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?
This has already been correctly answered. I've been using the process
from that wiki page for all my upgrades and I've never had any problems.
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?
It is not uncommon to use internal SATA controllers for log and cache
devices (Sun's ZFS appliances use them for cache devices).
It isn't usually a good idea to put both log and cache on the same SSD.
Unless you are using your SmartOS box as file server, ditch the cache
and just use a log device, the whole SSD, not a partition. It also isn't
a good idea to use an SSD without power fail protection for a log.
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?
You probably did 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?
No, root/root should be correct.
--
Ian.
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