Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS GSoC ideas page rough draft

2009-03-14 Thread Blake
That's excellent information Richard. I have just exported the faulted pool (the disks aren't attached), but what you are suggesting is verified by looking at the cache as it is - I can see this information for my rpool mirror disks. One other note - I see that using the old prtvtoc | fmthard tri

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS GSoC ideas page rough draft

2009-03-14 Thread Richard Elling
Toby Thain wrote: On 14-Mar-09, at 12:09 PM, Blake wrote: I just thought of an enhancement to zfs that would be very helpful in disaster recovery situations - having zfs cache device serial/model numbers - the information we see in cfgadm -v. +1 I haven't needed this but it sounds very sens

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS GSoC ideas page rough draft

2009-03-14 Thread Toby Thain
On 14-Mar-09, at 12:09 PM, Blake wrote: I just thought of an enhancement to zfs that would be very helpful in disaster recovery situations - having zfs cache device serial/model numbers - the information we see in cfgadm -v. +1 I haven't needed this but it sounds very sensible. I can imagine

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS GSoC ideas page rough draft

2009-03-14 Thread Blake
I just thought of an enhancement to zfs that would be very helpful in disaster recovery situations - having zfs cache device serial/model numbers - the information we see in cfgadm -v. I'm feeling the pain of this now as I try to figure out which disks on my failed filer belonged to my raidz2 pool

[zfs-discuss] ZFS GSoC ideas page rough draft

2009-03-09 Thread C.
Here's my rough draft of GSoC ideas http://www.osunix.org/docs/DOC-1022 Also want to thank everyone for their feedback. Please keep in mind that for creating a stronger application we only have a few days. We still need to : 1) Find more mentors. (Please add your name to the doc or confir