Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Booting from a drive detached from a ZFS mirrored root pool

2013-01-27 Thread Reginald Beardsley
--- On Sun, 1/27/13, Sašo Kiselkov wrote: > From: Sašo Kiselkov > Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Booting from a drive detached from a ZFS > mirrored root pool > To: openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org > Date: Sunday, January 27, 2013, 5:38 AM > On 01/27/2013

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Booting from a drive detached from a ZFS mirrored root pool

2013-01-27 Thread Sašo Kiselkov
On 01/27/2013 01:04 AM, Reginald Beardsley wrote: > Because I can't boot from 3 TB drives, I'm trying to sort out plan B for > configuring my N40L. > > If I stick the 250 GB disk that came w/ the system in the ODD slot and use > that for the root pool w/ a 4x3 TB RAIDZ, what happens if my root

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Booting from a drive detached from a ZFS mirrored root pool

2013-01-26 Thread Jim Klimov
On 2013-01-27 01:04, Reginald Beardsley wrote: Because I can't boot from 3 TB drives, I'm trying to sort out plan B for configuring my N40L. If I stick the 250 GB disk that came w/ the system in the ODD slot and use that for the root pool w/ a 4x3 TB RAIDZ, what happens if my root pool disk fa

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Booting from a drive detached from a ZFS mirrored root pool

2013-01-26 Thread Jan Owoc
Hi Reginald, I was in a similar situation when building my home-NAS. On Sat, Jan 26, 2013 at 5:04 PM, Reginald Beardsley wrote: > If I stick the 250 GB disk that came w/ the system in the ODD slot and use > that for the root pool w/ a 4x3 TB RAIDZ, what happens if my root pool disk > fails? Z

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Booting from a drive detached from a ZFS mirrored root pool

2013-01-26 Thread Reginald Beardsley
Because I can't boot from 3 TB drives, I'm trying to sort out plan B for configuring my N40L. If I stick the 250 GB disk that came w/ the system in the ODD slot and use that for the root pool w/ a 4x3 TB RAIDZ, what happens if my root pool disk fails? ZFS keeps a lot of state information in