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Re: [zfs-discuss] sharing a zfs file system

2006-11-16 Thread James Dickens
On 11/16/06, Sanjay Nadkarni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I am trying to nfs share a zfs file system using zfs share I get an error saying sump/install_image': legacy share I have not set legacy mount on this dataset. Here's what zfs get shows: you need to set sharenfs to how you wa

Re: [zfs-discuss] SVM - UFS Upgrade

2006-11-16 Thread Bill Sommerfeld
On Thu, 2006-11-16 at 16:08 -0800, Fred Zlotnick wrote: > I'm curious to hear of any migration success stories - or not - that > folks on this alias have experienced. You can send them to me and > I'll summarize to the alias. I sent one to this list some months ago. To recap, I used a variant of

[zfs-discuss] sharing a zfs file system

2006-11-16 Thread Sanjay Nadkarni
I am trying to nfs share a zfs file system using zfs share I get an error saying sump/install_image': legacy share I have not set legacy mount on this dataset. Here's what zfs get shows: sump/install_image mountpoint /sump/install_imagedefault Thanks -Sanjay

Re: [zfs-discuss] SVM - UFS Upgrade

2006-11-16 Thread Fred Zlotnick
This is the Migration Problem: given a dataset on a on-ZFS file system, what is the safest and easiest way to move it to a ZFS pool. There are two and a half cases: 1. You need to reuse the existing storage. 1.5 You have some extra storage, but not enough for 2 copies of all your data. 2. You

Re: [zfs-discuss] SVM - UFS Upgrade

2006-11-16 Thread Darren Dunham
> Is it possible to convert/upgrade a file system that is currently > under the control of Solaris Volume Manager to ZFS? SVM or not doesn't really matter. There's no method for converting an existing filesystem to ZFS in place. You'll have to populate the ZFS pool after allocating storage to

Re: [zfs-discuss] SVM - UFS Upgrade

2006-11-16 Thread Torrey McMahon
Not automagically. You'll need to do a dump/restore or copy from one to the other. - Original Message From: Dan Christensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org Sent: Thursday, November 16, 2006 5:52:51 PM Subject: [zfs-discuss] SVM - UFS Upgrade Is it possible to conver

[zfs-discuss] SVM - UFS Upgrade

2006-11-16 Thread Dan Christensen
Is it possible to convert/upgrade a file system that is currently under the control of Solaris Volume Manager to ZFS? Thanks This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.or

Re: [zfs-discuss] How to backup/clone all filesystems *and* snapshots in a zpool?

2006-11-16 Thread Matthew Ahrens
Tim Foster wrote: Hi Peter, On Thu, 2006-11-16 at 06:15 -0800, Peter Eriksson wrote: If I just backup the normal "current" filesystem on this backup server then I can always restore that and return to some known point - however all the snapshots are lost so after that crash my users won't be ab

Re: [zfs-discuss] How to backup/clone all filesystems *and* snapshots in a zpool?

2006-11-16 Thread Tim Foster
Hi Peter, On Thu, 2006-11-16 at 06:15 -0800, Peter Eriksson wrote: > If I just backup the normal "current" filesystem on this backup server > then I can always restore that and return to some known point - > however all the snapshots are lost so after that crash my users won't > be able to get bac

Re: [zfs-discuss] How to backup/clone all filesystems *and* snapshots in a zpool?

2006-11-16 Thread Dick Davies
On 16/11/06, Peter Eriksson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Is there some way to "dump" all information from a ZFS filesystem? I suppose I *could* backup the raw disk devices that is used by the zpool but that'll eat up a lot of tape space... If you want to have another copy somewhere, use zfs se

[zfs-discuss] How to backup/clone all filesystems *and* snapshots in a zpool?

2006-11-16 Thread Peter Eriksson
Suppose I have a server that is used as a backup system fom many other ("live") servers. It uses ZFS snapshots to enable people to recover files from any date a year back (or so). Now, I want to backup this backup server to some kind of external stable storage in case disaster happens and this

Re: [zfs-discuss] Thoughts on patching + zfs root

2006-11-16 Thread Ceri Davies
On Wed, Nov 15, 2006 at 04:45:02PM -0700, Lori Alt wrote: > Ceri Davies wrote: > >On Tue, Nov 14, 2006 at 07:32:08PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > >>>Actually, we have considered this. On both SPARC and x86, there will be > >>>a way to specify the root file system (i.e., the bootable dat