Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2010 11:33:31 +0930 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: Clifton Royston <cliftonr@lava.net> Cc: freebsd-stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>, Garrett Moore <garrettmoore@gmail.com> Subject: Re: Problems replacing failing drive in ZFS pool Message-ID: <007ECC64-0B03-4B4E-BBA4-80ED5297B2E4@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <20100720012542.GA25848@lava.net> References: <AANLkTimOIgCIO4txpPeeoMrRSYAqM25V7cm-h7djmZUC@mail.gmail.com> <AANLkTikPOgIqkm3GhIsEnvuvEHvlc44cnh6GJQ1k7Ja_@mail.gmail.com> <AANLkTimgi2Btzv9krZZPHCPiyCcwtQyF72BmRzA1kuvi@mail.gmail.com> <AANLkTinm-kYD2vwTBCh49AeU0oxuPSOPXjusMa3FGk1h@mail.gmail.com> <AANLkTikPJDoiTUwNHVtTDiFMdFkm6v6_ra8JYkuChBJC@mail.gmail.com> <AANLkTikCCmGmIcRpj7gjnRBEfLE40IjOmelMYu9WkSUO@mail.gmail.com> <4C44B104.2050000@libeljournal.com> <AANLkTinnAxJxARcJrDgYxnpql2n2a_6bQc7fSuZLAzuF@mail.gmail.com> <AANLkTinG0k8oi_eTBNsKES9Gt2qXEvDGz6pwAp-kUeSg@mail.gmail.com> <AANLkTinwLoewve_f7dw4kMh_2Wl9WEmD8JaKHQZqSPix@mail.gmail.com> <20100720012542.GA25848@lava.net>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On 20/07/2010, at 10:55, Clifton Royston wrote: > The space sacrificed is trivial compared to the convenience and safety > net. >=20 > I think I got both those suggestions on this list, and I would hope > (assume?) that they have equivalents under ZFS.=20 I partitioned my ZFS disks using GPT so I could reference them using GPT = UUIDs. I also put 4Gb partitions on each one which I glued together using = gmirror and used it for swap. I learnt this from many tales of woe :) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?007ECC64-0B03-4B4E-BBA4-80ED5297B2E4>