On Sun, Apr 18, 2021 at 5:24 PM Toomas Soome via openindiana-discuss < openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org> wrote:
> > > > 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. > I think only the text installer allows it. > > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > openindiana-discuss mailing list > openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org > https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss > -- --- Praise the Caffeine embeddings _______________________________________________ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
