Fajar,
Yes, you could probably do send/receive from one pool to another, but
that would be somewhat more time consuming and you'd have to make sure
everything was right in your GRUB menu.lst as well as boot blocks, not
to mention the potential for namespace collisions when dealing with a
root pool. But this is missing my point.
The thing I found more interesting was that a pool could be increased
in space by doing a zpool replace with a larger disk. This means if
say, you have a pool of 100GB disks and you want to increase the size,
you can replace them with bigger disks effectively growing the pool.
Not sure how this works out with configurations other than in RAID 0
and RAID 1, but I thought it was a pretty nice feature knowing I can
put bigger disks in really easily.
I also agree the installer should have an "expert" mode for
configuring disks. The "all-or-nothing" approach is easy for people
who have never been exposed to Solaris or OpenSolaris, but leaves
people out in the cold if you wish to have different configuration for
your disks.
The Automated Installer, is supposed to give this sort of flexibility,
but I haven't tried it out yet.
Regards,
Mike
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On 22 Jun 2009, at 11:00 , Fajar A. Nugraha wrote:
On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 7:02 PM, Michael
Sullivan<michael.p.sulli...@mac.com> wrote:
One really interesting bit is how easily it is to make the disk in
a pool
bigger by doing a zpool replace on the device. It couldn't have
been any
easier with ZFS.
It's interesting how you achieved that, although it'd be much easier
if the installer supports that from the GUI instead of having to use
"zpool replace" as a workaround. I believe using export-import as
described in
http://www.solarisinternals.com/wiki/index.php/ZFS_Troubleshooting_Guide#ZFS_Root_Pool_Recovery
should also work.
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