[zfs-discuss] SAS-controller recommodations

2007-09-13 Thread Thomas Liesner
Hi all, i am about to put together a one month test configuration for a graphics-production server (prepress-filer that is). I would like to test zfs on a x4200 with two sas2sata-jbods attached. Initially i wanted to use an infortrend fc2sata-jbod-enclosure but these are at out of production an

Re: [zfs-discuss] SAS-controller recommodations

2007-09-13 Thread Louwtjie Burger
http://www.sun.com/servers/entry/x4200/optioncards.jsp#m2pcie SG-XPCIE8SAS-E-Z ? On 9/13/07, Thomas Liesner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > i am about to put together a one month test configuration for a > graphics-production server (prepress-filer that is). I would like to test zfs > on

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS RAIDZ vs. RAID5.

2007-09-13 Thread Pawel Jakub Dawidek
On Thu, Sep 13, 2007 at 04:58:10AM +, Marc Bevand wrote: > Pawel Jakub Dawidek FreeBSD.org> writes: > > > > This is how RAIDZ fills the disks (follow the numbers): > > > > Disk0 Disk1 Disk2 Disk3 > > > > D0 D1 D2 P3 > > D4 D5 D6 P7 > > D8

Re: [zfs-discuss] SAS-controller recommodations

2007-09-13 Thread Brian Hechinger
On Thu, Sep 13, 2007 at 10:49:36AM +0200, Louwtjie Burger wrote: > http://www.sun.com/servers/entry/x4200/optioncards.jsp#m2pcie > > SG-XPCIE8SAS-E-Z ? I believe that's one of the LSI 1068E based cards. From what I've been able to tell, anything based on the 106x chipset will work. That's what

[zfs-discuss] How do I get my pool back?

2007-09-13 Thread Peter Tribble
After having to replace an internal raid card in an X2200 (S10U3 in this case), I can see the disks just fine - and can boot, so the data isn't completely missing. However, my zpool has gone. # zpool status -x pool: storage state: FAULTED status: One or more devices could not be opened. There

[zfs-discuss] hardware sizing for a zfs-based system?

2007-09-13 Thread Kent Watsen
Hi all, I'm putting together a OpenSolaris ZFS-based system and need help picking hardware. I'm thinking about using this 26-disk case: [FYI: 2-disk RAID1 for the OS & 4*(4+2) RAIDZ2 for SAN] http://rackmountpro.com/productpage.php?prodid=2418 Regarding the mobo, cpus, and memory - I se

[zfs-discuss] zpool versioning

2007-09-13 Thread Paul Armor
Hi, I was wondering if anyone would know if this is just an accounting-type error with the recorded "version=" stored on disk, or if there are/could-be any deeper issues with an "upgraded" zpool? I created a pool under a Sol10_x86_u3 install (11/06?), and zdb correctly reported the pool as a "v

Re: [zfs-discuss] zpool versioning

2007-09-13 Thread Enda O'Connor ( Sun Micro Systems Ireland)
Paul Armor wrote: > Hi, > I was wondering if anyone would know if this is just an accounting-type > error with the recorded "version=" stored on disk, or if there > are/could-be any deeper issues with an "upgraded" zpool? > > I created a pool under a Sol10_x86_u3 install (11/06?), and zdb correc

Re: [zfs-discuss] zpool versioning

2007-09-13 Thread Paul Armor
On Thu, 13 Sep 2007, Enda O'Connor ( Sun Micro Systems Ireland) wrote: > Paul Armor wrote: >> Hi, >> I was wondering if anyone would know if this is just an accounting-type >> error with the recorded "version=" stored on disk, or if there are/could-be >> any deeper issues with an "upgraded" zpool

[zfs-discuss] Automate Destroying Snapshot's

2007-09-13 Thread Poulos, Joe
I have created a script that gets a snapshot and backs the snapshot to tape. I would like to keep the snapshot around for one week, than destroy it using the following command: "zfs destroy snapshotlvolume." Is there a way to automate the destroying of snapshots that are older that x am

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

2007-09-13 Thread Tim Foster
Hi Joe, On Thu, 2007-09-13 at 11:39 -0400, Poulos, Joe wrote: > Is there a way to automate the destroying of snapshots that are older > that x amount of days? > Yeah, a few people have done stuff like this. Chris has this: http://blogs.sun.com/chrisg/entry/a_faster_zfs_snapshot_massacre and

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Root and upgrades

2007-09-13 Thread Lori Alt
In-place upgrade of zfs datasets is not supported and probably never will be (LiveUpgrade will be the way to go with zfs because the cloning features of zfs make it a natural). But the LiveUpgrade changes aren't ready yet, so for the time being, you really need to reinstall in order to get a late

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Root and upgrades

2007-09-13 Thread Brian Hechinger
On Thu, Sep 13, 2007 at 10:54:41AM -0600, Lori Alt wrote: > In-place upgrade of zfs datasets is not supported and probably > never will be (LiveUpgrade will be the way to go with zfs because > the cloning features of zfs make it a natural). But the LiveUpgrade > changes aren't ready yet, so for t

Re: [zfs-discuss] How do I get my pool back?

2007-09-13 Thread Solaris
Try exporting the pool then import it. I have seen this after moving disks between systems, and on a couple of occasions just rebooting. On 9/13/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2007 15:19:02 +0100 > From: "Peter Tribble" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: [zfs-

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS/WAFL lawsuit

2007-09-13 Thread Rob Windsor
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > From what I gather about the East Texas venue they tend to repeatedly > dismiss very competent technical testimony (prior art/non-infringement) -- > instead relying more on the lawyer's arguments, lay conjecture and soft > fact. This seems to be why the venue is s

Re: [zfs-discuss] How do I get my pool back?

2007-09-13 Thread Peter Tribble
On 9/13/07, Solaris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Try exporting the pool then import it. I have seen this after moving disks > between systems, and on a couple of occasions just rebooting. Doesn't work. (How can you export something that isn't imported anyway?) -- -Peter Tribble http://www.peter

Re: [zfs-discuss] How do I get my pool back?

2007-09-13 Thread Mike Lee
have you tried zpool clear? Peter Tribble wrote: On 9/13/07, Solaris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Try exporting the pool then import it. I have seen this after moving disks between systems, and on a couple of occasions just rebooting. Doesn't work. (How can you export something that is

Re: [zfs-discuss] How do I get my pool back?

2007-09-13 Thread Peter Tribble
On 9/13/07, Mike Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > have you tried zpool clear? > Not yet. Let me give it a try: # zpool clear storage cannot open 'storage': pool is unavailable Bother... Thanks anyway! -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/

Re: [zfs-discuss] How do I get my pool back?

2007-09-13 Thread Eric Schrock
On Thu, Sep 13, 2007 at 06:36:33PM +0100, Peter Tribble wrote: > > Doesn't work. (How can you export something that isn't imported > anyway?) > The pool is imported, or else 'zpool status' wouldn't show it at all. It's just faulted. So when you say "doesn't work", does that mean that the "zpool

Re: [zfs-discuss] How do I get my pool back?

2007-09-13 Thread Marion Hakanson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > # zpool clear storage > cannot open 'storage': pool is unavailable > > Bother... Greetings, It looks to me like maybe the device names changed with the controller swap you mentioned. Possibly the "new" device has not been fully recognized by the OS yet. Maybe a "cfga

Re: [zfs-discuss] How do I get my pool back?

2007-09-13 Thread Solaris
Ok, I guess I misunderstood the status of your pool. If you can do a zpool status then your zpool is configured, and should be exportable, even if the pool is inoperable, right? If you do a zpool status and it says no pools available (just like the zpool import command you had shown), then my sug

Re: [zfs-discuss] How do I get my pool back?

2007-09-13 Thread Peter Tribble
On 9/13/07, Eric Schrock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Sep 13, 2007 at 06:36:33PM +0100, Peter Tribble wrote: > > > > Doesn't work. (How can you export something that isn't imported > > anyway?) > > > > The pool is imported, or else 'zpool status' wouldn't show it at all. > It's just faulted

Re: [zfs-discuss] How do I get my pool back?

2007-09-13 Thread Asif Iqbal
zpool import -a -f should do the trick On 9/13/07, Peter Tribble <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 9/13/07, Eric Schrock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 13, 2007 at 06:36:33PM +0100, Peter Tribble wrote: > > > > > > Doesn't work. (How can you export something that isn't imported > > > any

[zfs-discuss] NOINUSE_CHECK not working on ZFS

2007-09-13 Thread Bill Casale
Sun Fire 280R Solaris 10 11/06, KU Generic_125100-08 Created a ZFS pool with disk c5t0d5, format c5t0d5 shows the disk is part of a ZFS pool. Then ran format=>partition=>modify and was able to change the partition for it. This resulted in panic and crash when a zpool status was run. From what

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS quota

2007-09-13 Thread Jesus Cea
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Brad Plecs wrote: > I ended up going back to rsync, because we had more and more > complaints as the snapshots accumulated, but am now just rsyncing to > another system, which in turn runs snapshots on the backup copy. It's > still time- and i/o-consu

Re: [zfs-discuss] How do I get my pool back?

2007-09-13 Thread Peter Tribble
On 9/13/07, Eric Schrock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Sep 13, 2007 at 07:54:12PM +0100, Peter Tribble wrote: > > > > There must be a better way of handling this. It should have just > > brought it online first time around, without all the fiddling around > > (that feels like voodoo to me).

Re: [zfs-discuss] How do I get my pool back?

2007-09-13 Thread Eric Schrock
On Thu, Sep 13, 2007 at 07:54:12PM +0100, Peter Tribble wrote: > > Hm. I tried this earlier, and it didn't work. (Pretty much the first thing > I tried). Something like 'no such pool' when I tried the export. > > However, I just tried again and it worked. But I have been poking at it and > it's h

Re: [zfs-discuss] SAS-controller recommodations

2007-09-13 Thread James C. McPherson
Louwtjie Burger wrote: > http://www.sun.com/servers/entry/x4200/optioncards.jsp#m2pcie > > SG-XPCIE8SAS-E-Z ? > > On 9/13/07, Thomas Liesner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hi all, i am about to put together a one month test configuration for a >> graphics-production server (prepress-filer that is)

[zfs-discuss] How to delegate filesystems from different pools to non-global zone

2007-09-13 Thread Robert Lor
I'm trying to add filesystems from two different pools to a zone but can't seem to find any mention of how to do this in the docs. I tried this but the second set overwrites the first one. add dataset set name=pool1/fs1 set name=pool2/fs2 end Is this possible or do I need to use different synt

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Root and upgrades

2007-09-13 Thread Jason King
On 9/13/07, Brian Hechinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Sep 13, 2007 at 10:54:41AM -0600, Lori Alt wrote: > > In-place upgrade of zfs datasets is not supported and probably > > never will be (LiveUpgrade will be the way to go with zfs because > > the cloning features of zfs make it a natu

Re: [zfs-discuss] How to delegate filesystems from different pools to non-global zone

2007-09-13 Thread Marion Hakanson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > I'm trying to add filesystems from two different pools to a zone but can't > seem to find any mention of how to do this in the docs. > > I tried this but the second set overwrites the first one. > > add dataset > set name=pool1/fs1 > set name=pool2/fs2 > end > > Is thi

Re: [zfs-discuss] How to delegate filesystems from different pools to non-global zone

2007-09-13 Thread Robert . Lor
Marion Hakanson wrote: > You need two separate dataset declarations: > >add dataset >set name=pool1/fs1 >end >add dataset >set name=pool2/fs2 >end > > > Duh... makes sense. Thanks Marion! -Robert ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS RAIDZ vs. RAID5.

2007-09-13 Thread James Blackburn
On 9/12/07, Pawel Jakub Dawidek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Sep 12, 2007 at 02:24:56PM -0700, Adam Leventhal wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 10, 2007 at 12:41:24PM +0200, Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote: > > I'm a bit surprised by these results. Assuming relatively large blocks > > written, RAID-Z and RA

[zfs-discuss] Recovering from ZFS-8000-CS: Destroy and re-create the pool from a backup source.

2007-09-13 Thread Alec Muffett
Hi All, Here's a synopsis of my morning: 23:43:17 suzi:~ $ fmdump TIME UUID SUNW-MSG-ID Sep 13 05:40:06.2394 5ad39b52-c2e7-6d53-b937-d43694ed2568 ZFS-8000-GH Sep 13 05:50:05.5643 14d37f29-d93d-ef9d-d699-d617dc65b44c ZFS-8000-GH Sep 13 05:50:05.8213

[zfs-discuss] ZFS and enterprise features

2007-09-13 Thread Flemming Danielsen
Hi I know ZFS was designed to work as a "you do not need to know FS" and for JBOD disks, but sometimes we need to know where we have redundancies and sometimes we do use HDS or EMC arrays. I have a large costumer that needs to ensure redundancies between sites. This means ensuring that data from

Re: [zfs-discuss] How to delegate filesystems from different pools to non-global zone

2007-09-13 Thread Marion Hakanson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > Duh... makes sense. Oh, I dunno, I think your first try makes sense, too. That's what I tried to do my first time out. Maybe the zones team will get around to supporting multiple datasets in one clause someday Regards, Marion ___

Re: [zfs-discuss] Best way to incorporate disk size tolerance into

2007-09-13 Thread Daniel Carosone
> Caveat: do not enable nonvolatile write cache for UFS. Correction: do not enable *volatile* write cache for UFS :-) -- Dan. This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris

Re: [zfs-discuss] hardware sizing for a zfs-based system?

2007-09-13 Thread Jonathan Loran
I will only comment on the chassis, as this is made by AIC (short for American Industrial Computer), and I have three of these in service at my work. These chassis are quite well made, but I have experienced the following two problems: 1) The rails really are not up to the task of supporting