In the old days of UFS, on occasion one might create multiple file systems
(using multiple partitions) of a large LUN if filesystem corruption was a
concern. It didn’t happen often but filesystem corruption has happened. So,
if filesystem X was corrupt filesystem Y would be just fine.
With
Is it possible that a faulty disk controller could cause corruption to a
zpool? I think I had this experience recently when doing a 'zpool replace'
with both the old/new device attached to a controller that I discovered was
faulty (because I got data checksum errors, and had to dig for backups).
On 8/11/07, Russ Petruzzelli [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Is it possible/recommended to create a zpool and zfs setup such that the OS
itself (in root /) is in its own zpool?
Yes. You're looking for zfs root and it's easiest if your installer
does that for you. At least latest nexenta unstable
Chris,
In the old days of UFS, on occasion one might create multiple file
systems (using multiple partitions) of a large LUN if filesystem
corruption was a concern. It didn’t happen often but filesystem
corruption has happened. So, if filesystem X was corrupt
filesystem Y would be
Hello everyone, I am slowly running out of space in my zpool.. so I wanted to
replace my zpool with a different zpool..
my current zpool is
zpool list
NAMESIZEUSED AVAILCAP HEALTH ALTROOT
mypool 278G263G 14.7G94% ONLINE -
Thanks for the info folks.
In addition to the 2 replies shown above I got the following very
knowledgeable reply from Jim Dunham (for some reason it has not shown up here
yet so I'm going to paste it in).
Chris,
For the purposes of isolating corruption, the separation of two or more
On 8/11/07, Stan Seibert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm not sure if that answers the question you were asking, but generally I
found that damage to a zpool was very well confined.
But you can't count on it. I currently have an open case where a
zpool became corrupt and put the system into a
