Hi Ray, * Ray Van Dolson (rvandol...@esri.com) wrote: > So we have a 24x1TB system (from Silicon Mechanics). It's using an LSI > SAS card so we don't have any hardware RAID virtual drive type options. > > Solaris 10 05/09 > > I was hoping we could set up one large zpool (RAIDZ) from the installer > and set up a small zfs filesystem off of that for the OS leaving the > rest of the zpool for our data. > > However, it sounds like this isn't possible... and that a ZFS root > install must be done on a mirrored set of slices or disks. So it looks > like either way we might be losing out on minimum 2TB (two disks). > > Obviously we could throw in a couple smaller drives internally, or > elsewhere... but are there any other options here?
Currently, no. ZFS can only boot from single or mirrord zpools. Cheers, -- Glenn _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
