Sorry that you had to go through gyrations to figure out how to mirror. With ZFS mirroring can be enabled later and this is the approach we are taking for the installs with LiveCD.
To mirror the zpool you need to use zpool attach The command is: zpool attach [-f] pool device new_device So first find out the existing device on the system by running zpool status In my case it's > NAME STATE READ WRITE CKSUM > rpool ONLINE 0 0 0 > c5t0d0s0 ONLINE 0 0 0 > Now if I wanted to mirror another disk (say c1t0d0s0) I would utter the following command zpool attach -f rpool c5t0d0s0 c1t0d0s0 Resilvering would start immediately. > (As an aside, while I do like Caiman as far as easy of use, and that you can > X forward it to do the install remotely, it seems exceedingly small in the > options available such as partitioning, package selection, option to not > install a desktop environment, etc. Will Caiman include these functions in > the future?) > Yes you should expect to see more features soon. We are looking at some of these as part of support for extended partitions. However we don't plan of supporting (solaris slice level partitioning). Gparted was added in build 125 and you will be able to use it for resizing and partitioning a disk in the future. -Sanjay Pete Eby wrote: > Hi everyone, > > Wow - I seem to be going in circles. The OpenSolaris Caiman installer has no > option to do software RAID 1 (zfs) as far as I can tell, and it seems pretty > bare bones. > > So then I thought, no problem - I would use SMC perhaps and the Solaris > Volume Manager to configure RAID 1 after I installed (thinking this offered > this), but OpenSolaris no longer has SMC. > > SMC has apparently been replaced by Visual Panels and while they do look > great for Apache and MySQL there is no Volume Management support at all as > far as I can see. > > So then I thought maybe I would install the old SMC and just use that - but > this seemed a bit of a dead end too and I am unclear if this is actually even > possible to do in 06.2009. > > I did find this guide, but it is not really what I'd like and I am looking > for an easy way for future installs that guys can use: > http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/819-2789/6n528vrtq?a=view > > So . . . how in the heck do you do an install and configure software RAID 1 > at the time of the install, or easily configure it afterward? I am really > surprised it's this difficult so any help would be much appreciated. > > (As an aside, while I do like Caiman as far as easy of use, and that you can > X forward it to do the install remotely, it seems exceedingly small in the > options available such as partitioning, package selection, option to not > install a desktop environment, etc. Will Caiman include these functions in > the future?) > > Thanks, > Vega Blue >
