Re: [zfs-discuss] Sonnet Tempo SSD supported?

2012-12-03 Thread Dave Pooser
On 12/3/12 5:28 PM, "Peter Tripp" wrote: >This product only makes sense if you're trying to run OpenIndiana on a >Mac Pro, which in my experience is more trouble than it's worth, but to >each their own I guess. I could make a case for it in some other environments. Say you're using a SuperMicro

Re: [zfs-discuss] Sonnet Tempo SSD supported?

2012-12-03 Thread Peter Tripp
HI Eugen, Whether it's compatible entirely depends on the chipset of the SATA controller. Basically that card is just a dual port 6gbps PCIe SATA controller with the space to mount one ($149) or two ($299) 2.5inch disks. Sonnet, a mac focused company, offers it as a way to better utilize exist

Re: [zfs-discuss] zpool rpool rename offline

2012-12-03 Thread Jim Klimov
On 2012-12-03 20:51, Heiko L. wrote: jimklimov wrote: In general, I'd do the renaming with a "different bootable media", including a LiveCD/LiveUSB, another distro that can import and rename this pool version, etc. - as long as booting does not involve use of the old rpool. Thank you. I will t

Re: [zfs-discuss] zpool rpool rename offline

2012-12-03 Thread Heiko L.
jimklimov wrote: > In general, I'd do the renaming with a "different bootable media", > including a LiveCD/LiveUSB, another distro that can import and > rename this pool version, etc. - as long as booting does not > involve use of the old rpool. Thank you. I will test it in the coming days. btwn

Re: [zfs-discuss] zpool rpool rename offline

2012-12-03 Thread Jim Klimov
On 2012-12-03 20:35, Heiko L. wrote: I've already tested: beadm create -p $dstpool $bename beadm list zpool set bootfs=$dstpool/ROOT/$bename $dstpool beadm activate $bename beadm list init 6 - result: root@opensolaris:~# init 6 updating //platform/i86pc/boot_archive updating //platform/i86pc/amd

Re: [zfs-discuss] zpool rpool rename offline

2012-12-03 Thread Heiko L.
phillip.wagstrom wrote: > You can't change the name of a zpool without importing it. bad news... i hoped edit poolname with zdb or hexedit. > > For what you're attempting to do, why not attach a larger vdisk and mirror > the existing disk in rpool? Then drop the smaller > vdisk and you'll have

Re: [zfs-discuss] Digging in the bowels of ZFS

2012-12-03 Thread Jim Klimov
On 2012-12-02 05:42, Jim Klimov wrote: So... here are some applied questions: Well, I am ready to reply a few of my own questions now :) I've staged an experiment by taking a 128Kb block from that file and appending it to a new file in a test dataset, where I changed the compression settings b

[zfs-discuss] Eradicating full-disk pool headers safely

2012-12-03 Thread Jim Klimov
Hello all, When I started with my old test box (the 6-disk raidz2 pool), I had first created the pool on partitions (i.e. c7t1d0p0 or physical paths like /pci@0,0/pci1043,81ec@1f,2/disk@1,0:q), but I've soon destroyed it and recreated (with the same name "pool") in slices (i.e. c7t0d0s0 or /p

Re: [zfs-discuss] How can I copy a ZFS filesystem back and forth

2012-12-03 Thread Chris Nagele
> original and and rename the new one, or zfs send or ?? Can I do a send and > receive into a filesystem with attributes set as I want or does the receive > keep the same attributes as well? Thank you. That will work. Just create the new filesystem with the attributes you want and send/recv the la

[zfs-discuss] How can I copy a ZFS filesystem back and forth

2012-12-03 Thread Anonymous
I turned compression on for several ZFS filesystems and found performance was still fine. I turned gzip on and it was also fine and compression on certain filesystems is excellent. I realize all the files that were on the filesystem when compression=on did not get the benefit of gzip when I set com

[zfs-discuss] Sonnet Tempo SSD supported?

2012-12-03 Thread Eugen Leitl
Anyone here using http://www.sonnettech.com/product/tempossd.html with a zfs-capable OS? Is e.g. OpenIndiana supported? Thanks. ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] zpool rpool rename offline

2012-12-03 Thread Jim Klimov
On 2012-12-03 01:15, Phillip Wagstrom wrote: You can't change the name of a zpool without importing it. For what you're attempting to do, why not attach a larger vdisk and mirror the existing disk in rpool? Then drop the smaller vdisk and you'll have a larger rpool. In general, I'd do the