[zfs-discuss] Boot drive restore procedure

2007-05-24 Thread Russell Baird
I have my ZFS mirror on 2 external drives and no ZFS on my boot drive. If I crash my boot drive and I don't have a complete backup of the boot drive, can I restore just the /etc/zfs/zpool.cache file? I tried it and it worked. Once I rebooted with the new drive, the ZFS pool reappeared. I ju

[zfs-discuss] Boot drive restore procedure

2007-05-24 Thread Russell Baird
I have my ZFS mirror on 2 external drives and no ZFS on my boot drive. If I loose my boot drive and I don't have a complete backup, can I restore just the /etc/zfs This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@op

[zfs-discuss] raidz pool with a slice on the boot disk

2007-04-24 Thread Russell Baird
I created a pool with the following command… zpool create -f batches raidz c0t0d0s7 c0t1d0 c0t2d0 c0t3d0 Notice that I specified slice 7, which is an unused slice on my boot disk t0. No part of the operating system exists on slice 7. Is this acceptable? Will this jeopardize the redundancy of