Tomas Ögren wrote: > On 27 September, 2008 - Brandon High sent me these 1,0K bytes: > > >> On Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 4:02 PM, Marcus Sundman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> So, is it possible to create a 5 * 1 TB raidz with 4 disks (i.e., with >>> one disk offline)? In that case I could use one of the 1 TB disks as >>> >> The official answer is no, but it might be possible to fool Solaris >> into letting you do it. I haven't tired this, so I don't know if it'll >> work. >> >> 1. Create a sparse file on an existing filesystem. The size should be >> the same as your disks. >> 2. Create the raidz with 4 of the drives and the sparse file. >> 3. Export the zpool. >> 4. Delete the sparse file >> 5. Import the zpool. It should come up as degraded, since one of its >> vdevs is missing. >> 6. Copy your files onto the zpool. >> 7. replace the file vdev with the 5th disk. >> >> Like I said, I haven't tried this but it might work. I'd love to hear >> if it does. >> > > I just tried (mkfile in /tmp) on both Sol10u5 and snv97, both seems to > work. >
Or use a ramdisk. See ramdiskadm(1m) [most people don't seem to know Solaris has ramdisk devices] -- richard _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
