gmane.os.solaris.gnusolaris.general

Is zpool v28 supported in any way?

Jean-Yves Avenard — 2011-01-01T00:31:46

Hi there.

Most of you are probably still celebrating new year, and happy new
year to everyone.

Is zpool v28 supported in nexenta? either officially of via testing build ?

All references I could find were either v26 mentioned in some forums,
or v22 like in wikipedia..

I unfortunately upgraded my pool to v28 and as such I'm now looking
for a distribution that supports it. Nexenta looks like a great mix
between gnu/linux and Solaris..

Thanks
Jean-Yves

how do i log in

Ferdinand Petalio — 2010-10-18T23:08:28

how do i log in?

how do i log in

Ferdinand Petalio — 2010-10-18T23:08:28

FW: failed to install a zone with NCP 3.0

Stephen Repetski — 2010-08-24T19:49:03

failed to install a zone with NCP 3.0

gerard henry — 2010-08-24T17:07:13

hello all,
i'm running NCP 3.0 in VirtualBox 3.2.8,and i follow this link to create 
a zone:
http://nexenta.org/projects/site/wiki/ConfiguringNexentaZone

i got some errors, i don't know if it is important? (attached the errors)

Anybody has ever seen these messages? In the first time, the zone is 
without net, and it boots

gerard

upgrading when there are zones?

gerard henry — 2010-08-24T14:02:54

hello all,
reading the faq, i'm not sure to understand:
Are you planning things so that when the host OS is upgraded, the 
'containers' will also be updated? Any idea when this might be completed?
http://www.nexenta.org/projects/site/wiki/FAQ#head-dcaa3645b5f96d4b55b0bcb4b61ec14baf11002a

does it mean, that if i have zones in NCP, they cannot be upgraded if 
the kernel is upgraded?
actually, i'm using ten zones in os2009.06, and i'm wondering if i can 
migrate to NCP 3.0 to host my zones (essentially web services)

thanks in advance for help,

gerard

Nexenta Core Platform 3.0 RC2 Released

Anil Gulecha — 2010-06-30T19:19:40

Hi All,

On behalf of the Nexenta project, I'd like to announce the
availability of the Nexenta Core Platform 3.0 RC2.

You can download the latest iso image from
http://www.nexenta.org/projects/site/wiki/DownloadUnstable

The main changes over the RC1 release include:

* Dozens of ON fixes backported to b134
* Bug fix list: http://www.nexenta.org/versions/show/14
---

Nexenta ON gate repository:
http://www.nexenta.org/projects/nexenta-gate/repository

* NCP2 stable repository (with b104 packages) is now moved to
http://apt.nexenta.org/ncp2/ hardy-unstable

* NCP3 RC1 repository (if you want to stay with RC1 bits)
http://apt.nexenta.org/ncp3r1/ hardy-unstable

Please set your sources.list accordingly.
---

Unless major issues are reported, this release will become the final
NCP3 release.

Please file bug reports/RFEs at
http://www.nexenta.org/projects/site/issues

Regards
--
The Nexenta Team.

NexentaStor Community edition 3.0.3 released

Anil Gulecha — 2010-06-15T17:26:10

Hi All,

On behalf of NexentaStor team, I'm happy to announce the release of
NexentaStor Community Edition 3.0.3. This release is the result of the
community efforts of Nexenta Partners and users.

Changes over 3.0.2 include
* Many fixes to ON/ZFS backported to b134.
* Multiple bug fixes in the appliance.

With the addition of many new features, NexentaStor CE is the *most
complete*, and feature-rich gratis unified storage solution today.

Quick Summary of Features
-----------------------------
* ZFS additions: Deduplication (based on OpenSolaris b134).
* Free for upto 12 TB of *used* storage
* Community edition supports easy upgrades
* Many new features in the easy to use management interface.
* Integrated search

Grab the iso from
http://www.nexentastor.org/projects/site/wiki/CommunityEdition

If you are a storage solution provider, we invite you to join our
growing social network at http://people.nexenta.com.

--
Thanks
Anil Gulecha
Community Leader
http://www.nexentastor.org

Re: Minimum size of install/boot disk?

Bill McGonigle — 2010-05-25T15:54:52

So, I have some more data on this now.  A 2GB should be usable, but 
you'll have to reduce the swap size on the 'F2' console.

On a 2.02GB zpool, I got a 1.03GB swap by default.

After dpkg was done (4 days on a Sandisk Cruzer... dpkg vs. iops?) I had 
992MB in use, 2.2MB free on the root filesystem.  Continuing caused the 
install to fail.  Fast forward to 4 days later, same situation, I did:

   swap -d /dev/zvol/dsk/syspool/swap

   zfs destroy syspool/swap
   zfs create -V 512M -b 4k syspool/swap (right parameters?)

('zfs set volsize=512M syspool/swap' didn't work, not sure why)

This should have reduced the swap by 512MB, and I had 220MB left on the 
root filesystem when the installer was done, so the installer 
constraints are short by about 280MB or so.  (note: creating the 
failsafe boot archive was nearly a quarter gig of that).

For an easy installation, 2.5GB disk image/partition seems like it'd be 
pretty close to safe (unless swap gets bigger too...).

-Bill

Re: Nexenta Core Platform 3.0 RC1 Released

Anil Gulecha — 2010-05-25T12:50:12

Hi Stas,

The mirroring instuctions are up at
http://www.nexenta.org/projects/site/wiki/Mirror

The issue you report with the symlink is known, and workaround is also
mentioned on the page.

Thanks
Anil

On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 4:23 AM, Stas Sușcov <stas< at >nerd.ro> wrote:

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Re: Nexenta Core Platform 3.0 RC1 Released

Stas Sușcov — 2010-05-24T22:53:18

În data de Ma, 25-05-2010 la 02:08 +0530, Anil Gulecha a scris:


Hi,
Anil, I was using apt-mirror until today to keep a mirror in Romania,
now I'm trying to do the same with rsync. But all I get when rsync-ing 
are some dead symlinks:
---
stas< at >rivalry:/tmp/n ~» rsync -avz rsync://apt.nexenta.org/ncp2
receiving incremental file list
drwxr-xr-x           3 2009/11/27 19:12:14 .
drwxr-xr-x           3 2010/04/21 15:11:32 dists
lrwxrwxrwx          63 2009/11/27 19:13:21 dists/hardy-unstable
-> /tank/ncp2/dists/hardy-unstable/.zfs/snapshot/sep29_before_b124

sent 27 bytes  received 168 bytes  55.71 bytes/sec
total size is 63  speedup is 0.32
stas< at >rivalry:/tmp/n ~» rsync -avz rsync://apt.nexenta.org/ncp3
receiving incremental file list
drwxr-xr-x           3 2010/01/19 22:26:25 .
drwxr-xr-x           3 2010/04/21 15:11:47 dists
lrwxrwxrwx          31 2010/01/19 22:27:51 dists/hardy-unstable
-> /tank/ncp2/dists/hardy-unstable

sent 27 bytes  received 136 bytes  65.20 bytes/sec
total size is 31  speedup is 0.19
---

Can you point me to the right wiki page or give us some details what
exactly should we mirror and from where.
Thanks.

The Romanian mirror uri:
http://caldera.obs.utcluj.ro/

Re: Newbie questions...

Jerome Warnier — 2010-05-23T21:16:51

Actually, sun-java6-jdk is available (logically, from non-free).

Re: Newbie questions...

Craig Younkins — 2010-05-23T20:14:01

Re: Newbie questions...

Andrew Stormont — 2010-05-23T20:12:48

Newbie questions...

Peter Tap — 2010-05-23T20:03:09

Re: Minimum size of install/boot disk?

Bill McGonigle — 2010-05-20T05:52:58

I'm trying something similar, except with a partition on a USB flash 
drive.  The installer says it needs a 2GB disk to install on.  I think 
the trick is what 2GB means.  It seems to mean after everybody's 
overhead is taken into account.

I started with an image file, made with dd bs=1M count=2048, and that 
was too small.  I tried to bring that up in small increments, but got 
lazy after a while and went with 2200.  That was big enough to make the 
installer happy. I've made a partition at this point with that size. 
'zpool list' shows 2.02GB.

Many drives, CF cards probably included, define a GB under base-10, so a 
2GB flash card may be 2000000000 bytes.  I'd guess you'll need a 4GB card.

That said, the total installed size is somewhere just north of a gig. 
You might get away with creating an install, zfs sending it to a 
temporary location and zfs recv'ing it onto a CF, then set up your grub 
(I haven't actually done this, just thinking out loud).  Come to think 
of it, shouldn't the nexenta installer be using zfs for the first part 
of the install process? :)

I say 'somewhere' because I'm babysitting an install now onto that USB 
flash and it's been sitting at 99% for an hour or so, and took 4 hours 
to get to 99% so I'm not quite sure what the final size will be but it's 
at 997MB now.  None of the machine's data will live in the root pool, 
and we'll get a better USB drive for production, but be aware that you 
might not want to do much on the actual flash drive.  I've gotten some 
SLC CF cards from LogicSupply in the past that might be useful here. 
SLC USB Flash seems to be exceedingly rare (unfortunately that's what 
this server has for an internal boot-drive connection - not my choice).

-Bill

reliably corrupting a zfs pool with 3.0b3 and Xen

Bill McGonigle — 2010-05-20T05:36:25

Hi,

I'm trying to figure out Nexenta 3 on Xen PV (not successful yet, using
Nexenta 2 techniques) but along the way, I noticed it was pretty easy to
come up with a corrupted zpool in the process.

Basically:
1) install Nexenta as a HVM, poweroff
2) change DomU definition to PV, poweron
3) zpool import -f the pool (fails), poweroff
4) change the DomU back to HVM, poweron
5) zpool is damaged, zfs recommends restore from backup, zpool import fails.

There's a chance Xen 4 is buggy, though it seems to work fine for my
linux DomU's.  But even if it is, I'm really surprised that with
round-trip checking that the zpool could get corrupted.

I'm uncomfortable that it's this easy to corrupt the zpool and looking
for ideas as to how I can isolate where the damage is happening.

Hints for getting PV to work properly are also welcome, though secondary.

Thanks,
-Bill

Re: Rocketraid

Anil Gulecha — 2010-05-05T04:49:33

Michael,

Nexenta will support any of the hardware from the OpenSolaris compatibility list
http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/hcl/data/os/

If you can find a solaris package, you'd be in luck setting up.. else
you'll have to change it.

~Anil

On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 7:36 AM, Michael Zeller <link< at >conquerthesound.com> wrote:

Rocketraid

Michael Zeller — 2010-05-05T02:06:56

Re: gnusol-users Digest, Vol 49, Issue 2

Collin MacMillan — 2010-05-04T19:10:44

R.G.

I've successfully used Sandisk 4GB USB flash (mirrored) for boot/OS.  
At $13 each, they've been very reliable...

Collin C. MacMillan
Sr. Infrastructure Consultant
Solution Oriented LLC

VMware, Nexenta and Cisco Accredited
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Minimum size of install/boot disk?

R.G. Keen — 2010-05-04T14:30:13

I've searched quite a bit on this issue and can't find it. I'm sure
I'll slap my forehead when someone tells me, but so far I'm
clueless.

What's the minimum required disk size for installing Nexenta?
The system requirements don't mention it at all that I can find.

I'm after setting up Nexenta as a NAS, and I'd like to run it from
a 2GB compact flash boot 'disk'. Other than installing and either
succeeding or failing on a series of ever larger or smaller 
flash cards, is there any guidance available on what the minimum
is?

R.G.