[zfs-discuss] ZFS metadata and cloning filesystem layout across machines

2009-06-18 Thread Nikhil
Hey ZFS experts, Where is the ZFS metadata stored under? Can it be viewed through some commands? Here is my requirement: I have a machine with lots of ZFS filesystems on it under couple of zpools and there is this another new machine with empty disks, what I want now is the similar layout of

[zfs-discuss] Swap ZFS pool disks to another host hardware

2009-01-15 Thread Nikhil
on it? or Will it detect them as the new disks to be configured again from scratch? I do not want to lose any data. Kindly suggest what is to be done here. Thanks, Nikhil ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: [zfs-discuss] Swap ZFS pool disks to another host hardware

2009-01-15 Thread Nikhil
Actually yes. I figured it out while reading other archive posts in zfs-discuss :-) Thanks Sanjeev :-) On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 3:29 PM, Sanjeev sanjeev.bagew...@sun.com wrote: Nikhil, Comments inline... On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 02:09:16PM +0530, Nikhil wrote: Hi, I am running

[zfs-discuss] renaming a zfs pool

2006-11-12 Thread Nikhil
Hi,I have a raidz pool and data hosted on zfs, is there a way that I could rename the pool without losing any of the existing data. ?It seems that destroying a pool and recreating loses the data.Nikhil ___ zfs-discuss mailing list