zpool create -f pool c0d0s5 > internal error: No s

Re: [zfs-discuss] Thank you!

2007-07-16 Thread Scott Lovenberg
> eric kustarz wrote: > > On Jul 9, 2007, at 11:21 AM, Scott Lovenberg wrote: > > > > > >> You sir, are a gentleman and a scholar! > Seriously, this is exactly > > the information I was looking for, thank you very > much! > >> > >> Would you happen to know if this has improved > since build 6

Re: [zfs-discuss] Thank you!

2007-07-16 Thread Brian D. Horn
Scott Lovenberg wrote: >> eric kustarz wrote: >> >>> On Jul 9, 2007, at 11:21 AM, Scott Lovenberg wrote: >>> >>> >>> You sir, are a gentleman and a scholar! >> Seriously, this is exactly >> >>> the information I was looking for, thank you very >>> >>

[zfs-discuss] resizing a ZFS filesystem

2007-07-16 Thread tayo
Hi , Can one increase (or decrease ) a ZFS file system like the Veritas one (vxresize)? What is the command line syntax please ? ..you can just make up an example .. for example in veritas : "/etc/vx/bin/vxresize -x -F vxfs -g DG1 volume_name new_total_size" Will increase "volume_name"

[zfs-discuss] import a group

2007-07-16 Thread Mike Salehi
Greetings, Given zfs pools, how does one import these pools to another node in the cluster. Mike This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: [zfs-discuss] resizing a ZFS filesystem

2007-07-16 Thread Cyril Plisko
On 7/16/07, tayo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi , > > Can one increase (or decrease ) a ZFS file system like the Veritas one > (vxresize)? > What is the command line syntax please ? > ..you can just make up an example .. > > for example in veritas : > "/etc/vx/bin/vxresize -x -F vxfs -g DG1 vol

[zfs-discuss] zfs iscsi storage for virtual machines

2007-07-16 Thread Peter Baumgartner
I'm going to be setting up about 6 virtual machines (Windows & Linux) in either VMWare Server or Xen on a CentOS 5 box. I'd like to connect to a ZFS iSCSI target to store the vm images and be able to use zfs snapshots for backup. I have no experience with ZFS, so I have a couple of questions befor

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs iscsi storage for virtual machines

2007-07-16 Thread Malachi de Ælfweald
I had originally considered something similar, but... for ZFS snapshot abilities, I am leaning more towards zfs-hosted NFS... Most of the other VMs (FreeBSD, for example) can install onto NFS, it wouldn't actually be going over the network, and it would allow file-level restore instead of drive-le

Re: [zfs-discuss] import a group

2007-07-16 Thread Richard Elling
Mike Salehi wrote: > Greetings, > > Given zfs pools, how does one import these pools to another node in > the cluster. zpool export zpool import -- richard ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.or

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs iscsi storage for virtual machines

2007-07-16 Thread Richard Elling
Peter Baumgartner wrote: > I'm going to be setting up about 6 virtual machines (Windows & Linux) in > either VMWare Server or Xen on a CentOS 5 box. I'd like to connect to a > ZFS iSCSI target to store the vm images and be able to use zfs snapshots > for backup. I have no experience with ZFS, so

Re: [zfs-discuss] import a group

2007-07-16 Thread Mike Salehi
Sorry, my question is not clear enough. These pools contain a zone each. 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] resizing a ZFS filesystem

2007-07-16 Thread David Dyer-Bennet
Cyril Plisko wrote: > On 7/16/07, tayo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Hi , >> >> Can one increase (or decrease ) a ZFS file system like the Veritas one >> (vxresize)? >> What is the command line syntax please ? >> ..you can just make up an example .. >> >> for example in veritas : >> "/etc/v

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS and VXVM/VXFS

2007-07-16 Thread Robert Milkowski
Hello Magesh, Monday, July 2, 2007, 4:12:11 PM, you wrote: MR> We are looking at the alternatives to VXVM/VXFS. One of the MR> feature which we liked in Veritas, apart from the obvious ones is MR> the ability to call the disks by name and group them in to a disk group. MR> Especially in SAN base

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS and powerpath

2007-07-16 Thread Torrey McMahon
Carisdad wrote: > Peter Tribble wrote: > >> # powermt display dev=all >> Pseudo name=emcpower0a >> CLARiiON ID=APM00043600837 [] >> Logical device ID=600601600C4912003AB4B247BA2BDA11 [LUN 46] >> state=alive; policy=CLAROpt; priority=0; queued-IOs=0 >> Owner: default=SP B, current=SP B >>

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS and powerpath

2007-07-16 Thread Darren Dunham
> > If it helps at all. We're having a similar problem. Any LUN's > > configured with their default owner to be SP B, don't get along with > > ZFS. We're running on a T2000, With Emulex cards and the ssd driver. > > MPXIO seems to work well for most cases, but the SAN guys are not > > comf

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS and powerpath

2007-07-16 Thread Torrey McMahon
Darren Dunham wrote: >>> If it helps at all. We're having a similar problem. Any LUN's >>> configured with their default owner to be SP B, don't get along with >>> ZFS. We're running on a T2000, With Emulex cards and the ssd driver. >>> MPXIO seems to work well for most cases, but the SAN g

[zfs-discuss] how to remove sun volume mgr configuration?

2007-07-16 Thread Russ Petruzzelli
I'm brand new to zfs. I have a system with a T3 array that I want to configure with zfs. The T3 array had been setup with the Sun Volume manager in one big 250 Gb volume. I want to remove this volume and setup zfs. My problem is the system has had a new OS installed (Sol10u3) since the volume

Re: [zfs-discuss] si3124 controller problem and fix (fwd)

2007-07-16 Thread Murray
Does anyone have an update on this bugfix? I'm trying to use some 3124 cards in production, and its painful! Thanks, Murray This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org

Re: [zfs-discuss] how to remove sun volume mgr configuration?

2007-07-16 Thread Russ Petruzzelli
My meta* commands all return: "... there are no existing databases" This is the T3 array: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: format Searching for disks...done AVAILABLE DISK SELECTIONS: . 2. c1t1d0 /[EMAIL PROTECTED],0/[EMAIL PROTECTED],70/SUNW,[EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL PROTECTED],0/[EMA

Re: [zfs-discuss] how to remove sun volume mgr configuration?

2007-07-16 Thread Darren Dunham
> My meta* commands all return: > "... there are no existing databases" Then you're not using SVM volumes. > This is the T3 array: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]: format > Searching for disks...done > AVAILABLE DISK SELECTIONS: > . >2. c1t1d0 > /[EMAIL PROTECTED],0/[EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: [zfs-discuss] how to remove sun volume mgr configuration?

2007-07-16 Thread Russ Petruzzelli
Thanks Darren, re: "You can use ZFS on that volume, but it will have no redundancy at the ZFS level, only at the disk level controlled by the T3." I believe it is an older T3. I'm using this system in a test lab, so data integrity is not too important for me. I mainly want to see what

Re: [zfs-discuss] how to remove sun volume mgr configuration?

2007-07-16 Thread Darren Dunham
> I'm using this system in a test lab, so data integrity is not too > important for me. I mainly want to see what kind of performance I can > get out of the zfs/T3 setup. > I do see a note on pg 31 of the zfs admin guide that recommends against this > configuration. (but saying it is possible).

Re: [zfs-discuss] how to remove sun volume mgr configuration?

2007-07-16 Thread Bill Sommerfeld
On Mon, 2007-07-16 at 18:19 -0700, Russ Petruzzelli wrote: > Or am I just getting myself into shark infested waters? configurations that might be interesting to play with: (emphasis here on "play"...) 1) use the T3's management CLI to reconfigure the T3 into two raid-0 volumes, and mirror them w

Re: [zfs-discuss] how to remove sun volume mgr configuration?

2007-07-16 Thread Richard Elling
Russ Petruzzelli wrote: >Thanks Darren, > > re: " You can use ZFS on that volume, but it will have no > redundancy at the ZFS level, only at the disk level controlled by > the T3." > > I believe it is an older T3. Performance-wise, these are pretty wimpy. You should be able t

Re: [zfs-discuss] how to remove sun volume mgr configuration?

2007-07-16 Thread Torrey McMahon
Bill Sommerfeld wrote: > On Mon, 2007-07-16 at 18:19 -0700, Russ Petruzzelli wrote: > >> Or am I just getting myself into shark infested waters? >> > > configurations that might be interesting to play with: > (emphasis here on "play"...) > > 1) use the T3's management CLI to reconfigure th

[zfs-discuss] chgrp -R hangs all writes to pool

2007-07-16 Thread Stuart Anderson
Running Solaris 10 Update 3 on an X4500 I have found that it is possible to reproducibly block all writes to a ZFS pool by running "chgrp -R" on any large filesystem in that pool. As can be seen below in the zpool iostat output below, after about 10-sec of running the chgrp command all writes to t

Re: [zfs-discuss] chgrp -R hangs all writes to pool

2007-07-16 Thread James C. McPherson
Stuart Anderson wrote: > Running Solaris 10 Update 3 on an X4500 I have found that it is possible > to reproducibly block all writes to a ZFS pool by running "chgrp -R" > on any large filesystem in that pool. As can be seen below in the zpool > iostat output below, after about 10-sec of running th

Re: [zfs-discuss] how to remove sun volume mgr configuration?

2007-07-16 Thread James C. McPherson
Darren Dunham wrote: >> My meta* commands all return: >> "... there are no existing databases" > Then you're not using SVM volumes. Correct. No metadb, no SVM. >> This is the T3 array: >> >> [EMAIL PROTECTED]: format >> Searching for disks...done >> AVAILABLE DISK SELECTIONS: >> . >>

Re: [zfs-discuss] chgrp -R hangs all writes to pool

2007-07-16 Thread Stuart Anderson
On Tue, Jul 17, 2007 at 02:49:08PM +1000, James C. McPherson wrote: > Stuart Anderson wrote: > >Running Solaris 10 Update 3 on an X4500 I have found that it is possible > >to reproducibly block all writes to a ZFS pool by running "chgrp -R" > >on any large filesystem in that pool. As can be seen b

Re: [zfs-discuss] chgrp -R hangs all writes to pool

2007-07-16 Thread James C. McPherson
Stuart Anderson wrote: > On Tue, Jul 17, 2007 at 02:49:08PM +1000, James C. McPherson wrote: >> Stuart Anderson wrote: >>> Running Solaris 10 Update 3 on an X4500 I have found that it is possible >>> to reproducibly block all writes to a ZFS pool by running "chgrp -R" >>> on any large filesystem in

Re: [zfs-discuss] how to remove sun volume mgr configuration?

2007-07-16 Thread Torrey McMahon
James C. McPherson wrote: > > > The T3B with fw v3.x (I think) and the T4 (aka 6020 tray) allow > more than two volumes, but you're still quite restricted in what > you can do with them. > You are limited to two raid groups with slices on top of those raid groups presented as LUNs. I'd just st

Re: [zfs-discuss] chgrp -R hangs all writes to pool

2007-07-16 Thread Rayson Ho
I found a very nice doc. that describes the steps to create a kernel dump: "The Solaris Operating System on x86 Platforms - Crashdump Analysis Operating System Internals" http://opensolaris.org/os/community/documentation/files/book.pdf -> 7.2.2.Forcing system crashdumps Rayson On 7/17/07, Ja

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs iscsi storage for virtual machines

2007-07-16 Thread Joshua . Goodall
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 17/07/2007 05:12:49 AM: > I'm going to be setting up about 6 virtual machines (Windows & > Linux) in either VMWare Server or Xen on a CentOS 5 box. I'd like to > connect to a ZFS iSCSI target to store the vm images and be able to > use zfs snapshots for backup. I have