Re: [zfs-discuss] gaining access to var from a live cd

2011-11-29 Thread Francois Dion
back. Thanks for the pointers. "man zfs" did mention mountpoint as a valid option, not sure why it didnt work. as for mount -F zfs... it only works on legacy. On 11/29/11, Mike Gerdts wrote: > On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 4:40 PM, Francois Dion > wrote: >> It is on openindiana 151

Re: [zfs-discuss] gaining access to var from a live cd

2011-11-29 Thread Francois Dion
> On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 3:01 PM, Francois Dion > wrote: >> I've hit an interesting (not) problem. I need to remove a problematic >> ld.config file (due to an improper crle...) to boot my laptop. This is >> OI 151a, but fundamentally this is zfs, so i'm asking h

[zfs-discuss] gaining access to var from a live cd

2011-11-29 Thread Francois Dion
I've hit an interesting (not) problem. I need to remove a problematic ld.config file (due to an improper crle...) to boot my laptop. This is OI 151a, but fundamentally this is zfs, so i'm asking here. what I did after booting the live cd and su: mkdir /tmp/disk zpool import -R /tmp/disk -f rpool

Re: [zfs-discuss] Couple of questions about ZFS on laptops

2011-11-09 Thread Francois Dion
Some laptops have pc card and expresscard slots, and you can get an adapter for sd card, so you could set up your os non mirrored and just set up home on a pair of sd cards. Something like http://www.amazon.com/Sandisk-SDAD109A11-Digital-Card-Express/dp/B000W3QLLW I've done this in the past, var

Re: [zfs-discuss] Oops, ran zfs destroy after renaming a folder and deleted my file system.

2010-02-25 Thread Francois Dion
On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 6:59 AM, tomwaters wrote: > Yes, I am glad that I learned this lesson now, rather than in 6 months when I > have re-purposed the exiting drives...makes me all the more committed to > maintaining an up to date remote backup. > > The reality is that I can not afford to mirr

[zfs-discuss] REĀ : rsync using 100% of a cp u

2008-12-02 Thread Francois Dion
>>"Francois Dion" wrote: >> Source is local to rsync, copying from a zfs file system, >> destination is remote over a dsl connection. Takes forever to just >> go through the unchanged files. Going the other way is not a >> problem, it takes a

[zfs-discuss] rsync using 100% of a cpu

2008-12-01 Thread Francois Dion
Source is local to rsync, copying from a zfs file system, destination is remote over a dsl connection. Takes forever to just go through the unchanged files. Going the other way is not a problem, it takes a fraction of the time. Anybody seen that? Suggestions? ___

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS on Fit-PC Slim?

2008-11-11 Thread Francois Dion
That's why I said Nexenta. It's text mode after the fact, from the get go, after the install and reboot. http://www.nexenta.org/os -Original Message- >> Nexenta and Belenix will also run on this machine >> with 512MB. Nexenta will probably be what you want if >> you are saying you are

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS on Fit-PC Slim?

2008-11-10 Thread Francois Dion
Solaris 10 U6 and Solaris Express Community Edition can both be installed in text mode. Nexenta and Belenix will also run on this machine with 512MB. Nexenta will probably be what you want if you are saying you are running ubuntu on this box. -Original Message- >>Fit-PC Slim uses Geo

[zfs-discuss] zfs version number

2008-11-06 Thread Francois Dion
First, Congrats to whoever/everybody was involved getting zfs booting in solaris 10 u6. This is killer. Second, somebody who has admin access to this page here: http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/zfs/version/10/ Solaris 10 U6 is not mentionned. It is mentionned here: http://www.opensolaris

[zfs-discuss] sata on sparc

2008-10-24 Thread Francois Dion
On this page: http://www.sun.com/io_technologies/sata/SATA0.html I see: -USB,SATA,IEEE1394 SIIG, Inc. USB 2.0 + FireWire + SATA Combo (SC-UNS012) Verified (Solaris 10) Indicating that if I install an SC-UNS012 in a Solaris 10 Sparc server I would get a few USB 2 ports, a few IEEE1394 ports bu

[zfs-discuss] modifying the zfs version, possible?

2008-06-27 Thread Francois Dion
I made the mistake of upgrading the zfs version on a usb drive I have, while on my laptop (Solaris SXDE 4) and I really needed to access this from a Solaris 10 U5 system. Is there any way around beside full backup and restore? ___ zfs-discuss mailing l

[zfs-discuss] problem with nfs share of zfs storage

2008-01-21 Thread Francois Dion
I have a need to stream video over nfs. video is stored on zfs. every 10 minutes or so, the video will freeze, and then 1 minute later it resumes. This doesn't happen from an nfs mount on ufs. zfs server is a 32 bit P4 box with 512MB, running nexenta in plain text mode, and nothing else, really. Tr

[zfs-discuss] Yager on ZFS

2007-10-24 Thread Francois Dion
Not sure if it's been posted yet, my email is currently down... http://weblog.infoworld.com/yager/archives/2007/10/suns_zfs_is_clo.html Interesting piece. This is the second post from Yager that shows solaris in a pretty good light. I particularly like his closing comment: "If you haven't checke

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: ZFS Apple WWDC Keynote Absence

2007-06-12 Thread Francois Dion
On Tue, 2007-06-12 at 09:54 -0700, Erblichs wrote: > Group, > > Isn't Apple strength really in the non-compute intensive > personal computer / small business environment? > IE, Plug and play. Warning, real case to follow, not a what if scenario: Over the past 10 years, I've be

Re: [zfs-discuss] update on zfs boot support

2007-03-08 Thread Francois Dion
On Thu, 2007-03-08 at 14:22 -0800, Darren Dunham wrote: > This thread from a year ago suggests that at least the first round of > ZFS root pools will have restrictions that are not necessary on other > pools (like no concatenation or RAIDZ). > > http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID

Re: [zfs-discuss] How zpool import command works ?

2007-02-26 Thread Francois Dion
On Mon, 2007-02-26 at 07:00 -0800, dudekula mastan wrote: > > Hi All, > > I have a zpool (name as testpool) on /dev/dsk/c0t0d0. > > The command $zpool import testpool, imports the testpool (means mount > the testpool). > > How the import command comes to know testpool created > on /dev/dsk/

[zfs-discuss] ZFS mirrored laptop

2007-02-12 Thread Francois Dion
Been using ZFS for a good bit now, and particularly on my laptop. Until B60 is out, I've kind of refrained from using ZFS boot. Works fine, but I ran into various issues, plus when it is upgrade time, that is a bit brutal. What I've been wanting is a way to make my laptop a bit more "redundant", s

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS or UFS - what to do?

2007-01-26 Thread Francois Dion
On Fri, 2007-01-26 at 06:16 -0800, Jeffery Malloch wrote: > Hi Folks, > > I am currently in the midst of setting up a completely new file server using > a pretty well loaded Sun T2000 (8x1GHz, 16GB RAM) connected to an Engenio > 6994 product (I work for LSI Logic so Engenio is a no brainer). I