Re: [zfs-discuss] rpool mirror on USB sticks

2009-07-14 Thread Tertius Lydgate
I have just tried again confirming that I used attach and not add. It still gives the same message ("new device must be a single disk") even though it is a single disk. I've tried reformatting it and wiping it a few times now too. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___

Re: [zfs-discuss] rpool mirror on USB sticks

2009-07-14 Thread Tertius Lydgate
Hi, this drive doesn't have U3. Just to be sure I even found a windows computer and tried it out, but nothing popped up. I also tried a U3 removal utility but it didn't detect the drive as U3. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discu

Re: [zfs-discuss] rpool mirror on USB sticks

2009-07-12 Thread Richard Elling
Tertius Lydgate wrote: Figure out how to mirror a root pool on one USB stick to another. It gives me the error "new device must be a single disk" even though the new device is a single disk. IIRC, you will get this error message if you try to "zpool add" rather than "zpool attach" the disk

Re: [zfs-discuss] rpool mirror on USB sticks

2009-07-12 Thread Kees Nuyt
On Sun, 12 Jul 2009 14:42:02 PDT, Tertius Lydgate wrote: >Figure out how to mirror a root pool on one USB stick to another. >It gives me the error "new device must be a single disk" >even though the new device is a single disk. If it's an U3 stick, it may behave like two devices. You'll have to

Re: [zfs-discuss] rpool mirror on USB sticks

2009-07-12 Thread Tertius Lydgate
Figure out how to mirror a root pool on one USB stick to another. It gives me the error "new device must be a single disk" even though the new device is a single disk. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discus

Re: [zfs-discuss] rpool mirror on USB sticks

2009-07-01 Thread Ian Collins
Tertius Lydgate wrote: Did you ever figure this out? Figure what out? -- Ian. ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] rpool mirror on USB sticks

2009-07-01 Thread Tertius Lydgate
Did you ever figure this out? I'm trying to do the same thing and also getting "new device must be a single disk". -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/