Re: Dump Restore on ZFS root system

2012-02-07 Thread George Kontostanos
he best option (tar, cpio or pax) You can always clone it using zfs send / receive to your vm: http://www.aisecure.net/2011/03/26/cloning-a-zfs-bootable-system/ -- George Kontostanos Aicom telecoms ltd http://www.aisecure.net ___ freebsd-question

Re: FreeBSD 9, GPT and gmirror

2012-02-08 Thread George Kontostanos
> 3. Assuming one has enough RAM, is zfs mirror or raidz recommended over > gmirror? zfs mirror but I would not recommend a raidz root on zfs. -- George Kontostanos Aicom telecoms ltd http://www.aisecure.net ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org m

Re: gpt zfs raidz1 boot failure

2012-02-08 Thread George Kontostanos
remove a disk to put it in degraded mode, it is bootable. > > Chris > I might be missing something here but it looks like you are trying to boot from a degraded raidz1 pool consisted from 1 drive? -- George Kontostanos Aicom telecoms ltd http://www.aisecure.net __

Re: zroot won't mount after 9.0-RC2 -> 9.0-RELEASE upgrade

2012-02-15 Thread George Kontostanos
installed the >> system, it's possible your upgrading the zpool means the bootloader >> can't read it. >> > > Immediately after upgrading the zroot zpool I ran > >    gpart bootcode -p /boot/gptzfsboot -i 1 ${devices} > > as instruc

Re: zroot won't mount after 9.0-RC2 -> 9.0-RELEASE upgrade

2012-02-15 Thread George Kontostanos
On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 12:15 PM, George Kontostanos wrote: > On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 5:09 AM, Daniel Shahaf wrote: >> Daniel Staal wrote on Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 21:39:40 -0500: >>> --As of February 15, 2012 2:31:10 AM +0200, Daniel Shahaf is alleged >>> to have said

Re: zroot won't mount after 9.0-RC2 -> 9.0-RELEASE upgrade

2012-02-15 Thread George Kontostanos
On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 5:26 PM, Daniel Shahaf wrote: > George Kontostanos wrote on Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 12:56:33 +0200: >> On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 12:15 PM, George Kontostanos >> wrote: >> > On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 5:09 AM, Daniel Shahaf wrote: >> >> Daniel

Re: zroot won't mount after 9.0-RC2 -> 9.0-RELEASE upgrade

2012-02-15 Thread George Kontostanos
ugh to update your zpool.cache If this still doesn't work then you can upgrade your ZFS version to 5. Make sure you have backups first!!! Before unmounting your datasets issue a: zfs upgrade -a -- George Kontostanos Aicom telecoms ltd http://www.aisecure.net __

Re: ZFS question

2012-02-18 Thread George Kontostanos
eebsd.org" The power management settings put your drive to sleep after some time of inactivity. Unfortunately the only way I have found to adjust this is from a windows pc utility. (You can download it from their website) To solve the problem you can export the pool when you don't

Re: FBSD 9.1.0 - make buildworld running for 1.5 hours???

2013-03-07 Thread George Kontostanos
questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" You can easily go to -j16 if the box is not doing anything else. What are your current load averages? -- George Kontostanos --- http://www.aisecure.net ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.fre

Re: FreeBSD 9.1 RC2

2012-10-14 Thread George Kontostanos
cause they are currently running very stable and a reboot is not even worth it. -- George Kontostanos --- http://www.aisecure.net ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubsc