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An interesting thing I just noticed here testing out some Firewire drives with OpenSolaris. Setup : OpenSolaris 2009.06 and a dev version (snv_129) 2 500Gb Firewire 400 drives with integrated hubs for daisy-chaining (net: 4 devices on the chain) - one SATA bridge - one PATA bridge Created a zpool with both drives as simple vdevs Started a zfs send/recv to backup a local filesystem Watching

Hi all, (down to the wire here on EDU grant pricing :) i''m looking at buying a pair of 7110''s in the EDU grant sale. The price is sure right. I''d use them in a mirrored, cold-failover config. I''d primarily be using them to serve a vmware cluster; the current config is two standalone ESX servers with local storage, 450G of SAS RAID10 each. the 7110 price

Hi, I was suffering for weeks from the following problem: a zfs dataset contained an automatic snapshot (monthly) that used 2.8 TB of data. The dataset was deprecated, so I chose to destroy it after I had deleted some files; eventually it was completely blank besides the snapshot that still locked 2.8 TB on the pool. ''zfs destroy -r pool/dataset'' hung the machine within seconds

I''m looking for a way to backup my entire system, the rpool zfs pool to an external HDD so that it can be recovered in full if the internal HDD fails. Previously with Solaris 10 using UFS I would use ufsdump and ufsrestore, which worked so well, I was very confident with it. Now ZFS doesn''t have an exact replacement of this so I need to find a best practice to replace it.

Just a note to pass on in case anyone runs into the same situation. I have a DELL R510 that is running just fine, up until the day that I needed to import a pool from a USB hard drive. I plug in the disk, check it with rmformat and try to import the zpool. And it sits there for practically forever, not responding. The machine still responds to network connections etc., it''s just the