Re: [zfs-discuss] rename zpool

2010-11-09 Thread sridhar surampudi
zfs close is at zfs file system level. what i am look here is rebuild the file system stack from bottom to top. Once i took the snapshot ( hardware) the snapshot devices carry same copy of data and meta data. If my snapshot device is dev2 then, the metadata will have smpoolsnap. If I need to us

Re: [zfs-discuss] rename zpool

2010-10-20 Thread Ian Collins
On 10/20/10 08:12 PM, sridhar surampudi wrote: Hi Cindys, Thank you for reply. zfs/ zpool should have ability of accessing snapshot devices with a configurable name. As an example if file system stack is created as vxfs( /mnt1) | | vxvm(lv1) | | (device from an array / LUN say de

Re: [zfs-discuss] rename zpool

2010-10-20 Thread sridhar surampudi
Hi Cindys, Thank you for reply. zfs/ zpool should have ability of accessing snapshot devices with a configurable name. As an example if file system stack is created as vxfs( /mnt1) | | vxvm(lv1) | | (device from an array / LUN say dev1), If i take array level or hardware level sn

Re: [zfs-discuss] rename zpool

2010-10-19 Thread Cindy Swearingen
Hi Sridhar, The answer to the first question is definitely no: No way exists to change a pool name without exporting and importing the pool. I thought we had an open CR that covered renaming pools but I can't find it. The underlying pool devices contain pool information and no easy way exists t

[zfs-discuss] rename zpool

2010-10-19 Thread sridhar surampudi
Hi, I have two questions: 1) Is there any way of renaming zpool without export/import ?? 2) If I took hardware snapshot of devices under a zpool ( where the snapshot device will be exact copy including metadata i.e zpool and associated file systems) is there any way to rename zpool name of snap