[osol-discuss] ZFS corruption - trying to deleting files gives "Bad exchange descriptor"

2009-05-19 Thread Justin SB
I had some disk corruption on a disk that comprises a zpool. Mostly the filesystem is OK, but there are a few files which are not readable. If I try to read or delete these files, I get the error message "Bad exchange descriptor". How can I delete these files? My goal is to restore the zpo

[osol-discuss] Drops NIC driver during smb transfer, plus weird oddities

2009-05-19 Thread CF
I've had a server up for about a week, and something strange happened while copying a batch of files over the network. After copying for about three hours, I lost connectivity to the server, although it answered my ping and the my xVMs were up. The machine only showed a black screen with some e

Re: [osol-discuss] Some trouble with Samba & Snapshots

2009-05-19 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
Yup, you’re right. Colon is not a valid character for CIFS. So now I know the cause. I only have to figure out the solution. :-) Thank you. From: Zhu, Lejun [mailto:lejun@intel.com] Sent: Monday, May 18, 2009 10:40 PM To: Edward Ned Harvey; opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org Subject: RE:

Re: [osol-discuss] Some trouble with Samba & Snapshots

2009-05-19 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
> Edward Ned Harvey writes: > > The solution was pretty easy. > > > > Autosnapshot is just a bunch of cron jobs, /lib/svc/method/zfs-auto- > snapshot > > > > When I edit that file, there's a variable, SEP=":" and the comment > says > > it's explicitly editable due to ":" being invalid CIFS characte

Re: [osol-discuss] Nexenta Core Platform 2 RC3 released

2009-05-19 Thread Anil Gulecha
Hi Stephen, On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 4:48 PM, Stephan Ferraro wrote: > I would like to test it. > Is it possible to install it on an existing zpool? > I don't want to delete my existing OpenSolaris installation. No, you cannot install to an existing zpool not.. the current installer only support

Re: [osol-discuss] Nexenta Core Platform 2 RC3 released

2009-05-19 Thread Stephan Ferraro
I would like to test it. Is it possible to install it on an existing zpool? I don't want to delete my existing OpenSolaris installation. I downloaded a release on nexenta.org and then started the installation. There was written in the setup that it would erase my full harddisk. Why is it not pos

Re: [osol-discuss] Some trouble with Samba & Snapshots

2009-05-19 Thread James Carlson
Edward Ned Harvey writes: > The solution was pretty easy. > > Autosnapshot is just a bunch of cron jobs, /lib/svc/method/zfs-auto-snapshot > > When I edit that file, there’s a variable, SEP=":" and the comment says > it’s explicitly editable due to “:” being invalid CIFS character. YUCK! Please