Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Recovering from power loss on USB ZFS pool?

2014-03-28 Thread Laurent Blume
Le 2014/03/28 09:35 +0100, Jonathan Adams a écrit: The Current Ubuntu ZFS driver (in the repository) is one step behind the hipster variant, I cannot currently mount my hipster partition when I've booted Ubuntu on the same computer ... Yes, they've been recommending to use HEAD lately, and

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Recovering from power loss on USB ZFS pool?

2014-03-28 Thread Andrew Gabriel
In my experience, one USB stick usually works OK. Multiple USB sticks all accessed together, and you usually find the transport to all of them goes up and down like a yoyo, as though something was getting the threading of the connections across USB screwed up. (This is a shame because I'd love

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Recovering from power loss on USB ZFS pool?

2014-03-28 Thread Michael Stapleton
, Michael Stapleton michael.staple...@techsologic.com wrote: Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Recovering from power loss on USB ZFS pool? To: Discussion list for OpenIndiana openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org Date: Friday, March 28, 2014, 10:04 AM I'm not sure when things changed

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Recovering from power loss on USB ZFS pool?

2014-03-28 Thread Reginald Beardsley
based system image. In the end I gave up and just did manual installs. On Fri, 3/28/14, Michael Stapleton michael.staple...@techsologic.com wrote: Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Recovering from power loss on USB ZFS pool? To: Discussion list

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Recovering from power loss on USB ZFS pool?

2014-03-28 Thread Michael Stapleton
I'm not sure when things changed, but way back in the OpenSolaris days, I had the root drive in my laptop mirrored to an external USB drive. I never had problems back then. I would do a demonstration where I would remove the USB drive while the laptop was up and running, and then plug the USB

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Recovering from power loss on USB ZFS pool?

2014-03-27 Thread Reginald Beardsley
What's the correct way to recover from loss of power to a USB disk based pool? I cleverly unplugged the wrong wall wart from the power strip behind my monitor and dropped power to a USB disk that was being written to. The system stayed up, but any attempt to restart or kill the write operation

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Recovering from power loss on USB ZFS pool?

2014-03-27 Thread Jonathan Adams
On 27 March 2014 18:28, Reginald Beardsley pulask...@yahoo.com wrote: What's the correct way to recover from loss of power to a USB disk based pool? I cleverly unplugged the wrong wall wart from the power strip behind my monitor and dropped power to a USB disk that was being written to. The

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Recovering from power loss on USB ZFS pool?

2014-03-27 Thread Laurent Blume
Le 2014/03/27 22:23 +0100, Jonathan Adams a écrit: on a positive note, taking an unreliable old USB ZFS pool off of a misbehaving Solaris 10 box and plugging into an Ubuntu with ZFS allowed the USB drive to work flawlessly for a long time thereafter ... Ubuntu ZFS seems a lot more stable and