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# 1  
Old 01-26-2011
"flar create" produces a tiny flar image of rpool
Hi,
can someone help with the following?
I got 1x146GB disk which is span by just one zfs rpool.
When issue for example:
Quote:
hostX:/var/tmp] # flar create -n hostname -c /var/tmp/hosntameX_26012011_image.flar

Full Flash
Checking integrity...
Integrity OK.
Running precreation scripts...
Precreation scripts done.
Determining the size of the archive...
The archive will be approximately 9.48KB.
Creating the archive...
as you can see in above output the flar is very small, just around 10KB
rpool with all data sets has several GB so this can't be good image. This is on the Solaris 10 update7.
Has anyone seen something similar before ?
Any hints are welcome
Cheers,
Tom
# 2  
Old 01-26-2011
You need at least Solaris 10 update 8 to create a flash archive of a ZFS rpool.
# 3  
Old 01-26-2011
in general yes, but you can also do this on Solaris 10 u7 with some extra patches.
I could runt successfully he same flar creation cmd at the other server which has the same patch level.. This is strange to me..
# 4  
Old 01-26-2011
You might want to check patch leverls with
Code:
showrev -p

to verify patches. Sounds like something is not what you think it is.
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