From the OpenSolaris ZFS FAQ page:
http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/view/Community+Group+zfs/faq
If you want to use a hardware-level backup or snapshot feature instead of
the ZFS snapshot feature, then you will need to do the following steps:
* zpool export pool-name
* Hardware-level
On 10/11/2010 11:18, sridhar surampudi wrote:
I was wondering how zpool split works or implemented.
If a pool pool1 is on a mirror having two devices dev1 and dev2 then using
zpool split I can split with the new pool name say pool-mirror on dev2.
How split can change metadata on dev2 and
On Wed, 10 Nov 2010, Darren J Moffat wrote:
On 10/11/2010 11:18, sridhar surampudi wrote:
I was wondering how zpool split works or implemented.
Or are you really asking about the implementation details ? If you want
to know how it is implemented then you need to read the source code.
Also
Hi,
I was wondering how zpool split works or implemented.
If a pool pool1 is on a mirror having two devices dev1 and dev2 then using
zpool split I can split with the new pool name say pool-mirror on dev2.
How split can change metadata on dev2 and rename/replace and associate with new
name
Hi Darren,
Thanks for your info.
Sorry below might be lengthy :
Yes I am looking for actual implementation rather how to use zpool split.
My requirement is not at zfs file system level and also not zfs snapshot.
As I understood,
If my zpool say mypool is created using zpool create mypool