Hi Kevin. There's a long document regarding root zfs that I vaguely remember which was before it was integrated saying that you'd create a bootstrap ufs partition to house grub and boot the rpool from there, using 99% of the rest of the space on the pool. Maybe someone here knows what I'm, talking about and can point you in the right direction regarding this option, though keep in mind this is not for Indiana. SXCE has zfs root support, and is still a better option IMHO for most purposes, at least until they respin Indiana and make the installer less dorky with regards to partitioning. With SXCE you can use the old installer and configure a lot more.
James On Sun, 2008-07-13 at 19:08 -0500, Kevin Monceaux wrote: > Richard, > > On Sun, 13 Jul 2008, Richard Elling wrote: > > > The procedure for adding a mirror to a root pool is in the ZFS > > Administration Guide. > > And, that would be helpful if I wanted to add a mirror. Since this is my > home desktop PC mirrored drives are overkill. What I was trying to do was > add a second, non-mirrored, disk to my root pool, which I discovered after > some research is not an option. > > > I believe this is also covered in the above documentation. You should > > use a slice and not a partition. Before you waste more time on this, > > you might take a look at the docs which explain how to administer ZFS on > > a wide variety of hardware. We are trying very hard to keep this > > document up to date and complete with many examples, but we also realize > > most folks don't read the docs... so if you have better suggestions, > > please let us know. -- richard > > I'll definitely check out the documentation you mentioned. With the > current installer is there a way to create an "extra" slice to reserve > some of a drive's space for a non-root pool? The only options I could > find were using the whole disk or creating multiple partitions. I > couldn't find a way to specify custom slice sizes. As I said in my > previous e-mail I tried using a second partition for the non-root pool, > but only ended up with a fraction of the space available. > > > > Kevin > http://www.RawFedDogs.net > http://www.WacoAgilityGroup.org > Bruceville, TX > > Si hoc legere scis nimium eruditionis habes. > Longum iter est per praecepta, breve et efficax per exempla!!! > > _______________________________________________ > indiana-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss _______________________________________________ indiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss
