On Wed, February 11, 2009 02:28, Sandro wrote:

> How would I configure a 2-way mirror pool for a root pool?
> Basically I'd do it this way.
>
> zpool create pool mirror disk0 disk2 mirror disk1 disk3
> or with an already configured root pool mirror
> zpool add rpool mirror disk1 disk3
>
> But when I try to add this it seems to fail with:
> cannot add to 'rpool': root pool can not have multiple vdevs or separate
> logs

I found the online instructions, official and otherwise, somewhat
confusing, but I eventually worked out how to make it work.  I'm afraid
others may now find my instructions on the topic somewhat confusing, but
for what it's worth they're at
<http://dd-b.net/ddbcms/2009/01/opensolaris-zfs-root-pool-mirroring/>.

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