Hi there,
I'm currently setting up a new system to my lab. 4 SATA drives would be turned
into the main file system (ZFS?) running on a soft raid (raid-z?).
My main target is reliability, my experience with Linux SoftRaid was
catastrophic and the array could no be restored after some testing sim
Embedded Operating system/Networking (EON), RAM based live ZFS NAS appliance is
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Embedded Operating system/Networking (EON), RAM based live ZFS NAS appliance is
released on Genunix! Many thanks to Genunix.org for download hosting and
serving the opensolaris community.
EON ZFS storage is available in a 32/64-bit CIFS and Samba versions:
tryitEON 64-bit x86 CIFS ISO image vers
Dear all,
I was interested in the performance difference between filesystem operations
inside a local and global zone. Therefore I utilized filebench and made several
performance tests with the OLTP script for filebench. Here are some of my
results:
-> In the global zone (filebench operates on
Hi to all,
I have a short question regarding which filesystem I should use in Dom0/DomU.
I've built my Dom0 on basis of ZFS.
For my first DomU I've created a ZFS pool and installed the DomU (with OSOL
inside). During the installation process you are being asked if you wanna use
UFS or ZFS - I'
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I'm a bit unclear how to use/try de-duplication in asynchronous mode? Can
someone kindly clarify?
Is it as simple as enabling then disabling after something completes?
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EON Deduplication ZFS storage is availabl
You can try to boot from Opensolaris CD, import rpool, mount the root
filesystem and upgrade the grub.
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Seymour Krebs wrote:
> Machine is running x86 snv_94 after recent upgrade from opensolaris 2008.05.
> ZFS and zpool reported no troubles except suggesting upgrade fo
Hi Evert,
Sun positions virtualbox as desktop virtualization software. It only
support 32bit with 1 CPU only. If this met your requirement, it should
run ok.
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Andre W.
Evert Meulie wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have been looking at various alternatives for a system that run
Is the web interface on the appliance available for download or will it make it
to opensolaris sometime in the near future?
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Refering to the web gui or bui seen here
http://blogs.sun.com/brendan/entry/status_dashboard
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To do step no 4, you need to login as root, or create new user which
home dir not at export.
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On Jan 9, 2009, at 10:10 AM, noz wrote:
> Kyle wrote:
>> So if preserving the home filesystem through
>> re-installs are really
>> important, putting the home filesystem in a separ
You can edit /etc/user_attr file.
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On Jan 9, 2009, at 11:13 AM, noz wrote:
>> To do step no 4, you need to login as root, or create
>> new user which
>> home dir not at export.
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>
> I tried to login as root at the login screen but it wouldn't let m
Hi Richard,
Currently there is a bug in Sol10u6, 6764133 causing zfs admin to crash.
*Bug ID:* 6764133*Synopsis:* ZFS admin gui causing jvm SIGSEGV on s10u6
Not sure if there is a fix already.
Regards,
Andre W.
Richard Elling wrote:
Marius van Vuuren wrote:
Is there a GUI for 2008.11
Js.lists,
My needs are:
* Easy package management
There is no pkgadd or ips included in EON. You can however add IPS and retrieve
any of its available packages.
* Easy upgrades
EON is fairly easy to upgrade and the risk is low. All you have to do is
preserve your previous image before upgrading
Hi Bogdan,
I'd recommend the following RAM minimums for a fair balance of performance.
700Mb 32-bit
1Gb 64-bit
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The device tree for your 250 might be different, so you may need to
hack the path_to_inst and /devices and /dev to make it boot sucessfully.
On Jun 20, 2009, at 10:18 AM, Dave Ringkor
wrote:
Cindy, my question is about what "system specific info" is
maintained that would need to be cha
I have noticed this in snv_114 now at 117.
I have the following filesystems.
fs was created using zfs create pool/fs
movies created using zfs create pool/fs/movies
pool/fs/movies
pool/fs/music
pool/fs/photos
pool/fs/archives
at boot /lib/svc/method/fs-local fails where zfs mount -a is called. fa
Hi Ian,
Thanks for the the reply. I will check your recommendation when I get a chance.
However this happens on any zfs that have hierarchical zfs filesystems. I
noticed it started this problem since snv_114. This same filesystem structure
last worked fine with snv_110.
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byleal,
Can you share how to recreate or test this?
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Was de-duplication slated for snv_119? If not can anyone say which snv_xxx and
in which form will we see it (synchronous, asynchronous both)?
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EON 64-bit x86 CIFS ISO image version 0.59.2 based on snv_119
* eon-0.592-119-64-cifs.iso
* MD5: a8560cf9b407c9da846dfa773aeaf676
* Size: ~87Mb
* Released: Friday 07-August-2009
EON 64-bit x86 Samba ISO image version 0.59.2 based on snv_119
* eon-0.592-119-64-smb.iso
* MD5:
Can anyone answer if we will get zfs de-duplication before SXCE EOL? If
possible also anser the same on encryption?
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EON ZFS NAS 0.59.3 based on snv_122 released!
Embedded Operating system/Networking (EON), RAM based live ZFS NAS appliance is
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serving the opensolaris community.
It is available in a CIFS and Samba flavor
EON 64-bit x8
I found this article (http://www.cuddletech.com/blog/pivot/entry.php?id=729)
but I have 2 questions. I am trying the steps on Opensolaris build 54.
Since you create the filesystem with newfs, isn't that really a ufs filesystem
running on top of zfs? Also I haven't been able to do anything in the
As far as I know the recalled on paper number of snapshots you can have in a
filesystem is 2^48.
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thanks Darren! I got led down the wrong path by following newfs.
Now my other question is. How would you add raw storage to the vtank (virtual
filesystem) as the usage approached the current underlying raw storage?
Would you going forward just simply in the normal fashion ( i will try this
when
Yes.
Horvath wrote:
Is there zfs available in boot with b64 ?
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Does anyone know the minimum packages needed to make the ZFS webadmin work?
So far It seems you need Java, SUNWjato, tomcat.
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Hi Rodney,
I have been using zfs root/boot for few months without any problem. I
can also import the pool from other environment.
Do you have problem importing the zfs boot pool only ? or you can's use
the zfs boot at all ?
Rgds,
Andre W.
Rodney wrote:
> My system (a laptop with ZFS
kernel & boot_archive from this pool.
Rgds,
Andre W.
Robert Prus - Solution Architect, Systems Practice - Sun Poland wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a question concerning booting Solaris (SPARC/X64) with some ZFS
> storage pools/datasets created and mounted.
>
> Where from S
I have tried tcpip over fc in the lab, the performance was no diff compare to
gigabit ethernet.
-Original Message-
From: "Al Hopper" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Matt B" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: 8/26/2007 9:29 AM
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Greets,
Is anyone here using ZFS as a thin provisioned storage solution in production.
If so could you kindly share your experiences and techniques, adding physical
backing etc.
thanks
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Hi,
Using bootroot I can do seperate /usr filesystem since b64. I can also
do snapshot, clone and compression.
Rgds,
Andre W.
Kugutsumen wrote:
> Lori Alt told me that mountrount was a temporary hack until grub
> could boot zfs natively.
> Since build 62, mountroot support was drop
NAME USED AVAIL REFER MOUNTPOINT
rootpool/tx 57.2M 1.85G 343M legacy
rootpool/tx/opt 30K 1.85G 230M legacy
rootpool/tx/usr 198K 1.85G 1.79G legacy
rootpool/tx/var 644K 1.85G 68.1M legacy
If you want to rollback you need to boot to the clone BE then rollback.
Rgds,
Andre W.
Kugutsumen wrote
ZFS boot is one of the best usage of ZFS for me. I can create more then
10 boot environment, rollback or destroy if necessary. Not afraid of bfu
anymore or patching or any other software installation. If bfu breaks
the OS, just rollback as simple as that.
Rgds,
Andre W.
Kugutsumen wrote
I have a slimmed down install on on_b61 and sometimes when the box is rebooted
it fails to automatically remount the pool. Most cases if I login and run "zfs
mount -a" it will mount. Some cases I have to reboot again. Can someone provide
some insight as to what may be going on here?
truss captu
I have a slimmed down build on 61 and 72. None of these systems are
automatically remounting the zpool on a reboot.
zfs list returns "no datasets available"
zpool list returns "no pools available"
zfs mount -v -a runs but doesn't mount the filesystem. I usually have to do a
zpool import -f po
Although it looks like possible, but very complex architecture.
If you can wait, please explore pNFS:
http://opensolaris.org/os/project/nfsv41/
What is pNFS?
* The pNFS protocol allows us to separate a NFS file system's data
and metadata paths. With a separate data path we are free to
Yes, please check http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/zfs/boot/
Jon Arikata wrote:
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I seem to remember hostid being added to the zpool to solve a bug for the poor
man's storage cluster.
Trying doing a zdb -v ( you should see 4 copies and note if hostid is a field
and if it differs from the current one)
you can also try a zpool import -f -a
I've seen cases where zfs mount -v
Hi,
Solaris 8/07 does not support zfs boot. ZFS boot support currently only
available on Solaris Express (Nevada) on x86.
Rgds,
Andre W.
Jayakrishna wrote:
> Hi ,
>
> I have the following machine
> sun4v sparc SUNW,Sun-Fire-T1000
>
> & Solaris 10 8/07 OS , is it possibl
do
ppriv -e -D cmd
and you will see the privs you need to add.
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I have been using zfs boot with lzjb compression on since build 75, from
time to time I had similar problem, not sure why.
As best practise, I do snapshot the root filesystem frequently, so that
I can rollback to the last working snapshot.
Rgds,
Andre W.
Victor Latushkin wrote:
>>> t
; were less commonly available, I've seen a home user make sleds out
of wood that did the job.
Now, I'm looking forward to seeing the first Sun JBOD loaded up with
CNC-milled mahogany sleds. It'll look great.
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ready Sun somehow no longer lists memory for
> it (huh?).
If your trusty Sun partner couldn't supply you with memory for an
Ultra-40, I'd take that as a sign to find a new partner. EOSL products
vanish from websites but parts can still be ordered for them.
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sks. The five
minutes to do it properly is a good investment compared to much longer
downtime from a fault condition arising from careless manhandling of
hardware.
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On Wed, 15 Apr 2009, Harry Putnam wrote:
Would become:
a:freq-041509_1630
Can I suggest perhaps something inspired by the old convention for DNS
serials, along the lines of fmmddtt? Like:
a:f200904151630
This makes things easier to sort and lines up in a tidy manner.
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back??!
b) I was able to recover my data from -really_dead - can we have
-ultra-nuke please?
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ed to use lsiutil to fiddle the target mappings
Andre.
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itmpt driver or lsiutils ;-)
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on those disks, so they've probably spun down twice since
installion - for two other hardware upgrades.
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some funny stories about the
day a loose screw on one floor took out a house UPS and 100+ hosts and NEs
with it.
Andre.
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On Tue, 30 Jun 2009, MC wrote:
Any news on the ZFS deduplication work being done? I hear Jeff Bonwick might
speak about it this month.
Yes, it is definately on the agenda for Kernel Conference Australia
(http://www.kernelconference.net) - you should come along!
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On Thu, 2 Jul 2009, Ian Collins wrote:
5+ is typical for telco use.
Aah, but we start getting into rooms full of giant 2V wet lead acid cells
and giant busbars the size of railway tracks.
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Microsoft products.
If you change platform every time you get two bugs in a product, you must
cycle platforms on a pretty regular basis!
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nably quiet until the announcement.
I'm just glad I was at the conference where Amber Road was announced and
will be attending KCA!
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s would be wide out in the open.
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ice before reinstalling those
machines.
Andre.
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m that might want to create a directory, or major surgery to
the kernel. The former is unworkable, the latter .. scary.
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On Wed, 29 Jul 2009, David Magda wrote:
Which makes me wonder: is there a programmatic way to determine if a path
is on ZFS?
statvfs(2)
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y complex - compounded by the fact that many programs that
create or remove directories do so directly - not by calling externals
that would be ZFS aware.
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the lack of
recognisable device path, though.
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obviously attended, but it takes time to get get video and
documentation out the door.
You can already watch their participation in the ZFS panel online:
http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/1810931
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On Wed, 5 Aug 2009, Ketan wrote:
How can we remove disk from zfs pool, i want to remove disk c0d3
[snip]
Currently, you can't remove a vdev without destroying the pool.
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