On Fri, Apr 27, 2007 at 02:44:02PM -0700, Malachi de ??lfweald wrote: > For Brian, et al: Thank you very much. I burned the DVD, and did some minor > tweaking to the profile, and it is up and running (now to just n00b admin > troubleshooting) > > For everyone else who is new to this and trying it out, a couple things I > noticed: > 1. Don't waste your time trying to format the disk to match the profile -- > it does it for you. I spent about an hour on that before realizing
Aroo? Man, I spent^H^H^H^H^H^wasted a lot of time doing that. ;) > 2. ZFS mirroring can work without the metadb, but if you want the dump > mirrored too, you need the metadb (I don't know if it needs to be mirrored, > but I wanted both disks to be identical in case one died) I can't think of any real good reason you would need a mirrored dump device. The only place that would help you is if your main disk died between panic and next boot. ;) > As I said, might not be the best or even correct, but thanks to the patched > DVD, it is up and running :) It went on my destop at work today (Dell GX620 with a pair of 150G SATA disks in it) and so far I'm very happy. And it has nothing to do with ZFS really. B62 has some major improvements over B50 (what was on there previously). Mainly, XOrg 7,2 seems to be TONS faster than 6.9 was and the newer thunderbird doesn't piss me off nearly as much as the older one did (I'm a mutt user, so keep in mind I don't like GUI mail prgrams at all). That being said, I did the zpool shuffle and got both disks in the pool as whole disks (and moved the dump device elsewhere). Will it help performance at all? We'll never know as I never did any speed tests before the migration. 3 scrubs later and no issues, so I'll toy with that VM tomorrow and see if I can figure out what's wrong with it. -brian -- "Perl can be fast and elegant as much as J2EE can be fast and elegant. In the hands of a skilled artisan, it can and does happen; it's just that most of the shit out there is built by people who'd be better suited to making sure that my burger is cooked thoroughly." -- Jonathan Patschke _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
