From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Feb 19 18:40:24 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C7903106564A for ; Sat, 19 Feb 2011 18:40:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from andyt@afua.net) Received: from exprod7og110.obsmtp.com (exprod7og110.obsmtp.com [64.18.2.173]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 37D038FC0A for ; Sat, 19 Feb 2011 18:40:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from source ([74.125.82.171]) (using TLSv1) by exprod7ob110.postini.com ([64.18.6.12]) with SMTP ID DSNKTWAOlzpMQfnVCQc94MiWG1p2ubFZqMwN@postini.com; Sat, 19 Feb 2011 10:40:24 PST Received: by wyg36 with SMTP id 36so47982wyg.16 for ; Sat, 19 Feb 2011 10:40:22 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.216.89.71 with SMTP id b49mr1842837wef.28.1298139119786; Sat, 19 Feb 2011 10:11:59 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.216.253.169 with HTTP; Sat, 19 Feb 2011 10:11:59 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2011 13:11:59 -0500 Message-ID: From: Andy Tornquist To: Daniel Staal , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Cc: Subject: Re: ZFS-only booting on FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2011 18:40:24 -0000 P0r c qpppqppqpqapprfpprkkqroikiujpou Q R F Rf On 2/18/11, Daniel Staal wrote: > > I've been reading over the ZFS-only-boot instructions linked here: > (and further linked from there) and have one > worry: > > Let's say I install a FreeBSD system using a ZFS-only filesystem into a > box with hotswapable hard drives, configured with some redundancy. Time > passes, one of the drives fails, and it is replaced and rebuilt using the > ZFS tools. (Possibly on auto, or possibly by just doing a 'zpool > replace'.) > > Is that box still bootable? (It's still running, but could it *boot*?) > > Extend further: If *all* the original drives are replaced (not at the same > time, obviously) and rebuilt/resilvered using the ZFS utilities, is the > box still bootable? > > If not, what's the minimum needed to support booting from another disk, > and using the ZFS filesystem for everything else? > > Daniel T. Staal > > --------------------------------------------------------------- > This email copyright the author. Unless otherwise noted, you > are expressly allowed to retransmit, quote, or otherwise use > the contents for non-commercial purposes. This copyright will > expire 5 years after the author's death, or in 30 years, > whichever is longer, unless such a period is in excess of > local copyright law. > --------------------------------------------------------------- > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > -- Sent from my mobile device