8.0-RC1 ZFS-root installscript

Arnaud Houdelette arnaud.houdelette at tzim.net
Fri Oct 9 15:34:11 UTC 2009


Philipp Wuensche a écrit :
> Philipp Wuensche wrote:
>   
>> Feel free to send bugreports to me.
>>     
>
> Thanks for the bug-reports and feature suggestions!
>
> There is a new version available:
> http://anonsvn.h3q.com/projects/freebsd-patches/export/48/manageBE/create-zfsboot-gpt_livecd.sh
>
> New stuff:
> - support for installing the distribution packages from a local
> directory, like /dist/8.0-RC1 on the install-DVD
> - untested support for raidz, I can't test this because virtualbox only
> provides one BIOS disk to the bootloader and raidz needs at least two
> disks for booting :-/
> - some minor fixes and tunes
>
> greetings,
> philipp
>
>   

Tried on QEMU (with kvm) : Works OK with mirror.
Fails to boot with ZFS : missing fragments ( kvm BIOS sees all 3 drives 
). Should we not use the raidz patch which was proposed on the list ?
And why the raidz setup got the system on root fs. is it mandatory ?

greets

Arnaud


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