Assuming your ZFS array is on 4 physical disks that have been dedicate solely to the ZFS array, I don't think this will be too hard.
My understanding is that ZFS keeps track of pool configuration through data stored on each disk - this makes it easy to move disks to another box or rearrange them. Perhaps before starting on the re-partition of the root disk, you might take the pool offline by zpool export [poolname] After your install is done (make sure you record your device ids so that you don't accidentally partition one of the pool members) zpool import should list the exported pool and it's members. You can then zpool import [poolname or id number] If for some reason you placed part of the ZFS pool on slices of your boot disk, you will need to talk to somebody smarter than me to figure out a safe upgrade path. (BTW, Sun strongly recommends giving ZFS direct device access, rather than feeding it higher-level vdevs like slices, etc). Blake On 7/21/07, E. Kevin Hall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi All - I've been trying to sift through the many disparate sites for the best way to do this and would love a pointer or two. Pretty knowledgeable and have used Linux since 1996 and IRIX as well. I have a home built OpenSolaris SNV_57 server with a 4 disk ZFS RAID. I installed it myself via a text console (couldn't get the graphics to work) but didn't know enough about live upgrade at the time to partition the disk correctly. I would like to upgrade to the latest OpenSolaris Nevada build after repartitioning the root disk and still preserve the architecture and contents of the RAID. Any pointers about the best method of what is likely and essentially a reinstall to I can save all the data on the array? Kevin This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-help mailing list [email protected]
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