On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 11:33:36AM -0700, Wyllys Ingersoll wrote: > Im running build 91 with ZFS boot. It seems that ZFS will not allow > me to add an additional partition to the current root/boot pool > because it is a bootable dataset. Is this a known issue that will be > fixed or a permanent limitation?
The current limitation is that a bootable pool be limited to one disk or one disk and a mirror. When your data is striped across multiple disks, that makes booting harder. >From a post to zfs-discuss about two months ago: ... we do have plans to support booting from RAID-Z. The design is still being worked out, but it's likely that it will involve a new kind of dataset which is replicated on each disk of the RAID-Z pool, and which contains the boot archive and other crucial files that the booter needs to read. I don't have a projected date for when it will be available. It's a lower priority project than getting the install support for zfs boot done. -- Darren _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
