Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] ZFS Snapshot question

2012-08-03 Thread Mark Creamer
Excellent information. Thanks again all On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 9:06 AM, Jan Owoc wrote: > On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 6:43 AM, Kees Nuyt wrote: > > On Thu, 2 Aug 2012 14:59:13 -0600, you wrote: > >>Having said that, I believe they need to be mounted in empty > >>directories, so you'd have to do: > >

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] ZFS Snapshot question

2012-08-03 Thread Jan Owoc
On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 6:43 AM, Kees Nuyt wrote: > On Thu, 2 Aug 2012 14:59:13 -0600, you wrote: >>Having said that, I believe they need to be mounted in empty >>directories, so you'd have to do: >># mv datastore/vmimages/server1 datastore/vmimages/server1.bak >># zfs create -o [options here] data

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] ZFS Snapshot question

2012-08-03 Thread Kees Nuyt
On Thu, 2 Aug 2012 14:59:13 -0600, you wrote: >Hi Mark, > >On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 2:53 PM, Mark Creamer wrote: >> What I should have done (I think) is set up the zfs file system for each VM >> at the level below ../vmimages, that is: "zfs create >> datastore/vmimages/server1". That way, auto-sna

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Hanging zfs commands

2012-08-03 Thread Maurilio Longo
Hi, I'm using oi_151a4. This system is in production right now, so I cannot recreate the problem. What I was doing was running a script via cron to take a recursive snapshot and then removing old ones when there were enough of them. In my case it was hanging daily or every other day. Maurilio.