Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: Life after the pool party

2006-05-27 Thread Daniel Rock
James Dickens schrieb: tried it again... same results... restores the damm efi label.. disk starts on block 34 not 0, there is no slice 2... that solaris ijnstaller demands can not start any track at block 0.. so i can't create a backup slice aka 2. This is a SCSI disk? Then you can send SCSI

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: Life after the pool party

2006-05-27 Thread James Dickens
On 5/27/06, Dennis Clarke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > >> > I had a one disk pool, that I want to use as a boot >> > disk, but I can't >> > seem to get rid of the efi label, when i use format >> > -e it and try to >> > relabel, format bitches that it can't set disk >> > geometry or write th

[zfs-discuss] Re: Re: Life after the pool party

2006-05-27 Thread Wes Williams
Try the directions in the previous posted linkusing the Solaris 'format' command. This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: Life after the pool party

2006-05-27 Thread Dennis Clarke
>> > >> > I had a one disk pool, that I want to use as a boot >> > disk, but I can't >> > seem to get rid of the efi label, when i use format >> > -e it and try to >> > relabel, format bitches that it can't set disk >> > geometry or write the >> > new label. >> > >> > any one have any clues how

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: Life after the pool party

2006-05-27 Thread James Dickens
On 5/27/06, Wes Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi > > I had a one disk pool, that I want to use as a boot > disk, but I can't > seem to get rid of the efi label, when i use format > -e it and try to > relabel, format bitches that it can't set disk > geometry or write the > new label. > >

[zfs-discuss] Re: Life after the pool party

2006-05-27 Thread Wes Williams
> Hi > > I had a one disk pool, that I want to use as a boot > disk, but I can't > seem to get rid of the efi label, when i use format > -e it and try to > relabel, format bitches that it can't set disk > geometry or write the > new label. > > any one have any clues how to fix this? > > james

[zfs-discuss] Re: Life after the pool party

2006-05-27 Thread James Dickens
On 5/27/06, James Dickens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi I had a one disk pool, that I want to use as a boot disk, but I can't seem to get rid of the efi label, when i use format -e it and try to relabel, format bitches that it can't set disk geometry or write the new label. any one have any c

[zfs-discuss] Life after the pool party

2006-05-27 Thread James Dickens
Hi I had a one disk pool, that I want to use as a boot disk, but I can't seem to get rid of the efi label, when i use format -e it and try to relabel, format bitches that it can't set disk geometry or write the new label. any one have any clues how to fix this? james _

Re: [zfs-discuss] How's zfs RAIDZ fualt-tolerant ???

2006-05-27 Thread Eric Schrock
On Sat, May 27, 2006 at 08:29:05AM +1000, grant beattie wrote: > On Fri, May 26, 2006 at 10:33:34AM -0700, Eric Schrock wrote: > > > RAID-Z is single-fault tolerant. If if you take out two disks, then you > > no longer have the required redundancy to maintain your data. Build 42 > > should conta

Re: [zfs-discuss] hard drive write cache

2006-05-27 Thread Daniel Rock
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: What about IDE drives (PATA, SATA). Currently only the sd driver implements enabling/disabling the write cache? They typically have write caches enabled by default; and some don't take ckindly to disabling the write cache or do not allow it at all. But you could at

Re: [zfs-discuss] hard drive write cache

2006-05-27 Thread Casper . Dik
>What about IDE drives (PATA, SATA). Currently only the sd driver implements >enabling/disabling the write cache? They typically have write caches enabled by default; and some don't take ckindly to disabling the write cache or do not allow it at all. >Also the WCE bit isn't reset if a zpool is

Re: [zfs-discuss] hard drive write cache

2006-05-27 Thread Daniel Rock
Bart Smaalders schrieb: ZFS enables the write cache and flushes it when committing transaction groups; this insures that all of a transaction group appears or does not appear on disk. What about IDE drives (PATA, SATA). Currently only the sd driver implements enabling/disabling the write cache