Booting from ZFS raidz

[cynix]

Jonathan Noack <noackjr <at> alumni.rice.edu> writes:

> 
> Getting this working from scratch was tedious but not too complicated.  I
> followed lulf's instructions
> (http://blogs.freebsdish.org/lulf/2008/12/16/setting-up-a-zfs-only-system/)
> using the May snapshot fixit CD.  Only differences were that I set up all
> 4 disks with gpart (identically), created a raidz1 pool, and used a
> patched gptzfsboot that I cross-compiled on my 7.2 i386 box for the
> bootcode (applied to all 4 disks).
> 

I couldn't get it to work. I keep getting this "ZFS: out of temporary buffer
space" message right at the beginning. I pretty much followed lulf's post too,
with 6x1TB drives in raidz2.