ZFS partitioning

[Paul Kraus]

On May 12, 2013, at 9:48 AM, Outback Dingo <outbackdingo at 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

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