On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 23:00, Will Murnane <will.murn...@gmail.com> wrote: > *sigh* The 9010b is ordered. Ground shipping, unfortunately, but > eventually I'll post my impressions of it. Well, the drive arrived today. It's as nice-looking as it appears in the pictures, and building a zpool out of it alone makes for some speedy I/O.
That said, I can't test it nearly as well as I'd hoped because a feature I had assumed was present isn't: you can't take a pool with a log device of size A and replace the log device with one of size B < A. So my pool, with its 8gb log device, can't use the ACARD device unless I find 8GB of memory somewhere. I am willing to play with development bits if someone can get me ZFS that knows how to remove log devices; I have a backup of all my data. I did find [1], which suggests that one can cause a log device to fail and then cause it to be removed from the pool, but I'd rather not try this---backups or no, restoring from them takes a long time. I did try booting without the log device plugged in, but this caused the system to go into maintenance mode and not boot. Any other suggestions of ways around this? Will [1]: http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/817-2271/ghbxs?a=view _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
