Seems that on the current disk selection screen, you could just allow the user to select 1 or 2 disks; if they selected two, then you create a mirror, otherwise proceed as normal. Perhaps only allow the mirroring of two physical disks, not two separate partitions? Is it not possible to enable multi-select in the current widget that handles selecting the primary disk to install the OS on?
-----Original Message----- From: Frank.Ludolph at Sun.COM [mailto:frank.ludo...@sun.com] Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2008 1:35 PM To: Glenn.Lagasse at Sun.COM Cc: Aaron Epps; caiman-discuss at opensolaris.org Subject: Re: [caiman-discuss] Mirrored rpool at install time > * Aaron Epps (epps.aaron at mayo.edu) wrote: > >> This is a suggestion for the OpenSolaris installer; I've seen lots of >> interest in creating a mirrored rpool on OpenSolaris installations, >> would it be possible to allow the user to select this configuration at >> install time, rather than having to go and do this manually once the >> installation is complete? For example, when you're selecting which >> disks to install OpenSolaris on, could the installer let you select 2 >> disks (via Ctrl-Click or something) and then create the mirrored rpool >> at installation time. Actually we would probably have to add an additional screen to the installer. The user picks not only the disk but possibly a partition on the disk as well. I expect that we would maybe add a "mirror" checkbox to the current disk screen and add an optional new "mirror" screen. Or alternatively we could forget the checkbox and always go through the mirror screen where selecting a disk would be optional. Frank
