Re: [zfs-discuss] Sparc rpool mirror failed

2008-06-21 Thread Maurice Castro
The answer is that an SMI label is required in which the first slice covers the whole disk. A detailed process is described at: http://www.castro.aus.net/~maurice/opensolaris/zfsbootmirror.html Please note that there still may be other issues ie bug 6680633 but at least I can now add

Re: [zfs-discuss] Sparc rpool mirror failed

2008-06-20 Thread Maurice Castro
Hi All, actually the drives are identical and approximately 34GB in formatted in size. The solution I eventually took was to reinstall the system and select the 2 disks in the installer and the mirror is created. Unfortunately, there were other complexities in the process. ZFS boot d

Re: [zfs-discuss] Sparc rpool mirror failed

2008-06-20 Thread Brandon High
On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 4:12 PM, John-Paul Drawneek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > These 18gb disks? It looks like they're 36GB: 0. c0t0d0 ^^^ 1. c0t8d0 ^^^ ^^^ It also looks like they are not identical drives. -B

Re: [zfs-discuss] Sparc rpool mirror failed

2008-06-20 Thread John-Paul Drawneek
These 18gb disks? There a bug which is fixed in b92 which could be causing this? This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Sparc rpool mirror failed

2008-06-20 Thread Richard Elling
Maurice Castro wrote: > Hi All, > I have just installed b90 on an E250 with 2 identical SCSI disks and > zfs root. But I keep getting the error > > cannot attach /dev/rdsk/c0t8d0 to c0t0d0s0: device is too small > > when I execute > > zpool attach rpool c0t0d0s0 /dev/rdsk/c0t8d0

[zfs-discuss] Sparc rpool mirror failed

2008-06-18 Thread Maurice Castro
Hi All, I have just installed b90 on an E250 with 2 identical SCSI disks and zfs root. But I keep getting the error cannot attach /dev/rdsk/c0t8d0 to c0t0d0s0: device is too small when I execute zpool attach rpool c0t0d0s0 /dev/rdsk/c0t8d0 It appears to be a labelling