> Now, so my humble guess, I need to know the commands
> to be run in the new install to de-associate c0d0s7
> from the old install and re-associate this drive with
> the new install.
> All this probably happened through the '-f' in 'zpool
> create -f newhome c0d0s7'; which seemingly takes
> preced
> Both work properly. Half of the job done; now I have
> the new home mounted, but inactive. So I can rm -Rf *
> or similar there; in order to 'cp -a' the content of
> the old home to the new home.
> Still the other half is unresolved: How do I mount
> the old home which is in no fstab (mnttab), on
> Get the content of c0d1s1 to c0d0s7 ?
> c0d1s1 is pool home and active; c0d0s7 is not
> active.
>
I have not tried this particular use case, but I think this is a case for "zfs
send" and "zfs receive". You'd create a new pool containing only c0d0s7 and
do something like this, assuming your o
I am running a home fileserver with a pair of 4-port cheapo Silicon Image 3114
based cards. I had to down-rev the firmware on the cards to make them dumb
SATA controllers vs. RAID cards. I bought them at Fry's, they were about
$70/ea, they're "SIIG SATA 4-channel RAID", part number appears to
> Be careful here. If you are using files that have no
> data in them yet
> you will get much better compression than later in
> life. Judging by
> the fact that you got only 12.5x, I suspect that your
> files are at
> least partially populated. Expect the compression to
> get worse over
> time.
> Looking at the source code overview, it looks like
> the compression happens "underneath" the ARC layer,
> so by that I am assuming the uncompressed blocks are
> cached, but I wanted to ask to be sure.
>
> Thanks!
> -Andy
>
> Yup, your assumption is correct. We currently do
> compression
Quick question about the interaction of ZFS filesystem compression and the
filesystem cache. We have an Opensolaris (actually Nexenta alpha-6) box
running RRD collection. These files seem to be quite compressible. A test
filesystem containing about 3,000 of these files shows a compressratio
