Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs is a co-dependent parent and won't let children leave home

2008-12-18 Thread Seymour Krebs
Ethan, 1. No zones. 2. with BE_PRINT_ERR=true (sorry destroy now works) ~# beadm list BEActive Mountpoint SpacePolicy Created ---- -- --- --- b101b - - 6.14Gstatic 2008-11-14 09:17 b103pre NR

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs is a co-dependent parent and won't let children leave home

2008-12-18 Thread Seymour Krebs
1. sorry for the delay in replying. 2. the reason that I was originally using zfs destroy was that beadm destroy failed. 3. Current state of affairs: ~# beadm list BEActive Mountpoint SpacePolicy Created ---- -- --- ---

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs is a co-dependent parent and won't let children leave home

2008-12-08 Thread Seymour Krebs
Will, thanks for the info on the 'zfs get origin' command. I had previously tried to promote the BEs but saw no effect. I can now see with 'origin' that there is a sequential promotion scheme and some fo the BEs had to be promoted twice to free them from their life of servitude and disgrace.

[zfs-discuss] zfs is a co-dependent parent and won't let children leave home

2008-12-08 Thread Seymour Krebs
Please if anyone can help with this mess, I'd appreciate it. ~# beadm list BE Active Mountpoint SpacePolicy Created -- -- -- --- --- b100- - 6.88Gstatic 2008-10-30 13:59 b101a - - 960.

[zfs-discuss] zfs cksum errors

2008-09-05 Thread Seymour Krebs
I am having trouble with zfs, if I scrub the pool, i get cksum errors. I f I scrub, "zpool clear rpool" and then re-scrub, the cksum errors remain. this appears to be a systematic error and not hardware related. I am also having trouble with beadm create. please see: http://www.opensolaris.org/

Re: [zfs-discuss] zpool upgrade wrecked GRUB

2008-08-04 Thread Seymour Krebs
thanks for the help folks esp. Mikee who had experienced a similar problem and provided a concise solution basically, after an excruciating download of the sxce_b94.iso, I was able to boot from the dvd, "zpool import -f rpool". this gave me failures to mount x4 "unable to create mount point". s

Re: [zfs-discuss] zpool upgrade wrecked GRUB

2008-08-04 Thread Seymour Krebs
So, it looks like only snv94 is capable of understanding the "upgraded" zfs pool. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# zpool history no pools available [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# zpool import pool: rpool id: 17601658646371843627 state: UNAVAIL status: The pool was last accessed by another system. action: The p

[zfs-discuss] zpool upgrade wrecked GRUB

2008-08-04 Thread Seymour Krebs
Machine is running x86 snv_94 after recent upgrade from opensolaris 2008.05. ZFS and zpool reported no troubles except suggesting upgrade for from ver.10 to ver.11. seemed like a good idea at the time. system up for several days after that point then took down for some unrelated maintenance.