> > Yup. Just do "zpool attach pool bootdisk newdisk". > That automatically > adds newdisk as a mirror of bootdisk, and starts the > silvering > process. I'm used to using this approach with other > mirroring software > as well; does the Linux volume manager not work that > way?
last I knew you couldn't do things quite that dynamically with linux RAID and it certianly isn't possible to dynamically make the filesystem you boot from into a mirrored setup like that. Nevermind that it doesn't do it as intelligently as ZFS does. (replace a disk? it goes through the *whole stinking drive* instead of what's there) > If it failed the md5sum, then the download is > probably broken. Try > downloading it again. Unless someone wants to tell us > that the > checksum listed for it is wrong? i'm probably going to try a different md5sum later, I don't exactly trust the cygwin version. (main system runs windows) > > it also gets precisely nowhere in virtualbox. Might > try it later on my desktop later with all of my > regular drives pulled later. (have a 80Gig drive here > reserved for mucking about with things or other such > stuff) > > You don't say which VBox you have, but 2.0 has been > reported as > flaky. 2.0.2 may be better, but I'd try the latest > 1.6 before giving > up. But I'd suspect the download to be broken first. ya, well... I just upgraded a couple days ago to 2.0.2 > > You want the SUNWxvm* packages. cool, thanks for the info. > > > I don't suppose there's a admin guide for SXCE > available anywhere? I don't know much about how > solaris names devices and such like that. > > Not that I know of. Much of it will be the same as > any other > OpenSolaris distro that's not trying to replace great > swaths of the > code base with something else, so I'd start with > whatever you can find > for that. If you can't find what you need there, try > the Solaris 10 > docs, as not everything has changed since then. ok, I can always consult a search engine if I get stumped on something that isn't covered on opensolaris' docs section or docs.sun.com as another poster mentioned. also found something quite interesting here: http://breden.org.uk/2008/03/02/a-home-fileserver-using-zfs/ will have to look at that later when I get time. (it's quite late here, i'm getting ready to head off to bed) I don't suppose anyone has any idea if that motherboard i'm looking at will work well? -- This message posted from opensolaris.org
