Re: [zfs-discuss] Remove disk

2012-12-01 Thread craig
If you are attaching a new enclosure, make a new zpool in that enclosure with a temporary name and 'zfs send' snapshots from the old pool to the new pool, reading in with 'zfs recv'. Craig Cory Senior Instructor ExitCertified.com On Dec 1, 2012, at 3:20 AM, Albert Shih

Re: [zfs-discuss] dedupratio riddle

2010-03-18 Thread Craig Alder
scuss/2009-December/034721.html. Regards, Craig -- 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] raidz capacity osol vs freebsd

2010-07-18 Thread Craig Cory
When viewing a raidz|raidz1|raidz2 pool, 'zpool list|status' will report the total "device" space; ie: 3 1TB drives in a raidz will show approx. 3TB space. 'zfs list' will show available FILESYSTEM space, ie: 3 1TB raidz disks, approx 2TB space. Logic wrote: > Ian Collins (i...@ianshome.com) wrot

Re: [zfs-discuss] new google group for ZFS on OSX

2009-10-24 Thread Craig Morgan
Gruber (http://daringfireball.net/linked/2009/10/23/zfs) is normally well-informed and has some feedbackseems possible that legal canned it. --Craig On 23 Oct 2009, at 20:42, Tim Cook wrote: On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 2:38 PM, Richard Elling > wrote: FYI, The ZFS project on MacOS fo

Re: [zfs-discuss] How many TLDs should you have?

2009-12-01 Thread Craig Cory
Hi Chris, It sounds like there is some confusion with the recommendation about raidz? vdevs. It is recommended that each raidz? TLD be a "single-digit" number of disks - so up to 9. The total number of these single digit TLDs is not practically limited. Craig Christopher White wrot

Re: [zfs-discuss] Very poor pool performance - no zfs/controller errors?!

2011-12-18 Thread Craig Morgan
Try fmdump -e and then fmdump -eV, it could be a pathological disk just this side of failure doing heavy retries that id dragging the pool down. Craig -- Craig Morgan On 18 Dec 2011, at 16:23, Jan-Aage Frydenbø-Bruvoll wrote: > Hi, > > On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 22:14, Nathan Kroene

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS + Dell MD1200's - MD3200 necessary?

2012-01-06 Thread Craig Morgan
you don't know who that would be drop me a line and I'll find someone local to you … We tend to go with the LSI cards, but even there there are some issues with regard to Dell supply or over the counter. HTH Craig On 6 Jan 2012, at 01:28, Ray Van Dolson wrote: > We are lookin

[zfs-discuss] zpool create using whole disk - do I add "p0"? E.g. c4t2d0 or c42d0p0

2010-09-07 Thread Craig Stevenson
g-term storage reliability and minimal maintenance). I want to setup the zpools correct the first time to avoid any future issues. Thanks for you help and insight. -- Craig -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zf

[zfs-discuss] Configuration questions for Home File Server (CPU cores, dedup, checksum)?

2010-09-07 Thread Craig Stevenson
server? Thanks, Craig My config: [u]Use:[/u] Home File Server supporting PC and Mac machines -- audio/video files, home directories (documents & photos), and backup images. Will not run any other services. [u]Objective:[/u] adequate performance for home use; maximize protec

Re: [zfs-discuss] Best practice for setting ACL

2010-09-12 Thread Craig Stevenson
group) and Macs; running OpenSolaris B134. Thanks, Craig -- 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] NetApp/Oracle-Sun lawsuit done

2010-09-13 Thread Craig Cory
html > > A recap of the history at: > > http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/09/09/oracle_netapp_zfs_dismiss/ > > > ___ > zfs-discuss mailing list > zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discu

Re: [zfs-discuss] zpool split how it works?

2010-11-15 Thread Craig Cory
evice2 to associate > with the new name i.e. newpool, > > I want to do it for the same for snapshot device created using array/hardware > snapshot. > > Thanks & Regards, > sridhar. > -- > This message posted from opensolaris.org > _

Re: [zfs-discuss] SUNWzfsg missing in Solaris 11 express?

2010-11-18 Thread Craig Morgan
going forward, but you'd have to check with Oracle on integration plans. HTH Craig On 18 Nov 2010, at 18:10, SR wrote: > SUNWzfsg (zfs admin gui) seems to be missing from Solaris 11 express. Is > this no longer available or has it been integrated with something else? > > Su

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS dedup success stories (take two)

2011-02-02 Thread Craig Morgan
data currently would be quite efficient, but there is one pathology in current ZFS which impacts this somewhat, last time I looked each ARC ref to a de-duped block leads to a inflated ARC copy of the data, hence a highly ref'ed block (20x for instance), could exist 20x in an inflated state in AR

Re: [zfs-discuss] Format returning bogus controller info

2011-03-01 Thread Craig Morgan
inous output somewhat. BTW, you also should be looking to mpathadm show LU to successfully decode the virtual device entries. Craig On 1 Mar 2011, at 16:10, Cindy Swearingen wrote: > (Dave P...I sent this yesterday, but it bounced on your email address) > > A small comment fr

Re: [zfs-discuss] Good SLOG devices?

2011-03-02 Thread Craig Morgan
ts in poor man cluster scenarios and or HA configs such as NexentaStor. Craig On 1 Mar 2011, at 16:35, Garrett D'Amore wrote: > The PCIe based ones are good (typically they are quite fast), but check > the following first: > > a) do you need an SLOG at all? Some worklo

Re: [zfs-discuss] Free space on ZFS file system unexpectedly missing

2011-03-10 Thread Craig Morgan
But even the 'zfs list -o space' is now limited by not displaying snapshots by default, so the catch all is now zfs list -o space -t all shouldn't miss anything then … ;-) Craig On 10 Mar 2011, at 03:38, Richard Elling wrote: > > On Mar 9, 2011, at 4:05

Re: [zfs-discuss] Server with 4 drives, how to configure ZFS?

2011-06-23 Thread Craig Cory
dd larger disks to a mirrored pool, you can replace the mirror members, one at a time, with the larger disk and wait for resilver to complete. Then replace the other disk, resilver again. Craig -- Craig Cory Senior Instructor :: ExitCertified : Oracle/Sun Certified System Administrator : O

Re: [zfs-discuss] Question: adding a single drive to a mirrored zpool

2011-06-24 Thread Craig Cory
ctly what you'll need to do. Without the -f zpool will stop and warn you that you have a "mismatch" in reliability. So, to get the space: zpool add -f Then later, zpool attach HTH Craig -- Craig Cory Senior Instructor :: ExitCertified : Oracle/Sun Certified Sy

Re: [zfs-discuss] (Zil on multiple usb keys) Mirroring the pool

2011-07-16 Thread Craig Cory
two pools, one ~500GB and one ~300GB. As long as the mirrored pairs match they do not have to be all the same in the pool. Craig Tiernan OToole wrote: > Thanks for the info. need to rebuild my machine and ZFS pool kind of new > to this and realized i built it as a stripe, not a mirr

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Boot on SAN

2008-12-16 Thread Craig Morgan
uted a cold cycle of the platform years ago at every change to alleviate the problem, which seems more prevalent on very early issue mboards/CPU combos (we have a significant number of first release systems still doing sterling service!). HTH Craig On 16 Dec 2008, at 15:28, Tim wrote: >

Re: [zfs-discuss] How do you "re-attach" a 3 disk RAIDZ array to a new OS installation?

2009-01-20 Thread Craig Morgan
s.org/os/community/zfs/docs/zfsadmin.pdf HTH Craig On 20 Jan 2009, at 13:05, Luke Scammell wrote: > Hi, > > I'm completely new to Solaris, but have managed to bumble through > installing it to a single disk, creating an additional 3 disk RAIDZ > array and then copying

Re: [zfs-discuss] "locate" disk command? locate broken disk?

2009-01-25 Thread Craig Morgan
e mislaid the disk!). Documentation here (including link to download) ... http://docs.sun.com/source/820-1120-19/hdtool_new.html#0_64301 HTH Craig On 24 Jan 2009, at 18:39, Orvar Korvar wrote: > If zfs says that one disk is broken, how do I locate it? It says > that disk c0t3d0 is broken.

Re: [zfs-discuss] Problems using ZFS on Smart Array P400

2009-01-27 Thread Craig Morgan
AID sub-system will be capable of automated recovery in most circumstances of simple failures. Craig On 27 Jan 2009, at 13:00, Edmund White wrote: > I'm testing the same thing on a DL380 G5 with P400 controller. I set > individual RAID 0 logical drives for each disk. I ended up with

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS usable space calculations (Help!)

2009-03-17 Thread Craig Cory
NLINE 0 0 0 /300d1 ONLINE 0 0 0 /300d2 ONLINE 0 0 0 /300d3 ONLINE 0 0 0 errors: No known data errors --- Does this describe what y

Re: [zfs-discuss] triple-parity: RAID-Z3

2009-07-19 Thread Craig Cory
ity representation, some computation will be needed to render the live data. This would have to add *some* overhead to the io. Craig Cory ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

[zfs-discuss] Re: [Fwd: What Veritas is saying vs ZFS]

2007-06-21 Thread Craig Morgan
http://www.symantec.com/enterprise/products/ agents_options_details.jsp?pcid=2245&pvid=203_1&aoid=sf_simple_admin> including a ref. guide ... Craig On 21 Jun 2007, at 08:03, Selim Daoud wrote: From: Ric Hall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 20 June 2007 22:46:48 BDT To: DMA Am

Re: [zfs-discuss] Will there be a GUI for ZFS ?

2007-08-16 Thread Craig Cory
The GUI is an implementation of the webmin tool. You must be running the server - started with /usr/sbin/smcwebserver start Then, access it with https://:6789/zfs Regards Craig Cory Senior Instructor :: ExitCertified : Sun Certified System Administrator : Sun Certified Network

Re: [zfs-discuss] Will there be a GUI for ZFS ?

2007-08-18 Thread Craig Cory
eFoot is in mouth! My mistake - confused the two tools. That's what I get for answering off the cuff. The rest still stands, as confirmed elsewhere. Craig In response to Boyd Adamson, who said: > "Craig Cory" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> The GUI is an implemen

[zfs-discuss] ZFS sharing options for Windows

2008-05-28 Thread Craig Smith
Hello, I am fairly new to Solaris and ZFS. I am testing both out in a sandbox at work. I am playing with virtual machines running on a windows front-end that connects to a zfs back-end for its data needs. As far as i know my two options are sharesmb and shareiscsci for data sharing. I have a cou

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS sharing options for Windows

2008-05-30 Thread Craig Smith
to make this fit well in a Windows world. -Craig > sharesmb presents ntfs to windows, so you're still hampered by that file > system's 'features' such as lots of broadcast packets and a long timeout. > > One other option you should consider is using NFS, for which you

[zfs-discuss] Multipathing and ZFS

2006-06-21 Thread Craig Cory
I have had a brief introduction to ZFS and while discussing it with some other folks the question came up about use with multipathed storage. What, if any, configuration or interaction does ZFS have with a multipathed storage setup - however it may be managed. thanks! Craig Cory Senior

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS needs a viable backup mechanism

2006-07-25 Thread Craig Morgan
rt personnel to engage?? Craig On 18 Jul 2006, at 00:53, Matthew Ahrens wrote: On Fri, Jul 07, 2006 at 04:00:38PM -0400, Dale Ghent wrote: Add an option to zpool(1M) to dump the pool config as well as the configuration of the volumes within it to an XML file. This file could then be "su

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS related kernel panic

2006-12-04 Thread Craig Morgan
rrect conclusions. Craig On 4 Dec 2006, at 14:47, Douglas Denny wrote: Last Friday, one of our V880s kernel panicked with the following message.This is a SAN connected ZFS pool attached to one LUN. From this, it appears that the SAN 'disappeared' and then there was a panic shortly after

Re: [zfs-discuss] weird thing with zfs

2006-12-05 Thread Craig Morgan
u may have exceeded the working length of the scsi bus, or have an issue with one of the later devices due to sync. Have you tried the same drive moved in the chain (as ZFS will id the disk irrespective of its solaris path)? What card (or onboard) and platform are you running ... Craig On

Re: [zfs-discuss] Need Clarification on ZFS quota property.

2006-12-13 Thread Craig Morgan
2 physical utilisation. As the industry has moved toward HW RAID, its less prevalent, but still has some merits on occassion. Craig On 13 Dec 2006, at 16:08, Darren Dunham wrote: $mkfs -F vxfs -o bsize=1024 /dev/rdsk/c5t20d9s2 2048000 The above command creates vxfs file system on fir

Re: [zfs-discuss] 'zpool history' proposal

2006-05-03 Thread Craig Cory
(incapacitated) ngz admins from the gz admins. Regards, Craig On Wed, May 3, 2006 3:05 pm, Eric Schrock said: > On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 02:47:57PM -0700, eric kustarz wrote: >> Jason Schroeder wrote: >> >> >eric kustarz wrote: >> > >> >>The following cas

[zfs-discuss] PSARC 2009/571: ZFS deduplication properties

2009-10-23 Thread Craig S. Bell
I haven't seen any mention of it in this forum yet, so FWIW you might be interested in the details of ZFS deduplication mentioned in this recently-filed case. Case log: http://arc.opensolaris.org/caselog/PSARC/2009/571/ Discussion: http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=115507 V

[zfs-discuss] Apple shuts down open source ZFS project

2009-10-23 Thread Craig S. Bell
Sad to hear that Apple is apparently going in another direction. http://www.macrumors.com/2009/10/23/apple-shuts-down-open-source-zfs-project/ -cheers, CSB -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris

Re: [zfs-discuss] dedup question

2009-11-02 Thread Craig S. Bell
I just stumbled across a clever visual representation of deduplication: http://loveallthis.tumblr.com/post/166124704 It's a flowchart of the lyrics to "Hey Jude". =-) Nothing is compressed, so you can still read all of the words. Instead, all of the duplicates have been folded together. -ch

Re: [zfs-discuss] dedupe is in

2009-11-02 Thread Craig S. Bell
Great stuff, Jeff and company. You all rock. =-) A potential topic for the follow-up posts: auto-ditto, and the philosophy behind choosing a default threshold for creating a second copy. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mai

Re: [zfs-discuss] automate zpool scrub

2009-11-02 Thread Craig S. Bell
On a related note, it looks like Constantin is developing a nice SMF service for auto scrub: http://blogs.sun.com/constantin/entry/new_opensolaris_zfs_auto_scrub This is an adaptation of the well-tested auto snapshot service. Amongst other advantages, this approach means that you don't have t

Re: [zfs-discuss] More Dedupe Questions...

2009-11-02 Thread Craig S. Bell
Tristan, there's another dedup system for "zfs send" in PSARC 2009/557. This can be used independently of whether the in-pool data was deduped. Case log: http://arc.opensolaris.org/caselog/PSARC/2009/557/ Discussion: http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=115082 So I believe your

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS + fsck

2009-11-04 Thread Craig S. Bell
Joerg just posted a lengthy answer to the fsck question: http://www.c0t0d0s0.org/archives/6071-No,-ZFS-really-doesnt-need-a-fsck.html Good stuff. I see two answers to "nobody complained about lying hardware before ZFS". One: The user has never tried another filesystem that tests for end-to-en

Re: [zfs-discuss] ..and now ZFS send dedupe

2009-11-09 Thread Craig S. Bell
Roman, I like to check here for recent putbacks: http://hg.genunix.org/onnv-gate.hg/shortlog To see new cases: http://arc.opensolaris.org/caselog/PSARC/ Also, to see what should appear in upcoming builds (although not recently updated): http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/view/Community+Group+on/

Re: [zfs-discuss] [Fwd: [zfs-auto-snapshot] Heads up: SUNWzfs-auto-snapshot obsoletion in snv 128]

2009-11-17 Thread Craig S. Bell
I don't have any problem with a rewrite, but please allow a non-GUI-dependent solution for headless servers. Also please add rsync as an option, rather than replacing zfs send/recv. Thanks. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] panic when rebooting from snapshot

2009-12-10 Thread Craig S. Bell
You may be interested in PSARC 2009/670: "Read-Only Boot from ZFS Snapshot". Here's the description from: http://arc.opensolaris.org/caselog/PSARC/2009/670/20091208_joep.vesseur > Allow for booting from a ZFS snapshot. The boot image will be read-only. > Early in boot a clone of the root is cr

Re: [zfs-discuss] compressratio vs. dedupratio

2009-12-14 Thread Craig S. Bell
I am also accustomed to seeing diluted properties such as compressratio. IMHO it could be useful (or perhaps just familiar) to see a diluted dedup ratio for the pool, or maybe see the size / percentage of data used to arrive at dedupratio. As Jeff points out, there is enough data available to

Re: [zfs-discuss] compressratio vs. dedupratio

2009-12-15 Thread Craig S. Bell
Mike, I believe that ZFS treats runs of zeros as holes in a sparse file, rather than as regular data. So they aren't really present to be counted for compressratio. http://blogs.sun.com/bonwick/entry/seek_hole_and_seek_data http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/zfs-discuss/2008-April/017565.htm

Re: [zfs-discuss] compressratio vs. dedupratio

2009-12-15 Thread Craig S. Bell
I take your point Mike. Yes, this seems to be an inconsistency in accounting. I have simply become accustomed to this (esp. when dealing with virtual disk images), so I just don't think about it, but it *is* harder to balance accounts. For instance, if my guest cleans up it's vdisk by writing