OK, so nsr picks up the filesystems to try to save from /etc/vfstab. Fine, except that (a) that means it tries to back up the contractfs(!) and (b) ZFS doesn’t use vfstab entries for its filesystems.
Solution: specify the service IP address explicitly together with a bunch of paths under the networker configuration.
OK, so MPxIO “Just Works”. I exposed a small number of LUNs (four, to be precise) from each of a pair of SataBeasts. One of those had something on it: to wit, a prototypical “bb-archive” zpool.
zpool status etc. will show the MPxIO devices that comprise the particular zpool in question – but what about the other seven LUNs? And what about when it comes to stiching LUNs together, and so on? This is going to turn into a cross-referencing nightmare!
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# mpathadm list lu
/dev/rdsk/c7t6000402001FC19CA6E9E7EFE00000000d0s2
Total Path Count: 2
Operational Path Count: 2
… and so on :-)
OK, so we’ve been waiting for these for weeks. D*ll kept on pushing the dates back. For a pair of HBAs, FFS!
Order went into Redstor last night at 4pm. They were here this morning by 9am.
Spot the difference.
I’ve decided to bring this forward a bit. This is somewhat motivated by the need to get spam[34] up and running so that Adam can start to move his build scripts to target the MBS deployment infrastructure.
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And by default it’s worse than that. Lesson is, if you want it configuring, do it yourself.
Personally, I don’t want it configuring, so it can sit and rot. Fuggit.
I’ve just physically plumbed in to the deployment & management network two new boxes, spam3 & spam4. These will be targeted by an MBS instance for deploying SpamAssassin (& co) configurations onto.
There’s finally a light at the end of the tunnel with the filestore work. Once the HBAs turn up I’ll be putting a new NFS server in place. This impacts on the appinf work in two major ways:
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Well, that’s been a busy day. New SataBeasts arrived, they’ll be installed not a moment too soon.
I’ve rebuilt the first NFS node (munter) and captured the rest of the configuration alterations. Getting it all down in a series of Makefiles has certainly paid off.
There’s news on alternative machine rooms; so now at least we have something to aim at.
Small issue: solaris cron doesn’t set up much of an environment, and /dev/tty won’t show up.
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So, we’re on day two now and I’m about at the point where I have a working software stack that’ll let me start to build heartbeat.
This is not productivity.
Productivity is typing apt-get install heartbeat and, 20 seconds later, worrying about the configuration.
OpenSolaris is promising better things with package management. 15 years too late, perhaps, but thank Christ.