[OpenIndiana-discuss] zpool and nfs

[ann kok]

Hi Edward

Thank you for your help

As I haven't received the response, I run the formart -e 
It said it needs around 3 hours

format> format
Ready to format.  Formatting cannot be interrupted
and takes 232 minutes (estimated). Continue? 
Continue? y

Now, I have questions

1/ Why it needs long time (232 minutes) to format 10G?

2/ Can I stop it? Crtl C?

3/ For the normal procedure, I don't need to format the drive before using zpool add rpool newdevice

4/ What is the different betwen zpool attach zpool and zpool add zpool

Thank you again


--- On Wed, 1/19/11, Edward Ned Harvey <openindiana at nedharvey.com> wrote:

> From: Edward Ned Harvey <openindiana at nedharvey.com>
> Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] zpool and nfs
> To: "Discussion list for OpenIndiana" <openindiana-discuss at openindiana.org>
> Received: Wednesday, January 19, 2011, 11:48 AM
> > From: ann kok [mailto:oiyankok at yahoo.ca]
> > 
> > 1/ I will add the virtual drive (scsi 0:1) in the
> vmware. but Do I need to
> create
> > the same size 30G as scsi 0:0?  What is this disk
> name in solaris?
> 
> It can be any size you want.
> 
> Run:
>     devfsadm -Cv
> and hopefully the drive will appear.
> Run:
>     format -e
>     (and then quit without changing
> anything)
> and hopefully you'll immediately recognize the name of the
> new disk.
> 
> Run:
>     zpool add rpool newdevicename
>     (where newdevicename is the name of your
> new device)
> 
> Don't format it or anything first.  Just add it. 
> Period.
> 
> 
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