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Re: [Networker] 7.4.1 on solaris with zfs

2007-12-14 19:47:44
Subject: Re: [Networker] 7.4.1 on solaris with zfs
From: backup <backup AT ZWEISTRA DOT NL>
To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2007 01:49:11 +0100
My colleague told me it is on the old legato site not on the powerlink.


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Subject: Re: [Networker] 7.4.1 on solaris with zfs

On Dec 11, 2007, at 5:54 PM, Peter Viertel wrote:

> I've been mucking around with 7.4.1 this week now that it's turned up
> silently in EMC's usual style...
>
> One thing I've noticed immediately is that the All savesets option on
> Solaris 10 clients now enumerates zfs filesystems even if they are not
> in vfstab - although the NMC doco still says it won't backup zfs  
> unless
> they are listed in vfstab.
>
> What they've done to make it work is a bit broken as it's also showing
> up zfs filesystems in zones in the probe (usually these are hidden  
> from
> df output in the global context). However  the resulting backup size  
> for
> these filesystems is 0KB because they really are not mounted globally.
>
> It still doesnt ignore /system/object and /system/contract either.
>
> i had a look at savefs with truss and the probe all function is  
> parsing
> the data from /etc/mnttab  to get the list of filesystems  which means
> they have all the information needed, they just haven't coded it well.
>
> so 1 step forward, 2 steps back...    as usual.

Peter;

Where did you get 7.4.1? I just checked PowerLink and the most recent  
version there is 7.4. I am interested to read the release notes, but  
they don't seem to be available via PowerLink either, unless I  
overlooked that file.

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