Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Panicing System Cluster Crash effect

2008-09-12 Thread Ross
What version of Solaris are you running there? For a long while the default response on encountering unrecoverable errors was to panic, but I believe that has been improved in newer builds. Also, part of your problem may be down to running with just a single disk. With just one disk, ZFS stil

Re: [zfs-discuss] Any commands to dump all zfs snapshots like NetApp "snap

2008-09-12 Thread Ross
It's a capital "i", not an "L". For sending all intermediate snapshots to a destination. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

[zfs-discuss] ZFS: First use recommendations

2008-09-12 Thread gm_sjo
Hi all, I'm about to embark on my first voyage into ZFS (and Solaris, frankly) as it seems very appealing for a low-cost SAN/NAS solution. I am in the process of building up a HCL-compliant whitebox server which ultimately will contain 8x1TB SATA disks. I would appreciate some advice and recomme

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS: First use recommendations

2008-09-12 Thread Michael Schuster
Hi, I'm by no means a ZFS expert, but I do have one comment: gm_sjo wrote: > - To provide a large slice of storage (~4TB) to a Windows 2003/8 file > server guest on the vmware host, to be accessed by Windows clients over > CIFS. Solaris provide CIFS support natively too - maybe you can save y

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS: First use recommendations

2008-09-12 Thread Malachi de Ælfweald
Currently, you can mirror your boot but not raidz2 it. I'd recommend using 2 of the drives for a mirrored boot and the other 6 drives for raidz2. I used 2x Addonics AE5RCS35NSA to hold the drives to give me hot swappability. Out of curiousity, is there any reason you are going with vmware rather

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS: First use recommendations

2008-09-12 Thread gm_sjo
2008/9/12 Malachi de Ælfweald: > Currently, you can mirror your boot but not raidz2 it. I'd recommend using 2 > of the drives for a mirrored boot and the other 6 drives for raidz2. I used > 2x Addonics AE5RCS35NSA to hold the drives to give me hot swappability. Sorry, forgot to mention - I hav

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS: First use recommendations

2008-09-12 Thread gm_sjo
2008/9/12 Michael Schuster: > Solaris provide CIFS support natively too - maybe you can save yourself the > hassle of going through the vmware + windows combo. There will be approx. 20 vmware guests running on this infrastructure, so having a windows guest there for serving files isn't a problem.

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS: First use recommendations

2008-09-12 Thread Malachi de Ælfweald
Comments inline On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 8:24 AM, gm_sjo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2008/9/12 Malachi de Ælfweald: > > > Currently, you can mirror your boot but not raidz2 it. I'd recommend > using 2 of the drives for a mirrored boot and the other 6 drives for raidz2. > I used 2x Addonics AE5RC

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS: First use recommendations

2008-09-12 Thread gm_sjo
2008/9/12 Malachi de Ælfweald: > I'd say that if you are planning on using Windows to host the VMs, then > either vmware or virtualbox is your best bet. If you are looking to have the > OpenSolaris box host the VMs, xVM might be a better choice. I'm not - as per my original post, the vmware host

[zfs-discuss] Do you grok it?

2008-09-12 Thread Richard Elling
greenBytes has a very well produced teaser commercial on their site. http://www.green-bytes.com Actually, I think it is one of the better commercials done by tech companies in a long time. Do you grok it? -- richard ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zf

Re: [zfs-discuss] Do you grok it?

2008-09-12 Thread Dale Ghent
On Sep 12, 2008, at 1:35 PM, Richard Elling wrote: > greenBytes has a very well produced teaser commercial on their site. >http://www.green-bytes.com > > Actually, I think it is one of the better commercials done by tech > companies in a long time. Do you grok it? Did I detect a (well-done)

Re: [zfs-discuss] Error: value too large for defined data type

2008-09-12 Thread Paul Raines
On Fri, 5 Sep 2008, Kyle McDonald wrote: > Paul Raines wrote: >> I am having a very odd problem on one of our ZFS filesystems >> >> On certain files, when accessed on the Solaris server itself locally >> where the zfs fs sits, we get an error like the following: >> >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] # ls -l >

Re: [zfs-discuss] x4500 vs AVS ?

2008-09-12 Thread Jim Dunham
On Sep 11, 2008, at 5:16 PM, A Darren Dunham wrote: > On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 04:28:03PM -0400, Jim Dunham wrote: >> >> On Sep 11, 2008, at 11:19 AM, A Darren Dunham wrote: >> >>> On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 10:33:00AM -0400, Jim Dunham wrote: The issue with any form of RAID >1, is that the instan

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZPOOL Import Problem

2008-09-12 Thread Jim Dunham
Corey, > I ran into an odd problem importing a zpool while testing avs. I was > trying to simulate a drive failure, break SNDR replication, and then > import the pool on the secondary. To simulate the drive failure is > just > offlined one of the disks in the RAIDZ set. > Are all constituent

[zfs-discuss] format command confused by pool data ?

2008-09-12 Thread Chris
Hi guys, I recently was adding and removing some devices to a zfs mirror and now the format command command seems to be a bit confused (or is being given erroneous information) This happened under Solaris Express Community Edition snv_81 X86 I have 3 disks in a pool

Re: [zfs-discuss] Will ZFS stay consistent with AVS/ZFS and async replication

2008-09-12 Thread Jim Dunham
Miles, >> "mb" == Matt Beebe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >mb> When using AVS's "Async replication with memory queue", am I >mb> guaranteed a consistent ZFS on the distant end? The assumed >mb> failure case is that the replication broke, and now I'm trying >mb> to promote the

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZPOOL Import Problem

2008-09-12 Thread Leopold, Corey
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, September 12, 2008 4:34 PM > To: Leopold, Corey > Cc: zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [zfs-discuss] ZPOOL Import Problem > > Corey, > > > I ran into an odd problem impo