Is ZFS Multi-vdev root pool configuration discovery supported?

[Larry Rosenman]

On 2014-06-09 07:43, Martin Simmons wrote:
>>>>>> On Sat, 07 Jun 2014 17:57:10 +0300, Andriy Gapon said:
>> 
>> on 06/06/2014 19:24 Martin Simmons said the following:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > Does anyone know if FreeBSD 9.2 (or indeed head) supports "Root On ZFS" with a
>> > multi-vdev pool (e.g. 4 disks configured as two mirrored pairs)?
>> >
>> > Looking at the source, sys/cddl/contrib/opensolaris/uts/common/fs/zfs/spa.c
>> > contains the comment:
>> >
>> > /*
>> >  * Multi-vdev root pool configuration discovery is not supported yet.
>> >  */
>> >
>> > but the code below it from r243502 suggests that this is no longer true.
>> 
>> This is a stale comment, it must be removed.
> 
> Thanks, that's good to know.

For the record I've been booting off a 6-disk raidZ1 pool for a LONG 
time.

I have boot code on all 6 disks, and can rearrange them at will and boot 
off any of them.


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