At 3:40 PM -0700 6/1/09, Ray Van Dolson wrote:
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?
From SiliconMechanics. They have good instructions on how to assemble
it all, too.
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Maurice Volaski, mvola...@aecom.yu.edu
Computing Support, Rose F. Kennedy Center
Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University
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