Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Revive retired disks with data sets on them with vitual OI

2012-04-01 Thread Hugh McIntyre
On 3/30/12 8:41 AM, Richard Elling wrote: On Mar 30, 2012, at 2:01 AM, Harry Putnam wrote: USB drives tend to ignore cache flush commands, which can appear as unreliable disks. Shouldn't be much of a problem if you rarely plug them. Is the kind of size (3.5 TB) and scale mentioned above

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Revive retired disks with data sets on them with vitual OI

2012-04-01 Thread Richard Elling
On Apr 1, 2012, at 12:48 PM, Hugh McIntyre wrote: On 3/30/12 8:41 AM, Richard Elling wrote: On Mar 30, 2012, at 2:01 AM, Harry Putnam wrote: USB drives tend to ignore cache flush commands, which can appear as unreliable disks. Shouldn't be much of a problem if you rarely plug them. Is

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Revive retired disks with data sets on them with vitual OI

2012-03-30 Thread Harry Putnam
Jonathan Adams t12nsloo...@gmail.com writes: Probably not the most reliable, but definitely the easiest, way to get access to your data is to use USB disks because VirtualBox allows direct USB passthrough. My boss uses OpenSolaris with USB drives to get access to the ZFS pool running on his

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Revive retired disks with data sets on them with vitual OI

2012-03-30 Thread Richard Elling
On Mar 30, 2012, at 2:01 AM, Harry Putnam wrote: Richard Elling richard.ell...@richardelling.com writes: On Mar 26, 2012, at 12:34 PM, Jonathan Adams wrote: Probably not the most reliable, but definitely the easiest, way to get access to your data is to use USB disks because VirtualBox

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Revive retired disks with data sets on them with vitual OI

2012-03-26 Thread Jonathan Adams
Probably not the most reliable, but definitely the easiest, way to get access to your data is to use USB disks because VirtualBox allows direct USB passthrough. My boss uses OpenSolaris with USB drives to get access to the ZFS pool running on his Linux system. Jon On 26 March 2012 01:52, Harry

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Revive retired disks with data sets on them with vitual OI

2012-03-26 Thread Richard Elling
On Mar 26, 2012, at 12:34 PM, Jonathan Adams wrote: Probably not the most reliable, but definitely the easiest, way to get access to your data is to use USB disks because VirtualBox allows direct USB passthrough. My boss uses OpenSolaris with USB drives to get access to the ZFS pool running

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Revive retired disks with data sets on them with vitual OI

2012-03-25 Thread Harry Putnam
I have several disks from a period when I had a hardware setup of OI on its own physical machine. I'm now trying to run OI as a Virtualbox Guest on a 64bit win 7 machine. I've had it running for some time but just using some small virtual disks to play around with. The win7 box is a Sager