From owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 9 02:03:40 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 41DDD913 for ; Tue, 9 Jun 2015 02:03:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fjwcash@gmail.com) Received: from mail-ie0-x22f.google.com (mail-ie0-x22f.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:4001:c03::22f]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 0B77E1AC4 for ; Tue, 9 Jun 2015 02:03:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fjwcash@gmail.com) Received: by iebgx4 with SMTP id gx4so5558678ieb.0 for ; Mon, 08 Jun 2015 19:03:39 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; bh=ni6IF6tehsBXLPYO8WRtrG9wfEqCyRSTRCTWNcN6xOM=; b=e2H+z1uhpbEzAeAQL75rzdxJOLaFWSd36wUCyDVeH8sLPFROg8nwt8TPAeiljqmjoT F0ihtxPV+9PswKAZSYReqZWPFjnNRGi/G5wQWbyXbiCCT898mQN0A975YZkvD86xVl5V WoGX716OuxkbUo2IUxdo1j6nmH5mb6sJut2y5x0iJD8WzzJT/2ALOGnwyFAfeeWeH4KQ 0R6ddMcOiXm5E4NFihWuPx48MW8MCZxFAQOVm/b03cCDr+SJhldvH5VXL53joki2NTQn R7NSDngDi1VlLS4+kv87c7SN49YmsoEf/+Gx2TcmlgJ6m/PZyNEZnQEzDbmFtdpADZEB h2/g== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.107.4.204 with SMTP id 195mr24129837ioe.40.1433815419344; Mon, 08 Jun 2015 19:03:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.64.123.100 with HTTP; Mon, 8 Jun 2015 19:03:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.64.123.100 with HTTP; Mon, 8 Jun 2015 19:03:39 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <55763CF1.1020100@ish.com.au> References: <55763CF1.1020100@ish.com.au> Date: Mon, 8 Jun 2015 19:03:39 -0700 Message-ID: Subject: Re: multiple vdevs on boot ZFS pool From: Freddie Cash To: Aristedes Maniatis Cc: FreeBSD Filesystems Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.20 X-BeenThere: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: Filesystems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 09 Jun 2015 02:03:40 -0000 It's a 9.2 "issue", fixed in 9.3. In running 2 mirror vdevs in the only pool on a 9.3 system. It's a bootable pool, and I've treated booting from all 4 disks (changing boot order in BIOS) without issues. Typos courtesy of my phone. On Jun 8, 2015 6:30 PM, "Aristedes Maniatis" wrote: > I'm running 9.2-release on a machine and when I try to expand the mirror > of two disks with another two disk mirror, I get an error that I cannot add > another vdev to the boot pool. > > I know this used to be an issue some time ago, but I see articles about > bypassing the check by unsetting bootfs attribute temporarily. That seems > dangerous however and I don't want to create an unbootable array. > > Is this error really still an error in 9.2? I certainly have a 10.1 system > which boots from a 3 vdev array. Do I need to upgrade this system to allow > for booting from such an array? > > Thanks > Ari > > > -- > --------------------------> > Aristedes Maniatis > ish > http://www.ish.com.au > Level 1, 30 Wilson Street Newtown 2042 Australia > phone +61 2 9550 5001 fax +61 2 9550 4001 > GPG fingerprint CBFB 84B4 738D 4E87 5E5C 5EFA EF6A 7D2E 3E49 102A > >