A mirrored ZFS storage pool can be quickly cloned as a backup pool by using the zpool split command. You can use this feature to split a mirrored root pool, but the pool that is split off is not bootable until you perform some additional steps. Some of the required actions are different for SPARC […]
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How To Use ‘zpool split’ to Split rpool in solaris 11 (SPARC)
A mirrored ZFS storage pool can be quickly cloned as a backup pool by using the zpool split command. You can use this feature to split a mirrored root pool, but the pool that is split off is not bootable until you perform some additional steps. Caveats and Assumptions 1.The new/split pool must be used […]