IDR's are fixes for troubles from the initial development state. The patches noted are the official fixes.
On Wed, 2010-03-03 at 11:03, Robert Loper wrote: > Can you clarify what this "IDR" is? I do not have Sun Support on this > specific server. > > - Robert Loper > > On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 11:51 AM, Francois Napoleoni > <francois.napole...@sun.com> wrote: > From my experience with customer hitting this bug, installing > the now obsolete IDR and rebooting was enoug hto get ride of > these sparse file bug. > > F. > > Geoff Shipman wrote: > The Solaris 10 Update 8 has the fix for 6792701 > included. This is part > of kernel patches 141444-09 (sparc), 141445-09 (x86). > For OpenSolaris > build 118 or later contains the fix so in the > development builds. > This avoids future problems with the CR but if your > currently effected > by the problem the fix doesn't clear the troubles. > > I believe a backup of the data, then destroy of the > file system, then > recreating it and restoring is method to clear the > space. With the > later kernel the problem is avoided in the future. > > Geoff > > On Wed, 2010-03-03 at 10:14, Francois Napoleoni wrote: > If you have a valid Solaris Support contract > you can ask for the corresponding IDR to fix > this issue. > > (Hi to Richard E. ... who must be boiling > right now :) ) > > F. > > Edward Ned Harvey wrote: > I don?t know the answer to your > question, but I am running the same > version of OS you are, and this bug > could affect us. Do you have > any > link to any documentation about this > bug? I?d like to forward > something > to inform the other admins at work. > > > > > *From:* > zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org > [mailto:zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org] > *On Behalf Of *Robert > Loper > *Sent:* Tuesday, March 02, 2010 12:09 > PM > *To:* zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org > *Subject:* [zfs-discuss] Any way to > fix ZFS "sparse file bug" > #6792701 > > I have a Solaris x86 server running > update 6 (Solaris 10 10/08 > s10x_u6wos_07b X86). I recently hit > this "sparse file bug" when I deleted > a 512GB sparse file from a 1.2TB > filesystem and the space > was > never freed up. What I am asking is > would there be any way to > recover > the space in the filesystem without > having to destroy and recreate > it? > I am assuming before trying anything I > would need to update the > server > to U8. > > Thanks in advance... > > -- > Robert Loper > rlo...@gmail.com > <mailto:rlo...@gmail.com> > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > zfs-discuss mailing list > zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org > > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss > -- > Francois Napoleoni / Sun Support Engineer > mail : francois.napole...@sun.com > phone : +33 (0)1 3403 1707 > fax : +33 (0)1 3403 1114 > > _______________________________________________ > zfs-discuss mailing list > zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org > > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss > > -- > Francois Napoleoni / Sun Support Engineer > mail : francois.napole...@sun.com > phone : +33 (0)1 3403 1707 > fax : +33 (0)1 3403 1114 > > > > > > -- > Robert Loper > rlo...@gmail.com > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > _______________________________________________ > zfs-discuss mailing list > zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss -- Geoff Shipman - (303) 223-6266 Systems Technology Service Center - Operating System Solaris and Network Technology Domain Americas Systems Technology Service Center _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
