Installing to RAIDZ1

[Dean E. Weimer]

On 2016-11-12 10:52 am, Baho Utot wrote:
> I want to reinstall my desktop system using a raidz-1 filesystem using
> the current installation image for usb drive.   Reading the handbook I
> find that bsdinstall will not do the installation I want.  I am using
> 4 1TB drives and I want to partition to 800GB and install the raidz
> there.  Can I create a raidz storage pool manually and then use
> bsdinstall or will I have to manually install freebsd not using
> bsdinstall?
> 
> How do I do this?
> 

I have a set of instructions I wrote for a manual install on ZFS root 
with a mirror, these can easily be modified to use a raidz partition 
instead. My home server that is hosting this website is actually running 
a raidz on 4 1TB drives. The instructions below setup a gmirror for swap 
in addition to the zfs mirror, when I did the raidz setup I used two 
separate gmirror swap partitions so that I have swap spread out over all 
4 disks and it will still survive a disk failure. Granted I don't think 
my server has actually ever needed to use the swap space so I can't be 
sure it wont grind to a crawl if it hits it.

Fair warning I haven't actually read through these in a while, I wrote 
them back in 9.x days, I did modify them when it was no longer necessary 
to specify the boot data set in the loader.conf. I basically just 
install from memory, when needed.

http://www.dweimer.net/?Content=03~help_files&Page=01~installing_FreeBSD_on_ZFS

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Thanks,
    Dean E. Weimer
    http://www.dweimer.net/