Re: [zfs-discuss] zpool on sparse files

2010-03-08 Thread Gregory Durham
Cindy, Thank you very much for your input, what would you recommend as a way to backup zpools to tape? Thanks, Greg On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 8:58 AM, Cindy Swearingen wrote: > Greg, > > Sure lofiadm should work, but another underlying issue is that, currently, > building pools on top of other pool

Re: [zfs-discuss] zpool on sparse files

2010-03-08 Thread Cindy Swearingen
Greg, Sure lofiadm should work, but another underlying issue is that, currently, building pools on top of other pools can cause the system to deadlock or panic. This kind of configuration is just not supported or recommended at this time. Thanks, Cindy On 03/05/10 17:38, Gregory Durham w

Re: [zfs-discuss] zpool on sparse files

2010-03-06 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
> You are running into this bug: > http://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6929751 > Currently, building a pool from files is not fully supported. I think Cindy and I interpreted the question differently. If you want the zpool inside a file to stay mounted while the system is r

Re: [zfs-discuss] zpool on sparse files

2010-03-05 Thread Gregory Durham
Great...will using lofiadm still cause this issue? either by using mkfile or by using dd makeing a sparse file? Thanks for the heads up! On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 3:48 PM, Cindy Swearingen wrote: > Hi Greg, > > You are running into this bug: > > http://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bu

Re: [zfs-discuss] zpool on sparse files

2010-03-05 Thread Cindy Swearingen
Hi Greg, You are running into this bug: http://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6929751 Currently, building a pool from files is not fully supported. Thanks, Cindy On 03/05/10 16:15, Gregory Durham wrote: Hello all, I am using Opensolaris 2009.06 snv_129 I have a quick que