[zfs-discuss] Problem with memory recovery from arc cache

2009-11-05 Thread Peter Pickford
Hi All, Has anyone seen problems with the arc cache holding on to memory in memory pressure conditions? We have several Oracle DB servers running zfs for the root file systems and the databases on vxfs. An unexpected number of clients connected and cause a memory shortage such that some processe

Re: [zfs-discuss] Which directories must be part of rpool?

2009-09-25 Thread Peter Pickford
Hi David, I believe /opt is an essential file system as it contains software that is maintained by the packaging system. In fact anywhere you install software via pkgadd probably should be in the BE under /rpool/ROOT/bename AFIK it should not even be split from root in the BE under zfs boot (only

Re: [zfs-discuss] Cloning Systems using zpool

2009-09-25 Thread Peter Pickford
Hi Lori, Is the u8 flash support for the whole root pool or an individual BE using live upgrade? Thanks Peter 2009/9/24 Lori Alt : > On 09/24/09 15:54, Peter Pickford wrote: > > Hi Cindy, > > Wouldn't > > touch /reconfigure > mv /etc/path_to_inst* /var/t

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS flar image.

2009-09-25 Thread Peter Pickford
Hi Peter, Do you have any notes on what you did to restore a sendfile to an existing BE? I'm interested in creating a 'golden image' and restring this into a new BE on a running system as part of a hardening project. Thanks Peter 2009/9/14 Peter Karlsson : > Hi Greg, > > We did a hack on thos

Re: [zfs-discuss] Cloning Systems using zpool

2009-09-24 Thread Peter Pickford
ovide it because I don't know what it is. > > Even if we could provide a list of items, tweaking > the device informaton if the systems are not identical > would be too difficult. > > cs > > On 09/24/09 12:04, Peter Pickford wrote: >> >> Hi Cindy, >>

Re: [zfs-discuss] Cloning Systems using zpool

2009-09-24 Thread Peter Pickford
Hi Cindy, Could you provide a list of system specific info stored in the root pool? Thanks Peter 2009/9/24 Cindy Swearingen : > Hi Karl, > > Manually cloning the root pool is difficult. We have a root pool recovery > procedure that you might be able to apply as long as the > systems are identic

Re: [zfs-discuss] Incremental backup via zfs send / zfs receive

2009-09-20 Thread Peter Pickford
just destroy the swap snapshot and it doesn't get sent when you do a full send 2009/9/20 Frank Middleton : > A while back I posted a script that does individual send/recvs > for each file system, sending incremental streams if the remote > file system exists, and regular streams if not. > > The re

Re: [zfs-discuss] Solaris live CD that supports ZFS root mount for fs fixes

2009-07-16 Thread Peter Pickford
will boot -F failsafe work 2009/7/16 Matt Weatherford : > > Hi, > > I borked a libc.so library file on my solaris 10 server (zfs root) - was > wondering if there > is a good live CD that will be able to mount my ZFS root fs so that I can > make this > quick repair on the system boot drive and get

[zfs-discuss] Fwd: Solaris 8/9 branded zones on ZFS root?

2009-02-25 Thread Peter Pickford
Hi Rich, Solaris 8/9 zones seem to work fine with zfs root for the zone. Only problem so far is where to put the root file system for the zone in the zfs file system hierarchy. branded zones do not seem to be part of the luupdate scheme. At them moment I have another tree of file systems on rpo

[zfs-discuss] Problem with zfs mount lu and solaris 8/9 containers

2009-02-06 Thread Peter Pickford
Hi, If this is not a zfs question please direct me to the correct place for this question. I have a server with Solaris 10 u6 zfs root file system and Solaris 9 zones along with Solaris 10 zones. What is the best way to configure the root file system of a Solaris 9 container WRT zfs file system

Re: [zfs-discuss] s10u6 ludelete issues with zones on zfs root

2009-01-16 Thread Peter Pickford
This what I discovered Yo cant have sub directories of the zone root file system that is part of the BE filesystem tree with zfs and lu (no spearate /var etc) zone roots must be on the root pool for lu to work extra file system must be from a none BE zfs file system tree ( I use datasets) [r...@b

Re: [zfs-discuss] Changing GUID

2008-07-07 Thread Peter Pickford
Hi Jeff, What I'm trying to do is import many copies of a pool that is cloned on a storage array. ZFS will only import the first disk (there is only one disk in the pool) and any clones have the same pool name and GUID and are ignored. Is there any chance Sun will support external cloned disks a

[zfs-discuss] Changing GUID

2008-07-01 Thread Peter Pickford
Hi, How difficult would it be to write some code to change the GUID of a pool? Thanks Peter ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss