Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs is a co-dependent parent and won't let children leave home

2008-12-18 Thread Ethan Quach
Seymour Krebs wrote: > Ethan, > > 1. No zones. > > 2. with BE_PRINT_ERR=true (sorry destroy now works) > > ~# beadm list > BEActive Mountpoint SpacePolicy Created > ---- -- --- --- > b101b - - 6.14G

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs is a co-dependent parent and won't let children leave home

2008-12-18 Thread Seymour Krebs
Ethan, 1. No zones. 2. with BE_PRINT_ERR=true (sorry destroy now works) ~# beadm list BEActive Mountpoint SpacePolicy Created ---- -- --- --- b101b - - 6.14Gstatic 2008-11-14 09:17 b103pre NR

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs is a co-dependent parent and won't let children leave home

2008-12-18 Thread Seymour Krebs
1. sorry for the delay in replying. 2. the reason that I was originally using zfs destroy was that beadm destroy failed. 3. Current state of affairs: ~# beadm list BEActive Mountpoint SpacePolicy Created ---- -- --- ---

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs is a co-dependent parent and won't let children leave home

2008-12-16 Thread Ethan Quach
cindy.swearin...@sun.com wrote: > Hi Seymour, > > I didn't get a chance to reproduce this until today and I noticed > that originally you used zfs destroy to remove the unwanted BE (b99). > > I tested these steps by using beadm destroy with the auto snapshots > running and didn't see the proble

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs is a co-dependent parent and won't let children leave home

2008-12-16 Thread Cindy . Swearingen
Hi Seymour, I didn't get a chance to reproduce this until today and I noticed that originally you used zfs destroy to remove the unwanted BE (b99). I tested these steps by using beadm destroy with the auto snapshots running and didn't see the problems listed below. I think your eventual beadm des

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs is a co-dependent parent and won't let children leave home

2008-12-09 Thread Ross
>> we should either promote immediately on creation, or perhaps beadm destroy >> could do the promotion behind the covers. >> - Tim > If I understand this right, the latter option looks > better to me. Why > consume the disk space before you have to? > What does LU do? > -Kyle However, if you

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs is a co-dependent parent and won't let children leave home

2008-12-09 Thread Mark J Musante
On Tue, 9 Dec 2008, Tim Haley wrote: > > ludelete doesn't handle this any better than beadm destroy does, it > fails for the same reasons. lucreate does not promote the clone it > creates when a new BE is spawned, either. Live upgrade's luactivate command is meant to promote the BE during init 6

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs is a co-dependent parent and won't let children leave home

2008-12-09 Thread Tim Haley
Kyle McDonald wrote: > Tim Haley wrote: >> Ross wrote: >> >>> While it's good that this is at least possible, that looks horribly >>> complicated to me. >>> Does anybody know if there's any work being done on making it easy to >>> remove obsolete >>> boot environments? >>> >> If the cl

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs is a co-dependent parent and won't let children leave home

2008-12-09 Thread Kyle McDonald
Tim Haley wrote: > Ross wrote: > >> While it's good that this is at least possible, that looks horribly >> complicated to me. >> Does anybody know if there's any work being done on making it easy to remove >> obsolete >> boot environments? >> > > If the clones were promoted at the time

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs is a co-dependent parent and won't let children leave home

2008-12-09 Thread Tim Haley
Ross wrote: > While it's good that this is at least possible, that looks horribly > complicated to me. > Does anybody know if there's any work being done on making it easy to remove > obsolete > boot environments? If the clones were promoted at the time of their creation the BEs would stay i

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs is a co-dependent parent and won't let children leave home

2008-12-09 Thread Ross
While it's good that this is at least possible, that looks horribly complicated to me. Does anybody know if there's any work being done on making it easy to remove obsolete boot environments? -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs is a co-dependent parent and won't let children leave home

2008-12-08 Thread Seymour Krebs
Will, thanks for the info on the 'zfs get origin' command. I had previously tried to promote the BEs but saw no effect. I can now see with 'origin' that there is a sequential promotion scheme and some fo the BEs had to be promoted twice to free them from their life of servitude and disgrace.

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs is a co-dependent parent and won't let children leave home

2008-12-08 Thread Will Murnane
On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 13:03, Seymour Krebs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ~# zfs destroy -r rpool/ROOT/b99 > cannot destroy 'rpool/ROOT/b99': filesystem has dependent clones Take a look at the output of "zfs get origin" for the other filesystems in the pool. One of them is a clone of rpool/ROOT/b99

[zfs-discuss] zfs is a co-dependent parent and won't let children leave home

2008-12-08 Thread Seymour Krebs
Please if anyone can help with this mess, I'd appreciate it. ~# beadm list BE Active Mountpoint SpacePolicy Created -- -- -- --- --- b100- - 6.88Gstatic 2008-10-30 13:59 b101a - - 960.