Re: [zfs-discuss] Scripting zfs send / receive

2008-09-26 Thread Enda O'Connor ( Sun Micro Systems Ireland)
Hi Clive King has a nice blog entry showing this in action http://blogs.sun.com/clive/entry/replication_using_zfs with associated script at: http://blogs.sun.com/clive/resource/zfs_repl.ksh Which I think answers most of your questions. Enda Ross wrote: Hey folks, Is anybody able to help a

Re: [zfs-discuss] S10u6, zfs and zones

2008-08-05 Thread Enda O'Connor ( Sun Micro Systems Ireland)
dick hoogendijk wrote: My server runs S10u5. All slices are UFS. I run a couple of sparse zones on a seperate slice mounted on /zones. When S10u6 comes out booting of ZFS will become possible. That is great news. However, will it be possible to have those zones I run now too? you can migrate

Re: [zfs-discuss] Can I trust ZFS?

2008-08-01 Thread Enda O'Connor ( Sun Micro Systems Ireland)
Dave wrote: Enda O'Connor wrote: As for thumpers, once 138053-02 ( marvell88sx driver patch ) releases within the next two weeks ( assuming no issues found ), then the thumper platform running s10 updates will be up to date in terms of marvel88sx driver fixes, which fixes some pretty

Re: [zfs-discuss] Cannot attach mirror to SPARC zfs root pool

2008-07-24 Thread Enda O'Connor ( Sun Micro Systems Ireland)
Mike Gerdts wrote: On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 11:36 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rainer, Sorry for your trouble. I'm updating the installboot example in the ZFS Admin Guide with the -F zfs syntax now. We'll fix the installboot man page as well. Perhaps it also deserves a mention in the FAQ

Re: [zfs-discuss] Cannot attach mirror to SPARC zfs root pool

2008-07-24 Thread Enda O'Connor ( Sun Micro Systems Ireland)
Enda O'Connor ( Sun Micro Systems Ireland) wrote: Mike Gerdts wrote: On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 11:36 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rainer, Sorry for your trouble. I'm updating the installboot example in the ZFS Admin Guide with the -F zfs syntax now. We'll fix the installboot man page

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS boot - upgrade from UFS swap slices

2008-07-24 Thread Enda O'Connor ( Sun Micro Systems Ireland)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alan, Just make sure you use dumpadm to point to valid dump device and this setup should work fine. Please let us know if it doesn't. The ZFS strategy behind automatically creating separate swap and dump devices including the following: o Eliminates the need to

Re: [zfs-discuss] mirroring zfs slice

2008-06-17 Thread Enda O'Connor ( Sun Micro Systems Ireland)
Hi Use zpool attach from http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/819-2240/zpool-1m zpool attach [-f] pool device new_device Attaches new_device to an existing zpool device. The existing device cannot be part of a raidz configuration. If device is not currently part of a mirrored configuration,

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Version Correct

2008-05-20 Thread Enda O'Connor ( Sun Micro Systems Ireland)
Kenny wrote: Back to the top Is there a patch upgrade for ZFS on Solaris 10? Where might I find it. it's the kernel patch, depending on how far back you are in the update's you might have to install m ultiple Kernel Patches. the latest one is 127127-11/127128-11 ( the u5 KU ) it

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs snapshot -r hangs

2008-04-16 Thread Enda O'Connor ( Sun Micro Systems Ireland)
Sam Nicholson wrote: Greetings, snv_79a AMD 64x2 in 64 bit kernel mode. I'm in the middle of migrating a large zfs set from a pair of 1TB mirrors to a 1.3TB RAIDz. I decided to use zfs send | zfs receive, so the first order of business was to snap the entire source filesystem. # zfs

Re: [zfs-discuss] 3510 Array and ZFS/Zones

2007-12-21 Thread Enda O'Connor ( Sun Micro Systems Ireland)
Richard Elling wrote: Morris Hooten wrote: I looked through the solarsinternals zfs best practices and not completly sure of the best scenario. ok, perhaps we should add some clarifications... I have a Solaris 10 6/06 Generic_125100-10 box with attached 3510 array and would like to

Re: [zfs-discuss] [zones-discuss] 3510 Array and ZFS/Zones

2007-12-21 Thread Enda O'Connor ( Sun Micro Systems Ireland)
Mangan wrote: Is this a release that can be downloaded from the website and will work on SPARC systems. The write up says it is for VMware. Am I missing something? Use Solaris 10 9/07. It has more than a year's worth of improvements and enhancements to Solaris. -- richard

Re: [zfs-discuss] [zones-discuss] 3510 Array and ZFS/Zones

2007-12-21 Thread Enda O'Connor ( Sun Micro Systems Ireland)
numbers, 9.07 was what Richard meant. Enda When is the next release for Sparc due out? Paul -Original Message- From: Enda O'Connor ( Sun Micro Systems Ireland) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Dec 21, 2007 9:15 AM To: Richard Elling [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [zfs-discuss] Does Oracle support ZFS as a file system with Oracle RAC?

2007-12-18 Thread Enda O'Connor ( Sun Micro Systems Ireland)
David Runyon wrote: Does anyone know this? David Runyon Disk Sales Specialist Sun Microsystems, Inc. 4040 Palm Drive Santa Clara, CA 95054 US Mobile 925 323-1211 Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] Russ Lai wrote: Dave; Does ZFS support Oracle RAC?

Re: [zfs-discuss] safe zfs-level snapshots with a UFS-on-ZVOL filesystem?

2007-10-08 Thread Enda O'Connor ( Sun Micro Systems Ireland)
Dick Davies wrote: I had some trouble installing a zone on ZFS with S10u4 (bug in the postgres packages) that went away when I used a ZVOL-backed UFS filesystem for the zonepath. Hi Out of interest what was the bug. Enda I thought I'd push on with the experiment (in the hope Live Upgrade

Re: [zfs-discuss] zpool versioning

2007-09-13 Thread Enda O'Connor ( Sun Micro Systems Ireland)
Paul Armor wrote: Hi, I was wondering if anyone would know if this is just an accounting-type error with the recorded version= stored on disk, or if there are/could-be any deeper issues with an upgraded zpool? I created a pool under a Sol10_x86_u3 install (11/06?), and zdb correctly

Re: [zfs-discuss] 120473-05

2007-04-12 Thread Enda O'Connor ( Sun Micro Systems Ireland)
Robert Milkowski wrote: Hello Enda, Wednesday, April 11, 2007, 4:21:35 PM, you wrote: EOCSMSI Robert Milkowski wrote: Hello zfs-discuss, In order to get IDR126199-01 I need to install 120473-05 first. I can get 120473-07 but everything more than -05 is marked as incompatible with

Re: [zfs-discuss] 120473-05

2007-04-11 Thread Enda O'Connor ( Sun Micro Systems Ireland)
Robert Milkowski wrote: Hello zfs-discuss, In order to get IDR126199-01 I need to install 120473-05 first. I can get 120473-07 but everything more than -05 is marked as incompatible with IDR126199-01 so I do not want to force it. Local Sun's support has problems with getting 120473-05