Re: [zfs-discuss] migrating from linux to solaris ZFS

2009-09-17 Thread Al Muckart
On 18/09/2009, at 1:08 PM, Fajar A. Nugraha wrote: There was a post from Ricardo on zfs-fuse list some time ago. Apparently if you do a "zpool create" on whole disks, Linux on Solaris behaves differently: - solaris will create EFI partition on that disk, and use the partition as vdev - Linux

Re: [zfs-discuss] migrating from linux to solaris ZFS

2009-09-17 Thread Paul Archer
Tomorrow, Fajar A. Nugraha wrote: There was a post from Ricardo on zfs-fuse list some time ago. Apparently if you do a "zpool create" on whole disks, Linux on Solaris behaves differently: - solaris will create EFI partition on that disk, and use the partition as vdev - Linux will use the whole

Re: [zfs-discuss] migrating from linux to solaris ZFS

2009-09-17 Thread Fajar A. Nugraha
On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 4:08 AM, Paul Archer wrote: > I did a little research and found that parted on Linux handles EFI > labelling. I used it to change the partition scheme on sda, creating an > sda1. I then offlined sda and replaced it with sda1. I wish I had just tried > a scrub instead of the

Re: [zfs-discuss] migrating from linux to solaris ZFS

2009-09-17 Thread Andrew Gabriel
Darren J Moffat wrote: Paul Archer wrote: r...@ubuntu:~# fdisk -l /dev/sda Disk /dev/sda: 1500.3 GB, 1500301910016 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 182401 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Disk identifier: 0xce13f90b Device Boot Start End Blocks

Re: [zfs-discuss] migrating from linux to solaris ZFS

2009-09-17 Thread Paul Archer
7:37pm, Darren J Moffat wrote: Paul Archer wrote: r...@ubuntu:~# fdisk -l /dev/sda Disk /dev/sda: 1500.3 GB, 1500301910016 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 182401 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Disk identifier: 0xce13f90b Device Boot Start End

Re: [zfs-discuss] migrating from linux to solaris ZFS

2009-09-17 Thread Darren J Moffat
Paul Archer wrote: r...@ubuntu:~# fdisk -l /dev/sda Disk /dev/sda: 1500.3 GB, 1500301910016 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 182401 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Disk identifier: 0xce13f90b Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1

Re: [zfs-discuss] migrating from linux to solaris ZFS

2009-09-17 Thread Paul Archer
6:44pm, Darren J Moffat wrote: Paul Archer wrote: What kind of partition table is on the disks, is it EFI ? If not that might be part of the issue. I don't believe there is any partition table on the disks. I pointed zfs to the raw disks when I setup the pool. If you run fdisk on OpenSola

Re: [zfs-discuss] migrating from linux to solaris ZFS

2009-09-17 Thread Darren J Moffat
Paul Archer wrote: What kind of partition table is on the disks, is it EFI ? If not that might be part of the issue. I don't believe there is any partition table on the disks. I pointed zfs to the raw disks when I setup the pool. If you run fdisk on OpenSolaris against this disk what does i

Re: [zfs-discuss] migrating from linux to solaris ZFS

2009-09-17 Thread Paul Archer
5:08pm, Darren J Moffat wrote: Paul Archer wrote: 10:09pm, Fajar A. Nugraha wrote: On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 8:55 PM, Paul Archer wrote: I can reboot into Linux and import the pools, but haven't figured out why I can't import them in Solaris. I don't know if it makes a difference (I wouldn't

Re: [zfs-discuss] migrating from linux to solaris ZFS

2009-09-17 Thread Paul Archer
10:40am, Paul Archer wrote: I can reboot into Linux and import the pools, but haven't figured out why I can't import them in Solaris. I don't know if it makes a difference (I wouldn't think so), but zfs-fuse under Linux is using ZFS version 13, where Nexenta is using version 14. Just a gues

Re: [zfs-discuss] migrating from linux to solaris ZFS

2009-09-17 Thread Darren J Moffat
Paul Archer wrote: 10:09pm, Fajar A. Nugraha wrote: On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 8:55 PM, Paul Archer wrote: I can reboot into Linux and import the pools, but haven't figured out why I can't import them in Solaris. I don't know if it makes a difference (I wouldn't think so), but zfs-fuse under Li

Re: [zfs-discuss] migrating from linux to solaris ZFS

2009-09-17 Thread Paul Archer
10:09pm, Fajar A. Nugraha wrote: On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 8:55 PM, Paul Archer wrote: I can reboot into Linux and import the pools, but haven't figured out why I can't import them in Solaris. I don't know if it makes a difference (I wouldn't think so), but zfs-fuse under Linux is using ZFS vers

Re: [zfs-discuss] migrating from linux to solaris ZFS

2009-09-17 Thread Fajar A. Nugraha
On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 8:55 PM, Paul Archer wrote: > I can reboot into Linux and import the pools, but haven't figured out why I > can't import them in Solaris. I don't know if it makes a difference (I > wouldn't think so), but zfs-fuse under Linux is using ZFS version 13, where > Nexenta is usin

[zfs-discuss] migrating from linux to solaris ZFS

2009-09-17 Thread Paul Archer
I recently (re)built a fileserver at home, using Ubuntu and zfs-fuse to create a ZFS filesystem (RAIDz1) on five 1.5TB drives. I had some serious issues with NFS not working properly (kept getting stale file handles), so I tried to switch to OpenSolaris/Nexenta, but my SATA controller wasn't s