Re: [zfs-discuss] Notification of Important Improvements to ZFS

2008-05-20 Thread andrew
Your question has already been answered on another thread: 5008936 ZFS and/or zvol should support dumps 5070124 dumpadm -d /dev/... does not enforce block device requirement for savecore 6633197 zvol should not permit newfs or createpool while it's in use by swap or dump You can look these bugs u

Re: [zfs-discuss] Notification of Important Improvements to ZFS

2008-05-19 Thread Paul B. Henson
On Sun, 18 May 2008, andrew wrote: > Apologies for the misinformation. OpenSolaris 2008.05 does *not* put swap > on ZFS, so is *not* susceptible to the bugs that cause lock-ups under > certain situations where the swap is on ZFS. I was just looking into the feasibility of ZFS swap/dump under Open

Re: [zfs-discuss] Notification of Important Improvements to ZFS

2008-05-18 Thread andrew
Apologies for the misinformation. OpenSolaris 2008.05 does *not* put swap on ZFS, so is *not* susceptible to the bugs that cause lock-ups under certain situations where the swap is on ZFS. Cheers Andrew. This message posted from opensolaris.org __

Re: [zfs-discuss] Notification of Important Improvements to ZFS

2008-05-17 Thread andrew
To me, it seems obvious that there are likely to be many people waiting for ZFS root support in the installer. I've added the following text to a page on genunix about the current state of play with ZFS root. Please feel free to use all, any or indeed none of it on http://opensolaris.org/os/com

Re: [zfs-discuss] Notification of Important Improvements to ZFS

2008-05-17 Thread John Beck
andrew> Would it be possible for future significant ZFS-related andrew> improvements to Nevada be flagged up on the "heads up" page andrew> at http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/on/flag-days/all/ andrew> and also on the announce forum/list, along with a note of andrew> which build of Nevada th

[zfs-discuss] Notification of Important Improvements to ZFS

2008-05-17 Thread andrew
Would it be possible for future significant ZFS-related improvements to Nevada be flagged up on the "heads up" page at http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/on/flag-days/all/ and also on the announce forum/list, along with a note of which build of Nevada they were integrated to? I'm thinking