Hi,
I've now gone through both the opensolaris instructions:
http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/zfs/boot/zfsboot-manual/
and Tim Foster's script:
http://blogs.sun.com/timf/entry/zfs_bootable_datasets_happily_rumbling
for making my laptop ZFS bootable.
Both work well and here's a big
Hi,
>> How would you access the data on that device?
>
> Presumably, zpool import.
yes.
> This is basically what everyone does today with mirrors, isn't it? :-)
sure. This may not be pretty, but it's what customers are doing all the time
with regular mirrors, 'cause it's quick, easy and reliab
Hi Mark,
Mark J Musante wrote:
> On Tue, 10 Apr 2007, Constantin Gonzalez wrote:
>
>> Has anybody tried it yet with a striped mirror? What if the pool is
>> composed out of two mirrors? Can I attach devices to both mirrors, let
>> them resilver, then detach them and import the pool from those?
>
Hi,
sorry, I needed to be more clear:
Here's what I did:
1. Connect USB storage device (a disk) to machine
2. Find USB device through rmformat
3. Try zpool create on that device. It fails with:
can't open "/dev/rdsk/cNt0d0p0", device busy
4. svcadm disable rmvolmgr
5. Now zpool create works w
Hi,
> When you do the initial install, how do you do the slicing?
>
> Just create like:
> / 10G
> swap 2G
> /altroot 10G
> /zfs restofdisk
yes.
> Or do you just create the first three slices and leave the rest of the
> disk untouched? I understand the concept at this point, just trying to
> ex
Hi,
I do agree that zpool remove is a _very_ desirable feature, not doubt about
that.
Here are a couple of thoughts and workarounds, in random order, that might
give us some more perspective:
- My home machine has 4 disks and a big zpool across them. Fine. But what
if a controller fails or wor
Hi Tim,
> Essentially I'd like to have the / and swap on the first 60GB of the disk.
> Then use the remaining 100GB as a zfs partition to setup zones on. Obviously
> the snapshots are extremely useful in such a setup :)
>
> Does my plan sound feasible from both a usability and performance sta
Hi,
>> What i dont know is what happens if the boot disk dies? can i replace
>> is, install solaris again and get it to see the zfs mirror?
>
> As I understand it, this be possible, but I haven't tried it and I'm
> not an expert Solaris admin. Some ZFS info is stored in a persistent
> file on yo
Hi Eric,
this is a great proposal and I'm sure this is going to help administrators
a lot.
One small question below:
> Any property which contains a colon (':') is defined as a 'user
> property'. The name can contain alphanumeric characters, plus the
> following special characters: ':', '-', '.
Hi,
so we have two questions:
1. Is it really ZFS' job to provide an undo functionality?
2. If it turns out to be a feature that needs to be implemented by
ZFS, what is the better approach: Snapshot based or file-based?
My personal opinion on 1) is:
- The purpose of any Undo-like action is
Hi,
Yes, a trivial wrapper could:
1. Store all property values in a file in the fs
2. zfs send...
3. zfs receive...
4. Set all the properties stored in that file
IMHO 3. and 4. need to be swapped - otherwise e.g. files will
not be compressed when restored.
hmm, I assumed that the ZFS stream
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