It is a full disk pool. The mirror is on Sol 10 which is unhappy if the drive doesn't have an EFI label. So all I needed to do was label it. I don't keep spare drives for everything around so there was a week delay in getting the drive and I wasn't absolutely sure of the device numbering. I've not had to replace part of a failed mirror before so I missed the replace command. One of my biggest challenges is the system is so reliable I don't do much admin work anymore.
I built out a backup server using 4 x 2 TB disks and OI. It has 4 small slices in an rpool mirror and 4 large slices in a RAIDZ2 pool. Whole disk slices would not have allowed that. If and when booting from a RAIDZ pool is possible, then admin level disk management can be relegated to history. But it certainly doesn't look to me as if we are there yet. But more importantly why should I trust some programmer who doesn't know what I need to make the choices for me? As an example, in SunOS 4.1 on a 3/60, you could double the swap speed by using two swap partitions on different disks. The installer didn't support anything like that. The really sad part is that Hipster 2017.10 is fundamentally unusable on my old Internet access host, so now I'm using Windows! Firefox consumes around 1 GB of memory forcing the 2 GB DRAM machine to page like mad. I haven't had time to investigate whether there is a lighter weight browser available for Hipster. I've been configuring a Windows machine to run electronic design and development tools. I'd love to see things relegated to the history books, but unfortunately, very few people seem to read them, so we just get the same mistakes repeated every 15-20 years. Reg ------------------------------------------ illumos-discuss Archives: https://illumos.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/discussions/T2a83df36c87708f7-Mbb7006d7c31e03e5ba9996e6 Powered by Topicbox: https://topicbox.com
