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Hi, How I can I quiesce / freeze all writes to zfs and zpool if want to take hardware level snapshots or array snapshot of all devices under a pool ? are there any commands or ioctls or apis available ? Thanks & Regards, sridhar. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org

Hi, I have a mirror pool tank having two devices underneath. Created in this way #zpool create tank mirror c3t500507630E020CEAd1 c3t500507630E020CEAd0 Created file system tank/home #zfs create tank/home Created another file system tank/home #zfs create tank/home/sridhar After that I have created files and directories under tank/home and tank/home/sridhar. Now I detached 2nd device i.e

Hi, How difficult would it be to write some code to change the GUID of a pool? ---- Thanks Peter -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/zfs-discuss/attachments/20080701/cf494cc1/attachment.html>

Hi, I have two questions: 1) Is there any way of renaming zpool without export/import ?? 2) If I took hardware snapshot of devices under a zpool ( where the snapshot device will be exact copy including metadata i.e zpool and associated file systems) is there any way to rename zpool name of snapshotted devices ?? without losing data part? Thanks & Regards, sridhar. -- This message posted

Hi, With recent additions, using zpool split I could split a mirrored zpool and create new pool with the given name. Is there any direct or indirect mechanism where I can create snapshot of devices under a existing zpool where new devices are created so that I can recreate stack (new zpool and all file systems) without modifying the data. So that with new stack i can able to access consistent