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 much help

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 interesting

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

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

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 two

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 one?.

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

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

2012-01-05 Thread Fajar A. Nugraha
On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 12:32 PM, Jesus Cea j...@jcea.es wrote: So, my questions: a) Is this workflow reasonable and would work?. Is the procedure documented anywhere?. Suggestions?. Pitfalls? try