Re: [zfs-discuss] reboot when copying large amounts of data

2009-03-14 Thread James C. McPherson
On Fri, 13 Mar 2009 22:46:19 -0400 Miles Nordin car...@ivy.net wrote: jcm == James C McPherson james.mcpher...@sun.com writes: jcm We haven't got mega_sas on SPARC at this point either. The card Blake found: http://www.provantage.com/lsi-logic-lsi00117~7LSIG03X.htm

Re: [zfs-discuss] User quota design discussion..

2009-03-14 Thread Robert Milkowski
Hello Jorgen, Friday, March 13, 2009, 1:14:12 AM, you wrote: JL That is a good point, I had not even planned to support quotas for ZFS JL send, but consider a rescan to be the answer. We don't ZFS send very JL often as it is far too slow. Since build 105 it should be *MUCH* for faster. --

Re: [zfs-discuss] User quota design discussion..

2009-03-14 Thread Jorgen Lundman
Sorry, did not mean it as a complaints, it just has been for us. But if it has been made faster, that would be excellent. ZFS send is very powerful. Lund Robert Milkowski wrote: Hello Jorgen, Friday, March 13, 2009, 1:14:12 AM, you wrote: JL That is a good point, I had not even planned to

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS GSoC ideas page rough draft

2009-03-14 Thread Blake
I just thought of an enhancement to zfs that would be very helpful in disaster recovery situations - having zfs cache device serial/model numbers - the information we see in cfgadm -v. I'm feeling the pain of this now as I try to figure out which disks on my failed filer belonged to my raidz2

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS GSoC ideas page rough draft

2009-03-14 Thread Toby Thain
On 14-Mar-09, at 12:09 PM, Blake wrote: I just thought of an enhancement to zfs that would be very helpful in disaster recovery situations - having zfs cache device serial/model numbers - the information we see in cfgadm -v. +1 I haven't needed this but it sounds very sensible. I can

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS GSoC ideas page rough draft

2009-03-14 Thread Richard Elling
Toby Thain wrote: On 14-Mar-09, at 12:09 PM, Blake wrote: I just thought of an enhancement to zfs that would be very helpful in disaster recovery situations - having zfs cache device serial/model numbers - the information we see in cfgadm -v. +1 I haven't needed this but it sounds very

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS GSoC ideas page rough draft

2009-03-14 Thread Blake
That's excellent information Richard. I have just exported the faulted pool (the disks aren't attached), but what you are suggesting is verified by looking at the cache as it is - I can see this information for my rpool mirror disks. One other note - I see that using the old prtvtoc | fmthard

Re: [zfs-discuss] reboot when copying large amounts of data

2009-03-14 Thread Miles Nordin
jcm == James C McPherson james.mcpher...@sun.com writes: jcm As for will it work on sparc - yes, I would expect so. BUT jcm without fcode it won't be bootable. That's what you are really jcm asking, isn't it? just if it will work. I want to add a slog. jcm It turns out you can

Re: [zfs-discuss] reboot when copying large amounts of data

2009-03-14 Thread Tim
On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 12:57 PM, Miles Nordin car...@ivy.net wrote: jcm == James C McPherson james.mcpher...@sun.com writes: jcm As for will it work on sparc - yes, I would expect so. BUT jcm without fcode it won't be bootable. That's what you are really jcm asking, isn't it? just

Re: [zfs-discuss] Zpools on USB

2009-03-14 Thread Florian Ermisch
Richard Elling schrieb: [...] ZFS maintains a cache of what pools were imported so that at boot time, it will automatically try to re-import the pool. The file is /etc/zfs/zpool.cache and you can view its contents by using zdb -C If the current state of affairs does not match the cache, then

Re: [zfs-discuss] Zpools on USB

2009-03-14 Thread Richard Elling
Florian Ermisch wrote: Richard Elling schrieb: [...] ZFS maintains a cache of what pools were imported so that at boot time, it will automatically try to re-import the pool. The file is /etc/zfs/zpool.cache and you can view its contents by using zdb -C If the current state of affairs does

[zfs-discuss] What to do with a disk partition

2009-03-14 Thread Harry Putnam
I'm still learning and haven't setup anything I can't destroy if it can be better put together some other way. I would like to save any updates and customizations so far if possible. But that isn't critical either. Originally I installed osol-11 101b (now at 108) on a 60gb disk partitioned

Re: [zfs-discuss] What to do with a disk partition

2009-03-14 Thread Blake
I think you will be helped by looking at this document: http://www.solarisinternals.com/wiki/index.php/ZFS_Troubleshooting_Guide#ZFS_Root_Pool_Recommendations_and_Requirements It addresses many of your questions. I think the easiest way to back up your OS might be to attach a disk to the rpool