Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] new box build OI 201503 - 4TB WD reds only 2TB?

2015-05-01 Thread Carl Brewer
On 1/05/2015 3:08 PM, Alexander Pyhalov wrote: Try using text installer. Last text installer images will install OI on EFI-labeled disks if whole disk install is selected so if I boot off the OI 201503 GUI ISO, but in text mode, I'll be able to do this? Is there a howto or guide anywhere? A

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] SMR disks

2015-05-01 Thread Saso Kiselkov
On 5/1/15 2:09 PM, Nick Tan wrote: > On Friday, May 1, 2015, Andrew Gabriel wrote: > > However since zfs is CoW it should be ok on subsequent rsyncs. Watch out! SMR disks are *in principle* CoW and ZFS is *in principle* CoW, but that doesn't mean that they are the same kind of CoW (indeed, I can

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] SMR disks

2015-05-01 Thread Nick Tan
On Friday, May 1, 2015, Andrew Gabriel wrote: > On 01/05/2015 07:13, Nick Tan wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> Has anyone tried using SMR disks with ZFS? I bought a Seagate 8TB SMR >> disk >> and put it in a esata enclosure for my backups. I found that zfs send >> would cause the disk to go offline.

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] SMR disks

2015-05-01 Thread Andrew Gabriel
On 01/05/2015 07:13, Nick Tan wrote: Hi all, Has anyone tried using SMR disks with ZFS? I bought a Seagate 8TB SMR disk and put it in a esata enclosure for my backups. I found that zfs send would cause the disk to go offline. My guess is that zfs send is too fast and fills the drive write cac