> On Sun, Mar 11, 2007 at 11:21:13AM -0700, Frank Cusack wrote: > > On March 11, 2007 6:05:13 PM +0000 Tim Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >* ability to add disks to mirror the root filesystem at any time, > > > should they become available > > > > Can't this be done with UFS+SVM as well? A reboot would be required > > but you have to do regular reboots anyway just for patching.
*if* you already have the root filesystem under SVM in the first place, then no reboot should be required to add a mirror. And I assume that's all we're talking about for the ZFS mirroring as well. > It can, but you have to plan ahead. You need to leave a spall > partition for the SVM metadata. Something I *never* remember to do > (I'm too used to working with Veritas). SVM metadata on the initial root disk would be required for the initial installation, not for the mirroring. And it could be taken from swap just as VxVM does. -- Darren Dunham [EMAIL PROTECTED] Senior Technical Consultant TAOS http://www.taos.com/ Got some Dr Pepper? San Francisco, CA bay area < This line left intentionally blank to confuse you. > _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
