Re: [zfs-discuss] Easiest way to replace a boot disk with a larger one?

2008-12-27 Thread Miles Nordin
> "t" == Tim writes: > "add" == A Darren Dunham writes: t> Is the EFI boot limitation a limitation of PC BIOS, add> EFI was part of the Itanium stuff, and Apple supported add> it in their hardware as well. But standard BIOS doesn't. I've heard (on another list, last week)

Re: [zfs-discuss] Easiest way to replace a boot disk with a larger one?

2008-12-17 Thread A Darren Dunham
On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 01:57:37PM -0600, Tim wrote: > On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 10:23 AM, wrote: > > > Hi Alex, > > > > Sorry, I missed the 1.5 TB disk/boot issue previously. > > > > A project is underway to provide booting for disks that are large > > than 1 TB. This project is outside of a futur

Re: [zfs-discuss] Easiest way to replace a boot disk with a larger one?

2008-12-17 Thread Tim
On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 10:23 AM, wrote: > Hi Alex, > > Sorry, I missed the 1.5 TB disk/boot issue previously. > > A project is underway to provide booting for disks that are large > than 1 TB. This project is outside of a future project to provide > booting from an EFI-labeled disk. > > I agree

Re: [zfs-discuss] Easiest way to replace a boot disk with a larger one?

2008-12-17 Thread Cindy . Swearingen
Hi Alex, Sorry, I missed the 1.5 TB disk/boot issue previously. A project is underway to provide booting for disks that are large than 1 TB. This project is outside of a future project to provide booting from an EFI-labeled disk. I agree that your best approach is to attach your second 500-GB di

Re: [zfs-discuss] Easiest way to replace a boot disk with a larger one?

2008-12-16 Thread Alex Viskovatoff
Hi again Cindy, Well, I got the two new 1.5 TB disks, but I ran into a snag: > a...@diotima:~# zpool attach rpool c3t0d0s0 c3t1d0 > cannot label 'c3t1d0': EFI labeled devices are not supported on root pools. The Solaris 10 System Administration Guide: Devices and File Systems gives some pertine

Re: [zfs-discuss] Easiest way to replace a boot disk with a larger one?

2008-12-11 Thread Alex Viskovatoff
Hi Cindy, Thanks for clearing that up. I don't mind rebooting, just as long as that makes the zpool use the additional space. I did read about the export/import workaround, but wasn't sure if rebooting would have the same effect. The ZFS documentation convinced me to set up a mirrored pool, eve

Re: [zfs-discuss] Easiest way to replace a boot disk with a larger one?

2008-12-11 Thread Cindy . Swearingen
Hi Alex, Not exactly. Just hadn't thought of that specific example yet, but its a good one so I'll add it. In your case, ZFS might not see the expanded capacity of the larger disk automatically due to a recent bug. For non-root pools, the workaround to see the expanded space is to export and i

Re: [zfs-discuss] Easiest way to replace a boot disk with a larger one?

2008-12-11 Thread Alex Viskovatoff
Thanks, that's what I thought. Just wanted to make sure. I guess the writers of the documentation think that this is so obviously the way things would work in a well designed system that there is no reason to mention it explicitly. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___

Re: [zfs-discuss] Easiest way to replace a boot disk with a larger one?

2008-12-11 Thread Tim
On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 12:43 PM, Alex Viskovatoff wrote: > Maybe this has been discussed before, but I haven't been able to find any > relevant threads. > > I have a simple OpenSolaris 2008.11 setup with one ZFS pool consisting of > the whole of the single hard drive on the system. What I want to

[zfs-discuss] Easiest way to replace a boot disk with a larger one?

2008-12-11 Thread Alex Viskovatoff
Maybe this has been discussed before, but I haven't been able to find any relevant threads. I have a simple OpenSolaris 2008.11 setup with one ZFS pool consisting of the whole of the single hard drive on the system. What I want to do is to replace the present 500 GB drive with a 1.5 TB drive. (