Rich Teer wrote
> Now suppose that I accidentally delete a couple of those files; it is very
> desirable to be able to restore just a certain named subset of the files
> in an archive rather than having to restore the whole archive. I'm looking
> for a tool that can do that.
Now if Joerg wasn't
> Of course when it's time to upgrade you can always
> just call sun and get a Thumper on a "Try before you
> Buy" - and use it as a temporary storage space for
> your files while you re-do your raidz/raidz2 virtual
> device from scratch with an additional disk. zfs
> send/zfs recieve here I come..
Thanks to Constantin Gonzalez and Eric Schrock for answering my initial
report.
- Truncating files to free up some space had worked in the past but not
this time.
From my experiment it seems to be possible to fill up a filesystem
beyond that, for even truncating was met by "No space left on
Unfortunately, truncating files doesn't work either.
> > Eric Schrock wrote:
> > > You don't need to grow the pool. You should always be able truncate the
> > > file without consuming more space, provided you don't have snapshots.
>[..] In the meantime, you can
> truncate large files to free up s
On a system still running nv_30, I've a small RaidZ filled to the brim:
2 3 [EMAIL PROTECTED] pts/9 ~ 78# uname -a
SunOS mir 5.11 snv_30 sun4u sparc SUNW,UltraAX-MP
0 3 [EMAIL PROTECTED] pts/9 ~ 50# zfs list
NAME USED AVAIL REFER MOUNTPOINT
mirpool1 33.6G 0
> SunCluster will support ZFS in our 3.2 release of SunCluster,
> via the HAStoragePlus resource type. This support will be for
> failover use only, not scaleable or active-active applications.
What about quorum reservation in ZFS storage pools.
AFAIK ZFS does not support SCSI3 persistent group re
You may want to give Joergs sformat a try. I'm using it (since SunOS 4.1.1) as
replacement for
format at home, and prefer it for a number of reasons.
# sformat --version
sformat 3.6 (sparc-sun-solaris2.10.1)
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