[zfs-discuss] Trouble mirroring root pool onto larger disk

2011-07-01 Thread Jiawen Chen
Hi, I have Solaris 11 Express with a root pool installed on a 500 GB disk. I'd like to migrate it to a 2 TB disk. I've followed the instructions on the ZFS troubleshooting guide

Re: [zfs-discuss] Trouble mirroring root pool onto larger disk

2011-07-01 Thread Jiawen Chen
Here's my disk layout = 500 GB disk fdisk Total disk size is 60801 cylinders Cylinder size is 16065 (512 byte) blocks Cylinders Partition StatusType

Re: [zfs-discuss] cross platform (freebsd) zfs pool replication

2011-07-01 Thread Andriy Gapon
on 01/07/2011 00:12 Joeri Vanthienen said the following: Hi, I have two servers running: freebsd with a zpool v28 and a nexenta (opensolaris b134) running zpool v26. Replication (with zfs send/receive) from the nexenta box to the freebsd works fine, but I have a problem accessing my

Re: [zfs-discuss] Trouble mirroring root pool onto larger disk

2011-07-01 Thread Cindy Swearingen
Hi Jiawen, Yes, the boot failure message would be very helpful. The first thing to rule out is: I think you need to be running a 64-bit kernel to boot from a 2 TB disk. Thanks, Cindy On 07/01/11 02:58, Jiawen Chen wrote: Hi, I have Solaris 11 Express with a root pool installed on a

Re: [zfs-discuss] Trouble mirroring root pool onto larger disk

2011-07-01 Thread Jim Klimov
Do you get to the GRUB menu while booting from the larger drive (then you can try verbose and/or mdb boots to Solaris and catch its panic errors), or does the machine reboot before even getting to GRUB? Couple of silly questions: 1) Did you installgrub onto the second drive? 2) Are you certain

Re: [zfs-discuss] 700GB gone?

2011-07-01 Thread Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk
On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 11:40:53PM +0100, Andrew Gabriel wrote: On 06/30/11 08:50 PM, Orvar Korvar wrote: I have a 1.5TB disk that has several partitions. One of them is 900GB. Now I can only see 300GB. Where is the rest? Is there a command I can do to reach the rest of the data? Will

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs send not working when i/o errors in pool

2011-07-01 Thread Tuomas Leikola
Rsync with some ignore-errors option, maybe? In any case you've lost some data so make sure to take record of zpool status -v On Jul 1, 2011 12:26 AM, Tom Demo tom.d...@lizard.co.nz wrote: Hi there. I am trying to get my filesystems off a pool that suffered irreparable damage due to 2 disks

Re: [zfs-discuss] about write balancing

2011-07-01 Thread Tuomas Leikola
Sorry everyone, this one was indeed a case of root stupidity. I had forgotten to upgrade to OI 148, which apparently fixed the write balancer. Duh. (didn't find full changelog from google tho.) On Jun 30, 2011 3:12 PM, Tuomas Leikola tuomas.leik...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for the input. This was

Re: [zfs-discuss] 700GB gone?

2011-07-01 Thread Orvar Korvar
I am using 64bit S11E. Everything worked fine earlier. But now I suspect the disk is breaking down, it behaves weird. I have several partitions: 1) OpenSolaris b134 upgraded to S11E 2) WinXP 3) FAT32 4) ZFS storage pool of 900GB Earlier, everything was fine. But suddenly OpenSolaris does not