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Hi All, I just posted version 0.6 of the automatic snapshots prototype on my web log. The new features are: * ZFS send/receive support * Multiple schedules per filesystem More at: http://blogs.sun.com/timf/entry/zfs_automatic_snapshots_now_with Note, this is just something I''ve been messing about with in my free time - it''s not an official ZFS project and may not be

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

Hi all, I''ve just pushed some of the changes coming up in 0.11 hg clone ssh://anon at hg.opensolaris.org/hg/jds/zfs-snapshot I''ve got some commentary on the Early Access nature of this release at: http://blogs.sun.com/timf/entry/zfs_automatic_snapshots_0_11 Comments (and bug reports) welcome! cheers, tim

Hi everyone, Is there an easy way to find out which files has changed between two snapshots? Currently I''m doing a # rsync -arvn <snapshot1> <snapshot2> and it creates a list. But rsync needs to go through the whole filesystem and compare files. It would be nice if zfs would have this option builtin. Regards, Nickus

I have created a script that gets a snapshot and backs the snapshot to tape. I would like to keep the snapshot around for one week, than destroy it using the following command: "zfs destroy snapshotlvolume." Is there a way to automate the destroying of snapshots that are older that x amount of days? This message and its attachments may contain legally privileged or

I have just installed openssh on my Sun Cobalt Qube, running Linux. The shell interpreter for the rc script forces /sbin/sh. This is defined in opensshd.init.in. This shell does not exist on this implementation of Linux. I have written about this in (much more) detail at http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/DaveLevy/20060104. NB This would seem to me to be a common problem but I havn't found

Hi, I was just wondering if ZFS root is likely to be an install option any time soon, either in SXCR or the June Solaris update? The mechanism at Tabriz''s blog seem to work well, but it''d be nice to get it out of the box. -- Rasputin :: Jack of All Trades - Master of Nuns http://number9.hellooperator.net/

As requested by several people, an Overview document has been posted at http://blogs.sun.com/sunay The reference section also contains a pointer to the slides that will be used for tonights presentation. See you all there. Cheers, Sunay -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [osol-discuss] SVOSUG - This Thurs, August 24, Sunay Tripathi presents Crossbow 7:30pm SCA03 Date: Mon, 21 Aug

Hi Is it possible to convert live 3 disks zpool from raidz to raidz2 And is it possible to add 1 new disk to raidz configuration without backups and recreating zpool from cratch. Thanks This message posted from opensolaris.org

I don''t seem to have access to the web administration interface. It worked fine up to svn_B37, but B38 and B39 don''t appear to have it deployed. I can start the web console server "/usr/sbin/smcwebserver start" and log in as root but ZFS does not appear in the list of applications. Is there something additional I need to do? This message posted from opensolaris.org

I got overzealous with snapshot creation. Every 5 mins is a bad idea. Way too many. What''s the easiest way to delete the empty ones? zfs list takes FOREVER

ZFS claims that it can recover user error such as accidentally deleting of files. How does it work? Does it only work for mirrored or RAID-Z pool? What is the command to perform the task? Also for COW, I understand that during the transaction (while data is been undated), ZFS keeps a copy of the previous data. However, once the transaction is successfully completed, isn''t it the case

Hi, As a part of the next stages of the time-slider project we are looking into doing actual backups onto removable media devices such as USB media. The goal is to be able to view snapshots stored on the media and merge these into the list of viewable snapshots in nautilus giving the user a broader selection of restore points. In an ideal world we would like to detect the insertion of the

Hi all, again might be a FAQ, but imagine that I have a pool on USB stick, I insert the stick, and how can I figure out what poools are available for ''zpool import'' without knowing their name? zpool list does not seem to be listing those, thanx, Martin

What am I missing? [Download dvm.zip from https://solaris10-dtrace-vm-agents.dev.java.net/] [root at load0 /]$ mkdir /opt/dvm;cd /opt/dvm root at load0 dvm]$ unzip /home/jbuckley/dvm.zip [jbuckley at load0 ~]$ more /etc/release Solaris Nevada snv_45 SPARC Copyright 2006 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Use is subject to

While playing around with ZFS and iSCSI devices I''ve managed to remove an iscsi target before removing the zpool. Now any attempt to delete the pool (with or without -f) core dumps zpool. Any ideas how I get rid of this pool? This message posted from opensolaris.org

Hi zfs-discuss, I have some questions about throttling on ZFS 1) I know that throttling is activating while one sync is waiting for another. (http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/roch?entry=the_dynamics_of_zfs) Is it possible to throttle only selected processes (e.g. nfsd) ? 2) How can I obtain some statistics about it? I want to know how often throttling is activating on my host etc. 3) Is it

A small script to see what SCSI commands are being issued by a system: http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/chrisg?entry=scsi_d_script Still work in progress as I needs to handle larger CDBs but it is a start, since I don''t have a disk that big it is not a problem for me yet. Also getting the return scsi packet is a hack but so far I can see no alternative short of knowing about all the

I have posted a blog http://solaristhings.blogspot.com/ on how I have configured a zfs root partition on my laptop. It is a slightly modified version of Tabriz''s blog http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/tabriz?entry=are_you_ready_to_rumble The main differences, is that I only require a very small ufs partition for grub, and I detail how to use a zfs clone as a test root partition. Doug

Apologies if this has been addressed, but looking at some of the sun blogs and google searches I have not been able to find an answer. Does ZFS support on write automatic snapshots? For example, according to defined policy, every time a file is written a snapshot is created with the diff stored. I can see this being useful in high security environments and companies that have extreme regulatory