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I have a FreeBSD 8.0 amd64 box w/ 1 ATA drive for system and 4 SATA drives as a RAIDZ pool. The ATA drive isn't mirrored nor part of any pool, but also doesn't hold any valuable data. How can I recover my zpool if this ATA drive fails for any reason, but assume my RAIDZ vdev SATA drives remain intact? Should I also use at least a mirror configuration for that? |
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I was able to upgrade my RAIDz pool which was created using FreeNAS (which uses FreeBSD) to OpenSolaris. I believe I needed to do a zpool import -f {name of pool} and it checked the drives and was able to determine which were part of the pool. So I hadn't recovered from an OS failure, but I did swap my pool drive without doing an export, and I would guess a failure of the OS drive would be similar. So in short if the FreeBSD drive fails, when you replace and reload, I believe all you would need to do is a zpool import to reattach the pool to that machine. As far as mirroring the OS drive, I think that is always a good idea. Another alternative is having something like Ghost or Acronis image of the OS drive. That way when you do the bare metal rebuild you can lay down a preconfigured image. In that case, the OS may not be any the wiser about the pool being previously created. Good luck. |
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