Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Installing to a RAIDZ2 root pool How-To

[Toomas Soome via openindiana-discuss]

> On 18. Apr 2021, at 17:16, Reginald Beardsley via openindiana-discuss 
> <openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org> wrote:
> 
> It is my understanding that we can now boot from a RAIDZ pool.   Are there 
> any known limitations?     I  looked at the wiki and I didn't see any 
> instructions related to booting from a RAIDZ pool or installing into a RAIDZ 
> pool.
> 
> It looks pretty straight forward, but there are some details that are not 
> obvious.  In particular the need to create the pool and use the text-install 
> script to install into an existing pool.  That will not create rpool/swap and 
> rpool/dump so the user must run dumpadm and swap to set up dump and swap 
> space.
> 
> As I am going to be doing this shortly with a RAIDZ2 rpool I thought I should 
> write up the process for the wiki if there is not a How-To already that I 
> missed.
> 
> Reg
> 

I have not used installer for some time, so I can not tell if or how well the 
raidz creation will work from installer.

However, there is one very important limitation; please make sure your firmware 
actually can access at least data disks + one parity, otherwise you will need 
to relocate disks into accessible slots.

rgds,
toomas


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