On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 12:04 PM, Dan Naumov <dan.nau...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello > > I have succesfully tested and used a "full ZFS install" of FreeBSD 8.0 > on both single disk and mirror disk configurations using both MBR and > GPT partitioning. AFAIK, with the more recent -CURRENT and -STABLE it > is also possible to boot off a root filesystem located on raidz/raidz2 > pools. But what about booting off pools consisting of multiple striped > mirror or raidz vdevs? Like this: > > Assume each disk looks like a half of a traditional ZFS mirror root > configuration using GPT > > 1: freebsd-boot > 2: freebsd-swap > 3: freebsd-zfs > > |disk1+disk2| + |disk3+disk4| + |disk5+disk6| > > My logic tells me that while booting off any of the 6 disks, boot0 and > boot1 stage should obviously work fine, but what about the boot2 > stage? Can it properly handle booting off a root filesystem thats > striped across 3 mirror vdevs or is booting off a single mirror vdev > the best that one can do right now? > > I don't know, but I plan to test that scenario in a few days. Matt _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
