Re: [zfs-discuss] Replacing the boot HDDs in x4500

2008-08-01 Thread Ross
I'd expect that to work personally, although I'd just drop one of your boot mirrors in myself. That leaves the second drive untouched for your other server. It also means that if it works you could just wipe the old snv_70b and re-establish the boot mirrors on each server with them. This

Re: [zfs-discuss] Replacing the boot HDDs in x4500

2008-08-01 Thread Ross
Wipe the snv_70b disks I meant. This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Replacing the boot HDDs in x4500

2008-08-01 Thread Ross
But zfs send/receive is very different to zfs import. I'm not sure if zfs send/receive work across different versions of zfs, I vaguely remember reading something about it not working, but can't find anything specific about it right now. I do think a zfs import after booting from the new

Re: [zfs-discuss] Replacing the boot HDDs in x4500

2008-08-01 Thread Jorgen Lundman
Ross wrote: I do think a zfs import after booting from the new drives should work fine, and it doesn't automatically upgrade the pool, so you can still go back to snv_70b if needed. Alas, it would be downgrade. Which is why I think it will fail. PS. In your first post you said you

Re: [zfs-discuss] Replacing the boot HDDs in x4500

2008-08-01 Thread Jorgen Lundman
Ross wrote: Not if you don't upgrade the pool it won't. ZFS can import and work with an old version of the filesystem fine. The manual page for zpool upgrade says: Older versions can continue to be used Just import it on Solaris 5/08 without doing the upgrade. Your ZFS pool will be

Re: [zfs-discuss] Replacing the boot HDDs in x4500

2008-08-01 Thread Ian Collins
Ross wrote: Wipe the snv_70b disks I meant. What disks? This message makes no sense without context. Context free messages are a pain in the arse for those of us who use the mail list. Ian ___ zfs-discuss mailing list

Re: [zfs-discuss] Replacing the boot HDDs in x4500

2008-08-01 Thread Ross Smith
Subject: Re: [zfs-discuss] Replacing the boot HDDs in x4500 Ross wrote: Wipe the snv_70b disks I meant. What disks? This message makes no sense without context. Context free messages are a pain in the arse for those of us who use the mail list. Ian

[zfs-discuss] Replacing the boot HDDs in x4500

2008-07-31 Thread Jorgen Lundman
We have having some issues in copying the existing data on our Sol 11 snv_70b x4500 to the new Sol 10 5/08 x4500. With all the panics, and crashes, we have had no chance to completely copy a single filesystem. (ETA for that is about 48 hours). What are the chances that I can zpool import all