Dick Davies wrote: > I had some trouble installing a zone on ZFS with S10u4 > (bug in the postgres packages) that went away when I used a > ZVOL-backed UFS filesystem > for the zonepath. > Hi Out of interest what was the bug.
Enda > I thought I'd push on with the experiment (in the hope Live Upgrade > would be able to upgrade such a zone). > It's a bit unwieldy, but everything worked reasonably well - > performance isn't much worse than straight ZFS (it gets much faster > with compression enabled, but that's another story). > > The only fly in the ointment is that ZVOL level snapshots don't > capture unsynced data up at the FS level. There's a workaround at: > > http://blogs.sun.com/pgdh/entry/taking_ufs_new_places_safely > > but I wondered if there was anything else that could be done to avoid > having to take such measures? > I don't want to stop writes to get a snap, and I'd really like to avoid UFS > snapshots if at all possible. > > I tried mounting forcedirectio in the (mistaken) belief that this > would bypass the UFS > buffer cache, but it didn't help. > _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
