freenas:state LATEST

[alexg]

Can someone explain what this does in autorepl.py script. I'm having an issue with automated replication (bug has been logged) after upgrading to 9.2.1.3 . Manual replication worked and I think I need to mark it as LATEST (at least that's what I see in /var/log/messages before upgrade)

 

[dlavigne]

Were you able to find an answer to this? If not, can you add a comment to your bug report that asks this question?

 

[alexg]

I gave up and followed suggestion to install latest autorepl.py. Have been running without any issues.

 

[alexg]

BTW, in case anyone interested, I did some more digging and figured out what it does. Looks like it sets custom property freenas:state to NEW when snapshot is taken. Then on replication it sets that property to LATEST. I found it by looking into zfs history

Code:

2014-04-18.04:00:06 zfs snapshot -r -o freenas:state=NEW tank/shares@auto-20140418.0400-3w
2014-04-18.05:01:28 zfs send -V -R -I tank/shares@auto-20140417.0400-3w tank/shares@auto-20140418.0400-3w
2014-04-18.05:01:29 zfs inherit freenas:state tank/shares@auto-20140417.0400-3w
2014-04-18.05:01:34 zfs set freenas:state=LATEST tank/shares@auto-20140418.0400-3w