I thought that might be the case Brian. Thank you for clearing that up for me.
Kevin Ratcliffe Sent from [ProtonMail](https://protonmail.ch) > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: Re: [smartos-discuss] SmartOS on a single disk setup > Local Time: 1 November 2017 11:16 PM > UTC Time: 1 November 2017 23:16 > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > > Data on disk will need to be rewritten before the second copy will be created. > > If a single disk with copies=2 is what you want, after the initial setup > there has been very little data written to the pool yet, so you can set that > on the pool root and it will be inherited by descendent datasets as they are > created. > > -- > Brian Bennett > Systems Engineer, Cloud Operations > Joyent, Inc. | www.joyent.com > >> On Nov 1, 2017, at 7:14 AM, Kevr <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hi >> >> I have just moved my ansible zone to a single disk, low power mini pc and >> installed a tftp server for pxe booting. Of course this is not fault >> tolerant but a backup to a usb drive once a week is suffice for my needs. As >> an added bit of fault tolerance I want to set copies=2 as a zfs attribute. >> How does this work with data that is already on disk. ie. if I set copies=2 >> to the zones filesystem, will this create backup copies of previously >> written blocks? If not, would it be a sensible default for the installer on >> single disk systems? Not mega important I know but it's just an idea. >> >> Kevin Ratcliffe >> >> Sent from [ProtonMail](https://protonmail.ch/) ------------------------------------------- smartos-discuss Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/184463/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/184463/25769125-55cfbc00 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=25769125&id_secret=25769125-7688e9fb Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
