[zfs-discuss] patching a solaris server with zones on zfs file systems

2012-01-21 Thread bhanu prakash
Hi All, Please let me know the procedure how to patch a server which is having 5 zones on zfs file systems. Root file system exists on internal disk and zones are existed on SAN. Thank you all, Bhanu ___ zfs-discuss mailing list

Re: [zfs-discuss] patching a solaris server with zones on zfs file systems

2012-01-21 Thread Hung-Sheng Tsao (laoTsao)
which version of solaris? s10u? live upgrade, zfs snap, halt zone, backup zone, zoneadm detach zone, zoneadm attach -U zone after os upgrade by zfs snap and liveupgrade of just upgrade from dvd or s11? beadm for new root, upgrade os, treat zone as above regards Sent from my iPad On Jan 21,

Re: [zfs-discuss] patching a solaris server with zones on zfs file systems

2012-01-21 Thread Enda O'Connor
Hi Need more info here, what exactly is the root FS, ie zfs? what kernel rev is current ( uname -a ) is there a specific patch that is being installed. if so then Live upgrade is best bet, combined with perhaps recommended patch cluster. apply latest rev of 119254 and 121430 ( SPARC ) or (

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Dedup and bad checksums

2012-01-21 Thread Jim Klimov
2012-01-21 0:33, Jim Klimov wrote: 2012-01-13 4:12, Jim Klimov wrote: As I recently wrote, my data pool has experienced some unrecoverable errors. It seems that a userdata block of deduped data got corrupted and no longer matches the stored checksum. For whatever reason, raidz2 did not help in

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Dedup and bad checksums

2012-01-21 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Sat, 21 Jan 2012, Jim Klimov wrote: 5) It seems like a worthy RFE to include a pool-wide option to verify-after-write/commit - to test that recent TXG sync data has indeed made it to disk on (consumer-grade) hardware into the designated sector numbers. Perhaps the test should be

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Dedup and bad checksums

2012-01-21 Thread Jim Klimov
2012-01-21 19:18, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: On Sat, 21 Jan 2012, Jim Klimov wrote: 5) It seems like a worthy RFE to include a pool-wide option to verify-after-write/commit - to test that recent TXG sync data has indeed made it to disk on (consumer-grade) hardware into the designated sector

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Dedup and bad checksums

2012-01-21 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Sat, 21 Jan 2012, Jim Klimov wrote: Regarding the written data, I believe it may find place in the ARC, and a for the past few TXGs it could still remain there. Any data in the ARC is subject to being overwritten with updated data just a millisecond later. It is a live cache. I am not

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Dedup and bad checksums

2012-01-21 Thread Jim Klimov
2012-01-21 20:50, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: TXGs get forgotten from memory as soon as they are written. As I said, that can be arranged - i.e. free the TXG cache after the corresponding TXG number has been verified? Point about ARC being overwritten seems valid... Zfs already knows how to

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Dedup and bad checksums

2012-01-21 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Sun, 22 Jan 2012, Jim Klimov wrote: So far I rather considered flaky hardware with lousy consumer qualities. The server you describe is likely to exceed that bar ;) The most common flaky behavior of consumer hardware which causes troubles for zfs is not honoring cache-related requests.

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Dedup and bad checksums

2012-01-21 Thread Jim Klimov
2012-01-22 0:55, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: On Sun, 22 Jan 2012, Jim Klimov wrote: So far I rather considered flaky hardware with lousy consumer qualities. The server you describe is likely to exceed that bar ;) The most common flaky behavior of consumer hardware which causes troubles for zfs is