On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 6:07 PM, Ian Collins <i...@ianshome.com> wrote:
> > > Is the pool on slices or whole drives? If the latter, you should be able > to import the pool (unless BSD introduces any incompatibilities). It's on whole disks but if i remember right those disks are tied to the highpoint raid card. I didn't know about passthrough at the time. This is why i'm asking about making a NEW pool. I figure i can make a new pool connected as passthrough devices. What i don't know is how i should partition the drives, or if i should at all. FreeBSD has it's own type of partitions, then it has internal slices. On the current pool, the drives showed up as /dev/da0 /dev/da1 /dev/da2, so on and so forth. The only thing i did was use glabel to make sure the zpool always used the same drive incase the letters changed. so my current pool is actually created using the glabel names and not the /dev/da0 /dev/da1 devices, but i'm fairly sure it's about the same. What i'm thinking is, if i add the drives to the current 8 slots i have free (i have 4 sata ports on the current motherboard and 4 more left on the raid card) and set the 4 on the raidcard as passthrough devices, then create a new zpool and copy the important stuff over, then i should be able to import that into opensolaris. What i DONT know is....will opensolaris recognized the drives....do i need to use some sort of partioning scheme (Geom, GPT, whatever) or should i just try to use raw drives. I do not want to lose my data....i figured this is the best place to ask. I'm not sure about BSD, but Solaris ZFS works with whole devices. So there > isn't any OS specific formatting involved. I assume BSD does the same. > > > Also, is it possible to install opensolaris to compact flash cards? The > > reason i ask is that i know the root pool can't be raidz. > > Yes, I had a system booting of CD cards (in an IDE/CF adapter). > > -- > > Ian. >
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