On 01/27/2013 01:04 AM, Reginald Beardsley wrote: > Because I can't boot from 3 TB drives, I'm trying to sort out plan B for > configuring my N40L. > > If I stick the 250 GB disk that came w/ the system in the ODD slot and use > that for the root pool w/ a 4x3 TB RAIDZ, what happens if my root pool disk > fails? ZFS keeps a lot of state information in places I don't know about. > > My current plan B would be to use the eSATA port to mirror to an external > SATA drive and then detach it. Is it reasonable to expect that I could > install the detached mirror drive in the system and boot from it or is there > something on the disk that says "you can't do that"? > > I don't need maximal uptime. What I need is easy recovery from failure w/o > losing data from the RAIDZ pool.
I thought you were planning to partition the 3TB drives and reserve a small (50GB?) portion at the start that would be used a the root pool. Is that not working? Cheers, -- Saso _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
