Hi Rick, > Hmm. Not sure I can do RAID5 (and boot from it). Presumably, though, > this would continue to function if a drive went bad. > > It also prevents ZFS from managing the devices itself, which I think > is undesirable (according to the ZFS Admin Guide). > > I'm also not sure if I have RAID5 support in the BIOS. I think it's > just RAID0/1.
Just a mainboard BIOS RAID is only like a software raid - accept that you may can't get your data back if the RAID-controller die ... and when, you'll need the same hardware again. So you may want to use a software-RAID instead of a plugin-card which supports buffering the read/write operations on power lost - it is nearly the same as when you use your BIOS (not a RAID-Controller) for that. And I RAID5 you'll able to boot if you have a /boot partition outside the RAID5. Greetings Cyron
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