[indiana-discuss] A Couple of Newbie Questions

[Kevin Monceaux]

Richard,

On Sun, 13 Jul 2008, Richard Elling wrote:

> The procedure for adding a mirror to a root pool is in the ZFS 
> Administration Guide.

And, that would be helpful if I wanted to add a mirror.  Since this is my 
home desktop PC mirrored drives are overkill.  What I was trying to do was 
add a second, non-mirrored, disk to my root pool, which I discovered after 
some research is not an option.

> I believe this is also covered in the above documentation.  You should 
> use a slice and not a partition.  Before you waste more time on this, 
> you might take a look at the docs which explain how to administer ZFS on 
> a wide variety of hardware.  We are trying very hard to keep this 
> document up to date and complete with many examples, but we also realize 
> most folks don't read the docs... so if you have better suggestions, 
> please let us know. -- richard

I'll definitely check out the documentation you mentioned.  With the 
current installer is there a way to create an "extra" slice to reserve 
some of a drive's space for a non-root pool?  The only options I could 
find were using the whole disk or creating multiple partitions.  I 
couldn't find a way to specify custom slice sizes.  As I said in my 
previous e-mail I tried using a second partition for the non-root pool, 
but only ended up with a fraction of the space available.



Kevin
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