Re: booting off a ZFS pool consisting of multiple striped mirror vdevs

2010-02-18 Thread Matt Reimer
On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 4:36 PM, Dan Naumov wrote: > > A stripe of 3-way mirrors, whoa. Out of curiosity, what is the system > used for? I am not doubting that there exist some uses/workloads for a > system that uses 6 disks with 2 disks worth of usable space, but > that's a bit of an unusual con

Re: booting off a ZFS pool consisting of multiple striped mirror vdevs

2010-02-18 Thread Dan Naumov
On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 1:03 AM, Matt Reimer wrote: > On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 10:57 AM, Matt Reimer wrote: >> >> On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 12:38 AM, Dan Naumov wrote: >>> >>> > I don't know, but I plan to test that scenario in a few days. >>> > >>> > Matt >>> >>> Please share the results when you'

Re: booting off a ZFS pool consisting of multiple striped mirror vdevs

2010-02-18 Thread Matt Reimer
On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 10:57 AM, Matt Reimer wrote: > On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 12:38 AM, Dan Naumov 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 t

Re: booting off a ZFS pool consisting of multiple striped mirror vdevs

2010-02-18 Thread Matt Reimer
On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 12:38 AM, Dan Naumov 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/zfsloa

RE: booting off a ZFS pool consisting of multiple striped mirror vdevs

2010-02-16 Thread Robert Noland
On Tue, 2010-02-16 at 10:38 +0200, Dan Naumov 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 :) > > > > It *should* work... I made changes a while back that allow for multiple > > vdevs to a

RE: booting off a ZFS pool consisting of multiple striped mirror vdevs

2010-02-16 Thread Dan Naumov
> 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 :) > It *should* work... I made changes a while back that allow for multiple > vdevs to attach to the root. In this case you should have 3 mirror > vdevs attac

Re: booting off a ZFS pool consisting of multiple striped mirror vdevs

2010-02-15 Thread Robert Noland
On Mon, 2010-02-15 at 10:07 -0800, Matt Reimer wrote: > On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 12:04 PM, Dan Naumov 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. AF

Re: booting off a ZFS pool consisting of multiple striped mirror vdevs

2010-02-15 Thread Matt Reimer
On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 12:04 PM, Dan Naumov 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

booting off a ZFS pool consisting of multiple striped mirror vdevs

2010-02-13 Thread Dan Naumov
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