Re: [zfs-discuss] Backup complete rpool structure and data to tape

2011-05-11 Thread Glenn Lagasse
* Edward Ned Harvey (opensolarisisdeadlongliveopensola...@nedharvey.com) wrote: From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Arjun YK Trying to understand how to backup mirrored zfs boot pool 'rpool' to tape, and restore it backĀ if

Re: [zfs-discuss] How to rename rpool. Is that recommended ?

2011-04-08 Thread Glenn Lagasse
* Arjun YK (arju...@gmail.com) wrote: Hi, Let me add another query. I would assume it would be perfectly ok to choose any name for root pool, instead of 'rpool', during the OS install. Please suggest otherwise. While there is nothing special about the name 'rpool' (thus you *could* change

Re: [zfs-discuss] How to create a checkpoint?

2010-11-09 Thread Glenn Lagasse
* Peter Taps (ptr...@yahoo.com) wrote: Thank you all for your help. Looks like beadm is the utility I was looking for. When I run beadm list, it gives me the complete list and indicates which one is currently active. It doesn't tell me which one is the default boot. Can I assume that

Re: [zfs-discuss] hardware going bad

2010-10-27 Thread Glenn Lagasse
* Harry Putnam (rea...@newsguy.com) wrote: Toby Thain t...@telegraphics.com.au writes: On 27/10/10 4:21 PM, Krunal Desai wrote: I believe he meant a memory stress test, i.e. booting with a memtest86+ CD and seeing if it passed. Correct. The POST tests are not adequate. Got it.

Re: [zfs-discuss] Unexpected ZFS space consumption

2010-10-04 Thread Glenn Lagasse
* JR Dalrymple (j...@jrssite.com) wrote: I'm pretty new to ZFS and OpenSolaris as a whole. I am an experienced storage administrator, however my storage equipment has typically been NetApp or EMC branded. I administer NetApp FAS2000 and FAS3000 series boxes to host a VMware only virtual

Re: [zfs-discuss] Mirroring USB Drive with Laptop for Backup purposes

2010-05-05 Thread Glenn Lagasse
* Edward Ned Harvey (solar...@nedharvey.com) wrote: From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Matt Keenan Just wondering whether mirroring a USB drive with main laptop disk for backup purposes is recommended or not. Plan

Re: [zfs-discuss] Cores vs. Speed?

2010-02-04 Thread Glenn Lagasse
* Brian (broco...@vt.edu) wrote: I am Starting to put together a home NAS server that will have the following roles: (1) Store TV recordings from SageTV over either iSCSI or CIFS. Up to 4 or 5 HD streams at a time. These will be streamed live to the NAS box during recording. (2) Playback

Re: [zfs-discuss] Solaris installation Exiting (caught signal 11 ) and reboot crashes

2010-01-06 Thread Glenn Lagasse
* Richard Elling (richard.ell...@gmail.com) wrote: Hi Pradeep, This is the ZFS forum. You might have better luck on the caiman-discuss forum which is where the folks who work on the installers hang out. Except, that's not where the people who work on the legacy Solaris 10 installers hang out.

Re: [zfs-discuss] Planed ZFS-Features - Is there a List or something else

2009-12-09 Thread Glenn Lagasse
* R.G. Keen (k...@geofex.com) wrote: I didn't see remove a simple device anywhere in there. Is it: too hard to even contemplate doing, or too silly a thing to do to even consider letting that happen or too stupid a question to even consider or too easy and straightforward to do the

Re: [zfs-discuss] Planed ZFS-Features - Is there a List or something else

2009-12-09 Thread Glenn Lagasse
* Neil Perrin (neil.per...@sun.com) wrote: On 12/09/09 13:52, Glenn Lagasse wrote: * R.G. Keen (k...@geofex.com) wrote: I didn't see remove a simple device anywhere in there. Is it: too hard to even contemplate doing, or too silly a thing to do to even consider letting that happen

Re: [zfs-discuss] Which directories must be part of rpool?

2009-09-25 Thread Glenn Lagasse
* David Abrahams (d...@boostpro.com) wrote: on Fri Sep 25 2009, Cindy Swearingen Cindy.Swearingen-AT-Sun.COM wrote: Hi David, All system-related components should remain in the root pool, such as the components needed for booting and running the OS. Yes, of course. But which *are*

Re: [zfs-discuss] Which directories must be part of rpool?

2009-09-25 Thread Glenn Lagasse
* David Magda (dma...@ee.ryerson.ca) wrote: On Sep 25, 2009, at 16:39, Glenn Lagasse wrote: There's very little you can safely move in my experience. /export certainly. Anything else, not really (though ymmv). I tried to create a seperate zfs dataset for /usr/local. That worked some

Re: [zfs-discuss] Fed up with ZFS causing data loss

2009-07-30 Thread Glenn Lagasse
* Rob Terhaar (rob...@robbyt.net) wrote: I'm sure this has been discussed in the past. But its very hard to understand, or even patch incredibly advanced software such as ZFS without a deep understanding of the internals. It's also very hard for the primary ZFS developers to satisfy everyone's

Re: [zfs-discuss] compression at zfs filesystem creation

2009-06-15 Thread Glenn Lagasse
* Shannon Fiume (shannon.fi...@sun.com) wrote: Hi, I just installed 2009.06 and found that compression isn't enabled by default when filesystems are created. Does is make sense to have an RFE open for this? (I'll open one tonight if need be.) We keep telling people to turn on compression.

Re: [zfs-discuss] 24x1TB ZFS system. Best practices for OS install without wasting space.

2009-06-01 Thread Glenn Lagasse
Hi Ray, * Ray Van Dolson (rvandol...@esri.com) wrote: So we have a 24x1TB system (from Silicon Mechanics). It's using an LSI SAS card so we don't have any hardware RAID virtual drive type options. Solaris 10 05/09 I was hoping we could set up one large zpool (RAIDZ) from the installer

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS: unreliable for professional usage?

2009-02-09 Thread Glenn Lagasse
* Orvar Korvar (knatte_fnatte_tja...@yahoo.com) wrote: Seagate7, You are not using ZFS correctly. You have misunderstood how it is used. If you dont follow the manual (which you havent) then any filesystem will cause problems and corruption, even ZFS or ntfs or FAT32, etc. You must use ZFS

Re: [zfs-discuss] Is scrubbing safe in 101b? (OpenSolaris 2008.11)

2009-01-23 Thread Glenn Lagasse
* David Dyer-Bennet (d...@dd-b.net) wrote: On Fri, January 23, 2009 09:52, casper@sun.com wrote: Which leaves me wondering, how safe is running a scrub? Scrub is one of the things that made ZFS so attractive to me, and my automatic reaction when I first hook up the data disks during a

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs boot / root in Nevada build 101

2008-10-29 Thread Glenn Lagasse
* Peter Baer Galvin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: This seems like a n00b question but I'm stuck. Nevada build 101. Doing fresh install (in vmware fusion). I don't see any way to select zfs as the root file system. Looks to me like UFS is the default, but I don't see any option box to allow that

Re: [zfs-discuss] How to remove any references to a zpool that's gone

2008-09-18 Thread Glenn Lagasse
Hey Mark, * Mark J Musante ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hi Glenn, Where is it hanging? Could you provide a stack trace? It's possible that it's just a bug and not a configuration issue. I'll have to recreate the situation (won't be able to do so until next week). I had a zpool status (and

Re: [zfs-discuss] Help! Possible with b80 and newest ZFS?

2008-08-21 Thread Glenn Lagasse
* Orvar Korvar ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I dont think the mother board is on the HCL. But everything worked fine in b90. I realize I havent provided all necessary info. Here is more info. http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=69654tstart=0 The thing is, Ive upgraded ZFS