Re: [zfs-discuss] Thinking about spliting a zpool in "system" and "data"

2012-01-10 Thread Jesus Cea
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/01/12 21:32, Richard Elling wrote: > On Jan 9, 2012, at 7:23 PM, Jesus Cea wrote: [...] >> The page is written in Spanish, but the terminal transcriptions >> should be useful for everybody. >> >> In the process, maybe somebody finds this interes

Re: [zfs-discuss] Thinking about spliting a zpool in "system" and "data"

2012-01-10 Thread Richard Elling
On Jan 9, 2012, at 7:23 PM, Jesus Cea wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 07/01/12 13:39, Jim Klimov wrote: >> I have transitioned a number of systems roughly by the same >> procedure as you've outlined. Sadly, my notes are not in English so >> they wouldn't be of muc

Re: [zfs-discuss] Thinking about spliting a zpool in "system" and "data"

2012-01-09 Thread Jesus Cea
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/01/12 13:39, Jim Klimov wrote: > I have transitioned a number of systems roughly by the same > procedure as you've outlined. Sadly, my notes are not in English so > they wouldn't be of much help directly; Yes, my russian is rusty :-). I have bi

Re: [zfs-discuss] Thinking about spliting a zpool in "system" and "data"

2012-01-07 Thread Jim Klimov
Hello, Jesus, I have transitioned a number of systems roughly by the same procedure as you've outlined. Sadly, my notes are not in English so they wouldn't be of much help directly; but I can report that I had success with similar "in-place" manual transitions from mirrored SVM (pre-solaris 10u

Re: [zfs-discuss] Thinking about spliting a zpool in "system" and "data"

2012-01-06 Thread Hung-Sheng Tsao (Lao Tsao 老曹) Ph.D.
correction On 1/6/2012 3:34 PM, "Hung-Sheng Tsao (Lao Tsao 老曹) Ph.D." wrote: may be one can do the following (assume c0t0d0 and c0t1d0) 1)split rpool mirror: zpool split rpool newpool c0t1d0s0 1b)zpool destroy newpool 2)partition 2nd hdd c0t1d0s0 into two slice (s0 and s1) 3)zpool create rpool2

Re: [zfs-discuss] Thinking about spliting a zpool in "system" and "data"

2012-01-06 Thread Hung-Sheng Tsao (Lao Tsao 老曹) Ph.D.
may be one can do the following (assume c0t0d0 and c0t1d0) 1)split rpool mirror: zpool split rpool newpool c0t1d0s0 1b)zpool destroy newpool 2)partition 2nd hdd c0t1d0s0 into two slice (s0 and s1) 3)zpool create rpool2 c0t1d0s1 4)use lucreate -c c0t0d0s0 -n new-zfsbe -p c0t1d0s0 5)lustatus c0t0d

Re: [zfs-discuss] Thinking about spliting a zpool in "system" and "data"

2012-01-06 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
> From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- > boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Fajar A. Nugraha > > > c) Currently Solaris decides to activate write caching in the SATA > > disks, nice. What would happen if I still use the complete disks BUT > > with two slices instead of

Re: [zfs-discuss] Thinking about spliting a zpool in "system" and "data"

2012-01-06 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
> From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- > boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Jesus Cea > > Sorry if this list is inappropriate. Pointers welcomed. Not at all. This is the perfect forum for your question. > So I am thinking about splitting my full two-disk zpool in t

Re: [zfs-discuss] Thinking about spliting a zpool in "system" and "data"

2012-01-05 Thread Fajar A. Nugraha
On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 12:32 PM, Jesus Cea wrote: > So, my questions: > > a) Is this workflow reasonable and would work?. Is the procedure > documented anywhere?. Suggestions?. Pitfalls? try http://www.solarisinternals.com/wiki/index.php/ZFS_Troubleshooting_Guide#Complete_Solaris_ZFS_Root_Pool_R

[zfs-discuss] Thinking about spliting a zpool in "system" and "data"

2012-01-05 Thread Jesus Cea
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sorry if this list is inappropriate. Pointers welcomed. Using Solaris 10 Update 10, x86-64. I have been a ZFS heavy user since available, and I love the system. My servers are usually "small" (two disks) and usually hosted in a datacenter, so I usual