Hello Cyril,

Thursday, March 20, 2008, 9:51:35 PM, you wrote:

CP> On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 11:26 PM, Mark A. Carlson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>>  I think the answer is that the configuration is hidden
>>  and cannot be backed up so that it can be easily restored
>>  to a brand spanking new machine with new disks.

CP> Hm, to which I can add that "zpool history" will keep forever the
CP> zpool command that created the pool initially. And it can be easily
CP> copy/pasted somewhere else in order to be used as is or as a template
CP> for a similar configuration.


Will it? I thought zpool history is a cyclic buffer...
Then pool configuration is not only raid configuration - it's also all
datasets and their properties like share parameters, etc.



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 Robert Milkowski                            mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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