zfs discuss - Jan 2009 - Solaris destroys large discs?? Bug in install?

I have taken a Samsung 500GB from my old ZFS raid. I have created a 100GB
Windows XP partition and installed WinXP. The rest of the disk is unformatted.
And then I wanted to install SXCE b104, so I started the SXCE install with ZFS.
But it refused to install. Said that the partitions overlap and told me to edit
and fix that. But it wasnt possible to edit. The cursor jumped directly to the
top and nothing happened, each time I wanted to edit a disk.

Strange. I only have one partition with WinXP, and still it says "the
partitions overlap"??? Is this a bug?

So I restarted Solaris install with UFS and everything went fine. No error
reports, I could allocate space and install SXCE.




But upon reboot, to finish the install, it sets up SMF(?) with 213 services.
That took ages, and when the disk loads data it sounds horrible. Slow, and
sounds a lot. And when I do "format" and fdisk my partition, it says

Specify disk (enter its number): 5
selecting c2d0
Controller working list found
[disk formatted, defect list found]
Warning: Current Disk has mounted partitions.
/dev/dsk/c2d0s0 is currently mounted on /. Please see umount(1M).
/dev/dsk/c2d0s1 is currently used by  swap. Please see swap(1M).


What is this "defect list found"? Why does this happen? Is Solaris not
capable of installing ZFS above 100GB? Should I make the install smaller? What
is happening?

When i boot into WindowsXP, the disk is silent and works fast. Clearly this is
something with SXCE. So what is happening, is SXCE corrupting my disk? What
should I do? Reinstall?
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Orvar Korvar wrote:
> I have taken a Samsung 500GB from my old ZFS raid. I have created a 100GB
Windows XP partition and installed WinXP. The rest of the disk is unformatted.
And then I wanted to install SXCE b104, so I started the SXCE install with ZFS.
But it refused to install. Said that the partitions overlap and told me to edit
and fix that. But it wasnt possible to edit. The cursor jumped directly to the
top and nothing happened, each time I wanted to edit a disk.
>   
Last time I had that problem, I used a non-Solaris tool (from a Linux
disk tools CD) to create a second partition as "Linux swap" which the
Solaris installer recognises as a Solaris partition (same ID).

Or you could create a small slice for a UFS install then migrate to the
rest of the disk as ZFS.

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Ian.

Ok, ive upgraded mother board''s BIOS. Installed ZFS with b105 over the
existing UFS b104. It works better now. The disk sounds almost like normal,
barely audiable. But sometimes it goes back and sounds like hell. Very seldom
now.

I dont get it. Why does UFS do this? Hmm...
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