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Hi all, I have a RAID-Z zpool made up of 4 x SATA drives running on Nexenta 1.0.1 (OpenSolaris b85 kernel). It has on it some ZFS filesystems and few volumes that are shared to various windows boxes over iSCSI. On one particular iSCSI volume, I discovered that I had mistakenly deleted some files from the FAT32 partition that is on it. The files were still in a ZFS snapshot that was made earlier

Good evening, I understand that NTFS & VMDK do not relate to Solaris or ZFS, but I was wondering if anyone has any experience of checking the alignment of data blocks through that stack? I have a VMware ESX 4.0 host using storage presented over NFS from ZFS filesystems (recordsize 4KB). Within virtual machine VMDK files, I have formatted NTFS filesystems, block size 4KB. Dedup is turned on.

Hello to you all, Here''s the situation: While doing a case replacement in my home storage server I accidentally removed the post-it with the disk number from my three 1TB disks before connecting them back to the corresponding SATA connector. The issue now is that I don''t know in which order they should be connected. Do any of you know how can I _safely_ bring the zpool

Hi all, Please can you help with my ZFS troubles: I currently have 3 x 400 GB Seagate NL35''s and a 500 GB Samsung Spinpoint in a RAIDZ array that I wish to expand by systematically replacing each drive with a 750 GB Western Digital Caviar. After failing miserably, I''d like to start from scratch again if possible. When I last tried, the replace command hung for an age, network