On Mon, Jun 01, 2009 at 03:30:11PM -0700, Maurice Volaski wrote: > >So we have a 24x1TB system (from Silicon Mechanics). It's using an LSI > >SAS card so we don't have any hardware RAID virtual drive type options. > > > >Solaris 10 05/09 > > > >I was hoping we could set up one large zpool (RAIDZ) from the installer > >and set up a small zfs filesystem off of that for the OS leaving the > >rest of the zpool for our data. > > > >However, it sounds like this isn't possible... and that a ZFS root > >install must be done on a mirrored set of slices or disks. So it looks > >like either way we might be losing out on minimum 2TB (two disks). > > > >Obviously we could throw in a couple smaller drives internally, or > >elsewhere... but are there any other options here? > > Is this an R505? What I did was to install two 2.5" drives in one of > the internal bays. There's an adapter that lets you mount one atop > the other. You can then create a mirrored pool on these drives to > boot from. You can still have a DVD drive in the other bay, too. > --
Yup, it is. Sounds like a promising solution. Where'd you get this adapter? Thanks, Ray _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
