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Using build 70, I followed the zfsboot instructions at http:// www.opensolaris.org/os/community/zfs/boot/zfsboot-manual/ to the letter. I tried first with a mirror zfsroot, when I try to boot to zfsboot the screen is flooded with "init(1M) exited on fatal signal 9" Than I tried with a simple zfs pool (not mirrored) and...

Hi I am very interested in using ZFS as a whole: meaning on the whole disk in my laptop. I would now make a complete reinstall and don?t know how to partition the disk initially for ZFS. -- Roman This message posted from opensolaris.org

Hi. On one of my fresh installed servers I am seeing the following output during boot: gptzfsboot: error 4 lba 30 gptzfsboot: error 4 lba 31 gptzfsboot: error 4 lba 31 gptzfsboot: error 4 lba 31 gptzfsboot: error 4 lba 30 gptzfsboot: error 4 lba 31 gptzfsboot: error 4 lba 31 gptzfsboot: error 4 lba 31 gptzfsboot: error 4 lba 31 gptzfsboot: error 4 lba 31 gptzfsboot: error 4 lba 31 gptzfsboot: e...

So, I've long known and it makes sense that when you're booted from a ZFS volume, you can't mess with the boot-loader. And, I know a few months ago I had a set of commands I would use when booted from a CD that would initialize the network and copy the "release/boot" from somewhere else so that I could install bootblocks and boot-loaders from more recent code. Sadly, I

.../../cddl/contrib/opensolaris/uts/common/fs/zfs/space_map.c, line: 93 Debugging reveals that: sm->sm_space = 2147483648 size = 34304 sm->sm_size = 2147483648 Probably space map is trashed badly but I can''t understand how to skip this assertion to make pool at least readable. FreeBSD zfsboot manages to load kernel and modules off the pool, but the system hangs whenever original zfs tries to open the pool. Error is persistent and shows up in: * MilaX - hangs; * OpenSolaris - hangs; * SystemRescueCD (zfs-fuse v23) - drops core with same message; * NexentsStore - ignores pool. What...

Hello, Ive tried to find any hard information on how to install, and boot, opensolaris from a USB stick. Ive seen a few people written a few sucessfull stories about this, but I cant seem to get it to work. The procedure: Boot from LiveCD, insert USB drive, find it using `format'', start installer. The USB stick it not found (just stands on "Finding disks"). Remove USB stick,

Ref: http://blogs.sun.com/timf/entry/zfs_bootable_datasets_happily_rumbling Ref: http://mediacast.sun.com/share/timf/zfs-actual-root-install.sh This is my errata for Tim Foster''s zfs root install script: 1/ Correct mode for /tmp should be 1777. 2/ The zfs boot install should allow you to have /usr on a separate zpool: a/ We need to create /zfsroot/usr/lib in the root partition and

I wanted to send out status on the effort to make a version of Solaris install available that supports zfs as a root file system. I''ve got a version of it ready for distribution, but I''d like to test it on the Build 62 community release before I make it available. Without the build 62 community release, I have to test it on a build 61 image, updated with some build 62 packages.

Is there a best practice guide for using zfs as a basic rackable small storage solution? I''m considering zfs with a 2U 12 disk Xeon based server system vs something like a second hand FAS250. Target enviroment is mixature of Xen or VI hosts via iSCSI and nfs/cifs. Being able to take snapshots of running (or maybe paused) xen iscsi vols and re-export then for cloning and remote backup

On Solaris 10 If I install using ZFS root on only one drive is there a way to add another drive as a mirror later? Sorry if this was discussed already. I searched the archives and couldn''t find the answer. Thank you.

Hi Everyone, This is off-topic, so please feel free to disregard it, but I'm sending it to this list in the hope that it will reach a largish number of users. I am currently looking at updating some of our advocacy material (which advertises exciting new features like SMP support), and before I do I'd like to get a better feel for why the rest of you are using FreeBSD. If you had to