On Fri, 2008-03-28 at 12:08 -0700, Tim Spriggs wrote:
> Hi Omen,
> 
>     raidz root will work in Nexenta when it works in vanilla Open 
> Solaris. I don't know what the schedule is but I do know it's being 
> worked on. The zfs-discuss archives might have more information on this.
> 
>     I would suggest that you keep your entire root filesystem on the 
> mirror. apt-clone relies on this assumption in order to rollback 
> packaging decisions and does not snapshot/clone other filesystems. Also, 
> I would caution you to leave 2-3x as much space as you ever expect your 

I calculated this number recently - your syspool need to have ~
(DownloadSize x 6)  of free space..

For typical ON upgrade, it could be 600MB...900MB. To be on a safe side,
always check that 'zfs list syspool' command shows >= 1GB of AVAIL

> rootfs to be for the mirror to be safe about using apt-clone. This 
> should leave of space for package downloads and the overhead of new data 
> when the rootfs has been cloned/written to.
> 
> Thanks,
> -Tim
> 
> Omen Wild wrote:
> > I am looking for boot options for ZFS.  My ultimate plan is to install
> > 3 disks and raidz them, but I understand booting from raidz is not yet
> > possible.  Is there an estimate of when this will work?
> >
> > My usual strategy under Linux would be to make a smallish partition on
> > each disk, mirror those, and place /boot on the mirror.  Will a similar
> > strategy work with Nexenta?  Can I just place /boot on the mirror, or are
> > other directories required (/platform maybe)?  How will that interact
> > with apt-clone?  Will it create and destroy snapshots on both ZFS pools?
> > Would it be better to make a larger partition for mirroring (30-100GB)
> > and let all of the system files live there, and put user data and stuff on
> > the raidz?
> >
> > Anyone doing anything like this?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >    Omen
> >
> >   
> 
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