Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS on Ubuntu

2010-06-26 Thread Ben Miles
What supporting applications are there on Ubuntu for RAIDZ? -- 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] ZFS on Ubuntu

2010-06-26 Thread Freddie Cash
On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 12:20 AM, Ben Miles wrote: > What supporting applications are there on Ubuntu for RAIDZ? None. Ubuntu doesn't officially support ZFS. You can kind of make it work using the ZFS-FUSE project. But it's not stable, nor recommended. -- Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com _

[zfs-discuss] Accessing a zpool from another system

2010-06-26 Thread Andrej Podzimek
Hello, I have a problem after accessing a zpool containing a boot environment from another system. When the zpool is accessed (imported, mounted and exported again) by another system, the device addresses stored in its metadata are overwritten. Consequently, it is not bootable any more and cau

[zfs-discuss] Recomendations for Storage Pool Config

2010-06-26 Thread tie...@lotas-smartman.net
Good morning all. This question has probably poped up before, but maybe not in this exact way... I am planning on building a SAN for my home meta centre, and have some of the raid cards I need for the build. I will be ordering the case soon, and then the drives. The cards I have are 2 8 port PX

Re: [zfs-discuss] Maximum zfs send/receive throughput

2010-06-26 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
> From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- > boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Thomas Maier-Komor > > you can probably improve overall performance by using mbuffer [1] to > stream the data over the network. At least some people have reported > increased performance. mbuff

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS on Ubuntu

2010-06-26 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
> From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- > boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Ben Miles > > What supporting applications are there on Ubuntu for RAIDZ? I see, "supporting applications" is just confusing English, because your filesystem isn't an application. I think you

Re: [zfs-discuss] Recomendations for Storage Pool Config

2010-06-26 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
> From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- > boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Tiernan OToole > > I have read something about trying to setup redundancy with the RAID > controllers, so having zpools spanning multiple controllers. Given I > won't be using the on-board RAID

Re: [zfs-discuss] OCZ Vertex 2 Pro performance numbers

2010-06-26 Thread David Magda
On Jun 26, 2010, at 02:09, Arne Jansen wrote: Geoff Nordli wrote: Is this the one (http://www.ocztechnology.com/products/solid-state-drives/2-5--sata-ii/maxim um-performance-enterprise-solid-state-drives/ocz-vertex-2-pro- series-sata-ii -2-5--ssd-.html) with the built in supercap? Yes. C

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS on Ubuntu

2010-06-26 Thread Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk
- Original Message - > On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 12:20 AM, Ben Miles > wrote: > > What supporting applications are there on Ubuntu for RAIDZ? > > None. Ubuntu doesn't officially support ZFS. > > You can kind of make it work using the ZFS-FUSE project. But it's not > stable, nor recommended

Re: [zfs-discuss] Recomendations for Storage Pool Config

2010-06-26 Thread Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk
> I am planning on building a SAN for my home meta centre, and have some > of the raid cards I need for the build. I will be ordering the case > soon, and then the drives. The cards I have are 2 8 port PXI-Express > cards (A dell Perc 5 and a Adaptec card…). The case will have 20 hot > swap SAS/SAT

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS on Ubuntu

2010-06-26 Thread Ben Miles
I tried to post this question on the Ubuntu forum. Within 30 minutes my post was on the second page of new posts... Yah. Im really not down with using Ubuntu on my server here. But I may be forced to. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ z

[zfs-discuss] Creating a dataset from a directory?

2010-06-26 Thread Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk
Hi all I've ran into this thing a few times. A directory is filled up with scientific data, and a subdirectory of that is used as a workspace with hundreds of gigabytes of temporary data. When automatic snapshotting is enabled, this obviously eats disk space. Now, the obvious way to solve this

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS on Ubuntu

2010-06-26 Thread Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk
- Original Message - > I tried to post this question on the Ubuntu forum. > Within 30 minutes my post was on the second page of new posts... > > Yah. Im really not down with using Ubuntu on my server here. But I may > be forced to. As others have suggested, perhaps you should try FreeBSD?

[zfs-discuss] /bin/cp vs /usr/gnu/bin/pc

2010-06-26 Thread Oliver Seidel
Hello, I came across this blog post: http://kevinclosson.wordpress.com/2007/03/15/copying-files-on-solaris-slow-or-fast-its-your-choice/ and would like to hear from you performance gurus how this 2007 article relates to the 2010 ZFS implementation? What should I use and why? Thanks, Oliver -

Re: [zfs-discuss] /bin/cp vs /usr/gnu/bin/pc

2010-06-26 Thread Dennis Clarke
> Hello, > > I came across this blog post: > > http://kevinclosson.wordpress.com/2007/03/15/copying-files-on-solaris-slow-or-fast-its-your-choice/ > > and would like to hear from you performance gurus how this 2007 > article relates to the 2010 ZFS implementation? What should I use and > why?

Re: [zfs-discuss] /bin/cp vs /usr/gnu/bin/pc

2010-06-26 Thread ольга крыжановская
Try in /usr/bin/ksh93: builtin cp and benchmark that. Olga On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 5:18 PM, Oliver Seidel wrote: > Hello, > > I came across this blog post: > > http://kevinclosson.wordpress.com/2007/03/15/copying-files-on-solaris-slow-or-fast-its-your-choice/ > > and would like to hear from you

Re: [zfs-discuss] Trouble detecting Seagate LP 2TB drives

2010-06-26 Thread Brandon High
For those wanting more details, it's in a flag day from 2009/9/11: http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/view/Community+Group+on/2008091102 FreeNAS worked fine with the system and drives, which made for a nice fallback plan. -B -- Brandon High : bh...@freaks.com __

Re: [zfs-discuss] Detaching a clone from a snapshot

2010-06-26 Thread Brandon High
On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 10:28 PM, Andrej Podzimek wrote: > I can't get rid of S (and of the error message in zpool status) without > removing either C1 or C2. Is there a solution other than removing C1 or C2? You can use send|recv to create a new copy of one or both of the clones. This should rem