Re: [zfs-discuss] SUMMARY: mounting datasets from a read-only pool with aid of tmpfs

2011-11-23 Thread Lori Alt
On 11/22/11 17:54, Jim Klimov wrote: 2011-11-23 2:26, Lori Alt wrote: Did you try a temporary mount point? zfs mount -o mountpoint=/whatever dataset - lori I do not want to lie so I'll delay with a definite answer. I think I've tried that, but I'm not certain now. I'll try to recreate

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs send and dedupe

2011-09-07 Thread Lori Alt
On 09/ 6/11 11:45 PM, Daniel Carosone wrote: On Tue, Sep 06, 2011 at 10:05:54PM -0700, Richard Elling wrote: On Sep 6, 2011, at 9:01 PM, Freddie Cash wrote: For example, does 'zfs send -D' use the same DDT as the pool? No. My understanding was that 'zfs send -D' would use the pool's DDT in

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs send and dedupe

2011-09-07 Thread Lori Alt
On 09/ 7/11 02:20 PM, Daniel Carosone wrote: On Wed, Sep 07, 2011 at 08:47:36AM -0600, Lori Alt wrote: On 09/ 6/11 11:45 PM, Daniel Carosone wrote: My understanding was that 'zfs send -D' would use the pool's DDT in building its own, if present. It does not use the pool's DDT, but it does use

Re: [zfs-discuss] Best practice for boot partition layout in ZFS

2011-04-06 Thread Lori Alt
On 04/ 6/11 07:59 AM, Arjun YK wrote: Hi, I am trying to use ZFS for boot, and kind of confused about how the boot paritions like /var to be layed out. With old UFS, we create /var as sepearate filesystem to avoid various logs filling up the / filesystem I believe that creating /var as a

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS send/receive to Solaris/FBSD/OpenIndiana/Nexenta VM guest?

2011-04-06 Thread Lori Alt
On 04/ 6/11 11:42 AM, Paul Kraus wrote: On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 1:14 PM, Brandon Highbh...@freaks.com wrote: The only thing to watch out for is to make sure that the receiving datasets aren't a higher version that the zfs version that you'll be using on the replacement server. Because you

Re: [zfs-discuss] Recovering last good BE

2010-10-25 Thread Lori Alt
Try install-disc...@opensolaris.org as this is more of a liveupgrade issue than a zfs issue. Lori On 10/25/10 10:20 AM, Kartik Vashishta wrote: I created a new BE for patching, I applied patches to that BE, I then activated the new BE, this is the message I got:

Re: [zfs-discuss] resilver of older root pool disk

2010-09-23 Thread Lori Alt
On 09/23/10 04:40 PM, Frank Middleton wrote: Bumping this because no one responded. Could this be because it's such a stupid question no one wants to stoop to answering it, or because no one knows the answer? Trying to picture, say, what could happen in /var (say /var/adm/messages), let alone a

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS archive image

2010-09-13 Thread Lori Alt
On 09/13/10 09:40 AM, Buck Huffman wrote: I have a flash archive that is stored in a ZFS snapshot stream. Is there a way to mount this image so I can read files from it. No, but you can use the flar split command to split the flash archive into its constituent parts, one of which will be

Re: [zfs-discuss] JET and ZFS ?

2010-08-16 Thread Lori Alt
I don't know much about JET, but a jumpstart install of a system with a zfs root will do the necessary disk formatting. The profile keywords that describe the disk layout work more or less the same for zfs as they do for ufs, subject to the ways that zfs is different from ufs (you don't

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs root flash archive issue

2010-07-13 Thread Lori Alt
The setting of the content_architectures field is likely to be independent of the file system type, so at least at first glance, I don't think that this is zfs issue. You might try this question at install-disc...@opensolaris.org. Lori On 07/13/10 11:45 AM, Ketan wrote: I have created a

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS crash

2010-07-07 Thread Lori Alt
On 07/ 7/10 11:33 AM, Garrett D'Amore wrote: On Wed, 2010-07-07 at 10:09 -0700, Mark Christooph wrote: I had an interesting dilemma recently and I'm wondering if anyone here can illuminate on why this happened. I have a number of pools, including the root pool, in on-board disks on the

Re: [zfs-discuss] Legacy MountPoint for /rpool/ROOT

2010-07-06 Thread Lori Alt
On 07/ 6/10 10:56 AM, Ketan wrote: I have two different servers with ZFS root but both of them has different mountpoint for rpool/ROOT one is /rpool/ROOT and other is legacy. It should be legacy. Whats the difference between the two and which is the one we should keep. And why there is

Re: [zfs-discuss] c5-c9 device name change prevents beadm activate

2010-06-24 Thread Lori Alt
on the caiman-disc...@opensolaris.org alias, where needs like this can be addressed for real, in the supported installation tools. Lori On 06/23/10 18:15, Lori Alt wrote: Cindy Swearingen wrote: On 06/23/10 10:40, Evan Layton wrote: On 6/23/10 4:29 AM, Brian Nitz wrote: I saw a problem

Re: [zfs-discuss] c5-c9 device name change prevents beadm activate

2010-06-23 Thread Lori Alt
Cindy Swearingen wrote: On 06/23/10 10:40, Evan Layton wrote: On 6/23/10 4:29 AM, Brian Nitz wrote: I saw a problem while upgrading from build 140 to 141 where beadm activate {build141BE} failed because installgrub failed: # BE_PRINT_ERR=true beadm activate opensolarismigi-4

Re: [zfs-discuss] unsetting the bootfs property possible? imported a FreeBSD pool

2010-05-26 Thread Lori Alt
Was a bug ever filed against zfs for not allowing the bootfs property to be set to ? We should always let that request succeed. lori On 05/26/10 09:09 AM, Cindy Swearingen wrote: Hi-- I'm glad you were able to resolve this problem. I drafted some hints in this new section:

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs mount -a kernel panic

2010-05-19 Thread Lori Alt
First, I suggest you open a bug at https://defect.opensolaris.org/bz and get a bug number. Then, name your core dump something like bug.bugnumber and upload it using the instructions here: http://supportfiles.sun.com/upload Update the bug once you've uploaded the core and supply the

Re: [zfs-discuss] Odd dump volume panic

2010-05-12 Thread Lori Alt
On 05/12/10 04:29 AM, Ian Collins wrote: I just tried moving a dump volume form rpool into another pool so I used zfs send/receive to copy the volume (to keep some older dumps) then ran dumpadm -d to use the new location. This caused a panic. Nothing ended up in messages and needless to say,

Re: [zfs-discuss] zpool split problem?

2010-04-01 Thread Lori Alt
On 03/31/10 03:50 AM, Damon Atkins wrote: Why do we still need /etc/zfs/zpool.cache file??? (I could understand it was useful when zfs import was slow) zpool import is now multi-threaded (http://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6844191), hence a lot faster, each disk

Re: [zfs-discuss] zpool split problem?

2010-04-01 Thread Lori Alt
You might want to take this issue over to caiman-disc...@opensolaris.org, because this is more of an installation/management issue than a zfs issue. Other than providing a mechanism for updating the zpool.cache file, the actions listed below are not directly related to zfs. I believe that

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS send and receive corruption across a WAN link?

2010-03-22 Thread Lori Alt
On 03/22/10 05:04 PM, Brandon High wrote: On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 10:26 AM, Richard Elling richard.ell...@gmail.com mailto:richard.ell...@gmail.com wrote: NB. deduped streams should further reduce the snapshot size. I haven't seen a lot of discussion on the list regarding send dedup,

Re: [zfs-discuss] Thoughts on ZFS Pool Backup Strategies

2010-03-17 Thread Lori Alt
I think what you're saying is: Why bother trying to backup with zfs send when the recommended practice, fully supportable, is to use other tools for backup, such as tar, star, Amanda, bacula, etc. Right? The answer to this is very simple. #1 ... #2 ... Oh, one more thing. zfs send

Re: [zfs-discuss] Consolidating a huge stack of DVDs using ZFS dedup: automation?

2010-03-02 Thread Lori Alt
On 03/ 2/10 11:48 AM, Freddie Cash wrote: On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 7:15 AM, Kjetil Torgrim Homme kjeti...@linpro.no mailto:kjeti...@linpro.no wrote: valrh...@gmail.com mailto:valrh...@gmail.com valrh...@gmail.com mailto:valrh...@gmail.com writes: I have been using DVDs for small

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs send/receive : panic and reboot

2010-02-16 Thread Lori Alt
Hi Bruno, I've tried to reproduce this panic you are seeing. However, I had difficulty following your procedure. See below: On 02/08/10 15:37, Bruno Damour wrote: On 02/ 8/10 06:38 PM, Lori Alt wrote: Can you please send a complete list of the actions taken: The commands you used

Re: [zfs-discuss] What Happend to my OpenSolaris X86 Install?

2010-02-11 Thread Lori Alt
This sounds more like an install issue than a zfs issue. I suggest you take this to caiman-disc...@opensolaris.org . Lori On 02/10/10 23:44, Jeff Rogers wrote: Thanks for the tip but it was not that. The two hard drives where running under RAID 1 on my Linux install so the two drives have

Re: [zfs-discuss] Reading ZFS config for an extended period

2010-02-11 Thread Lori Alt
On 02/11/10 08:15, taemun wrote: Can anyone comment about whether the on-boot Reading ZFS confi is any slower/better/whatever than deleting zpool.cache, rebooting and manually importing? I've been waiting more than 30 hours for this system to come up. There is a pool with 13TB of data attached.

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs send/receive : panic and reboot

2010-02-08 Thread Lori Alt
Can you please send a complete list of the actions taken: The commands you used to create the send stream, the commands used to receive the stream. Also the output of `zfs list -t all` on both the sending and receiving sides. If you were able to collect a core dump (it should be in

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs root pool on upgraded host

2010-01-29 Thread Lori Alt
On 01/25/10 17:56, Shannon Fiume wrote: Hi, I installed opensolaris on a x2200 m2 with two internal drives that had an existing root pool with a Solaris 10 update 6. After installing opensolaris 2009.06 the host refused to boot. The opensolaris install was fine. I had to pull the second hard

Re: [zfs-discuss] Need help with repairing zpool :(

2010-01-28 Thread Lori Alt
First, you might want to send this out to caiman-disc...@opensolaris.org as well in order to find the experts in the OpenSolaris install process. (I am familiar with zfs booting in general and the legacy installer, but not so much about the OpenSolaris installer). Second, including the

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

2010-01-28 Thread Lori Alt
On 01/28/10 12:05, Dick Hoogendijk wrote: 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.

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

2010-01-28 Thread Lori Alt
On 01/28/10 14:08, dick hoogendijk wrote: 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

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs streams

2010-01-27 Thread Lori Alt
On 01/25/10 16:08, Daniel Carosone wrote: On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 05:42:59PM -0500, Miles Nordin wrote: et You cannot import a stream into a zpool of earlier revision, et thought the reverse is possible. This is very bad, because it means if your backup server is pool version 22,

Re: [zfs-discuss] etc on separate pool

2010-01-22 Thread Lori Alt
On 01/22/10 01:55, Alexander wrote: Is it possible to have /etc on separate zfs pool in OpenSolaris? The purpose is to have rw non-persistent main pool and rw persistent /etc... I've tried to make legacy etcpool/etc file system and mount it in /etc/vfstab... Is it possible to extend

Re: [zfs-discuss] image-update failed; ZFS returned an error

2010-01-04 Thread Lori Alt
Also, you might want to pursue this question at caiman-disc...@opensolaris.org, since that's where you'll find the experts on beadm. Lori On 01/04/10 10:46, Cindy Swearingen wrote: Hi Garen, Does this system have a mirrored root pool and if so, is a p0 device included as a root pool

Re: [zfs-discuss] raid-z as a boot pool

2009-12-15 Thread Lori Alt
On 12/15/09 09:26, Luca Morettoni wrote: As reported here: http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/view/Community+Group+zfs/zfsbootFAQ we can't boot from a pool with raidz, any plan to have this feature? At this time, there is no scheduled availability for raidz boot. It's on the list of possible

Re: [zfs-discuss] More Dedupe Questions...

2009-11-03 Thread Lori Alt
Kyle McDonald wrote: Hi Darren, More below... Darren J Moffat wrote: Tristan Ball wrote: Obviously sending it deduped is more efficient in terms of bandwidth and CPU time on the recv side, but it may also be more complicated to achieve? A stream can be deduped even if the on disk format

Re: [zfs-discuss] mounting rootpool

2009-10-01 Thread Lori Alt
On 10/01/09 09:25, camps support wrote: I did zpool import -R /tmp/z rootpool It only mounted /export and /rootpool only had /boot and /platform. I need to be able to get /etc and /var? You need to explicitly mount the root file system (its canmount property is set to noauto, which means

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs receive should allow to keep received system unmounted

2009-09-28 Thread Lori Alt
On 09/28/09 15:54, Igor Velkov wrote: zfs receive should allow option to disable immediately mount of received filesystem. In case of original filesystem have changed mountpoints, it's hard to make clone fs with send-receive, because received filesystem immediately try to mount to old

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs receive should allow to keep received system

2009-09-28 Thread Lori Alt
On 09/28/09 16:16, Igor Velkov wrote: Not so good as I hope. zfs send -R xxx/x...@daily_2009-09-26_23:51:00 |ssh -c blowfish r...@xxx.xx zfs recv -vuFd xxx/xxx invalid option 'u' usage: receive [-vnF] filesystem|volume|snapshot receive [-vnF] -d filesystem For the property

Re: [zfs-discuss] Which directories must be part of rpool?

2009-09-27 Thread Lori Alt
Bill Sommerfeld wrote: On Fri, 2009-09-25 at 14:39 -0600, Lori Alt wrote: The list of datasets in a root pool should look something like this: ... rpool/swap I've had success with putting swap into other pools. I believe others have, as well. Yes, that's true

Re: [zfs-discuss] Cloning Systems using zpool

2009-09-25 Thread Lori Alt
The whole pool. Although you can choose to exclude individual datasets from the flar when creating it. lori On 09/25/09 12:03, Peter Pickford wrote: Hi Lori, Is the u8 flash support for the whole root pool or an individual BE using live upgrade? Thanks Peter 2009/9/24 Lori Alt lori

Re: [zfs-discuss] Which directories must be part of rpool?

2009-09-25 Thread Lori Alt
On 09/25/09 13:35, David Abrahams wrote: Hi, Since I don't even have a mirror for my root pool rpool, I'd like to move as much of my system as possible over to my raidz2 pool, tank. Can someone tell me which parts need to stay in rpool in order for the system to work normally? Thanks. The

Re: [zfs-discuss] Which directories must be part of rpool?

2009-09-25 Thread Lori Alt
I have no idea why that last mail lost its line feeds. Trying again: On 09/25/09 13:35, David Abrahams wrote: Hi, Since I don't even have a mirror for my root pool rpool, I'd like to move as much of my system as possible over to my raidz2 pool, tank. Can someone tell me which parts need

Re: [zfs-discuss] Cloning Systems using zpool

2009-09-24 Thread Lori Alt
On 09/24/09 15:54, Peter Pickford wrote: Hi Cindy, Wouldn't touch /reconfigure mv /etc/path_to_inst* /var/tmp/ regenerate all device information? It might, but it's hard to say whether that would accomplish everything needed to move a root file system from one system to another. I just

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs send older version?

2009-09-16 Thread Lori Alt
Erik Trimble wrote: Lori Alt wrote: On 09/15/09 06:27, Luca Morettoni wrote: On 09/15/09 02:07 PM, Mark J Musante wrote: zfs create -o version=N pool/filesystem is possible to implement into a future version of ZFS a released send command, like: # zfs send -r2 snap ... to send

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs send older version?

2009-09-16 Thread Lori Alt
On 09/16/09 11:56, Erik Trimble wrote: Lori Alt wrote: On 09/16/09 10:48, Marty Scholes wrote: Lori Alt wrote: As for being able to read streams of a later format on an earlier version of ZFS, I don't think that will ever be supported. In that case, we really would have to somehow convert

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs send older version?

2009-09-15 Thread Lori Alt
On 09/15/09 06:27, Luca Morettoni wrote: On 09/15/09 02:07 PM, Mark J Musante wrote: zfs create -o version=N pool/filesystem is possible to implement into a future version of ZFS a released send command, like: # zfs send -r2 snap ... to send a specific release (version 2 in the

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

2009-09-04 Thread Lori Alt
On 09/04/09 09:41, dick hoogendijk wrote: Lori Alt wrote: The -n option does some verification. It verifies that the record headers distributed throughout the stream are syntactically valid. Since each record header contains a length field which allows the next header to be found, one bad

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

2009-09-04 Thread Lori Alt
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 in whatever order

Re: [zfs-discuss] Archiving and Restoring Snapshots

2009-09-03 Thread Lori Alt
I agree and Cindy Swearingen and I are talking to marketing to get this fixed. Thanks to all for bringing this to our attention. lori On 09/03/09 00:55, Ross wrote: I agree, mailing that to all Sun customers is something I think is likely to turn around and bite you. A lot of people are

Re: [zfs-discuss] Archiving and Restoring Snapshots

2009-09-03 Thread Lori Alt
yes to all the comments below. Those are all mitigating factors. But I also agree with Ross and Mike and others that we should be more clear about when send/recv is appropriate and when it's not the best choice. We're looking into it. Lori On 09/03/09 10:06, Richard Elling wrote: On

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

2009-09-03 Thread Lori Alt
On 09/03/09 14:21, dick hoogendijk wrote: On Wed, 2 Sep 2009 13:06:35 -0500 (CDT) Bob Friesenhahn bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us wrote: Nothing prevents validating the self-verifying archive file via this zfs recv -vn technique. Does this verify the ZFS format/integrity of the stream?

Re: [zfs-discuss] Remove the zfs snapshot keeping the original volume and clone

2009-08-31 Thread Lori Alt
On 08/31/09 08:30, Henrik Bjornstrom - Sun Microsystems wrote: Hi ! Have anyone given an answer to this that I have missed ? I have a customer that have the same question and I want to give him a correct answer. /Henrik Ketan wrote: I created a snapshot and subsequent clone of a zfs

Re: [zfs-discuss] shrink the rpool zpool or increase rpool zpool via add disk.

2009-08-31 Thread Lori Alt
On 08/29/09 05:41, Robert Milkowski wrote: casper@sun.com wrote: Randall Badilla wrote: Hi all: First; it is possible modify the boot zpool rpool after OS installation...? I install the OS on the whole 72GB harddisk.. it is mirrored so If I want to decrease the rpool; for example

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs root, jumpstart and flash archives

2009-08-19 Thread Lori Alt
archive_location nfs schubert:/export/home/lalt/U8.flar partitioning explicit pool rpool auto auto auto mirror c0t1d0s0 c0t0d0s0 I think that covers the basics. Lori Thanks again. Kris Kasner Qualcomm Inc. Jul 9 at 16:41, Lori Alt lori@sun.com wrote: On 07/09/09 17:25, Mark Michael wrote

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs incremental send stream size

2009-08-06 Thread Lori Alt
On 08/06/09 12:19, Robert Lawhead wrote: I'm puzzled by the size reported for incremental zfs send|zfs receive. I'd expect the stream to be roughly the same size as the used blocks reported by zfs list. Can anyone explain why the stream size reported is so much larger that the used data in

Re: [zfs-discuss] Soon out of space (after upgrade to 2009.06)

2009-07-24 Thread Lori Alt
In general, questions about beadm and related tools should be sent or at least cross-posted to install-disc...@opensolaris.org. Lori On 07/24/09 07:04, Jean-Noël Mattern wrote: Axelle, You can safely run beadm destroy opensolaris if everything's allright with your new opensolaris-1 boot

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs rpool boot failed

2009-07-13 Thread Lori Alt
On 07/11/09 05:15, iman habibi wrote: Dear Admins I had solaris 10u8 installation based on ZFS (rpool)filesystem on two mirrored scsi disks in sunfire v880. but after some months,when i reboot server with reboot command,it didnt boot from disks,and returns cant boot from boot media. how can i

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs root, jumpstart and flash archives

2009-07-09 Thread Lori Alt
Flash archive on zfs means archiving an entire root pool (minus any explicitly excluded datasets), not an individual BE. These types of flash archives can only be installed using Jumpstart and are intended to install an entire system, not an individual BE. Flash archives of a single BE could

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs root, jumpstart and flash archives

2009-07-09 Thread Lori Alt
On 07/09/09 17:25, Mark Michael wrote: Thanks for the info. Hope that the pfinstall changes to support zfs root flash jumpstarts can be extended to support luupgrade -f at some point soon. BTW, where can I find an example profile? do I just substitute in the install_type flash_install

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs root, jumpstart and flash archives

2009-07-08 Thread Lori Alt
On 07/08/09 13:43, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: On Wed, 8 Jul 2009, Jerry K wrote: It has been a while since this has been discussed, and I am hoping that you can provide an update, or time estimate. As we are several months into Update 7, is there any chance of an Update 7 patch, or are we still

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs snapshoot of rpool/* to usb removable drives?

2009-07-08 Thread Lori Alt
On 07/08/09 15:57, Carl Brewer wrote: Thankyou! Am I right in thinking that rpool snapshots will include things like swap? If so, is there some way to exclude them? Much like rsync has --exclude? By default, the zfs send -R will send all the snapshots, including swap and dump. But you

Re: [zfs-discuss] possible to override/inherit mountpoint on received snapshots?

2009-07-07 Thread Lori Alt
To elaborate, the -u option to zfs receive suppresses all mounts. The datasets you extract will STILL have mountpoints that might not work on the local system, but at least you can unpack the entire hierarchy of datasets and then modify mountpoints as needed to arrange to make the file

Re: [zfs-discuss] Cloning a ZFS compact flash card

2009-06-29 Thread Lori Alt
On 06/28/09 08:41, Ross wrote: Can't you just boot from an OpenSolaris CD, create a ZFS pool on the new device, and just do a ZFS send/receive directly to it? So long as there's enough space for the data, a send/receive won't care at all that the systems are different sizes. I don't know

Re: [zfs-discuss] SXCE, ZFS root, b101 - b103 fails with ERROR: No upgradeable file systems

2009-06-29 Thread Lori Alt
On 06/27/09 23:50, Ian Collins wrote: Leela wrote: So no one has any idea? About what? This was in regards to a question sent to the install-discuss alias on 6/18 and later copied to zfs-discuss. I have answered it on the install alias, if anyone is following the issue. Lori

Re: [zfs-discuss] core dump on zfs receive

2009-06-22 Thread Lori Alt
This is probably 6696858. The fix is known, but I don't know when it's expected to become available. I have asked the CR's responsible engineer to update it with when the fix is expected. Lori On 06/22/09 14:03, Charles Hedrick wrote: I'm trying to do a simple backup. I did zfs snapshot

Re: [zfs-discuss] v440 - root mirror lost after LU

2009-06-16 Thread Lori Alt
On 06/16/09 16:32, Jens Elkner wrote: Hmmm, just upgraded some servers to U7. Unfortunately one server's primary disk died during the upgrade, so that luactivate was not able to activate the s10u7 BE (Unable to determine the configuration ...). Since the rpool is a 2-way mirror, the

Re: [zfs-discuss] no pool_props for OpenSolaris 2009.06 with old SPARC hardware

2009-06-12 Thread Lori Alt
Frank Middleton wrote: On 06/03/09 09:10 PM, Aurélien Larcher wrote: PS: for the record I roughly followed the steps of this blog entry = http://blogs.sun.com/edp/entry/moving_from_nevada_and_live Thanks for posting this link! Building pkg with gdb was an interesting exercise, but it

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS snapshots ignore everything in /export/....

2009-06-10 Thread Lori Alt
On 06/09/09 18:15, Krenz von Leiberman wrote: When I take a snapshot of my rpool, (of which /export/... is a part of), ZFS ignores all the data in it and doesn't take any snapshots... How do I make it include /export in my snapshots? BTW, I'm running on Solaris 10 Update 6 (Or whatever is the

Re: [zfs-discuss] multiple devs for rpool

2009-06-10 Thread Lori Alt
A root pool is composed of one top-level vdev, which can be a mirror (i.e. 2 or more disks). A raidz vdev is not supported for the root pool yet. It might be supported in the future, but the timeframe is unknown at this time. Lori Colleen wrote: As I understand it, you cannot currently

Re: [zfs-discuss] multiple devs for rpool

2009-06-10 Thread Lori Alt
Carson Gaspar wrote: Lori Alt wrote: A root pool is composed of one top-level vdev, which can be a mirror (i.e. 2 or more disks). A raidz vdev is not supported for the root pool yet. It might be supported in the future, but the timeframe is unknown at this time. The original poster

Re: [zfs-discuss] replicating a root pool

2009-05-22 Thread Lori Alt
On 05/21/09 22:40, Ian Collins wrote: Mark J Musante wrote: On Thu, 21 May 2009, Ian Collins wrote: I'm trying to use zfs send/receive to replicate the root pool of a system and I can't think of a way to stop the received copy attempting to mount the filesystem over the root of the

Re: [zfs-discuss] Compression/copies on root pool RFE

2009-05-06 Thread Lori Alt
This sounds like a good idea to me, but it should be brought up on the caiman-disc...@opensolaris.org mailing list, since this is not just, or even primarily, a zfs issue. Lori Rich Teer wrote: On Wed, 6 May 2009, Richard Elling wrote: popular interactive installers much more simplified.

Re: [zfs-discuss] Bad SWAP performance from zvol

2009-04-06 Thread Lori Alt
I'm not sure where this issue stands now (am just now checking mail after being out for a few days), but here are the block sizes used when the install software creates swap and dump zvols: swap: block size is set to PAGESIZE (4K for x86, 8K for sparc) dump: block size is set to 128 KB

Re: [zfs-discuss] Mounting zfs file systems

2009-03-17 Thread Lori Alt
no, this is an incorrect diagnosis. The problem is that by using the -V option, you created a volume, not a file system. That is, you created a raw device. You could then newfs a ufs file system within the volume, but that is almost certainly not what you want. Don't use -V when you create

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs streams data corruption

2009-02-24 Thread Lori Alt
On 02/24/09 12:57, Christopher Mera wrote: How is it that flash archives can avoid these headaches? Are we sure that they do avoid this headache? A flash archive (on ufs root) is created by doing a cpio of the root file system. Could a cpio end up archiving a file that was mid-way through

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs streams data corruption

2009-02-23 Thread Lori Alt
I don't know what's causing this, nor have I seen it. Can you send more information about the errors you see when the system crashes and svc.configd fails? Doing the scrub seems like a harmless and possibly useful thing to do. Let us know what you find out from it. Lori On 02/23/09 11:05,

Re: [zfs-discuss] Confused about zfs recv -d, apparently

2009-02-22 Thread Lori Alt
Dave wrote: Frank Cusack wrote: When you try to backup the '/' part of the root pool, it will get mounted on the altroot itself, which is of course already occupied. At that point, the receive will fail. So far as I can tell, mounting the received filesystem is the last step in the

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs root, jumpstart and flash archives

2009-02-19 Thread Lori Alt
://blogs.sun.com/scottdickson/entry/flashless_system_cloning_with_zfs It's not the same as flash archive support, but it accomplishes some of the same goals. - Lori thank you, Jerry Kemp On 02/18/09 10:40, Lori Alt wrote: Latest is that this will go into an early build of Update 8

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs root, jumpstart and flash archives

2009-02-18 Thread Lori Alt
Lori, Any update to this issue, and can you speculate as to if it will be a patch to Solaris 10u6, or part of 10u7? Thanks again, Jerry Lori Alt wrote: This is in the process of being resolved right now. Stay tuned for when it will be available. It might be a patch to Update 6

Re: [zfs-discuss] Recover data in /root

2009-02-12 Thread Lori Alt
On 02/11/09 12:14, Jonny Gerold wrote: I have a non bootable disk and need to recover files from /root... When I import the disk via zpool import /root isnt mounted... Thanks, Jonny ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS root pool over more than one disks?

2009-02-11 Thread Lori Alt
On 02/11/09 01:28, Sandro wrote: Hey Cindy Thanks for your help. How would I configure a 2-way mirror pool for a root pool? Basically I'd do it this way. zpool create pool mirror disk0 disk2 mirror disk1 disk3 This command does not create a valid root pool. Root pools cannot have more

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS core contributor nominations

2009-02-05 Thread Lori Alt
I accept nomination as a core contributor to the zfs community. Lori Alt On 02/02/09 08:55, Mark Shellenbaum wrote: The time has come to review the current Contributor and Core contributor grants for ZFS. Since all of the ZFS core contributors grants are set to expire on 02-24-2009 we need

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs root, jumpstart and flash archives

2009-01-09 Thread Lori Alt
This is in the process of being resolved right now. Stay tuned for when it will be available. It might be a patch to Update 6. In the meantime, you might try this: http://blogs.sun.com/scottdickson/entry/flashless_system_cloning_with_zfs - Lori On 01/09/09 12:28, Jerry K wrote: I

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs boot Solaris 10/08 whole disk or slice

2008-12-18 Thread Lori Alt
On 12/18/08 12:57, Ian Collins wrote: Shawn joy wrote: Hi All, I see from the zfs Best practices guide http://www.solarisinternals.com/wiki/index.php/ZFS_Best_Practices_Guide ZFS Root Pool Considerations * A root pool must be created with disk slices rather than whole disks.

Re: [zfs-discuss] Separate /var

2008-12-10 Thread Lori Alt
On 12/10/08 12:15, Jesus Cea wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ian Collins wrote: I have ZFS root/boot in my environment, and I am interested in separating /var in a independent dataset. How can I do it. I can use Live Upgrade, if needed. It's an install option.

Re: [zfs-discuss] [install-discuss] differences.. why?

2008-12-02 Thread Lori Alt
On 12/02/08 03:21, jan damborsky wrote: Hi Dick, I am redirecting your question to zfs-discuss mailing list, where people are more knowledgeable about this problem and your question could be better answered. Best regards, Jan dick hoogendijk wrote: I have s10u6 installed on my

Re: [zfs-discuss] Separate /var

2008-12-02 Thread Lori Alt
On 12/02/08 09:00, Gary Mills wrote: On Mon, Dec 01, 2008 at 04:45:16PM -0700, Lori Alt wrote: On 11/27/08 17:18, Gary Mills wrote: On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 11:19:14AM +1300, Ian Collins wrote: On Fri 28/11/08 10:53 , Gary Mills [EMAIL PROTECTED] sent: On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 07:39:43AM

Re: [zfs-discuss] [install-discuss] differences.. why?

2008-12-02 Thread Lori Alt
On 12/02/08 11:29, dick hoogendijk wrote: Lori Alt wrote: On 12/02/08 03:21, jan damborsky wrote: Hi Dick, I am redirecting your question to zfs-discuss mailing list, where people are more knowledgeable about this problem and your question could be better answered. Best regards, Jan

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs boot - U6 kernel patch breaks sparc boot

2008-12-02 Thread Lori Alt
I don't want to steer you wrong under the circumstances, so I think we need more information. First, is the failure the same as in the earlier part of this thread. I.e., when you boot, do you get a failure like this? Warning: Fcode sequence resulted in a net stack depth change of 1

Re: [zfs-discuss] Separate /var

2008-12-02 Thread Lori Alt
On 12/02/08 10:24, Mike Gerdts wrote: On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 11:17 AM, Lori Alt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I did pre-create the file system. Also, I tried omitting special and zonecfg complains. I think that there might need to be some changes to zonecfg and the zone installation code to get

Re: [zfs-discuss] Separate /var

2008-12-02 Thread Lori Alt
On 12/02/08 11:04, Brian Wilson wrote: - Original Message - From: Lori Alt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tuesday, December 2, 2008 11:19 am Subject: Re: [zfs-discuss] Separate /var To: Gary Mills [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org On 12/02/08 09:00, Gary Mills wrote

Re: [zfs-discuss] Separate /var

2008-12-01 Thread Lori Alt
On 11/27/08 17:18, Gary Mills wrote: On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 11:19:14AM +1300, Ian Collins wrote: On Fri 28/11/08 10:53 , Gary Mills [EMAIL PROTECTED] sent: On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 07:39:43AM +1100, Edward Irvine wrote: I'm currently working with an organisation who

Re: [zfs-discuss] MIgrating to ZFS root/boot with system in several datasets

2008-11-18 Thread Lori Alt
On 11/08/08 15:24, Jesus Cea wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Any advice?. Suggestions/alternative approaches welcomed. One obvious question - why? Two reasons: The SXCE code base really only supports BEs that are either all in one dataset, or have

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs version number

2008-11-06 Thread Lori Alt
Thanks for pointing this out. This has now been corrected. Lori Francois Dion wrote: First, Congrats to whoever/everybody was involved getting zfs booting in solaris 10 u6. This is killer. Second, somebody who has admin access to this page here:

Re: [zfs-discuss] Fwd: Re: FYI: s10u6 LU issues

2008-11-04 Thread Lori Alt
Would you send the messages that appeared with the failed ludelete? Lori Dick Hoogendijk wrote: Newsgroups: comp.unix.solaris From: Dick Hoogendijk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: FYI: s10u6 LU issues quoting cindy (Mon, 3 Nov 2008 13:01:07 -0800 (PST)): Besides the release notes, I'm

Re: [zfs-discuss] Custom Jumpstart and RAID-10 ZFS rpool

2008-10-29 Thread Lori Alt
Kyle McDonald wrote: Ian Collins wrote: Stephen Le wrote: Is it possible to create a custom Jumpstart profile to install Nevada on a RAID-10 rpool? No, simple mirrors only. Though a finish sscript could add additional simple mirrors to create the config his

Re: [zfs-discuss] lu ZFS root questions

2008-10-28 Thread Lori Alt
Karl Rossing wrote: Currently running b93. I'd like to try out b101. I previously had b90 running on the system. I ran ludelete snv_90_zfs but I still see snv_90_zfs: $ zfs list NAME USED AVAIL REFER MOUNTPOINT rpool 52.9G 6.11G

Re: [zfs-discuss] Enable compression on ZFS root

2008-10-15 Thread Lori Alt
Richard Elling wrote: Vincent Fox wrote: Does it seem feasible/reasonable to enable compression on ZFS root disks during JumpStart? Seems like it could buy some space performance. Yes. There have been several people who do this regularly. Glenn wrote a blog on how to do this

Re: [zfs-discuss] am I screwed?

2008-10-13 Thread Lori Alt
It would also be useful to see the output of `zfs list` and `zfs get all rpool/ROOT/snv_99` while booted from the failsafe archive. - lori dick hoogendijk wrote: James C. McPherson wrote: Please add -kv to the end of your kernel$ line in grub, #GRUB kernel$ add -kv cmdk0

Re: [zfs-discuss] am I screwed?

2008-10-13 Thread Lori Alt
dick hoogendijk wrote: Lori Alt wrote: It would also be useful to see the output of `zfs list` and `zfs get all rpool/ROOT/snv_99` while booted from the failsafe archive # zfs list rpool 69.0G 76.6G40K /a/rpool rpool/ROOT22.7G 18K legacy

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