[geeks] ZFS questions

[md.benson at gmail.com]

Also, itbs interesting that you say you cannot add a second device to the
root pool without mirroring it?

It was my understanding from messing with zfs in tests that if you add a
device to a pool without specifying it as a mirror it will just expand the
pool onto it.

Am I wrong? Or does anyone know if that case is specific to zfs-as-root
pools?

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Mark

> On 26 Mar 2021, at 08:23, md.benson at gmail.com wrote:
>
> o;?Hi,
>
> I donbt know about specifics to the sparc platform as Ibve only used zfs
on a modern Linux environment but yes, it pretty much is that simple. Create a
pool with your chosen device(s) then create individual volumes (is it a
volume? I might be forgetting the terminology) to allocate different file tree
locations to that pool.
>
> You can also modify zfs volume post creation to change itbs mount path,
add a quota, and many other neat things.
>
> This is why so many people love zfs. Itbs incredibly simple to
administrate, and does all the heavy lifting for you behind the scenes.
>
> b
>
> Mark
>
>> On 25 Mar 2021, at 21:35, William Barnett-Lewis <wlewisiii at gmail.com>
wrote:
>>
>> o;?Ok, so I reinstalled Solaris 10 U11 on my Sun Blade 2500 Silver. I've
got a
>> zfs root pool with the 73gb boot disk.
>>
>> I want to add my second disk, a 146gb drive, to the system. IIUC I can't
>> add that to the root pool unless I want to mirror it but that's ok. What I
>> want to do is create a second pool for /export so my home directory gets
>> all that storage space.
>>
>> So would that be
>> zpool create export c1t1d0
>> zfs create export/home
>>
>> then I could do my addusr with /export/home/wlewis and have a big bunch of
>> disk available.
>>
>> This feels like I am missing something but the oracle online manuals
aren't
>> very clear to me.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> William
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