Date: Sat, 06 Jun 2009 01:46:06 -0400 From: Adam McDougall <mcdouga9@egr.msu.edu> To: current@freebsd.org, dfr@rabson.org Subject: Re: Possible to boot using gptzfsboot and a 'raid 10' in ZFS? Message-ID: <4A2A029E.50407@egr.msu.edu> In-Reply-To: <4A29E825.3010100@egr.msu.edu> References: <4A29E825.3010100@egr.msu.edu>
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Adam McDougall wrote: > Should it be possible to boot from zpool consisting of a striped set > of mirrors using gptzfsboot? Using a FreeBSD 7.2 post-v13 ZFS cd or > the 200905 8.0 snapshot, neither let me set the bootfs zpool property > to a pool that is a 8 disk mirror. If I manage to get zpool to let me > set it, will gptzfsboot work with it anyway? Knowing that gptzfsboot > can boot from a single disk, mirror, raidz, and raidz2, it didn't > enter my mind that a raid10 might not work until I just tried it > tonight. Thanks for input. Also thanks for the existing code! > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > Oops sorry, the answer is probably in this mail below, I didn't realize it was so recent. I'm not in a rush since most of my systems will be a standard mirror which I already know works. Date: 05/27/09 From: Doug Rabson <dfr@rabson.org> ... This is a limitation which I will remove as soon as I have a little time to work on it. ... I will simply remove this limitation for FreeBSD since we can now boot from any pool configuration.
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