Re: [zfs-discuss] Stupid to have 2 disk raidz?

2009-10-16 Thread Prasad Unnikrishnan
Add the new disk - start writing new blocks to that disk, instead of waiting to re-layout all the stipes. And when the disk is not active, do slow/safe copy on write to balance all the blocks? -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss

[zfs-discuss] ZFS snapshots & rsync --delete

2009-10-16 Thread Sander Smeenk
Hi! I am new to zfs / opensolaris but getting the hang of it. :) In my setup i have a large zpool called 'backup' which has zfs'es for servers that i backup with rsync. I export those zfs'es via NFS to the remote servers so i have easy access to the most recent backup and the snapshots which i ma

Re: [zfs-discuss] Mount ZFS on Dual Boot Machine (open)solaris

2009-10-16 Thread Frank Middleton
On 10/15/09 23:31, Cameron Jones wrote: by cross-mounting do you mean mounting the drives on 2 running OS's? that wasn't really what i was looking for but nice to know the option is there, even tho not recommended! No, since you really can't run two OSs at the same time unless you use zones. M

Re: [zfs-discuss] Mount ZFS on Dual Boot Machine (open)solaris

2009-10-16 Thread Frank Middleton
On 10/16/09 09:29, I wrote: I assume the id is ignored on the root pool at boot time or it wouldn't be able to boot at all. Undoubtedly a guru will chip in here if this is incorrect :-) Of course this was hogwash. You create the pool before receiving the snapshot, so the ID is local. One of t

[zfs-discuss] zfs on s10u8

2009-10-16 Thread dick hoogendijk
Any known issues for the new ZFS on solaris 10 update 8? Or is it still wiser to wait doing a zpool upgrade? Because older ABE's can no longer be accessed then. -- Dick Hoogendijk -- PGP/GnuPG key: 01D2433D + http://nagual.nl/ | SunOS 10u8 10/09 | OpenSolaris 2010.02 b123 + All that's really wort

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs on s10u8

2009-10-16 Thread Jens Elkner
On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 05:35:16PM +0200, dick hoogendijk wrote: > Any known issues for the new ZFS on solaris 10 update 8? > Or is it still wiser to wait doing a zpool upgrade? Because older ABE's > can no longer be accessed then. Rebooting with command: boot

[zfs-discuss] zfs on s10u8

2009-10-16 Thread dick hoogendijk
Any known issues for the new ZFS on solaris 10 update 8? Or is it still wiser to wait doing a zpool upgrade? Because older ABE's can no longer be accessed then. -- Dick Hoogendijk -- PGP/GnuPG key: 01D2433D + http://nagual.nl/ | SunOS 10u8 10/09 | OpenSolaris 2010.02 b123 + All that's really wort

Re: [zfs-discuss] kernel panic on zpool import

2009-10-16 Thread Marc Althoff
We have the same problem since of today. The pool was to be "renamed" width zpool export, after an import it didn't come back online. A import -f results in a kernel panic. zpool status -v freports a degraded drive also. I'll also try to supply som,e traces and logs. -- This message posted fro

Re: [zfs-discuss] kernel panic on zpool import

2009-10-16 Thread Victor Latushkin
Marc Althoff wrote: We have the same problem since of today. The pool was to be "renamed" width zpool export, after an import it didn't come back online. A import -f results in a kernel panic. zpool status -v freports a degraded drive also. I'll also try to supply som,e traces and logs. Pl

[zfs-discuss] Problem with resilvering and faulty disk

2009-10-16 Thread David Popeck
Hi, I hope someone can help or at least point me in the right direction with a problem I am having. I have a 4 disk ZFS stripe set. It was supposed to be RAIDZ but I messed up and have only just noticed. One of the disks has developed a read error so I have stuck a new drive in and run zpool

Re: [zfs-discuss] kernel panic on zpool import

2009-10-16 Thread Marc Althoff
dear all, victor, i am most happy to report that the problems were somehwat hardware-related, caused by a damaged / dangling SATA cable which apparently caused long delays (sometimes working, disk on, disk off, ...) during normal zfs operations. Why the -f produced a kernel panic I'm unsure. In

[zfs-discuss] fishworks on x4275?

2009-10-16 Thread Frank Cusack
Apologies if this has been covered before, I couldn't find anything in my searching. Can the software which runs on the 7000 series servers be installed on an x4275? -frank ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolari

Re: [zfs-discuss] fishworks on x4275?

2009-10-16 Thread Tim Cook
On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 1:05 PM, Frank Cusack wrote: > Apologies if this has been covered before, I couldn't find anything > in my searching. > > Can the software which runs on the 7000 series servers be installed > on an x4275? > > -frank > Fishworks can only be run on systems purchased as a 7

Re: [zfs-discuss] fishworks on x4275?

2009-10-16 Thread Frank Cusack
On October 16, 2009 1:08:17 PM -0500 Tim Cook wrote: On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 1:05 PM, Frank Cusack wrote: Can the software which runs on the 7000 series servers be installed on an x4275? Fishworks can only be run on systems purchased as a 7000 series, Sun will not support it on anything else

Re: [zfs-discuss] fishworks on x4275?

2009-10-16 Thread Tim Cook
On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 1:14 PM, Frank Cusack wrote: > On October 16, 2009 1:08:17 PM -0500 Tim Cook wrote: > >> On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 1:05 PM, Frank Cusack >> wrote: >> >>> Can the software which runs on the 7000 series servers be installed >>> on an x4275? >>> >> >> Fishworks can only be ru

Re: [zfs-discuss] Stupid to have 2 disk raidz?

2009-10-16 Thread Erik Trimble
Prasad Unnikrishnan wrote: Add the new disk - start writing new blocks to that disk, instead of waiting to re-layout all the stipes. And when the disk is not active, do slow/safe copy on write to balance all the blocks? Conceptually, yes, doing a zpool expansion while the pool is live isn't

Re: [zfs-discuss] primarycache and secondarycache properties on Solaris 10 u8

2009-10-16 Thread Robert Milkowski
Richard Elling wrote: On Oct 15, 2009, at 1:19 PM, Javier Conde wrote: Hello, I've seen in the "what's new" of Solaris 10 update 8 just released that ZFS now includes the "primarycache" and "secondarycache" properties. Is this the "equivalent" of the UFS directio? No. UFS directio does 3

Re: [zfs-discuss] fishworks on x4275?

2009-10-16 Thread Miles Nordin
> "fc" == Frank Cusack writes: fc> I don't care about "support", I only care if it can be fc> convinced to run on another hardware. AIUI it is proprietary, neither free as in freedom nor as in beer. pgpwP7rkWJBtS.pgp Description: PGP signature __

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS snapshots & rsync --delete

2009-10-16 Thread A Darren Dunham
On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 01:42:49PM +0200, Sander Smeenk wrote: > Recently i switched on 'snapdir=visible' on one of the zfs volumes to > easily expose the available snapshots and then i noticed rsync -removes- > snapshots even though i am not able to do so myself, even as root, with > plain /bin/rm

[zfs-discuss] Zetaback ZFS backup and recovery management system

2009-10-16 Thread Jan Hlodan
Hello, has anybody tried Zetaback? It looks like cool feature but I don't know anybody who uses it. https://labs.omniti.com/trac/zetaback/wiki I need some help with configuration. Regards, Jan Hlodan ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolari

Re: [zfs-discuss] s10u8: lots of fixes, any commentary?

2009-10-16 Thread Paul B. Henson
On Thu, 15 Oct 2009, Enda O'Connor wrote: > if you have a separate /var dataset on zfs root then Lu in update 8 ( or > using latest 121430-42/121431-43 ) is broke. this is covered in CR > 6884728 I don't see that bugid available in bugs.opensolaris.org, is there any place I can find more details

Re: [zfs-discuss] Strange problem with liveupgrade on zfs (10u7 and u8)

2009-10-16 Thread Paul B. Henson
On Thu, 15 Oct 2009, Enda O'Connor wrote: > This is 6884728 which is a regression from 6837400. > the workaround is as you done, remove the lines from vfstab Oh, ok, this is the problem described in CR 6884728? Disregard my earlier inquiry for more details on that CR then. I ran into exactly the

Re: [zfs-discuss] pool as root of zone

2009-10-16 Thread Hank Ratzesberger
(hoping email replies OK) On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 10:47 PM, Ian Collins wrote: [snip] >> o Do zfs resources (datasets) need to be a separate item from the >> mountpoint of the zone? >> > > Yes, they do.  A zone's dataset is a ZFS filesystem which is "owned' by the > zone.  Once a filesystem is

[zfs-discuss] Liveupgrade'd to U8 and now can't boot previous U6 BE :(

2009-10-16 Thread Paul B. Henson
I used live upgrade to update a U6+lots'o'patches system to vanilla U8. I ran across CR 6884728, which results in extraneous lines in vfstab preventing successful boot. I logged in with maintainence mode and deleted those lines, and the U8 BE came up ok. I wasn't sure if there were any other probl

Re: [zfs-discuss] Liveupgrade'd to U8 and now can't boot previous U6 BE :(

2009-10-16 Thread Jens Elkner
On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 07:36:04PM -0700, Paul B. Henson wrote: > > I used live upgrade to update a U6+lots'o'patches system to vanilla U8. I > ran across CR 6884728, which results in extraneous lines in vfstab > preventing successful boot. I logged in with maintainence mode and deleted Haveing a