On 12/19/2011 8:51 PM, Frank Cusack wrote:
If you don't detach the smaller drive, the pool size won't increase. Even if
the remaining smaller drive fails, that doesn't mean you have to detach it.
So yes, the pool size might increase, but it won't be unexpectedly. It will
be because you
On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 2:11 PM, Gregg Wonderly gregg...@gmail.com wrote:
On 12/19/2011 8:51 PM, Frank Cusack wrote:
If you don't detach the smaller drive, the pool size won't increase. Even
if the remaining smaller drive fails, that doesn't mean you have to detach
it. So yes, the pool
Of course I meant 'zpool *' not 'zfs *' below.
On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 4:27 PM, Frank Cusack fr...@linetwo.net wrote:
On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 2:11 PM, Gregg Wonderly gregg...@gmail.comwrote:
On 12/19/2011 8:51 PM, Frank Cusack wrote:
If you don't detach the smaller drive, the pool size
On 12/18/11 11:52, Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote:
On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 04:39:07PM -0700, Cindy Swearingen wrote:
Hi Anon,
The disk that you attach to the root pool will need an SMI label
and a slice 0.
The syntax to attach a disk to create a mirrored root pool
is like this, for example:
#
On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 10:18:05AM +, Darren J Moffat wrote:
On 12/18/11 11:52, Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote:
On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 04:39:07PM -0700, Cindy Swearingen wrote:
Hi Anon,
The disk that you attach to the root pool will need an SMI label
and a slice 0.
The syntax to
2011-12-19 16:58, Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote:
On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 10:18:05AM +, Darren J Moffat wrote:
For those of us not familiar with how FreeBSD is installed and boots can
you explain how boot works (ie do you use GRUB at all and if so which
version and where the early boot ZFS code
Hi Pawel,
In addition to the current SMI label requirement for booting,
I believe another limitation is that the boot info must be
contiguous.
I think an RFE is filed to relax this requirement as well.
I just can't find it right now.
Thanks,
Cindy
On 12/18/11 04:52, Pawel Jakub Dawidek
Does current include sol10u10 as well as sol11? If so, when did that go in?
Was it in sol10u9?
Thanks,
Andrew
From: Cindy Swearingen
cindy.swearin...@oracle.commailto:cindy.swearin...@oracle.com
Subject: Re: [zfs-discuss] Can I create a mirror for a root rpool?
Date: December 16, 2011 10
That's why I'm asking. I think it should always mirror the partition table and
allocate exactly the same amount of space so that the pool doesn't suddenly
change sizes unexpectedly and require a disk size that I don't have at hand, to
put the mirror back up.
Gregg
On 12/18/2011 4:08 PM,
If you don't detach the smaller drive, the pool size won't increase. Even
if the remaining smaller drive fails, that doesn't mean you have to detach
it. So yes, the pool size might increase, but it won't be unexpectedly.
It will be because you detached all smaller drives. Also, even if a
On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 9:51 AM, Frank Cusack fr...@linetwo.net wrote:
If you don't detach the smaller drive, the pool size won't increase. Even
if the remaining smaller drive fails, that doesn't mean you have to detach
it. So yes, the pool size might increase, but it won't be unexpectedly.
On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 6:52 PM, Pawel Jakub Dawidek p...@freebsd.org wrote:
BTW. Can you, Cindy, or someone else reveal why one cannot boot from
RAIDZ on Solaris? Is this because Solaris is using GRUB and RAIDZ code
would have to be licensed under GPL as the rest of the boot code?
I'm
On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 07:24:27PM +0700, Fajar A. Nugraha wrote:
On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 6:52 PM, Pawel Jakub Dawidek p...@freebsd.org wrote:
BTW. Can you, Cindy, or someone else reveal why one cannot boot from
RAIDZ on Solaris? Is this because Solaris is using GRUB and RAIDZ code
would
Do note, that though Frank is correct, you have to be a little careful
around what might happen should you drop your original disk, and only
the large mirror half is left... ;)
On 12/16/11 07:09 PM, Frank Cusack wrote:
You can just do fdisk to create a single large partition. The
attached
You can just do fdisk to create a single large partition. The attached
mirror doesn't have to be the same size as the first component.
On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 11:27 PM, Gregg Wonderly gregg...@gmail.com wrote:
Cindy, will it ever be possible to just have attach mirror the surfaces,
including
On 12/16/11 07:27 AM, Gregg Wonderly wrote:
Cindy, will it ever be possible to just have attach mirror the
surfaces, including the partition tables? I spent an hour today
trying to get a new mirror on my root pool. There was a 250GB disk
that failed. I only had a 1.5TB handy as a
Thank you all for your answers and links :-)
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Hi Tim,
No, in current Solaris releases the boot blocks are installed
automatically with a zpool attach operation on a root pool.
Thanks,
Cindy
On 12/15/11 17:13, Tim Cook wrote:
Do you still need to do the grub install?
On Dec 15, 2011 5:40 PM, Cindy Swearingen cindy.swearin...@oracle.com
Hi Gregg,
Yes, fighting with partitioning is just silly.
Santa will bring us bootable GPT/EFI labels in the coming year
is my wish so you will be able to just attach disks to root
pools.
Send us some output so we can see what the trouble is.
In the meantime, the links below might help.
The issue is really quite simple. The solaris install, on x86 at least,
chooses to use slice-0 for the root partition. That slice is not created by a
default format/fdisk, and so we have the web strewn with
prtvtoc path/to/old/slice2 | fmthard -s - path/to/new/slice2
As a way to cause the
Yep, well said, understood, point taken, I hear you, you're
preaching to the choir. Have faith in Santa.
A few comments:
1. I need more info on the x86 install issue. I haven't seen this
problem myself.
2. We don't use slice2 for anything and its not recommended.
3. The SMI disk is a
On Solaris 10 If I install using ZFS root on only one drive is there a way
to add another drive as a mirror later? Sorry if this was discussed
already. I searched the archives and couldn't find the answer. Thank you.
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You do it as you would any zpool. Mirroring is OK for the zpool.
It's just things like raidz* and concats that are not.
# zpool attach rpool device
Note the use of attach. "add" will try to make a concat.
Regards,
Alan Hargreaves
Hi Anon,
The disk that you attach to the root pool will need an SMI label
and a slice 0.
The syntax to attach a disk to create a mirrored root pool
is like this, for example:
# zpool attach rpool c1t0d0s0 c1t1d0s0
Thanks,
Cindy
On 12/15/11 16:20, Anonymous Remailer (austria) wrote:
On
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emailer (austria) writes:
On Solaris 10 If I install using ZFS root on only one drive is there a way
to add another drive as a mirror later? Sorry if this was discussed
already. I searched the archives and couldn't find
Yes, except if your root pool is on a USB stick or removable media.
On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 3:20 PM, Anonymous Remailer (austria)
mixmas...@remailer.privacy.at wrote:
On Solaris 10 If I install using ZFS root on only one drive is there a way
to add another drive as a mirror later? Sorry if
It can still be done for USB, but you have to boot from alternate media to
attach the mirror.
On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 3:41 PM, Frank Cusack fr...@linetwo.net wrote:
Yes, except if your root pool is on a USB stick or removable media.
On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 3:20 PM, Anonymous Remailer
Do you still need to do the grub install?
On Dec 15, 2011 5:40 PM, Cindy Swearingen cindy.swearin...@oracle.com
wrote:
Hi Anon,
The disk that you attach to the root pool will need an SMI label
and a slice 0.
The syntax to attach a disk to create a mirrored root pool
is like this, for
Cindy, will it ever be possible to just have attach mirror the surfaces,
including the partition tables? I spent an hour today trying to get a new
mirror on my root pool. There was a 250GB disk that failed. I only had a
1.5TB handy as a replacement. prtvtoc ... | fmthard does not work in
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