Hi Tertius, Yes, I agree that the process is complex and mirroring the root pool improves downtime due to hardware failures, but I would still keep root pool snapshots.
Richard posted a follow up that you can attach a disk that is slight smaller after the integration of 6844090 into build 117: http://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6844090 I tried this and it does work. I can't remember now on which disks I tested this feature, but the disks were the same general size with slightly different geometry. Cindy ----- Original Message ----- From: Tertius Lydgate <no-re...@opensolaris.org> Date: Wednesday, July 1, 2009 3:44 pm Subject: Re: [zfs-discuss] Backing up OS drive? To: zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org > Hi cindys, > > That recovery procedure seems overly complex. I've instead purchased > a disk to mirror my root pool onto. Unfortunately, it seems that the > disk is slightly smaller than my current rpool. However I would be > happy to have a mirror the same size as the smaller disk. Is there a > way to mirror onto a smaller disk, or alternately to send the root > pool to the smaller disk, boot from it, then mirror to the larger one? > > Thanks, > > Lydgate > -- > This message posted from opensolaris.org > _______________________________________________ > zfs-discuss mailing list > zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
