Re: [zfs-discuss] Boot from external degraded zpool

2009-12-30 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Wed, 30 Dec 2009, Dr. Martin Mundschenk wrote: I have a mac mini running as an OSOL box. The OS is installed on the internal hard drive on the vdrive rpool. On rpool there is no redundancy. If I add an external block device (USB / Firewire) to rpool to mirror the internal hard drive and

[zfs-discuss] Boot from external degraded zpool

2009-12-30 Thread Dr. Martin Mundschenk
Hi! I wonder if the following scenario works: I have a mac mini running as an OSOL box. The OS is installed on the internal hard drive on the vdrive rpool. On rpool there is no redundancy. If I add an external block device (USB / Firewire) to rpool to mirror the internal hard drive and if the