On Wed, 27 Jan 2010 17:40:47 PST
Alex <testin.mase at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks for your reply.
> 
> Yes you got me wrong. What I want is what you described.
> I want to add the second drive to the pool where root lays.
>
> I reinstalled the System using a the entire disk for the system. Now I want 
> to add the second drive to the zfs pool so that it is mirrored.

That should be "zfs attach rpool olddisk newdisk". 

> After this Step I should be able to create a new fs with quota (e.g. 60% of 
> the disk-space). Am I right on this?

That's one way. I realized after posting that I should have used the
reservation property on the rpoot/ROOT file system for the second
example. That property reserves space for the file system, which might
be close to what you want.


> If I try to add the second hdd it tells me that there is no such device as 
> c8d0s0. I tried to format the hdd with format and tried to create the same 
> layout as "disk 0" but at the moment I'm stuck and not be able to create 
> anything useful. But I found some documents so I'm going to do some further 
> reading.

Sounds like you're on the right track here. If you decide to ask for
help, include the current formatting info for the root drive.

> Opensolaris is a bit more confusing than I thought ;)

ZFS is different, all right.

     <mike

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