Possible to boot using gptzfsboot and a 'raid 10' in ZFS?

Adam McDougall mcdouga9 at egr.msu.edu
Sat Jun 6 05:46:08 UTC 2009


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!
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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 at 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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