Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2011 13:11:59 -0500 From: Andy Tornquist <andyt@afua.net> To: Daniel Staal <DStaal@usa.net>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ZFS-only booting on FreeBSD Message-ID: <AANLkTinc8HrD_qZe=dw%2B3WDwb8Nqug=E%2BK2Ypx75EJ%2BV@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <BB2CB83274A367AF29276237@mac-pro.magehandbook.com> References: <BB2CB83274A367AF29276237@mac-pro.magehandbook.com>
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P0r c qpppqppqpqapprfpprkkqroikiujpou Q R F Rf On 2/18/11, Daniel Staal <DStaal@usa.net> wrote: > > I've been reading over the ZFS-only-boot instructions linked here: > <http://wiki.freebsd.org/ZFS>; (and further linked from there) and have one > worry: > > Let's say I install a FreeBSD system using a ZFS-only filesystem into a > box with hotswapable hard drives, configured with some redundancy. Time > passes, one of the drives fails, and it is replaced and rebuilt using the > ZFS tools. (Possibly on auto, or possibly by just doing a 'zpool > replace'.) > > Is that box still bootable? (It's still running, but could it *boot*?) > > Extend further: If *all* the original drives are replaced (not at the same > time, obviously) and rebuilt/resilvered using the ZFS utilities, is the > box still bootable? > > If not, what's the minimum needed to support booting from another disk, > and using the ZFS filesystem for everything else? > > Daniel T. Staal > > --------------------------------------------------------------- > This email copyright the author. Unless otherwise noted, you > are expressly allowed to retransmit, quote, or otherwise use > the contents for non-commercial purposes. This copyright will > expire 5 years after the author's death, or in 30 years, > whichever is longer, unless such a period is in excess of > local copyright law. > --------------------------------------------------------------- > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > -- Sent from my mobile device
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