zpool upgrade to draid feature: does it require updated zfs boot code ?

[Kurt Jaeger]

Hi!

> > Short question:
> > Does a zpool upgrade on 14.0 (current) for the draid feature
> > require a boot code update ?

> > Long version of the same question:
> > With the draid update, no message was displayed.
> > 
> > Does it require the bootcode update anyway or, if not, why not ?
> 
> This sounded like a bug.  Is it your boot pool, or just a regular data pool?

Its my boot pool.

> >  gpart bootcode -b /boot/pmbr -p /boot/gptzfsboot -i 1 nvd0
> >  gpart bootcode -b /boot/pmbr -p /boot/gptzfsboot -i 1 nvd1
> 
> To answer your short question: do I need to update bootcode?  No if
> draid is the only feature that you have enabled on an existing pool, but
> personally I don't recommend upgrading boot pool right now.

The boot pool shows:

zroot  feature at draid                  enabled                        local

> The reason for that "No" answer is 1) the boot code do not currently
> support draid, and 2) enabling the feature won't activate it until draid
> vdev is added to the pool, which is quite unlikely in your case; note
> that if you do add draid vdev, your bootcode won't be able to boot from
> it anymore.

Ok.

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