[OpenIndiana-discuss] Partitions for co-exist NAS drive

[Reginald Beardsley]

 Toomas,

Thanks for the explanation. That certainly sounds like a good idea. It provides lots of flexibility.

It would nice if the text-installer allowed specifying the BE name when creating a fresh pool or defaulted to the release, e.g. 2021.04, instead of openindiana. The latter is not very informative.

I don't recommend the 100 GB root pool approach now that we can boot from RAIDZ unless some HW issue prevents using a RAIDZ root pool. If one installs updates using F5 you will run out of room fairly quickly unless you delete older BEs. Ten years ago I did it to avoid using a USB stick to boot an NL40 running a 4x 2 TB disk RAIDZ2 configuration. It was also the only option with Solaris 10 u8 that provided redundancy for the root pool and RAIDZ for the rest of the disk. It has served me well, but is no longer needed in most cases.

Reg




On Saturday, May 1, 2021, 07:40:37 AM CDT, Toomas Soome <tsoome at me.com> wrote:

This is EFI System partition, that is partition, created with FAT file system, where UEFI firmware can load and start applications such as os boot loaders and firmware updates.

The 250MB is too large for illumos loader alone, but is allocated to allow storing of other applications too.

In fact, 250MB is picked to keep in mind 4k sector size disks, and is actually buggy value - it should be abort 260MB instead. The fix is still on my desk;)

Rgds,
Toomas