Re: [zfs-discuss] zpool causing boot to hang

2009-08-01 Thread dick hoogendijk
running a scrub often have problems after shutting down during the scrub. I have learned to HALT the scrub before going offline. -- Dick Hoogendijk -- PGP/GnuPG key: 01D2433D + http://nagual.nl/ | SunOS 10u7 5/09 | OpenSolaris 2009.06 rel + All that's really worth doing is what we do for others (Lewis

[zfs-discuss] changing SATA ports

2009-08-07 Thread Dick Hoogendijk
I've a new MB (tyhe same as before butthis one works..) and I want to change the way my SATA drives were connected. I had a ZFS boot mirror conncted to SATA3 and 4 and I wat those drives to be on SATA1 and 2 now. Question: will ZFS see this and boot the system OK or will I have to take some

[zfs-discuss] incremental backup with zfs to file

2009-08-23 Thread dick hoogendijk
? -- Dick Hoogendijk -- PGP/GnuPG key: 01D2433D + http://nagual.nl/ | SunOS 10u7 5/09 | OpenSolaris 2009.06 rel + All that's really worth doing is what we do for others (Lewis Carrol) ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http

Re: [zfs-discuss] incremental backup with zfs to file

2009-08-23 Thread dick hoogendijk
On Sun, 23 Aug 2009 13:15:37 +0200 joerg.schill...@fokus.fraunhofer.de (Joerg Schilling) wrote: dick hoogendijk d...@nagual.nl wrote: FULL backup to a file zfs snapshot -r rp...@0908 zfs send -Rv rp...@0908 /net/remote/rpool/snaps/rpool.0908 INCREMENTAL backup to a file zfs

Re: [zfs-discuss] incremental backup with zfs to file

2009-08-23 Thread dick hoogendijk
on creating a zfs send to a file somewhere? ZFS Root Pool Recovery from the ZFS Troubleshooting Guide clearly mentions the creation of a -file- : http://www.solarisinternals.com/wiki/index.php/ZFS_Troubleshooting_Guide#ZFS_Root_Pool_Recovery -- Dick Hoogendijk -- PGP/GnuPG key: 01D2433D + http

Re: [zfs-discuss] incremental backup with zfs to file

2009-08-24 Thread dick hoogendijk
?) -- Dick Hoogendijk -- PGP/GnuPG key: 01D2433D + http://nagual.nl/ | SunOS 10u7 5/09 | OpenSolaris 2009.06 rel + All that's really worth doing is what we do for others (Lewis Carrol) ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http

Re: [zfs-discuss] incremental backup with zfs to file

2009-08-24 Thread dick hoogendijk
) into it or can I use your example like: zfs send rp...@0908 | zfs receive -Fd bac...@0908 -- Dick Hoogendijk -- PGP/GnuPG key: 01D2433D + http://nagual.nl/ | SunOS 10u7 5/09 | OpenSolaris 2009.06 rel + All that's really worth doing is what we do for others (Lewis Carrol

Re: [zfs-discuss] incremental backup with zfs to file

2009-08-24 Thread dick hoogendijk
On Mon, 24 Aug 2009 16:36:13 +0100 Darren J Moffat darr...@opensolaris.org wrote: Joerg Schilling wrote: dick hoogendijk d...@nagual.nl wrote: On Sun, 23 Aug 2009 22:05:15 -0400 Edward Ned Harvey sola...@nedharvey.com wrote: zfs send -Rv rp...@0908 /net/remote/rpool/snaps/rpool

Re: [zfs-discuss] incremental backup with zfs to file

2009-08-24 Thread dick hoogendijk
the solaris dox I udnerstand I have to do this line: # zfs send -Rv rp...@0908 | zfs receive -Fd backup/server/rp...@0908 I'm not quite sure about the -Fd option of receive Is this correct? -- Dick Hoogendijk -- PGP/GnuPG key: 01D2433D + http://nagual.nl/ | SunOS 10u7 5/09 | OpenSolaris 2009.06

[zfs-discuss] check a zfs rcvd file

2009-09-02 Thread Dick Hoogendijk
. In other words how can I be sure of the validity of the received file in the next command line: # zfs send -Rv rp...@090902 /backup/snaps/rpool.090902 I only want to know how to check the integrity of the received file. -- Dick Hoogendijk -- PGP/GnuPG key: 01D2433D + http://nagual.nl

Re: [zfs-discuss] check a zfs rcvd file

2009-09-03 Thread dick hoogendijk
into ZFS? -- Dick Hoogendijk -- PGP/GnuPG key: 01D2433D + http://nagual.nl/ | SunOS 10u7 5/09 | OpenSolaris 2010.02 B121 + All that's really worth doing is what we do for others (Lewis Carrol) ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [zfs-discuss] check a zfs rcvd file

2009-09-04 Thread dick hoogendijk
it manualy on all those backup up FS's. I wonder how other people overcome this mountpoint issue. -- Dick Hoogendijk -- PGP/GnuPG key: 01D2433D + http://nagual.nl/ | SunOS 10u7 5/09 | OpenSolaris 2010.02 b122 + All that's really worth doing is what we do for others (Lewis Carrol

Re: [zfs-discuss] check a zfs rcvd file

2009-09-04 Thread dick hoogendijk
receive command. # zfs send -Rv rp...@0909 | zfs receive -Fdu backup/snaps -- Dick Hoogendijk -- PGP/GnuPG key: 01D2433D + http://nagual.nl/ | SunOS 10u7 5/09 | OpenSolaris 2010.02 B121 + All that's really worth doing is what we do for others (Lewis Carrol

Re: [zfs-discuss] check a zfs rcvd file

2009-09-05 Thread dick hoogendijk
Lori Alt wrote: On 09/04/09 10:17, dick hoogendijk wrote: Lori Alt wrote: The -u option to zfs recv (which was just added to support flash archive installs, but it's useful for other reasons too) suppresses all mounts of the received file systems. So you can mount them yourself afterward

[zfs-discuss] Q about incremental zfs send recv

2009-09-12 Thread dick hoogendijk
/ROOT/b...@0902 | zfs recv -vF # tank What I'd like to see confirmed is that the incremental backup is received in the -same- filesystem as the originally backup up one (tank) -- Dick Hoogendijk -- PGP/GnuPG key: 01D2433D + http://nagual.nl/ | SunOS 10u7 5/09 | OpenSolaris 2010.02 b122 + All that's

Re: [zfs-discuss] Problem with snv_122 Zpool issue

2009-09-12 Thread dick hoogendijk
On Sat, 12 Sep 2009 07:38:43 PDT Hamed bar...@etek.chalmers.se wrote: Please help me. I really need help. I did a stupid thing i know. Afaik help does not exist in this case other than making a full backup / restore. There is no return to former zfs versions possible. -- Dick Hoogendijk

Re: [zfs-discuss] backup disk of rpool on solaris

2009-09-20 Thread dick hoogendijk
it if the first disk fails, but you may not *swap* them. -- Dick Hoogendijk -- PGP/GnuPG key: 01D2433D + http://nagual.nl/ | SunOS 10u7 5/09 | OpenSolaris 2010.02 b123 + All that's really worth doing is what we do for others (Lewis Carrol) ___ zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Real help

2009-09-20 Thread dick hoogendijk
-fuse sudo zpool create hazz0 /dev/sda1 sudo zpool destroy hazz0 sudo reboot Now opensolaris is not booting everything is vanished Is there anyhow to restore everything? Any idea about the meaning of the verb DESTROY ? -- Dick Hoogendijk -- PGP/GnuPG key: 01D2433D + http://nagual.nl

[zfs-discuss] zfs vbox and shared folders

2009-09-27 Thread dick hoogendijk
Are there any known issues involving VirtualBox using shared folders from a ZFS filesystem? -- Dick Hoogendijk -- PGP/GnuPG key: 01D2433D + http://nagual.nl/ | SunOS 10u7 5/09 | OpenSolaris 2010.02 b123 + All that's really worth doing is what we do for others (Lewis Carrol

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZPOOL Metadata / Data Error - Help

2009-10-04 Thread dick hoogendijk
Bruno Sousa wrote: Action: Restore the file in question if possible. Otherwise restore the entire pool from backup. metadata:0x0 metadata:0x15 Hmm, and what file(s) would this be? -- Dick Hoogendijk -- PGP/GnuPG key: 01D2433D + http://nagual.nl/ | SunOS 10u7 5/09

[zfs-discuss] memory use

2009-10-13 Thread dick hoogendijk
Every ZFS filesystem uses system memory, but is this also true for -NOT- mounted filesystems (with the canmount=noauto option set)? Second question: would it make much difference to have 12 or 22 ZFS filesystems? What's the memory footprint of a ZFS filesystem -- Dick Hoogendijk -- PGP/GnuPG

Re: [zfs-discuss] Strange problem with liveupgrade on zfs (10u7 and u8)

2009-10-15 Thread dick hoogendijk
working vfstab alone. This behaviour is also related to errors with zones btw. The fact that lines in vfstab are created is neglected in reactions so far. I think that is weird. -- Dick Hoogendijk -- PGP/GnuPG key: 01D2433D + http://nagual.nl/ | SunOS 10u8 10/09 | OpenSolaris 2010.02 b123 + All that's

Re: [zfs-discuss] s10u8: lots of fixes, any commentary?

2009-10-15 Thread dick hoogendijk
/zoneRoot/common-10u8': legacy mountpoint use mount(1M) to mount this filesystem That's how LU scr*s things up. -- Dick Hoogendijk -- PGP/GnuPG key: 01D2433D + http://nagual.nl/ | SunOS 10u8 10/09 | OpenSolaris 2010.02 b123 + All that's really worth doing is what we do for others (Lewis Carrol

[zfs-discuss] zfs on s10u8

2009-10-16 Thread dick hoogendijk
Any known issues for the new ZFS on solaris 10 update 8? Or is it still wiser to wait doing a zpool upgrade? Because older ABE's can no longer be accessed then. -- Dick Hoogendijk -- PGP/GnuPG key: 01D2433D + http://nagual.nl/ | SunOS 10u8 10/09 | OpenSolaris 2010.02 b123 + All that's really

[zfs-discuss] zfs on s10u8

2009-10-16 Thread dick hoogendijk
Any known issues for the new ZFS on solaris 10 update 8? Or is it still wiser to wait doing a zpool upgrade? Because older ABE's can no longer be accessed then. -- Dick Hoogendijk -- PGP/GnuPG key: 01D2433D + http://nagual.nl/ | SunOS 10u8 10/09 | OpenSolaris 2010.02 b123 + All that's really

Re: [zfs-discuss] Liveupgrade'd to U8 and now can't boot previous U6 BE :(

2009-10-17 Thread dick hoogendijk
On Sat, 2009-10-17 at 08:11 -0700, Philip Brown wrote: same problem here on sun x2100 amd64 It's a bootblock issue. If you really want to get back to u6 you have to installgrub /boot/grub/stage1 /boot/grub/stage2 from th update 6 image so mount it (with lumount or easier, with zfs mount) and

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS snapshots rsync --delete

2009-10-18 Thread dick hoogendijk
On Sun, 2009-10-18 at 18:12 +0200, Sander Smeenk wrote: Well, thats what i would expect too. It seems strange that you can't edit or remove singular files from snapshots [...] That would make the snapshot not a snapshot anymore. There would be differences..

Re: [zfs-discuss] Strange problem with liveupgrade on zfs (10u7 and u8)

2009-10-21 Thread dick hoogendijk
Mark Horstman wrote: I don't see anything wrong with my /etc/vfstab. Until I get this resolved, I'm afraid to patch and use the new BE. It's the vfstab file in the newly created ABE that is wrongly written to. Try to mount this new ABE and check out for yourself. -- Dick Hoogendijk -- PGP

Re: [zfs-discuss] zpool import single user mode incompatible version

2009-10-27 Thread dick hoogendijk
. Grab a new iso. It might be that I can't read but does OP not state he is booting off Solaris 10 update 8 DVD? What can be newer than that one? If the miniroot really only supports ZFS v10 then this is indeed not good (unworkable/unusable/..) -- Dick Hoogendijk -- PGP/GnuPG key: 01D2433D + http

Re: [zfs-discuss] Liveupgrade'd to U8 and now can't boot previous U6 BE :(

2009-10-28 Thread dick hoogendijk
in /etc/lutab from the /etc/lu directory. You'll notice that with lustatus the BE is gone. Remove the ZFS datasets and snapshots for the BE you just deleted. I've done this hack in the past quite some times and it always worked fine. It's not supported by SUN though. -- Dick Hoogendijk -- PGP

Re: [zfs-discuss] sharemgr

2009-11-24 Thread dick hoogendijk
glidic anthony wrote: I have a solution with use zfs set sharenfs=rw,nosuid zpool but i prefer use the sharemgr command. Then you prefere wrong. ZFS filesystems are not shared this way. Read up on ZFS and NFS. -- Dick Hoogendijk -- PGP/GnuPG key: F86289CE +http://nagual.nl/ | SunOS 10u7 05

Re: [zfs-discuss] sharemgr

2009-11-25 Thread dick hoogendijk
On Wed, 2009-11-25 at 10:00 -0500, Kyle McDonald wrote: To each their own. [cut the rest of your reply] In general: I stand corrected. I was rude. ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS send | verify | receive

2009-12-05 Thread dick hoogendijk
On Sat, 2009-12-05 at 09:22 -0600, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: You can also stream into a gzip or lzop wrapper in order to obtain the benefit of incremental CRCs and some compression as well. Can you give an example command line for this option please?

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Boot Recovery after Motherboard Death

2009-12-12 Thread dick hoogendijk
On Sat, 2009-12-12 at 00:22 +, Moritz Willers wrote: The host identity had - of course - changed with the new motherboard and it no longer recognised the zpool as its own. 'zpool import -f rpool' to take ownership, reboot and it all worked no problem (which was amazing in itself as I

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Boot Recovery after Motherboard Death

2009-12-12 Thread dick hoogendijk
On Sat, 2009-12-12 at 09:08 -0800, Richard Elling wrote: On Dec 12, 2009, at 12:53 AM, dick hoogendijk wrote: On Sat, 2009-12-12 at 00:22 +, Moritz Willers wrote: The host identity had - of course - changed with the new motherboard and it no longer recognised the zpool as its own

[zfs-discuss] solaris 10U7

2009-12-13 Thread dick hoogendijk
I just noticed that my zpool is still running v10 and my zfs filesystems are on v3. This is on solaris 10U3. Before upgrading the zpool and ZFS versions I'd like to know the supported versions by solaris 10 update.7 I'd rather not make my zpools unaccessable ;)

Re: [zfs-discuss] Backing up a ZFS pool

2010-01-16 Thread dick hoogendijk
On Sat, 2010-01-16 at 07:24 -0500, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: Personally, I use zfs send | zfs receive to an external disk. Initially a full image, and later incrementals. Do these incrementals go into the same filesystem that received the original zfs stream?

[zfs-discuss] zfs streams

2010-01-24 Thread dick hoogendijk
Can I send a zfs send stream (ZFS pool version 22 ; ZFS filesystem version 4) to a zfs receive stream on Solaris 10 (ZFS pool version 15 ; ZFS filesystem version 4)? -- Dick Hoogendijk -- PGP/GnuPG key: 01D2433D + http://nagual.nl/ | SunOS 10u7 5/09 | OpenSolaris 2010.03 b131 + All that's really

[zfs-discuss] cannot attach c5d0s0 to c4d0s0: device is too small

2010-01-27 Thread dick hoogendijk
cannot attach c5d0s0 to c4d0s0: device is too small So I guess I installed OpenSolaris onto the smallest disk. Now I cannot create a mirrored root, because the device is smaller. What is the best way to correct this except starting all over with two disks of the same size (which I don't have)?

Re: [zfs-discuss] cannot attach c5d0s0 to c4d0s0: device is too small

2010-01-28 Thread dick hoogendijk
that is an equivalent size, but not exactly the same geometry. Which OpenSolaris release is this? b131 And this only works if the difference is realy (REALLY) small. :) -- Dick Hoogendijk -- PGP/GnuPG key: F86289CE +http://nagual.nl/ | SunOS 10u7 05/09 ZFS

Re: [zfs-discuss] cannot attach c5d0s0 to c4d0s0: device is too small

2010-01-28 Thread Dick Hoogendijk
Op 28-1-2010 16:52, Thomas Maier-Komor schreef: have you considered creating an alternate boot environment on the smaller disk, rebooting into this new boot environment, and then attaching the larger disk after destroy the old boot environment? beadm might do this job for you... What a

Re: [zfs-discuss] cannot attach c5d0s0 to c4d0s0: device is too small

2010-01-28 Thread Dick Hoogendijk
Op 28-1-2010 17:35, Cindy Swearingen schreef: Thomas, Excellent and much better suggestion... :-) You can use beadm to specify another root pool by using the -p option. The beadm operation will set the bootfs pool property and update the GRUB entry. Dick, you will need to update the BIOS to

Re: [zfs-discuss] cannot attach c5d0s0 to c4d0s0: device is too small

2010-01-28 Thread Dick Hoogendijk
Op 28-1-2010 17:35, Cindy Swearingen schreef: Thomas, Excellent and much better suggestion... :-) You can use beadm to specify another root pool by using the -p option. The beadm operation will set the bootfs pool property and update the GRUB entry. Dick, you will need to update the BIOS to

Re: [zfs-discuss] cannot attach c5d0s0 to c4d0s0: device is too small

2010-01-28 Thread dick hoogendijk
On Thu, 2010-01-28 at 12:34 -0700, Lori Alt wrote: But those could be copied by send/recv from the larger disk (current root pool) to the smaller disk (intended new root pool). You won't be attaching anything until you can boot off the smaller disk and then it won't matter what's on the

Re: [zfs-discuss] cannot attach c5d0s0 to c4d0s0: device is too small connect another disk

2010-01-28 Thread dick hoogendijk
On Thu, 2010-01-28 at 08:44 -0700, Cindy Swearingen wrote: Or, if possible, connect another larger disk and attach it to the original root disk or even replace the smaller root pool disk with the larger disk. I go for that one. But since it's a smoewhat older system I only have IDE and

Re: [zfs-discuss] cannot attach c5d0s0 to c4d0s0: device is too small

2010-01-29 Thread Dick Hoogendijk
Op 28-1-2010 17:35, Cindy Swearingen schreef: Thomas, Excellent and much better suggestion... :-) You can use beadm to specify another root pool by using the -p option. The beadm operation will set the bootfs pool property and update the GRUB entry. It turns out not to be excellent at all.

Re: [zfs-discuss] Home ZFS NAS - 2 drives or 3?

2010-01-30 Thread Dick Hoogendijk
Op 30-1-2010 20:53, Mark schreef: I have a 1U server that supports 2 SATA drives in the chassis. I have 2 750 GB SATA drives. When I install opensolaris, I assume it will want to use all or part of one of those drives for the install. That leaves me with the remaining part of disk 1, and all

Re: [zfs-discuss] unionfs help

2010-02-04 Thread dick hoogendijk
it on /usr/perl5/mumble ? Or is this too simple a thought? -- Dick Hoogendijk -- PGP/GnuPG key: F86289CE ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

[zfs-discuss] move ZFS fs to a zone

2010-02-07 Thread dick hoogendijk
guess it will no longer be accessible from the GZ then. That would be good, because I want to seperate my webserver from my global zone. -- Dick Hoogendijk -- PGP/GnuPG key: 01D2433D + http://nagual.nl/ | OpenSolaris 2010.03 b131 + All that's really worth doing is what we do for others (Lewis Carrol

Re: [zfs-discuss] fat32 ntfs or zfs

2010-02-27 Thread Dick Hoogendijk
on every os. And also you shouldnt forget the extra capabilities of zfs like snaphots ... I'll go with ZFS. Like someone said with 'copies=2' for extra safety. That should do it I think. Compression will slow my system down too much, so I'll skip that one. -- Dick Hoogendijk -- PGP/GnuPG key

[zfs-discuss] copies=2 and dedup

2010-02-27 Thread Dick Hoogendijk
I want zfs on a single drive so I use copies=2 for -some- extra safety. But I wonder if dedup=on could mean something in this case too? That way the same blocks would never be written more than twice. Or would that harm the reliability of the drive and should I just use copies=2? -- Dick

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS aclmode property

2010-03-06 Thread Dick Hoogendijk
of the story ... +1 Carefully constructed ACL's should -never- be destroyed by an (unwanted/unexpected) chmod. Extra aclmode properties should not be so hard to implement. -- Dick Hoogendijk -- PGP/GnuPG key: 01D2433D + http://nagual.nl/ | OpenSolaris 2010.03 b131 + All that's really worth doing

Re: [zfs-discuss] b134 - Mirrored rpool won't boot unless both mirrors are present

2010-03-28 Thread Dick Hoogendijk
... Or would it be called 2010.04 ? ;-) -- Dick Hoogendijk -- PGP/GnuPG key: 01D2433D + http://nagual.nl/ | OpenSolaris 2010.03 b134 + All that's really worth doing is what we do for others (Lewis Carrol) ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss

[zfs-discuss] diff between sharenfs and sharesmb

2010-05-04 Thread Dick Hoogendijk
I have some ZFS datasets that are shared through CIFS/NFS. So I created them with sharenfs/sharesmb options. I have full access from windows (through cifs) to the datasets, however, all files and directories are created with (UNIX) permisions of (--)/(d--). So, although I can access

Re: [zfs-discuss] don't mount a zpool on boot

2010-05-29 Thread Dick Hoogendijk
the pool before shutdown. Why don't you set the canmount=noauto option in the zfs dataset. -- Dick Hoogendijk -- PGP/GnuPG key: 01D2433D + http://nagual.nl/ | OpenSolaris 2010.03 b134 + All that's really worth doing is what we do for others (Lewis Carrol

Re: [zfs-discuss] Native ZFS for Linux

2010-06-12 Thread Dick Hoogendijk
to be the truth. If things are told often enough they have a tendency to become true, even if they are not. -- Dick Hoogendijk -- PGP/GnuPG key: 01D2433D + http://nagual.nl/ | OpenSolaris 2010.xx b134 + All that's really worth doing is what we do for others (Lewis Carrol

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS bug - should I be worried about this?

2010-06-28 Thread Dick Hoogendijk
On 28-6-2010 12:13, Gabriele Bulfon wrote: *sweat* These systems are all running for years nowand I considered them safe... Have I been at risk all this time?! They're still running, are they not? So, stop sweating. g But you're right about the changed patching service from Oracle. It

Re: [zfs-discuss] Upgrading 2009.06 to something current

2010-08-10 Thread Dick Hoogendijk
On 1-8-2010 19:57, David Dyer-Bennet wrote: I've kind of given up on that. This is a home production server; it's got all my photos on it. The uncertainty around OpenSolaris made me drop it. I'm very sorry to say, because I loved the system. I do not want to worry all the time though, so

[zfs-discuss] ZFS OpenSolaris and FreeBSD

2010-08-10 Thread Dick Hoogendijk
If I create a ZFS mirrored zpool on FreeBSD (zfs v14) will I be able to boot off an OpenSolaris-b131 CD and copy my data off (another) ZFS mirror created by OpenSolaris (ZFS v22)? A simple question, but my data is precious, so I ask beforehand. ;-)

[zfs-discuss] ZFS data from snv_b134 to fbsd

2010-08-12 Thread Dick Hoogendijk
I want to transfer a lot of ZFS data from an old OpenSolaris ZFS mirror (v22) to a new FreeBSD-8.1 ZFs mirror (v14). If I boot off the OpenSolaris boot CD and import both mirrors will the copying from v22 ZFS to v14 ZFS be harmless? I'm not sure if this is teh right mailinglist for this

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS development moving behind closed doors

2010-08-13 Thread Dick Hoogendijk
On 13-8-2010 22:43, Gary Mills wrote: If this information is correct, http://opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=133043 further development of ZFS will take place behind closed doors. Opensolaris will become the internal development version of Solaris with no public distributions.

Re: [zfs-discuss] Opensolaris is apparently dead

2010-08-14 Thread Dick Hoogendijk
On 14-8-2010 14:58, Russ Price wrote: 6. Abandon ZFS completely and go back to LVM/MD-RAID. I ran it for years before switching to ZFS, and it works - but it's a bitter pill to swallow after drinking the ZFS Kool-Aid. Nice summary. ;-) I switched to FreeBSD for the moment and it works very

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS automatic rollback and data rescue.

2010-08-14 Thread Dick Hoogendijk
On 14-8-2010 15:56, Constantine wrote: Hi. I've got the ZFS filesystem (opensolaris 2009.06), witch, as i can see, was automatically rollbacked by OS to the lastest snapshot after the power failure. There is a trouble - snapshot is too old, and ,consequently, there is a questions -- Can I

Re: [zfs-discuss] non-ECC Systems and ZFS for home users (was: Please warn a home user against OpenSolaris under VirtualBox under WinXP ; ))

2010-09-23 Thread Dick Hoogendijk
On 23-9-2010 10:25, casper@sun.com wrote: I'm using ZFS on a system w/o ECC; it works (it's an Atom 230). I'm using ZFS on a non-ECC machine for years now without any issues. Never had errors. Plus, like others said, other OS'ses have the same problems and also run quite well. If not,

Re: [zfs-discuss] non-ECC Systems and ZFS for home users

2010-09-23 Thread Dick Hoogendijk
On 23-9-2010 16:34, Frank Middleton wrote: For home use, used Suns are available at ridiculously low prices and they seem to be much better engineered than your typical PC. Memory failures are much more likely than winning the pick 6 lotto... And about what SUN systems are you thinking

[zfs-discuss] mirrored drive

2010-11-29 Thread Dick Hoogendijk
OK, I've got a proble I can't solve by myself. I've installed solaris 11 using just one drive. Now I want to create a mirror by attached a second one tot the rpool. However, the first one has NO partition 9 but the second one does. This way the sizes differ if I create a partiotion 0 (needed

Re: [zfs-discuss] mirrored drive

2010-11-29 Thread Dick Hoogendijk
On 29-11-2010 14:35, rwali...@washdcmail.com wrote: I haven't done this on Solaris 11 Express, but this worked on OpenSolaris 2009-06: prtvtoc /dev/rdsk/c5t0d0s0 | fmthard -s - /dev/rdsk/c5t1d0s0 Where the first disk is the current root and the second one is the new mirror. It works om

Re: [zfs-discuss] Still no way to recover a corrupted pool

2011-05-17 Thread Dick Hoogendijk
Op 16-5-2011 22:55 schreef Freddie Cash: On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 5:17 PM, Brandon Highbh...@freaks.com wrote: On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 1:23 PM, Freddie Cashfjwc...@gmail.com wrote: Running ZFSv28 on 64-bit FreeBSD 8-STABLE. I'd suggest trying to import the pool into snv_151a (Solaris 11

Re: [zfs-discuss] Each user has his own zfs filesystem??

2011-07-24 Thread Dick Hoogendijk
Op 24-7-2011 16:51 schreef Orvar Korvar: I dont get it. I created users with System - Administration - Users and Groups meny. I thought every user will get his own ZFS filesystem? But when I do # zfs list I can not see a zfs listing for each user. I only see this: rpool/export

<    1   2