You may not want to mirror the boot block. That way you can update one
boot block, test it before copying the other. If the new boot block
fails to boot, the BIOS should go to the next hard drive and boot the
mirror. I don't know if it's possible to detect which drive you're
actually booting
On Sun, May 12, 2013 at 1:26 PM, Paul Kraus wrote:
> On May 12, 2013, at 9:48 AM, Outback Dingo wrote:
>
> > notice my boot pool is a mirror, so disk 2 is identical to disk1, so if
> > disk1 ever dies, logically i could boot from disk two
>
> The zpool mirror does not mirror the bootbloc
On May 12, 2013, at 9:48 AM, Outback Dingo wrote:
> notice my boot pool is a mirror, so disk 2 is identical to disk1, so if
> disk1 ever dies, logically i could boot from disk two
The zpool mirror does not mirror the bootblock. You need to manually
add that to all the drives you may wan
notice my boot pool is a mirror, so disk 2 is identical to disk1, so if
disk1 ever dies, logically i could boot from disk two
pool: tank
state: ONLINE
scan: scrub repaired 0 in 0h0m with 0 errors on Sat May 11 13:20:41 2013
config:
NAMESTATE READ WRITE CKSUM
tank
On 12. mai 2013, at 15:21, Roland van Laar wrote:
> I see that all the disks get the same partitions, including swap and boot?
> Why is that? And do I need those 5 boot and swap partitions?
You don't need them, but there's a good chance you'll want them.
Long story, short version: with raidz a
Hello,
I'm following the raidz[1] and mirror[2] guides for a ZFS root.
For a test installation on a 5 disk Virtualbox environment.
I see that all the disks get the same partitions, including swap and boot?
Why is that? And do I need those 5 boot and swap partitions?
Thank you for your time,
Ro
