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disable boot menu
by Chris Miles 25 Jul '02

25 Jul '02

One of my F760s pauses at the boot menu (1-5 prompt, usually accessed by CTRL-C I believe) every time it reboots, which is rather annoying as I have to hit 1 to continue the boot. How can I disable this? Cheers, CM -- Chris Miles chris(a)psychofx.com http://www.psychofx.com/chris/

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RE: moving files between filers
by Chan, Paul 24 Jul '02

24 Jul '02

For more information on how to go about doing it using ndmp see: http://now.netapp.com/Knowledgebase/solutionarea.asp?id=ntapcs2471 Paul Chan NOW KB team -----Original Message----- From: Igor Schein [mailto:igor@txc.com] Sent: Wednesday, July 24, 2002 9:56 AM To: Caven, Marilyn Cc: 'Geoff Hardin'; toasters Subject: Re: moving files between filers On Wed, Jul 24, 2002 at 08:19:40AM -0700, Caven, Marilyn wrote: > If the development data is on a separate volume from the production data you > can do a volcopy which works quite well. There is an option to turn up the > throttle of the volcopy to 10 (max) on source filer. The destination volume > must be offline when the data is being copied and it will write over > anything on the destination volume. > > If the dev and prod data is on the same volume, I've always used tar and > directed the output to a nfs mounted filesystem from another filer. If, like in my situation, you need to constantly move data between 2 production filers over GB pipe, ndmpcopy is a clear winner speed-wise. Igor

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RE: moving files between filers
by Caven, Marilyn 24 Jul '02

24 Jul '02

If the development data is on a separate volume from the production data you can do a volcopy which works quite well. There is an option to turn up the throttle of the volcopy to 10 (max) on source filer. The destination volume must be offline when the data is being copied and it will write over anything on the destination volume. If the dev and prod data is on the same volume, I've always used tar and directed the output to a nfs mounted filesystem from another filer. Marilyn Next Level Communications -----Original Message----- From: Geoff Hardin [mailto:geoff.hardin@dalsemi.com] Sent: Wednesday, July 24, 2002 7:35 AM To: toasters Subject: moving files between filers What is the preferred method of moving directories between filers? I was wondering what method the toaster community in general preferred. In the past I have used tar from my UNIX admin host, rsync, dump/restore, ndmpcopy, and cp. I have about given up on ndmpcopy because even across GbE, I see better thruput using tar or dump/restore. A couple of the admins I've spoken to swear by rsync, but I have only used it sparingly. I have a clustered pair of F760s, one filer for a production database and the second for a development database. Originally, both the production and development work was on the first filer, but space for production work began to run low. We are now moving development data off the production filer onto the development filer and we want to minimize the impact to the production filer while moving the data in a timely manner to the development system. The filers are on the same backup GbE LAN, so the network connection between the two is stable and fast. Any thoughts, opinions, or war stories greatly appreciated. Geoff Hardin geoff.hardin(a)dalsemi.com Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts.

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RE: moving files between filers
by Flaherty, Michael 24 Jul '02

24 Jul '02

volcopy does work well, the destination volume blocks are copied identically to the source volume. One benefit of using ndmpcopy is that the data is written contiguously which will eliminate any fragmentation. Mike -----Original Message----- From: Caven, Marilyn [mailto:mcaven@nlc.com] Sent: Wednesday, July 24, 2002 8:20 AM To: 'Geoff Hardin'; toasters Subject: RE: moving files between filers If the development data is on a separate volume from the production data you can do a volcopy which works quite well. There is an option to turn up the throttle of the volcopy to 10 (max) on source filer. The destination volume must be offline when the data is being copied and it will write over anything on the destination volume. If the dev and prod data is on the same volume, I've always used tar and directed the output to a nfs mounted filesystem from another filer. Marilyn Next Level Communications -----Original Message----- From: Geoff Hardin [mailto:geoff.hardin@dalsemi.com] Sent: Wednesday, July 24, 2002 7:35 AM To: toasters Subject: moving files between filers What is the preferred method of moving directories between filers? I was wondering what method the toaster community in general preferred. In the past I have used tar from my UNIX admin host, rsync, dump/restore, ndmpcopy, and cp. I have about given up on ndmpcopy because even across GbE, I see better thruput using tar or dump/restore. A couple of the admins I've spoken to swear by rsync, but I have only used it sparingly. I have a clustered pair of F760s, one filer for a production database and the second for a development database. Originally, both the production and development work was on the first filer, but space for production work began to run low. We are now moving development data off the production filer onto the development filer and we want to minimize the impact to the production filer while moving the data in a timely manner to the development system. The filers are on the same backup GbE LAN, so the network connection between the two is stable and fast. Any thoughts, opinions, or war stories greatly appreciated. Geoff Hardin geoff.hardin(a)dalsemi.com Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts.

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moving files between filers
by Geoff Hardin 24 Jul '02

24 Jul '02

What is the preferred method of moving directories between filers? I was wondering what method the toaster community in general preferred. In the past I have used tar from my UNIX admin host, rsync, dump/restore, ndmpcopy, and cp. I have about given up on ndmpcopy because even across GbE, I see better thruput using tar or dump/restore. A couple of the admins I've spoken to swear by rsync, but I have only used it sparingly. I have a clustered pair of F760s, one filer for a production database and the second for a development database. Originally, both the production and development work was on the first filer, but space for production work began to run low. We are now moving development data off the production filer onto the development filer and we want to minimize the impact to the production filer while moving the data in a timely manner to the development system. The filers are on the same backup GbE LAN, so the network connection between the two is stable and fast. Any thoughts, opinions, or war stories greatly appreciated. Geoff Hardin geoff.hardin(a)dalsemi.com Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts.

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Anybody using a F740 for clearcase vobs
by Kumar, Rahul 24 Jul '02

24 Jul '02

Hi all, Is anybody using a toater for clearcase 4.2. Why I am putting it here is because I need to the real life scenarios of it implementation. If anybody could help me that'll be really great. I have gone though the netapp site wherein they mention about the same. Rahul Rahul Kumar Infrastructure Analyst Rahul.Kumar(a)eds.com 91-20-2930812 -----Original Message----- From: Chris Miles [mailto:chris@psychofx.com] Sent: Tuesday, July 23, 2002 11:07 PM To: toasters(a)mathworks.com Subject: disable boot menu One of my F760s pauses at the boot menu (1-5 prompt, usually accessed by CTRL-C I believe) every time it reboots, which is rather annoying as I have to hit 1 to continue the boot. How can I disable this? Cheers, CM -- Chris Miles chris(a)psychofx.com http://www.psychofx.com/chris/

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RE: disable boot menu
by Kiernan, Michael 23 Jul '02

23 Jul '02

Great minds think alike ;). This is an RFE internally 75510 for reading and writing OBP vars from the running OS. I've added your comments to the bug to add some momentum to it. Regards, Mike Kiernan -----Original Message----- From: Chris Thompson [mailto:cet1@cus.cam.ac.uk] Sent: Tuesday, July 23, 2002 9:23 PM To: scl(a)sasha.acc.virginia.edu Cc: toasters(a)mathworks.com Subject: Re: disable boot menu scl(a)sasha.acc.virginia.edu (Steve Losen) writes: > > > One of my F760s pauses at the boot menu (1-5 prompt, usually accessed by > > CTRL-C I believe) every time it reboots, which is rather annoying as I > > have to hit 1 to continue the boot. > > > > How can I disable this? > > Shut down to the OK prompt and type this > > printenv floppy-boot? > > If it is set to "true", then that is your problem. > Set it to false like this: > > setenv floppy-boot? false This reminds me to ask a question that's been at the back of my mind for a while: is there any way of interrogating the filer boot prom settings *without* shutting down first? I am thinking of something like the eeprom(1m) command in Solaris, which can be used while the system is running. Chris Thompson Email: cet1(a)cam.ac.uk

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ONTAP 6.2.1 vs 6.2R2D6 vs ???
by Chris Thompson 22 Jul '02

22 Jul '02

I am wondering which release of ONTAP I should be running on a leading-edge (but production) server here... We are currently running 6.2R2D2 --- the D2 part because we wanted the fix for 70674. We usually run the FCS release, but not a Dx one, so this makes me somewhat uneasy. Now 6.2.1 is out and FCS, and has 70674 in its fix list, so it would be natural to change to that. But meanwhile we've got the question of 75012 (the CA-2002-19 bug-in- -most-known-DNS-resolvers thing) outstanding. We think we're pretty well protected against it being exploited, but will be a lot happier with a fix. This *isn't* listed as fixed in 6.2.1. The Bugs Online entry for 75012 names a number of Dx releases in which it is fixed, including 6.2R2D6, but there's no mention of a 6.2.1D<anything>. So I need to decide between 6.2.1, 6.2R2D6, or waiting for something else. Maybe toasters isn't the best place to ask about this ... can NetApp people even post to the list again yet? Chris Thompson Email: cet1(a)cam.ac.uk

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Ownership of "/etc"
by David Lee 22 Jul '02

22 Jul '02

On both our new filers, running 6.1.2R1, I have just noticed that the ownership of its "/vol/vol0/etc" belongs, not to the expected "root", but to an apparently arbitrary uid "20041" (gid "30"). Fortunately: (a) we have not allocated that uid to anyone; (b) I think the only machine to which "/etc" would be user-accessible (a Solaris UNIX box fro our user admin.) can have access restrictions to prevent telnet/ssh-like user-access. Nevertheless, it does seem a little worrying (correction, potentially very worrying) that this critical "/etc" directory is owned by an ordinary user. (Just suppose this October's student intake allocates that uid to someone who likes exploring...) All the contents of "/etc" are root-owned, except for a subdirectory called "java" and within that some (not all) of its contents: drwxr-xr-x 3 20041 30 4096 Jun 11 08:11 . drwxr-xr-x 20 20041 30 65536 Jul 22 14:53 .. -rwxr-xr-x 1 root other 1912820 Jan 9 2002 .jitcache.db -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1912820 May 14 14:05 .jitcache.db.saved -rwxr-xr-x 2 root other 8844945 Jan 8 2002 classes.zip -rwxr-xr-x 2 root other 8844945 Jan 8 2002 classes.zip-inuse -rw-r--r-- 1 20041 30 238737 Oct 13 2000 crysec.zip -rw-rw-r-- 1 root root 139895 Jun 14 00:35 jit.log -rw-r--r-- 1 20041 30 505097 Oct 13 2000 jsafe.zip drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 May 14 14:05 lib -rwxr-xr-x 2 root other 1422554 Jan 8 2002 netapp.zip -rwxr-xr-x 2 root other 1422554 Jan 8 2002 netapp.zip-inuse -rw-r--r-- 1 20041 30 217093 Oct 13 2000 phaos.zip -rwxr-xr-x 2 root other 1942824 Jan 8 2002 redshift.zip -rwxr-xr-x 2 root other 1942824 Jan 8 2002 redshift.zip-inuse -rw-r--r-- 1 20041 30 113216 Oct 13 2000 secureadmin.zip -rwxr-xr-x 2 root other 139753 Jan 8 2002 servlet.zip -rwxr-xr-x 2 root other 139753 Jan 8 2002 servlet.zip-inuse Is this general, affecting other sites, or does it suggest that something peculiar happened at our installation? I understand that, since site installation, we have had something added: from memory, I think it was "Secure FilerView", but I may be wrong, and the local person who oversaw this is currently away. Any comments, anyone? -- : David Lee I.T. Service : : Systems Programmer Computer Centre : : University of Durham : : http://www.dur.ac.uk/t.d.lee/ South Road : : Durham : : Phone: +44 191 374 2882 U.K. :

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quotas over limit: determination thereof
by David Lee 20 Jul '02

20 Jul '02

If what follows is in the manual or is a FAQ, then just point me in the direction... Executive summary: Is there an easy way (variant of "quota report" perhaps?) to discover which users are over-quota? Detail: We are beginning to migrate our home directories (15K-20K of them) from Solaris to NetApp. Quotas are a vital part of the control of these directories. Under Solaris (trad. UNIX), each user has an explicit quota. While this is possible under NetApp, it seems far more sensible to use default quotas where possible (and the documentation encourages this). We have set up some reasonable default quotas, and are using rsync (thanks, folk!) to get the user files prepared in the future NetApp location: transferred (from 20+ volumes across three Solaris fileservers) and kept in sync. Naturally a few of our users have more data than our NetApp default quotas. What we simply want to do is identify these exceptions so we can apply explicit quotas. We will, if possible, adjust the defaults so that the number of exceptions, from our 20K user-base, is reasonably small. Under Solaris etc., the output from its "repquota" command was easily eyeball-able (I know, no such word!) for such exceptions: "+" and expiry times. Is there a variant of NetApp's "quota report" that either restricts output to over-quota users, or has a field indicating over-quota, or similar? Or is the NetApp convention simply to cobble together a bit of awk/perl to extract those lines (from the total 20K) in which "Used" exceeds "Limit"? Thanks in advance. -- : David Lee I.T. Service : : Systems Programmer Computer Centre : : University of Durham : : http://www.dur.ac.uk/t.d.lee/ South Road : : Durham : : Phone: +44 191 374 2882 U.K. :

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