On Thu, Jan 03, 2013 at 03:44:54PM -0600, Phillip Wagstrom wrote:
> 
> On Jan 3, 2013, at 3:33 PM, Eugen Leitl wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, Jan 03, 2013 at 03:21:33PM -0600, Phillip Wagstrom wrote:
> >> Eugen,
> >> 
> >>    Be aware that p0 corresponds to the entire disk, regardless of how it 
> >> is partitioned with fdisk.  The fdisk partitions are 1 - 4.  By using p0 
> >> for log and p1 for cache, you could very well be writing to same location 
> >> on the SSD and corrupting things.
> > 
> > My partitions are like this:
> > 
> > partition> print
> > Current partition table (original):
> > Total disk cylinders available: 496 + 2 (reserved cylinders)
> > 
> > Part      Tag    Flag     Cylinders         Size            Blocks
> >  0 unassigned    wm       0                0         (0/0/0)             0
> >  1 unassigned    wm       0                0         (0/0/0)             0
> >  2     backup    wu       0 - 11709       70.04GB    (11710/0/0) 146890240
> >  3 unassigned    wm       0                0         (0/0/0)             0
> >  4 unassigned    wm       0                0         (0/0/0)             0
> >  5 unassigned    wm       0                0         (0/0/0)             0
> >  6 unassigned    wm       0                0         (0/0/0)             0
> >  7 unassigned    wm       0                0         (0/0/0)             0
> >  8       boot    wu       0 -     0        6.12MB    (1/0/0)         12544
> >  9 unassigned    wm       0                0         (0/0/0)             0
> > 
> > am I writing to the same location?
> 
>       Okay.  The above are the slices within the Solaris fdisk partition.  
> These would be the "s0" part of "c0t0d0s0".  These are modified with via 
> format under "partition".  
>       p1 through p4 refers to the x86 fdisk partition which is administered 
> with the fdisk command or called from the format command via "fdisk"
> > 
> >>    Personally, I'd recommend putting a standard Solaris fdisk partition on 
> >> the drive and creating the two slices under that.
> > 
> > Which command invocations would you use to do that, under Open Indiana?
> 
>       format -> partition then set the size of each there.

Thanks. Apparently, napp-it web interface did not do what I asked it to do.
I'll try to remove the cache and the log devices from the pool, and redo it
from the command line interface.
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