Hi Jeffrey,

Jeffrey Huang wrote:
> Hi, Jan,
>
> ? 2009/12/9 20:41, Jan Damborsky ??:
>> # dumpadm -d swap
>> dumpadm: no swap devices could be configured as the dump device
>> # dumpadm
>>       Dump content: kernel pages
>>        Dump device: /dev/zvol/dsk/rpool/dump (dedicated)
>> Savecore directory: /var/crash/opensolaris
>>   Savecore enabled: no
>>    Save compressed: on
>>
>>
>> Bug 13180 was filed against OpenSolaris installer to track this issue.
>>
>> Could I please ask somebody from ZFS team to help install folks 
>> understand
>> what changed and how the installer has to be modified, so that it can
>> destroy ZFS root pool containing dump on ZVOL ?
>
> I am doing the destroy ZVOL and zpool work a lot in my test cases.
> What I required is the testing machine needs 2 hard disk, and add the 2nd
> disk as swap under micro root:
> # swap -a /dev/dsk/c2t1d0s0
> then
> # dumpadm -d swap
> will pass, and I can do installation again and again.

Yep, I use similar approach - I create one spare slice on target disk
and then use it in the same way as you suggested.

>
> But I am also hoping to get more neatly solution than requiring an 
> additional storage.

Agreed - the solution for this problem is now being communicated
with ZFS team.

Thanks !
Jan


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