[zfs-discuss] How Virtual Box handles the IO

After all the discussion here about VB, and all the finger pointing I raised a bug on VB about flushing. Remember I am using RAW disks via the SATA emulation in VB the disks are WD 2TB drives. Also remember the HOST machine NEVER crashed or stopped. BUT the guest OS OpenSolaris was hung and so I

Re: [zfs-discuss] Another user looses his pool (10TB) in this case and 40 days work

it that way! I willl be buying ECC memory for my home machine!! Again many many thanks to all how have replied it has been a very interesting and informative discussion for me. Best regards Russel -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] What are the rollback tools?

Hi, Yes I read those threads, wow, dd directly over blocks at some offset point. I was hoping some tools may have been created by now. hoping Russel -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Another user looses his pool (10TB) in this case and 40 days work

Well I did have a UPS on the machine :-) but the machine hung and I had to power it off... (yep it was vertual, but that happens on direct HW too, and virtualisasion is the happening ting at sun and else where! I have a version of the data backed up, but will take ages (10days) to restore). --

Re: [zfs-discuss] Another user looses his pool (10TB) in this case and 40 days work

OK. So do we have an zpool import --xtg 56574 mypoolname or help to do it (script?) Russel -- 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] Another user looses his pool (10TB) in this case and 40 days work

to perform roll back? Russel (It will take me 10 days to pull my data off litttle my little drives again, and 5 days to format with raid5 (H/W) and NFTS not what I want, nor the raid-5 hole :-)) -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss

[zfs-discuss] Another user looses his pool (10TB) in this case and 40 days work

really appreciated. Russel -- 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] Another user looses his pool (10TB) in this case and 40 days work

Yes you'll find my name all over VB at the moment, but I have found it to be stable (don't install the addons disk for solaris!!, use 3.0.2, and for me winXP32bit and OpenSolaris 2009.6 has been rock solid, it was (seems) to be opensolaris failed with extract_boot_list doesn't belong to 101,