toasters August 1998

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Y2K Testing & compliance
by Thomson, Michael 25 Sep '98

25 Sep '98

Hi there! I've been asked some questions by our Y2K project team, specifically related to NetApp, and I'm unsure how to respond. >From the web page (http://www.netapp.com/y2k_table.html) it seems that the only thing that is 'preliminarily evaluated' is DOT 4.1. Can anyone give the authorative answer to: 1) Are there any plans to use a hardware clock that stores 4-digit years? 2) What Y2K tests were performed on DOT 4.1 3) Have later releases (4.1.3, 5.0, etc.) had the same tests run on them before release? 4) Can customers get access to NetApp test plans and results, directly or via a non-disclosure agreement? More generally, are people inclined to believe that, once certified by NetApp, the appliances can be treated as 'any other' NFS server by client machines, or would you advocate specific interoperational testing with NetApp kit? Cheers, Mike Thomson -- \\|||// Minds are like parachutes; (@ @) They only work when open. *---oOO-(_)-OOo------------------------------------* * Michael Thomson Email: mt53590(a)ggr.co.uk * * Unix Specialist Internal: 782 4393 * * Glaxo Wellcome External: 01438 764 393 * * Fax: 01438 763 204 * * .oooO Oooo. Mobile: 0498 725 047 * *--( )---( )-----------------------------------* \ ( ) / (Quote: Sir James Dewar) \_) (_/

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Re: Support for Network Time Protocol?
by Daniel Quinlan 04 Sep '98

04 Sep '98

Daniel Quinlan <quinlan(a)transmeta.com> writes: > I'm also interesting in NTP support, but I think I'd like to see the > current software become a lot more reliable (and complete) before > adding another new feature. All I need is more NetApp crashes because > of NTP bugs. I should add that this happened to us just a few days ago: - xntpd died on our adminhost (that ran the cron job to set the NetApp dates) - time drifted by 8 minutes on the adminhost and the filers over the course over a few days - someone started having problems, managed to figure out that it was because of the time drift, and we fixed it. (Other people probably had problems, but didn't report them.) To prevent it from happening again, we're remotely monitoring the system time of the adminhost (using "mon") to make sure it doesn't drift off again. Incidentally, there seems to be no way to remotely query the system time from a NetApp (except by creating a new file and running stat() on it, or by using unsupported/hidden commands). However, I'm still saying that I don't want NTP until other supported protocols (such as NDMP) start working reliably. Dan

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by Chris Ruffieux 30 Aug '98

30 Aug '98

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RE: Redbrick?
by Clarke, Bruce 27 Aug '98

27 Aug '98

We have one customer in South Africa that is known to have put Redbrick on a filer. I have been told its in an NT environment. Attempts by NetApp to get Redbrick "officially" interested have so far gone unanswered. If you would like to drop my name to the Redbrick sales rep, please feel free to do so. Bruce Clarke Database Market Development Manager Network Appliance Inc. 2770 San Tomas Expressway Santa Clara, CA 95051 USA Phone: 1-408-367-3156 Fax: 1-408-367-3670 Email: bclarke(a)netapp.com Web: www.netapp.com -----Original Message----- From: Alexei Rodriguez [mailto:alexei@cimedia.com] Sent: Thursday, August 27, 1998 10:58 AM To: toasters(a)mathworks.com Subject: Redbrick? Ok, so Oracle works on the filers. No problem. Has anybody tried other database systems? Redbrick? Marketing folks here are looking at building some multi-terrabyte databases (don't ask; they are forking the money over) and I am trying to see what the different possibilities are. Thanks. Alex

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Redbrick?
by Alexei Rodriguez 27 Aug '98

27 Aug '98

Ok, so Oracle works on the filers. No problem. Has anybody tried other database systems? Redbrick? Marketing folks here are looking at building some multi-terrabyte databases (don't ask; they are forking the money over) and I am trying to see what the different possibilities are. Thanks. Alex

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"quota resize" still doesn't work right on 5.0.2
by Stephen C. Losen 27 Aug '98

27 Aug '98

We have a default quota of 10M, which is the first line in /etc/quotas: * user 10M 10K Here is a quota report for a user with no entry in /etc/quotas: quota report /h1/s/sj/sjs3j Type ID Volume Tree Used Limit Used Limit Quota Specifier ----- -------- -------- -------- ------- ------- -------- -------- --------------- user 30967 vol0 - 472 10240 113 10240 So now I add this line to /etc/quotas /h1/s/sj/sjs3j user 20M 20K And I run quota resize quota report /h1/s/sj/sjs3j Type ID Volume Tree Used Limit Used Limit Quota Specifier ----- -------- -------- -------- ------- ------- -------- -------- --------------- user 30967 vol0 - 472 10240 113 10240 The quota for this user has not changed. Only turning quotas off and back on does the trick. The quota resize command issued no error. I read an earlier post to this list that indicated that this was fixed. Has anyone actually gotten this to work? Steve Losen scl(a)virginia.edu phone: 804-924-0640 University of Virginia ITC Unix Support

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RE: "quota resize" still doesn't work right on 5.0.2
by Datta, Diptish 26 Aug '98

26 Aug '98

Stephen, This is documented as bug 5660. This is indeed the way it works now but a fix for this will be available in a future release. If this is a critical issue please call/email Tech Support for a solution. -diptish -----Original Message----- From: Stephen C. Losen [mailto:scl@sasha.acc.virginia.edu] Sent: Wednesday, August 26, 1998 10:15 AM To: toasters(a)turing.mathworks.com Subject: "quota resize" still doesn't work right on 5.0.2 We have a default quota of 10M, which is the first line in /etc/quotas: * user 10M 10K Here is a quota report for a user with no entry in /etc/quotas: quota report /h1/s/sj/sjs3j Type ID Volume Tree Used Limit Used Limit Quota Specifier ----- -------- -------- -------- ------- ------- -------- -------- --------------- user 30967 vol0 - 472 10240 113 10240 So now I add this line to /etc/quotas /h1/s/sj/sjs3j user 20M 20K And I run quota resize quota report /h1/s/sj/sjs3j Type ID Volume Tree Used Limit Used Limit Quota Specifier ----- -------- -------- -------- ------- ------- -------- -------- --------------- user 30967 vol0 - 472 10240 113 10240 The quota for this user has not changed. Only turning quotas off and back on does the trick. The quota resize command issued no error. I read an earlier post to this list that indicated that this was fixed. Has anyone actually gotten this to work? Steve Losen scl(a)virginia.edu phone: 804-924-0640 University of Virginia ITC Unix Support

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Re: rw? no, ro.
by Andrew Bond 23 Aug '98

23 Aug '98

Jim, >Any ideas? This is a busy system so rebooting from floppy to bypass the >rc file and then trying another admin host is something I'd like to avoid, >though at this stage I don't see an alternative. You can unexport root using "exportfs -u /" (note that the root may alternatively be exported as /vol/vol0/ at release 5.x) You can use "exportfs -i -o access=new.admin.host,root=new.admin.host /" to re-export the root directory to a different host or list of hosts. Have you opened a call with our support on this? Andrew Bond System Engineer, NetApp UK

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exports syntax
by just me. 22 Aug '98

22 Aug '98

Has anyone found better documentation on 'exports' syntax than the crappy 'administrators' guide once-over? I am specifically interested in using a 'files' based netgroups map to clean up permissions, however the administrators guide suggests that usage is somewhat non-intuitave (as does my experimental results) yet stops short of providing useful information. It does however reference one of the mysterious man pages, which I have never been able to get Netapp to give me. In fact they deny their existance. Anyone got the skinny? thanks. --matt(a)bikkle.interq.or.jp------------------------------------------- Matt Ghali MG406/GM023JP - System Administrator, interQ, Inc AS7506 "Sub-optimal is a state of mind." -Dave Rand, <dlr(a)bungi.com>

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Snapshot Bug
by Raymond Brennan 21 Aug '98

21 Aug '98

Hello, I've run into a snapshot bug and was wondering if anyone else had. The details are basically that the filer ( an F520 with 128 Gb of disk, 128 Mb RAM, a Dec ALPHA CPU and running ONTAP 5.1D3) hangs when creating snapshots as instructed by BudTool. It is an ONTAP problem and is stopping me from doing backups. Has anyone else been hit with this ? :)

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