Hi Dan,
I'm not sure I'm following everything here but I will try:
1. How do you offline a zvol? Can you show your syntax?
You can only offline a redundant pool component, such as a file, slice,
or whole disk.
2. What component does black represent? Only a pool can be exported.
3. In
Dan,
I see now how you might have created this config.
I tried to reproduce this issue by creating a separate pool on another
disk and a volume to attach to my root pool, but my system panics when
I try to attach the volume to the root pool.
This is on Nevada, build 130.
Panic aside, we don't
On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 01:26:15PM -0700, Cindy Swearingen wrote:
I see now how you might have created this config.
I tried to reproduce this issue by creating a separate pool on another
disk and a volume to attach to my root pool, but my system panics when
I try to attach the volume to the
I have a netbook with a small internal ssd as rpool. I have an
external usb HDD with much larger storage, as a separate pool, which
is sometimes attached to the netbook.
I created a zvol on the external pool, the same size as the internal
ssd, and attached it as a mirror to rpool for backup. I
I should have mentioned:
- opensolaris b130
- of course I could use partitions on the usb disk, but that's so much less
flexible.
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Daniel Carosone wrote:
However, with the rpool mirror in place, I can't find a way to zpool
export black. It complains that the poool is busy, because of the
zvol in use. This happens regardless of whether I have set the zvol
submirror offline. I expected that, with the subdevice in the
On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 02:38:56PM +1300, Ian Collins wrote:
How did you set the subdevice in the off line state?
# zpool offline rpool /dev/zvol/dsk/
sorry if that wasn't clear.
Did you detach the device from the mirror?
No, because then:
- it will have to resilver fully on next
On Jan 11, 2010, at 4:42 PM, Daniel Carosone wrote:
I have a netbook with a small internal ssd as rpool. I have an
external usb HDD with much larger storage, as a separate pool, which
is sometimes attached to the netbook.
I created a zvol on the external pool, the same size as the internal
On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 06:03:40PM -0800, Richard Elling wrote:
IMHO, a split mirror is not as good as a decent backup :-)
I know.. that was more by way of introduction and background. It's
not the only method of backup, but since this disk does get plugged
into the netbook frequently enough it
