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Date:      Fri, 25 Sep 2009 22:57:29 +0200
From:      Stefan Bethke <stb@lassitu.de>
To:        Ollivier Robert <roberto@keltia.freenix.fr>
Cc:        dfr@freebsd.org, freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Booting off raidz *mostly* work
Message-ID:  <AE91C53E-FD74-4B6D-9498-D4F11FE5AA2E@lassitu.de>
In-Reply-To: <20090925154125.GD48707@roberto-al.eurocontrol.fr>
References:  <20090925154125.GD48707@roberto-al.eurocontrol.fr>

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Am 25.09.2009 um 17:41 schrieb Ollivier Robert:

> According to Ollivier Robert:
>> By popular demand:
>> http://www.keltia.net/howtos/zfsboot
>
> I've succeeded in booting off raidz!
>
> There is a remaining issue with /boot/loader getting zfs errors at  
> boot time
> resulting in loader.conf not being read. After setting the various  
> variables
> manually (vm.kmem_size, vfs.root.mountfrom) and loading zfs, it  
> works...
>
> http://static.keltia.net/download/raidz-boot.png
>
> I've updated the howto to reflect that.
>
> Any help in tackling the last issue is welcome.

In my various experiments, I sometimes got a setup that would load  
many, but not all files.  However, re-running the script to re-create  
the zpool, or copying files to the filesystem would make any  
successive reboots not work anymore.


Stefan

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