On Mon, January 4, 2010 13:51, Ross wrote: >> I initialized a new whole-disk pool on an external >> USB drive, and then did zfs send from my big data pool and zfs recv onto >> the >> new external pool. >> Sometimes this fails, but this time it completed. > > That's the key bit for me - zfs send /receive should not just fail at > random. It sounds like your problem is not just that you can't export the > pool.
It's equally flaky in virtual environments, in my experience. Sadly. Send / receive seems to not be ready for prime time yet. (I had to give up on incremental completely, since that was erroring out.) > As Richard says, that sounds like bad hardware / drivers. Something is > causing problems for ZFS. Always possible. I paid twice or so what I usually pay for systems to buy this one, including ECC memory and such, but none of that is any guaranty I got it right. Frustrating, though. -- David Dyer-Bennet, d...@dd-b.net; http://dd-b.net/ Snapshots: http://dd-b.net/dd-b/SnapshotAlbum/data/ Photos: http://dd-b.net/photography/gallery/ Dragaera: http://dragaera.info _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
