Re: [zfs-discuss] Comments on a ZFS multiple use of a pool, RFE.

2006-09-18 Thread Richard Elling - PAE
Robert Milkowski wrote: Hello James, I belive that storing hostid, etc. in a label and checking if it matches on auto-import is the right solution. Before it's implemented you can use -R right now with home-clusters and don't worry about auto-import. hostid isn't sufficient (got a scar), so pe

Re[2]: [zfs-discuss] Comments on a ZFS multiple use of a pool, RFE.

2006-09-17 Thread Robert Milkowski
Hello James, I belive that storing hostid, etc. in a label and checking if it matches on auto-import is the right solution. Before it's implemented you can use -R right now with home-clusters and don't worry about auto-import. However maybe doing (optional) SCSI reservation on a pool would be a

Re: [zfs-discuss] Comments on a ZFS multiple use of a pool, RFE.

2006-09-14 Thread Torrey McMahon
James Dickens wrote: eric was allready talking about printing the last time a disk was accessed when a disk was about to be imported, my idea would be run that check twice, once initially and if it looks like it could be still in use, like the pool wasn't exported and last write occurred in the

Re: [zfs-discuss] Comments on a ZFS multiple use of a pool, RFE.

2006-09-14 Thread James Dickens
On 9/14/06, Darren J Moffat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: James Dickens wrote: > On 9/13/06, Eric Schrock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Wed, Sep 13, 2006 at 02:29:55PM -0500, James Dickens wrote: >> > >> > this would not be the first time that Solaris overrided an administive >> > command, becaus

Re: [zfs-discuss] Comments on a ZFS multiple use of a pool, RFE.

2006-09-14 Thread Darren J Moffat
James Dickens wrote: On 9/13/06, Eric Schrock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wed, Sep 13, 2006 at 02:29:55PM -0500, James Dickens wrote: > > this would not be the first time that Solaris overrided an administive > command, because its just not safe or sane to do so. For example. > > rm -rf / As

Re: [zfs-discuss] Comments on a ZFS multiple use of a pool, RFE.

2006-09-13 Thread James Dickens
On 9/13/06, Eric Schrock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wed, Sep 13, 2006 at 02:29:55PM -0500, James Dickens wrote: > > this would not be the first time that Solaris overrided an administive > command, because its just not safe or sane to do so. For example. > > rm -rf / As I've repeated before,

Re: [zfs-discuss] Comments on a ZFS multiple use of a pool, RFE.

2006-09-13 Thread Eric Schrock
On Wed, Sep 13, 2006 at 02:29:55PM -0500, James Dickens wrote: > > this would not be the first time that Solaris overrided an administive > command, because its just not safe or sane to do so. For example. > > rm -rf / As I've repeated before, and will continue to repeat, it's not actually possi

Re: [zfs-discuss] Comments on a ZFS multiple use of a pool, RFE.

2006-09-13 Thread James Dickens
On 9/13/06, Eric Schrock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: There are several problems I can see: - This is what the original '-f' flag is for. I think a better approach is to expand the default message of 'zpool import' with more information, such as which was the last host to access the pool and

Re: [zfs-discuss] Comments on a ZFS multiple use of a pool, RFE.

2006-09-13 Thread Eric Schrock
There are several problems I can see: - This is what the original '-f' flag is for. I think a better approach is to expand the default message of 'zpool import' with more information, such as which was the last host to access the pool and when. The point of '-f' is that you have recognized

[zfs-discuss] Comments on a ZFS multiple use of a pool, RFE.

2006-09-13 Thread James Dickens
I filed this RFE earlier, since there is no way for non sun personel to see this RFE for a while I am posting it here, and asking for feedback from the community. [Fwd: CR 6470231 Created P5 opensolaris/triage-queue Add an inuse check that is inforced even if import -f is used.] Inbox Assign a