Re: [zfs-discuss] SVM - UFS Upgrade

2006-11-17 Thread Darren J Moffat
Bill Sommerfeld wrote: On Thu, 2006-11-16 at 16:08 -0800, Fred Zlotnick wrote: I'm curious to hear of any migration success stories - or not - that folks on this alias have experienced. You can send them to me and I'll summarize to the alias. I sent one to this list some months ago. To recap

Re: [zfs-discuss] SVM - UFS Upgrade

2006-11-16 Thread Bill Sommerfeld
On Thu, 2006-11-16 at 16:08 -0800, Fred Zlotnick wrote: > I'm curious to hear of any migration success stories - or not - that > folks on this alias have experienced. You can send them to me and > I'll summarize to the alias. I sent one to this list some months ago. To recap, I used a variant of

Re: [zfs-discuss] SVM - UFS Upgrade

2006-11-16 Thread Fred Zlotnick
This is the Migration Problem: given a dataset on a on-ZFS file system, what is the safest and easiest way to move it to a ZFS pool. There are two and a half cases: 1. You need to reuse the existing storage. 1.5 You have some extra storage, but not enough for 2 copies of all your data. 2. You

Re: [zfs-discuss] SVM - UFS Upgrade

2006-11-16 Thread Darren Dunham
> Is it possible to convert/upgrade a file system that is currently > under the control of Solaris Volume Manager to ZFS? SVM or not doesn't really matter. There's no method for converting an existing filesystem to ZFS in place. You'll have to populate the ZFS pool after allocating storage to

Re: [zfs-discuss] SVM - UFS Upgrade

2006-11-16 Thread Torrey McMahon
Not automagically. You'll need to do a dump/restore or copy from one to the other. - Original Message From: Dan Christensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org Sent: Thursday, November 16, 2006 5:52:51 PM Subject: [zfs-discuss] SVM - UFS Upgrade Is it

[zfs-discuss] SVM - UFS Upgrade

2006-11-16 Thread Dan Christensen
Is it possible to convert/upgrade a file system that is currently under the control of Solaris Volume Manager to ZFS? Thanks This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.or