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Date:      Mon, 8 Sep 2014 22:20:11 -0700 (PDT)
From:      "James D. Parra" <jamesp@musicreports.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   creating a raid1 with single system drive
Message-ID:  <405098918.20787549.1410240011151.JavaMail.root@musicreports.com>
In-Reply-To: <2076734718.20787409.1410237009712.JavaMail.root@musicreports.com>

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Hello,

Installed FreeBSD on a single disk with ZFS with the zpool status showing;

# zpool status
  pool: tank0
 state: ONLINE
 scan: none requested
config:

        NAME        STATE     READ WRITE CKSUM
        tank0       ONLINE       0     0     0
          ada0s1d   ONLINE       0     0     0

I wish to add an identical disk to create a raid1 array.  A list of the drives shows;

ll /dev/ad*

crw-r-----  1 root  operator    0, 108 Sep  8 19:21 /dev/ada0
crw-r-----  1 root  operator    0, 110 Sep  8 19:21 /dev/ada0s1
crw-r-----  1 root  operator    0, 115 Sep  8 19:21 /dev/ada0s1a
crw-r-----  1 root  operator    0, 117 Sep  8 19:21 /dev/ada0s1b
crw-r-----  1 root  operator    0, 119 Sep  8 19:21 /dev/ada0s1d
crw-r-----  1 root  operator    0, 112 Sep  8 19:21 /dev/ada1
crw-r-----  1 root  operator    0, 121 Sep  8 19:21 /dev/ada1s1
crw-r-----  1 root  operator    0, 126 Sep  8 19:21 /dev/ada1s1a
crw-r-----  1 root  operator    0, 128 Sep  8 19:21 /dev/ada1s1b
crw-r-----  1 root  operator    0, 130 Sep  8 19:21 /dev/ada1s1d
crw-r-----  1 root  operator    0, 132 Sep  8 19:21 /dev/ada1s1e

I installed the OS on the second disk as well so the partitions would be the same. However, something doesn't appear correct.


        NAME         STATE     READ WRITE CKSUM
        tank0        ONLINE       0     0     0
          mirror-0   ONLINE       0     0     0
            ada0s1d  ONLINE       0     0     0
            ada1s1e  ONLINE       0     0     0  (resilvering)
# gpart show
=>        63  1953525105  ada0  MBR  (931G)
          63        1953        - free -  (976k)
        2016  1953523152     1  freebsd  (931G)

=>         0  1953523152  ada0s1  BSD  (931G)
           0     2097152       1  freebsd-ufs  (1.0G)
     2097152   809500672       2  freebsd-swap  (386G)
   811597824  1141925328       4  freebsd-zfs  (544G)

=>        63  1953525105  ada1  MBR  (931G)
          63        1953        - free -  (976k)
        2016  1953523152     1  freebsd  (931G)

=>         0  1953523152  ada1s1  BSD  (931G)
           0     4096000       1  freebsd-ufs  (2G)
     4096000     4096000       2  freebsd-swap  (2G)
     8192000     4194304       4  freebsd-ufs  (2.0G)
    12386304  1941136848       5  freebsd-ufs  (925G)

Although, the disks are identical, the installation partitioned them differently. 

What is the best way to create a zfs raid1 for the system drive by adding the second drive after the install?

Thank you,

James 



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