FYI I created the pool manually before installing into an existing pool as well as the dump and swap volumes afterwards. I was not aware of the other options in the text installer. I'll try those on the Z840.
rhb@NL40:~$ zfs list NAME USED AVAIL REFER MOUNTPOINT rpool 11.5G 3.40T 180K /rpool rpool/ROOT 1.56G 3.40T 140K legacy rpool/ROOT/2020-10-net 1.56G 3.40T 1.21G / rpool/ROOT/2020-10-net/var 317M 3.40T 315M /var rpool/dump 4.00G 3.40T 4.00G - rpool/export 424K 3.40T 140K /export rpool/export/home 285K 3.40T 140K /export/home rpool/export/home/rhb 145K 3.40T 145K /export/home/rhb rpool/swap 5.95G 3.40T 81.4K - rhb@NL40:~$ zpool status pool: rpool state: ONLINE scan: none requested config: NAME STATE READ WRITE CKSUM rpool ONLINE 0 0 0 raidz2-0 ONLINE 0 0 0 c4t0d0s0 ONLINE 0 0 0 c4t1d0s0 ONLINE 0 0 0 c4t2d0s0 ONLINE 0 0 0 c4t3d0s0 ONLINE 0 0 0 errors: No known data errors rhb@NL40:~$ What's the deal with these device names? How do I get something more reasonable to type in? These are all 4 TB EFI labeled disks on the Z840 using format(1m). /dev/dsk/c0t5000039A7B7002F3d0s0 /dev/dsk/c0t5000039A7B700305d0s0 /dev/dsk/c0t5000039A7B700306d0s0 /dev/dsk/c0t5000039A7B78030Fd0s0 Reg On Monday, April 19, 2021, 05:47:36 PM CDT, John D Groenveld <groenv...@acm.org> wrote: In message <34bf7cc2-5a0c-5c5e-b9ed-9f188e961...@gmail.com>, Till Wegmueller wr ites: >Try Raidz1, Raidz2 as root had some problems when I tried last. Although >that was 1-2 years ago. So it might work now. But I have not yet seen >any installation with RAIDZ2 as root it's quite rare. RAIDZ[1-3] seem to work fine, but as Toomas Soome has repeatedly warned here, all the vdevs should be accessible from the boot loader. Escape to the loader prompt from the boot menu and run lsdev. I have submitted a PR for the Handbook. <URL:http://docs.openindiana.org/handbook/getting-started/#install-openindiana-to-existing-zfs-pool> John groenv...@acm.org _______________________________________________ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss _______________________________________________ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss