Re: [zfs-discuss] heads up on SXCE build 125 (LU + mirrored root pools)

2009-11-05 Thread Kurt Schreiner
On Thu, Nov 05, 2009 at 03:39:56PM -0800, Rich Teer wrote: > On Thu, 5 Nov 2009, Chris Du wrote: > > > I think I finally see what you mean. > > > > # luactivate b126 > > System has findroot enabled GRUB > > ERROR: Unable to determine the configuration of the current boot > > environment . > > H

Re: [zfs-discuss] Liveupgrade'd to U8 and now can't boot previous U6 BE :(

2009-10-28 Thread Kurt Schreiner
Hi, On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 01:55:57AM -0700, Ben Middleton wrote: > > As a related issue to this (specifically CR 6884728) - any ideas how > I should go about removing the old BE? I haven'd tried this on U8, but maybe the following hack I did on sxce_125 to be able to go back to older BEs will

Re: [zfs-discuss] heads up on SXCE build 125 (LU + mirrored root pools)

2009-10-23 Thread Kurt Schreiner
Hi, On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 05:03:18PM -0600, Cindy Swearingen wrote: > Currently, the device naming changes in build 125 mean that you cannot > use Solaris Live Upgrade to upgrade or patch a ZFS root dataset in a > mirrored root pool. > [...] Just ran into this yesterday... The change to get thin

Re: [zfs-discuss] grow zpool by replacing disks

2009-08-03 Thread Kurt Schreiner
Hi Tobias, On Mon, Aug 03, 2009 at 01:24:35PM +0200, Tobias Exner wrote: > > there's no such property available. > There's no entry in the manpages, too. > > > bash-3.00# zpool set autoexpand=on testpool > cannot set property for 'testpool': invalid property 'autoexpand' > > Maybe a problem of

Re: [zfs-discuss] grow zpool by replacing disks

2009-08-03 Thread Kurt Schreiner
On Mon, Aug 03, 2009 at 11:51:59AM +0200, Tobias Exner wrote: > Hi list, > > some months ago I spoke with an zfs expert on a Sun Storage event. > > He told it's possible to grow a zpool by replacing every single disk > with a larger one. > After replacing and resilvering all disks of this pool z

Re: [zfs-discuss] Why is Solaris 10 ZFS performance so terrible?

2009-07-14 Thread Kurt Schreiner
On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 08:54:36AM +0200, Ross wrote: > Ok, build 117 does seem a lot better. The second run is slower, > but not by such a huge margin. Hm, I can't support this: SunOS fred 5.11 snv_117 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Fire-V440 The system has 16GB of Ram, pool is mirrored over two FUJITSU-M

Re: [zfs-discuss] cannot mount '/tank/home': directory is not empty

2009-06-12 Thread Kurt Schreiner
On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 07:04:35PM +0200, Arthur Bundo wrote: > I am sorry but it says it is empty 2, it doesn't say it is busy. > Hm, maybe autofs is in the play somewhere, having put his hands on /home? Sorry, coming late to this thread, so this may be irrelevant or ruled out before... But IIRC,

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS root boot failure?

2008-06-12 Thread Kurt Schreiner
On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 07:31:49PM +0200, Richard Elling wrote: > Kurt Schreiner wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 06:38:56AM +0200, Richard Elling wrote: > > > >> Vincent Fox wrote: > >> > >>> So I decided to test out failure modes of ZFS root mirro

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS root boot failure?

2008-06-12 Thread Kurt Schreiner
On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 06:38:56AM +0200, Richard Elling wrote: > Vincent Fox wrote: > > So I decided to test out failure modes of ZFS root mirrors. > > > > Installed on a V240 with nv90. Worked great. > > > > Pulled out disk1, then replaced it and attached again, resilvered, all good. > > > > Now