Date: Sun, 12 May 2013 17:26:23 -0500 From: Joshua Isom <jrisom@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ZFS partitioning Message-ID: <5190170F.6050005@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <AD1E2592-BE63-4FEC-BD96-60D68BBC2631@kraus-haus.org> References: <518F975E.9080105@micite.net> <2160B0FC-740C-4A98-8C1D-FAFD9B5C5808@elde.net> <CAKYr3zy%2Bi3eTDXj1VvBhTybojqdGRJsApF10YzRFAXx4kreB=A@mail.gmail.com> <AD1E2592-BE63-4FEC-BD96-60D68BBC2631@kraus-haus.org>
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You may not want to mirror the boot block. That way you can update one boot block, test it before copying the other. If the new boot block fails to boot, the BIOS should go to the next hard drive and boot the mirror. I don't know if it's possible to detect which drive you're actually booting from to know for sure it worked though. A back up is better than a mirror. With a mirror, you're more likely to fail to boot. On 5/12/2013 12:26 PM, Paul Kraus wrote: > On May 12, 2013, at 9:48 AM, Outback Dingo <outbackdingo@gmail.com> 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: >> >> 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 >> >> errors: No known data errors > > -- > Paul Kraus > Deputy Technical Director, LoneStarCon 3 > Sound Coordinator, Schenectady Light Opera Company > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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