[zfs-discuss] root pool mirror problems

2010-05-20 Thread roi shidlovsky
hi. i am trying to attach a mirror disk to my root pool. if the two disk are the same size.. it all works fine, but if the two disks are with different size (8GB and 7.5GB) i get a I/O error on the attach command. can anybody tell me what am i doing wrong? -- This message posted from

Re: [zfs-discuss] root pool mirror problems

2010-05-20 Thread Ian Collins
On 05/20/10 08:39 PM, roi shidlovsky wrote: hi. i am trying to attach a mirror disk to my root pool. if the two disk are the same size.. it all works fine, but if the two disks are with different size (8GB and 7.5GB) i get a I/O error on the attach command. can anybody tell me what am i doing

Re: [zfs-discuss] root pool mirror problems

2010-05-20 Thread Matt Keenan
As queried by Ian, the new disk being attached must be at least as big as the original root pool disk. It can be bigger, but the difference will not be used in the mirroring. cheers Matt On 05/20/10 10:11 AM, Ian Collins wrote: On 05/20/10 08:39 PM, roi shidlovsky wrote: hi. i am trying to

Re: [zfs-discuss] root pool mirror problems

2010-05-20 Thread Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk
- roi shidlovsky roi.shidlov...@ecitele.com skrev: hi. i am trying to attach a mirror disk to my root pool. if the two disk are the same size.. it all works fine, but if the two disks are with different size (8GB and 7.5GB) i get a I/O error on the attach command. can anybody tell me

Re: [zfs-discuss] root pool mirror problems

2010-05-20 Thread Cindy Swearingen
Hi Roi, You need equivalent sized disks for a mirrored pool. When you attempt to attach a disk that is too small, you will see a message similar to the following: cannot attach c1t3d0 to c1t2d0: device is too small In general, an I/O error message means that the partition slice is not