I will try to answer what I can, most is just based on my personal
experience:
Upgrading:
The script you linked is fine, I wrote something close to that a while
ago. Aside from it taken 10-15min to write the new files on the USB I
have had not issues with doing it that way.
There is a page on how to do an inplace upgrade manually:
https://wiki.smartos.org/display/DOC/Remotely+Upgrading+A+USB+Key+Based+Deployment
You can also just rotate USB keys, take the old one, flash the new dd
images. Swap the keys.
If the new one doesn't work you have the old one as backup!, just repeat
on the next upgrade.
As for the password, I think it is always root/root in noinstall mode. I
think it used to (still does?) say so in the grub menu.
Zpool:
My zones pool is just a simple mirror setup, however I use 2 SSD's
partitioned as ZIL (mirror of p1) and 2x cache on p2)
[root@core ~]# zpool status data
pool: data
state: ONLINE
scan: scrub repaired 0 in 3h19m with 0 errors on Mon Jan 25 05:19:21
2016
config:
NAME STATE READ WRITE CKSUM
data ONLINE 0 0 0
mirror-0 ONLINE 0 0 0
c0t5000C50048DED002d0 ONLINE 0 0 0
c0t5000C50048DF3BDFd0 ONLINE 0 0 0
logs
mirror-1 ONLINE 0 0 0
c0t5001B44CB2349D0Cd0p1 ONLINE 0 0 0
c0t5001B44A1692EB7Ad0p1 ONLINE 0 0 0
cache
c0t5001B44CB2349D0Cd0p2 ONLINE 0 0 0
c0t5001B44A1692EB7Ad0p2 ONLINE 0 0 0
I have not had issues with my 2nd pool being imported after a
reboot/upgrade.
I did do all the paritioning of the SSD on SmartOS a long time ago, and
I don't remember the exact commands.
Regards
Jorge
On 2016-01-28 09:35, the outsider wrote:
Dear all,
Many thanks to all that helped yesterday and tonight for restoring my
server.
Everything works fine now, but I have some unanswered questions. Maybe
someone can shed some light on this.
Since I ran into trouble after updating my USB drive with the latest
SmartOS version some things are unclear at this moment.
Updating SmartOS
1. What is the recommended update/upgrade strategy for SmartOS?
2. Where is the right wiki for updating the SmartOS USB or
SmartOS OS?
3. I followed and used this
https://github.com/calmh/smartos-platform-upgrade and it seemed to work
ok. But is ok to use it?
ZPool:
1. I created a log and cache on a SSD, but used partitions c2d0p2
and c2d0p4 instead of slices. This seems to have caused the biggest
error for my Zpool
2. The SSD was still alive but Zpool could not find the
partitions. The SSD is not attached to the RAID controller but (due to
some physical mounting problems) connected to the onboard SATA
controller. Can this have caused the error?
SmartOS
1. The new SmartOS release I burned to USB was version
20160121T174331Z
2. During the "no install" procedure it asked for username and
pass. The root/root was not correct. Thanks to someone on IRC I was
guided to
http://us-east.manta.joyent.com/Joyent_Dev/public/SmartOS/smartos.html#20160121T174331Z
3. The password for root mentioned on this page was not working.
The OS kept complaining about something and it looked to me that the OS
was trying to verify the password to a central system. But since the
network drivers were not loaded this failed of course. Is this normal
or did I do something wrong?
4. My base version was 20151210T194528Z, and I could log in with
root/root during the "noinstall". I didn't have to use the special
password from the webpage?
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