Kyle wrote: > So if preserving the home filesystem through > re-installs are really > important, putting the home filesystem in a separate > pool may be in > order.
My problem similar to the original thread author, and this scenario is exactly the one I had in mind. I figured out a workable solution from the zfs admin guide, but I've only tested this in virtualbox. I have no idea how well this would work if I actually had hundreds of gigabytes of data. I also don't know if my solution is the recommended way to do this, so please let me know if anyone has a better method. Here's my solution: (1) n...@holodeck:~# zpool create epool mirror c4t1d0 c4t2d0 c4t3d0 n...@holodeck:~# zfs list NAME USED AVAIL REFER MOUNTPOINT epool 69K 15.6G 18K /epool rpool 3.68G 11.9G 72K /rpool rpool/ROOT 2.81G 11.9G 18K legacy rpool/ROOT/opensolaris 2.81G 11.9G 2.68G / rpool/dump 383M 11.9G 383M - rpool/export 632K 11.9G 19K /export rpool/export/home 612K 11.9G 19K /export/home rpool/export/home/noz 594K 11.9G 594K /export/home/noz rpool/swap 512M 12.4G 21.1M - n...@holodeck:~# (2) n...@holodeck:~# zfs snapshot -r rpool/exp...@now (3) n...@holodeck:~# zfs send -R rpool/exp...@now > /tmp/export_now (4) n...@holodeck:~# zfs destroy -r -f rpool/export (5) n...@holodeck:~# zfs recv -d epool < /tmp/export_now n...@holodeck:~# zfs list NAME USED AVAIL REFER MOUNTPOINT epool 756K 15.6G 18K /epool epool/export 630K 15.6G 19K /export epool/export/home 612K 15.6G 19K /export/home epool/export/home/noz 592K 15.6G 592K /export/home/noz rpool 3.68G 11.9G 72K /rpool rpool/ROOT 2.81G 11.9G 18K legacy rpool/ROOT/opensolaris 2.81G 11.9G 2.68G / rpool/dump 383M 11.9G 383M - rpool/swap 512M 12.4G 21.1M - n...@holodeck:~# (6) n...@holodeck:~# zfs mount -a or (6) reboot The only part I'm uncomfortable with is when I have to destroy rpool's export filesystem (step 4), because trying to destroy without the -f switch results in a "filesystem is active" error. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
