On 03/03/2012, at 3:15 AM, Mark Wallbank wrote: > I was thinking mirror for os raidz1 for data; it's a dell pe with 3 sas > drives.
This is exactly how I set mine up (minus SAS). I have 3 x 2TB SATA drives set up with the same partition map on each drive: a 64GB primary solaris partition, and an "other" partition of the remaining part of the disk. The 64GB partitions (slices: c2t0d0s0, c2t1d0s0 & c5t0d0s0) are a three way mirror, and the remaining part of the 2TB drives (c2t0d0p2, c2t1d0p2 and c5t0d0p2) is in Raid-Z. I think I actually started out by installing the OS onto a spare 64 GB partition, then added the others to the mirror and have since removed the original 64GB drive. While this might not answer your installer question, at least it's a configuration that can work and installing on another drive may provide an alternative for you. Best, Matt. > > Sent from my iPhone > > On 2 Mar 2012, at 16:07, Andrew Gabriel <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Wallbank, Mark wrote: >>> Hi >>> I am trying to install openindiana (x86) and would like to customise the >>> partitions/slices. I would like to have a solaris2 fdisk for the whole of >>> the disk but when it comes to the format partitions I would like to have >>> about 10 to 30 Gig at the start of the disk for the os; then setup another >>> slice for the data to be shared, however the installer only lets me set one >>> value. I have tried setting up the partitions first by hand but there >>> doesn't appear to be an option to leave the fs intact and point it at a >>> slice (format partition). Hope this makes sense. Any ideas..? >>> >> >> I think the installer will use all of the Solaris2 primary fdisk >> partition for the rpool, without going you any ability to configure that. >> >> What you can do (at least in the Oracle installer, which I suspect will >> be the same in the OI installer) is to create additional primary fdisk >> partitions, and these can be used directly for additional zpools, or >> swap devices, or dump devices, etc. (which you'll have to create after >> installation). You should not have more than one primary fdisk partition >> of the same type on a disk, so choose any partition type which Solaris >> and all other software on the system isn't going to treat specially >> ("other" is OK, but if you want more than one extra, you may have to >> pick another one too). When specifying the device nodes, the four >> primary fdisk partition device names are *p[1-4] (with *p0 being the >> whole disk irrespective of any partitioning - don't use that by mistake, >> and don't use the Solaris2 one which has the VToC slices in it (normally >> *p1)). >> >> There's a separate discussion to be had about how sensible it is (or >> isn't) to have more than one zpool on a disk, and it certainly defeats >> some of the aims of ZFS. >> >> -- >> Andrew _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
