Re: [zfs-discuss] LSI SAS3081E = unstable drive numbers?

2007-12-16 Thread Paul Jochum
wrote: > > > > Paul Jochum wrote: >>What the lsiutil does for me is clear the persistent mapping for >> all of the drives on a card. > Since James confirms that I'm doomed to ad hoc methods tracking > device-ids to bays, I'm interested in knowing

Re: [zfs-discuss] LSI SAS3081E = unstable drive numbers?

2007-12-12 Thread Paul Jochum
ic. What I really want is to disable > to persistent mapping logic completely - is the `lsiutil` doing that > for you? > > Thanks, > Kent > > > > Paul Jochum wrote: >> Hi Kent: >> >> I have run into the same problem before, and have worked with LSI and

Re: [zfs-discuss] LSI SAS3081E = unstable drive numbers?

2007-12-12 Thread Paul Jochum
s helps. I happened to need it last night again (I normally have to run it after re-imaging a box, assuming that I don't want to save the data that was on those drives). Paul Jochum This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mai

Re: [zfs-discuss] Suggestion/Request: ZFS-aware rm command

2007-11-13 Thread Paul Jochum
I agree, being able to delete the snapshot that a clone is attached to would be a nice feature. Until we get that, this is what I have done (in case this helps anyone else): 1) snapshot the filesystem 2) clone the snapshot into a seperate pool 3) only nfs mount the seperate pool with clones Th

Re: [zfs-discuss] Suggestion/Request: ZFS-aware rm command

2007-11-12 Thread Paul Jochum
Hi Richard: I just tried your suggestion, unfortunately it doesn't work. Basically: make a clone of the snapshot - works bine in the clone, remove the directories - works fine make a snapshot of the clone - works fine destroy the clone - fails, because ZFS reports that the "filesystem has child

Re: [zfs-discuss] Suggestion/Request: ZFS-aware rm command

2007-11-08 Thread Paul Jochum
Hi All: Actually, I am running into the same case (need to remove certain files from a snapshot), let me give you a good example of why we need to do it. In our case, we use zfs snapshots to store online backups of home file systems (that is, readily accessable to employees if they need to reco