Help booting FreeBSD with a ZFS root filesystem

Dan Naumov dan.naumov at gmail.com
Wed Jan 27 23:18:51 UTC 2010


>I didn't want a mirror though, I wanted a stripe.
>
>I still don't understand why what I'm doing isn't working.

As far as I know, having the root pool on a stripe isn't supported.

OpenSolaris supports having the root pool on a "simple" pool and a mirror pool.
FreeBSD supports having the root pool on a simple pool, mirror pool
and raidz, but afaik booting off raidz used to have issues.

- Sincerely,
Dan Naumov


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