On Sun, 2 May 2010, Giovanni wrote:
Thank you. I was not aware that root pools could not be moved.
But here's the kicker, what if I have a single drive for root pool,
and its failing... I connect a new HDD to replace the boot drive
thats dying, ZFS has no way of migrating to a new drive?
There is a way. The way would be to add a drive as a mirror of the
old one. The new drive should be in a position where the BIOS is able
to boot from it. The new drive would have its contents resilved based
on the existing drive. However, if the old one is already failing,
that could be somewhat problematic. Once the new drive is functional,
you can detatch the failing one. Make sure that GRUB will boot from
the new drive.
Bob
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Bob Friesenhahn
bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/
GraphicsMagick Maintainer, http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/
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