On 8/18/06, Ben Short <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I'm plan to build home server that will host my svn repository, fileserver, mailserver and webserver. This is my plan.. I have an old dell precision 420 dual 933Mhz pIII cpus. Inside this i have one scsi 9.1G hdd and 2 80G ide hdds. I am going to install solaris 10 on the scsi drive and have it as the boot disk. I will then create a zfs mirror on the two ide drives. Since i dont want to mix internet facing services (mailserver, webservers) with my internal services (svn server, fileserver) i am going to use zones to isolate them. Not sure how many zones just yet. In this configureation i hope too of gained the protection of having the serives mirrors ( will perform backups also ). What i dont know is what happens if the boot disk dies? can i replace is, install solaris again and get it to see the zfs mirror?
As I understand it, this be possible, but I haven't tried it and I'm not an expert Solaris admin. Some ZFS info is stored in a persistent file on your system disk, and you may have to do a little dance to get around that. It's worth researching and practicing in advance :-).
Also what happens if one of the ide drives fails? can i plug another one in and run some zfs commands to make it part of the mirror?
Yes. This one I've tried -- in simulation rather than on real hardware, but that's close enough to make me believe I actually know the answer :-). There's a command to replace a disk in a pool; it is "zpool replace <poolname> <drivename>". To answer this and many other questions you will no doubt have, you want to download the Solaris 10 ZFS Administrators guide from Sun, Part No: 819–5461–10. Also continue to hang around this list, people who really know ZFS are here and will help. I try to pick off the really easy questions I'm sure I can get right :-). -- David Dyer-Bennet, <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <http://www.dd-b.net/dd-b/> RKBA: <http://www.dd-b.net/carry/> Pics: <http://www.dd-b.net/dd-b/SnapshotAlbum/> Dragaera/Steven Brust: <http://dragaera.info/> _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
