On 27/09/2006, at 6:57 PM, Dick Davies wrote:
On 27/09/06, Boyd Adamson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 27/09/2006, at 4:49 AM, Ryan Ross wrote:
> The one problem I have come across is the the UFS system partition.
> This is not backed up, therefore if the harddrive it is on fails, I
> have no way to get to my zpool! Even if I use one of those zfs-root
> hacks, there will still need to be a UFS portion, correct? And I
> can't back up the UFS portion to the ZFS portions, because I won't
> be able to access the ZFS in the event of a hd failure?
>
> Is there a way for me to make a failsafe for this eventuality?
In Solaris/Solaris Express you can mirror the UFS filesystem using
Solaris Volume Manager.
Would that mean you could boot off the mirrored disk, or would another
step be required?
Well, it's more than one sentence. You may like to read some
documentation:
http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/816-4520
In particular:
http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/816-4520/6manpiejn?a=view
or
http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/816-4520/6manpiejq?a=view#frkde
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