Re: [zfs-discuss] Backup complete rpool structure and data to tape

2011-05-11 Thread Glenn Lagasse
* Edward Ned Harvey (opensolarisisdeadlongliveopensola...@nedharvey.com) wrote: > > From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- > > boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Arjun YK > > > > Trying to understand how to backup mirrored zfs boot pool 'rpool' to tape, > > and restore i

Re: [zfs-discuss] How to rename rpool. Is that recommended ?

2011-04-08 Thread Glenn Lagasse
* Arjun YK (arju...@gmail.com) wrote: > Hi, > > Let me add another query. > I would assume it would be perfectly ok to choose any name for root > pool, instead of 'rpool', during the OS install. Please suggest > otherwise. While there is nothing special about the name 'rpool' (thus you *could* ch

Re: [zfs-discuss] How to create a checkpoint?

2010-11-09 Thread Glenn Lagasse
* Peter Taps (ptr...@yahoo.com) wrote: > Thank you all for your help. Looks like "beadm" is the utility I was > looking for. > > When I run "beadm list," it gives me the complete list and indicates > which one is currently active. It doesn't tell me which one is the > "default" boot. Can I assume

Re: [zfs-discuss] hardware going bad

2010-10-27 Thread Glenn Lagasse
* Harry Putnam (rea...@newsguy.com) wrote: > Toby Thain writes: > > > On 27/10/10 4:21 PM, Krunal Desai wrote: > >> I believe he meant a memory stress test, i.e. booting with a > >> memtest86+ CD and seeing if it passed. > > > > Correct. The POST tests are not adequate. > > Got it. Thank you.

Re: [zfs-discuss] Unexpected ZFS space consumption

2010-10-04 Thread Glenn Lagasse
* JR Dalrymple (j...@jrssite.com) wrote: > I'm pretty new to ZFS and OpenSolaris as a whole. I am an experienced > storage administrator, however my storage equipment has typically been > NetApp or EMC branded. I administer NetApp FAS2000 and FAS3000 series > boxes to host a VMware only virtual inf

Re: [zfs-discuss] Mirroring USB Drive with Laptop for Backup purposes

2010-05-05 Thread Glenn Lagasse
* Edward Ned Harvey (solar...@nedharvey.com) wrote: > > From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- > > boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Matt Keenan > > > > Just wondering whether mirroring a USB drive with main laptop disk for > > backup purposes is recommended or not. > >

Re: [zfs-discuss] Cores vs. Speed?

2010-02-04 Thread Glenn Lagasse
* Brian (broco...@vt.edu) wrote: > I am Starting to put together a home NAS server that will have the > following roles: > > (1) Store TV recordings from SageTV over either iSCSI or CIFS. Up to > 4 or 5 HD streams at a time. These will be streamed live to the NAS > box during recording. (2) Pla

Re: [zfs-discuss] Solaris installation Exiting (caught signal 11 ) and reboot crashes

2010-01-06 Thread Glenn Lagasse
* Richard Elling (richard.ell...@gmail.com) wrote: > Hi Pradeep, > This is the ZFS forum. You might have better luck on the caiman-discuss > forum which is where the folks who work on the installers hang out. Except, that's not where the people who work on the legacy Solaris 10 installers hang out

Re: [zfs-discuss] Planed ZFS-Features - Is there a List or something else

2009-12-09 Thread Glenn Lagasse
* Neil Perrin (neil.per...@sun.com) wrote: > > > On 12/09/09 13:52, Glenn Lagasse wrote: > >* R.G. Keen (k...@geofex.com) wrote: > >>I didn't see "remove a simple device" anywhere in there. > >> > >>Is it: > >>too hard to even

Re: [zfs-discuss] Planed ZFS-Features - Is there a List or something else

2009-12-09 Thread Glenn Lagasse
* R.G. Keen (k...@geofex.com) wrote: > I didn't see "remove a simple device" anywhere in there. > > Is it: > too hard to even contemplate doing, > or > too silly a thing to do to even consider letting that happen > or > too stupid a question to even consider > or > too easy and straightforward t

Re: [zfs-discuss] Which directories must be part of rpool?

2009-09-25 Thread Glenn Lagasse
* David Magda (dma...@ee.ryerson.ca) wrote: > On Sep 25, 2009, at 16:39, Glenn Lagasse wrote: > > >There's very little you can safely move in my experience. /export > >certainly. Anything else, not really (though ymmv). I tried to > >create > >a seperat

Re: [zfs-discuss] Which directories must be part of rpool?

2009-09-25 Thread Glenn Lagasse
* David Abrahams (d...@boostpro.com) wrote: > > on Fri Sep 25 2009, Cindy Swearingen wrote: > > > Hi David, > > > > All system-related components should remain in the root pool, such as > > the components needed for booting and running the OS. > > Yes, of course. But which *are* those? > > >

Re: [zfs-discuss] Fed up with ZFS causing data loss

2009-07-30 Thread Glenn Lagasse
* Rob Terhaar (rob...@robbyt.net) wrote: > I'm sure this has been discussed in the past. But its very hard to > understand, or even patch incredibly advanced software such as ZFS > without a deep understanding of the internals. It's also very hard for the primary ZFS developers to satisfy everyone

Re: [zfs-discuss] compression at zfs filesystem creation

2009-06-15 Thread Glenn Lagasse
* Shannon Fiume (shannon.fi...@sun.com) wrote: > Hi, > > I just installed 2009.06 and found that compression isn't enabled by > default when filesystems are created. Does is make sense to have an > RFE open for this? (I'll open one tonight if need be.) We keep telling > people to turn on compressi

Re: [zfs-discuss] 24x1TB ZFS system. Best practices for OS install without wasting space.

2009-06-01 Thread Glenn Lagasse
Hi Ray, * Ray Van Dolson (rvandol...@esri.com) wrote: > So we have a 24x1TB system (from Silicon Mechanics). It's using an LSI > SAS card so we don't have any hardware RAID virtual drive type options. > > Solaris 10 05/09 > > I was hoping we could set up one large zpool (RAIDZ) from the install

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS: unreliable for professional usage?

2009-02-09 Thread Glenn Lagasse
* Orvar Korvar (knatte_fnatte_tja...@yahoo.com) wrote: > Seagate7, > > You are not using ZFS correctly. You have misunderstood how it is > used. If you dont follow the manual (which you havent) then any > filesystem will cause problems and corruption, even ZFS or ntfs or > FAT32, etc. You must use

Re: [zfs-discuss] Is scrubbing "safe" in 101b? (OpenSolaris 2008.11)

2009-01-23 Thread Glenn Lagasse
* David Dyer-Bennet (d...@dd-b.net) wrote: > > On Fri, January 23, 2009 09:52, casper@sun.com wrote: > > >>Which leaves me wondering, how safe is running a scrub? Scrub is one of > >>the things that made ZFS so attractive to me, and my automatic reaction > >>when I first hook up the data dis

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs boot / root in Nevada build 101

2008-10-29 Thread Glenn Lagasse
* Peter Baer Galvin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > This seems like a n00b question but I'm stuck. > > Nevada build 101. Doing fresh install (in vmware fusion). I don't see > any way to select zfs as the root file system. Looks to me like UFS is > the default, but I don't see any option box to allow

Re: [zfs-discuss] How to remove any references to a zpool that's gone

2008-09-18 Thread Glenn Lagasse
Hey Mark, * Mark J Musante ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi Glenn, > > Where is it hanging? Could you provide a stack trace? It's possible > that it's just a bug and not a configuration issue. I'll have to recreate the situation (won't be able to do so until next week). I had a zpool status (

[zfs-discuss] How to remove any references to a zpool that's gone

2008-09-18 Thread Glenn Lagasse
I had a disk that contained a zpool. For reasons that we won't go in to, that disk had zero's written all over it (at least enough to cover the entirety of the zpool space). Now when I run zpool status the command hangs when it tries to display information about the now non-existent pool. Simila

Re: [zfs-discuss] Help! Possible with b80 and newest ZFS?

2008-08-21 Thread Glenn Lagasse
* Orvar Korvar ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I dont think the mother board is on the HCL. But everything worked fine in > b90. > > I realize I havent provided all necessary info. Here is more info. > http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=69654&tstart=0 > > The thing is, Ive upgrade