[zfs-discuss] OpenSolaris 2008.11

2008-12-07 Thread Edward Irvine
Folks, For those of you who haven't had time to follow the Open Solaris project, I recommend the this excellent screen cast. Of particular interest to this list is how ZFS is used to implement a version of Apple's "Time Machine". http://webcast-west.sun.com/interactive/09B12437/index.html Ed

[zfs-discuss] Separate /var

2008-11-27 Thread Edward Irvine
Hi Folks, I'm currently working with an organisation who want use ZFS for their full zones. Storage is SAN attached, and they also want to create a separate /var for each zone, which causes issues when the zone is installed. They believe that a separate /var is still good practice. What are

Re: [zfs-discuss] zpool kernel panics.

2007-12-20 Thread Edward Irvine
Hi, On 21/12/2007, at 6:43 AM, msl wrote: > Hello mr. Irvine, > Did you fix that? No > Do you have a solaris formal support? No. However I did upload the crash dump files and I was hoping that a Solaris engineer might have found them "interesting". I was going to move the zpool to a new m

[zfs-discuss] Update: zpool kernel panics.

2007-12-14 Thread Edward Irvine
Hi Folks, Begin forwarded message: > From: Edward Irvine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 12 December 2007 8:44:57 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Fwd: [zfs-discuss] zpool kernel panics. > > FYI ... > > Begin forwarded message: > >> From: "James C

Re: [zfs-discuss] zpool kernel panics.

2007-12-11 Thread Edward Irvine
Hi Folks, On 10/12/2007, at 12:22 AM, Edward Irvine wrote: > Hi Folks, > > I've got a 3.9 Tb zpool, and it is casing kernel panics on my > Solaris 10 280r (SPARC) server. > > The message I get on panic is this: > > panic[cpu1]/thread=2a100a95cc0: zfs: freeing free

[zfs-discuss] zpool kernel panics.

2007-12-09 Thread Edward Irvine
Hi Folks, I've got a 3.9 Tb zpool, and it is casing kernel panics on my Solaris 10 280r (SPARC) server. The message I get on panic is this: panic[cpu1]/thread=2a100a95cc0: zfs: freeing free segment (offset=423713792 size=1024) This seems to come about when the zpool is being used or being

[zfs-discuss] exporting a zfs pool from SPARC to x86

2007-11-18 Thread Edward Irvine
Hi Folks, I've got a 4 Tb pool on a 3511 array. The pool was created from, and is mounted on, an old 280r. I'd like to export the pool from the 280r and import it to a shiny new x2200. Will this work? Will the x2200 understand the disk labels made by the 280r? Some tests we've done on a sma