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Date:      Fri, 08 Oct 2010 01:24:04 +0300
From:      Andriy Gapon <avg@icyb.net.ua>
To:        Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk>
Cc:        Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@freebsd.org>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Multiple zdevs in the root zpool?
Message-ID:  <4CAE4884.8080608@icyb.net.ua>
In-Reply-To: <4CAE3D29.2020309@infracaninophile.co.uk>
References:  <4CADA4D5.7080204@infracaninophile.co.uk> <4CAE2D6E.7070100@icyb.net.ua> <4CAE3D29.2020309@infracaninophile.co.uk>

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on 08/10/2010 00:35 Matthew Seaman said the following:
> On 07/10/2010 21:28:30, Andriy Gapon wrote:
>> on 07/10/2010 13:45 Matthew Seaman said the following:
>>> However, according to my understanding, if you want to boot from a
>>> zpool, you can only have one vdev in that pool.
>>>
>>> But what exactly does this mean?
>>
>> Yes, exactly, what does that mean? :)
>> Where did your understanding come from?
>>
> 
> It was from reading posts like this:
> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2010-January/211677.html
> 
> Plus the comments in
> cddl/contrib/opensolaris/lib/libzfs/common/libzfs_pool.c and
> sys/cddl/contrib/opensolaris/uts/common/fs/zfs/zfs_ioctl.c  (grep for
> the words 'root pool')

Hmm, it seems like a protection for limitations of OpenSolaris boot loader that
slipped into our sources.
I am pretty sure that our boot code can boot such pools without problems.

-- 
Andriy Gapon



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