[zfs-discuss] Re: opensolaris, zfs rootfs raidz

2007-04-06 Thread Jakob Praher
Erik Trimble wrote: On Thu, 2007-04-05 at 22:59 +0200, Jakob Praher wrote: Hi Cyril, So to get this right: Nevada == Solaris Express?! Yes, it's a bit confusing. Think of Nevada as a distro name (in Linux terms), which uses the OpenSolaris source base. There are (generally) weekly

Re[2]: [zfs-discuss] Re: opensolaris, zfs rootfs raidz

2007-04-06 Thread Robert Milkowski
Hello Erik, Friday, April 6, 2007, 12:45:14 AM, you wrote: ET On Thu, 2007-04-05 at 22:59 +0200, Jakob Praher wrote: Hi Cyril, thanks for your quick response! Cyril Plisko wrote: On 4/5/07, Jakob Praher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi all, I am new to solaris. I am creating a zfs

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: opensolaris, zfs rootfs raidz

2007-04-06 Thread Lori Alt
Robert Milkowski wrote: Hello Erik, Friday, April 6, 2007, 12:45:14 AM, you wrote: ET On Thu, 2007-04-05 at 22:59 +0200, Jakob Praher wrote: Hi Cyril, thanks for your quick response! Cyril Plisko wrote: On 4/5/07, Jakob Praher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi all,

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: opensolaris, zfs rootfs raidz

2007-04-06 Thread Lori Alt
eric taylor wrote: I don't know what raid-10 is, but we do have plans to support booting from RAID-Z. raid-10 (or raid 1+0) is mirroring plus striping. Thanks, Eric. Also to Malachi, who informed me of this also. I expect that the same replicate on all disks dataset property that

[zfs-discuss] Re: opensolaris, zfs rootfs raidz

2007-04-05 Thread Jakob Praher
Hi Cyril, thanks for your quick response! Cyril Plisko wrote: On 4/5/07, Jakob Praher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi all, I am new to solaris. I am creating a zfs filestore which should boot via rootfs. The version of the system is: SunOS store1 5.10 Generic_118855-33 i86pc i386 i86pc.

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: opensolaris, zfs rootfs raidz

2007-04-05 Thread Darren Dunham
a) possible to start from a raidz pool? No. At this point raidz pool is not usable as a boot pool. Is this possible then to use a mirror pool? Yes (to some extent). You can use one disk/slice or a mirror. 2. Prepare the disk for a ZFS rootpool. A rootpool can be a single disk

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: opensolaris, zfs rootfs raidz

2007-04-05 Thread Malachi de Ælfweald
But even with b62, you won't be able to start with the zfs mirror right? You'll have to do UFS then convert it? Malachi On 4/5/07, Darren Dunham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: a) possible to start from a raidz pool? No. At this point raidz pool is not usable as a boot pool. Is this possible

[zfs-discuss] Re: opensolaris, zfs rootfs raidz

2007-04-05 Thread Erik Trimble
On Thu, 2007-04-05 at 14:27 -0700, Malachi de Ælfweald wrote: But even with b62, you won't be able to start with the zfs mirror right? You'll have to do UFS then convert it? Malachi Correct. The direct support for installing on ZFS as root will come with the fixing of the Install binary,

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: opensolaris, zfs rootfs raidz

2007-04-05 Thread Shawn Walker
On 05/04/07, Jakob Praher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Cyril, thanks for your quick response! Cyril Plisko wrote: On 4/5/07, Jakob Praher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi all, I am new to solaris. I am creating a zfs filestore which should boot via rootfs. The version of the system is: SunOS

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: opensolaris, zfs rootfs raidz

2007-04-05 Thread Erik Trimble
On Thu, 2007-04-05 at 22:59 +0200, Jakob Praher wrote: Hi Cyril, thanks for your quick response! Cyril Plisko wrote: On 4/5/07, Jakob Praher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi all, I am new to solaris. I am creating a zfs filestore which should boot via rootfs. The version of the