[OpenIndiana-discuss] How to replace failed rpool mirror disk?

[Araragi Hokuto]

Whoops, seems that I've clicked on the wrong button. Sorry about the noise.

On 1/20/21 2:38 AM, Araragi Hokuto wrote:
> From my experience, the shell's performance hardly makes large 
> difference, because the shell itself is *not* that different (that is, 
> if there's a difference in the first place: most *nix I've ever seen 
> ships with the same set of shells).
>
> Given that you are stating the output printing is slow, I would like 
> to confirm your display setting first:
>
> 1) Are you running OI inside a vm, or are you running it on real 
> hardwares? If later, can you provide the specs of hardware in use?
>
> 2) What interface are you using, video console, terminal emulator 
> under X, or something else (through ssh, etc)?
>
>     a) If using video console, are you using VGA text console, or BIOS 
> graphical console, or UEFI console? All three of them have significant 
> performance difference on my hardware.
>
>     b) If using X, what video driver are you using? Look into your 
> Xorg log if you are not sure.
>
>     c) If its something else, priovide more infomation so we can look 
> into it.
>
> I would at least confirm the problem really lies inside shell before 
> asking maintainers to update it, and I would *NEVER* send out a mail 
> with something like "OI is too slow for me so GO GET LINUX'S SHELL AT 
> ONCE". Don't blame Google translator for it; we can tell the 
> difference bewteen poor translation and true disrespect, and 
> disrespectful mail calls for disrespectful replies.
>
> On 1/18/21 10:07 PM, Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
>> On Mon, 18 Jan 2021, Eric Bautsch wrote:
>>
>>> I may be completely off piste here, but here goes....
>>>
>>> From memory and not having an x86 system booted at the moment to 
>>> double check: You don't need to mess around with partitioning at 
>>> all. You do need to label the disk though (which is annoying). So 
>>> your first format, when it asked you whether or not to label, just 
>>> say yes, write the label and exit.
>>>
>>> Assuming your rpool is currently running as a single disk (it's an 
>>> x86 system and you have physically removed the old disk prior to 
>>> boot), you just attach a mirror to the rpool.
>>
>> Thanks for this advice.  The OpenIndiana wiki does not really address 
>> this, although it contains a lot of apparently dated information for 
>> how to install boot related software on the disk. It likely still 
>> applies for people using still using OpenIndiana 51a8 or a9.
>>
>>> I'm not entirely sure if writing a bootblock is required, I have 
>>> always done so, but am wondering if the mirror attach already does 
>>> that for you, but as someone else pointed out earlier, it doesn't 
>>> hurt to re-write it.
>>
>> I am strongly suspecting that this stuff was automated during the 
>> bootloader effort.
>>
>> Bob
>
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