Re: [zfs-discuss] adding new disks and setting up a raidz2

2010-10-17 Thread Richard Elling
On Oct 16, 2010, at 9:48 PM, Derek G Nokes wrote: > I tried using format to format the drive and got the following: > > Ready to format. Formatting cannot be interrupted > and takes 5724 minutes (estimated). Continue? y > Beginning format. The current time is Sat Oct 16 23:58:17 2010 > > Formatt

Re: [zfs-discuss] adding new disks and setting up a raidz2

2010-10-16 Thread Derek G Nokes
I tried using format to format the drive and got the following: Ready to format. Formatting cannot be interrupted and takes 5724 minutes (estimated). Continue? y Beginning format. The current time is Sat Oct 16 23:58:17 2010 Formatting... Format failed Retry of formatting operation without any

Re: [zfs-discuss] adding new disks and setting up a raidz2

2010-10-15 Thread Cindy Swearingen
Derek, The c0t5000C500268CFA6Bd0 disk has some kind of label problem. You might compare the label of this disk to the other disks. I agree with Richard that using whole disks (use the d0 device) is best. You could also relabel it manually by using the format-->fdisk--> delete the current partit

Re: [zfs-discuss] adding new disks and setting up a raidz2

2010-10-14 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
> From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- > boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Derek G Nokes > > r...@dnokes.homeip.net:~# zpool create marketData raidz2 > c0t5000C5001A6B9C5Ed0 c0t5000C5001A81E100d0 c0t5000C500268C0576d0 > c0t5000C500268C5414d0 c0t5000C500268CFA6Bd0 c0t5

Re: [zfs-discuss] adding new disks and setting up a raidz2

2010-10-14 Thread Derek G Nokes
Thank you both. I did try without specifying the 's0' portion before posting and got the following error: r...@dnokes.homeip.net:~# zpool create marketData raidz2 c0t5000C5001A6B9C5Ed0 c0t5000C5001A81E100d0 c0t5000C500268C0576d0 c0t5000C500268C5414d0 c0t5000C500268CFA6Bd0 c0t5000C500268D0821d0

Re: [zfs-discuss] adding new disks and setting up a raidz2

2010-10-14 Thread Jim Dunham
Derek, > I am relatively new to OpenSolaris / ZFS (have been using it for maybe 6 > months). I recently added 6 new drives to one of my servers and I would like > to create a new RAIDZ2 pool called 'marketData'. > > I figured the command to do this would be something like: > > zpool create mar

Re: [zfs-discuss] adding new disks and setting up a raidz2

2010-10-14 Thread Richard Elling
On Oct 14, 2010, at 5:08 PM, Derek G Nokes wrote: > I am relatively new to OpenSolaris / ZFS (have been using it for maybe 6 > months). I recently added 6 new drives to one of my servers and I would like > to create a new RAIDZ2 pool called 'marketData'. > > I figured the command to do this wo

[zfs-discuss] adding new disks and setting up a raidz2

2010-10-14 Thread Derek G Nokes
I am relatively new to OpenSolaris / ZFS (have been using it for maybe 6 months). I recently added 6 new drives to one of my servers and I would like to create a new RAIDZ2 pool called 'marketData'. I figured the command to do this would be something like: zpool create marketData raidz2 c0t5000