Re: [zfs-discuss] "zoneadm clone" doesn't support ZFS snapshots in

2007-09-23 Thread Richard Elling
Mike Gerdts wrote: > > Oh, wait! What if the NAS device runs out of space while I'm > patching? Better rule out the thin provisioning capabilities of the > HDS storage that Sun sells as well. > That failure mode exists anyway. There is no real way to reserve space prior to patching. Some mig

Re: [zfs-discuss] "zoneadm clone" doesn't support ZFS snapshots in

2007-09-21 Thread Mike Gerdts
On 9/21/07, Christine Tran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > patch and install tools can't figure out pools yet. If you have a 1GB > pool and 10 filesystems on it, du reports each having 1GB, do you have > 10GB capacity? The tools can't tell. Please check the archives, this > subject has been extensi

Re: [zfs-discuss] "zoneadm clone" doesn't support ZFS snapshots in

2007-09-21 Thread Mike Gerdts
On 9/20/07, Matthew Flanagan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mike, > > I followed your procedure for cloning zones and it worked > well up until yesterday when I tried applying the S10U4 > kernel patch 12001-14 and it wouldn't apply because I had > my zones on zfs :( Thanks for sharing. That sucks.

Re: [zfs-discuss] "zoneadm clone" doesn't support ZFS snapshots in

2007-09-21 Thread Christine Tran
grant beattie wrote: > I don't have any advice, unfortunately, but I do know that in my case > putting zones on UFS is simply not an option. there must be a way > considering there is nothing in the documentation to suggest that zones > on ZFS are not supported. > There's a very explicit "Do

Re: [zfs-discuss] "zoneadm clone" doesn't support ZFS snapshots in s10u4?

2007-09-21 Thread Cindy . Swearingen
Mike, Grant, I reported the zoneadm.1m man page problem to the man page group. I also added some stronger wording to the ZFS Admin Guide and the ZFS FAQ about not using ZFS for zone root paths for the Solaris 10 release and that upgrading or patching is not supported for either Solaris 10 or Sola

Re: [zfs-discuss] "zoneadm clone" doesn't support ZFS snapshots in

2007-09-20 Thread grant beattie
Matthew Flanagan wrote: > Mike, > > I followed your procedure for cloning zones and it worked well up until > yesterday when I tried applying the S10U4 kernel patch 12001-14 and it > wouldn't apply because I had my zones on zfs :( > > I'm still figuring out how to fix this other than moving all o

Re: [zfs-discuss] "zoneadm clone" doesn't support ZFS snapshots in

2007-09-20 Thread Matthew Flanagan
Mike, I followed your procedure for cloning zones and it worked well up until yesterday when I tried applying the S10U4 kernel patch 12001-14 and it wouldn't apply because I had my zones on zfs :( I'm still figuring out how to fix this other than moving all of my zones onto UFS. Anyone got an

Re: [zfs-discuss] "zoneadm clone" doesn't support ZFS snapshots in s10u4?

2007-09-20 Thread Mike Gerdts
On 9/20/07, Mark J Musante <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I for one would like to see live upgrade support ZFS. Even with Snap > Upgrade on the horizon (the page on the OpenSolaris site says 'March' but > the current scedule is a sea of TBDs [see > http://opensolaris.org/os/project/caiman/Snap_Upgra

Re: [zfs-discuss] "zoneadm clone" doesn't support ZFS snapshots in s10u4?

2007-09-20 Thread Mark J Musante
On Wed, 19 Sep 2007, Mike Gerdts wrote: > The rather consistent answer is that zoneadm clone will not do zfs until > live upgrade does zfs. Since there is a new project in the works (Snap > Upgrade) that is very much targeted at environments that use zfs, I > would be surprised to see zfs support

Re: [zfs-discuss] "zoneadm clone" doesn't support ZFS snapshots in s10u4?

2007-09-19 Thread Mike Gerdts
On 9/19/07, grant beattie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > according to the zoneadm(1m) man page on s10u4: > > clone [-m copy] [-s zfs_snapshot] source_zone > > Install a zone by copying an existing installed zone. > This subcommand is an alternative way to install the >

[zfs-discuss] "zoneadm clone" doesn't support ZFS snapshots in s10u4?

2007-09-19 Thread grant beattie
according to the zoneadm(1m) man page on s10u4: clone [-m copy] [-s zfs_snapshot] source_zone Install a zone by copying an existing installed zone. This subcommand is an alternative way to install the zone. -m copy Force the clone to