Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Boot Recovery after Motherboard Death

2009-12-13 Thread Richard Elling
On Dec 13, 2009, at 12:17 PM, Peter Tribble wrote: On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 5:08 PM, Richard Elling wrote: On Dec 12, 2009, at 12:53 AM, dick hoogendijk wrote: Do I understand correctly if I read this as: OpenSolaris is able to switch between systems without reinstalling? Just a zfs import -f

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Boot Recovery after Motherboard Death

2009-12-13 Thread Peter Tribble
On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 5:08 PM, Richard Elling wrote: > On Dec 12, 2009, at 12:53 AM, dick hoogendijk wrote: > >> Do I understand correctly if I read this as: OpenSolaris is able to >> switch between systems without reinstalling? Just a zfs import -f and >> everything runs? Wow, that would be an

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Boot Recovery after Motherboard Death

2009-12-13 Thread Jerry Kemp
It may not be supported, but you can swap drives between systems and it does work very well. I did a Solaris 8 -> Solaris 10 migration on ~200 systems in 2007. I had a set of systems that I jumpstarted, then, once the system was built, I pulled the drives and placed them in the new system.

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Boot Recovery after Motherboard Death

2009-12-12 Thread Richard Elling
On Dec 12, 2009, at 10:32 AM, Mattias Pantzare wrote: On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 18:08, Richard Elling > wrote: On Dec 12, 2009, at 12:53 AM, dick hoogendijk wrote: On Sat, 2009-12-12 at 00:22 +, Moritz Willers wrote: The host identity had - of course - changed with the new motherboard an

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Boot Recovery after Motherboard Death

2009-12-12 Thread Toby Thain
On 12-Dec-09, at 1:32 PM, Mattias Pantzare wrote: On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 18:08, Richard Elling wrote: On Dec 12, 2009, at 12:53 AM, dick hoogendijk wrote: On Sat, 2009-12-12 at 00:22 +, Moritz Willers wrote: The host identity had - of course - changed with the new motherboard and

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Boot Recovery after Motherboard Death

2009-12-12 Thread Mattias Pantzare
On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 18:08, Richard Elling wrote: > On Dec 12, 2009, at 12:53 AM, dick hoogendijk wrote: > >> On Sat, 2009-12-12 at 00:22 +, Moritz Willers wrote: >> >>> The host identity had - of course - changed with the new motherboard >>> and it no longer recognised the zpool as its own

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Boot Recovery after Motherboard Death

2009-12-12 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Sat, 12 Dec 2009, dick hoogendijk wrote: Because, like I said, I always understood it was very difficult to change disks to another system and run the installed solaris version on that new hardware. A place where I used to work had several thousand Sun workstations and I noticed that if a

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Boot Recovery after Motherboard Death

2009-12-12 Thread dick hoogendijk
On Sat, 2009-12-12 at 09:08 -0800, Richard Elling wrote: > On Dec 12, 2009, at 12:53 AM, dick hoogendijk wrote: > > > On Sat, 2009-12-12 at 00:22 +, Moritz Willers wrote: > > > >> The host identity had - of course - changed with the new motherboard > >> and it no longer recognised the zpool as

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Boot Recovery after Motherboard Death

2009-12-12 Thread Richard Elling
On Dec 12, 2009, at 12:53 AM, dick hoogendijk wrote: On Sat, 2009-12-12 at 00:22 +, Moritz Willers wrote: The host identity had - of course - changed with the new motherboard and it no longer recognised the zpool as its own. 'zpool import -f rpool' to take ownership, reboot and it all wor

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Boot Recovery after Motherboard Death

2009-12-12 Thread dick hoogendijk
On Sat, 2009-12-12 at 00:22 +, Moritz Willers wrote: > The host identity had - of course - changed with the new motherboard > and it no longer recognised the zpool as its own. 'zpool import -f > rpool' to take ownership, reboot and it all worked no problem (which > was amazing in itself as