Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Boot failure - degraded boot pool

2012-02-10 Thread Mark Creamer
If you have a mirrored set for your OS (rpool) you can configure it so the failure of either one of those two drives will cause the system to boot automatically from the other. Google mirrored rpool. I think I found my instructions on Constantin Gonzales' site IIRC On Friday, February 10, 2012, Ma

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Boot failure - degraded boot pool

2012-02-10 Thread Matt Connolly
Well the machine is back up and running. It seems that one of the drives was in a faulted state - probably a separate issue from the power outage. But that drive was configured by the bios to be the boot drive, and the system refused to boot off a faulted drive. Instantly restarted, repeat. So

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Unresolvable package dependencies

2012-02-10 Thread Gabriele Bulfon
Hi, while delving into the repo.redist created by the illumos-gate build, I found many package dependencies whose exact version cannot be found on the OI dev publisher. I tried browsing the OI dev-il publisher and found the exact versions, so I just thought that switching the OI publisher to dev-

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Resilver restarting on second dead drive?

2012-02-10 Thread Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk
> Now, I can somewhat see the argument in resilvering more drives in > parallel to save time, if the drives fail at the same time, but how > often do they really do that? Mostly, a drive will fail rather out of > sync with others. This leads me to thinking it would be better to let > the pool resil

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Strangeness of dev-il repository

2012-02-10 Thread Gabriele Bulfon
Hi, I was browsing the dev-il repository through the web interface, and found a discordant answer when doing a pkg search against the same repository. For example: - pkg search -s http://pkg.openindiana.org/dev-il/ python-26 returns: pkg:/runtime/python-26@2.6.4-0.151.1 - looking for the same on