Re: [zfs-discuss] Reconfiguring a RAID-Z dataset

2010-06-12 Thread Thomas Burgess
On Sun, Jun 13, 2010 at 12:18 AM, Joe Auty wrote: > Thomas Burgess wrote: > > >> Yeah, this is what I was thinking too... >> >> Is there anyway to retain snapshot data this way? I've read about the ZFS >> replay/mirror features, but my impression was that this was more so for a >> development

Re: [zfs-discuss] Reconfiguring a RAID-Z dataset

2010-06-12 Thread Thomas Burgess
> > > Yeah, this is what I was thinking too... > > Is there anyway to retain snapshot data this way? I've read about the ZFS > replay/mirror features, but my impression was that this was more so for a > development mirror for testing rather than a reliable backup? This is the > only way I know of

[zfs-discuss] ZFS Data Loss on system crash/upgrade

2010-06-12 Thread Austin Rotondo
Hello all, I've been running OpenSolaris on my personal fileserver for about a year and a half, and it's been rock solid except for having to upgrade from 2009.06 to a dev version to fix some network driver issues. About a month ago, the motherboard on this computer died, and I upgraded to a b

Re: [zfs-discuss] Zpool import not working

2010-06-12 Thread Neil Perrin
On 06/12/10 17:13, zfsnoob4 wrote: Thanks. As I discovered from that post, VB does not have cache flush enabled by default. Ignoreflush must be explicitly turned off. VBoxManage setextradata VMNAME "VBoxInternal/Devices/piix3ide/0/LUN#[x]/Config/IgnoreFlush" 0 where VMNAME is the name of your

Re: [zfs-discuss] Zpool import not working

2010-06-12 Thread zfsnoob4
Thanks. As I discovered from that post, VB does not have cache flush enabled by default. Ignoreflush must be explicitly turned off. VBoxManage setextradata VMNAME "VBoxInternal/Devices/piix3ide/0/LUN#[x]/Config/IgnoreFlush" 0 where VMNAME is the name of your virtual machine. Although I tried

Re: [zfs-discuss] Native ZFS for Linux (OK, done now)

2010-06-12 Thread Erik Trimble
On 6/12/2010 1:44 PM, andrew wrote: On 6/10/2010 9:04 PM, Rodrigo E. De León Plicet wrote: On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 7:14 PM, Anurag Agarwal wrote: We at KQInfotech, initially started on an independent port of ZFS to linux. When we posted our prog

Re: [zfs-discuss] Moved disks to new controller - cannot import pool even after moving back

2010-06-12 Thread Richard Elling
On Jun 12, 2010, at 12:43 PM, Jan Hellevik wrote: > Thanks for the reply. The thread on FreeBSD mentions creating symlinks for > the fdisk partitions. So did you earlier in this thread. I tried that but it > did not help - you can see the result in my earlier reply to your previous > message in

Re: [zfs-discuss] Native ZFS for Linux

2010-06-12 Thread andrew
> On 6/10/2010 9:04 PM, Rodrigo E. De León Plicet > wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 7:14 PM, Anurag > Agarwal wrote: > > > >> We at KQInfotech, initially started on an > independent port of ZFS to linux. > >> When we posted our progress about port last year, > then we came to know about > >>

Re: [zfs-discuss] Moved disks to new controller - cannot import pool even after moving back

2010-06-12 Thread Jan Hellevik
Thanks for the reply. The thread on FreeBSD mentions creating symlinks for the fdisk partitions. So did you earlier in this thread. I tried that but it did not help - you can see the result in my earlier reply to your previous message in this thread. Is this the way to go? Should I try again wi

Re: [zfs-discuss] Moved disks to new controller - cannot import pool even after moving back

2010-06-12 Thread Richard Elling
On Jun 12, 2010, at 3:45 AM, Jan Hellevik wrote: > Hi! Sorry for the late reply - I have been busy at work and this had to wait. > The system has been powered off since my last post. > > The computer is new - built it to use as file server at home. I have not seen > any strange behaviour (othe

Re: [zfs-discuss] Native ZFS for Linux

2010-06-12 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Sat, 12 Jun 2010, Dick Hoogendijk wrote: Op Sat, 12 Jun 2010 12:00:39 +0200 schreef Joerg Schilling : The main problem with GPL related license debates seems to be that very few people did read the GPL license text. Or simply do not want to and just believe what they have been told to be

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS recovery tools

2010-06-12 Thread R. Eulenberg
> >op> I was setting up a new systen (osol 2009.06 > and updating to > >op> the lastest version of osol/dev - snv_134 - > with > >op> deduplication) and then I tried to import my > backup zpool, but > >op> it does not work. > > > >op> # zpool import -f tank1 > >op> canno

Re: [zfs-discuss] Native ZFS for Linux

2010-06-12 Thread Dick Hoogendijk
Op Sat, 12 Jun 2010 12:00:39 +0200 schreef Joerg Schilling : The main problem with GPL related license debates seems to be that very few people did read the GPL license text. Or simply do not want to and just believe what they have been told to be the truth. If things are told often enough

Re: [zfs-discuss] Zpool import not working

2010-06-12 Thread Mark Musante
I'm guessing that the virtualbox VM is ignoring write cache flushes. See this for more ifno: http://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=13661 On 12 Jun, 2010, at 5.30, zfsnoob4 wrote: > Thanks, that works. But it only when I do a proper export first. > > If I export the pool then I can

Re: [zfs-discuss] Moved disks to new controller - cannot import pool even after moving back

2010-06-12 Thread Jan Hellevik
Hi! Sorry for the late reply - I have been busy at work and this had to wait. The system has been powered off since my last post. The computer is new - built it to use as file server at home. I have not seen any strange behaviour (other than this). All parts are brand new (except for the disks

Re: [zfs-discuss] Native ZFS for Linux

2010-06-12 Thread Joerg Schilling
Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > I am really sad to hear you saying these things since if it was all > actually true, then Linux, *BSD, and Solaris distributions could not > legally exist. Thankfully, only part of the above is true. If linking of independent works would create something else than a (p

Re: [zfs-discuss] Zpool import not working

2010-06-12 Thread zfsnoob4
Thanks, that works. But it only when I do a proper export first. If I export the pool then I can import with: zpool import -d / (test files are located in /) but if I destroy the pool, then I can no longer import it back, even though the files are still there. Is this normal? Thanks for your h