Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: Re: update on zfs boot support

["Enda O'Connor"]

Brian Hechinger wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 11, 2007 at 11:21:13AM -0700, Frank Cusack wrote:
>   
> > On March 11, 2007 6:05:13 PM +0000 Tim Foster <Tim.Foster@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> >     
> > > * ability to add disks to mirror the root filesystem at any time,
> > >   should they become available
> > >       
> > Can't this be done with UFS+SVM as well?  A reboot would be required
> > but you have to do regular reboots anyway just for patching.
> >     
>
> It can, but you have to plan ahead.  You need to leave a spall partition for
> the SVM metadata.  Something I *never* remember to do (I'm too used to working
> with Veritas).
>
> If you can remember to plan ahead, then yes.  ;)
>
> -brian
>   
not necessarily, metainit -a -f will force all onto one disk, but should 
only be used in emergency cases really, where you are already in the 
situation of not having a partition to put the meta DB on.

Enda
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