On Sun, 20 Jul 2008, Miles Nordin wrote: >>>>>> "r" == Ross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > r> the benefit of mirroring that CF drive would be minimal. > > rather short-sighted. What if you want to replace the CF with a > bigger or faster one without shutting down?
Assuming that you are using zfs root, you just snapshot the filesystem and send it to some other system where you build the replacement CF card. Of course the bit of data which changes before the CF card is replaced will be lost unless you take special care. A shutdown is required in order to replace the card. Presuming that the card is easily reached, a tech should be able to swap it out in a few minutes. Regardless, I can't imagine any reason why you would want to install a larger or faster card. Ideally the card should be just big enough to serve the purpose since larger cards will be less reliable. The boot/root filesystems should be fairly static. The only time you should notice card performance is when the system is booting. Bob ====================================== Bob Friesenhahn [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ GraphicsMagick Maintainer, http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/ _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
