Re: [zfs-discuss] Current status of a ZFS root

2006-10-30 Thread Richard Elling - PAE
[Richard removes his Sun hat...] Ceri Davies wrote: On Sun, Oct 29, 2006 at 12:01:45PM -0800, Richard Elling - PAE wrote: Chris Adams wrote: We're looking at replacing a current Linux server with a T1000 + a fiber channel enclosure to take advantage of ZFS. Unfortunately, the T1000 only has a

Re: [zfs-discuss] Current status of a ZFS root

2006-10-30 Thread Ceri Davies
On Sun, Oct 29, 2006 at 12:01:45PM -0800, Richard Elling - PAE wrote: > Chris Adams wrote: > >We're looking at replacing a current Linux server with a T1000 + a fiber > >channel enclosure to take advantage of ZFS. Unfortunately, the T1000 only > >has a single drive bay (!) which makes it impossib

CLARIFICATION: Re: [zfs-discuss] Current status of a ZFS root

2006-10-29 Thread Richard Elling - PAE
CLARIFICATION below. Richard Elling - PAE wrote: Chris Adams wrote: We're looking at replacing a current Linux server with a T1000 + a fiber channel enclosure to take advantage of ZFS. Unfortunately, the T1000 only has a single drive bay (!) which makes it impossible to follow our normal prac

Re: [zfs-discuss] Current status of a ZFS root

2006-10-29 Thread Matt Ingenthron
Richard Elling - PAE wrote: Is anyone actually booting ZFS in production and, if so, would you recommend this approach? At this time, I would not recommend it for SPARC systems. I'll note that I've been using S10U2 on a similar system (two drives) with slices. I currently have S10U2 with sp

Re: [zfs-discuss] Current status of a ZFS root

2006-10-29 Thread Richard Elling - PAE
Chris Adams wrote: We're looking at replacing a current Linux server with a T1000 + a fiber channel enclosure to take advantage of ZFS. Unfortunately, the T1000 only has a single drive bay (!) which makes it impossible to follow our normal practice of mirroring the root file system; naturally t

Re: [zfs-discuss] Current status of a ZFS root

2006-10-28 Thread Dick Davies
On 28/10/06, Mike Gerdts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 10/28/06, Dick Davies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > http://solaristhings.blogspot.com/2006/06/zfs-root-on-solaris-part-2.html The original question was about using ZFS root on a T1000. /grub looks suspiciously incompatible with the T1000 b

Re: [zfs-discuss] Current status of a ZFS root

2006-10-28 Thread Jeff Victor
Brian Hechinger wrote: On Sat, Oct 28, 2006 at 08:19:24AM -0500, Mike Gerdts wrote: On 10/28/06, Dick Davies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: http://solaristhings.blogspot.com/2006/06/zfs-root-on-solaris-part-2.html It uses a /grub partition rather than a full root FS to boot from - you still need

Re: [zfs-discuss] Current status of a ZFS root

2006-10-28 Thread Brian Hechinger
On Sat, Oct 28, 2006 at 08:19:24AM -0500, Mike Gerdts wrote: > On 10/28/06, Dick Davies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >http://solaristhings.blogspot.com/2006/06/zfs-root-on-solaris-part-2.html > > > >It uses a /grub partition rather than a full root FS to boot from - you > >still need a UFS / for th

Re: [zfs-discuss] Current status of a ZFS root

2006-10-28 Thread Mike Gerdts
On 10/28/06, Dick Davies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: http://solaristhings.blogspot.com/2006/06/zfs-root-on-solaris-part-2.html It uses a /grub partition rather than a full root FS to boot from - you still need a UFS / for the initial install, but after the first boot into ZFS you can reformat tha

Re: [zfs-discuss] Current status of a ZFS root

2006-10-28 Thread Dick Davies
On 27/10/06, Christopher Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: You can manually set up a ZFS root environment but it requires a UFS partition to boot off of. See: http://blogs.sun.com/tabriz/entry/are_you_ready_to_rumble There's a slightly improved procedure at http://solaristhings.blogspot.com/20

Re: [zfs-discuss] Current status of a ZFS root

2006-10-27 Thread Lori . Alt
Brian Hechinger wrote: On Fri, Oct 27, 2006 at 01:23:37PM -0500, Christopher Scott wrote: You can manually set up a ZFS root environment but it requires a UFS partition to boot off of. See: http://blogs.sun.com/tabriz/entry/are_you_ready_to_rumble That's not was I was refering to. I'

Re: [zfs-discuss] Current status of a ZFS root

2006-10-27 Thread Brian Hechinger
On Fri, Oct 27, 2006 at 01:23:37PM -0500, Christopher Scott wrote: > You can manually set up a ZFS root environment but it requires a UFS > partition to boot off of. > See: http://blogs.sun.com/tabriz/entry/are_you_ready_to_rumble That's not was I was refering to. I'm interested in testing the in

Re: [zfs-discuss] Current status of a ZFS root

2006-10-27 Thread Christopher Scott
You can manually set up a ZFS root environment but it requires a UFS partition to boot off of. See: http://blogs.sun.com/tabriz/entry/are_you_ready_to_rumble Brian Hechinger wrote: > On Fri, Oct 27, 2006 at 07:52:36AM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> Chris Adams wrote: >> >> >>> Is a

Re: [zfs-discuss] Current status of a ZFS root

2006-10-27 Thread Brian Hechinger
On Fri, Oct 27, 2006 at 07:52:36AM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Chris Adams wrote: > > >Is anyone actually booting ZFS in production and, if so, would you > >recommend this approach? > > > > > ZFS-boot has not been released in any official way > yet. Only parts of it are available in OpenS

Re: [zfs-discuss] Current status of a ZFS root

2006-10-27 Thread Lori . Alt
Chris Adams wrote: Is anyone actually booting ZFS in production and, if so, would you recommend this approach? ZFS-boot has not been released in any official way yet. Only parts of it are available in OpenSolaris. So no, no one should be booting ZFS in production yet. Lori ___

[zfs-discuss] Current status of a ZFS root

2006-10-26 Thread Chris Adams
We're looking at replacing a current Linux server with a T1000 + a fiber channel enclosure to take advantage of ZFS. Unfortunately, the T1000 only has a single drive bay (!) which makes it impossible to follow our normal practice of mirroring the root file system; naturally the idea of using tha