Hi Brandon, I think I've done a similar migration before by creating a second root pool, and then create a new BE in the new root pool, like this:
# zpool create rpool2 mirror disk-1 disk2 # lucreate -n newzfsBE -p rpool2 # luactivate newzfsBE # installgrub ... <reboot to newzfsBE> I don't think LU cares that the disks in the new pool are smaller, obviously they need to be large enough to contain the BE. Thanks, Cindy On 04/16/10 17:41, Brandon High wrote:
When I set up my opensolaris system at home, I just grabbed a 160 GB drive that I had sitting around to use for the rpool. Now I'm thinking of moving the rpool to another disk, probably ssd, and I don't really want to shell out the money for two 160 GB drives. I'm currently using ~ 18GB in the rpool, so any of the ssd 'boot drives' being sold are large enough. I know I can't attach a device that much smaller to the rpool however. Would it be possible to do the following? 1. Attach the new drives. 2. Reboot from LiveCD. 3. zpool create new_rpool on the ssd 4. zfs send all datasets from rpool to new_rpool 5. installgrub /boot/grub/stage1 /boot/grub/stage2 on the ssd 6. zfs export the rpool and new_rpool 7. 'zfs import new_rpool rpool' (This should rename it to rpool, right?) 8. shutdown and disconnect the old rpool drive This should work, right? I plan to test it on a VirtualBox instance first, but does anyone see a problem with the general steps I've laid out? -B
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