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Date:      Thu, 23 Jul 2009 16:32:01 -0500
From:      Jason Garrett <kingedgar@gmail.com>
To:        Chris Hedley <freebsd-current@chrishedley.com>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: gptzfsboot doesn't like change (failure after swapping drives)
Message-ID:  <970380130907231432k2230d22apdd12fb6afd05da70@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.0907231836080.3132@teapot.cbhnet>
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On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 12:39, Chris Hedley <freebsd-current@chrishedley.com
> wrote:

> On Thu, 23 Jul 2009, Stefan Bethke wrote:
>
>  Am 23.07.2009 um 04:37 schrieb George Hartzell:
>>
>>  I've been playing around with building an 8.0BETA2 system with
>>> everything on a single zfs filesystem (I'll get fancier later) on a
>>> zpool that is a 4 disk raidz.
>>>
>>
>> Quite a few people had no luck with booting from RAIDZ volumes at all.
>> (Single disks and mirrors seem to work fine.)  See this thread:
>> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-fs/2009-July/006466.html
>>
>
> I'm tempted to set up a second ZFS pool for booting since my main one is
> RAIDZ2, which it currently unsupported; this is with some trepidation as I
> read ages back that there may be "issues" with multiple pools (though that
> may be in the past, whatever it was) but it'll be interesting to find out.


I have not had problems with multiple pools on 8-CURRENT


>
>
> Then again, "if it ain't broke, don't fix it": maybe I should just stick
> with the regular boot system using my gmirrored UFS partition...
>
> Chris.
>
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