Re: [zfs-discuss] Server Cloning With ZFS?

2009-06-19 Thread Andre Wenas
The device tree for your 250 might be different, so you may need to hack the path_to_inst and /devices and /dev to make it boot sucessfully. On Jun 20, 2009, at 10:18 AM, Dave Ringkor wrote: Cindy, my question is about what "system specific info" is maintained that would need to be cha

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS GUI

2009-01-21 Thread Andre Wenas
Hi Richard, Currently there is a bug in Sol10u6, 6764133 causing zfs admin to crash. *Bug ID:* 6764133*Synopsis:* ZFS admin gui causing jvm SIGSEGV on s10u6 Not sure if there is a fix already. Regards, Andre W. Richard Elling wrote: Marius van Vuuren wrote: Is there a GUI for 2008.11 for

Re: [zfs-discuss] separate home "partition"?

2009-01-08 Thread Andre Wenas
You can edit /etc/user_attr file. Sent from my iPhone On Jan 9, 2009, at 11:13 AM, noz wrote: >> To do step no 4, you need to login as root, or create >> new user which >> home dir not at export. >> >> Sent from my iPhone >> > > I tried to login as root at the login screen but it wouldn't let m

Re: [zfs-discuss] separate home "partition"?

2009-01-08 Thread Andre Wenas
To do step no 4, you need to login as root, or create new user which home dir not at export. Sent from my iPhone On Jan 9, 2009, at 10:10 AM, noz wrote: > Kyle wrote: >> So if preserving the home filesystem through >> re-installs are really >> important, putting the home filesystem in a separ

Re: [zfs-discuss] OpenSolaris+ZFS+RAIDZ+VirtualBox - ready for production systems?

2008-08-05 Thread Andre Wenas
Hi Evert, Sun positions virtualbox as desktop virtualization software. It only support 32bit with 1 CPU only. If this met your requirement, it should run ok. Regards, Andre W. Evert Meulie wrote: > Hi all, > > I have been looking at various alternatives for a system that runs several > Linux

Re: [zfs-discuss] zpool upgrade wrecked GRUB

2008-08-05 Thread Andre Wenas
You can try to boot from Opensolaris CD, import rpool, mount the root filesystem and upgrade the grub. Regards, Andre W. Seymour Krebs wrote: > Machine is running x86 snv_94 after recent upgrade from opensolaris 2008.05. > ZFS and zpool reported no troubles except suggesting upgrade for from

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS boot with gzip-9 compression

2008-05-16 Thread Andre Wenas
I have been using zfs boot with lzjb compression on since build 75, from time to time I had similar problem, not sure why. As best practise, I do snapshot the root filesystem frequently, so that I can rollback to the last working snapshot. Rgds, Andre W. Victor Latushkin wrote: >>> this seems

Re: [zfs-discuss] Booting Solaris on ZFS fiel system

2008-02-02 Thread Andre Wenas
Hi, Solaris 8/07 does not support zfs boot. ZFS boot support currently only available on Solaris Express (Nevada) on x86. Rgds, Andre W. Jayakrishna wrote: > Hi , > > I have the following machine > sun4v sparc SUNW,Sun-Fire-T1000 > > & Solaris 10 8/07 OS , is it possible to create a ZFS file s

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS partitions

2008-01-09 Thread Andre Wenas
Yes, please check http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/zfs/boot/ Jon Arikata wrote: > can one boot ZFS off a ZFS partition? > ___ > zfs-discuss mailing list > zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss >

Re: [zfs-discuss] Does block allocation for small writes work over iSCSI?

2008-01-08 Thread Andre Wenas
Although it looks like possible, but very complex architecture. If you can wait, please explore pNFS: http://opensolaris.org/os/project/nfsv41/ What is pNFS? * The pNFS protocol allows us to separate a NFS file system's data and metadata paths. With a separate data path we are free to

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Mountroot and Bootroot Comparison

2007-10-05 Thread Andre Wenas
: > Thanks, this is really strange. > In your particular case you have /usr on the same pool as your rootfs > and I guess that's why it is working for you. > > Alll my attempts with b64, b70 and b73 failed if /usr is on a separate > pool. > > > On 05/10/2007, at 4:1

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Mountroot and Bootroot Comparison

2007-10-05 Thread Andre Wenas
cess files that are compressed. Regards, K. On 05/10/2007, at 5:55 AM, Andre Wenas wrote: Hi, Using bootroot I can do seperate /usr filesystem since b64. I can also do snapshot, clone and compression. Rgds, Andre W. Kugutsumen wrote: Lori Alt told me that mountrount was a temp

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Mountroot and Bootroot Comparison

2007-10-04 Thread Andre Wenas
Hi, Using bootroot I can do seperate /usr filesystem since b64. I can also do snapshot, clone and compression. Rgds, Andre W. Kugutsumen wrote: > Lori Alt told me that mountrount was a temporary hack until grub > could boot zfs natively. > Since build 62, mountroot support was dropped and I a

Re: [zfs-discuss] Single SAN Lun presented to 4 Hosts

2007-08-25 Thread Andre Wenas
I have tried tcpip over fc in the lab, the performance was no diff compare to gigabit ethernet. -Original Message- From: "Al Hopper" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Matt B" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org Sent: 8/26/2007 9:29 AM Subject: Re: [zfs-discuss] Single SAN Lun pres

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS boot process - where from ZFS knows which pools/datasets should be mounted after OS reboot?

2007-07-26 Thread Andre Wenas
You need to specify your boot zfs pool in grub menu.lst: # ZFS boot title Solaris ZFS root (hd0,3,d) *bootfs rootpool/rootfs *kernel$ /platform/i86pc/kernel/$ISADIR/unix -B $ZFS-BOOTFS module$ /platform/i86pc/$ISADIR/boot_archive In this example, the bootfs is rootpool/rootfs. Grub will load the

Re: [zfs-discuss] Any fix for zpool import kernel panic (reboot loop)?

2007-07-25 Thread Andre Wenas
Hi Rodney, I have been using zfs root/boot for few months without any problem. I can also import the pool from other environment. Do you have problem importing the zfs boot pool only ? or you can's use the zfs boot at all ? Rgds, Andre W. Rodney wrote: > My system (a laptop with ZFS root and

Re: [zfs-discuss] b64 zfs on boot ?

2007-05-28 Thread Andre Wenas
Yes. Horvath wrote: Is there zfs available in boot with b64 ? This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss _