If you're dedicating the disk to a single task (data, SLOG, L2ARC) then
absolutely. If you're splitting tasks and wanting to make a drive do two
things, like SLOG and L2ARC, then you have to do this.
Some of the confusion here is between what is a traditional FDISK
partition (p
On Jan 3, 2013, at 3:33 PM, Eugen Leitl wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 03, 2013 at 03:21:33PM -0600, Phillip Wagstrom wrote:
>> Eugen,
>>
>> Be aware that p0 corresponds to the entire disk, regardless of how it
>> is partitioned with fdisk. The fdisk partitions are 1 -
Eugen,
Be aware that p0 corresponds to the entire disk, regardless of how it
is partitioned with fdisk. The fdisk partitions are 1 - 4. By using p0 for
log and p1 for cache, you could very well be writing to same location on the
SSD and corrupting things.
Personally, I'd recom
You can't change the name of a zpool without importing it.
For what you're attempting to do, why not attach a larger vdisk and mirror the
existing disk in rpool? Then drop the smaller vdisk and you'll have a larger
rpool.
Alternatively, take a look at "beadm" as it should have a means of cre
On Oct 11, 2012, at 4:47 PM, andy thomas wrote:
> According to a Sun document called something like 'ZFS best practice' I read
> some time ago, best practice was to use the entire disk for ZFS and not to
> partition or slice it in any way. Does this advice hold good for FreeBSD as
> well?
Shawn joy wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I see from the zfs Best practices guide
>
> http://www.solarisinternals.com/wiki/index.php/ZFS_Best_Practices_Guide
>
>
> ZFS Root Pool Considerations
>
> * A root pool must be created with disk slices rather than whole
> disks. Allocate the entire disk capacity
rted by Sun. Take a
look at the datasheet from opensolaris.com and sun.com
http://www.opensolaris.com/opensolaris_datasheet.pdf
http://www.sun.com/service/opensolaris/index.jsp
-Phil
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Rustam wrote:
> Today my production server crashed 4 times. THIS IS NIGHTMARE!
> Self-healing file system?! For me ZFS is SELF-KILLING filesystem.
>
> I cannot fsck it, there's no such tool. I cannot scrub it, it crashes
> 30-40 minutes after scrub starts. I cannot use it, it crashes a
> number
Shannon Roddy wrote:
Solaris 10u2 was released today. You can now download it from here:
http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/get.jsp
Does anyone know if ZFS is included in this release? One of my local
Sun reps said it did not make it into the u2 release, though I have
heard for ages that
