Re: [zfs-discuss] Mobo SATA migration to AOC-SAT2-MV8 SATA card

2009-06-21 Thread Simon Breden
There are probably too many questions in my last post, so I will post the questions as separate forum threads. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [zfs-discuss] Mobo SATA migration to AOC-SAT2-MV8 SATA card

2009-06-20 Thread dick hoogendijk
On Fri, 19 Jun 2009 16:42:43 -0700 Jeff Bonwick jeff.bonw...@sun.com wrote: Yep, right again. That is, if the boot drives are not one of those.. ;-) -- Dick Hoogendijk -- PGP/GnuPG key: 01D2433D + http://nagual.nl/ | nevada / OpenSolaris 2009.06 release + All that's really worth doing is what

Re: [zfs-discuss] Mobo SATA migration to AOC-SAT2-MV8 SATA card

2009-06-20 Thread Louis-Frédéric Feuillette
A couple questions out of pure curiosity. Working on the assumption that you are going to be adding more drives to your server, why not just add the new drives to the Supermicro controller and keep the existing pool (well vdev) where it is? Reading your blog, it seems that you need one (or two

Re: [zfs-discuss] Mobo SATA migration to AOC-SAT2-MV8 SATA card

2009-06-20 Thread Simon Breden
OK, thanks again Jeff. Cheers, Simon -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Mobo SATA migration to AOC-SAT2-MV8 SATA card

2009-06-20 Thread Simon Breden
OK, that should work then, as my boot drive is currently an old IDE drive, which I'm hoping to replace with a SATA SSD. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [zfs-discuss] Mobo SATA migration to AOC-SAT2-MV8 SATA card

2009-06-20 Thread Simon Breden
Working on the assumption that you are going to be adding more drives to your server, why not just add the new drives to the Supermicro controller and keep the existing pool (well vdev) where it is? That's not a bad idea. I just thought that the AOC-SAT2-MV8 has 2 more SATA ports than my mobo

[zfs-discuss] Mobo SATA migration to AOC-SAT2-MV8 SATA card

2009-06-19 Thread Simon Breden
Hi, I'm using 6 SATA ports from the motherboard but I've now run out of SATA ports, and so I'm thinking of adding a Supermicro AOC-SAT2-MV8 8-port SATA controller card. What is the procedure for migrating the drives to this card? Is it a simple case of (1) issuing a 'zpool export pool_name'

Re: [zfs-discuss] Mobo SATA migration to AOC-SAT2-MV8 SATA card

2009-06-19 Thread Jeff Bonwick
Yep, right again. Jeff On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 04:21:42PM -0700, Simon Breden wrote: Hi, I'm using 6 SATA ports from the motherboard but I've now run out of SATA ports, and so I'm thinking of adding a Supermicro AOC-SAT2-MV8 8-port SATA controller card. What is the procedure for