Johan Hartzenberg wrote: > > > On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 8:00 PM, dick hoogendijk <d...@nagual.nl > <mailto:d...@nagual.nl>> wrote: > > On Sun, 21 Dec 2008 07:36:07 PST > Uwe Dippel <udip...@gmail.com <mailto:udip...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > > [i]If you want to add the entire Solaris partition to the zfs > pool as > > a mirror, use zpool attach -f rpool c1d0s0 c2d0s2[/i] > > > > So my mistake in the first place (see first post), in short, was > only > > the last digit: I ought to have used the complete drive (slice 2), > > instead of *thinking* that it is untouchable, and zfs/zpool > would set > > up s0 properly to be used? > > > > Dick, it seems we have to get used to the idea, that slice 2 is > > touchable, after all. > > That may be, but all my mirror disks are like c0d0s0 c0d1s0. s0 taking > up the whole disk. On some there is a s2 on some there isn't. > Also, SUN > itself mentions s0 in explaining zfs root as bootable. There is no > mention of s2. As far as I'm concerned bootable ZFS is on s0; > non-bootable drives have an EFI label ;-) > > > I believe there are some bugs at present pertaining to booting form > ZFS which, in that special case, requires you to use slices.
You can't boot from an EFI labeled disk with UFS root either. It is a BIOS+GRUB+Solaris condition. I hate to point the finger elsewhere, but I don't follow the install group's activities very closely, and CR 6489977 is just a tracking bugid, dependent on the install group getting a grub or grub-like solution to handle EFI labels. http://bugs.opensolaris.org/view_bug.do?bug_id=6489977 A search may turn up: https://pl.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=82132&tstart=75 > > Where I gave examples for adding p0 or s2 to a pool, I was not > thinking about bootable pools. The ZFS admin guide has got examples > on how to add a mirror to a pool and explains the gotchas / > workarounds for these issues, but from memory you have to read the > whole guide to get all the information. I have not looked recently to > see whether it got updated / re-organized. The whole section on boot with ZFS was added and enhanced for the Solaris 10u6 release. -- richard _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
