Solaris

Hi!

I would also like to know if I need first to create a pool before I can mirror my disks inside that pool.

My first disk is c7t0d0s0 and my second disk is c7t2d0s0 as seen in the figure below.

I would create a pool named rpool1 for this 2 disks.

Code:

# zpool create rpool1 c7t0d0p0 c7t2d0p0

Now, I have 2 pools in my system namely: rpool and rpool1.

If I have a file in rpool, how can I mirror that file in rpool1?

Thanks!

That's the other way around. Mirrors exist inside pools, not between them. Should you want to mirror the root pool, add a mirror disk to it.
Something like:

Code:

zpool attach rpool c0t0d0s0 c7t0d0s0

If you want a mirrored pool using your two new disks, you need the use mirror keyword when creating it otherwise that would be a concatenation. eg:

Code:

zpool create pool1 mirror c7t0d0 c7t2d0

Does this image shows that I had mirrored disk c7t0d0s0 to c7t2d0s0?

I used

Code:

# zpool attach -f c7t0d0s0 c7t2d0s0

Is that right?

This is the image. I forgot to attach it on the previous post. Sorry.

Yes, you have mirrored both disks.

Thank you bartus11.

I did that for the purpose of mirroring my boot disk.
Did you mean, I have mirrored c7t0d0s0 to c7t2d0p0?
Am I right?

In that case, did I also mirrored the filesystem where I saved some of my files such as a plain text file or is it not?
I found over the net some commands for mirroring a filesystem which uses # metainit and # metattach command.

And now I am confused if mirroring in Solaris has their own different functions.

If rpool is the only zpool on your system, then all the local files are mirrored as well. As for the meta* commands, they are used for administering old Solaris Volume Manager technology. If you are using ZFS then you can ignore those commands.