On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 12:38 AM, Dan Naumov <dan.nau...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I don't know, but I plan to test that scenario in a few days. > > > > Matt > > Please share the results when you're done, I am really curious :) > Booting from a stripe of two raidz vdevs works: FreeBSD/i386 boot Default: doom:/boot/zfsloader boot: status pool: doom config: NAME STATE doom ONLINE raidz1 ONLINE label/doom-0 ONLINE label/doom-1 ONLINE label/doom-2 ONLINE raidz1 ONLINE label/doom-3 ONLINE label/doom-4 ONLINE label/doom-5 ONLINE I'd guess a stripe of mirrors would work fine too. If I get a chance I'll test that combo. > If booting of a stripe of 3 mirrors should work assuming no BIOS bugs, > can you explain why is booting off simple stripes (of any number of > disks) currently unsupported? I haven't tested that myself, but > everywhere I look seems to indicate that booting off a simple stripe > doesn't work or is that "everywhere" also out of date after your > changes? :) It's probably unsupported in Solaris/OpenSolaris because of their bootloader. Our bootloader is completely different from theirs and so is not subject to those restrictions in the ZFS docs. The bottom line is that I think FreeBSD can boot from pretty much any configuration, except possibly from systems with huge numbers of disks. 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"