multiple vdevs on boot ZFS pool

[Freddie Cash]

It's a 9.2 "issue", fixed in 9.3. In running 2 mirror vdevs in the only
pool on a 9.3 system. It's a bootable pool, and I've treated booting from
all 4 disks (changing boot order in BIOS) without issues.

Typos courtesy of my phone.
On Jun 8, 2015 6:30 PM, "Aristedes Maniatis" <ari at ish.com.au> wrote:

> I'm running 9.2-release on a machine and when I try to expand the mirror
> of two disks with another two disk mirror, I get an error that I cannot add
> another vdev to the boot pool.
>
> I know this used to be an issue some time ago, but I see articles about
> bypassing the check by unsetting bootfs attribute temporarily. That seems
> dangerous however and I don't want to create an unbootable array.
>
> Is this error really still an error in 9.2? I certainly have a 10.1 system
> which boots from a 3 vdev array. Do I need to upgrade this system to allow
> for booting from such an array?
>
> Thanks
> Ari
>
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