[zfs-discuss] ZFS boot with gzip-9 compression

2008-05-16 Thread Danilo Poccia
Hi, using VirtualBox I just tried to move an OpenSolaris 2008.05 boot environment (ZFS) on a gzip-9 compressed dataset, but I have the following error from grub: Error 16: Inconsistent filesystem structure Googling around I found the same error with ZFS boot and Xen in July 2007:

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS boot with gzip-9 compression

2008-05-16 Thread Victor Latushkin
Hi, using VirtualBox I just tried to move an OpenSolaris 2008.05 boot environment (ZFS) on a gzip-9 compressed dataset, but I have the following error from grub: Error 16: Inconsistent filesystem structure Googling around I found the same error with ZFS boot and Xen in July 2007:

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS boot with gzip-9 compression

2008-05-16 Thread Danilo Poccia
Hi Victor, this seems quite easy to me but I don't know how to move around to actually implement/propose the required changes. To make grub aware of gzip (as it already is of lzjb) the steps should be: 1. create a new /onnv-gate/usr/src/grub/grub-0.95/stage2/zfs_gzip.c starting from

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS boot with gzip-9 compression

2008-05-16 Thread Danilo Poccia
...just noticed there is a bug on that, but it seems there no activity even if it is in state accepted: http://bugs.opensolaris.org/view_bug.do?bug_id=6538017 Should I send an email to request-sponsor AT opensolaris DOT org to propose my fix? Rgrds, Danilo. Il giorno 16/mag/08, alle ore

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS boot with gzip-9 compression

2008-05-16 Thread Robert Milkowski
Hello Danilo, Friday, May 16, 2008, 1:34:56 PM, you wrote: Hi Victor, this seems quite easy to me but I don't know how to "move around" to actually implement/propose the required changes. To make grub aware of gzip (as it already is of lzjb) the steps should be: 1. create a new

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS boot with gzip-9 compression

2008-05-16 Thread Victor Latushkin
this seems quite easy to me but I don't know how to move around to actually implement/propose the required changes. To make grub aware of gzip (as it already is of lzjb) the steps should be: 1. create a new /onnv-gate/usr/src/grub/grub-0.95/stage2/zfs_gzip.c starting from

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS boot with gzip-9 compression

2008-05-16 Thread Robert Milkowski
Hello Danilo, Friday, May 16, 2008, 2:00:42 PM, you wrote: ...just noticed there is a bug on that, but it seems there no activity even if it is in state "accepted": http://bugs.opensolaris.org/view_bug.do?bug_id=6538017 Should I send an email to request-sponsor AT opensolaris DOT org

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS boot with gzip-9 compression

2008-05-16 Thread Andre Wenas
I have been using zfs boot with lzjb compression on since build 75, from time to time I had similar problem, not sure why. As best practise, I do snapshot the root filesystem frequently, so that I can rollback to the last working snapshot. Rgds, Andre W. Victor Latushkin wrote: this seems