[zfs-discuss] Default 'zpool' I want to move it to my new raidz pool 'gpool' how?

2010-05-02 Thread Giovanni
Hi guys I am new to Opensolaris and ZFS world, I have 6x2TB SATA hdds on my system, I picked a single 2TB disk and installed opensolaris (therefore zpool was created by the installer) I went ahead and created a new pool "gpool" with raidz (the kind of redundancy I want. Here's the output: @se

Re: [zfs-discuss] Default 'zpool' I want to move it to my new raidz pool 'gpool' how?

2010-05-02 Thread mark.musa...@oracle.com
You can't get rid of rpool. That's the pool you're booting from. Root pools can only be single disks or n-way mirrors. As to your other question, you can view the snapshots by using the command "zfs list -t all", or turn on the listsnaps property for the pool. See http://docs.sun.com/app/d

Re: [zfs-discuss] Default 'zpool' I want to move it to my new raidz pool 'gpool' how?

2010-05-02 Thread Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk
- "Giovanni" skrev: > Hi guys > > I am new to Opensolaris and ZFS world, I have 6x2TB SATA hdds on my > system, I picked a single 2TB disk and installed opensolaris > (therefore zpool was created by the installer) > > I went ahead and created a new pool "gpool" with raidz (the kind of > red

Re: [zfs-discuss] Default 'zpool' I want to move it to my new raidz pool 'gpool' how?

2010-05-02 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Sun, 2 May 2010, Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk wrote: Any guidance on how to do it? I tried to do zfs snapshot You can't boot off raidz. That's for data only. Unless you use FreeBSD ... Bob -- Bob Friesenhahn bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ GraphicsMagic

Re: [zfs-discuss] Default 'zpool' I want to move it to my new raidz pool 'gpool' how?

2010-05-02 Thread Giovanni
Thank you. I was not aware that root pools could not be moved. But here's the kicker, what if I have a single drive for root pool, and its failing... I connect a new HDD to replace the boot drive thats dying, ZFS has no way of migrating to a new drive? Thanks -- This message posted from openso

Re: [zfs-discuss] Default 'zpool' I want to move it to my new raidz pool 'gpool' how?

2010-05-02 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Sun, 2 May 2010, Giovanni wrote: Thank you. I was not aware that root pools could not be moved. But here's the kicker, what if I have a single drive for root pool, and its failing... I connect a new HDD to replace the boot drive thats dying, ZFS has no way of migrating to a new drive? Th

Re: [zfs-discuss] Default 'zpool' I want to move it to my new raidz pool 'gpool' how?

2010-05-02 Thread Brandon High
On Sun, May 2, 2010 at 1:55 PM, Giovanni wrote: > But here's the kicker, what if I have a single drive for root pool, and its > failing... I connect a new HDD to replace the boot drive thats dying, ZFS has > no way of migrating to a new drive? You can move root pools, I did it yesterday from a