Re: [zfs-discuss] Boot from mirrored vdev

2008-06-13 Thread Richard L. Hamilton
Are you using set md:mirrored_root_flag=1 in /etc/system? See the entry for md:mirrored_root_flag on http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/819-2724/chapter2-156?a=view keeping in mind all the cautions... This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-di

Re: [zfs-discuss] Boot from mirrored vdev

2008-06-12 Thread Richard Elling
Rich Teer wrote: > Hi all, > > Booting from a two-way mirrored metadevice created using SVM > can be a bit risky, especially when one of the drives fail > (not being able to form a quarum, the kernel will panic). > Is booting from mirrored vdev created by using ZFS similarly > iffy? That is, if on

Re: [zfs-discuss] Boot from mirrored vdev

2008-06-12 Thread A Darren Dunham
On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 07:29:08AM -0700, Rich Teer wrote: > Hi all, > > Booting from a two-way mirrored metadevice created using SVM > can be a bit risky, especially when one of the drives fail > (not being able to form a quarum, the kernel will panic). SVM doesn't panic in that situation. At b

[zfs-discuss] Boot from mirrored vdev

2008-06-12 Thread Rich Teer
Hi all, Booting from a two-way mirrored metadevice created using SVM can be a bit risky, especially when one of the drives fail (not being able to form a quarum, the kernel will panic). Is booting from mirrored vdev created by using ZFS similarly iffy? That is, if one disk in the vdev dies, will