[zfs-discuss] Serious ZFS problems

2007-09-05 Thread Tim Spriggs
Hello, I think I have gained "sufficient fool" status for testing the fool-proof-ness of zfs. I have a cluster of T1000 servers running Solaris 10 and two x4100's running an OpenSolaris dist (Nexenta) which is at b68. Each T1000 hosts several zones each of which has its own zpool associate

Re: [zfs-discuss] Serious ZFS problems

2007-09-06 Thread Tim Spriggs
Neil Perrin wrote: > > > Tim Spriggs wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I think I have gained "sufficient fool" status for testing the >> fool-proof-ness of zfs. I have a cluster of T1000 servers running >> Solaris 10 and two x4100's running an Open

Re: [zfs-discuss] Mixing SATA & PATA Drives

2007-09-17 Thread Tim Spriggs
I'm far from an expert but my understanding is that the zil is spread across the whole pool by default so in theory the one drive could slow everything down. I don't know what it would mean in this respect to keep the PATA drive as a hot spare though. -Tim Christopher Gibbs wrote: > Anyone? >

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs snapshot timestamp info

2007-09-18 Thread Tim Spriggs
zfs get creation pool|filesystem|snapshot Poulos, Joe wrote: > > Hello, > > > > Is there a way to find out what the timestamp is of a specific > snapshot? Currently, I have a system with 5 snapshots, and would like > to know the timestamp as to when it was created. Thanks JOr > > This messa

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs snapshot timestamp info

2007-09-18 Thread Tim Spriggs
ny way to determine which snapshot was created > earlier? > > This would be helpful to know in order to predict the effect of a > rollback or promote command. > > Fred Oliver > > > Tim Spriggs wrote: > >> zfs get creation pool|filesystem|snapshot >> >&g

Re: [zfs-discuss] enterprise scale redundant Solaris 10/ZFS server providing NFSv4/CIFS

2007-09-20 Thread Tim Spriggs
Andy Lubel wrote: > On 9/20/07 3:49 PM, "Paul B. Henson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> On Thu, 20 Sep 2007, Richard Elling wrote: >> >> >> That would also be my preference, but if I were forced to use hardware >> RAID, the additional loss of storage for ZFS redundancy would be painful.

Re: [zfs-discuss] enterprise scale redundant Solaris 10/ZFS server providing NFSv4/CIFS

2007-09-20 Thread Tim Spriggs
Paul B. Henson wrote: > On Thu, 20 Sep 2007, Tim Spriggs wrote: > > >> We are in a similar situation. It turns out that buying two thumpers is >> cheaper per TB than buying more shelves for an IBM N7600. I don't know >> about power/cooling considerations yet t

Re: [zfs-discuss] enterprise scale redundant Solaris 10/ZFS server providing NFSv4/CIFS

2007-09-20 Thread Tim Spriggs
Paul B. Henson wrote: > Is it comparable storage though? Does it use SATA drives similar to the > x4500, or more expensive/higher performance FC drives? Is it one of the > models that allows connecting dual clustered heads and failing over the > storage between them? > > I agree the x4500 is a swee

Re: [zfs-discuss] enterprise scale redundant Solaris 10/ZFS server

2007-09-21 Thread Tim Spriggs
Gino wrote: >> The x4500 is very sweet and the only thing stopping >> us from buying two >> instead of another shelf is the fact that we have >> lost pools on Sol10u3 >> servers and there is no easy way of making two pools >> redundant (ie the >> complexity of clustering.) Simply sending increme

Re: [zfs-discuss] enterprise scale redundant Solaris 10/ZFS server providing NFSv4/CIFS

2007-09-21 Thread Tim Spriggs
Paul B. Henson wrote: > On Thu, 20 Sep 2007, Tim Spriggs wrote: > > >> The x4500 is very sweet and the only thing stopping us from buying two >> instead of another shelf is the fact that we have lost pools on Sol10u3 >> servers and there is no easy way of making

Re: [zfs-discuss] enterprise scale redundant Solaris 10/ZFS server providing NFSv4/CIFS

2007-09-21 Thread Tim Spriggs
eric kustarz wrote: > > On Sep 21, 2007, at 3:50 PM, Tim Spriggs wrote: > >> m2# zpool create test mirror iscsi_lun1 iscsi_lun2 >> m2# zpool export test >> m1# zpool import -f test >> m1# reboot >> m2# reboot > > Since I haven't actually looke

Re: [zfs-discuss] device alias

2007-09-25 Thread Tim Spriggs
James C. McPherson wrote: > Gregory Shaw wrote: > >> Hi. I'd like to request a feature be added to zfs. Currently, on >> SAN attached disk, zpool shows up with a big WWN for the disk. If >> ZFS (or the zpool command, in particular) had a text field for >> arbitrary information, it woul

Re: [zfs-discuss] device alias

2007-09-26 Thread Tim Spriggs
zdb? Damon Atkins wrote: > ZFS should allow 31+NULL chars for a comment against each disk. > This would work well with the host name string (I assume is max_hostname > 255+NULL) > If a disk fails it should report c6t4908029d0 failed "comment from > disk", it should also remember the comment unt

Re: [zfs-discuss] Direct I/O ability with zfs?

2007-10-05 Thread Tim Spriggs
Nicolas Williams wrote: > On Thu, Oct 04, 2007 at 10:26:24PM -0700, Jonathan Loran wrote: > >> I can envision a highly optimized, pipelined system, where writes and >> reads pass through checksum, compression, encryption ASICs, that also >> locate data properly on disk. ... >> > > I've a

Re: [zfs-discuss] enlarge a mirrored pool

2007-10-13 Thread Tim Spriggs
Would the bootloader have issues here? On x86 I would imagine that you would have to reload grub, would a similar thing need to be done on SPARC? Ivan Wang wrote: >>> Erik Trimble wrote: >>> After both drives are replaced, you will automatically see the >>> additional space. >>> >> I be

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS recovery tool, intrested?

2007-10-14 Thread Tim Spriggs
Yeah, that would have saved me several weeks ago. Samuel Borgman wrote: > Hi, > > Having my 700Gb one disk ZFS crashing on me created ample need for a recovery > tool. > > So I spent the weekend creating a tool that lets you list directories and > copy files from any pool on a one disk ZFS fil

Re: [zfs-discuss] HAMMER

2007-10-17 Thread Tim Spriggs
Jonathan Loran wrote: > Richard Elling wrote: > >> Jonathan Loran wrote: >> > ... > > >> Do not assume that a compressed file system will send compressed. >> IIRC, it >> does not. >> > Let's say, if it were possible to detect the remote compression support, > couldn't we send it

Re: [zfs-discuss] first public offering of NexentaStor

2007-11-02 Thread Tim Spriggs
Joe Little wrote: > On 11/2/07, MC <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> I consider myself an early adopter of ZFS and pushed >>> it hard on this >>> list and in real life with regards to iSCSI >>> integration, zfs >>> performance issues with latency there of, and how >>> best to use it with >>> NFS.

Re: [zfs-discuss] Response to phantom dd-b post

2007-11-10 Thread Tim Spriggs
Chill. It's a filesystem. If you don't like it, don't use it. Sincere Regards, -Tim can you guess? wrote: >> can you guess? wrote: >> > > ... > > >>> Most of the balance of your post isn't addressed in >>> >> any detail because it carefully avoids the >> fundamental issues tha

Re: [zfs-discuss] Response to phantom dd-b post

2007-11-11 Thread Tim Spriggs
In the previous and current responses, you seem quite determined of others misconceptions. Given that fact and the first paragraph of your response below, I think you can figure out why nobody on this list will reply to you again. can you guess? wrote: >> No, you aren't cool, and no it isn't a

Re: [zfs-discuss] Intent Log removal

2007-11-12 Thread Tim Spriggs
Cyril Plisko wrote: > On Nov 12, 2007 5:51 PM, Neelakanth Nadgir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> You could always replace this device by another one of same, or >> bigger size using zpool replace. >> > > Indeed. Provided that I always have an unused device of same or > bigger size, which i

Re: [zfs-discuss] How to create ZFS pool ?

2007-11-14 Thread Tim Spriggs
Hi Boris, When you create a Solaris2 Partition under x86, Solaris "sees" the partition as a disk that you can cut into slices. You can find a list of disks available via the "format" command. A slice is much like a partition but there is a difference; that's most or all you really need to know

Re: [zfs-discuss] pls discontinue troll bait was: Yager on ZFS and ZFS

2007-11-17 Thread Tim Spriggs
Rich Teer wrote: > I should know better than to reply to a troll, but I can't let this > personal attack stand. I know Al, and I can tell you for a fact that > he is *far* from "technically incompentent". > > Judging from the length of your diatribe (which I didn't bother reading), > you seem to

Re: [zfs-discuss] Yager on ZFS

2007-12-05 Thread Tim Spriggs
can you guess? wrote: > he isn't being > >> paid by NetApp.. think bigger >> > > O frabjous day! Yet *another* self-professed psychic, but one whose internal > voices offer different counsel. > > While I don't have to be psychic myself to know that they're *all* wrong > (that's an adva

Re: [zfs-discuss] Mail system errors (On Topic).

2007-12-08 Thread Tim Spriggs
Yet another prime example. can you guess? wrote: >> Please see below for an example. >> > > Ah - I see that you'd rather be part of the problem than part of the > solution. Perhaps you're also one of those knuckle-draggers who believes > that a woman with the temerity to leave her home af

Re: [zfs-discuss] Yager on ZFS

2007-12-12 Thread Tim Spriggs
Look, it's obvious this guy talks about himself as if he is the person he is addressing. Please stop taking this personally and feeding the troll. can you guess? wrote: >> Bill - I don't think there's a point in continuing >> that discussion. >> > > I think you've finally found something u

Re: [zfs-discuss] Resizing a mirror

2008-01-29 Thread Tim Spriggs
Mike Gerdts wrote: > On Jan 29, 2008 5:55 PM, Andrew Gabriel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Having attached new bigger disks to a mirror, and detached all the older >> smaller disks, how to I tell ZFS to expand the size of the mirror to >> match that of the bigger disks? I had a look through th

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS deduplication

2008-07-07 Thread Tim Spriggs
Does anyone know a tool that can look over a dataset and give duplication statistics? I'm not looking for something incredibly efficient but I'd like to know how much it would actually benefit our dataset: HiRISE has a large set of spacecraft data (images) that could potentially have large amou

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS send/receive questions

2008-07-10 Thread Tim Spriggs
Darren J Moffat wrote: > Glaser, David wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> I'm a little (ok, a lot) confused on the whole zfs send/receive commands. >> > > I've seen mention of using zfs send between two different machines, > > but no good howto in order to make it work. > > zfs(1) man page, Examp

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS send/receive questions

2008-07-10 Thread Tim Spriggs
Will Murnane wrote: > On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 12:43, Glaser, David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I guess what I was wondering if there was a direct method rather than the >> overhead of ssh. >> > On receiving machine: > nc -l 12345 | zfs recv mypool/[EMAIL PROTECTED] > and on sending mac