On Sat, Feb 7, 2009 at 1:55 AM, Will Murnane <will.murn...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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 > http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820134652 I wouldn't think grabbing 8GB memory would be a big deal after dropping that much on the controller?? http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820134652 --Tim
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