From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun May 12 17:26:29 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [8.8.178.115]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ECF0EF68 for ; Sun, 12 May 2013 17:26:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from paul@kraus-haus.org) Received: from mail-ve0-x22b.google.com (mail-ve0-x22b.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:400c:c01::22b]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AD16338E for ; Sun, 12 May 2013 17:26:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-ve0-f171.google.com with SMTP id m1so1967066ves.16 for ; Sun, 12 May 2013 10:26:29 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=google.com; s=20120113; h=x-received:subject:mime-version:content-type:from:in-reply-to:date :cc:content-transfer-encoding:message-id:references:to:x-mailer :x-gm-message-state; bh=wRkg2LAHEzcBHE88OI5uiCTF602/mFqCKiODnWfmQf8=; b=ea9jiva5wtQGMPW6/Zuulg/x1+4KN/TmyGhvzOzZ7ArLtbb6zXoZpVKldGjxX6pYjm HBWLA+cABh6882erEF8ad/rvLwH8jEvNe2/lCkJnu1o2eKqxLaRiZcbyxEzVRfZnIPr6 gqoPW6/YemDW3HnQDYNvvSFFMjxBOG9ai+LCTbkJzAf46sUVTfGeWJN+NxV9Yy+24ZBa RNIlzikPkhQEKznFSKlUqK3p4tjrVDNL3S38jS5lElSEKnn1l2aEnjRSKlX131Qn6CRp 4TRNhyiJ/Ka1nLEAILvGANsckPmT0HjnaO4XiEzFh5lFqiKfnYkxnROT6GI1t4kPXzNm fQ6g== X-Received: by 10.221.4.131 with SMTP id oc3mr16600540vcb.46.1368379589083; Sun, 12 May 2013 10:26:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.2.66] ([96.236.21.119]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id nr3sm9973548veb.4.2013.05.12.10.26.27 for (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Sun, 12 May 2013 10:26:27 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: ZFS partitioning Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 6.3 \(1503\)) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii From: Paul Kraus In-Reply-To: Date: Sun, 12 May 2013 13:26:26 -0400 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: References: <518F975E.9080105@micite.net> <2160B0FC-740C-4A98-8C1D-FAFD9B5C5808@elde.net> To: Outback Dingo X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1503) X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQlnJdVYhTIMlq2k5bSBCCFlb7Pg8UgBzWE1uXmQiqsenCIt/10Cn/6ejjtu5nH0jz3MM0Vp Cc: Roland van Laar , Terje Elde , "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 12 May 2013 17:26:30 -0000 On May 12, 2013, at 9:48 AM, Outback Dingo = wrote: > notice my boot pool is a mirror, so disk 2 is identical to disk1, so = if > disk1 ever dies, logically i could boot from disk two The zpool mirror does not mirror the bootblock. You need to = manually add that to all the drives you may want to boot from. > pool: tank > state: ONLINE > scan: scrub repaired 0 in 0h0m with 0 errors on Sat May 11 13:20:41 = 2013 > config: >=20 > NAME STATE READ WRITE CKSUM > tank ONLINE 0 0 0 > mirror-0 ONLINE 0 0 0 > da34p3 ONLINE 0 0 0 > da35p3 ONLINE 0 0 0 >=20 > errors: No known data errors -- Paul Kraus Deputy Technical Director, LoneStarCon 3 Sound Coordinator, Schenectady Light Opera Company