Hello David, Friday, August 18, 2006, 5:39:31 PM, you wrote:
DDB> 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? DDB> As I understand it, this be possible, but I haven't tried it and I'm DDB> not an expert Solaris admin. Some ZFS info is stored in a persistent DDB> file on your system disk, and you may have to do a little dance to get DDB> around that. It's worth researching and practicing in advance :-). Unless you use legacy mountpoints all ZFS info is stored inside a pool. So you can just import those disks into other Solaris system without any "dancing" at all. -- Best regards, Robert mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://milek.blogspot.com _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
