Re: [zfs-discuss] Mount ZFS on Dual Boot Machine (open)solaris

2009-10-16 Thread Frank Middleton
On 10/15/09 23:31, Cameron Jones wrote: by cross-mounting do you mean mounting the drives on 2 running OS's? that wasn't really what i was looking for but nice to know the option is there, even tho not recommended! No, since you really can't run two OSs at the same time unless you use zones.

Re: [zfs-discuss] Mount ZFS on Dual Boot Machine (open)solaris

2009-10-16 Thread Frank Middleton
On 10/16/09 09:29, I wrote: I assume the id is ignored on the root pool at boot time or it wouldn't be able to boot at all. Undoubtedly a guru will chip in here if this is incorrect :-) Of course this was hogwash. You create the pool before receiving the snapshot, so the ID is local. One of

[zfs-discuss] Mount ZFS on Dual Boot Machine (open)solaris

2009-10-15 Thread Cameron Jones
Hi, Sorry if this is a dumb question but i can't seem to find an anwser anything close to what i am trying to figure out... I have a dual boot machine with 3 disks - 2 x 1TB mirror OpenSolaris with ZFS root pool 1x 250GB Solaris 10 with ZFS root pool This is a development\testing\home file

Re: [zfs-discuss] Mount ZFS on Dual Boot Machine (open)solaris

2009-10-15 Thread Frank Middleton
On 10/15/09 20:36, Cameron Jones wrote: My question is tho, since I can boot into either OpenSolaris or Solaris (but not both at the same time obviousvly :) i'd like to be able to mount the other disks into whatever host OS i boot into. Is this possible recommended? Definitely possible.

Re: [zfs-discuss] Mount ZFS on Dual Boot Machine (open)solaris

2009-10-15 Thread Cameron Jones
thanks! by cross-mounting do you mean mounting the drives on 2 running OS's? that wasn't really what i was looking for but nice to know the option is there, even tho not recommended! my only real aim was to have the 3 disks accessible when booting into either OS so i could share archived