[zfs-discuss] add new disk to existing rpool

2008-12-21 Thread iman habibi
Hello All i want to add second disk to existing rpool with one disk. but when i run this command it returns this error,,why? device is too small?? (all of my disks are simillar.) here are my information: # zpool status pool: rpool state: ONLINE scrub: none requested config: NAME

Re: [zfs-discuss] add new disk to existing rpool

2008-12-21 Thread Cyril Plisko
On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 10:10 AM, iman habibi iman.hab...@gmail.com wrote: Hello All i want to add second disk to existing rpool with one disk. but when i run this command it returns this error,,why? That's because your c0t8d0 disk has EFI label. with EFI label the largest partiotion you can

Re: [zfs-discuss] SMART data

2008-12-21 Thread Carsten Aulbert
Mam Ruoc wrote: Carsten wrote: I will ask my boss about this (since he is the one mentioned in the copyright line of smartctl ;)), please stay tuned. How is this going? I'm very interested too... Not much happening right now, December meetings, holiday season, ... But thanks for

Re: [zfs-discuss] How to create a basic new filesystem?

2008-12-21 Thread dick hoogendijk
On Sat, 20 Dec 2008 17:02:31 PST Uwe Dippel udip...@gmail.com wrote: Now I modified the slice s0, so that is doesn't overlap with s2 (the whole disk) any longer: Part TagFlag Cylinders SizeBlocks 0 rootwm 3 - 10432 159.80GB

Re: [zfs-discuss] How to create a basic new filesystem?

2008-12-21 Thread Johan Hartzenberg
On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 12:13 PM, dick hoogendijk d...@nagual.nl wrote: On Sat, 20 Dec 2008 17:02:31 PST Uwe Dippel udip...@gmail.com wrote: Now I modified the slice s0, so that is doesn't overlap with s2 (the whole disk) any longer: Part TagFlag Cylinders Size

[zfs-discuss] ZFS and AVS replication performance issues

2008-12-21 Thread Ahmed Kamal
Hi, I have setup AVS replication between two zvols on two opensolaris-2008.11 nodes. I have been seeing BIG performance issues, so I tried to setup the system to be as fast as possible using a couple of tricks. The detailed setup and performance data are below: * A 100G zvol has been setup

Re: [zfs-discuss] replicating a set of zfs snapshots

2008-12-21 Thread Elaine Ashton
If that's what you want, do an incremental send (-I). Well, if I believe the documentation, -I will send 'all incremental streams from one snapshot to a cumulative snapshot' which isn't quite what I want. I more or less want an exact duplicate of the current system with the snapshots on

Re: [zfs-discuss] How to create a basic new filesystem?

2008-12-21 Thread Uwe Dippel
[i]If you want to add the entire Solaris partition to the zfs pool as a mirror, use zpool attach -f rpool c1d0s0 c2d0s2[/i] So my mistake in the first place (see first post), in short, was only the last digit: I ought to have used the complete drive (slice 2), instead of *thinking* that it is

Re: [zfs-discuss] replicating a set of zfs snapshots

2008-12-21 Thread Juergen Nickelsen
Ian Collins i...@ianshome.com writes: I suspect that a 'zfs copy' or somesuch would be a nice utility when wanting to shove a parent and all of it's snapshots to another system. If that's what you want, do an incremental send (-I). To be a bit more detailed, first create the file system

Re: [zfs-discuss] replicating a set of zfs snapshots

2008-12-21 Thread Juergen Nickelsen
Juergen Nickelsen n...@jnickelsen.de writes: If that's what you want, do an incremental send (-I). To be a bit more detailed, first create the file system on the target machine by sending the first snapshot that you want to have replicated in full. After that, send each of the following

Re: [zfs-discuss] How to create a basic new filesystem?

2008-12-21 Thread dick hoogendijk
On Sun, 21 Dec 2008 07:36:07 PST Uwe Dippel udip...@gmail.com wrote: [i]If you want to add the entire Solaris partition to the zfs pool as a mirror, use zpool attach -f rpool c1d0s0 c2d0s2[/i] So my mistake in the first place (see first post), in short, was only the last digit: I ought to

Re: [zfs-discuss] add new disk to existing rpool

2008-12-21 Thread Richard Elling
iman habibi wrote: Hello All i want to add second disk to existing rpool with one disk. but when i run this command it returns this error,,why? device is too small?? (all of my disks are simillar.) The newly attaching disk (slice in this case, because it is an rpool) must have the same

[zfs-discuss] ZFS recovery?

2008-12-21 Thread Walter White
Hi all, I was attempting to mirror my root storage pool and apparently nuked or screwed up my vtoc. Using the format command, I have been able to now at least see the pool exists, but it is in a corrupt state. Talking to some others, they have instructed me that you may have more ideas as

[zfs-discuss] Problem adding device to mirror

2008-12-21 Thread Walter White
Hi all, I attempted to mirror my rpool with a USB drive. I tried to create a partition with the same size so the pools would be identical. I believe the command completed successfully, but I ran zpool attach rpool dev1 dev2. And that is when my computer hung. I powered down and started

Re: [zfs-discuss] Problem adding device to mirror

2008-12-21 Thread Walter White
After having rebooted from the live cd back to the actual system, I thought I was home-free. I can now see my GRUB menu and it does start to boot. However, after about 2 seconds, it reboots as I am guessing it cannot find the other important labels. Is there some way I can restore these

Re: [zfs-discuss] Problem adding device to mirror

2008-12-21 Thread Richard Elling
Hi Walter, did you try the procedure described in the ZFS Trouble Shooting Guide? http://www.solarisinternals.com/wiki/index.php/ZFS_Troubleshooting_Guide#Resolving_ZFS_Mount_Point_Problems_That_Prevent_Successful_Booting -- richard Walter White wrote: Hi all, I attempted to mirror my rpool